 106. Meditation |
Lay your treasure (spiritual awareness) up in heaven (inner consciousness) where moth and rust do not corrupt.
-Jesus, Matthew 6:20
Blessed are the pure in HEART (consciousness) for they shall see (understand) God.
-Jesus, Matthew 5:8
Yoga (union) is the science of uniting the inner individualized soul with the outer, transcendental universal soul, spirit, God, Tao, Allah, Brahma, Yaweh. The correct spelling is YHWH it is a word that REPRESENTS God but is NOT the name of God. By giving God a name then one must assume that God is SOMEONE ELSE and therefore is NOT in you, and as you.
Afterwards he brought me to the "gate" even the gate that looketh toward the east; and, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east; and his voice was like a noise of many of many waters. And the earth shined with his glory. Through the divine eye in the forehead (east) (insight) the Yogi sails his consciousness into omnipresence, hearing the "word" or aum (amen), divine sound of "many waters:" The vibrations of light that constitute the sole reality of creation.
-Ezekiel 43:1-2 - Yogananda
Meditation brings one to the inner gate or door which opens to the inner true spiritual condition.
I Protest by our rejoicing which I have in Christ (Christ consciousness) I die daily, by the method of centering inwardly (meditation-cultivation) all body life force, which ordinarily is directed only outward to the sensory world, thus lending it a seeming validity, St. Paul experienced daily a true yoga (union) with rejoicing bliss of the Christ consciousness, in that felicitous state he was conscious of being dead to, or freed from sensory delusion.
-Yogananda
The "Upanishads" have minutely classified every stage of spiritual advancement. A "siddha" (perfected\ being) has progressed from the state of a "jivanmurta" (freed while living) to that of a "paramukta" (supremely free - full power over death); the latter has completely escaped from the mayic thralldom and its reincarnation round. The "paramukta" therefore seldom returns to a physical body; if he does return, he is an "avatar," a divinely appointed medium of supernal blessings on the world. An avatar is unsubject to the universal economy; his pure body, visible as light image, is free from any debt to nature.
-Yogananda
Reality or God is one without a second. The entire world of manifestation and multiplicity is not real in itself and seems to be real only for those who live in ignorance. To be caught in it is the bondage in which we are all implicated. This lost condition cannot be removed by our "efforts." Works are in vain and blind us firmly to this unreal cosmic process, the endless chain of cause and effect. Only the wisdom that the universal reality and the individual self are identical can bring us redemption. When this wisdom arises, the ego is dissolved, the wandering ceases, and we have perfect joy and blessedness. God-reality definable only in terms of being. As it is above all predicates, especially all distinctions of subject, object and the act of cognition, it cannot be regarded as personal and there can be no love reverence for it.
-Samkara
Samkara believes that all ceremonies are meant for those who are lost in ignorance and desire, therefore the aspirants for salvation should renounce the performance of ritual works.
