enlightenment part 2

June 29, 2004

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What is Enlightenment?

Once you know that enlightenment is possible, and that it is a

relatively simple neurobiological process, how do you become

enlightened?

The biocircuitry of a human being was designed in such a way that

after developing a self at around age 3 we would return naturally to

a state of unified existence at around age 18. Unfortunately,

something went awry, and we experienced a Fall within our evolution

as a biological species.

Nature demanded that there always be a select few throughout our

subsequent history who maintained this morphogenetic field of the

natural enlightened state. Historical figures such as the Buddha,

Lao Tzu, Jesus, and many others exemplified this. Now, however, we

have come to a time when humanity is once again being prepared to

return to our natural state as a collective species. The time has

come now for each of us to be restored to our natural enlightened

state!

Enlightenment has nothing to do with how long you have been on a

spiritual path, nor with what your religious beliefs are. You do not

even need to believe in God or have any concepts about the soul.

Enlightenment does not depend on knowing the right teachings or

mantras. It has nothing to do with how many lifetimes you have

meditated, or even with how `good' a person you are. There is

nothing you can `do' to get enlightened. Enlightenment cannot be

achieved through your own efforts any more than a drowning person

can yank himself out by his own hair. The mind cannot deactivate

itself. It can only happen by grace.

"There is a simple way to know if you are enlightened," Sri

Anandagiri, a direct disciple of Kalki, had said once. "If you are

asking the question, you are not." If you know you are not

enlightened, and you become aware of the cravings and aversions

generated by the illusion of self, then you become open to grace.

When you see clearly the nature of the mind, and the extent of your

conditioning, and when you become tired of the resulting suffering –

all the incessant comparing, judging, efforting, and blaming – then

grace can begin to flow in. Understanding this as a mental concept

isn't enough. It must be felt and experienced.

The means that Kalki has set up for this grace to act is known as

the `diksha'. The diksha is a transfer of power, and can be defined

as `initiation'. It usually consists of a ceremony in which one or

more of the `dasajis', or disciple-monks of Kalki's order, place

their hands upon your head in a state of divine union, and become

channels for cosmic energies directed by Kalki to reorganize your

neurocircuitry. Kalki refers to this process as `divine surgery'. A

golden ball of divine grace descends through the crown chakra, and

the kundalini channels get activated, initiating a process in which

the entire brain and nervous system is reorganized.

This golden ball is programmed by Kalki to reorganize the biological

circuitry of the brain, leading to enlightenment. It has a living

intelligence, and operates differently within each person. Once it

has descended into the crown chakra, however, the process

automatically continues, programmed by the divine `sankalpa'

(intent) of Kalki and Amma.

In the current species of humanity, the brain is designed in such a

way as to serve as a receptor station for a certain band of

frequencies corresponding to the Ancient Mind. The diksha serves to

loosen up the receptor sites within the brain from this band of

frequencies, and simultaneously to dissolve the feedback loops of

consciousness that create the sense of separate identity which we

have referred to as the self.

What happens when the diksha is given? Some may immediately go into

a peak experience of bliss, deep silence, or cosmic consciousness.

This may or may not be permanent. If it isn't, this first peak

experience is followed by other peak experiences over the following

days and weeks, until a permanent enlightened state establishes

itself. For others, there may not be an immediate felt response, and

it may take hours, days, or weeks before they start noticing a

change. Regardless, once the diksha is received, the seed of

enlightenment has been planted, and Kalki will work with you in

accordance with your own soul's purpose and the readiness of your

physical body to bring the seed into fruition.

The first thing that often comes up for people is an acute

sensitivity to the nature of mind, and the patterns that have ruled

our lives so long. It can be a shocking and painful experience when

we first begin to look at it, but necessary if we are to break free.

If more than one diksha is given, often the first diksha is

programmed to pinpoint the ugliness of the mind. If a person has

done some self-examination and emotional clearing beforehand, or

already `hit bottom', that can help. Grace only flows when you

recognize your illusions. As long as you think you can make it on

your own, its flow will be impeded.

