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The Courage To Awaken

This document discusses living a fulfilled life after a spiritual awakening. It notes that spiritual awakening is a process that involves fluctuating between awakened and egoic states and is not about perfect life experiences. Suffering and adversity can fuel awakening. It asks what the biggest struggle is now and offers to help transform any major challenges. The document provides guidance on moving towards enlightenment after awakening, including accepting all parts of oneself. It also discusses discovering one's life purpose and the ultimate purpose of human existence, as well as how to get rid of fear. The last chapter provides a direct way to spiritual awakening and freedom from the world through practices like resting in being while engaged in the world.

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The Courage To Awaken

This document discusses living a fulfilled life after a spiritual awakening. It notes that spiritual awakening is a process that involves fluctuating between awakened and egoic states and is not about perfect life experiences. Suffering and adversity can fuel awakening. It asks what the biggest struggle is now and offers to help transform any major challenges. The document provides guidance on moving towards enlightenment after awakening, including accepting all parts of oneself. It also discusses discovering one's life purpose and the ultimate purpose of human existence, as well as how to get rid of fear. The last chapter provides a direct way to spiritual awakening and freedom from the world through practices like resting in being while engaged in the world.

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Table of Contents
1. Why I am feeling depressed during spiritual awakening and why it is so painful ................................................... 5

What is Enduring and Non-Enduring Awakening? ........................................................................................................... 6

Fluctuating between awakened and egoic states ........................................................................................................... 6

Spiritual awakening is not about feeling bliss and freedom from negative states ....................................................... 9

Spiritual awakening is not about perfect life, perfect job or perfect mate ................................................................... 10

How our greatest suffering and Adversities fuel our awakening ................................................................................. 11

2. How I Lost Everything And Gained My Life. ....................................................................................................... 12

The Moment That Changed My Life Forever. ................................................................................................................ 13

Total Freedom From The Fear. ...................................................................................................................................... 14

The Dark Night of The Soul ............................................................................................................................................ 15

Surrendering To The Universe ........................................................................................................................................ 16

3. What is spiritual awakening & why it is something very ordinary and nothing special ......................................... 17

What Spiritual Awakening Is NOT? ................................................................................................................................ 17

What Is Spiritual Awakening? ......................................................................................................................................... 17

Spiritual Awakening is Nothing Special. ........................................................................................................................ 18

4. Why I am Feeling Alienated From The World During The Early Stages Of Spiritual Awakening? .......................... 20

5. How To Move Towards Enlightenment From Spiritual Awakening? .................................................................... 23

Decide to be the mother of the world. ........................................................................................................................... 23

The secret of living a truly fulfilled life – How to live life of wholeness by transcending duality such as good and
bad, negative and positive. ............................................................................................................................................. 25

Stay in centre without swinging towards extremes ...................................................................................................... 29

How accepting anger, envy, jealousy in yourself can transform your life. ................................................................... 32

The qualities which you don’t like about yourself are your greatest treasure.............................................................. 34

6. How To Discover Your Life Purpose & What Is The Ultimate Purpose of Human Existence? ............................... 38

The 1 strange secret to find your life purpose .............................................................................................................. 38

Your Life Purpose is to Awaken and bring awareness to the world ............................................................................. 39

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Inner Purpose! (Your Main Purpose of Life) .................................................................................................................. 40

Outer Purpose! (Your Secondary Purpose of Life) ........................................................................................................ 41

What Are The Signs Which Indicates That Universe Is Calling You to Choose Deeper Outer Purpose? .................... 42

How to Choose Your Deeper Outer Purpose ................................................................................................................. 43

7. How To Get Rid of Fear ..................................................................................................................................... 46

Let us investigate the root of fear. ................................................................................................................................. 46

Why do most of us live life as if we are compensating for a sin? As if we have to pay the price for living. .............. 46

Why Ego always make us feel fearful and Insecure? .................................................................................................... 47

How to engage in achieving worthy goals! .................................................................................................................... 48

The World Is An Illusion .................................................................................................................................................. 48

The Trap of Materialism ................................................................................................................................................. 49

The Secret of Living Fearlessly ...................................................................................................................................... 50

8. The Direct Way to Spiritual Awakening and Freedom From The World ............................................................... 51

The nature of your Being is Sat-chit-Ananda. ................................................................................................................ 52

What Is The Ultimate Desire of The Ego? ...................................................................................................................... 52

How The Mind Turns Into Ego And The World? ............................................................................................................ 53

Resting in Being Practice While Engaged In The World ................................................................................................ 53

Feeling Oneness With The World ................................................................................................................................... 55

The Greatest Question to Ask Yourself After Spiritual Awakening during Trials and Tribulations! ............................ 56

How To Attain Grace To Realize Spiritual Awakening?................................................................................................. 57

Surrender to Being is simply devotion to Being with intense love. ............................................................................... 58

Purifying The Mind and Integrating Being and Doing ................................................................................................... 59

