Monday, 18 March 2013

God Consciousness: Being your Highest Self

The only way to live is to be "God" which is nothing but a state of consciousness, a state of being which anyone can attain with practice, patience and persistence. It is difficult to reach this ' higher state of consciousness' but it is easy to live with. On the other hand it is easy to remain at a 'lower state of consciousness' but it is very difficult to live with. A person experiences all sorrows, all negativeness in the lower state of being which comes so naturally to everyone. That is why the experiences associated with the higher states of consciousness are called 'super-natural'. In fact these experiences are perfectly natural for the one who is experiencing them, but are supernatural from the vantage point of the one who is functioning and experiencing life and events from a lower state of consciousness.

All of us are endowed with a state of consciousness which makes us conscious of our physical self and physical things surrounding us. Most of us live life like a physical being. But everyone can walk his way up to the level where he can experience him self and the life surrounding him as a spiritual being.

Attaining this state of mind or better the state of being is difficult because it requires discipline for a long period of time, but it is even more difficult to survive the pull (like gravitational pull) that tries to bring you down to the level of existence which is 'normal' for everyone surrounding you.

So it is easy to be in a 'lower state' and even easier to fall down to such a state after having attained 'higher state'. Your rise to the 'higher state of consciousness' can become irreversible only if you rise with what we may call 'escape velocity'. So massive and determined 'action' (spiritual activities) for a prolonged period of time is the key.