40 Day Meditation Retreat 2007 with Sri Vasudeva
"Be Wise in Action"
Day 35 - Sunday April 29, 2007
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Today I want to speak about the seventh centre. Sometimes this is not spoken of as a chakra, but as a destination when all the chakras are opened. Others refer to it as a chakra.
There is a destination. It means that when the sixth centre is opened fully, the seventh is achieved. As the sixth begins to open, you will begin to experience the consciousness of the seventh more and more.
What happens in the seventh? How does it influence the ego? How does the ego express itself in the seventh? Well, just to say to you, the seventh shows us the promise of the glory of living in the human expression. It holds for us that promise -- the promise of freedom, the promise of connectedness with the whole Universe in Consciousness and energy.
The promise of what is called "super-conscious awareness," an experience of ecstasy, inner ecstasy. In the ancient science of yoga, it is called Samadhi. It is the destination in the human journey, or human experience. It is where the ego or the individual has its highest experience. If this is the goal, if this is the destination, it needs to be understood. The glory of it, the promise of it should drive us into wanting to achieve it, wanting to have it.
The ego, working at the other levels, is able to untie itself as it were, to evolve to this destination. So the ego in working through the other centres, the six centres in the world, provides the opportunity to move into the experience of the seventh. This is where the individual within you, the "I" within you finds its ultimate peace, its ultimate rest and its ultimate pleasure, because we are pleasure seeking beings. It finds its ultimate pleasure, or ecstasy but it's an inner ecstasy. It is what we may call "super conscious pleasure." It is pleasure that revitalizes the centres rather than saps the energy away.
When the ego begins to experience the seventh, it begins to experience deep peace, peace without end. When it begins to experience the seventh, the love becomes unconditional and boundless. When it begins to experience the seventh, its self-identity or its own boundaries of self-identity begin to widen and a larger self-awareness is realized. When the seventh begins to come, you feel that your self begins to expand. Your sense of identity and individuality just begins to stretch and open. The little "i" seems to be merging as it were into a bigger "I" with no end, no boundary. This is what is called the experience of Samadhi, when the little "i" begins to merge into a bigger "I."
Of course in the states of consciousness, we spoke of this experience as being the witness of all the states of consciousness. And we spoke about the rapture, the rapturous experience of the "I." that happens in the seventh. When we speak of the ordinary experience becoming extraordinary, "to see a whole world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower," it is the experience of the seventh. This experience allows us to feel and to know that we are not just limited beings, that the Source of our being has an eternal nature.
We begin to feel that this is not the end; the physical end is not the end. We begin to feel immortal in our being. We begin to feel that there is a Source inside of us that knows everything, that there is no end to knowledge. Wisdom flows from this Source endlessly and we feel a bliss inside. It's a happiness that is not dependent on the world, whether you have or you don't have, possess or don't possess. You feel a sense of inner bliss.
Thoughts, opinions, comments, experiences?
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Excellent job!
Thanks!
ER
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