Spiritual Practice is the Search for Ourselves in the Heart of God, and the Discovery of God in Our Own Heart.
This direct recognition occurs when we open our hearts ~ feel the flow, surrender to the energy, and reside in the joy and fullness of Consciousness that is our essence-nature. The heart is where we feel God. The heart is where we merge with God. The heart is where we become one with God.
The Heart is the entrance into Unity, the revelation of the Self.
The Mind is the doorway out of Oneness, the veiling of the Self.
The Heart is the entrance into Unity, the revelation of the Self.
The Mind is the doorway out of Oneness, the veiling of the Self.
As the heart closes, the mind becomes more predominant. If we are not completely aware of our state of awareness through our capacity to be so, overtime, fraction by fraction, the heart closes. We don’t even notice that the mind becomes the center of our awareness with all of its tensions, patterns. judgments, and projections. Our own awareness is veiled. If you truly want to be a master of yourself, then practice self-reflection. The most important aspect of that is to recognize when you are creating and sustaining all of your perceptions through the lens of arrogance. Be very suspect of your own “thoughts of mastery” then "think" about the fact that only one thought separates you from the luminous consciousness that is YourSelf: the next one!
The mind free from thoughts is the Self. Śrī Ramaṇa Mahārṣi.
When contraction predominates, one experiences oneself to be nothing but the mind, and that identification perpetuates contraction, in a cycle of saṃsāra. All thought is transmigratory existence.
Tantrālokaviveka, verse 1.24
|| 5 || Awareness Itself, descending from Its state of Pure Consciousness...becomes the mind. (HofR)
|| 6 || One who consists of the mind perceives duality. (HofR)
|| 13 || When there is full realization of that [concealment] as the mind, by turning within, [Consciousness] ascends to its expanded state, and is revealed as nothing but Awareness. (HofR)
A higher state of awareness where the ego, mind, thought-construct, and samskaras have been dissolved and only Consciousness remains.
The Heart is the doorway into the Self. It is the opening to the inside. The heart space can be deeply felt by consciously directing our incessant outward projection inward. The stilling of our mind into the heart is the sanctuary we seek. Then, we can experience the intrinsic current of life force vibrating as the energetic centers of the psychic body, and we can extend and connect from there — creating a flow with life. We experience the heart as a dynamic space and the portal into deeper dimensions of who we actually are.
~ The heart is where we feel God ~
By tuning in to the heart we can access the subtle dimensions of the central channel of śakti, dismantling the structures of dualistic awareness. Surrendering to the energy enables us to transform misperception and thought-construct into an expanded awareness. By extending into the world under the influence of that inward absorption we experience the unity of the two dimensions. Through surrender we attune to what life is offering, allowing the power of Consciousness to sculpt our life — to reveal itself as our Self. In that recognition we live life as an expression of God’s joy and freedom.
~ The heart is where we merge with God ~
Becoming one with Śakti, the direct experience of Pure Consciousness — one ’s own essential Self — is then recognized. The immediacy of Divine Presence need not be a distant experience. This realization is available in the very moment we simply allow it to shine forth: an effortless effort. We are consciously establishing ourselves in the state of simplicity and stillness that is our innermost nature. We have merged our individual consciousness into Divine Consciousness, into Oneness and the Joy of Being. We reside in the abode of plentitude and pure essence.
~ The heart is where we become one with God ~