Does an enlightened teacher or Guru can manifest spiritual awakening in you? ........................................................ 60

Sat-sang means association with Being........................................................................................................................ 60

Resting in Being Practice as Meditation ........................................................................................................................ 61

How to slow down the aging process and have immunity against physical illnesses? .............................................. 62

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“ Important Note from My Heart: This is a


very short book. If you are busy at this point
in your life, just read the last chapter of this
book “The Direct Way To Spiritual
Awakening – Freedom From The World”


and that will transform your life.
- Aby Vohra

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1. Why I am feeling depressed


during spiritual awakening and
why it is so painful

“ Spiritual awakening is not always a joyful


process. Often you might feel confused,
frustrated, angry, sad, grieving or being "out
of place". It might feel like the end of your
known world. Whatever life you have built
on competing, achieving and acquiring
mentality is not resonating with you
anymore. Life is making no sense to you.
Whatever resonated with you before
awakening is not resonating with you
anymore. A spiritual awakening can be an
intense experience of personal
transformation. But despite how much
suffering your dying mind conditioning
may cause, you are not going insane. You
are evolving and in the process of going


towards an Enduring awakening from a
non-enduring awakening.
- Aby Vohra

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What is Enduring and Non-Enduring


Awakening?
People realize spiritual awakening in two ways. The one is a rare event
when the person is fully enlightened. We can call it "Enduring Awakening"
or Enlightenment.

And the other is a gradual process that most of us need to go through,


accompanied by the dark night of the soul. We can call it “Non-Enduring
Awakening”. The truth of the matter is that awakening itself is not a
process. There is a process in terms of how we come to express the
awakening, but really waking up and coming to the end of our personal
suffering is not something that takes time. In a non-enduring awakening
as the mind's conditioning is not completely dissolved, it pulls us in an
unconscious state frequently, and that's why the journey from non-
enduring awakening to enduring awakening takes time.

Fluctuating between awakened and egoic


states
People claim to have tremendous realizations about the truth but then
feel as if they have forgotten it the following day, the next week, the next
month, or the next year. They have lost that inner peace. Actually nothing
is wrong with you. You realize awakening and it is a non-enduring
awakening. You have seen the truth. In those fleeting awakening
moments, you have transcended duality such as good and evil, negative
and positive, dark and light, spirituality and materialism. You just need
to remember this transcending truth and feel it in the present moment.

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Sometimes remembering the truth that we have experienced is the end


of our personal suffering and is not something that takes time

Whether you have been bestowed with an Enduring Awakening -


Enlightenment or Non-Enduring Awakening depends upon your Karmic
Load. People with enduring awakening have a very light karmic load;
even though they may have experienced extreme suffering before
awakening, one can see that their karmic inheritance, the conditioning
that they were dealing with, wasn't too heavy. Only a few people in a
given generation may have an Enduring awakening. They have no further
process to undergo.

It does no good to bemoan your karma- whether you think you're


carrying a lot or not. What matters is what your actions are going to be
going forward. It is what it is. Karmic load actually doesn't have much to
do with whether we can awaken, but it may have something to do with
what happens right after that moment of awakening.

The majority of people who experience non-enduring awakening will, at


some point, find their non-awakening state and conditioning arising
again. Though awakening removes a tremendous amount of
conditioning and dark states; everybody's different about how much is
removed out of the system. For some people, less conditioning get
removed. For others, it will be more. It's hard to say why awakening
affects one person's conditioning one way and another person's another
way. I could get into metaphysical discussions about what might be going
on, but ultimately the why doesn't matter. Either way, we need to deal
with what it is.

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As a metaphor, we can think of the egoic state, or what I call the non-
awakening state, as the Magnet. The egoic state has a magnetic force ; it
has the tendency to pull us out from the awareness.

This magnetic force is really what one is dealing with throughout the
entirety of the spiritual journey. That's why we oscillate between
awakening and non awakening state.

During awakening, though the mind's conditional pattern is dying, it


makes you feel miserable by re-identifying yourself with its old
dysfunctional pattern.

Awakening is breaking free of this magnetic force. But because we've


awakened does not mean that our awareness has gotten past the
magnetic pull of the egoic state. If we haven't gone entirely beyond this
magnetic field, we're going to be pulled back toward the experience of
"me" and the perception of separateness. This gives rise to what we call
the "I lgot it, I lost it" phenomenon.

We sometimes get the awakened state and sometimes we lose the


awakened state

As you had noticed it, before we awakened, we either believed a thought


or not. It was one or the other, But a sudden shift of perspective due to
awakening can make things seem very bizarre. After awakening, we can
both believe and not believe a thought simultaneously, or act in a way
that contradicts the truths we have experienced with our own being. We
feel so depressed because of this inner confusion that stems from
something unknown to us.

