Welcome to Day 7 of our 40 Day Retreat 2009.
Yesterday, I was speaking to you about the different energy bodies in which the Source of our Being is embodied. I also spoke about how important it is to identify those bodies within you. They are part of your identity as a human being, a multi-dimensional being.
Have a Personal Relationship with your Energy Body
As I begin my talk today, I will like to say to you that it is important to relate everything I say to you, and do not think it is something out there. For example, if I speak about the observer, do not think that it is something out there. You are already an observer. You observe in your daily life. I am really saying to give attention to that part of your consciousness, that part of you that observes. Therefore, I will like you to relate everything I say to you.
When I speak about the Source, I do not speak about the Source out there only, but I am also speaking about a Source within you. You are the Source in limited manifestation in a human form. Your inner Source is already in a place of perfection, a place of wholeness. All its qualities are already inside of you. I am speaking about you and what is already inside of you, and the God that we speak about being inside of you. Everything that has come out of the Universe is coming from that Source that is also inside of you. I want you to have a personal relationship with everything I am saying.
Witness Undergoes Changes
During the 40 Days of 1978 that I speak about, there was a transformation that was taking place in my consciousness, a very powerful transformation. And the witness that I have been speaking about was a major part of that. The witness was undergoing many changes; my Being as witness was undergoing changes. I could begin to perceive the different bodies in my Being; to feel that I am not the physical body, that I possess an energy body and that there was a Source deep inside of me giving energy to these bodies. All the information I am giving to you relate to what is within you.
As I have been saying everything that has come out of consciousness is energy. Energy and consciousness constitute the Universe, consciousness being the Source and energy being what comes out of the Source; subtle energy, gross energy. All the forms of energy you see in the Universe have come out of that space.
Subtle Energy Body Drives the Physical Body
If we speak about the physical body: this is my physical body, I am sure you can identity with the physical body. But when I say it, I know this is a body that I live in. That is the awareness that we need to come into, that this is something that I live in. This is an important distinction.
My subtle body inside drives this physical body with its subtle power. If you begin to become more aware you can actually feel that you have a subtle energy body that can drive the physical body. That subtle body has mental power, emotional power, vital power, sexual power, power to ground and power to connect with the Source. These are powers within your Being, and this is at a subtle level of energy. You have been given a physical body that is gross energy, it has a life of its own, different from your soul.
Know and Appreciate your Physical Body
Every cell in this body has a life of its own. It can live outside the body. Every organ which is a collection of cells can live outside the body. It can be given to another person. It has an independent existence from the soul. Your whole physical body, driven by its own genetic power and its trillions of cells, has an identity of its own. The more aware you become of your inner Being, the more you can feel that.
That was a distinct experience after my 40 days of experience. It was there before, but not in that fullness. That allows for a wonderful relationship with the physical body. When you realize that it is something that has been given to you, and you can feel it as that, then you appreciate it a little more. For example, if you have been given a costly vehicle that is so wonderfully made, you will appreciate it so much more when you realize its worth to you. That is how I treat my physical body, with the greatest of love, respect and appreciation.
The Subtle Body
The subtle energy body is an important body for us to know. Where we store all the information of lifetimes in another storehouse or body within us is important to know. However, today I am going to bring you another dimension of this. I have been speaking about each one of these bodies:
- Physical body of gross energy
- Dynamic subtle energy body - this is the body with the chakras
- Causal body - a body of very fine subtle energy
The Causal body is where all the information is stored. It is an energy body too. Information is stored in an energy field.
Energy Relates to States of Consciousness
We know that information can be transmitted through energy. That is how we have radio waves, the images that come through waves. These energy bodies bring a distinct experience of a different state of consciousness. It is important to understand this, and this is your experience. I am going to relate it to your direct every day experience. Your waking experience is different from your dreaming experience, and it is different from your deep sleep experience. Waking, dreaming and deep sleeping are experiences that we have every day. Sometimes, we do not give attention to them as we ought to in order to understand them and to use them well.
Physical Waking State
The waking state involves the physical body and the physical senses. This around me is what I see in the waking state. This is how I experience my world in the waking state. I see colours in my physical world, I feel substances, I hear things in the physical world, I smell and I taste things from the physical world. This gives me a sort of consciousness of my world. Whenever I come into the body I am in this experience of my senses.
