Holding the transformation: the miracle of Upanishad
I always say, 'Upanishad is the enlightenment technique for lazy people!'
The enlightened Master Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa says beautifully, 'If you want to scare away some birds sitting on a tree, you don't have to do it one by one. Just clap loudly once, and all the birds on the tree will fly away.'
In the same way, in the Master's presence, you don't have to work on your samskaras one by one. You don't have to work so hard! The Master's powerful grace is the one 'clap' that can destroy all your samskaras once and for all!
See, you don't need to be in the presence of an enlightened being to have a glimpse of enlightenment.
As I told you, we all continuously have brief glimpses of the superconscious state. Such spontaneous glimpses are always happening in our lives.
But the problem is we are neither aware of it when it happens, nor are we able to hold on to it.
All your yoga, pranayama, meditation techniques – all these are only to create the state of readiness in you – the readiness to experience, and the readiness to hold the experience.
Your body and mind are prepared, so that when the experience happens, you will not miss it by being unconscious of it, and you will be able to hold the enormous transformation it creates within.
When you are continuously available in the energy-field of an enlightened Master, you don't need so many separate techniques. Even without much effort from your side, your very bio-memory 'learns' the expression of enlightenment. Your very muscles learn to imbibe and radiate enlightenment.
Understand, even your physiology changes in the presence of an enlightened Consciousness!
When a Master touches and initiates you, the software of enlightened physiology is also downloaded into you, changing your physiology. If you are completely open during the touch, the software of enlightened physiology can be downloaded into you. Your body learns that it can be better than what it is now! Your bio-memory learns the lesson that the possibility for better existence is there.
When you have the grace of the Master, both the hardware and software can be totally changed.
The conscious mind can be cleared by the right teachings, by removing the wrong ideas and taking in clear and correct ideas. The unconscious mind can be cleared by meditation techniques. The unconscious zone in the mind is like the software that can be cleansed by meditation.
But ultimately, for the software change to be permanent, the hardware also has to change. Your very brain grooves have to change to hold and radiate the experience of living enlightenment. This can happen through initiation.
Initiation is directly transmitting the energy by which different dimensions of you will start getting awakened.
The hardware, the brain itself, will be tuned to hold this new software by the darshan or grace of the Master.
As of now, both the hardware and software are directed to the outer world, the material world.
The conscious portion of the software starts turning to the inner world through listening to teachings, and the unconscious portion of the software starts turning inwards through meditation.
But even if software turns inwards, the hardware will not be able to handle it. Then naturally the hardware will try its best to maintain its original nature. If the software is too strong and stays in the same tune, then the hardware will change with time.
Even without initiation, constant meditation and teaching will eventually help change the hardware. Even if the hardware is old, once the new software is installed, the hardware will also get updated gradually.
However, if you want a change immediately in the hardware, darshan is the right thing. Straightaway it will change the hardware.
Sometimes, without even installing the new software the hardware can be changed!
The person will straightaway start radiating the new software's quality.
That can happen when a disciple is completely open to the Master.
Sometimes a disciple falls in love with the Master for no reason. He may not be attracted to the teachings or be familiar with them, he may not be attracted to the meditation techniques or be familiar with them, but he just falls in love. With such a disciple, the Master can straightaway change the hardware along with the software. Not only will the hardware change, it will be prepared to hold on to the same experience.
Such disciples will be simply radiating the quality of the teachings and meditation without even learning any of them.
So if you are fortunate enough to feel connected with an enlightened being, if that click has happened in you, just hold on to that feeling, that is enough.
It is the greatest gift!
Just hold it in your heart.
Do not allow any doubt to take that experience away from you.
Keep that experience alive by constantly listening to the Truth!
Don't miss a single chance to be around the Master.
Because any moment it can happen.
Allow that to happen, and at once become free.
There is an interesting research done by the Institute of HeartMath, USA: In this experiment, the characteristics of light-photons were studied in a light scattering chamber. The graph looked like a typical plot representing random motion of the photons. Next, a DNA sample was placed in the scattering chamber. The graph now changed showing an interaction between the DNA* and the photons of light. Then the DNA* was removed from the chamber. When the DNA is removed, you would anticipate that the graph would be the same as before the DNA was placed in the chamber. Surprisingly, the graph after the removal of the DNA looked clearly different from the one obtained before the DNA was placed in the chamber. In spite of the removal of the DNA, it influenced the behavior of the lightphotons. Not only immediately after removal but for several more days, the lingering effect of the DNA on the lightphotons persisted. One interesting observation is that this effect is not seen with the DNA of lower forms of consciousness. So, one can conclude that the consciousness of a particular object or a particular person is always radiating and it contributes its own effect. We can also note that in nature, the higher forms of consciousness, by their very presence, will influence the other forms of lower consciousness. If the DNA of a normal human being can have this effect, you*
can imagine how a superconscious energy, that of an enlightened being can influence the consciousness of everything and everyone around them!