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Spiritual awakening is not about feeling bliss


and freedom from negative states
People also have an unconscious idea that spiritual awakening means
they should feel total bliss & freedom from the negative states of mind
all the time. Its the misperception. It is true that, after awakening, the
outer circumstances of life and behavior from people no longer make us
suffer.

But it is also true to say that when we wake up, we begin to realize the
patterns in our life that go against what we have realized in our
awakening moments. Now, you can see the patterns of less optimal
emotions like anger, envy, jealousy, etc. Hence after awakening, you feel
more miserable, thinking that you are going backward. But it is not so
and you are evolving.

Your authentic understanding that enlightenment is about more than


just being happy and blissful takes the pressure off those aspects of your
life that are more human and imperfect. Those areas of life which is less
than optimal. As we grow more conscious, we need to deal with those
areas of our lives where we've been avoiding or where we're less aware.

It can be easy to think that spiritual awakening comes through blissful


and happy experience, but this isn't the case. Some have an enduring
awakening and don't have many karmic tendencies to work through, but
it's rare. For most of us, the path to awakening is difficult. We need to be
courageous enough to acknowledge this, or else we'll continue heading
along the path of what feels good. This is not the true path of waking up,
rather it's a path where we project an illusion of what's supposed to
happen.

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I am not saying that awakening has to be difficult. Even that is an illusion.


Awakening itself need not be difficult. But the transition from non-
enduring awakening to enduring awakening often require us to detach
all our identification with dream state. In fact, we have to be willing to
lose our whole world. After an awakening, most people see the world
differently, and their old career, relationships, purpose, or habits fall
away.

Spiritual awakening is not about perfect life,


perfect job or perfect mate
Awakening calls for a transformation of both our inner and outer lives.
This transformation is not about having a perfect life, perfect job, perfect
mate, or the perfect marriage. It's about seeing beyond the illusions of
our dream state. To achieve perfection is impossible. We can have
wholeness where things are as they are, not perfect.

For most people, the path of awakening has wonderful, profound


moments and realizations. But you don't expect and attached to them.
The authentic intention toward enlightenment is that internal prayer
asking for whatever will bring us to full awakening, no matter whether it
turns out to be wonderful or terrible.

Most people spend their lives trying to avoid painful situations. Our mind
always believes the best way to grow is through avoiding discomfort. A
lot of people seem to think that the best moments reflect our greatest
leaps forward in consciousness, but I'd say most people realise their
greatest transformation during difficult times.

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How our greatest suffering and Adversities fuel


our awakening
Many people refuse to admit that our most significant challenges,
suffering, and agony are gifts of fierce grace. If we're ready for them,
they're powerful and crucial components of our awakening. We can see
and receive the gifts they have to offer if we're willing to turn and face
them, even though the gifts sometimes feel forced upon us. Whether it's
an illness, the death of a loved one, divorce, addiction, or employment
troubles, it's critical to confront our circumstances to see the inherent
blessings available.

In this age, there's a trend of people wanting awakening but they don't
know what it is they really want. They want their version of awakening.
They want to be happy in a dream state where everything is perfect.
When you let go of all the conditions—let go of how you want your own
awakening to be and what you want the journey to be like—you have let
go of your illusion of control. Then you will have freedom with no
boundaries.

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2. How I Lost Everything And


Gained My Life.

Near my 30th Birthday, in 2008, I experienced some profound loss and


pain in life to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. And I got awakened.
Now I usually live in peace by being ONE with the present moment!

I have lived my past life as a real estate entrepreneur in Dubai, Singapore,


Mumbai and Malaysia. I was born in Extreme Poverty in India. Because
of my poor childhood and growing up struggling to meet even the basic
necessities of life, my ego was “conditioned” to feel scarcity and fear
regarding the money. Hence my ego pushed me to work hard in the
world to become “somebody” and achieve this or that.

In hindsight i always feel blessed by those tough life conditions. All were
god’s grace in disguise.

After my awakening in 2008, I had a strong realization that chasing


material success is empty and meaningless. I can still function in the
world, although I realized that nothing I ever achieved could possibly
“add anything” to my being.

In 2008, I was absolutely in a miserable state and was not sleeping well
for three months or so, as my real estate company was going down due
to the financial recession after years of my efforts. I realized that I would
lose everything and the economic downturn will destroy my business. It
eventually got destroyed and it was indeed a learning experience!

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The Moment That Changed My Life Forever.


During that intense suffering, I realized my first spiritual awakening
while reading a paragraph in a spiritual book, in the August 2008
financial recession in Dubai, UAE.

I still remember my thinking stopped while reading this sentence in that


book: “Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you
have at this moment… I am not getting any answer because it is
impossible to have a problem when your attention is fully in the Now”.

At first, I thought this book’s author was crazy. I had hundreds of


problems in my life, and the worst problem is I was about to lose my
business that I had worked so hard for years to built it. But then I reread
the passage.

As soon as I read that passage with intense attention,

My Mind Suddenly Stopped.

No Thoughts.

Just Stillness and all thoughts Disappeared.

