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Ameriikkalaisen joogalentäjän kuvaus kokemuksista tiellä kohti "valaistumista" (yoga-suutra: kaivalya = erillisyys):
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kaivalya n. (fr. %{ke4vala}) , isolation Va1m. ; absolute unity Veda7ntas. BhP. ; perfect isolation , abstraction , detachment from all other connections , detachment of the soul from matter or further transmigrations , beatitude MBh. KapS. Sa1m2khyak. &c. ; for %{vaikalya} Ra1jat. vii , 1149 ; (mf(%{A})n.) leading to eternal happiness or emancipation MBh. xiii , 1101.
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Ted Clancy has been doing the long meditation program at the Invincible Ame=
rica Assembly in Fairfield. He recently recounted this vividly entertaining=
report to the others in the Domes.
If it resonates with and inspires you,=
please consider joining our precious IAA!
As my seven-year anniversary o=
f being on the IA course nears, I felt compelled to give an overview of my =
experiences in hopes that it may be of value.
Using every trick in the bo=
ok; every tool in the box, to squeeze every bit of evolutionary potential o=
ut of every moment, has yielded a rich harvest of varied and profound exper=
iences.
But, I needed to pierce the veil of chhandas and achieve escape v=
elocity, beyond the cloudy atmosphere of collective consciousness, to reach=
the real, true, genuine and consistent experiences, that could not be deni=
ed by the most jaded of intellects, nor could have they been contrived out =
of some unconscious desire for self-aggrandizement.
So, rather than provi=
de a long litany of flashy ephemeral displays of pyrotechnics and eye-candy=
, I will attempt, given the limitations of language, to comprehensively, ye=
t concisely convey those bench-marks and watershed moments, when a new, mor=
e expanded and stable state of being, was achieved.
Now, please bear in m=
ind, these occurred over time. But, if I had to describe their overall pat=
tern of development, I would say that I would be going along, day to day, t=
hinking maybe that nothing was happening, but steadily putting my time in. =
Then there would be a gathering of momentum, an increase in tempo and vari=
ety, to crescendo at an event horizon, a transcendental quantum leap, then =
I would find myself waking up in the realization of a new state of being an=
d style of functioning. This process repeated itself, again and again, over=
time.
A key component I discovered, which significantly changed the whol=
e nature and color of my experiences--having grown up in a society where fa=
tigue is considered a caffeine deficiency--and that is, my friends: rest is=
king.
Silence penetrated, then inundated, until it permeated every parti=
cle and fiber of my being; bubbling, percolating and roaring with the deafe=
ning impact of a great waterfall disappearing into a calm, clear pool of pe=
ace that passes all understanding.
Then, over time, within this peace, bl=
ossomed a restfully alert state of poise, where I spontaneously found mysel=
f, assuming the royal pace of an elephant, while pouncing like a tiger in a=
ll directions: I am still as a mountain; flowing like a great river.
The=
n again, over time, within this state of poise, blossomed a power, which pa=
ssed into my experience without effort or labor. And, I found things stead=
ily coming my way, and coming my way without that awful effort that destroy=
s the peace of mind of the majority of mankind. And, I feel such deep ease=
, enfolded in the arms of infinite divine love, taking care of me.
I expe=
rience myself as the center and circumference; the point and the whole. The=
sutras weaving point-to-whole, and whole-to-point, into an exquisite tapes=
try of vibrant awareness. The sutras are multi-faceted gems, each of unique=
character and hue, dropping into the ocean of my being, reverberating out =
to whole and back again. The returning waves crossing the outgoing waves f=
orming vertices, that become planes of primordial geometry. I do not exper=
ience this geometry as static, but as a stable harmonic resonance of divine=
musical vibration. Yet this geometry also contains a dynamic flowing qual=
ity, with a funnel style hole, that goes completely through a sphere that c=
ontinually flows in, around and on itself. This archetypal geometry, with i=
ts dynamic flow, clusters and generates the plethora of forms and phenomena=
found manifest everywhere in my experience.
