Duality is a reflection of that part of the universe we have yet to understand. We see this as right and that as wrong, this as good and that as bad. We are in other words playing judge to the creator. This is the realm of the lower mind: the mind of emotion, righteousness and judgement. This is the mind that leads us to experience that which we have as yet been unable to understand and love.
We need simply to ask the question, “Where is God not?” to understand that our lopsided perception of events and situations is a result of our illusioned perception which is a reflection of what we have as yet not learned to love.
Certainty and love come from a gratitude for the creation of life as it is. It is an understanding that there is no pleasure without pain nor pain without pleasure, that there is no right or wrong; that there are only events until we judge them otherwise.
To find this certainty we must become present in the moment, at which time we are no longer in time or space, but truly connected to the soul. In the present moment there is no fear or guilt.
The Yogic definition of the three states of mind are the gunas—rajas, tamas and sattva. Rajas is the active, fiery part of the mind responsible for causing us to act. It is responsible for excess, too, and in excess it prevents us from sitting still and is agitation and restlessness. Tamas is quite the opposite. It is the fixed, steady immobile state of the mind responsible for contemplative and repetitive pattern. In excess it will cause sluggishness, listlessness and depression. Sattva is the third guna, responsible for clarity, lightness and inspiration. In this state neither tamas nor rajas predominate. Our goal in Yoga is to reduce the tamas and rajas and achieve a state of sattva.
The lower mind, the illusions of fear and guilt, are the rajas and tamas. They are either in excess or deficiency. They are the judgements. The higher mind is the state of sattva, the state of clarity that exists when we listen to the soul, or higher self. Here there is no duality, no excess or deficiency, there is simply unity and love.
The lower-minded states always exist for without them action would be limited to inspiration and this would require the highest of evolution. Until then the Lower-minded states take us to where we must face our next illusions.
These are the universal laws, as above so below. The ultimate journey is the opening of the heart to love and the awakening of the truest calling from within. We all have this inner voice and at the moment when that inner voice becomes stronger than the outer voices we are said to be inspired.
My hope is that this book has been of some small contribution to your own journey in the growth of your consciousness and the awakening of your heart to the strength, harmony and balance that is love.
We need simply to ask the question, “Where is God not?” to understand that our lopsided perception of events and situations is a result of our illusioned perception which is a reflection of what we have as yet not learned to love.
Certainty and love come from a gratitude for the creation of life as it is. It is an understanding that there is no pleasure without pain nor pain without pleasure, that there is no right or wrong; that there are only events until we judge them otherwise.
To find this certainty we must become present in the moment, at which time we are no longer in time or space, but truly connected to the soul. In the present moment there is no fear or guilt.
The Yogic definition of the three states of mind are the gunas—rajas, tamas and sattva. Rajas is the active, fiery part of the mind responsible for causing us to act. It is responsible for excess, too, and in excess it prevents us from sitting still and is agitation and restlessness. Tamas is quite the opposite. It is the fixed, steady immobile state of the mind responsible for contemplative and repetitive pattern. In excess it will cause sluggishness, listlessness and depression. Sattva is the third guna, responsible for clarity, lightness and inspiration. In this state neither tamas nor rajas predominate. Our goal in Yoga is to reduce the tamas and rajas and achieve a state of sattva.
The lower mind, the illusions of fear and guilt, are the rajas and tamas. They are either in excess or deficiency. They are the judgements. The higher mind is the state of sattva, the state of clarity that exists when we listen to the soul, or higher self. Here there is no duality, no excess or deficiency, there is simply unity and love.
The lower-minded states always exist for without them action would be limited to inspiration and this would require the highest of evolution. Until then the Lower-minded states take us to where we must face our next illusions.
These are the universal laws, as above so below. The ultimate journey is the opening of the heart to love and the awakening of the truest calling from within. We all have this inner voice and at the moment when that inner voice becomes stronger than the outer voices we are said to be inspired.
My hope is that this book has been of some small contribution to your own journey in the growth of your consciousness and the awakening of your heart to the strength, harmony and balance that is love.
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