My unhappy self deflated and my consciousness got free from


identification with forms

I Lost Everything And I Gained My Life

After that awakening moment, I went into another room where my wife
was watching TV and invited her to dance.

My identification with my problems, with money issues broken one by


one in that moment. As if all the tension strings attached to my mind,
which caused me misery, are broken.

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And I experienced pure awareness once my awareness got released with


the identification with mental forms. I felt that I was born again. Literally.
I felt so light, and I started to cry like a child after I stop dancing with my
wife! My wife was a bit confused about seeing me like that. She told me
later that she thought I went “crazy” ;

The next day, I handed over my Ego’s favorite Cars’ key to my wife and
asked her to drive. Now my wife was 100% confirmed that I went crazy.
Why would I give her my favorite car to drive? Lol. On our way, I was just
observing trees on the roads with absolute stillness lying sideways on
the side seat like a kid. I never watched nature like this as it was a “waste
of time” for me in my normal state. Usually, in my normal state, I was
even scared to sit in a car when my wife was driving ..lol

Total Freedom From The Fear.


I still remember we used to park our car on the terrace of my office
building on the thirty-fifth floor. My wife needs to drive circularly on a
narrow alley of parking floors to reach the thirty-fifth floor. Usually, I was
scared sitting side by my wife when she was driving. But on that day, I
never felt any fear. I can say that I never had a fear of death on that day.
I never had a fear of losing anything on that day. The divine peace
engulfed me.

When I went into my office and started speaking to my people, I felt their
feelings by listening to them. As if I can sense what people are feeling. I
absolutely felt ONE with them as if we are not separate. I realised that
we are all ONE on the level of our being. I apologize to one of my people,
Natasha, with tears in my eyes for misunderstanding.

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During those awakening days, I never had any expectations from my


employees, and I want to listen to them.

The Dark Night of The Soul


Those days were magical days. My ordinary consciousness soon took
over, and from that moment, my awakening is intensifying slowly..

After awakening, I encountered the Dark Night of the Soul. It is a long,


depressing, and very dark experience that can continue for days, months
or even years.

If you’re experiencing the Dark Night of the Soul, you will feel a sense of
being lost. Your heart will be in anxiety as if your world with its known
habits and conditioning is coming to an End.

This is because, after a spiritual awakening, your conditioned mind


pattern is dying. While dying, your mind is making you feel miserable by
re-identifying yourself with its old dysfunctional patterns.

After the Dark Night of the Soul, My Soul shined like a sun, and deep
down, I started to feel its presence.

While a spiritual awakening is the process of rebirth of everything you


are! The dark night of the soul is the process of dying of everything you
are not!

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Divine Comedy. But Tragedy to Ego �

Surrendering To The Universe


Later in life, I surrendered to my physical pains of lower Brain Tumor
surgery, my four years of intense chronic back pain, and then recovered
fully.

For the last six years, I left my real estate business! The realization of
being within me has been steady and peaceful for the last three years.

Slowly, Slowly I left the path of competitiveness.

Once you are awake, Ego will try to delay it by making you extremely
“fearful,” but you need courage to follow the path. You need to go inward
and rest in your being. Everyday you have to come back to present
moment, and out of your mind and emotions. You need to make this
choice hundreds of time in a day. It will intensify your awakening and let
you stay awake!

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3. What is spiritual awakening & why


it is something very ordinary and
nothing special

What Spiritual Awakening Is NOT?


I love what jeff foster says about spiritual awakening

Spiritual awakening is not a special feeling, state, or experience. It is not


a goal or destination, somewhere to reach in the future. As the Buddha
was trying to tell us (though few actually listened), it is not a superhuman
achievement or attainment. You don’t have to travel to India to find it. It
is not a special state of perfection reserved for the lucky or the privileged
few. It is not an exclusive club.

It is not an out-of-body experience, and it does not involve living in a cave,


shutting off all your beautiful senses, detaching yourself from the
realities of this modern world. It cannot be transmitted to you by a fancy
bearded (or non-bearded) guru, nor can it be taken away or lost. You do
not have to become anyone’s disciple or follower, or give away all your
possessions. You do not have to join a cult. You do not have to follow
anyone.

What Is Spiritual Awakening?


It is a constant and ancient invitation – throughout every moment of your
life – to trust and embrace yourself exactly as you are, in all your glorious
imperfection.

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It is about being fully present and awake to each precious moment,


coming out of the epic movie of past and future (“The Story of Me”) and
showing up for life, knowing that even your feelings of non-acceptance
are accepted here. It is about radically opening up to this extraordinary
gift of existence, embracing both the pain and the joy of it, the bliss and
the sorrow, the ecstasy and the overwhelm, the certainty and the doubt.
Knowing that you are never separate from the Whole, never broken,
never truly lost.“

Spiritual Awakening is your “natural state” of feeling oneness with your


being and staying in that state of feeling oneness with your being. You
are not feeling your being because your mind is making too much noise.

