Teachers, since time immemorial have tried to tell us how we could awaken our
divine potential by cultivating our inherent extrasensory abilities to fulfil the purpose for
which we took birth.
But when we saw that awakening our Godly capacities requires that we look within and analyze our thoughts
and emotions - its a painstaking endeavour - we decided that shopping, TV, and idle gossip is a more fun way to spend
time. 99% of us decided we would rather remain idle than cultivate the discipline needed to evolve towards Godhood.
Socializing, sex, eating, drinking, working, sleeping, and even hoarding are common to both;
humans and animals. What makes us unique is our innate capacity to consciously choose to evolve our awareness
from the above realm of habitual existence, towards union with the Divine.
However, evolving our energy towards higher and higher frequencies until it resonates in harmony with the Absolute
requires more than listening to a few lectures, weekend retreats, or group meetings. It begins with a
conscious commitment to studying your thoughts, emotions, and intentions so you can weed out the lower in exchange
for the higher.
By realizing the nature of reality, the
individual soul comes to know their inherent potential and composition as being no different than that of the Almighty Spirit.
Upon knowing this, the adept realizes unity with the Absolute, or Yoga. So where do we begin our journey of knowing reality?
Patanjali begins with anu - energy and atom.
Energy, Atoms, and Yoga
The basic building block of all matter is energy. You and I are made up of energy, which are basically pulsating,
oscillating electromagnetic fields that move between two points of rest, like a pendulum, or a wave.
Source: tabi-navi.info
As they move in a wave like fashion, they also rotate intermittently giving it string like characteristics. It is this unique
design that enables our 3-D like reality to transpire. (The Ancient Vedic literature of India suggests that there are numerous dimensions
where the reality is not 3-D. It is logical to assume then that the spin of the energy (strings) would be different there.)
Source: Science and Nonduality
It is difficult for the Ego to comprehend that it is just energy because to admit so would be to admit that we
are nothing but empty space.
Most days, you might feel like a pretty substantial person. Maybe you have a lot of friends, or an important job,
or a big car. But it might humble you to know that all those things — your friends, your office, your big car,
you yourself, and everything in this incredible vast universe — are almost entirely, 99.9999999%; empty space.
Nevertheless,
know that every atom from here to infinity is conscious - watching your every thought - your every move.
Nothing you do goes undetected and unrecorded through a phenomenon known as “The Holographic Universe”.
Each one of these electromagnetic field
radiates its own unique energy signature. The unique signature of an atom is defined
by the information it contains and the type of information (quality) defines its intelligence.
The greater the intelligence of an energy field, the greater its level of consciousness.
The degree in quality establishes the vibrational frequency of the energy within the atom.
The rate of the vibrational frequency within any body of energy introduces a particular order
to that structure.
This increase or decrease in the order of your energy determines everything, from the
nature of your mind, to the potentiality of your extrasensory perceptions.
Relationship of the Mind with the Consciousness
It is the nature of one’s mind
that dictates the degree to which an individual consciousness may evolve
or devolve. A highly developed consciousness results
from information within the mind that is infused with love and compassion,
while degradation of consciousness results from a
mind steeped in attachments and aversions.
In Yoga, evolution is wholly dependent on a person's inherent ability to express their creative potential through life giving initiatives.
Only when creativity is directed towards love and life, does the evolution of consciousness become possible.
An act that moves you to tears, a book which sheds light on consciousness, a dance which lifts you up from your seat,
an initiative that ends hunger, a voice that ends inequality, an article that awakens you to the divine, and doctors without borders
are all examples of art, manifesting as life-giving initiatives.
The greater the degree of evolution within an individual consciousness, the higher is the complexity of that life form and greater
its creative expression.
What is meant by the complexity of a life form?
Complexity is the degree to which an individual realizes their potential as a creator related to life-giving initiatives.
Creativity is not dependent on formal education nor IQ. The ingredients of creativity are too complex and multifaceted to
be reduced to a single factor. Creativity is not merely expertise or knowledge but is instead informed by a whole suite
of intellectuall, emotional, motivational, and ethical characteristics.
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Creativity is honed and polished life after life for thousands, even millions of life times.
Is your truth seeking higher knowledge, or seeking control. If you desire to be percieved as a strong
person who is in control then you struggle with a weak identity that is full of fear. Ask, what am I seeking?
Then, look what you spend your time creating.