Conscious to Conscience
Seven Stages of Enlightenment
Senses
Individuals are bestowed with the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch through which they receive information, experience their environment and perceive reality. Senses assist individuals to differentiate between right and wrong, good and bad, positive and negative.
Developing an awareness and understanding on how to effectively optimize and utilize one’s senses to their utmost potential is crucial. Strengthening one’s senses paves the way to evolve a holistic common sense that helps in awakening and developing one’s latent psychic and intuitive abilities.
Adopting and applying these skills in one’s daily life shall enrich one’s lifestyle and wellbeing.
Observation
In today’s highly stressful and fast paced world one is constantly living in the anxiety of the past or future. The joy of living in the present is archaic. Individuals fail to observe their present surroundings and are preoccupied with the guilt of the past and anxiety for the future.
The skill of effective observation is crucial to be mindful and live in the present moment. Observation empowers one to be alert and attentive preparing one to execute one’s goal successfully.
When one is observant one possesses the ability to be more aware, enter other people’s frame of reference and be empathetic expanding not only their individual consciousness but also enriching other people’s live. With observation, life becomes a learning.
Communication
Communication is the interchange of thoughts, opinions and information by speech or writing. Mankind has been bestowed with this tool to employ it for beneficial purposes and upliftment of humanity. Moreover, to highlight the importance of being truthful with ourselves and about ourselves, so that we resist falling into old and destructive patterns of communication.
It is crucial to highlight the power of dialogue to help individuals achieve personal and spiritual growth by bringing them together in search for the truth and genuine understanding.
Ineffective or misunderstood communications are the root of innumerable problems. Hence, man must channelize the strength that resides in his ability to communicate verbally and nonverbally.
Ethics
Ethics are morals and principles that individuals abide by. An individual’s ethics are mirrored by his/her conduct and behavior.
Embodying innate goodness, the essence of being human and universal ethical principles aids in the welfare of all living beings and sustenance of a positive world. Being ethical compromises of harboring virtues of humility, forgiveness and gratitude.
Life
A compelling question that often arises is what is the purpose of one’s life? What is a being’s ultimate goal? Why are we sent on planet Earth in the form of a human? While we grapple to answer questions like these, Himgiri provides us with an answer.
The true purpose of life can only be understood with the guidance of a Guru and the path he designates for us. The goal is to complete the give and take account we have with various individual souls and to make spiritual progress with the final aim of merging with our creator.
Becoming one with the Lord liberates the soul from the cycle of reincarnation.
Surrender
It is said, “Guru Ko Mat Maano; Guru Ki Maano.” This resonates the true essence of surrendering. Handing your Guru the reigns of your life paves the way to attain enlightenment. We are short sighted with the limited knowledge our senses render us, but Guru is all seeing and is our well wisher.
We should listen to his words, follow his lead, do as he says with our heart and soul. Once we surrender to him, we get closer to our ultimate goal of merging with our creator.
Ultimate achievement (To be HIM)
It is when one has achieved the qualities of the almighty and raised their level of consciousness they are able to merge with the creator. Teacher (Guru) is an element (Tat) and not the physical body.
We as mortals aspire to imbibe to virtues and practice selfless service to obtain this ultimate achievement. We hope to transform from a feeler to a healer which helps to be one with the light of god and be on with our creator, mother nature.
