Spiritual Eye

When God can not teach you anything he makes you a teacher. You have to make sure in
this lifetime you are going to learn something. This subject is so vast we are going to start
with the God you are going to meditate on. You want to meditate on God but you do not
truly know the kind of God you are looking for. Paramahansa Yogananda, a spiritual
master from India, is the only master who described the duel God whom the Romans
called the jealous God. The God of two faces; the God connected with doors and gates
which is a perfect explanation.

First we have the asp2234ect of God in creation that is cosmic intelligence which created the
world and the entire universe without form with his infinite intelligence. He permeated
every atom of creation with this intelligence. But that intelligence which is in our brain
and mind pertains to our soul not to our ego and therefore we have great difficulty and that is why we are living in ignorance. This can be proven to you. When you begin to develop cosmic intelligence you will know where you came from, you will know who you are, you will know where
you are going and you know the God you are looking for. The masters from India tell us are real name is "Sat Chit Ananda" which means ever blissfully conscious of your eternal existence.
But you can not be that cosmic intelligence until you work one hundred percent
to open up the gate to that intelligence --the key is your conscience. Your conscience is
God's cosmic intelligence vibrating through you. Each time you interfere with your
conscience you are back into ego consciousness, ignorance and duality. You have human
intelligence which endlessly lies to you then you have divine intelligence and your
conscience and then you have cosmic light.

Since God needed some bricks to build his
universe; he built the entire universe as light but at the same time we have cosmic
darkness. That light is right between the eyebrows. To those who meditate do you see any
light? Most of us see nothing but darkness, complete darkness and that is the Kali Yuga
state. You want to meditate and you get so bored with it then you quit because you see
nothing, feel nothing and hear nothing and when God stirs the galaxy and solar systems it
makes a sound, a great sound of Aum. There are two powers within that sound: attraction
and repulsion. There is beautiful music like the music of Mozart and there is heavy
metal and rap. One leads you to uplifting mood and the other leads you down the drain.
The whole universe is made of a positive and negative approach in everything.

Furthermore we have cosmic wisdom in order to create religions to unite all beings under
one God. We have cosmic wisdom but we do not know. The role of every religion in the
world is to teach union, but instead of teaching cosmic wisdom, they are
teaching separateness and cosmic confusion. There are endless wars between religious
people in the name of one God, and everybody is willing to kill each other and die for
their religion. Suicide bombers are killing themselves and others every day in Iraq
thinking they are going to heaven by dying for their beliefs. Mankind has great
knowledge but absolutely no wisdom. Anybody we hurt on the other side of the earth
affects us all physically. It is like hitting your foot with a hammer and oh! my head hurts.
Everything happening on this globe today affects our daily life in thoughts, words,
feeling and actions. We have cosmic love and cosmic hate and these forces keep
every nation separated from each other with different customs, different languages and
different everything that causes total confusion. We have cosmic joy and then we have
cosmic sorrow.

People suffer separation at death because the concept of death creates
universal sorrow. The concept of death stems from the greatest ignorance of who we are.
Therefore, when we lose a child, a father, or a mother, we grieve, when they
experience death. We need to realize we are immortal. In the future this concept will not
even exist. There is cosmic peace and there is cosmic unrest that is not perpetual
motion but perpetual commotion. There are people that the moment they enter a
room they become perpetual commotion. We have unrest everywhere. Then there is
cosmic beauty and cosmic ugliness in human behavior towards one another. Torturing in
concentration camps and the devastation of world war two are perfect examples of cosmic
ugliness, oppression, and dictatorship and so on. Then there is cosmic love and cosmic
hate. Worshiping God with the mind no matter what type of yogi we are will endlessly
put us through the experience of these dualities. As long as we worship God with our ego
no matter how advanced our ego is we will experience duality. There is a certain kind of
yoga devoid of these dualities and that is cosmic bliss. If one can make the effort to
anchor oneself in that which is changeless one may obtain that cosmic bliss which is
nothing else but ones own soul divine nature. We can experience all these states of God
without duality. To seek God, put your mind (ego) aside, shut-off the five senses and look
at the door of the infinite. There is this hidden stair that will take you up there where God
can be perceived without duality known as the spiritual eye.

Why are we meditating? What are we trying to achieve when the great sages and spiritual masters from India say there are two kinds of people in the world? There are those who meditate and seek God and those who dont. Those who meditate, have a clear advantage over those who do not meditate. In meditation the conscious mind is used as an instrument through which the soul transmits knowledge to our physical brain. This instrument then gradually establishes a close relationship with the soul until they become literally one and knowledge merges into wisdom. Visualization is not meditation or a form of it. Meditation is not thoughts, it is focusing your attention on the object of meditation. For example, if you want to know what a lake is, you can jump into the lake, swim into the lake and absorb into the lake. Likewise, meditation is absorbing oneself into the object of meditation. True meditation is absorption in God and it has absolutely nothing in common with the unscientific techniques of breathing taught by a host of ill-advised zealots. According to the scriptures human beings require one million years of healthy, normal evolution to perfect the human brain in order to achieve the sublime state of cosmic consciousness. There is a technique called Kriya Yoga. It is a method through which human evolution can be quickened. A book titled "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda, a spiritual classic, explains the actual meditation technique of burning off karma, which is freely given by the Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles California in lesson form, mailed to your home.

During meditation you must break the connection between the body and the mind.
As long as you are conscious of your body you cannot go deep into meditation. You have
to have complete forgetfulness of your body and that means a state of absolute
immovability. As long as you move even once, like to scratch yourself, you have broken
that magnetic field and you have to start over again at that point to gain depth in
meditation. Desires constantly agitates the meditator and wisdom can only be perceived
when one stops moving. Intuition comes the moment you are still to guide you. That is
why some people quit meditating; they cannot go deep enough to gain any results
therefore they lose interest. Some have what is called the yo-yo syndrome; this
alternating condition is when two tendencies over power each other then alternately like
two lovers who sometimes become angry affect alternately with deep enthusiasm for
meditation and then sudden dryness and indifference, then in one moment they get very
interested and drop everything else.

It is impossible to resist the temptation of this world unless we have something better given to us through the practice of meditation. Meditation is the
cultivation of concentration upon the spiritual eye. The moment your eyes go down you
fall asleep and lean forward like many do when concentration is not locked up at the point
between the eyebrows. You cannot enter into these higher states of consciousness until
the ego becomes relaxed. The western mind is so intellectually uptight that it has to
rationalize everything; that is why it takes a long time before we can feel anything. We
must go beyond the ego self to be able to relax and to experience real feelings. No wonder
we are unable to love one another!

Copyright 2006 Gary Zalben
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