It is also important to understand what enlightenment is not. It is

not about losing your mind, or even changing the nature of your

mind. The same mind continues to exist, although you notice that you

now have a different relationship with it. Nor is enlightenment

equated with cosmic bliss, instant clairvoyant abilities, or high

spiritual states. All these may accompany or follow enlightenment at

some point, but it is not what enlightenment is about. Enlightenment

is simply throwing the switch in your brain where the sense of a

separate self dissolves.

The difference is primarily internal. An enlightened person can

still make mistakes, still experience disappointments, still have

difficulty with relationships, still experience limitations, and

still be bad tempered, except that he will no longer be identified

with these characteristics. It is not required that an enlightened

person always have a radiant aura or always be cheerful. In fact,

there will be times when an enlightened person will need to exhibit

anger where she would normally be a doormat, or do something quite

contrary to an established social or moral code because he is no

longer bound by the conditioned identities and learned responses of

the old order. An enlightened person discovers joy in being true to

himself. He finds no need to pretend anymore, although to an

unenlightened consciousness he or she might well be perceived as a

rebel or a troublemaker!

Enlightenment is to peel off the layers of interpretation from a

given event. To the enlightened person, life becomes a very ordinary

thing. You walk, and you are walking. You eat, and you are eating.

Enlightenment is not about having extraordinary experiences so much

as recognizing that each ordinary moment is extraordinary in itself.

Before, there were a thousand interpretations in the mind for

everything you experienced. Now, there is only the experience.

It is also important to distinguish between enlightenment

experiences and the state of enlightenment. Enlightenment

experiences are peak experiences or high energy experiences. You may

go into a peak experience after a diksha. You may already have had

several peak experiences through the course of your life. The

kundalini energies within your body rise up to the top of the head,

unite with the cosmic energies, and you experience bliss,

unconditional love, or cosmic consciousness. You may see celestial

visions, even journey into higher `lokas', or heavenly realms.

Peak experiences cannot be sustained beyond a few hours or at most a

few days. The cosmic energies coursing through your nervous system

would burn you out and short-circuit the human body, at least in our

current level of human evolution. An enlightened state, on the other

hand, is permanent. It is a shift in the neurobiological pathways of

the brain, resulting in the sharpening of the senses, and the

subsequent loss of a fixated self. After a diksha, there will often

be a sequence of one or more peak experiences, which will eventually

stabilize into enlightenment as a permanent state.

There is an assumption that once you are enlightened you will never

feel sadness, grief, anger, jealousy, or pain, that somehow you have

overcome all negative thoughts or emotions. This is far from the

truth. The nature of the mind is unchanged. The contents of the mind

may also remain unchanged. But without the self to dictate terms, or

to differentiate so obsessively between right and wrong, you

experience that the `charge' begins to disappear. It is a

continually deepening process.

Many people associate enlightenment with tremendous states of cosmic

consciousness, clairvoyant perception, omniscience, and so on. All

these may or may not be associated with the state, but enlightenment

itself is a very simple, yet very profound event. It is the natural

state in which your body is designed to be.

To become enlightened is to be comfortable with the flow of life. If

you are feeling sad, you are not trying to talk yourself out of it.

If you are feeling happy, you are not trying to hold on to that

feeling. Everything simply is what it is, without the additional

charge of past associations, traumas and conditioned patterns

intruding on the experience of each moment. You become fully present

with each emotion, each experience. You find that any emotion, no

matter what it is, when fully experienced, becomes bliss.

There are as many kinds of enlightenment as there are people to

experience the state. Many experience a deep inner silence, others

experience an all-pervading joy, yet others an abiding sense of love

for all creation. Many experience a sense of oneness with creation,

or even cosmic consciousness. The states come and go, and vary from

person to person, but there is one thing every enlightened person

will experience in common. When the self disappears, suffering ends.

You will still have desires, but they won't turn into cravings. You

will still have resistances, but they won't turn into aversions. You

will still have a personality, but it will be a fluid dance of

momentary personalities that come and go. As you deepen into the

state, you will not feel the need to hold on to resentments, fears,

and traumas, any more than you feel the need to hold on to good

times and spiritual highs.

At first, however, the mind might throw up all kinds of conflicts,

resistance, and doubt. It is the nature of the self to resist

change, and this has become a memory pattern within the mind. This

may well come up with great force as the mind tries to deny the

experience. As you simply allow this to be, eventually a great peace

will descend.

