You are not the thinker

Knowing this enables you to observe ‘the thinker'. The moment you start watching ‘the thinker', a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realise that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realise that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind.

You begin to awaken, freeing yourself from your mind.

Start listening to the voice in your head as often as you can, and listen to it impartially – do not judge it. Do not judge or condemn what you hear – if you do, then the thinker has come in again through the back door. When you listen to a thought, you become aware not only of the thought, but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in. As you listen to the thought, you feel a conscious presence – your deeper self – behind or underneath the thought, as it were. The thought then loses its power over you and quickly subsides, because you are no longer energising the mind through identification with it. This is the beginning of the end of involuntary and compulsive thinking.

When a thought subsides, you experience a discontinuity in the mental stream – a gap of "no- mind." At first, the gaps will be short, a few seconds perhaps, but gradually they will become longer. When these gaps occur, you feel a certain stillness and peace inside you. This is the beginning of your natural state of felt oneness with Being, which is usually obscured by the mind. With practice, the sense of stillness and peace will deepen. In fact, there is no end to its depth.

You will also feel a subtle emanation of joy arising from deep within: the joy of Being.

Sri Bhagavan says, "Thought cannot end thought; effort cannot end effort, the self cannot end itself."

Deeksha is the key to quietening the mind. It affects a neuro-biological change within the 16 centres of the brain responsible for experiences like sensory perception, emotions of jealousy, hatred, fear, compassion, love, joy, separation, connectedness, creativity, learning, etc.

When you receive Deeksha, an activation of the frontal lobes occurs, with a corresponding deactivation of the parietal lobes, bringing about a shift in the perception and experience of life.

The Deeksha first installs the neurobiological hardware of Oneness, and the software in the form of the experience slowly catches up.

Very often, people have access to great awakenings, but do not have the prepared brain to sustain and integrate such awakenings – they remain unrounded, and the experience does not last.

  Deeksha offers a way to permanently anchor the awakening experience.

    Extracts from:

“The Translucent Revolution: How people just like you are waking up and changing the world” by Arjuna Ardagh.

“You are not your Mind”, by Eckhart Tolle.

Various Oneness University websites.

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