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Maharishi Teaches How to Live Heaven on Earth
We have many different lifetimes as human beings. The purpose of these lifetimes is to evolve to Higher States of Consciousness. The evolution of our lifetimes is interspersed with time spent on the astral planes in the heavenly spheres. Sometimes there is deep rest for the individuated consciousness on the astral planes in between lives as a human being. With more evolution to Higher States of Consciousness, the lifetimes on the astral planes in the heavenly spheres are more active. These lifetimes are much longer and happier than lifetimes here on the terrestrial plane as human beings. You may have […]
The Practice of Meditation Brings Change in the Direction of Evolution
Change is often viewed in a negative way. People resist change, uncertain of what change will bring. But the world we live in, the relative field, is ever changing. The purpose of all this change is evolution: Evolution for each of us human beings and evolution for the Universe. How can you, with your practices, manage change better so that it brings you more happiness and fulfillment in your life? A Practice of Meditation that transcends the ever changing relative field, leaves you by your Self to experience your Self referring to ItSelf. Your Self is the field of Divine […]
To Know God One Must Live God.
There are many of you who want to know the Lord; Who have practices of devotion and service to God. If your acts of devotion and service remain in the relative field, here in the Created world, with the thoughts of your mind and the actions of your physiology, then you cannot know God. Your thoughts and your actions cannot reach God. They are covered by all the activity here in the relative field. What is the way to know God and to serve God To know God, one must realize God. One must realize God in the field of […]
Spiritual Awareness Is the Awareness of Universal God That Is Your Self
What does it mean to be spiritual? To be spiritual means to have an awareness of the finer, more subtle value of life; to have an awareness of the spirit of things. The spirit can be as personal and intimate as your own spirit, or as impersonal and expansive as the spirit of the Universe. Spiritual awareness is the awareness of That which is not created; That which is not of this bounded, manifest world that is ever changing. The spirit is That which never changes. It is your Self. Your Self That is unbounded, unmanifest and uncreated; That is […]
How to Bring More Harmony to the Duality of Fear and Trust with Your Meditation Practice
Here in the relative field there is a great range of duality: Hot and cold, big and small, loud and quiet…. There is a great range of duality in our world. One of these dualities is fear and trust. Maharishi teaches that fear is born from the experience of duality in the relative field. The way to bring harmony to your fears is with your Meditation Practice. Transcend this relative field of duality that is always changing; Experience the field of the Absolute, the field of Unity that never changes; Experience Unified Divine Being. The experience of the Unity of […]
Offer Yourself to Your Self in Your Meditation Practice
You could define yourself here in the relative field by your name, or your family, or your place of work, or your interests. But this is just a surface value defining of yourself here in the world. And like the relative field, this way of defining yourself is bounded, finite and ever changing. There is another way to define yourself: Your Self. When you have a Meditation Practice where you transcend the relative field, where you transcend your small, individual self, then the experience is of Universal Self; Your Self That is Divine Being, unfolding ItSelf to ItSelf by ItSelf; […]
Develop Your Relationship with God in Your Meditation Practice
Universal God is realized in the field of the Transcendent That is Divine Being. When you have a Meditation Practice that allows you to transcend the relative field, then the experience is of Divine Being by ItSelf referring to ItSelf. The experience is of Divine Being, the Universal God. By doing your Meditation Practice regularly and transcending repeatedly, you cultivate the realization of Universal God. Eventually your mind is so transformed by regular and repeated experience of Universal God, that it rises to That status of Universal God. Now your Consciousness of Universal God is held alongside your consciousness of […]
What Is the Meaning of Life?
Each of us has a different idea about the meaning of life. For some, meaning is found in progress, in moving forward. For others, meaning is found in trying to make the world a better place; or to make a good life for your family. Or it might be for you all of the above. One of our jobs as human beings is to figure out for ourselves what is meaningful to us. For some people, like the Existentialists, the meaning of life is that there is no meaning: all that happens is random. But Maharishi teaches in the tradition […]
The Meditation Experience Is the Unfolding of Your Karma
When you have a meditation technique that allows you to transcend the relative field, there is a traversing of your mind: A traversing from the grosser, surface values of thoughts down through to the deeper levels of your mind, where thoughts are finer, more refined and subtle. In the traversing of the mind, as it moves toward the Transcendent, there can be different kinds of experiences. Maybe you see in your mind’s eye, a beautiful shape or form or color; or a flash of white light. Or maybe you are overcome by some feeling of sadness or joy, or by […]
The Absolute Truth Is a Higher State of Consciousness
Here in our world, in the relative field that is eternally ever changing, manifested and bounded by space, time and causation, there are many truths. Each of us here in the world is in a different place in our evolution to Higher States of Consciousness. Each of us has different circumstances, different experiences, and different perceptions. Therefore each of us holds different truths. And these many truths are always changing, according to how each of us changes. There is , however, one Absolute Truth: The Absolute Truth of Divine Being That is eternally never changing, unbounded and unmanifested. You can […]