Does your life feel out of alignment or disconnected?
Do you feel dissatisfied, frustrated, or depressed?
Such feelings should not go unwarranted. They are real and need to be dealt with like any illness, only in this case, we are dealing with the very core of our identity - self care.
However, before we venture into methods of self caring, we first need to establish what the true self is.
From our birth we are conditioned to think that our self is defined by our nationality, family, or profession, but these things do not define our true self. According to most spiritual traditions, the true self animates this physical form, much like a driver maneuvers a car, or an actor manipulates their body to create a fictional character. The real persona exists behind the mask of mundane personality. We are in fact, a soul, the seat of consciousness.
Every day we look in the mirror and our physical form looks back at us. Over time, we start to witness subtle changes of this physical form - wrinkles appears, grey hairs come in, our form starts to change before our eyes, but amazingly, the consciousness witnessing these changes, remains the same.
We can remember having a child’s body and yet our body has now aged. If you think deeply on this phenomena, what we are experiencing is in effect, reincarnation in this very life. We, the soul within, are changing form!
Just like a butterfly springs forth from a caterpillar, we change from an embryo, to a baby, child, youth, adult, and finally senior citizen. In order to function in this mundane world, we adopt a physical identity, get a passport and a national ID. All the while, our true self “sleeps” and “dreams” these physical experiences into existence. Much like the Matrix, where Neo and the gang navigate both realms, a self-realized soul understands the true nature of reality and is not bewildered by these mundane changes and experiences.
You might be asking, “How do we begin this process of awakening from this slumber of mundane conditioning?”
It begins by first understanding the nature of this material world.
In essence, everything we experience in this mundane world is made up of eight material energies: earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego. The first five makeup what we experience physically, whereas the last three energies, mind, intelligence and false ego are subtle but form the mechanics of how we navigate our way through the maya and interpret reality. So the search for self-realization must begin there.
We are not the mind and the mind does not define who we truly are. It is a tool for navigation, much like an explorer has tools like a map, magnifying glass, telescope and compass. The mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy but it is not us. According to many spiritual traditions, the mind is located around the heart and not in the head. It forms the basis of our subtle body that ventures into the astral worlds when we sleep. The mind never sleeps, because it has no physical need to sleep - it is constantly turned on, exploring, seeking answers, experiencing, learning, and gathering data. The intelligence, on the other hand, is akin to a computer, taking this data and analyzing it, making decisions and acting accordingly. It too is not us, but a form of energy or tool, that we the soul, uses to navigate this material realm. The final subtle energy is the false ego - the most subtle material layer that covers the true self, the soul. The false ego or “Ahankara” enables us to accept the illusion of physical form so that we can function. You could say it is like the “blue pill” of the Matrix.
The soul or true self, is above all these 8 material energies, and rides this illusion because of the false ego. If at some point, we take the “red pill,” we awaken from this dream state and realize we have been tricked by a false ego.
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To learn more about this topic, read my books, SOUL POWER, and The 7 Maxims of Soul Happiness. Available on Amazon.
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