Spiritual awakening is absolute cooperation with whatever happens in


the present moment.

Spiritual Awakening is Nothing Special.


“Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special; it’s not. If
you feel special in any way, then enlightenment has not occurred. I meet
many people who think they are enlightened and awake simply because
they have had a very moving spiritual experience. They wear their
enlightenment on their sleeve like a badge of honor. They sit among
friends and talk about how awake they are while sipping coffee at a cafe.

The funny thing about enlightenment is that there is no one to claim it


when it is authentic. Enlightenment is very ordinary; it is nothing special.
Rather than making you more special, it is going to make you less special.
It plants you right in the center of a wonderful humility and innocence.

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Everyone else may or may not call you enlightened, but when you are
enlightened, the whole notion of enlightenment and someone who is
enlightened is a big joke. I use the word enlightenment all the time, not
to point you toward it but to point you beyond it. Do not get stuck in
enlightenment.” –Adyashanti

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4. Why I am Feeling Alienated From


The World During The Early Stages Of
Spiritual Awakening?

“ What is Dark Night of the Soul and How It Will


Transform Your Life?
The Dark Night of the Soul is a long, depressing, and
very dark experience that can continue for days,
months or even years.
If you’re experiencing the Dark Night of the Soul,
you are feeling a sense of being lost. Your heart is in
anxiety as if your world with its known habits and
conditioning is coming to an End.
This is because, after a spiritual awakening, your
conditioned mind pattern is dying. While dying,
your mind is making you feel miserable by re-
identifying yourself with its old dysfunctional
patterns.
The soul is about to shine like a sun, and deep down,
you have started to feel its presence.
While a spiritual awakening is the process of rebirth
of everything you are! The dark night of the soul is


the process of dying of everything you are not!
- Aby Vohra

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I love this quote from Spiritual Teacher Eckhart Tolle about feeling
Alienated from the world.

“ Many people who are going through the


early stages of the awakening process are
no longer certain what their outer purpose
is. What drives the world no longer drives
them. Seeing the madness of our
civilization so clearly, they feel somewhat
alienated from the culture around them.
Some feel that they inhabit a no-man's-
land between two worlds. They are no
longer run by the ego, yet the arising
awareness has not yet become fully


integrated into their lives. Inner and outer
purpose have not merged.
- Eckhart Tolle

I have also experienced the Dark Night of the Soul. At this stage, your
Mind's World Come to an End. Whatever meaning your mind had
attached to Career, Relationship, Ambition, Achievement, etc., is no
longer fulfilling. You are feeling a deep sense of meaninglessness. Your
inner state, in some cases, is very close to what is conventionally called
depression.

Nothing makes sense to you anymore. Sometimes the Dark Night of the
Soul is triggered by some external event. Death of Loved ones. Loss of
business, possessions, relationships, or anything your ego has strongly
identified with. So that results in a dark place.

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There is the possibility that you emerge out of that into a transformed
state of consciousness. Life has meaning again, but it's no longer a mind-
made meaning that you can necessarily explain. Now your life is
sustained by the being and not the ego. And while your ego is dying, it
will make every last attempt to make you identify with itself.

It will make you feel miserable by instilling fear in you—fear of no longer


being run by the egoic mind.

After the Dark Night of the Soul, people awaken into something more
profound, which is no longer based on concepts in your mind. A deeper
sense of purpose or connectedness with a greater life is no longer
dependent on explanations or anything conceptual. It's a kind of rebirth.
The dark night of the soul is a kind of death that you die.

What dies is the egoic sense of self. Of course, death is always painful,
but nothing real has died there – only an illusory egoic identity.

Now it is probably the case that some people who've gone through this
transformation realized that they had to go through this phase to bring
about a spiritual awakening. Often it is part of the awakening process,
the death of the old self and the birth of the true self.

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5. How To Move Towards


Enlightenment From Spiritual
Awakening?

Decide to be the mother of the world.


Make your intention as all-encompassing as possible if you have a
genuine yearning to realize enlightenment. Begin with this hearty
resolution. Decide to be the mother of the world. This entails treating
everyone as though they are your own. There are no "others" because
there are none. There isn't anyone who isn't a part of you.

Are you capable of looking at everyone with the same sweetness of


emotion that arises within you when you see your child coming home
from school as you go down the street?

This intention alone has the potential to free you from a lot of anxiety
and negativity and have a huge impact on how you shape your destiny
and realize enlightenment. You don't need rules to tell you what you
should and shouldn't do if you are always aware that everything and
everyone on this world is yours. Your core identity has shifted. Your
karmic limitations now fall away, and you experience a sense of
limitlessness. A new identity of being of service to this universe emerges.

Why do some people have a stronger sense of inclusiveness while others


have a stronger sense of exclusivity? Take a good look at this. You'll see
that your conviction that you are a separate being—an individual—has a
significant impact on the way you make choices.

