Chanting 13
Thank You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gye Nyame.
Thank You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gayatri.
Aum Tat Sat. Namo Namaha
History tells us that constantly calling out Your Names has
been for many, since time immemorial, the beginning
of surrendering all we think, feel, will, say and do to You.
This is the spiritual practice of turning back to
You, Everlasting, Omnipresent, Peace.
Gradually we awaken, sober up, begin to remember You and
return to You. This is conscious, reunion with You. Our
spiritual practice is about coming back to You, our Divine
Source. This is the Sacred Relationship that many of us, by
our words and actions, seem to have almost completely
forgotten.
At this point we know You, our Supreme, Pure Consciousness.
You are the Supreme, Omnipresent, Omnipotent,
Omniscient, Self.
We think of You as as the greatest, Consciousness/Awareness
of all animate and inanimate being. You are within and
beyond the Cosmic Manifestations.
By this method of constantly calling out Your Names,
simultaneously, prayer and meditation is occurring. This is
a Pineal Gland, consciousness purifying process.
This is spiritual revolution, a one hundred and eighty degree
change, from where we were to where we are. We are now
returning to the the infinitude of spiritual existence. We were
totally in the temporary, illusory world of Maya.
We are undergoing a revolution, an evolution
of consciousness. The way we see the self is changing
We are seeing the self ever more as awareness looking
out through the body. As this is happening, we are naturally
seeing everything else in the light of awareness.
We now see the self looking out as eternal, spirit devoid of all
designations. In this light we see the "Other" looking out of
its material body as eternal spirit also. It is just as free from
all designations as we are as eternal pure energy or force.
Thank You for showing us the reasonableness of
forgoing changing the world in favor of changing the way we
look at ourselves. When we changed the way we looked at
the self, seeing the Self in the most positive light as awareness,
the world we looked at changed in the most positive way.
It was always this. When our vision was more or less blind,
jaundiced, we could not see nor experience the beauty of the
eternal spiritual world; even though It was right here before
us, pervading and transcending everything.
Association brings assimilation for the purification and
raising of our consciousness. We are now on the spiritual
platform. The consciousness continues to expand because we
are purifying the Pineal Gland by always associating with
You who are the Eternal, Infinite, Beloved.
We begin to sober-up, to reawaken, by coming to the spiritual
platform and chanting Your Holy Names. Gradually we begin
seeing, ever more, the soul as the Immovable Self, You. This
is the Supreme, Eternal, Motionless Spirit/Soul, the Ultimate
Ground of Being of all beings.
We can come to the spiritual platform by simply changing the
way we see the self, seeing the self as awareness rather than
flesh, chanting Your Names, hearing about You, talking
about You, and offering to You everything.
To the degree we see the self as spirit looking out through the
body as the witness, awareness, consciousness, we are living
on the spiritual platform. Thank You for teaching us how to
take a strong look at who we think we are.
As we find out who we really are, we arrive at our
proper self esteem and take responsibility for our negative
predicament. With patience and determination, we begin to
fix our consciousness on You by always thinking of You.
Gradually, our consciousness is cleansed of anger, lust, and
greed. We see how to get out and stay out of Maya, our
negative predicament. The solution, the way out of Maya is
to always think of You.
We remember You by chanting Your names, hearing about
You and offering You everything. This is the business
of cleansing our consciousness, getting out of Maya, and
coming back Home to You.
We are living as the soul with a body not a body with a soul.
The body, mind, intelligence, and ego have their temporary
illusory existence within You, the Supreme Awareness, the
Transpersonal Super Self, Pure Awareness.
When we changed the way we looked at the self, we changed
the way we looked at the world. When we changed the way
we looked at the world, the world we looked at changed.
Gradually the Self is seen as Eternal Spirit, Consciousness, or
Awareness, pervading and transcending all material forms,
names and attributes.
At the highest stage, there is nothing to be seen. The Self,
smallest of the smallest and biggest of the biggest, is
beyond personal and impersonal, form and formlessness.
This Self or Awareness is beyond description but not beyond
experience. Surely, It pervades and transcends all, including
everything, nothing, and transcendence.
Chanting the Holy Names and meditating on the Silence are
some of our ancient spiritual practices. The Holy
Names purify the consciousness, remove the clouds of
ignorance between the lower self and the Higher Self.
By purifying the consciousness/awareness, chanting the Holy
Names facilitate the reunion of the lower consciousness/self
with the Highest Awareness/Self. Thus, at all levels of
Awareness we sober up to our Most Awake State of
Being. We are Eternally One.
You are our Highest, the Most Present Consciousness. To the
degree we resurrect ourselves to our original consciousness
our equanimity is revived. Gradually, we return to stillness
and experience the reality You You.
As we regain our original awareness, we are able to remain
the same in the face of loss or gain, pleasure or pain,
and other repulsions, attractions and attachments of the dual
worlds of illusory energy.
By calling out Your name and submitting all to You, we
purify our awareness of the materialistic disease. As this
happens. we are better qualified to follow You, the Most Holy
Spirit, our Supreme Being.
Gradually, we are released from Maya, Your inferior,
external, illusory energy. This all happens to the degree we
remember You in all we think, feel, will, say, and do.
Everything done is done to help us remember You. We
submit to You for this purpose.
You are the Immeasurable Consciousness that is within and
beyond all. We enhance our capacity to always think of You
by chanting Your Holy Names and meditating on the Silence.
This leads to concentrating on You, which leads to meditating
on You as Supreme Awareness.
Thank You for accepting this humble offering. This spiritual
practice helps us remember You, turn to You and be saved.
To be saved means to redeem our awareness from the illusory
hells of repeated birth, death, and rebirth, Maya.
Persistence in this Sadhana, spiritual practice, give us
glimpses of Your awesome magnificence and makes us ever
stronger in our patience and determination to realize You
constantly, here, now, in this moment.
The major psychological impairment at the root of our
spiritual pathology is the belief that the self is a material,
mental, intellectual, or ego entity. It is an illusion, a disease,
Maya.
The illusory disease dissipates, and healing begins as Lower
Consciousness sobers to the fact that the self is Eternal Spirit,
Soul, or Pure Energy. Seeing the Self as awareness, calling
out Your Names, and offering You everything is the primary
"Medicine" in this spiritual healing and resurrection process.
Chanting the Holy Names is a great help in the restoration of
all levels of our consciousness to this most sublime and
ecstatic field of Eternal, Pure Awareness.
We repeat Your Holy Names, the key to a life of ever
increasing knowledge and bliss, to help us remember You.
This purifies our consciousness and we thus transcend the
ego and its negative qualities and behaviors finding, i.e. false
prestige, fear, malice, annoyance and fault finding.
We are increasingly realizing the infinite, omnipresent
Silence as a result of chanting Your Holy Names, offering You
everything, and meditating on silence as the Self, leaving
aside everything else. In this way we no longer remain
ignorant, thinking the body is moving the soul, or that the
body is the self.
We see that it is You that are the Power, the source of
everything. You are the power that animates the body, mind,
intellect, ego, and illusion. You are the Source of the energy
which flows through the Pineal Gland.
This Eternal, Pure Energy, or Awareness, this Field of
Infinite consciousness which pervades and transcends all
consciousness, Stillness, and all states of Being, is the
Supreme Awareness.
We generally call this Eternal Energy the Soul, Spirit, or
Energy. Ultimately, It is only You, the Source. We also call
It the Eternal, Super Soul or Supreme Awareness of all.
As we transcend Maya by always thinking of You, we
simultaneously return back to Home. Our original life of
Eternal Bliss is Home. It is here.
Eternity is now.