And, I really have to thank M=
aharishi for giving me a backstage pass to the universe: a golden ticket t=
o the symphony of creation behind Vishwakarman's magic show.
A shift took=
place in my awareness from experiencing consciousness existing within and =
a function of my physiology, to my body existing within and as my conscious=
ness; as an individualized, ever changing state of wholeness, moving within=
my Self. And I found myself able to experientially discriminate the succe=
ssive states of my own material manifestation: I can see, feel, hear, tast=
e, etc. air, fire, water, earth and even the mineral densities of self. But=
, even at the greatest depth of density I experience the gold of universal =
soul; I see the brilliance of indwelling light; I feel the fire of boundles=
s divine love. Yet, this light does not blind, and this fire does not burn=
, but continually fills me with ever expanding delight. And while I am able=
to discriminate these individual stages, it remains one stream of awarenes=
s; one infinite reverberation. Then, over time, I found myself able to do t=
he same with other individualized aspects of Self, be it person, place or t=
hing.
In terms of right action, I went from needing a long logical reason=
ing process, which only yielded about 50% results, essentially the probabil=
ity of a coin toss, to the next stage where I was able to apprehend right a=
ction, but I needed to make a conscious effort to choose it. Then in the n=
ext stage, I would feel a certain action was right and move ahead without h=
esitation, and recently to the simple elegance of, right action alone is.
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In terms of invincibility, I went from being a highly sensitive individual=
, easily wounded by any dark look or disparaging remark, to shifting into a=
neutral state where I spontaneously found myself not wasting time or energ=
y on the lack of emotive or cognitive development of any spiritual adolesce=
nce I might find in the field of activity. This brought a profound quietne=
ss to my feeling nature, that coupled with the great silence of my mind, ga=
ve me the power to wield the sword of indifference, with its double edged b=
lade of knowledge and experience, cleaving ignorance from the Self, like ne=
ver before. Lately, my ecstatic experience of infinite divine love, intell=
igence and power is so great, so consistent, and so stable that anything st=
ated or acted contrary to that, is an utterly laughable non-sequitur and si=
mply does not have any real existence in the face of such self-evident cosm=
ic verity. And, I know without a shred of doubt, that when this experience=
comes alike to all, the tread of armies will cease=85and the bugle call wi=
ll echo the soft notes of peace and love.
Lastly, the boundaries between =
meditation and activity have increasingly slipped away to the point to wher=
e I experience very little difference between the two. To cite just a few =
examples, the buoyancy and lightness of being I experience while yogic flyi=
ng, I experience in activity; the blissful joy I experience in program, I e=
xperience with every fall of my foot on the earth: And, Shiva/Shakti; Puru=
sha/Prakriti are one and the same.
And now finally, all this is not to sa=
y, that over the years, from time to time, I haven't gone blindly stumbling=
into entire herds of sleeping elephants, but if like a good sea captain in=
stormy weather, I stayed the course, following the guidelines to the best =
of my ability, things really would be "steady as they go." And, being somew=
hat humorously inclined, I would throw in a couple of laugh-asanas to stimu=
late the clown-chakra and things would smooth right out. For I always reme=
mbered, when as a child, my grandfather had placed this wonderful quote in =
front of my desk, while he patiently home-schooled me in the classics as we=
ll as the arcane wisdom of the perennial philosophy, found in all tradition=
s and cultures throughout time, whose highest, most direct and accessible e=
xpression I have found in Maharishi's Science of Creative Intelligence and =
his unique resurgence of Vedic Wisdom. For like Alexander the Great, simpl=
y slicing through the Gordian Knot, Maharishi had such a delightful way of =
cutting right through all the muddled clutter of ponderous philosophical th=
ought, turning every misconception on its head, brilliantly shining through=
, as the sparkling crest jewel of illumined truth.
AND THAT QUOTE IS: "A=
ngels fly, because they think lightly of themselves" -Sir Thomas Aquinas.
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Jai Guru Dev
Ted Clancy
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