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In other words, it is your identification with your individuality that


determines what you choose. The operative word here is identification.

If you were not identified with this sense of separateness, you would not
be accumulating karma. If your identification were all-inclusive, that
would be the end of the karmic cycle!

Unfortunately, people's identification with their individual separate self


leads to selective rather than inclusive engagement with the world. Their
sense of separation is reinforced by the constant oscillation between like
and dislike, attraction and aversion. Likes and dislikes become ingrained
in a person's personality over time, producing additional karma.
Individuality has now become a prison rather than a privilege.

You have reached the end of karma creation when your actions are no
longer about you but rather in service of others and simply based on
necessities.. The self-interest that fueled your will has been extinguished
and enlightenment is assured.

Of course, saying it is easier than doing it. The issue is that people have
forgotten how to participate fully in life. They either engage with life
selectively, based on their preferences, or they choose life-sucking
philosophies of denial and detachment. In both circumstances, karma
grows exponentially.

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The secret of living a truly fulfilled life – How to


live life of wholeness by transcending duality
such as good and bad, negative and positive.
After a spiritual awakening, we need to accept our humanness and
imperfections instead of waiting to be enlightened all the time. Ego is
pulling its trick on us If we just want to display our newfound divinity with
people.

Lets understand the tale of two shadows. The shadow is composed of


everything you have chosen to exclude from your conscious life. Shadow
is the qualities you hide from the world. We all have a dark shadow and
a golden shadow; both are necessary for our well-being.

Dark shadows are the qualities like envy, hatred, anger, compulsiveness,
etc. Golden shadows are the qualities like inherent calmness, spirituality,
honesty, courage, creativity, etc.

Our mind projects a dark shadow onto others, blaming “They are the
Problem.” And it projects a golden shadow on others, following and
loving them, claiming, “They are the Solution.” Both are projections and
ways to deny our responsibility for our inner life.

“ The qualities you love about others are the


qualities you love about yourself. The
aspects that irritate you about others are
the aspects you cannot accept in yourself.


- Aby Vohra

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Now, people resist the golden shadow more strenuously than they hide
the dark shadow. To draw the skeletons out of the closet is relatively
easy, but to discover your noble character in the shadow is terrifying. It
is more disrupting and disturbing to find that you have a profound
nobility of character than to find out you are a bad person.

Of course, you are noble (conscious) and dark (unconscious); but one
does not have the awareness to live the life of wholeness integrating
conscious and unconscious parts of his life ending the duality of good
and bad. The golden shadow is related to our higher calling, and this can
be hard to accept at certain stages of life, when you spent your whole life
in your mind’s dictated conditioning, impressing the world. You are
conditioned by the world to only display those character traits; that world
needs from you.

Ignoring the golden shadow can be as damaging as ignoring the dark


side of the psyche, and some people may suffer a severe illness or
accidents before they learn how to let their noble qualities emerge out.
Indeed, this kind of intense experience may be necessary to show us that
an important part of our nobility is lying dormant or unused.

In the shadows, there are empowering qualities. It's amazing to know


that people's most common qualities are frequently the ones that are
socially acceptable.

In essence, whatever negative tendencies we have are sent to the


shadow, but any creative, distinctive, and innovative talents we have are
also sent to the shadow because they are not socially acceptable.

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It's not all doom and gloom when it comes to exploring your darkness.
In fact, you'll likely be amazed by the seemingly limitless supply of
inventive and unusual qualities you discover that have been hidden for
years. This is the entire opposite of many self-denying traditional
spiritual methods of suppressing, denying, or religiously disciplining the
self.

Spiritual-Bypassing -avoidance of real-world issues, not facing


unresolved emotional issues, and psychological wounds.

Many spiritual seekers believe that as they "awaken to their Higher


Selves," "work through their karma," or "become more enlightened," all
of their dark shadows would finally be transcended. But if you are just
making spiritual liberation as a goal for the future, you are totally missing
your beautiful experience of being human in all its imperfections.

In my experience, Not dealing with dark shadows of yourself is a type of


spiritual bypassing: utilizing spirituality to avoid facing whatever is
difficult within us rather than face it with honesty and courage. We must
be aware of our dark qualities and bring them to forefront of our
awareness to transform them into light. Furthermore, facing your dark
shadows encourages you to embrace these disjointed aspects of
yourself, resulting in greater psychological and spiritual equilibrium
(wholeness). Denying your darkness only leads to confusion and discord.

Embracing an aspect of yourself means loving it—allowing it to coexist


with all your other aspects, not making it more or less than any other
part of yourself.

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The word "integration" is derived from the Latin word integratus, which
means "to make whole." Rather than rejecting or denying our inner
qualities, integrating it means taking ownership and responsibility for it.
Integration has numerous advantages, including sanity, healing,
increased compassion, calmness, understanding, and wholeness. Once
we accept these dark qualities in us, we accept dark qualities in others
and allow them to be as they are wholeheartedly.

