In these modern times, in the evolutionary process, we have reached the state of human awareness. This human awareness can work through its thinking, rationality
or conditioning. Many modern poets have described them as “the walls of freedom of the Self.” But what if one can rise to a higher dimension of awareness? Why
not open our hearts and minds to the unique discovery that has been revealed for this vital ascent?
“The Kingdom of God that we promised is at hand.” This is not a phrase out of a sermon or a lecture, but it is the actualization of the experience of the highest truth which is absolute, now manifesting itself in ordinary people at this present moment. The truth, which can be actualized after Self-Realization, is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the past, this ego, these emotions, but that you are the Pure Spirit.
Human Awareness and the Journey to Higher Consciousness
Another aspect of this highest truth is that there is an all-pervading power of Divine Love which permeates into every aspect of whatever is created. This
Divine Power does all the living work in this entire creation. We take everything for granted. We see beautiful flowers coming out of little seeds; we see big fruit trees
growing from tiny seedlings.
But however much scientists may dissect and analyze the living process, none of them can say how these miracles have taken place or what is it that directs and sustains the whole process of life. When they try to explain the mystery about what makes our hearts beat, they say it is the autonomous
nervous system that runs it. But who is this auto, this self?
Look at these human eyes which are such wonderful cameras, the brain which is such a grand computer. Scientists may analyze what is happening, but we never pause to question and try to find out why all these blessings have been bestowed upon us. But now, the time has come for sensible people everywhere to understand through their own immediate experience that we all have a purpose on this earth.
The purpose of all our evolution and our development is simply that we have to become connected to this all-pervading power, so that we ourselves become Divine. This Divine process works spontaneously (sahaja). It can be proved and is absolutely tangible, much more than scientific findings and laws which can always be challenged and changed.
All-Pervading Divine Power and the Mystery of Creation
This process has now started on an en-masse scale and is the fulfillment of William Blake’s most heartfelt desire: “would that all God’s people were prophets.” In this age of Krita Yuga, through the compassion of the Param Chaitanya (or Divine Love), the Kundalini is being raised in countless human beings, so that it is actually happening: God’s people have become prophets, and what is more, they have powers to make others prophets too.
Why Modern Minds Struggle to Accept Absolute Truth
There is, however, one small problem. The modern brain is full of too many ideas. Not original ideas, but ideas which have been gathered through reading,
through the media and through the surrounding mental atmosphere. Whatever may be the case, the brain is over-saturated with ideas which largely belong to others:
This makes it difficult or very slow for people to accept the truth of reality.
It is not easy to convince people that there exists the absolute truth which is beyond the mind, and also that reality is at hand and can be achieved by every human being. Jesus said, “The meek shall inherit the Earth.” He did not mean the weak, but on the contrary, those human beings who are strong enough to put aside their egoism and their conditionings.
But modern man is neither strong nor meek. On the contrary, he is too snobbish, too arrogant, too conditioned or too self opinionated even to entertain the idea that there might be somebody who can actually tell him about truth or reality, and even show him how he can himself achieve it. For the truth which is absolute has to express itself in these modern times. And even if it is not accepted, it cannot die. On the contrary, if it is not accepted it will expose all falsehood and thus destroy it.
If the absolute truth is not accepted, it will destroy those very brains that reject it. Because they will take to other alternatives, in most cases they will have to take to self-destructive styles. They have accepted wrong ideas that originate from those many human beings who are teaching falsehood in the name of truth. It is an extraordinary thing to witness, that to approach the subject of absolute truth compassionately, one has to really beg people to listen, to hear about the truth that
they all have their divinity intact and that it can manifest itself in the great event of their ascent through the Kundalini awakening.
It is such a great pity, I must say, that this kind of convincing and cajoling of the complicated Western brain takes such an unnecessary long time. It is quite ironic that those leaders and teachers who are fake, who are modern anti-Gods, who are against the Divine, who are for the destruction of human beings, actually become very successful and achieve a worldwide following in such a short time.
