The Same One In All: Radiance Sutras Verse 82

During this session, we discuss Verse 82 of the Yukti Verses from the 'Radiance Sutras', a translation of the Vijanana Bhairava Tantra by Lorin Loche. A meditation follows our discussion.

These sessions are recorded on a weekly basis and all are welcome.

Transcript

Today we are reading the Radiant Sutras.

We are reading Sutra number 82 for anyone who has the book.

And the Radiant Sutras are filled with all kinds of different verses that help us become whole.

I don't just mean whole like bringing back the parts of us we lost in our childhood or in that relationship and all that.

That all happens.

But Tantra is the path of becoming whole,

Like regaining your divine self and allowing your divine self to weave and dance with your physical experience on earth.

And this isn't some high and mighty thing.

It isn't some,

Uh,

And then I will be a great guru and I will not ever have a job or ever have sex again.

Or it's not like that.

It's how to be a fully divine and human being and have a bad day and grieve and have an exciting day and get a new job and get rid of an old job,

Make a new friend and walk away from something else.

It's about living this life.

Every single one of us has a very unique and interesting life right now,

But we're living it like a half-life.

And sometimes we live that half-life completely lost in the physical world,

Lost in the money,

Lost in the fitness,

Lost in the diets,

Lost in the politics,

Lost in the stories,

Lost in the drama.

We just are completely lost in it.

And then other people slingshot out of that reality and say,

I am just a spiritual being and I am not connecting to any of that.

I am only listening to my highest self and I do not engage in the common people's woes.

And the reality is that every single one of us that are here,

Incarnate,

In a body,

That means we all are meant to be here.

We're meant to be on earth.

We're meant to be having a human experience.

We're meant to be interacting with other people.

We're meant to be going for walks in the rain or the sunshine and playing with dogs and eating fun food and sometimes getting sick and sometimes having disappointment and sometimes having challenges.

But imagine doing all those things with your full divinity intact.

Then what would it feel like?

What would it feel like to dive into a difficult challenge,

But know that you just ask for guidance or you go for a run or you journal or you do yoga or you meditate or you sleep on it and you have the wisdom to know that sometimes time has to reveal a new fact.

Imagine.

And you can still be upset about things.

You can still be angry.

You can still be all the things,

All the things that humans are.

This is the journey of Tantra.

So the Radiant Sutras has a series of verses and some are practices and some are simply an idea that brings us to a different level of awareness.

So in Tantra they have something called a Navapaya,

And this isn't important,

This word,

A Navapaya is a path of Tantra that we get there through practice of some flavor.

Maybe we do it through a Kriya.

Like this morning I did a Kriya for Elevation,

Kundalini Yoga.

That is an Navapaya.

It's part of my healing journey.

It's part of getting my body and mind and spirit to connect and allow stuff to rise.

It's a practice of healing because that's also needed in Tantra.

And then there's something called Shaktapaya,

And this is where an awareness of the world around us clicks something into place inside of us.

You don't have to do a practice,

It just clicks us into place.

So for example today's verse that we're going to read is a Shaktapaya.

It's not a practice,

It's like a seed of awareness that goes into our mind and it just turns a light on in a corner.

It's not the whole package,

It just turns a light on.

And with Shaktapaya we seldom could explain how we're different after.

If someone said to you,

Well how did that change you?

All you can do is say,

I don't know,

But I just feel lighter.

I'm just not worried about things like I was before.

It's a very curious thing.

Whereas if you do a Kriya or a meditation or a practice,

Someone can say,

Well how do you feel different?

You're like,

Oh all these emotions came up and I was processing and I realized how mad I am at that person.

I have all this resentment.

So now I can go away and journal it and integrate it and let it go.

It's easier to identify the things from the practices.

But awarenesses are different.

So today we are going to read a passage from the Radiant Sutras.

The Radiant Sutras is a translation or an interpretation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra.

So let's close our eyes.

Even if you have the book,

Let's close our eyes.

Let's just breathe deeply.

And imagine your breath flowing through all of your chakras.

From your first chakra where you're sitting all the way up to the crown of your head,

Your divinity,

Your infinite consciousness.

And imagine your breath like a flowing circle between your physical self and your divine infinite self.

And it's effortless.

It's like they were always meant to play together.

Then release that visualization and just let your breath rest in your heart center.

The place in your ribs where if I were to say,

Who are you?

You would point,

I am.

Just allow your mind to rest there as you breathe deeply.

And we listen to this sutra.

Trees have desires.

Rocks have knowledge.

Jugs are full of emptiness and joy.

All embodied ones have this in common.

All are propelled by the same one whose pulse beats in your breast.

Shed insularity.

Be all pervasive,

Delighting in kinship everywhere.

What rises in you when you hear that?

What thoughts,

Feelings,

Questions?

Connection to divine.

Connection to all,

To the whole.

Unity.

Everything is everything.

Connection held.

Delight in connection to all things.

