The Consciousness of Oneness

In this beloved meditation shared on Day 10 of the Hridaya Silent Meditation Retreat, Sahajananda offers an inspiring reminder of Unity.

Transcript

We will continue with a kind of guided meditation in which we will affirm this belief,

This belief in consciousness of oneness.

Of course,

The consciousness of oneness,

Of the divine unity,

Cannot be described in words.

That's why the most important now will not be the words,

But that secret savor,

That gusto,

That echo,

Vibration which these words will awaken in our hearts,

This sacred understanding.

The words will be just pointers to that stillness of our being.

So each time when these words awaken in us,

This emotion of the truth,

The intuition of our divine nature,

Then they will not be just simple words or thoughts,

But they will become the real path,

The way of awakening our being.

And then these words and these thoughts and these beliefs will start to have gradually a more and more powerful impact upon us.

And they start to become like a deep faith,

This faith in love,

This faith in oneness,

In purity,

In spirit.

And they will start gradually to have the force of a credo,

Of an interior and the life confidence.

And then all our life can be lived and will be lived from this certitude that we are not just an emotion,

Not just a state of consciousness which comes and goes,

Not just that thoughts,

But this ultimate divine self.

I received last night in question and answers a note which I liked very much,

Because it was not in that group of notes which either complain about some problems or ask what to do because it is this problem of that problem,

Neither in that group of questions or notes which simply said that I had a beautiful state,

No thoughts,

Or I had this state of cosmic consciousness and so on,

Was a note which affirmed exactly this confidence.

The person said,

I may be wavering,

My mind may be wavering,

The states can be in a way or other,

The psychic can still move,

But deep is this stillness.

I know that deep is this stillness.

And this matters more than beautiful experience or this confidence that in spite of the fact that it is an illness or the body pains or it is a sadness or whatever,

You are free inside.

You are not this body,

You are not this psychic.

It is this freedom and you can,

As Afiz said,

Skipping like a child,

Even though it is apparently a big sadness,

Still you are free.

You can laugh inside.

You can laugh even though there might be different problems.

So this is the message of Advaita Vedanta and let's try to make this not just a theory or a philosophy,

But to stabilize all these understandings which it passed during this retreat,

To stabilize them in this credo,

In this confidence that we are this light,

We are this bliss,

This pure existence.

So please take a meditation position.

Close your eyes.

Keep your back straight.

Relaxation,

Detachment.

The awareness centered in the spiritual heart in the middle of the chest,

A little to the right.

Relaxation,

Detachment.

We consecrate to God,

Perceived also as the essence of our beings,

The fruits of this meditation with the theme the consciousness of oneness and our entire being.

Relaxation,

Detachment.

Relaxation,

Detachment.

What we are seeking and have been seeking in spiritual practice is exactly the Divine Self,

Atman.

That awareness which is listening these words right now.

This Divine Self cannot be found because it was never lost and because it cannot be lost.

You have always known that you were you.

The most intimate feeling which we have is that each of us is exactly what we really are.

This I AM,

This I AM-ness is a constant condition of all that arises as us and as our world.

This I AM-ness is the space of awareness in which it all arises.

This I AM-ness is the space of awareness in which it all arises.

This I AM-ness is the space of awareness in which it all arises.

This space of awareness has nothing outside of it.

It entices complete peace and radiates its own love and beauty in all directions.

And this pure and infinite space of this I AM-ness arises the consciousness of our personality and our name.

So our personality arises in this vast spaciousness,

In this pure openness of the I AM.

And our name,

Our personality is nothing else than an object,

Just like a tree or a cloud that arises in this infinite space of the Divine Self that we are.

So our personality arises in this vast spaciousness,

In this pure openness of the Divine Self that we are.

But these words are not addressed to your personality,

To your name.

But try to communicate with that stillness,

With that something in you which is pure presence,

Pure awareness.

The very source of your personality.

This pure I above personality and name and thoughts is what you really are.

Not from us,

See.

You are that.

