Awakening - The Complete Road Map - Final Step

Join us for a transformative series of talks exploring the journey of consciousness as it matures and blossoms into its fullest potential. Throughout 10 sessions, we will delve into progressively advanced levels of maturity—beginning with a contracted sense of a separate self and culminating in a state of fully expanded awareness.

In this session, we will discuss the last revelation a maturing consciousness reveals- the Meaning of Life.

Transcript

Hello everyone,

Welcome to this unique opportunity we give ourselves every week to stop the rush,

Hold hands,

Walk the path together,

Not just as individuals but also as a united consciousness that is evolving between that question and the answer.

We are concluding a journey that started about 10 weeks ago,

A journey that follows the evolution of consciousness,

The milestones that it crosses as it evolves from a very self-centered,

Egoistic perspective of life to a fully blossomed,

Awakened state.

So,

Since this is our last meeting of this series,

We are going to review everything that we've discussed so far,

But from a point of view of an enlightened being,

How does that translate into as an enlightened being?

We are going to describe that to the best of our capabilities.

And of course,

You are most welcome to stop at any time,

Ask questions,

Make sure no question stays unanswered.

That's your contribution,

Okay?

You're not interrupting but promoting this discussion,

So don't hold back.

The idea behind this journey is to have a complete road map that follows that sacred evolution with the understanding that when this road map is laid in front of us,

Our journey can become much more clear,

Our contribution can become much more effective,

And it will be much easier to come back to the path if we found that we've been carried away by life's circumstances.

So,

If you're honest and truthful in your quest for an awakened consciousness,

This map is crucial.

So,

The first step is igniting the spark,

The longing for the truth,

The longing for realizing the deeper meaning of our existence here.

In this state of consciousness,

That spark comes with the context of our personal goals.

I want to be free.

I want to know the truth.

There is an eye that wants.

Of course,

It's a mature kind of wanting,

Because usually until that point we were too busy with wanting satisfaction,

Material satisfaction,

A sense of security,

Safety,

Joy,

Enjoyment.

Achievement,

Recognition,

Etc.

But now,

At this point,

That wanting has evolved to something that is less tangible,

But very important.

Realizing the deeper meaning of our existence.

And we've said that this can be ignited by various reasons,

And more important is that the fact that we recognize it and we don't ignore it anymore.

So,

Remember that this spark,

At this stage,

Has a personal context to it.

We will refer to it today as something completely different.

So,

The first step out of the cage,

Once that spark is ignited,

Is the realization that phenomena have no power.

And specifically,

Thoughts,

Opinions,

Have no power.

I'm no longer hypnotized by my thoughts,

By my beliefs,

By my opinions.

And that opens up a huge space of freedom between me and the realm of phenomena,

And specifically the realm of thoughts.

This is easily visible when you meet an awakened individual,

Because they are not carried away by life's little dramas anymore.

They are extremely stable in that sense.

Things that used to throw us up and down together with life's circumstances into deep depression or extreme sense of happiness are not influencing us anymore in that sense.

So,

They become weirdly stable.

And many people report that,

You know,

As they mature on the path,

People come to me and say,

You know,

It seems so boring.

I used to be so influenced by changing events,

And now it doesn't touch me as it used to,

And it feels a bit dull.

Like there are no jumps up and down,

Up and down.

Yeah,

It's a sense of maturity,

Don't worry about it.

Yeah,

And then what is revealed is a new kind of alignment between our body and the physical reality it meets.

An alignment that was not available before,

Because our body was preoccupied with stress,

Existential stress,

And was never truly available to experience life.

It was carried away by the stream of thoughts,

Which by nature goes to the past and the future,

The past and the future.

And it was not really present ever until that point.

When you meet an enlightened person,

One of the easiest characteristics to identify is how present they are.

Hmm?

You can't miss it.

Their presence is of present.

They're not preoccupied with past and future.

And then what happens is the ability,

The capacity to develop total listening.

What is total listening?

Is the ability to develop awareness within that presence,

An awareness that is not triggered by automatic responses to life's changing circumstances,

Free of preconceptions and pre-cooked ideas.

You look at an enlightened person,

They have fresh eyes.

They never bring past impressions to their intimate meeting with the present moment.

Therefore,

They are always fresh.

They are not stuck with any idea,

With any concept,

With any position,

And specifically are not led by craving and aversions.

