In our journey thus far we came across many milestones – body, senses, mana, buddhi, chit, ahamkaara and their characteristics of raag-dwesha, avidya, abhinivesha and asmita respectively, and the three gunas i.e. sattva, rajas and tamas.

We then came to Consciousness. What next? Isn’t consciousness the end of the journey?!!

No! It is just the beginning. You have only seen the light at the end of the tunnel; you are yet to step out into that light.

Remember the mantra, ‘Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamay’ (May we move from darkness towards light.)

This is the destination where we need to change the mode of transportation. Now we have to perform action, purushartha, to move out of the tunnel and be in the light. We have to contemplate and meditate on all these aspects.

Everything Is Consciousness

Every dimension of our being, be it body, mind or ego, is percolated by consciousness. Take away Consciousness and the body is ready to be cremated or buried.

We are indeed living as Consciousness. But are we really living as Consciousness or is it something else? Let us examine this a little bit.

We are living as body-consciousness (seeking comfort), or sense-consciousness (seeking gratification).

There are some who are living as mind – consciousness (mana-mauji). All the children fall in this category. (If only we could live with the purity of a child it would not have been bad to live as minds-consciousness.)

There are yet few who are living as intellects. (This is a group for whom walking out of the tunnel is most difficult.)

And, all of us are indeed living as ego-consciousness, the big sense of ‘I’.

There are yet more who live in self-consciousness; they are overly concerned about what others think of them.

The Truth About Our Consciousness

The fact not to be forgotten is that when we are living as body, mind, or ego-consciousness we are actually living in an auto-mode. Everything is happening automatically, instinctively and involuntarily. Something happens and we get angry; we go past a chaat - shop and we become hungry!

We do not know what exactly is happening inside; and we keep reacting to these involuntary impulses from within.

We are living automatically as a habituated being living by rote. We are thus not living as CONSCIOUSNESS ; we are actually living as SUBCONSCIOUNESS.

We need to live as CONSCIOUSNESS.

What it implies is to get back control of your life.

If you have to get angry, do so; but do it as a matter of your choice. No person or situation should have a power greater than yours to be able to trigger anger in you. Choose to be angry like a Mother chooses to be angry with her child; she invariably warns the child initially that she will get angry.

The Consciousness that is our aspiration is that Pure Consciousness. It is pragya.

The seat of that Consciousness is the point between our eye brows.

The ways to reach there are two – Silence and Music.

Silence is about SAMENESS; when you can learn to enjoy the SAMENESS, are not driven by an impulse seeking change, you are on your way to the mouth of the tunnel.

The Music is about the harmonized differences of various notes. When you can start to accept the differences in the environment and are not driven to make everyone a photocopy of your being, you are on the Way.

The Rainbow

We all want to be ever joyous and happy. We want a rainbow to shine over our lives.

Living as Subconsciousness is like living as the moonlight. A rainbow can’t be seen in the moonlight!

First step out of the tunnel; let the vision get used to the brightness of the sunlight. Then on a rainy day you may be lucky to see the RAINBOW.

Once you have seen the RAINBOW the joy will never leave you. It will be the MOMENT that will fill your heart with the music of LOVE and the song of life will find its expression on your lips, (a song like the one mentioned at the end of this post).

Now listen to the song ‘Kisi ki muskurahaton pe ho nisaar …… at email ID abhayblog@gmail.com [whose password is - abhayji]

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