You are Brahman.

So in fact,

In reality,

Not your personality is listening to these words,

But God is listening.

This is awareness.

This Divine Self is aware of your personality,

Of the name you have,

And of your own.

And with whom you identify yourselves,

Of the body you have.

You are not your personality,

Or your body,

Or your mind.

But that stillness,

Who is aware of your body,

Personality,

Mind.

You are that,

What is aware of your name and personality.

But what is aware of your name and personality,

Is an I am-ness,

A pure existence that itself cannot be seen or thought.

That only intimate felt,

The tremor of the heart,

Unshakable easeness,

Felt as an absolute certainty.

I am that I am,

Eternally,

Timelessly,

Unendingly.

There is only this I am-ness everywhere,

In all directions.

I am that I am,

Eternally,

Unendingly,

Unendingly.

I am that I am,

Eternally,

Timelessly,

Unendingly.

Everything arises spontaneously in the spirit.

The space of this great perfection that is the Divine Self.

And you,

Your body,

Your name,

Your personality,

Are this Divine Self,

This infinite space of awareness.

Actually,

You have always intuitively known that you are this Divine Self.

There was never a time that you did not know that you are you.

You can never remember a time when you were not you.

The only thing you can ever remember is something that this pure awareness,

This Divine Self,

Spiritual heart,

Did or expressed itself.

There is only this Divine Self.

The entire world arises in your awareness right now.

You are that space.

You are that space in which it is all spontaneously and effortlessly arising.

You are this Oneness.

You have always been this One.

There is only this Oneness,

Who you are.

Do not pretend you are finding that One.

Do not pretend you have forgotten that One.

The only thing you have ever really known,

The only thing you can ever really remember,

The only thing you are actually feeling right now is that One,

This stillness,

Oneness.

This is the Nowness,

The Isness,

Suchness of everything,

Just as it is.

And as it is arising within yourself.

It is the simple feeling of Being,

The pure feeling of I Am,

Which is all you ever feel,

Is directly x resonate within.

Be aware of the things of this world.

Or the birds,

Or the clouds and the sky,

The barking of the dog.

All of them are arising in your awareness.

They are arising in you.

I am reminded of everything.

The sky and the clouds are outside of your personality,

Outside of your body,

But inside of this awareness,

The divine self.

Be aware of your body outside of this whole.

Your body is in this whole,

But both the body and the whole arise in your awareness.

You are literally holding them in your consciousness lovingly.

The island is arising in your consciousness.

It is arising in you.

So you are lovingly holding it within your consciousness.

The sea appears in your consciousness and you are holding with love the sea and the arising world within your consciousness.

Everything.

Through this awareness you embrace the world in you as you embrace a fascinating lover.

You are lovingly holding it within your consciousness.

The ocean is arising outside of you,

Of your personality,

But inside your stillness,

Awareness,

Inside your spiritual heart.

The sky,

The clouds,

The island,

The sea and your body are all simultaneously and effortlessly arising in this awareness,

In this divine self,

The witness of these worlds.

All that is arising is arising in this unshakable I amness.

Pure existence,

Awareness and bliss,

Which is not a thing or an object or a person,

But the openness,

The vastness,

Clearing in which all things and all objects and all persons are arising.

We ask ourselves,

Who am I?

This stillness,

This blissful void,

This blissful emptiness,

This pure openness,

Transparency,

This emptiness,

Vast spaciousness,

Is your spiritual heart,

Is what you have always been and what you are before your parents were born and is what you are before the Big Bang happened.

There is no before and no after for this nowness of pure awareness,

This nowness of the divine self.

There is no before and no after for this continuous consciousness of now.

There is only this nowness of the Divine Self.

There is no past and no future in this never ending now.

All befores and all afters arise in this awareness of the now,

Of the present moment.

There is only this ever-present moment.

Only this ever-present,

Never-starting,

Never-ending,

Unborn,

Undying,

Radiant beauty that is aware of what is happening now,

Here,

That is aware of this universe and that finds all of them in the space that it is.

