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Awaken
Aspiration by Raising Energy
It was not until rocket engines were built with a strong
enough
thrust to escape the earth's gravity that man actually
landed on the
moon. In the same manner, those of us who wish to get closer
to
Divinity can attain our goal only when we are able to
generate enough
upward thrust to break free of the gravitational pull of
worldly
desires and attachments.
The centre point between the eyebrows known as the spiritual
eye, or
seat of superconsciousness, may be called the inner 'moon'in
man, the
centre of his divine awareness.
But many a practising yogi — concentrating on this point in
the hope
of centring his awareness there — finds his efforts
unfruitful; his
consciousness remains anchored firmly to earth. He must
deliberately
generate more upward 'thrust'in his endeavour to transcend
matter-
consciousness.
Anything that increases the upward flow of energy in your
body when
you meditate will facilitate your efforts to focus your
attention on
the spiritual eye. Your measure of concentration depends
entirely on
how much energy you can direct in the process. Divine
awakening
depends upon channelling all of your energy upward, and
focusing it
at the point between the eyebrows.
The first battle is to generate enough of an upward flow to
break
free of the downward, gravitational pull of matter. For
this, three
things are necessary:
1) avoidance of those actions and states of consciousness
which pull
the energy downward;
2) upward, devotional aspiration;
3) techniques specifically directed towards raising the
energy in the
body.
Consider briefly the relationship between
matter-identification and
awareness itself. Any increase of the one always entails a
decrease
of the other. The gross materialist is less sensitively
aware even of
this world than one who lives primarily in the consciousness
of
spiritual realities. In the most material manifestations of
spirit,
rocks and minerals, consciousness is so reduced that it is
latent.
That's why Hindu scriptures say: "God sleeps in the rocks".
For an enlightened yogi, matter is seen essentially not to
exist, yet
his consciousness is absolute. Awareness increases in
inverse
proportion to the degree of one's identification with
matter, or
form .
To free your energy from the downward pull of matter, avoid
anything
that dulls the mind, or increases its identification with
the senses.
Laziness, oversleep, mental vagueness or lack of interest,
boredom,
even selfishness, hatred, or pride, must be cured by daily
mental
injections of keen interest and enthusiasm, kindness,
forgiveness,
and self-forgetfulness in doing things for others. For
whenever the
former predominate, the energy automatically moves downward,
but when
the latter predominate, it moves upward effortlessly towards
the
brain.
You should be self-controlled, identified less and less with
the
senses, and more and more with the soul within. For though
one
experiences pleasure through the senses, the more one looks
to those
pleasures to stimulate one's awareness, the more, in the
long run,
they become dulled.
On the other hand, increasingly to abandon sense pleasures —
far from
producing a state of boredom — permits one's awareness to
soar so
that boredom becomes unimaginable. Devotional aspiration can
be
awakened by chanting, service or meditation.
Awaken Aspiration by Raising Energy
Times Of India
http://spirituality.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1157299,curpg-
1.cms
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