The Purpose of Life, Part 2
Author: Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami
Description: See awareness as a lotus flower, as that awareness expands it opens into a flower then creates more seeds for more flowers. Shum series definitions worth studying, second to seventh dimension: sareh, isareh, diisareh, kadiisareh, makadiisareh, kamakadiisareh and how they relate to one another. Then levels of awareness in Shum: niif, niimf. "Master Course Trilogy" "1970 Master Course" "Merging with Siva" Chapter 3.
Transcription:
Good morning everyone.
This morning we're continuing with "Merging with Siva" Chapter 3 which is entitled "The Purpose of Life" drawn from "The 1970 Master Course" and we're up to Lesson 16.
"Awareness as A Lotus Flower" continued.
"See awareness as a lotus flower. The lotus flower goes through many, many experiences. A few weeks ago in Bangkok, on Innersearch, we drove out into the Thai countryside and we saw many, many lotus flowers growing wild. They’re just beautiful. See awareness as a lotus flower. First awareness is a seed, and it’s breaking out of the instinctive elements, the hard shell of the seed. But it’s living right within the seed. It is dynamic life at that very time, tuned in with the central source of energy. Then it breaks out and it becomes roots, and then awareness becomes a stem, becomes conscious of water all around it. Finally, the stem emerges above the water, and awareness has leaves and a bud. It’s still limited awareness, because it’s not in its fullness. But as that awareness expands, it opens up into a beautiful lotus flower, then creates more seeds for more flowers.
Nice description there.
So we have a very lengthly series in the Shum language about the lotus flower. Definitely one of the most mystical series, well worth studying. Start in the second dimension.
sareh
Flower, lotus flower, physical or astral, such as a chakra; the lotus flower has within it the mystery that holds the mind in attention to its beauty;whether a bud or a bloom, the lotus is beautiful; it instantly represents to the mind: life, the path of attainment and new beginnings.
isareh
To bloom or open as a flower, physical or astral, such as a chakra lotus; bloom or grow in the astral plane; spiritual desire, readiness and aspiration for growth or unfoldment on the path; this area of the mind depicts growing, flowering, blooming; the bloom of a flower or a soul’s growth in this enlightenment is something to behold; it is a rare happening during a lifetime and only happens when the karmas are balanced and the inner sound is listened to daily with rapt attention.
(And now one step deeper.)
diisareh
Yoga of the three rivers, tri-ganga, merging and filling the body; Satchidananda experience; these are the tremendous roots of the lotus of the brilliant lights; opening the door to knowledge by entering the cool lake of wisdom, wherein one is free from intellect and motion of the mind; this calm lake, Saravanabhava, is the passageway into the akasha; when the bloom of all four chakras is brightly shining and the roots speak their wisdom, the mystery of the fifth chakra is ready to unfold; seek out the guru and happily open yourself to the timely wisdom of the realm forbidden to those who, while budding, have not yet blossomed.
kadiisareh (One step deeper.)
Tantra of flowing the quantum river from the fourteenth dimension into the body; knowledge of an area at the quantum level of consciousness where all form begins, the first river, the Kaveri; kadiisareh is found within you, above the top of the head; here begins the flow of amrita, the flow of cosmic energy, the flow of quantum particles of many colors; we use eighteen of these colors in the two sadhanas called lamfnyam and lamnyamm'; releasing the energies of actinic force—from as far above as your arms and hands can reach above the head, with elbows straight—slowly begins the flow of the second river, mavumna.
makadiisareh
Experience of the kundalini lotus stem and the golden soul body; this nadi extends to the top of the head from its connection to the spiritual heart center, hridaya, on the right side; it lies within the causal body; called amrita nadi or atma nadi in Sanskrit; it is separate from the sushumna; the stem and bud of the sahasrara chakra—now matured and ready to unfold—destroy by fire, burn, consume negative vasanas; the stem and bud of cool fire of the lotus of the crown chakra with a thousand petals hold the secrets of divine sight within the deep inner mind of constant intuition.
kamakadiisareh
The seventh chakra, named sahasrara in Sanskrit; attribute—illumination; located at the crown of the head; in the area of the mind of the sahasrara chakra in full bloom, a radiant display of lights of various pastel colors is seen; it is mystically seen extending above the head as a thousand-petaled lotus made of quantums of light particles; this center of divine, actinic force holds the intelligence of the inner and outer bodies; its center holds the secrets of divine sight; the door to the universe; color—gold; planet—Neptune; element/sense—shunya (or void); petals—one thousand and eight.
Got through that. Wonderful study how they all relate together.
Back to the text and the lotus pond in Thailand in case you forgot where we were.
"This is the path of awareness. Become acquainted with the awareness, that one beautiful, pure element of the soul, your superconscious body, which is easily found and easily discovered by simply closing your eyes and opening them and saying 'I am aware.' Awareness is closely identified to the realms of sight—hearing, of course, too, but more predominantly sight. As awareness expands and as awareness contracts, we find that we have power over awareness. It merely becomes a tool.
"The underlying power of awareness is the blissful state of the spiritual body of man, pure consciousness, the central source of all energies, in its blissful, calm state. Meditate on awareness being like a lotus flower."
Then we get commentary from Shum.
In Shum there are a few levels of awareness in the Shum language. Not just one level of awareness. Just looking at the first level today.
The first level we encounter is:
niif
Individual awareness or perception, which differs from vast consciousness; the observation of individual awareness; individual awareness distinguished from impersonal consciousness; the perception of being aware.
And when niif is traveling it is called:
niimf
Awareness flowing through the mind, being singularly aware of one area and then another; niimf constantly changes its name to the name of the area it becomes conscious in while traveling, and is only called niimf when it is the thread of consciousness traveling or in between one of the names of awareness and another; for instance, niimf when traveling through balikana is then called balikana, and when traveling through the experience of narehrehshum it is named that; niimf can travel from the seventh to the fourth dimension; its home is in the fifth and fourth dimensions but it usually resides in the fourth looking at the third, in contrast to iif, which is the observation of awareness flowing only through the higher areas of mind; awareness as psychic sight and hearing; awareness traveling, while seeing with the inner eye and hearing with the inner ear, into and out of areas of the mind; represented in mamsani maa and mambashum maa by a flowing line between portraits.
That's the Shum. Then we look at Sanskrit and Tamil.
One of the Sanskrit words for awareness is sakshin which our lexicon defines as “Eye witness.” Awareness, the witness consciousness of the soul. Known as niif in the mystical Natha language of Shum.
So that's all we can say that niif is the Shum word and sakshin word for the same thing, awareness.
Then we get Tamil for those who know Tamil. So the Tamil word is based on the Sanskrit word. Sanskrit sakshin becomes satchi, witness, which is a, just an ordinary word in Tamil, its not a mystical word of being like a witness at a trial. So it's the person who is witnessing what someone else or is doing or what something else is happening.
So I thought I'd keep it short cause it's a little intense there in the middle. Stretch the brain out enough for one morning.
Aum Namah Sivaya.