We are all connected to everything on earth with our energies and our spirits.

Oneness.

Delight as an antidote to loneliness.

Everything is alive.

Everything is alive.

So part of what it says is that every single thing that is incarnate and not just alive,

Like rocks and trees and a jar,

That they all have knowledge and desire.

Jugs are full of emptiness.

Quit hiding and remove your mask.

We all belong.

It's beautiful,

So.

So it's a funny thing to imagine wherever you are and you're looking around your room and you see chairs and windows and desks and rugs and blankets and you think,

How are these all full of knowledge and desire?

Like what does that mean?

When I first read it,

I had this vision of the animated,

The Disney version of Beauty and the Beast.

The teapots are alive.

That's what I first envisioned.

And the problem is,

Is that's what we think,

That they're alive like us or that they think like us.

You know,

That we are the only way that something can have knowledge or desire.

So we need to look at what does it mean for something to have knowledge?

What does it mean in the Sanskrit text,

Like in this sense?

So imagine that everything in the universe,

Or everything in our world anyway,

Is a unified field of consciousness.

Whatever you understand that to be.

It could be the energy of creation by God.

It could be the quantum field.

It could be the whatever it is that makes everything exist.

A tree has a certain awareness within it that it causes that unified field of consciousness to vibrate in a very specific way to make it a tree.

I used to have a book called The Universal One by Walter Russell.

And his theory was that every single thing that we can see on earth and experience,

The building blocks of every single thing is light.

But the light is simply vibrating at a different frequency to create different things.

So a tree holds the knowledge of how to vibrate light to make a tree.

A rock knows how to vibrate to be a rock and not water.

Every single one of us has a knowledge within us that causes this universal fabric of life to vibrate into each one of us to make Katrina and Melissa and Jeff and Angie and Sally.

Every single one of our DNA has a unique knowledge and it holds that knowledge,

Which is why each of us look different.

So this is the kind of knowledge they're talking about.

And desire,

How they define desire,

Is desire is the impulse to always be going from a subtle plane of existence into the physical.

So now let's think about that.

If you have a desire to do something,

How do you define this desire?

So you essentially have an idea,

A thought,

A hope,

A dream.

You have a thought,

You have something,

Which is a subtle plane of existence.

It's just a thought.

You can't even touch it.

You can't see it.

We have no idea where thoughts are.

So it exists in a much more subtle plane of existence than the physical body.

When I say that I desire this,

I want this seed of an idea in this subtle plane of existence to exist on earth.

I want it in the physical plane.

So imagine all desire is the desire to manifest in physical reality an idea.

And that idea could be,

I want to be a millionaire.

The only way that's going to happen is if you have a million dollars.

I want to have friends.

The only way that's going to happen is for physical people to be sitting around you.

I want to meet the love of my life.

It goes from an idea to something manifest here on the earth.

So if we were to imagine then,

As we look around the room that you're sitting in,

Or the place you are outside or wherever you are,

That every single thing you can see has innate knowledge to be what they are,

Vibrating the stuff of the universe into a chair,

Into a desk,

Into a tree.

And there was a desire to be in existence.

So now,

Wherever you are,

Look around and to think every single thing around us is like me.

They all exist.

There was a desire for this being to exist and I exist.

I am able to continue to vibrate to that I am always Katrina.

I don't suddenly forget who I am and suddenly I'm Dave or suddenly I'm Lucy.

I'm always Katrina.

When I first started really thinking about this,

I suddenly felt like everything in my room,

Like they were my friends.

And I know this doesn't necessarily make any sense,

But I didn't feel alone,

Even though I was alone in the room,

Because there were all these other manifestations of knowledge and desire around me.

And what's really interesting about this particular sutra is that the intention is that we no longer feel alone.

In the reading,

I wanted to mention this because this word is curious and I know that not everybody here,

English isn't your first language.

It says,

Shed insularity.

So in English,

This word insulate.

To insulate,

We insulate ourselves from the cold by putting on a warm jacket.

We insulate ourselves maybe from the sun by putting on sunscreen or sunglasses or a hat.

So insulation is sort of this cover we put around ourselves to protect ourselves from other.

This leads to this word in English,

Insularity,

Because very often we will live like we are very alone,

Even with people we love,

Even with family,

Even with our most beloved partners,

Our children,

Our friends.

We live in this very insular way that no one really knows me and I don't really know other people.

So in Tantra,

This is the extreme effect of duality and it's right.

Every one of us has this seed of individuality within us and we're meant to have it.

I'm meant to have Katrina's experience.

I'm not meant to have William's experience or Elena's experience.

I'm meant to have my experience.

So that seed of individuality is very important.

I am meant to have knowledge of who I am and why I'm here and what my hopes are and what I love to do and what I don't love to do.

And it's meant to be different than you.

We're not meant to agree on this.

We are each meant to have extremely unique experiences here on earth.

I have desires that I want to manifest.

I have things that I want to do.

I want to create.

I want to experience.

