The three golden keys

Love, peace and wisdom ... my first meditation teacher introduced me to Bliss .. I hope you enjoy it.

Find Bliss at http://www.last.fm/music/Bliss/Through+These+Eyes/Love+Peace+and+Wisdom 

Enlightenment .. it's personal

All grasping is fruitless, all hoping is in vain 

For hope is of a future which may or may not exist.

Expectation only bears sorrow, running only takes you in a circle.

For all paths lead to the one source.

And if you touch that source even for a timeless second

It's as if every bird had composed a song of joy especially for that moment.

As if every loving exchange you had ever encountered came flooding back 

to fill your heart and your dream-time.

The subtle sweetness of this meeting is silent. boundless

Beyond the clumsy search of words

And it will change you

Cell by cell, fibre by fibre, for all time.

Apology:  I do not remember where I heard these thoughts, and an extensive online search has not helped me identify the source.  I trust the being with such beauty within is fulfilled by their publication.

How to maintain spiritual consciousness amidst the material energy

Finding that fine place of balance where I am applying the principles of my spiritual practice in the world of business has definintely become  my life's work.   Constantly I fall down in my efforts.  Constantly I need to find ways to live a life of love and truth.  Today this wonderful advice from Swami Satcidananda (spiritual master of my dear friend, Jan Stewart) popped into my inbox and I thought you might enjoy it.

"The lotus is considered to he a very holy and divine flower. Not just because of its beauty, hut also because of its qualities. A lotus flower grows in very shallow water, usually in a muddy area. Though it comes out of the mud and mire, it rises as a beautiful flower that lives in the water without being affected by it. The lotus flower is always given as an example for one who wants to live spiritually in the world. It is said, "Live like a lotus in the water." The lotus leaf is right in the water, hut it's never moistened by the water When you pick it up, it's completely dry. It never gets wet. If you throw a little water over it, the water will roll off and scatter around like pearls.

Aperson should live like the lotus, being in the world but not affected by it. You should always express your natural beauty, though you may grow in a dirty place. Nothing from outside should affect you.

The lotus is a symbol of love and devotion also. If you ever see the Goddesses Lakshmi or Saraswati you would see that they're standing on a lotus. Wherever Lord Buddha placed his foot, a lotus appeared to hold it. The feet of a holy person are called the "lotus feet."

The lotus flower turns its head towards the sun always. That means it always turns towards the light; it receives the light constantly. So you can say it's an ever-enlightened flower."

Love and light.

From "The Golden Present"

Daily Inspirational Readings by Swami Satcidananda

"Absolute Truth"

"The Absolute Truth is realized in three phases of understanding by the knower of the Absolute Truth, and all of them are identical.  Such phases of the Absolute Truth are expressed as Brahman, Paramatma, and Bhagavan." (Bhag. 1.2.11) 

These three divine aspects can be explained by the example of the sun, which also has three different aspects, namely the sunshine, the sun's surface and the sun planet itself. 

One who studies the sunshine only is the preliminary student. One who understands the sun's surface is further advanced. And one who can enter into the sun planet is the highest. 

Ordinary students who are satisfied by simply understanding the sunshine -- its universal pervasiveness and the glaring effulgence of its impersonal nature may be compared to those who can realize only the Brahman feature of the Absolute Truth. (one with our soul energy)

The student who has advanced still further can know the sun disc, which is compared to knowledge of the Paramatma feature of the Absolute Truth.(the supersoul).  And the student who can enter into the heart of the sun planet is compared to those who realize the personal features of the Supreme Absolute Truth. Therefore, the transcendentalists who have realized this Bhagavan feature of the Absolute Truth, are the topmost transcendentalists, although all students who are engaged in the study of the Absolute Truth are engaged in the same subject matter. 

The sunshine, the sun disc and the inner affairs of the sun planet cannot be separated from one another, and yet the students of the three different phases are in three different states of realisation.

Extract 2:2 Contents of the Gita Summarised

J Krishnamurti on Love and doing nothing

Thoughts I've heard in conversations this week...love, absolute truth, connectedness, oneness... inspired me to revisit J.Krishnamurti's teachings....

"Love is something that is new, fresh, alive. It has no yesterday and no tomorrow. It is beyond the turmoil of thought. It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.

To find this extraordinary thing which man has sought endlessly through sacrifice, through worship, through relationship, through sex, through every form of pleasure and pain, is only possible when thought comes to understand itself and comes naturally to an end. Then love has no opposite, then love has no conflict.

You may ask, `If I find such a love, what happens to my wife, my children, my family? They must have security.' When you put such a question you have never been outside the field of thought, the field of consciousness. When once you have been outside that field you will never ask such a question because then you will know what love is in which there is no thought and therefore no time.

You may read this mesmerized and enchanted, but actually to go beyond thought and time - which means going beyond sorrow - is to be aware that there is a different dimension called love. But you don't know how to come to this extraordinary fount - so what do you do? If you don't know what to do, you do nothing, don't you? Absolutely nothing. Then inwardly you are completely silent. Do you understand what that means? It means that you are not seeking, not wanting, not pursuing; there is no centre at all. Then there is love."

Read more of J Krishnamurti on Love here

Changing consciousness with Dadi Janki

My first ever spiritual guide, HH Dadi Janki, was in Sydney, Australia briefly tonight. She hasn't been here for a long time but she's attending the World Religious Forum over the next few days in Melbourne so she dropped in. Despite her 90 something years and a long flight from Delhi she sparkled, inspiring several hundred people to cultivate peace, love and absolute truth so as to be in a state of happiness. The habit of daily meditation, she promised, allows us with practice to never need to feel that 'something is missing'. The power of Dadi Janki's presence in two meditations was awesome. It is difficult to describe in words. One enters an altered state of being, bathed in golden light, transcending the consciousness of oneself as a 'heavy' material body, then merging with the light, finding oneself quietly in bliss. Here peace and love merge to become absolute truth. This is who I am. Nothing missing. Nothing at all. Afterwards, there remains a consciousness of total well-being.