Disintegration, on the other hand, is the opposite of integration. It is


getting shattered and split into parts. To function correctly, a person who
"breaks down" or "falls apart" has been unable to cope with stress and
has disregarded far too many of their dark shadow and golden shadow
traits. In reality, since they lack wholeness and are constantly interacting
with life from the margins of their personality traits ,instead of acting
from their deeper being, a fragmented person will never be able to deal
with adversity. Wholeness is crucial since it allows us to live a life of
balance

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Stay in centre without swinging towards


extremes

“ The sign of intelligence of a human being is


when he functions by having two opposite
views in his mind.


- Eckhart Tolle

I have now come to understand the extraordinary importance of leading


a life of wholeness. That is, of allowing myself to first observe, then to
integrate, all the aspects of who I am—those that I and others have called
"good quailities" and those that I and others have called "bad qualities"—
into a divine whole.

If you believe that we have the whole of humanity within us, as I do, then
you must be capable of being your highest self, and at the same time
have the capability of experiencing your lowest self. This ebook is about
making peace with all these sometimes contradictory aspects of yourself.

As one of the enlightened being, Swami Vivekananda says, "The extreme


positive and the extreme negative are always similar. When the
vibrations of light are too slow, we do not see them, nor do we see them
when they are too rapid. So with sound; when very low in pitch, we do
not hear it; when very high, we do not hear it either"

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Without addressing one of the deepest of all spiritual teachings, the Tao
te Ching, no discussion of living life as a spiritual journey is complete. It
covers what is hardest to discuss, what Lao-tzu referred to as "the Tao"
(pronounced: dow). This literally translates to "the Way." The Tao is so
subtle that one can only talk around the edges of it, never touching it.
The entire foundation for all of life's ideas is spelled down in that treatise.
It is an essay on the yin and yang balance, the feminine and masculine,
the dark and light, the good and evil.

You'll discover that you have considerably more energy than you ever
anticipated after you stop swinging between opposites of good and bad,
dark and light etc. What takes someone else hours to do will take you
minutes. What drains other people's energy will take up very little of your
own. That's the difference between battling opposites and staying
centered. Staying centered simply means staying conscious. Resting in
your being. And invite your mind to rest in your being. Being is God Itself.
I discuss more on How to rest in your Being- The Direct Way To Spiritual
Awakening in the last chapter of this book.

This principle applies to all aspects of life. When you're in balance, you
eat when it's time to eat and in a way that keeps your body healthy.
Otherwise, you'll be wasting energy dealing with the consequences of
eating too little, too much, or the wrong things. Basically, you waste
tremendous energy at the extremes. The more extreme it is, the more
you are out of your shared humanity.

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Every human experience can be expressed in terms of paradox and its


balance. A positive and negative electrical charge exists in the electric
current. Only in contrast to night does day have any significance. Only in
contrast to femininity does masculinity have meaning. Only in relation to
rest can activity have any value. Only when there is a down is it possible
to get up. Without the south, what would the north be?

Without you, I'm not sure where I'd be.

Right now, two voices are competing for attention within each of us: the
voice of reason, a good conscience, and the larger good. And the voice
of fear, shame, and greed. Our higher self's voice vs. our lower self's voice
This is the conundrum, the internal conflict between our humanity's dark
and light sides.

You can be sure that God is present whenever you have a clash of
opposite aspects in your nature that refuses to give way to the other (the
bush will not be consumed, and the fire will not stop). We despise this
experience and try to avoid it at all costs; nevertheless, the unresolved
conflict is a direct encounter with God if we can bear it.


Staying in the center and accepting all
good and bad aspects in ourselves requires
a very high state of awareness. The only
responsibility you can take in your life is
your state of consciousness. And if you are


not conscious, you are paving the road to
hell with all your good intentions
- Aby Vohra

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How accepting anger, envy, jealousy in yourself


can transform your life.

“ Whatever you don't accept, ignore, or resist,


you will become that.
Accepting the darkness in you without
indulging will transform it into the light.
You must go into the dark to bring forth
your light. When we suppress any aspect of
ourselves, we suppress its opposite.


- Aby Vohra

Related to your dark shadow: whatever you resist, you always become
that.

If you deny your anger , you will diminish your calmness because you
persist in being angry

If you deny your fear, you diminish your courage because you persist in
being fearful

if you deny your greed, you diminish your generosity because you persist
in being greedy

if you deny your suffering, you diminish your healing because you persist
to suffering

if you deny your confusion, you diminish your clarity because you persist
in being confused

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We think we resist certain states because they are there, but actually,
they are there because we resist them.

Related to your golden shadow: whatever you resist, you become the
opposite of it.

