 49. Enlightenment |
The route or way within the brain core follows and touches upon the various functional mechanisms of the brain associated with the "swan on the lake." The shape of the "swan" is traced, making a curious pattern of arcs and tunnels, provided by the various features of the brain core. Particular forms of internal lights and sounds appear at each station. And various forms of subconscious and premental "visions" (including the "crescent" or "quarter moon") may appear spontaneously, to characterize the state of mind at each station.
Ultimately, the body and brain currents stabilize in the region of the "head" or "eyes" of the "swan." This primary center of the brain core, associated with the pineal body, is traditionally called the "third eye," the "ajna chakra," or the "bindu" (the lesser center). It is the ultimate locus of personal consciousness in relation to the subtle field of the brain's relations, perceptions, and cognations. However, this is not the terminal realization of mysticism and yoga. A higher developed self-mastery, mental intelligence, and mystical experience may appear in the case of an individual in whom the internal Current of Life is stably polarized to the pineal body of the brain. But the ultimate fulfillment of the process of body of upward contemplation is in the release of the Current of Life and Consciousness from all binding association with the independent psycho-physical mechanism of the personal body-mind. The Realization of the Radiant Divine involves perfect transcendence of all specific and self-defining functions of body and brain.
Therefore, the higher dimension of the religious and spiritual Sacrifice of Man is associated with the release of the bodily concentration of the Life-Current, from the brain core into the white fibrous corona of the total brain. This is attained by relaxation and feeling0release of the concentrated energy of the pineal body, the "eye"of the "swan," into the "beak" of the "swan," where the proverbial pearls are separated from the milk.
The "beak" of the "swan" is the "Maha Bindu," the Great Center, or the primal root of the function of vision, in the upper rear of the brain, just below the aperture or indentation in the crown of the skull. When the Current of Life is able to pass from the personal and bodily mechanisms of the brain core, or from the "bindu" to the "Maha Bindu," then there is release of all limitations by independent psycho-physical states. In the Event, the Life-Current breaks out of the bodily mold and the psychic structures of the brain core, and literally Enlightens the entire brain and body. This Bodily Enlightenment is initiated via the spreading of the Illuminating Radiance of the Life-Current into the white fibrous corona of the cerebrum, and thence to the entire body. That corona of a thousand or more fibers is the "sahasrar," the "thousand petalled lotus" of yogia, and the "halo" of the saints.
-Franklin Jones
Sudden and Gradual Enlightenment
The Bhagavata Purana*, book two, chapter two, verses sixteen through thirty-seven.
Once the mind, or the wandering of attention in experience, comes under natural control, through intuitive insight, it should be surrendered into the prior state of awareness itself, which is rooted in the heart. In this manner, all forms of activity cease, and all objects of attention are excluded. Abide in tranquility by such means, until awareness Awakens beyond the confines of the inner being. Thus, Realize the true Self, the Radiant Condition of the soul, which naturally transcends all phenomena of the body-mind and all conditions in the eternally changing Realm of Nature.
The true Self, the Transcendental Heart, is the Divine Domain, the Kingdom of God, the Eternal Abode of the Divine Person. The Divine Person is the Radiant Consciousness that Shines through the atomic window, the illusory soul, defined and separated from the Divine Domain by egoic or independent association with experience, rather than ecstatic or self-transcending surrender into the All-Pervading and Transcendental Matrix of experience.
Such is the Supreme Realization, and It is Revealed directly to those who transcend all experiences of the body-mind, through Awakened Intuition, and who surrender only to the Divine Person, through Love-Communion with That Infinitely Radiant Consciousness.