Anything fully experienced is joy. Conflict fully experienced is

joy. Pain fully experienced is joy. Sadness fully experienced is

joy. Doubt fully experienced is joy. Anger fully experienced is joy.

Happiness fully experienced is joy. Love fully experienced is joy.

When the self disappears, our need to constantly make

interpretations about reality disappears with it. When

interpretations about reality disappear, we experience reality for

what it is, rather than what we would like it to be. Rather than

constantly craving for what we define as pleasurable experiences,

and constantly resisting what we define as unpleasurable

experiences, we simply become the experience, moment to moment, of

consciousness expressing itself through us.

All consciousness is a field. The Mind is a field. The Enlightened

State is also a field. Rupert Sheldrake, a British biologist,

referred to these fields of consciousness as `morphogenetic fields',

or `form-generating fields'. These are the fields that have shaped

our evolution, shaped our memories, shaped our biological forms.

Every time one of these morphogenetic fields gets reinforced, it

gets stronger. Every time someone `unplugs' from these fields, it

gets weaker.

What this amounts to is that every time one more person unplugs from

the matrix of the mind, the One Mind becomes weaker. Every time

another person becomes enlightened, the morphogenetic fields of

Enlightenment become stronger, making it easier for everybody else

to also become enlightened. These two fields are in a `see-saw'

relationship with each other. Soon will come a time when critical

mass will be reached, swinging the entire human consciousness into

the state of enlightenment.

There is a very interesting study done by an American psychologist,

David Hawkins. Using the science of `kinesiology', he devised

a `consciousness scale' going from 0 to 1000. On the bottom end of

the scale were highly charged emotions such as guilt, shame, terror,

and rage, and their corresponding states of consciousness. On the

upper end of the scale were love, joy, and various states of

enlightenment. Hawkins discovered that one person who was vibrating

at the higher end of this scale could offset thousands, even

millions of people, who were vibrating at the lower end of this

scale. He also affirmed that one Avatar vibrating at 1000 could

offset an entire Planetary Mind hell-bent on extinction!

I certainly believe that Kalki vibrates at 1000, or at least very

close to it. It is based on this principle of resonant fields that

Kalki says that it will only take 64,000 people (one in 100,000)

becoming enlightened for the entire planetary consciousness to

follow suit. When a person becomes enlightened, their consciousness

makes a huge leap on this consciousness scale, which directly

affects all consciousness in the surrounding area. At the critical

point represented by 64,000 enlightened people, the morphogenetic

field of Enlightenment will counterbalance the morphogenetic field

of the Mind, making it possible for a mass enlightenment to take

place within the matter of a few months.

Kalki maintains that the 64,000 will be reached by 2010 at the

latest, and perhaps a lot sooner. This means that by the time we get

to the year 2012 AD, which is a critical point as far as cosmic

cycles go, we will be ready to step into the next galactic spiral as

an enlightened planet. Kalki emphasizes that the planet must and

will achieve mass enlightenment by the year 2012.

There is nothing in life I can think of that is more exciting or

meaningful than this!

June 30, 2004

Hello reporter_55,

What is enlightment?...

Here is my interpetation and explanation.

As the word itself indicates en-LIGHT-ment has to do with light!

Where there is light, darkness cannot exist and darkness is the

symbol of ignorance and non-wisdom. Still, en-LIGHT-ment is not only

a symbolic word, LIGHT is related to vision which is a faculty of the

soul. All sages and saints talk about the divine light seen through

the third eye during deep spiritual experiences.

None knows what full and complete enlightment really feels like and

any descriptions are doomed to fail to convey its true nature. We

know one thing though, enlightment is a perfect state unlike our

present state. If there was no difference between our current-state

and the enlightment-state, then there would be no need for us to

create a different word for it. Everyone would be happy. Still, it is

in the nature of human to always seek that which is perfect, wise,

good and divine. The tendency of the human personality is to better

itself, to improve and achieve. This can be seen in our professional

life, personal life as in our spiritual life as well. So enlightment

is a word that describes absolute divine perfection. Perfection is

absolute in all its positive or divine expressions. That means that

enlightment results into perfect wisdom, perfect health(if wished)

and perfect peace-joy-bliss.

You write:

"Enlightenment has nothing to do with how long you have been on a