Dream state has its own reality
But how would it be if I were to be experiencing my subtle energy body only? How would the consciousness be? Would it be like the waking? If I do not have this body any more but I have my inner body, how would the experience be? What kind of state the consciousness would be in? What kind of colours would it see? What kind of experience would it have? It is exactly what you have when you are dreaming.
When you are dreaming, because the waking state is longer, we tend to think that the dream state is an unimportant state because the waking is predominant. But the dream state also has its reality just as the waking state. In the ancient wisdom of India the waking state is call Jaagrat and it is a state of consciousness that you experience. The sleep state is called Swapna and it is a state of consciousness. That is the state in which your energy body is operating.
Energy body has Thought Power
Note that your energy body has thought power. Your energy body has emotional power, your energy body has vital power, your energy body can manifest sexual power and your energy body can ground itself in the physical body. It has the ability to ground. It has the ability to connect with the Source. That is why in your dream, thoughts are alive and emotions are real. Vitality, moving, flying and fighting are all real in the dream, because your energy body is working in the dream and you are experiencing that world. Yet you do not give a lot of importance to it, but certain cultures do.
In fact, during the 40 days of 1978 I had some phenomenal experiences in that state, so I know how important that state is. And also in this life my connection with the other world has been in that state, and continues to be in that state. All the experiences I have had with people who have left this world, happen in that world. Not in this physical state but in that state. I fall into this state and I can connect with that world. It is amazing!
Thoughts influence your dreams
For those of you, who have had experiences like this, know that we dream things that are about to happen or you have visitations from guides, yogis, and saints. You are blessed by them or you are given counsel by them. You see the reality of it. It has a reality in another dimension. All the thoughts you think about come alive in your dreams. That is why when you are dreaming, it seems so real. In the same way the physical body is powered up by senses, that inner body that we call the active subtle body, also called the astral body has super senses. It is not like the physical but it has senses related to the chakras.
In the dream state you also have the experiences of seeing things, tasting things and doing things like you would in your physical world. But it is different because your chakras are associated with all your physical senses. It has super senses, so you can imagine the fascination of your energy body. That is why when you think evil things in your mind, even though they are not manifested in the physical world, they do have a reality in the other world. All the negative things you hide within you, which you do not tell to others, you are actually creating a reality in another world. That is why they influence your dreams.
Start the Process of Cleansing
The more you are able to manage your thinking in the physical world, the more your dreams will be different. When you begin a process of transformation and cleansing in the physical world, you begin to see the same results in the dream world. When you make attempts in this world to transform yourself, to purify and develop yourself, you see the results in the subtle world also.
Duality in Subtle World
The place or body where we store information is called the causal body. It also has its own state of consciousness. Whenever you are there in the causal body, when the subtle body is active after a while it goes to rest, because in this Universe activity and rest are twins. Remember the subtle world also has duality; positive and negative thoughts, positive and negative emotions. It has activity and rest. It has the duality of both. After a time the subtle body needs to rest, when it does, it rests in a state that is called deep sleep.
In that deep sleep there is no consciousness. The subtle body is not active. Thoughts are not active. Emotions are not active. In that space, therefore, there appears to be nothing. No activity. No movement. Hence there is deep sleep which provides rest.
Concluding Pointers
There are lots of implications to what I am saying. Finally, the ultimate state is when the subtle body dissolves; when there are no thoughts and emotions any more. But that is way ahead in this game.
When we have completed all the desires of the subtle body, then it does not have any need to want to do anything. It then goes in the final mergence that will be just like when you go into deep sleep. But its causal body will be clean. It will not go to sleep in a causal body that will make it wake up again because of desires.
When you are more aware of these states of consciousness, you are more aware of what it means to connect with other dimensions that exist in the subtle world. Then you are more aware of the power of thoughts when you store them, and the life that they have in the other dimension. Also, your positive thoughts and emotions have great power in the inner space and the other dimension. You attract other beings to guide you in the other dimension.
These are the three states that we normally experience everyday. Tomorrow I will speak of the fourth state of consciousness. This is the one that we desire to experience. This is the one where the witness will become transformed completely. Tomorrow we will talk about that fourth state of consciousness, Turiya, the transcendental state.
But think about the fascination and the implication of what I have said today; that your energy bodies relate to different experiences in the consciousness that we call States of Consciousness. In the ancient wisdom of India it is called Jaagrat, Swapna, Sushupti – waking, dreaming and deep sleep. They are considered to be states of consciousness that your Source experiences in the human experience.
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