If you know someone is enlightened,

Ask them if they still are led by fear,

Craving and aversions.

Hmm?

Desire.

Running after concepts of what would make me happy,

What would make me whole.

That running ceases.

You cannot continue to chase a dream once you realize it was a dream.

So the capacity for total whole listening,

Free of any preconception,

Is revealed.

And then melting happens.

The entity that used to refer to external events and conduct a relationship with them,

That entity melts.

Consciousness realizes itself to not be separated anymore.

Not be separated.

As it is updating its own self-identity from separated to wholeness.

I am awareness becomes the answer to the question,

Who am I?

I am that awareness.

I am the space in which all phenomenas are manifesting and being experienced.

And in that space,

That all-allowing space,

I am.

And that organically leads to melting of the separated identity that used to refer to a separated self when conducting relationship with external events.

All is now included in self-identity.

Nothing is excluded anymore.

When you meet an enlightened person,

You immediately see that nothing is excluded there.

There is no one preferred over another.

There is no one circumstances that is preferred over another.

There is no one individual that is preferred over another.

Love is evenly shared,

Unconditionally,

Through the presence of an enlightened being.

A.

G.

Is asking,

How does the human expression of the spirit continue after awakening?

In the most natural way possible.

Undistracted,

Undiverted,

Unmanipulated,

Human expression finally can flow through you with no distortions,

For the first time.

Before enlightenment,

It was always distorted by egoistic agenda.

What will I gain out of that?

What will I lose?

What will I earn?

What will I gain from a limited perspective of life that is busy negotiating,

Making sure the limited resources of that separated identity are not drained?

Now,

That channel is open,

And the agenda of the ego is not there anymore.

Those questions,

What will I gain,

What will I lose,

Become irrelevant.

Who is gaining and losing?

The entity is not there anymore.

So,

Life,

Human expression is finally able to express itself in the most natural way.

So,

At this point where self-identity is melting into oneness and there is no separated self anymore,

Right action is the way it expresses itself in the physical realm.

And what is right action?

Right action is an expression of unconditional love or lack of fear.

We don't manipulate reality because we are afraid of it anymore.

We are not protecting anything against life.

We are completely surrendered to it,

An expression of it.

So,

Right action doesn't create karma anymore.

What is karma?

Karma is disturbances in the force that we create,

We generate because we are acting out of fear,

Out of ego,

Out of ignorance.

You see that an enlightened individual cannot generate new karma because he is not afraid.

Every action,

Every choice is an expression of unconditional love,

And only that.

New karma cannot be generated.

That's why,

According to the Eastern tradition,

Enlightenment is the sign of the end of samsara,

The endless eternal circle of suffering.

Yes,

Birth,

Suffering,

Death,

Birth,

Suffering,

Death.

That ends.

Why?

Because new karma is not generated anymore.

So,

There's nothing to fix.

A.

J.

,

Isn't awakening the final chapter and the purpose of the human experience?

It's the first chapter.

We are awakened to realize that everything that happened until that point is just preparation.

It's a foreplay.

Now,

We can actually start living the purpose for which we came here.

And this is what we're going to discuss today,

As soon as we finish the review.

So,

The right action reveals itself to be action that is the consequence of fearless awareness.

And then,

We settle in what we call the middle path.

What is the middle path?

The middle path is the exact point between two polar positions.

We are expanding to the point where nothing is excluded anymore.

There is no right versus wrong.

There is no good versus bad.

There is no one position versus the other position.

All positions are included in our path.

And we walk in precisely the middle.

Remember the example we gave,

Should we have a guru on the spiritual path or should we find our own path?

And the answer was yes,

Definitely.

You find a guru and you surrender completely and totally,

Beyond all doubt.

Surrender to the guru,

Surrender to the path and find your way in it.

Definitely.

An awakened being is not pinned to any specific position ever.

That's why it can be one day as stable as a mountain and the other day as fluid as a river.

It could be one day completely masculine and the other day completely feminine.

Unrecognizable,

If you compare it to what you saw yesterday.

But all are included and all are valid and all have their space in time.

And an awakened consciousness feels completely at home in any position.

While it doesn't hold on to any position.

It just naturally provides to the present moment what is currently required.

Do you see what I'm saying?

So the middle path is there for us to walk on now.

And then we come close to the fully mature state where we are awakened to the sole purpose of our journey.

And we use the word soul,

For lack of a better word,

As personal expression of a universal consciousness.

