What do you see in this picture? Find your spiritual depth.

What do you see in this picture?

Find your spiritual depth.

The normal answer would be – ” Water and stones as well as the reflection of trees and sky. ” – multiple things.

If you are forced to choose only one thing, what to choose will get confusing.

The answer is –

“Crystal clear water. Other things appear in it and through it. ”

Confusion is in choosing.

Water is a medium that brings the stones and the trees on one platform.

The clarity of the water makes it happen.

( A muddy water could not have done it. )

By choosing water, you are also choosing the stones bathing in it and the trees reflecting on its surface.

Similarly, spiritually speaking, clarity of consciousness allows the duality ( Sansar )  to flourish within itself while still maintaining its own clarity, without getting disturbed by the individual contents creating the duality.

The stones represent the physical ( material ) Sansar, reflections of the trees represent our illusioned mind, and the clear water represents the crystal clear medium ( matrix ) of the consciousness in which this play has been going on since eternity.

So, now you can realize that everything is consciousness – the dualistic Sansar and the dualistic mind.

Nothing can escape consciousness because it is infinite.

So, conceptually speaking, consciousness is all-pervasive, nondual, and expansive spiritual entity.

First shlok of Isavasya Upanishad says –

“All this-whatsoever moves in this universe (and those that move not) is covered (indwelt or pervaded or enveloped or clothed) by the Lord. That renounced, enjoy. Do not covet anybody’s wealth.”

This is, of course, just the knowledge stored at the mind level.

Consciousness must be perceived within yourself in real time because that’s where it is, every second.

And it cannot be perceived until you eliminate yourself ( negate yourself through meditation ).

You and God cannot co-exist.

So, talking about consciousness and BEING conscious are two different things altogether, just as talking about love and being in love is.

So, meditate and realize this.

And when you do, realize that the word “consciousness “ falls way short in describing the state of consciousness itself.

Consciousness is not just an experience; it is the life itself; it is the truth itself; it is the love itself, the compassion itself, peace and congeniality, fairness, forgiveness, generosity, grace, beauty, and melody………..

The list is unending.

The awareness is only an entryway, but it eventually takes you into a treasure trove of life.

Keep this above picture in mind to rise higher spiritually.

It indicates the inclusivity of consciousness, as it includes everything moving and non-moving in the universe and beyond.

Hoping, this may facilitate your spiritual journey.

Once you experience pure consciousness, transformation starts happening because, so far, you have known only one way to exist – “ My Way “ ( Ego ).

But now, you have two ways you can live.

“ Your way “ or “His way.”

And between you and Him, you are changeable ( no matter how hard it may seem ), and He is not gonna change ( as he is beyond change ).

He is that eternal changeless existence, which cannot be changed but can change you.

Just the way between Krishna and Arjun, Krishna changed Arjun.

Arjun argued a lot, but Krishna remained unfazed ( Sthitpragnya ), and Arjun had to change, and he won the war.

The key is to be ready to be changed.

Without that, Geeta will not happen in your life.

All the changes you may “think” are happening in you without God’s realization are your mind’s doing, not His.

Whatever happens after self-realization is His doing.