YOU are flowing through your body!!

Your experience of your life and this planet is based on your expression/flow through your physical body. YES!! You are experiencing this world through physical body and you are not this body! There are psychic pathways through which the spirit runs into the matter! If your psychic pathways/nadi's are more open, you allow yourself to flow more through this body! More the flow, happier your life and easy going you are, in a blissful state!

When the flow is continuous, as you allow more and more light to pass through, your physical body undergoes transformation and you would anchor heaven on earth!

As the spirit is flowing through the body, they are both deeply related and continuously evolve!

A must read, if you are not able to ground your energy!

A proper grounding is necessary to lead a healthy life on this physical plane and

evolve spiritually. A higher frequency of energy enters through the crown chakra from above the head. That energy has to pass through your energy meridian and get grounded in the mother earth. If this does not happen, then, your grounding mechanism is not working properly.

Symptoms of poor grounding include the following

- Easily getting irritated
- Not able to handle people or situations
- Highly sensitive to other people's energies (and not feeling comfortable)
- Not even able to drive with concentration
- The whole world seems to fight you (you are not able to flow with life)
- At extreme situations, you dont feel like walking on the ground
- Poor metabolism and loss of appettite
- Easily getting exhausted

The following measures will help you properly ground the higher energies and make your life pleasant and fun.

- At a subtler level, doing kriya pranayama and practice of techniques like   Vipassana  (Goenka style) will greatly help, as they help to open up all the energy blocks and make you balanced.

- Use of grounding crystals like black tourmaline, hematite and smokey quartz shall help

Sometimes, working at a gross level helps immediately and sometimes working at a subtler level seems to help more. But, try both.

If you can diagnose where the block is, you can work more effectively. If the block is around solar plexus, there will be a lack of will power and a poor appetite. If the block is around heart chakra, you shall have problem expressing and receiving love. Most of the time, strengthening the solar plexus energizes the whole of the body and helps in clearing the blocks. For doing that, concentrate on your food. Eat healthy food. More fruits and fresh vegetables will help. Using crystals like citrine will also greatly help. Walking on bare foot on the ground will also help. Walking bare foot, having a proper food and doing exercise are all part of the gross ways to bring impact at a subtler level.

There is a practice in India to chew beetel leaf, areca nut and lime after meals. It is a wonderful practice to digest the food, bring a proper acid-base balance and improve health. You could even try that. From my personal experience, this helps a lot to improve the health. Check out the medicinal properties of beetel leaves. The list is long!

Most of the answers for your problems has to come deep inside from you. When you become aware of your problem, you gradually start getting solutions, if you are receptive. You shall be naturally getting intuitive answers, guidance from some other people, you may happen to read more about that, etc... Just keep the question in some part of your mind and you shall start finding answers everywhere..

When there is a proper grounding and the energy flows unhindered from the top of your head to your feet and then to the earth, you feel a nice flow with the life and you start enjoying life. There is always some higher guidance. If you ask, you shall be helped. There are spirit guides ready to help you. You can try sitting in a meditative pose and request your spirit guide to clear your energy blocks and bring more light and love into your being. Just observe and allow the work to happen. Using crystals like amethyst will help you become more sensitive to energy, by opening the higher chakras. Amethyst in combination with moldavite will increase your frequency and you shall feel more love and higher guidance. If you are not able to ground such a high frequency, using grounding crystals shall help.

The Importance of Physical Body

A human being is not just what is visible to the physical eyes. The physical body is just the gross aspect of the human. Every living human being has a physical body, an astral body and a causal body.

The physical body immediately starts disintegrating when the astral body along with the causal body gets separated from the physical body. This process is generally referred to as death. The astral body also dissolves after some period, after taking appropriate lessons in the astral plane. It is the causal body that remains forever (till liberation) forming new astral and physical bodies according to the need.

For one to attain liberation (to completely dissolve the causal body), the physical body is necessary. Shri Adi Shankara in the Viveka Chudamani described three things that are very rare in this world: to have a human birth, to have the desire for liberation and to have the blessings of the realized master.

So, what is the need of the physical body? For the spiritual evolution to happen, the energy has to be anchored into the system (the Physical-Astral-Causal complex). Proper amount of energy when moved in proper channels, brings spiritual development. What I mention as energy channels is referred to as nadi in the eastern terminology. There are three major energy channels: ida, pingala and sushumna. Sushumna is the major nadi/channel that the yogis are concerned with. When the energy is moved in this channel from muladhara (bottom chakra) to sahasrara (crown chakra) and above, spiritual evolution happens faster.