We realize that we came here and received this body so we can grow,

But there is no separated self that is benefiting from that growth.

The context of the journey becomes impersonal.

Everything that we experience,

All of what assembles our story is not personal.

Even the longing to become enlightened is not personal anymore.

Enlightenment will never reveal itself when the ego keeps wanting to be enlightened.

I know it sounds really frustrating.

I know that when I first realized that on my journey,

It was like a slap on the face.

Nothing that I can do,

As much as I want it,

Will not bring me closer to that.

Actually,

It will keep me away from it.

So at this point in the evolution of consciousness,

We realize that all this journey is just an opportunity for our soul as a private expression of universal consciousness,

An opportunity for our soul to mature.

And then we come to the final realization,

Which we call today the meaning of life.

Are you ready for the meaning of life?

This is not something your pen can write and your intellect grab as a concept.

Don't worry about trying to understand it.

Just be with this invitation.

At this point,

When consciousness is blossoming to its fullest potential,

It realizes the universal aspect of its own existence.

It realizes that our private journey is not separated from the journey of consciousness itself.

The process of zooming out we started,

Remember when that spark ignited in us,

Enable our personal attention to be diverted from our own personal life drama to realizing the meaning of our existence in life.

And since that point,

We just kept releasing false ideas about ourselves,

Zooming out from a very narrow perspective of life and our identity,

Negotiating with life,

Zooming out to something that is more and more empty of personal identity.

And as we zoom out,

We become more and more available to experience life fully.

And at this point,

We realize the context of that experience is not personal.

The reason that we are here in a body is not personal.

And the soul that we've discovered a moment ago is not personal.

It's not my soul coming here to make a personal discovery or correction.

We realize that what is developing,

What is evolving,

Is consciousness itself.

And our private journey is just another opportunity consciousness is giving itself to grow and develop,

Experience life.

Back to Hegel's question,

Enlightenment is when we are finally and for the first time truly available for that to happen.

Where our journey receives a new context,

Which is transpersonal,

Completely universal.

And an awakened being is completely devoted to the universal aspect of its own existence.

I'm going to pause and refer to your question.

Angie.

Hi,

Aaron.

Aren't we already enlightened,

But we have just forgotten?

Yeah,

Definitely,

You can say that.

We are all waves in the same ocean.

We are all oceanic expressions.

Some waves remember the ocean,

Some waves forget the ocean.

When you forget the ocean,

What happens?

You are only concentrated on yourself,

Your own limited resources,

Your own temporary existence.

Because like all waves,

You are about to end.

So you are preoccupied,

Pretty concerned with that.

What will I gain?

What will I lose?

How much time do I have?

What will I achieve?

Etc,

Etc.

But the waves that remember the ocean think about the context of their journey as they are temporarily floating above the ocean,

But fully aware to the fact that they are only temporary,

Unique expressions of an eternal consciousness.

Last week we touched it,

This question.

So what,

God itself is evolving?

Consciousness is evolving?

The realization at this point of an enlightened consciousness is that everything that exists evolves.

And since everything that exists is just a manifestation of consciousness,

Then it's inevitable to come to the realization that consciousness itself evolves.

Do you see what I'm saying?

Yeah,

The collective consciousness evolves all the time as part of the evolution of the universe itself.

And our story,

Our personal story,

As magnificent and meaningless as it is,

Both are there,

Is just an aspect of that universal evolution of consciousness.

At this point I have to say,

When we hear these words,

Try not to generate a concept around it.

Oh yeah,

I am an individual aspect of universal consciousness evolving,

Okay.

Don't conceptualize it.

See if you can awaken something in your heart.

Go back to your daily lives and the way you allow yourself to maneuver through life and ask yourself,

What would happen as you maneuver through life when the realization that your personal life is just another opportunity God receives to evolve?

How does your life change accordingly?

That's the question I would like you to take this week.

When you go about your daily lives,

You know,

You go tomorrow,

You go to work or whatever,

You meet people,

Family,

You go to the grocery store,

You drive,

You walk in nature.

How all that transforms when the realization that everything experienced,

Pleasurable or painful,

Is just opportunities for divinity itself to experience life and evolve through it.

The meaning of life?

Life was created so God can experience itself in matter,

As matter,

13.

7 billion years ago.

Consciousness in the etheric realm exists beyond time and space.

But in order to evolve in matter,

It had to create matter and time and space.

