Merging through Meditation

Meditation is when the mind focuses on one single thought. All the external distractions do not interfere with the concentration. In pure meditation, sometimes, the present state dissolved. It no longer matters what is going around the human body. That concentration is much more beyond the body’s wants and needs. It is all about being in that state of peace. After waking up from that meditative state, it’s time to realize that one is much more than just the body. The world doesn’t end for us after death. The body’s needs and wants are not the purposes of life. Meditation makes you realize that there is so much more.

“The mind is the senses, emotions, intellect, and will.”

Once somebody realizes the grandeur truth, they are aware that senses, emotions, intellect, and do not control them. When this bridge is crossed, that is when you come closer to your consciousness. When realized that the mind is no higher than the body, that is the ultimate state of peace.

After deep meditation, it is evident what separates you from the infinite consciousness, which is the personal identity - dissolves. The realization is called “undifferentiated awareness.”

Turiya is the state of waking up from a dreamless sleep. At this stage, one is neither aware of the presence of their mind nor the body. Once reached this ultimate peace, then one is in “Samadhi” when one is liberated or “Moksh.” Everything else is just Brahm. It is this state where one is the most alive.

Realizing that one is much more beyond the body, mind, and personal identity, they discover the Self or the Atman.

“Our real Self is not different from the ultimate reality called God.”

Realizing this truth, the Self merges with the infinite consciousness. Once absorbed, there is no difference in space and time. If not united, the differences are dissolved, and the awareness remains “chit.”

When consciousness reaches the state of samadhi, the body combines itself with time, space, the dimension in a package. The entire reality is within. This is the moment of being complete, is called Sat. The process of meditation brings the ultimate joy to humanity. Being in total awareness and bliss brings joy. Being one (united) with the Self is then the only desire.

Tat Twam Asi

Drama of Life and Death

The sages who came together to write the Upanishad set out to find the meaning of life and thought to themselves: “if the observer observes through the medium of consciousness, and the world is observed in consciousness, should not the same laws apply to both?”

Layers of awareness: 1) waking 2) dreaming 3) dreamless sleep

Interpretation:

1)    When awake the self in connection with the body and mind

2)    When dreaming the self is connected only to the body

3)    In the dreamless state, the self is detached from the body and mind

The sages say that a person should be awake during the dreamless state when the self is detached from the mind and body. When it is free from bounds and restrictions.

I have experienced this: SELF-REALIZATION.

I have seen my body and my consciousness detached.

To experience this, you need to be like a teenager, ready to risk it all. Not looking back or being hesitant. But why should we experience self-realization? When we are perfectly fine as we are?

“Just for the heaven of it”

But most importantly because every human questioning about it and has some of an idea about it. As human beings are eager to know, “who we are, what the universe is, and what the significance of the brief drama of life and death we play out against the backdrop of eternity.

You are what your deep, driving desire is.

As your desire is, so is your will.

As your will is, so is your deed.

As your deed is, so is your destiny.

(Brihadaranyaka IV.4.5.)

Human desire is so strong, that if we will to do so, so it will become.

i. Upanishad Simplified

When the Aryan came into, what is now known as India; brought their religion and spread the knowledge of their Gods and deities. They worshipped the natural elements because they are the power that has brought creation to life.

There are 7 powers, also known as Devas, mentioned in the Upanishad.

1)    Fire (Agni)

2)    Storm (Indra)

3)    Wind (Vayu)

4)    Night (Ratri)

5)    Dawn (Usha)

6)    Sun (Surya)

7)    Death (Yama)

It is believed that there is one Supreme divinity and these Devas are merely His powerful forms. Upanishad is a spiritual text which is compiled with knowledge of great spiritual Gurus. They teach how spirituality is related to everyday life. Everybody can pursue their life with the right conduct to reach ascension.

My understanding:

What is reality? What is Self? The Self is Him. Therefore, we are not only the creation but the creator. No, you do not need another life to find your Self. The purpose of life is to realize that you are God.

The Upanishad teaches that you do not need a religion, rituals, cultural practices for ascension. You just need to be one with Yourself. Your body itself will take you to the journey of self-realization.

These Devas which I mentioned earlier are the living pieces of evidence of God’s existence. The first step is to find the Oneness with the Devas. Unite yourself, feel them, imbibe the purity of these powers.

There is a beautiful quote written in the Upanishad to simplify this concept, “by knowing one piece of the gold, all things made out of gold are known: they differ only in the name and form, while the stuff of which all are made in gold.”

Okay, still didn’t get it. Let me explain:

We all know that God exists right? Yet we entangle ourselves and let our Mind entangle in everyday issues, our physical body, temporary emotional phases. We get so carried away in this illusion that we forget we are the creation and the creator. We made the creation to find the creator. Similarly, if we find one piece of the Supreme (ourselves), would we not find the Supreme himself?