Mindfulness
The process described in sutra 1:2 has come to be known as Mindfulness. In the modern day, many minds will lay
claim to having coined and conquered its depths. In contemporary psychology, mindfulness will be adopted
as an approach for increasing awareness and responding skillfully to mental processes that contribute
to emotional distress and maladaptive behavior, from which none will be spared. By this time the population
of Prithvi(world) would be 7.5 billion. So many mad people running around and all thinking that nothing is wrong with them?
Mindfulness will be covered in greater detail in sutra 1:12-1:16, for now just be aware
that mindfulness is the backbone of Yoga which has endured since time and space
were worded into existence.
Relationship of Thought to Information, Intelligence, Energy, and Mind
The information contained within the mind come from our experience related thoughts. Thoughts,
conscious or unconscious has energy, or an electromagnetic field if you prefer. A magnetic field is
created every time a current is passed through an electric wire. The nervous system, too, transmits
scientifically measurable electrical impulses; in so doing it sets up its own magnetic field.
The elevation and degradation of the consciousness is thus determined by the presence, or
absence of order within this energy field, known as ‘The Mind Field’.
It is extremely important to remember that if you are using Consciousness as God - that which is the Cosmos itself,
and out of which all things seen and unseen arise -
then nothing affects it; hence no change happens there. IT, just is. Whereever I use Consciousness in that context, I will use a
capital C, otherwise, c-onsciousness.
Question: Where does order come from?
Order comes from the quality of love inherent in intention.
We know that energy in the mind gets excited through some stimulus, also known as a trigger.
Stimulus refers to what is out there in the environment, what we pay attention to, and what stimulates our receptors. Electricity refers to
the electrical signals that are created by the receptors through experience or thought. The degree of love inherent within the thought
determines the quality of its energy and determines its degree of integrity.
Know that as consciousness evolves, both, our positive and negative thought processes that make up the mind (vritti),
gradually becomes non-existent. With less and less activity within the mind, there is reduced activity within the brain
because the sense receptors gradually become less agitated at the site of stimulus.
At the peak of personal evolution, all thoughts cease to exist and what remains is pure love.
Divine love is not an emotion, but energy that resonates at the same frequency as the consciousness of the Creator.
Here is the order we need to inherit to realize Yoga or Union.
Thoughts, Feelings, Emotions, Memory, and Habit
Know now that the mind is made up of memory. Thoughts and feelings intermingle as the result of one’s experiences.
If you live in an environment filled with greed, that is what you will become, but give it the socially
acceptable name of ambition. If abuse is the dominant ingredient, than shame will come out of the oven
and result in envy and addictions which will later lead to insecurity, powerlessness, hopelessness,
and destitution.
Feelings plus time equals emotions. Memory is the seat of emotions. Memory repeated becomes a habit.
Yoga is the science, and mindfulness the art, of educating and inspiring our consciousness towards
creating helpful habits that unite us with love, while overcoming attachments and aversions
that move us towards attrition. We need to resonate at the same frequency of Divine love to unite with it.
Question: But what confuses me is the positive and negative charge. If energies are emitting a positive
charge, then aren't they supposed to repel, instead of attract? If that is the case, then how am I supposed
to attract love by becoming love because both will have the same charge, no?
Charge Clusters
Reality can only be known in extremely close proximity (Plank Distance); the rest is manifestation.
According to findings of physicist John Lekner at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand,
the repulsion like charges of electrons seem to be 'turned off' when they are present in high concentration
and in close distances.
The laws of physics work well at the macroscopic level but they break down at the microscopic.
Under certain conditions, billions of electrons can "stick together" in close proximity,
despite the law of electromagnetism that like charges repel. Charge clusters are small, 10-33,
and are composed of tens or hundreds of billions of electrons.
We may expect them to fly apart at enormous speed, but they do not.
At this distance they will attract one another, violating the intuitions of basic physics.
The counterintuitive result was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.
This indicates that our laws of
electromagnetism is missing something important. This force that attracts like energy together
is known as Strong Force in physics.
As you can see, when any two energies vibrate at the same frequency, at distances smaller than Planck (Max Planck)
distance, they merge. If the merger is of two energies that resonate at Divine frequency, then, this union becomes Yoga.
Take heed of what is being said now! Two or more lower forms of energy related to inclinations such as ill will,
aggression, and disdain, with the same vibrational frequency would also merge - for example - energy of two
individuals with resentment will also find affinity for each other, but this union is not Yoga because out
of this merger ensues chaos that splits nature apart, while out of love springs forth order. Order within
any living structure is the result of love, be it an atom, a relationship, or the universe.