There are thoughts in my mind that I want to manifest here on earth and they are different than yours and they're supposed to be.

So on the one hand,

We want to embrace duality.

We want to see all these people around us,

Each with their seeds of individual consciousness,

Each with their own desires in life.

We want to embrace that duality.

Imagine a running stream.

There's this beautiful stream that's running and someone comes along with a jug and they scoop up the running stream's water and then they fill the jug with water and then they set the jug back in the stream.

So the jug is sitting there filled with water in this running stream and then someone takes another jug and they fill it with water and they set that jug in the running stream and they keep filling all these jars.

So at this point they say that there are 120 people in this class.

So now imagine there's 120 jars filled with this water sitting in the stream.

Now imagine this running water is this infinite united field of consciousness and every single one of us has this energy flowing through us and we're in our individual jars because we're meant to have an individual experience but the life that runs through us is the same.

And now imagine that our 120 friends here sitting in the stream,

We're all experiencing we're all experiencing the water running all around us.

What's that?

Trees,

The rocks,

The desk,

The tv,

The apple,

The banana.

All around us is this beautiful unified field of energy flowing in everything around us.

And now let's imagine that for some reason our jugs just disappear and all of that water that was inside of them is now just part of the stream again.

Now we really are all the same.

The people,

The trees,

The cars.

Everything we can see,

Touch,

Smell,

Feel,

Taste is made of the same energy.

Let's just close our eyes for a moment and just breathe deeply.

And I want you to imagine this sparkly energy,

This water of the stream glistening in the sunlight.

And imagine yourself as water in this jug,

Sitting in the stream.

Just you.

Feeling the world all around you,

Flowing by you,

Swirling.

And you are inside your skin,

Inside your physical body.

And then let's imagine we release the vision of the stream and we're sitting on a park bench.

There's trees,

The stream is clear,

The water is clear,

The trees are clear,

The water is clear.

Trees,

The stream is there,

There's grass,

There's flowers.

And you're looking around at everything and realizing that everything here is vibrating of the same stuff that I am vibrating.

Breathing deeply.

It's like you can feel the trees breathing and the grass vibrating.

And then imagine in your mind's eye that you're sitting in your favorite room in your home.

In your mind's eye,

You're looking around that room,

In your mind's eye,

You're looking around that room,

Realizing that everything in the room is made of the same things that you are.

And each piece has unique knowledge to be exactly what they are.

The same energy of desire exists because they exist.

To feel connected to everything around us.

Even the chair or the floor you may be sitting on.

And then releasing all visualization.

Just breathing deeply in your own body.

Gatado,

Yatcha,

Viznanam,

Ikhad,

Yamva mama antare,

Na eva sarvagatam,

Jatam bhavayan iti sarvaga.

Trees have desires.

Rocks have knowledge.

Jugs are full of emptiness and joy.

All embodied ones have this in common.

All are propelled by the same one whose pulse beats in your breast.

Shed insularity.

Be all pervasive,

Delighting in kinship everywhere.

Let's gently open our eyes.

And I would love to know how you're feeling.

So peaceful,

Playful,

Supported and held,

Quiet,

Light,

Less pain.

Full of emptiness and possibility.

Feel that I belong,

We all belong here,

Animate and inanimate.

Tears,

Joy,

Life is beautiful.

Space and vibration.

Rooted on my path and yet,

Tapped into all,

Feels like I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be.

Among family,

Even when alone.

Still pondering how we are all different levels of vibrating light.

What a concept.

I highly recommend after this,

If you can,

To go for a walk or sit on a park bench somewhere and allow your body to feel this.

You know they say that we can feel things long before we can understand them.

So as we grow,

We have to feel things first.

We don't lead with our mind.

So to go for a walk or to sit somewhere outside or in your favourite chair and feel this deeply.

And then it's almost like your psyche realises it has a project.

And now we need to understand this,

That we go from the feeling place.

And I hope you have a wonderful day.

I'll see you soon.

Reviews

I liked the jugs of water in the stream disappearing vision….

Lovely text, lovely discussion. As always! 🌳🪷💫🙏

Thank you Katrina. I feel expanded. It's a joyous feeling.

I like your analogy of being a jar full of water from a running creek next to many jars which are also full of the same water. All with desires and knowledge, love and wisdom. The jars will eventually dissolve and the water inside will flow freely with the water of the running creek. The image of my water inside of Gaétan slowly getting stagnant and putride, insolated from fresh oxygen reaching in and reaching out, stuck energy, etc. comes in. By letting go of my protections, the ways I can insulate myself from others and nature, by meditating, doing yoga but also by dancing with another human, having dinner with a friend, smiling at my city neighbor I don’t know and saying good morning, it helps me getting my energy flowing, it helps me realizing that I am a part of the running water, the same running water all around me. And ultimately when my container (me, my body) dies, I will continue to flow with the running creek, perhaps much more freely, perhaps without any suffering, no more clinging to my insolation.