Psychology of Enlightenment

SR No.: 001807
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Chitrabhanu
Publisher: New York Dodd Made & Company
Total Pages: 114
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Dhyan
File Size: 5 MB

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The Psychology of Enlightenment
always secure when I feel my oneness with the universe. I am God incognito. What does it matter if the people I meet don't recognize the divinity in me? It is better that I am able to move incognito in the world.”
Sit with a straight spine in a chair or on the floor, whichever is more comfortable for you. When the spine is erect, you can easily take your awareness to the base of the spinal column. Closing your eyes, visualize yourself sitting on a lovely square seat in the center of a beautiful yellow lotus blossom. The symbol of the square is important because its four corners link us to the cosmos in four directions: north, south, east, and west.
An alternative symbol for this center is a cross within a wheel or circle. (The Sanskrit word for this wheel is chakra. The energy centers are often referred to as the seven chakras.) Like the corners of the square, the four lines of the cross also connect us to the four directions.
If we focus our attention on this cross, we will see that one line is horizontal; the other, vertical. The horizontal line by itself resembles the minus sign in mathematics. Adding the vertical to the horizontal transforms the minus to plus. We, too, can turn the minus aspects of our lives to plus. We can move from feelings of emptiness (the minus) to feelings of worthiness and meaning (the plus). We may see the world as horizontal in relation to the divine, which is symbolically vertical. The earthly things we have accumulated on the horizontal plane cannot accompany us at death. In that respect, they are insignificant in the face of the vertical divine. Meditation lifts our energy along this vertical line.
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