The Secret is in the Heart
The Heart is the Most Sacred of All Places, Go There & Roam – Bhagavan Nityananda
The boundaries of the heart are not observable because they do not exist
Milky Way
The immense supercluster of galaxies (Yellow area) containing our own Milky Way is named “Laniakea,” meaning “immense heaven” in Hawaiian. Every tiny dot represents an entire galaxy and not a star!
Perhaps the unbounded Consciousness/Creative Intelligence that is the source of all manifestation can handle our lives!
The
Timeless, Infinite Potentiality of Love, Joy, and Freedom
In Sanskrit, "Heart of Consciousness" is called saṃviddhṛdaya — the potency by which the Universal Heart knows Itself and causes individuals to recognize themselves as That in their own heart.
The Divine is One — a dynamic dance of Śiva (Consciousness) and Śakti (energy). Śiva is unbounded Consciousness and infinite light, while Śakti is the power of that Consciousness. This autonomous freedom knows Itself as infinite awareness and manifests Itself in and as all form, including Kuṇḍalinī Śakti, the individuated expression of Itself that is us. The highest truth of nonduality is actualized when we have the direct experience of and become the lived expression of the infinite, absolute Consciousness.
Pārvatī asks Śiva: Oh Lord of all the gods. . . for me this unrevealed secret is difficult to understand and attain. . . I pray you will reveal it entirely to me, who is completely surrendered to you.
Śiva responds: Oh Goddess. . .the secret which you ask resides in your own very heart.
(The Yoga of Netra Tantra translated by Bettina Sharada Bäumer)
Until we have taken the truths and insights of the teachings into our own heart we have no basis for awakening into the hidden path the view reveals. These are the recognitions discovered by sādhakas like you and me when they turned inside and asked to know the truth.
ONE HEART
Divine Consciousness is the Heart of it All
ONE LIGHT
The Light of Consciousness that Knows Itself as That Light Creation is the Autonomous Energy of the Divine
ONE POWER
ONE LOVE
The Unconditional Offering — Love Frees Everything it Touches
ONE GRACE
Śaktipāta: The Freedom-Bestowing Power of the Divine
ONE MEANS
Bringing Forth the Direct Recognition of the Ineffable
ONE PURPOSE
We Are Living God’s Purpose
ONE MISUNDERSTANDING
We Don’t Know Ourself as Consciousness
Divine Consciousness is The Heart of it All:
The Unbounded and Universal Self
The Heart, says Abhinavagupta, is the very Self of Śiva, and of the Devī, the Goddess who is inseparable from Śiva. Indeed, the Heart is the site of their union in full embrace. This abode is pure consciousness as well as unlimited bliss. As consciousness, the Heart is the unbounded, infinite light (prakāśa) as well as the freedom (svātantrya) and self-reflective capacity (vimarśa) of that light to appear and know itself in a multitude and variety of forms.
The Heart is the Ultimate Essence. which is both utterly transcendent to and yet totally immanent in all created things.
Paul
Ortega-Muller in his book, The Triadic Heart of Siva.
The Light of Consciousness that Knows Itself as That
PRAKĀŚA: THE DIVINE LIGHT THAT ILLUMINATES ALL OF LIFE
VIMARŚA: THE CAPACITY OF THAT LIGHT TO KNOW ITSELF AS LIGHT
Consciousness is the Essence, the Heart of Śiva, and self-reflective awareness is Its power of knowing Itself, spontaneously emanating from Its own blissful essence. The uncovering, cultivation, and unfolding of self-reflective capacity is the essence of sādhana (spiritual practice).
Creation is the Autonomous Energy of the Divine
The Unbounded Light Expresses Itself as All Things
The Divine’s power perpetually resounds throughout the cosmos, the waves of impact rippling through all manifestation. The world (including you) is the expression of the joy of Being & the Will of the Divine.
Beautiful with the universal joy arising from essence-nature. . . saturated with the nectar of complete creative emission; vibrating eternally. . . that is the union of Śiva and Śakti. It's called Love.