Therefore,

All things arise in the unshakable peace,

Deep stillness that holds them,

Holds everything easily in its carrying within.

Your body,

Your personality is in the universe,

But the universe is in your spiritual heart.

Therefore,

Be this ever-present spiritual heart,

Divine Self,

Pure awareness,

Who is listening these words.

These words didn't address to your personality,

To your name,

They are addressing to you.

Let the idea of your name arise and fall like all other objects arise and fall.

So,

Let all what your name awakens in you come into being,

Remain a bit and then pass.

What has this to do with your Divine Self?

Your objects arise,

Remain and pass in the spaciousness and emptiness that is aware of them.

And of this moment… Let all what your name awakens in you come into being.

And of this moment… And this moment… yet this moment,

This now,

Has no end.

You have never actually felt the present come to an end,

Because it never does.

It is the only thing that is real.

This consciousness of now,

This pure feeling of being,

Pure awareness,

An awareness in which these words float and in which your personality floats.

And in which the clouds and the sky float.

When you feel the tremor,

The clamor of this present nowness,

You realize that there is nothing outside of it.

You cannot see on the outside of this timeless now,

Because there is nothing outside of it.

And now… And now… Present now is all you ever know,

And this nowness is simply another name for the spacious divine self,

Spiritual heart,

In which the entire universe arises as a radiant,

Joyful,

Ecstatic swoon of bliss.

Because the words you hear now,

And the island,

And the ocean,

And the clouds,

And the sky,

All arise in your awareness.

There is nothing outside your spiritual heart,

Outside God.

That there is nothing outside your divine self means there is nothing that can threaten it.

When you intimate now this divine self,

The spiritual heart,

You know peace because you are already directly,

Immediately and intimately one and identical with God,

With the stillness,

With the awareness which is listening these words right now.

You know God right now directly and immediately and unmistakably and undeniably.

And because you know God right now as the very divine self listening these words,

You know you are finally,

Truly,

Deeply home.

A home that you have always directly known and always pretended you didn't know.

Therefore,

Pretend no more what you are not.

Confess that you are God.

Confess that you are beauty.

Confess that you are the very truth the sages have sought for centuries.

Confess that you are stillness and peace beyond knowledge and understanding.

Confess that you are the very truth the sages have sought for centuries.

Confess that you are so ecstatically happy that you manifest this entire world.

Confess that the witness of these words,

Spiritual heart,

Is the one who is the witness of this world.

The witness of this entire world is the one and only true spirit that looks through all eyes and hears with all ears and reaches out in love and compassion to embrace the very beings that it,

Atman,

Created itself in an eternal ecstatic dance.

And confess that you are alone,

That you are literally the only one in the entire universe.

There are no others to this one.

There are indeed others to your personality,

Others from your body,

But both your personality and the others arise in the awareness that is listening these words.

And this awareness has no other because all others arise in it.

One without a second is what is listening now these words.

One without a second is who you really are.

Therefore be that one.

Be that one and also give love to your body,

Personality,

But be that one.

Be that one and also give love to your body,

Personality,

But be that one and also give love to your body,

Personality,

But be that one and also give love to your body,

Personality,

But be that one and also give love to your body,

Personality,

But be that one and also give love to your body,

Personality,

But be that one and also give love to your body,

Personality,

But be that one.

Be that one and also give love to your body,

Personality,

But be that one and also give love to your body,

Personality,

But be that one and also give love to your body,

Personality,

But be that one and also give love to your body,

Personality,

But be that one and also give love to your body,

Personality,

But be that one and also give love to your body,

Personality,

But be that one.

Reviews

I love you Hridaya family. Thank you Sahaja. See you all in July 2025.

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I am happy to have my teacher's voice guiding me. I felt that I was physically in the hall with him, again. And the consciousness of oneness was explained very well. Thank you Sahaja.

Profound and impacting thank you

Fantastically intense, brought me to oneness with the universe 💫