Our system also receives cosmic energy. This movement is from top to bottom. We have more control over the energy that we can move from muladhara to sahasrara. That is why some yogic traditions like  kriya yoga, mostly concentrate on kriyas (kriya pranayama) which moves the energy in the sushumna channel.

The gross form of energy in our system is the sexual energy. It can easily and readily be converted to the subtler form and moved up along the sushumna. This is the most important process that happens in the human system. It naturally happens whether one is aware of it or not. But, when one becomes aware of the energy and moves it, the entire process of spiritual evolution becomes quite quick. This fueling of spiritual evolution, in this manner, is possible only with the physical body, through which we can convert the gross energy and feed the subtler systems.

In yogic techniques like Kriya pranayama, the energy is moved consciously and in systems like vipassana, the blocks are cleared and the energy is allowed to move on its own. The one who knows this secret makes the best use of his life.

Enlightenment is Our Natural State

Enlightenment is the natural state of our being. It sounds too simple. You may think of asking, why then only a fraction of the human population is enlightened. It is because, we give more importance to the mind and we always work on improving that. The pure awareness could be equated to a plain white paper. The mind is something like a painting on that white paper. When we work on the mind, we give a different coating over the existing coating, trying to create a better mind. The awareness is always pure and no external thing can pollute it. It is the emptiness itself. How could something stick to that emptiness.

The only way to get back to our real nature or being established in our pure awareness, is to make the mind pure. When the mind is perfectly pure, it becomes non-existent. For example, the pure water is perfectly transparent, tasteless and odourless. When there are some minerals or solute particles, it may become a solution and take a different name, by losing its purity. In the same way, the ultra pure mind is a non-existent mind.

One can never see the plain white sheet which is behind the painting. To get to that, you have to remove the painting. Creating another painting over that or trying to manipulate the painting will not help much. In the same way, you have to transcend the mind to get established in the pure state of pure awareness.

One may ask, how come this strange mind with all its ignorance started working, completely masking the pure awareness. The Buddhists call this ignorance a 'beginningless ignorance' and we do not know exactly how it all started. The good news is that, we have a way to put a full stop for this and return to our original nature.

One may ask, if there is no mind, how will I function and carry out my day to day responsibilities. The answer is that, when the screen is clear, the projection is perfectly visible. Imagine, you go to a movie theater, and the movie is projected on some screen which has different colours. It would not make much sense for you. In the same way, if a thought comes in the state of pure awareness, it is more innovative and powerful. At the same time, you shall remain not affected by the thought and would be able to function better.

Now, you may think. It all sounds good! But, is it really possible to achieve a state where there are no thoughts and stay in the state of pure awareness? Or is it really possible to become a silent witness of the thoughts, not being carried over by it? The answer is, you might have already experienced such a state. I need not give you a proof. That state being too brief in duration, you might have missed to observe it. Let me try to help you recollect. Have you ever come across any frightening situation? You might have seen a snake in your living room or your friend might have given you a shock by shouting when you did not expect at all or you might have escaped a near accident. In such shocking events, you shall be pushed to a state where there will be just pure awareness and no thoughts. Could you recollect anything of that sort? At some stage of your life, you might have come across such situation.

It does not mean that such a pure awareness is always related with a shocking incident.. ha ha. You might have experienced such a similar situation in immense joy too. But, such awareness, is actually beyond pain and pleasure. It is a pure witness, a state of high alertness, a plain emptiness which is the pure consciousness. This state of awareness is our innate nature. Nothing has to be added to realize that. Just the not-necessary things are to be removed to realize and experience that, which is our pure state of being.

Enlightenment - Sudden or Gradual

Enlightenment may be a sudden and quick one. It may happen any time spontaneously. But it may take some time for the mind to get to a state of realization of the change that has happened. For some of the masters, it even took a long time to understand what has happened to them. They had to find some masters to get to know what has happened to them. At such times, the spiritual scriptures would make a great sense and would reveal a deeper understanding of what has happened.

In fact, the awakening or the realization is for the mind and it is not for your real being or the You. You are already in a state of enlightenment or realizing the ‘You’ by your mind could be termed as the awakening.

One could say that everyone is awakened to a certain extent, which means, the thoughts have started giving brief gaps in which the consciousness has started blooming. This process might have even started and you might not even be aware of that. It is at this stage, you get a strong inner urge to get liberation or feel the basic necessity to know the ultimate truth. Once the inner urge is fuelled, you become more aware and allow the consciousness to bloom and to transform your mind, allowing your being to be… then the progress becomes really quick and easy.