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Sahasrara-Pure Consciousness of Self
you never tire. Only when you work for a selfish purpose do you exhaust your resources. Serving through love, your vitality is always replenished.
To meditate on the seventh center, visualize the thousand rays as the petals of a beautiful white lotus turning upward to welcome the sun. Similarly, you are opening yourself at the crown of the head to receive the pure energy of the siddhas, all those souls who have reached perfection.
See yourself bathed in bright, white light. All the colors representing all the different costumes of life, the different manifestations of our energy, are ended at this level. There is only pure white light.
Now, silently repeat the mantra om arhum namah. Arhum means “I am the worthiest energy, pure energy; I am nothing but absolute energy." With this mantra you are saying, “I bow to that absolute energy which I am."
You no longer see separation; no longer will you divide into “I” and “Thou." From the moment you experience this oneness, you are initiated into a new life. Inwardly, you are convinced that your life has a mission: to receive and to share the divine energy.
In reality, we are that absolute energy. We are truly the "That" of sohum. We are Love, the Worthiest Energy. Arhum is the climax, the culmination, of sohum. God is Love expanded, and we are this Love, this expanded Love. As we continue working on these seven centers, we may glimpse for a fraction of a moment in our stillness, the pure consciousness of Self, the Oneness, the egoless experience of “I am God.” This powerful experience will illumine all the days of our lives.
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