Spiritual Awakening

Arise, awake, and learn by approaching the great teachers. Like the sharp edge of a razor, the path is difficult to cross — the wise declare it hard to tread.

From food, verily, all creatures that dwell on earth are born. They live by food alone, and in the end they pass into food. For food is the eldest among all beings; therefore it is called the medicine of all. Those who venerate food as Brahman attain all things. Food is the eldest of beings — thus it is called universal medicine. Creatures are born from food, they grow by food, food is eaten and in turn eats creatures — for this reason it is called food. Within and beyond this sheath composed of food-essence dwells another inner self made of vital breath; by that, this outer self is permeated.

When the soul completely frees itself from everything that goes against God's will and conforms to it, it is transformed in God through love.

Spirituality is essentially an awakening to the inner reality of our being. It is a connection to the spirit, self, or soul that is beyond our mind, life, and body. This awakening involves an inner aspiration to know, feel, and become one with this greater reality.

My advice is to not strive for supernatural powers or rapid Kundalini awakening. Instead, cultivate devotion to God, have complete faith in Him, and embody a spirit of service to humanity. The Kundalini will awaken naturally.

When all desires cease, the mind becomes completely pure, the senses are subdued, and the mind achieves a significant degree of one-pointedness, and egoistic ideas dissolve, the Kundalini will awaken naturally.

When light and luminosity arise through all the gates of this body, then know that sattva has become predominant.

When your intellect has crossed beyond the mire of delusion, you will become indifferent to all that has been heard and all that remains to be heard.

If merely pretending to be spiritual can bring about such spiritual awakening, one can only imagine the impact of genuine spiritual practice. In that state, one will undoubtedly realize what is real and what is not. Only God is real, while the world is an illusion.

When man ceases to be a prodigal child of God, engrossed in a physical world indeed a dream, baseless as a bubble, he reinherits his eternal realms.

In the three worlds, no one is dearer to Him than those who are awakened and have elevated souls.

Through actions, one is forced to be reborn after death with a body made of six and ten ingredients. However, through knowledge, one becomes transformed into something eternal, unmanifest, and immutable.

Then Kus'ik's son, filled with indignation, placed a curse upon the heavenly maid: 'Because you tried to entice my soul, which is fighting to conquer love and rage, stand there, transformed into stone, until ten thousand years have passed, unfortunate maid.'

A person ripens like grain and is reborn again like grain.

The soul, having removed all impurities and stains, unites its will with God's. To love means to detach and strip oneself of everything that is not God, resulting in the soul being illuminated and transformed.

Since no creature or its actions can be like God, the soul must be stripped of all created things and its own actions, understanding, perception, and feelings, so it can receive God's likeness and be transformed in Him.

Similarly, a soul that loves anything else becomes incapable of having a pure union with God and being transformed in Him.

Oh, night that guided me, you are more lovely than the dawn, you brought the beloved and the lover together, and the lover was transformed into the beloved.

It is only when, after prolonged and persistent concentration or through other means, the veil of the mind is lifted or swept away, and a flood of light illuminates the awakened mentality, that conception gives way to a knowledge-vision in which the Self is as present, real, and concrete as a physical object is to the physical eye, that we possess it.

However, if there is a resolute self-consecration from deep within, and an awakening to the soul's call, these inadequate things can be sufficient for the divine purpose.