Secrets of Manifestation

8. Expanded Consciousness Meditation

If we want to reduce Intolerance, we make a list of all those facts and events and circumstances we are not able to tolerate or accept or digest, and then try to reduce our intolerance towards them one by one. We check what we are unable to tolerate in our life. Am I unable to tolerate the way my spouse treats me? Am I unable to accept my deteriorating health? Am I unable to digest the fact that I am bypassed to give promotion to my colleague? Am I unable to accept the way my neighbor behaves? And so on.

But an enlightened spiritual person makes no such list. He has a wonderful solution to generically neutralize his intolerance towards all these items in the list and those we forgot to include in it as well.

He can start meditation by closing his eyes even as he is seated relaxed in a chair. As soon as he closes his eyes, his ego principle of his subtle body gets weakened. This ego principle is responsible for individuating our Consciousness and confining It to the physical boundary of our body.

When ego principle is rendered weak, our Consciousness expands into the infinite space, leading to the disappearance of space division just as there is no space division for the wind blowing over a wide geographical area; our Consciousness is no longer confined to the physical boundary of our body.

A feeling of Intolerance can be experienced only as long as our Consciousness is confined to the physical boundary of our body. Thus during the period of meditation an enlightened spiritual person experiences what is called unconditional Acceptance. His acceptance of current situation is not based on any particular reason or condition.

We create the feeling of acceptance of our current state and environment using some reason or condition to convince ourselves. For an example, if you cannot tolerate how your spouse treats you, you may try to accept the situation citing the reason that you only manifested it. Of course, there is nothing wrong with this approach, but the point is that all our acceptances are based on some reason or condition.

Conditional acceptance requires that each and every situation that creates a feeling of intolerance in us is to be identified, isolated and logically reasoned out for our intolerance towards them to subside. But the enlightened spiritual person uses his expanded Consciousness instead of his mind to generate a state of being of unconditional Acceptance that serves as a solution to generically neutralize his intolerance towards ALL existing situations that create a feeling of intolerance in him.

If we want to reduce Anxiety, we make a list of all those facts and events and circumstances that generate anxiety in us, and then try to reduce our anxiety in each, one by one. We check what for we are anxious in our life. Am I anxious that my spouse may leave me? Am I anxious that I may lose my job this year? Am I anxious that my disease may never get cured? Am I anxious that I may not get promotion this year? We list out all anxieties we face in our daily life, and attack them one by one to reduce them.

But an enlightened spiritual person makes no such list. He has a wonderful solution to generically neutralize his anxiety regarding all these items in the list and those we forgot to include in it.

On continuing his meditation with his eyes closed, after the expansion of his Consciousness into the infinite space, a strange event takes place in a few seconds.

His Consciousness gradually fades into the background. A very deep silence is perceived. In a few seconds his Consciousness becomes completely imperceptible, and the Field of silence takes its place. This Field of silence is what is called as the Self.

When we say 'I talk' or 'I think' or 'I desire', we refer to this Field of silence by the word 'I'. Our I-sense arises from this Field. That's why this Field is known as the Self. Our Consciousness arises from and disappears into our Self; our Self is the source and sink of our Consciousness.