It is also true, however, because of the activity of the Param Chaitanya and law of polarity, that false teachers are revealed in good time for what they are doing and all the false ideas perpetrated by them are being exposed and destroyed very quickly. They appear and establish themselves
easily, but in this age of Krita Yuga, it is only for a short time. The trouble is that after the exposure of one guru, people are so weak that some immediately start looking around for another one. When they settle down with one, they usually end up as lost, moneyless recluses. This guru shopping is now a common and fashionable lifestyle of the seekers in the West.
It is the same with other kinds of ideology. Communism has failed in Russia, while fundamentalism and racialism have filled the vacuum and begun to prosper in the so-called democracies. For those who are really in search of truth, it has to be accepted humbly that, so far, one has not found it and indeed cannot find it on one’s own. In the East, it is common knowledge that if you seek the highest truth, you have to become humble or meek, as Christ has said. This is extremely difficult for the Western mind to accept, because it means surrendering the Ego.
Why People Ignore the Truth
A Western gentleman, who had come to me for the first time to learn Sahaja Yoga, found that it was very easy to get Self-Realization without any effort and
without paying any money. He was so filled with ecstasy that he went out into the garden shouting: “I have found it.” When he came back he was nearly dancing with
joy and said, “Now I am going to write to all my friends who have been ardently seeking the truth for ages, to tell them that I have felt this all-pervading Divine Power as the cool breeze of the Holy Ghost on my fingertips.
Now I know that the truth is, that one has to become the Spirit and that the all-pervading power of God’s love exists, which we all have to feel through this evolutionary breakthrough on our central nervous system. With full confidence, I will tell them that it is a living process, that you cannot get it out of books, and that you cannot pay for your evolution.” He got very excited and wrote many letters to his professors, his friends and his colleagues who had all been discussing and reading books about seeking, day and night, for many years. To his great surprise and disappointment, the response was rather lukewarm. Some did not answer him. Others answered saying: “All right, we are happy that you have found it, but we have to seek in our own way.
We hope that we will also find it, but in some other way.” Some could not believe that it was so easy. Others said, “You can’t lead a normal life and find it, because of one’s bad deeds one has to suffer and detach oneself from society, from all human ties, before one can even begin to find it.” No one would listen to him when he said that he had found out the truth by Kundalini awakening.
With a typical twist of modern advanced thinking that never likes to arrive at any conclusion, they said: “Yes, this may work for you, but this cannot be the only way and there must be other paths.” He was deeply shocked to see that these people who had spent hours and hours meeting together, talking, reading and writing to each other, discussing how to find the Absolute Truth, were not even willing to listen to him when he told them that he actually had found the truth.
It is, after all, he found not everyone is strong and meek enough to face the truth. They all tried to wriggle out of it, to escape the truth, by giving some “Yes, but…” explanation or other. However, as people say: “the truth will come out by itself.”
In modern times, fortunately, someone who knows the truth about God and talks about it cannot be crucified and silenced. Of course, neither can such a person wait till these insensitive people are reborn with a more humble mind, because, “the Kingdom of God that was promised is now at hand,” and this is the moment when the truth must be faced.
On the contrary there are some half-baked Christians like ADFI from France who are spreading stories against Sahaja Yoga through the French media without having any idea as to what is the truth. Unfortunately for many, like the friends of the Western gentleman who wanted to shout about truth from the roof-tops, in Kali Yuga, seeking has developed its own momentum and people don’t want to give up the activity of seeking, even when they come face to face with what they are looking for. In the film “Modern Times,”
when Charlie Chaplin has been working on a conveyor belt full of bolts, the activity of fixing the nuts created such an inertia in his body that even when he had finished fixing the nuts and the conveyor belt had stopped moving, he still performed the same actions of fixing something with his hands. This really is an analogy of those people who are running in the rat race of seeking and just can’t get out of the habit.
In this way, the seeking of truth has that inertia, which can no longer be controlled by putting the brake on, or pausing for a moment in order to listen to someone who really can say how one finds the Absolute Truth. But the knowers of Truth are always faced with blank incomprehension. As the poet Kabir has said: “How can I explain what I know and see, when the whole world is blind.” Of course, since Kabir’s time things have changed and at this present moment I cannot say that all the world is blind because there are thousands and thousands who have come with open minds to know about Absolute Truth through Kundalini Awakening.
Surprisingly there are quite a number of these realized souls after twenty-five years of hard labor of Sahaja Yoga.
