We ended the previous blog in a rather gloomy and dismal way. After all, who likes an existence where there is nothing to look forward to. A situation where the mind wants nothing and has nothing to look forward to is quite depressing!
This is where the problem lies. The soul is not the mind. Any desire of the mind masks the soul. Hence, when the mind is bereft of desire, can lie vacant and without any of the dualities, then and only then is our existence revealed. Our existence as the soul, as the pure spirit. This pure spirit is ever joyful, needs nothing from the material existence and has a powerful power called the “Will” or “Sankalp” Anything the soul wants, is materialized. But the changes the soul can make are restricted to its micro environment, not to the macro environment – the universe. The power to affect changes in the universe lies only with God.
The previous chapter on the mind was the painful part of spirituality. The mind will resent and revolt against a situation bereft of desires. The progress in terms of the kundalini here is, the dormant kundalini ascends upto the manipur chakra. The progress from anahata chakra is the sunlit path (as stated by Sri Aurobindo and by Ramkrishna Paramhansa). Moreover, the anahata chakra is the second stopping site for the sadhaka. But this part of the ascent from anahata onwards is more of surrender. Since the surrender is close to perfection, the sadhaka has no fear or worries. God or shakti takes care of everything! Isnt that a wonderful existence, where the sadhaka has joy / bliss and no worries?
It should be noted that it is impossible for anyone to stay in that state for long. Everyone falls down while they live in the gross material world but, for someone who has reached such an exalted state, at the time of death, they valiantly go to the otherside never to come back to this existence!
Bhavin