A misunderstood link between all religions
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Were you aware that you can achieve a state of “inner awakening” or “Enlightenment” the first time you try it? It’s not a fantasy either, but a real transformation that can be experienced and proved by each individual. This change is sometimes experienced spontaneously by people when they are focused on turning their life around, and some people are born with it. The only way we know to achieve this easily and reliably is through the simple practise of a form of meditation known as Sahaja Yoga. The heightened awareness of people who practise Sahaja Yoga regularly, has exposed them to inner knowledge which can help to explain a lot about religious experience in general.
The first things that you would become aware of when you get your inner awakening are feelings of heat, coolness and tingling in the fingertips and the sensation of a cool breeze coming from the centre of the top of the head. This can be felt both on the palms of the hands and internally. After the first session, as the person then goes about their daily life, they begin to notice those same feelings on the central nervous system come and go in different life situations.
An example of this is if one comes near to, or even thinks about, a person who smokes a lot, one will notice a distinct tingling or hot feeling on the tips of the first fingers on the hands. Similarly, in the presence of a person who has experienced or is experiencing heart problems, one would feel tingling or heat in the little fingers in one or both hands – usually the left one. The question is, why does this happen? It clearly indicates a condition in the body and suggests that the fingers have some connection with that part of the body internally. It also suggests that there is some kind of physical but invisible link between different people because these feelings are felt even when one doesn’t know that the other person is present. It is possible to feel this from people who are in entirely different countries!
The fact that these sensations are felt spontaneously on the central nervous system as sensations in different parts of the body, but mainly the fingers, shows that the source of them is unlikely to be the brain. In the same way that heat from a flame causes pain in a finger placed in it, these sensations are felt through the nerves in the fingertips and elsewhere through the central nervous system. These experiences tie in very well with the theory proposed by the early psychologist “Carl Jung” who speculated that there may be a realm experienced by all human beings that he called the “Collective Unconscious”. He was unable to describe the exact nature of the collective unconscious, but surmised that it was an area of collectively experienced knowledge that forms the basis of many of the fundamental drives and qualities of human beings.
The most important conclusion that Jung came to, was that there must be what he termed “Archetypes” forming the structure of the collective unconscious. In his terms, archetypes are mythological motifs or primordial images of human beings exhibiting different states of perfection. The easiest way to think of these is to picture how human beings would be if they exhibited certain qualities like say diplomacy, love or braveness and then picture a figure in your mind of a person – male or female who exhibits those qualities in their purest form.
The subject of religion is where this theory is of particular interest. The clearest example of this among the world religions is Hinduism, which describes “God” in many forms but having his or her ultimate expression in a subset of incarnated deities who each represent different aspects or qualities. There is, for instance, Lord Krishna who represents all sorts of qualities but chiefly a perfected form of diplomacy and a collective attitude. There is Lord Shiva who represents God in the form of the ultimate, being completely indifferent to material pleasures, the ultimate yogi if you like. Then there is Shri Kali who represents a force that is both loving and destructive of negative forces attacking the true followers of God, demonstrating the principle of a protective Mother figure. There are many more, but they form a mutually dependent, interlocking whole which helps to describe the effect of the ultimate presence on the earth.
If one looks at all the major religions, one can see the same thing. In the mind of humankind, these archetypes are used to explain how the infinite works in the earthly domain. In Christianity, we have Lord Jesus Christ, who’s chief qualities are forgiveness, compassion and the ability to achieve resurrection. In Buddhism, Lord Buddha developed himself to such an extent that he achieved the ultimate level of Inner awakening which Buddhists describe as Enlightenment and which we describe as Inner Awakening or Self Realisation. So it is for all the major religions.
This is very interesting to anybody who has their inner awakening because it explains some of the phenomena which are experienced both while meditating and in everyday situations. After practising for a short time, people meditating can feel the presence of subtle centres in the body. These are known as “chakras” and were first described thousands of years ago in the early Asian scriptures. Awakened practitioners can feel the effect of different situations on those chakras, and quickly come to the conclusion that the chakras are connected with different qualities in our personality. The question about why different situations create different effects in the chakras is linked with the archetypes which are expressed in the chakras.
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The earlier example of smoking causing tingling in the first fingers on the hands is explained when we realise that there is a connection between the first fingers and an area around the throat known as the “Vishuddhi Chakra”. Now, obviously smoking would affect the throat because that is where smoke hits the body first – the front-line in the battle between the cigarette and the body. What is more interesting though is the fact that the same sensation is felt in the fingers when a person keeps to themselves too much or feels guilty, for whatever reason. This is because the Vishuddi Chakra contains within it the qualities of collectivity and freedom from guilt, among many others.
Therefore, if somebody has habits that counter these qualities, it is felt on the fingertips – not just by that person but by anybody who has had inner awakening who puts their attention on that person. Not only that, but it is possible to actually reduce those problems in them by using simple hand motions, which are learned quickly when one starts to practise Sahaja Yoga. The consequences of this are mind-blowing because it means that one person can help another overcome their problems on the deepest level.
In the world of Sahaja Yoga we feel that we are at the beginning of something that has the capability of transforming the world for the better by connecting all people on a fundamental spiritual level which enables everybody to overcome deep-rooted problems that they thought insoluble by conventional psychological and medical techniques. It also has the capability of explaining the real basis of religious belief and making it something that can be experienced in a real, provable way instead of simply as a matter of faith.
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