Shri Kamlesh D Patel, the current president of Shri Ram Chandra Mission (www.srcm.org) and the Spiritual Guide of Sahaj Marg, visited France on 28th December 2015 to be part of a Seminar at Lyon. The seminar was attended by thousands of Sahaj Marg abhyasis and Heartfulness participants and Kamlesh Patel gave a few talks and several informal discussions happened with the SRCM abhyasis and SRCM preceptors. Kamlesh Patel covered many topics about volunteer work, abhyasis, preceptors and their responsibilities, and also talked about consciousness. Here is a short brief on his talk on the hidden potential and expansion of consciousness. In our daily state of activity, we use less than 10% of our consciousness. It is said that even those brilliant minds like Einstein only use such a very little portion of their mental capacity.
Imagine a 2 mm layer of water that is a metaphor for our awareness. Now imagine this thin layer sandwiched between two oceans, like the Pacific and Atlantic. The two oceans can be compared one to the superconscious mind and the other to the subconscious mind.
Our thin layer of consciousness can also be compared as being between the sky and the earth. When we soar high in meditation it is like expanding our consciousness into superconscious states as vast as the sky, and when we sleep after saying our prayer we go deep into the vastness of the depths of the oceans, which can be compared to the subconscious.
This expansion is like a game, and consciousness is to a spiritual person as a toy is to a child. We have to learn eventually to go beyond it in spirituality, and realise the base that supports our consciousness.
Well shared, Bharath. If we stretch ourselves outside our comfort zone, then our consciousness expands. 2mm layer moves towards one of the oceans based on what zone we are crossing. Kamlesh D. Patel of Shri Ram Chandra Mission has given many talks on this topic of consciousness.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteWe need Divine consciousness
DeleteWe need Divine consciousness
DeleteHow Beautifully Master explain this consciousness.
ReplyDeleteGrateful to you Kamleshji for explaining profound matters in a very simple way....
ReplyDeleteGrateful to you Kamleshji for explaining profound matters in a very simple way....
ReplyDeleteit is true that with meditation we attain a higher level of consciousness which bring us happiness not depending on outside circonstances
ReplyDeleteConsciousness is so difficult to understand and the comparison of the thin layer and the oceans by Shri Kamlesh D Patel makes it easy for any layman to get a glimpse of the meaning... The only possible way is to experience it through Heartfulness path of Sahaj Marg.
ReplyDeleteOnly a great guru like kamaleshji can teach us the most difficult subject in the simplest way.thanks
ReplyDeleteThank you Master
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ReplyDeleteAmazing ! Such brief yet insightful description of consciousness !That's the beauty of experiencing Heartfulness Meditation of Sahaj Marg..
ReplyDeleteVery true
ReplyDeleteVery true
ReplyDeleteMeditation and sleeping in His remembrance can help in expanding our consciousness.
ReplyDeleteYeah true meditation helps our ego to become subtler and subtler and thus resulting the consiouness merge w
ReplyDeleteith the superconsiounness step by step;point by point.thankyouđź’™
Yeah true meditation helps our ego to become subtler and subtler and thus resulting the consiouness merge w
ReplyDeleteith the superconsiounness step by step;point by point.thankyouđź’™
Meditation and sleeping in His remembrance can help in expanding our consciousness.
ReplyDeleteThanks master
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ReplyDeleteHow simply it is put by Kamlesh , otherwise we keep on thinking regarding connectinon b/w two.
ReplyDeleteHow fascinating this is for us with so much untapped potential!
ReplyDeleteYes it is wonderful to expérience that which is so delightful
ReplyDeleteThank you master, help me reveal the meaning of access to such vast super consciousness is still a toy for highly spiritual person and the going beyond and merging is the aim, may be I need grow more awareness to digest ..
ReplyDeletewe know that we are using only 3% of brain and mm consciousness but how develop these things ,we need guru.that too clibre ,not all guru can do .
ReplyDeleteNow that we know, we need to use the knowledge to practice and experience the expansion
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