aum namah sivaya
Divine One,
As human, we share a powerful gift that some of
us are aware of and others are yet to wake up to. It
is the inner voice of higher consciousness. The
inner
voice 'speaks' to us clearly with more of meditation
& cosmic union with Source.
This is the age of the Prophet. When we wake up and
hear the inner voice of consciousness speak, direct
and guide us, we are connecting to the same Source
that all masters of higher consciousness connected
to throughout ages.
Through history, we have
put many on the
pedestals of prophets and saints, when they spoke of
their inner voice. Prophet Mohammed convinced the
society of his time to believe his words to be from
God saying, "Is it not true these are words from
your Deepest Being?". As we awaken to the inner
voice, these are moments to wake up
and make note of rules and disciplines to be
followed (strictly by ourselves and never enforced
on others), to set ourselves free to be the Prophet.
Prophets come in different disguises. Humanity
chooses the right ones and the wrong ones. If
greatness of a Prophet was measured by peace, then
Mahatma Gandhi, is the greatest Prophet we have had
on planet earth in recent times, who disguised
himself in utter humility. His lifetime message was-
Ahimsa & Satyagraha. Ahimsa means being-
non-harming, non-hurting, non-violence towards any
human or living being. Following higher
consciousness of truth & Spirit was the principle of
Satyagraha.
Was reading this interesting story of Mahatma Gandhi
in his book called, Prayer. This was Mahatma
Gandhi's words-
"I do not know what you call a vision and what you
will call prophetic. When I announced my fast of 21
days in jail, I had not reasoned it. On retiring to
bed the previous night, I had no notion that I was
going to announce a fast for 21 days. But in the
middle of the night, a voice woke me up and said,
"Go
through a fast". "How many?", I asked. "21 days",
was the answer.
Now let me tell you that my mind was unprepared for
it, disinclined for it. But the thing came to me
clearly as anything could be. Whatever striking
things I
have done in life, I have not done prompted by
reason but prompted by instinct, I would say God.
Take the Dandi Salt March of 1930 (the single most
important event that set the Indian freedom
movement onwards to victory). I had not the ghost of
a suspicion how the breach of the salt law would work
itself
out. Pandit(who later became the first
Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru) and other friends were
fretting and did not know what I would do; and I
could tell
them nothing, as I myself knew nothing about it. But
like a flash it came, and as you know, it was enough
to shake the country from one end to the other."
*Dandi March was
the first major non-violent rebellion of India's
march towards freedom through satyagraha (truth).
The whole of India rose up together. It was the
inner voice of Mahatma Gandhi that sparked the
thought as flame of reality.
It reminds Nandhi of the intense and deep moments
the first few years after the wake up death
experience. Through that death experience, his guru,
Bhairava
Sekar Swamy had given him a lingam with instructions
to puja (worship) and meditate with the lingam twice
a day. The meditation and puja took over Nandhi's
life with the lingam becoming the key focus in
Nandhi's life. At that time, Nandhi's grandmother
told Nandhi, "Today you are the one reciting the
mantras,
praying and meditating on the lingam. Over years, it
will be the lingam talking and guiding you." What
she said, now after over two decades, seems true.
When the mind is quiet and still, it is able to listen to
Source and the realities created are Source aligned.
In the yogic path, this is a natural 'siddhi' (ESP)
that unfolds. Thoughts on the Inner Voice:
1. The ultimate aspiration for a human is to be free
& be freedom itself. Follow your path of yoga, tai-chi, or any
practice that takes you to a state of 'no-mind'
where the experience is pure bliss. The objective of
yoga is to
attain "Satchidananda", the experience of being the
embodiment of bliss which is to be Lord Siva. If a
yogi is meditating in a cave for months and days, he
must be doing something so special, is it not? To
enjoy the sacred joys, the yogi
disciplines himself to acquire and be the state of joy.
2. Belief systems of nearly all religions serve as
road maps to the destination of experience of
Source. Beyond this destination, they serve little
purpose. Breaking free to allow higher consciousness
to gain
precedence over ignorance, let the stillness of joy
and the focus of one thought lead our inner journey
to Source experience. Learn the most crucial
teachings of all Prophets- none followed the
previous belief systems that they were born into.
The only true religion is that path of light that
makes ourselves God/Goddess. All mystics of all
religions made this declaration that the Divine
dwells in our own heart and each of us are shrines
of Source.
3. While doing yoga (hatha), know that it is a
powerful tool to reach Source and be Source. The
ultimate offerings to Source is our body & mind. If
we are
the form of God, we must have millions of angels
worshipping us. When we worship the altar space
within each posture through breath, we fulfill the
angelic intent to be the Presence as the joy of
states of turiya, the higher consciousness that is
of Source. As in states of supreme inner joy, our
outer reality too is filled with love and
compassion.
4. When awake, we are confronted with a newer truth-
the knowing of laws of karma and dharma that
sustains the foundation of peace that we stand on.
In our journey towards Source, we are gifted with
lightness- less karmic baggage and more inspired
action that is dharma. It is simply not true that an
enlightened master just continues to chop wood. No.
On the contrary, after waking up, we realize we have
a human body of limited shelf life and as
angelic presence in the human reality, we are here
for a purpose. The moment we are awake to our
purpose, we are in the receiving end of grace each
moment. Awake to know the vastness
of spirit and purpose as human, we consummate the
cosmic union through action as inspiration aligns us
towards oneness.
5. The only truth of all masters of higher
consciousness is the presence of peace. This 'peace'
is relative to the human mind. When Christ spoke
of peace over two millenniums ago, humanity at that
place and moment in time did vibe with the teachings
as it did resonate from the depth of their own
being. However, Christ did not teach the yogic
methodology of resurrection as it would have been
information overload at that time. Humanity's
collective consciousness has grown since. We
understand 'peace; not just with humans alone but
peace with animals and Planet Earth. This is the
same Oneness each prophet strived to practice and
teach over ages with each prophet getting better
with more inclusions for non-violence and
non-harming. The today's Prophet, each of us,
understand ahimsa (non-violence, non-killing,
non-harming any living being) as the first step
towards the peace we wish for ourselves. Peace is
the foundation of an awake mind.
6. Meditation is the roots to our journey towards
Source. Mature religions of the East were in harmony with
science in the past and gives room for science in
the future. For instance, several thousands of years
back the calculations & information regarding
distance between the sun and earth, the speed of
light, the distance between the earth and moon, the
age of planet earth, the existence of black holes in
the universe etc stands perfectly aligned with our
scientific discoveries. A mind that meditates and
listens to the 'inner voice' is able to comprehend
vastness of reality- and therefore follows reason,
is tolerance of other paths and is constantly expanding
in consciousness.
Meditate to Source
to be Source in our own unique way & name. When our
mind runs out of names & attributes, we become the
nameless void Oneness, vibrating as One.
The key is- meditate to acquire the mind of the Prophet!
May
humanity arise in the awake consciousness of wisdom that enables each
of us to be the prophets and masters of higher consciousness!
Tapasyogi Kalathi Adiyen Aadi Nandhi
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