Larry
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Larry Vingelman:
As a TM meditator, I read The Ninth Siddhi with interest and curiosity. I still struggle to understand what Pure Consciousness is. Can you shed some light on this most important spiritual concept?
Larry Vingelman
Pure Consciousness, is just another word for transcendental consciousness, transcendental energy, absolute being, transcendental being, or pure awareness. Still others think of it as Unmanifested Being (life) or Samadhi. It is the first truly spiritual experience gained by the initiate. It is the first experience of a higher state of consciousness. Pure Consciousness is an important experience because it acts as a catalyst for other states of being and the perfection of all the Siddhis.
Think of it like this, say you are at the movie theater and just before the movie starts the bright light of the projector shines through the first few frames of the film. Sometimes the projectionists uses these blank frames to get the film started in the projector. Nevertheless, a very bright light appears on the screen. You are very aware of the bright light and marvel at its brightness. Then the movie starts. Now the bright light changes to something familiar to ones perceiving mind, into something familiar to the senses. A little bit further into the movie you become emotionally involved and may be brought to tears, sometimes to laughter. Inevitably, you forget about the bright light that is the underlying cause of the sight and sound you are experiencing. As a matter of fact, once the movie starts, no amount of trying will let you view the screen as the bright light.
The action in the movie is the way we experience our life through our senses. That is, the way we experience the world through sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. But in addition, the movie caused us to create thoughts and those perceptions caused feelings in us. So, we experience the movie the way we experience life, through our senses and emotions. Clearly, the bright light from the projector supports the action in the movie as pure consciousness supports our thoughts and actions. So, we say that pure consciousness is the bright light (transcendental energy) that supports life, living, and loving. When in the study of the Siddhis, we say that pure consciousness is transcendental to our thoughts and actions we mean that it beyond our ability to perceive it through our senses, just like it is impossible to see the bright light of the projector supporting the action in the movie.
But unlike the bright light of the projector, we can experience pure consciousness through meditative practices like those taught in the Ninth Siddhi and by TM. By using TM’s seed sounds (Mantras) or electronic tones as in Robert Monroe’s Semi-Sync technology, we resonant our body and mind with transcendental energy and effortlessly have the experience of Pure Consciousness. As reported for over eight thousands years by ancient sages and modern students of meditation, the experience is described as total and absolute Bliss – a unique combination of love and joy. It is an experience of “Now” without thoughts or emotion having transcended the hyperactive ego. Since Pure Consciousness is not bound by time or space the presence of the moment is felt as eternal. A cosmic sense of self builds to a “Knowing” or deep felt conviction that life survives the inevitability of physical death.
At this juncture of Pure Consciousness and mind, life for the initiate changes. He is forever influenced by the radiance of Pure Consciousness. The Siddhian becomes inner directed. Her life becomes focused on joy, love, and eternal happiness forever.
Think of it like this, say you are at the movie theater and just before the movie starts the bright light of the projector shines through the first few frames of the film. Sometimes the projectionists uses these blank frames to get the film started in the projector. Nevertheless, a very bright light appears on the screen. You are very aware of the bright light and marvel at its brightness. Then the movie starts. Now the bright light changes to something familiar to ones perceiving mind, into something familiar to the senses. A little bit further into the movie you become emotionally involved and may be brought to tears, sometimes to laughter. Inevitably, you forget about the bright light that is the underlying cause of the sight and sound you are experiencing. As a matter of fact, once the movie starts, no amount of trying will let you view the screen as the bright light.
The action in the movie is the way we experience our life through our senses. That is, the way we experience the world through sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. But in addition, the movie caused us to create thoughts and those perceptions caused feelings in us. So, we experience the movie the way we experience life, through our senses and emotions. Clearly, the bright light from the projector supports the action in the movie as pure consciousness supports our thoughts and actions. So, we say that pure consciousness is the bright light (transcendental energy) that supports life, living, and loving. When in the study of the Siddhis, we say that pure consciousness is transcendental to our thoughts and actions we mean that it beyond our ability to perceive it through our senses, just like it is impossible to see the bright light of the projector supporting the action in the movie.
But unlike the bright light of the projector, we can experience pure consciousness through meditative practices like those taught in the Ninth Siddhi and by TM. By using TM’s seed sounds (Mantras) or electronic tones as in Robert Monroe’s Semi-Sync technology, we resonant our body and mind with transcendental energy and effortlessly have the experience of Pure Consciousness. As reported for over eight thousands years by ancient sages and modern students of meditation, the experience is described as total and absolute Bliss – a unique combination of love and joy. It is an experience of “Now” without thoughts or emotion having transcended the hyperactive ego. Since Pure Consciousness is not bound by time or space the presence of the moment is felt as eternal. A cosmic sense of self builds to a “Knowing” or deep felt conviction that life survives the inevitability of physical death.
At this juncture of Pure Consciousness and mind, life for the initiate changes. He is forever influenced by the radiance of Pure Consciousness. The Siddhian becomes inner directed. Her life becomes focused on joy, love, and eternal happiness forever.
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