And that was created for this reason,

To evolve.

And since 13.

7 million years ago,

That's exactly what is happening.

Life expands,

Expands,

Universe is expanding,

Consciousness is expanding accordingly.

And you are just another aspect of that.

That's the ultimate realization of an awakened consciousness.

And everything transforms in to express that realization.

What do you say?

AJ,

How to coexist with others lost in the illusion of duality,

Beyond compassionality,

Actually from the place of truth?

How to coexist with an open heart and a willing soul?

You know the answer to this question.

Let go of the idea that they should catch up.

Let go of the idea that they should realize something that you already realized.

Let go of the idea that things are not the way they are supposed to be.

Let go of any conflicting idea you may have.

Set yourself in unconditional love.

Rest there.

Rest there.

Stop arguing.

Just rejoice.

Rejoice the opportunity that God is generating for you to experience life and to allow it to evolve as a consequence of that present moment materializing.

Rejoice in that.

When you are an expression of unconditional love,

The question how loses its meaning.

Do you realize that?

We talked about it when we spoke about the right action.

How?

Just the way unconditional love is manifesting through you.

That's it.

That's how.

And it cannot be wrong.

When you are an expression of unconditional love,

You cannot do wrong.

You cannot be wrong.

You cannot generate new karma.

It's impossible.

Angie.

Yes,

Our personal evolution is magnificent and meaningless.

Feels strange and scary,

But also beautiful and freeing.

But living in that mental state consistently is a struggle.

Is it?

Who is struggling?

Think about it.

Yeah.

So it's just an opportunity for you to meet the ego and remind yourself it's an illusion.

It's not real.

It's not real.

Ego is not good or bad because the ego is not.

The wave is not disconnected from the ocean.

Never been,

Never will be.

Doesn't matter how hard it tries to forget.

It's still an oceanic expression.

So are you.

Next time you meet the ego,

Remind yourself it's a joke.

It's an illusion.

The ego is trying to scare you against life.

Don't believe it.

Thoughts have no power.

Thoughts have no power.

Mercy is asking why meaningless?

Allow yourself,

Allow your consciousness to expand as much as you can,

To include everything.

If it's difficult for you to do that alone,

I recommend go back to my Insight Timer page and find a guided meditation called The Self and practice that guided meditation.

It takes you beyond space and time to realize how vast you are and the story that you tell yourself about yourself in that very short 70,

80,

90 years that you have here is meaningless and magnificent,

But definitely meaningless.

So much is out there beyond the artificial body that you cover yourself with,

Outside of the shell that you hide in.

You are so,

So much bigger and magnificent than what you allow yourself to express,

To experience.

Everything is included and awakened consciousness realizes,

I am that.

As vast as the universe itself and beyond,

Beyond time,

Beyond space,

Beyond matter,

Beyond energy.

That 70,

80,

90 years that you've got in this body is not even a hiccup.

When people are too concerned about their own private story,

I ask them,

What was the name of your great-grandfather?

What was his name?

Do you remember his name?

Most of us don't.

That's your family,

Your ancestors.

Two generations back,

I don't even know the name.

Never mind the story and all the drama,

Not even the name.

That's how unimportant we are.

Our private story will be washed by the waves of the ocean.

Very soon,

Nobody cares and it doesn't matter.

But consciousness evolving through our story is very much important and irreversible.

You cannot un-evolve,

You cannot reverse that.

You can only evolve.

And your personal life's contribution is irreplaceable.

Ponder about that.

How much of your being are you dedicating to promote universal evolution?

Do you hear the calling to dedicate your existence to the evolution of God and if you hear that calling,

Do you answer it?

Let's take a deep breath in,

Allow it in,

And let go.

So this concludes our journey following the evolution of consciousness.

I would like to thank you very much for participating and being here throughout.

All past meetings are recorded and available on my page.

Check it out.

If you missed any,

Go and listen to it again.

Barbara is asking,

Can I flame the little spark you are offering?

100%.

Keep it alive.

Don't let the fire burn out.

How?

Seva,

Sadhana,

Satsang and Sadguru.

And on Thursday,

At 7.

30 Mountain Time,

We are going to meet again to continue a new series of titled Graceful Relationships,

Which is a beautiful series.

Don't miss it.

Bring your friends and let's make it a party.

And then we'll meet again next Saturday.

Jai Gurudev.

Bye-bye.