Awakening - beyond the mind!

Awakening is not limited to Saints, Gurus and few special individuals, as we all imagine. Nor is it limited to old ages or when you are done with all the practical duties of this life. 

As per traditional Hindu mythology, walking the path of spirituality was laid out for old people once they had finished all their worldly duties. And so in modern times, people started viewing it as a dull, end of life process. On the contrary, awakening is constantly available to all of us, at every single opportunity and at every stage of our life. It simply is a process of discovering grander and grander truths about who we are and expressing these new truths in our own unique way.

Since childhood, we always are expanding our consciousness as we learn more and more about ourselves. It is awakening too.  When the baby learns about its environment, about relationships and world at large,  it is also awakening to its newer identities.

It is nothing but becoming more and more aware of larger realities and truths. Every time you learn a new truth, the old one is broken and a new reality is formed. You become more inclusive of newer and newer realities.

This is all great and it has worked to our greatest advantage for a long period of time until such a time that we got stuck at perceiving reality in only one way. Through our minds!

There comes a time in our lives when we start asking questions. Why do we have to earn money to survive? Is there no other way to live? Why are we always fearful of survival? Why are marriages the way they are? What
really is our role as a parent? How could I be something different than what I am today? what is my purpose in this world?

At this point in our life, our deeper self is craving for something more but we have no idea what that more is. In today's world, the 'more' is defined as more money, more beauty, more assets, more positions, more titles, more relations, more friends, more travelling ….and the list goes on and on…

The limitation of perceiving reality and learning through mind is YOU CAN ONLY LEARN OR DO WHAT OTHERS HAVE ALREADY DONE!

Mind uses only the information provided by its environment – school, colleges, offices, colleagues, books, seminars, videos….. rearranges this information and presents it in a different form.

This does satisfy us to some level, we are able to create many new things through this, including the creativity of music, literature, paintings etc…… But it can not help you expand to a new level of consciousness.

True creativity and true genius stems from beyond the mind! Individuals have been able to access this way of being and expressing and their creations have been completely different to the rest of the world. They were awakening to their true source of potentials!

And so, for most of us, asleep to our great potentials…..Awakening is a process of stepping beyond the mind!

We think through our minds and plan through our minds. We take it upon ourselves as our mission ‘to learn the technique’ of stepping beyond the mind too. It is like the dog chasing its own tail! It never works!

Most of our early attempts to step beyond the mind our rooted in the mind- such as affirmations, positive thinking, strict habits and even certain meditations.

Frustration and the failure of all of these techniques is what truly prepares us for the awakening!

Our mind is a beautiful tool available to us. It is incredibly intelligent and powerful. Every thought, notion and belief that we have accepted about ourselves or the world is used by the mind to create our reality , our experiences. It gives us exactly what we hold in our minds. Our every thought and feeling is a command to the mind, which it can never disagree. It takes it and executes it. It does that for only one reason. So that we can become aware of our own consciousness through our life experiences!

The only problem is our thoughts and believes are limited, learned from surrounding, rooted in imperfect understanding of who we truly are! And so are our life experiences.

Awakening begins when you start taking your unique steps to realize yourself beyond the mind. And that requires you to First- completely commit to yourself at all times and Second- slowly begin to transform the energy of the mind to the unconditional love of your heart!