If you don't accept your calmness and resist it, you are always angry

If you don't accept your spiritual side and resist it, you are always anxious

If you don't accept your creativity and resist it, you are always
unproductive

Is acceptance of dark side means we get a free license to indulge into


those dark qualities? No Way. I am not saying that. It only means that
once you accept your dark qualities fully and be conscious about it, it will
transform into light. We must be whole whether we like it or not; the only
choice is whether we will consciously incorporate the dark shadow with
some dignity or do it through some neurotic behavior.

Every time we condemn other people for their dark traits, we're in
essence, condemning our hypocritical dark self in the process. A whole
and balanced self is a reconciliation of all parts, an inner unification.

Before making our way out of "hell" we must walk through the depths of
our inner darkness. Many religions symbolize these experiences well.
Jesus face Satan in the desert and Buddha's encounter with Mara (the
Buddhist Satan) before his spiritual awakening.

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The qualities which you don’t like about


yourself are your greatest treasure.

“ I no longer saw the lower aspect of myself,


with all his personal issues and
melodramas, as the enemy that had to be
destroyed. I looked at him now with a new
understanding. I needed to use all these
disturbed personal energies for my ascent.
It was perfectly clear to me that since he
was the problem, he was also the solution. I
actually felt a tinge of compassion toward
that struggling person within me. I would
later come to learn that the Bhagavad Gita
says that one should raise the self with Self,
not trample down the self. I had been
trampling down my personal self in the
name of getting free from his humanness. I
now needed to learn how to raise those


energies up to assist me on the journey.
- Michael Singer

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“ And God said “Love Your Enemy,” and I


obeyed him and loved myself.
- Kahlil Gibran

"All of your so-called faults, all the things which you don't like about
yourself, are your greatest God-given treasure. Those dark qualities are
bit over-amplified. Meaning there volume is slightly up. Once you are
fully aware of these dark qualities, your interaction with the world is a
spiritual practice.

Turning down the volume on these dark qualities will help you use them
as wonderful tools working for you rather than have them beat you
down. Soon, all your limitations will start to work for you. All you have to
do is learn to call on these dark shadows in appropriate amounts to the
moment. Now those weaknesses transformed into strengths, your
liabilities are transformed into assets

Decide by being intensely aware, how much of your qualities are needed,
and don’t give any more than that.

Your bragging was nothing more than over-amplified awareneness.

Your anger was nothing more than over-amplified concern for the well-
being of others.

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Your aggressivity and verbal toughness is your leadership ability, five


notches too high.

Your act of pulling the leg of others is your unconscious sense of humor.

You need to realize that all of these aspects of your being were qualities
for which you had also been grateful at one time or another to serve you
well. All you had to do was use those behaviors differently. Use those
behaviours with intense awareness. Bring awareness to them. Not
repress them. Not disown them. Simply use them differently. As they are
all your gifts

For different people, what falls into dark shadow and what's falls into
golden shadow can vary in different families and cultures. For some
permit anger or aggression to be expressed; most do not. Some permit
sexuality, vulnerability or strong emotions, many do not. Some permit
financial ambition, artistic expression, or intellectual development, while
others do not.

Refusing to face one's darker side is accumulating darkness, which


manifests as a bad mood, psychosomatic sickness, or unintentionally
caused mishaps. We are currently dealing with the residue of a
civilization that has worshiped its light side while rejecting the dark. This
residue manifests itself in war, economic upheaval, strikes, and racial
intolerance.

How?

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The longer we avoid that which haunts us, the more it grows within us
like a volcano, waiting for any moment of weakness to explode. When
you deny your darkness, you diminish your light, and you persist in doing
dark things in the pretext of doing good, for the betterment of your
country, your people, or the economy. The road to hell is paved with
good intentions, pointing out this truth.

In Ancient Chinese philosophy, yin and yang is a Chinese philosophical


concept that describes how obviously opposite or contrary forces may
actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the
natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they
interrelate to one another.

True sainthood—or living life of wholeness—consists of standing at the


center of life’s extremes and living life in conscious balance. Living life
with intense awareness and presence, could be redefined for our time
as the ability to stand the paradoxes of life and integrate them into living
in wholeness.

The message is unmistakable; our own healing proceeds from that


overlap of what we call good and bad, light and dark. It is not that the
light element alone does the healing; the place where light and dark
begin to touch is where miracles arise.

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6. How To Discover Your Life Purpose


& What Is The Ultimate Purpose of
Human Existence?

After we have met our basic needs of food and shelter, once we are tired
of looking for perfect relationships, mundane jobs, or businesses, the
question of our life purpose usually surfaces. We ponder who we are!
Why are we here on this earth? And how can we live a truly fulfilled life?

“ Awareness is the power that is concealed


within the present moment. This is why we
may also call it Presence. The ultimate
purpose of human existence, which is to
say, your purpose, is to bring that power


into this world.
- Eckhart Tolle

The 1 strange secret to find your life purpose


The 1 strange secret that people don’t understand is that your life
purpose is NOT your profession or career. Your main purpose on this
earth is to Awaken and realize your being. There, I said it. The career you
are building is just a tiny subset of life in the attempt to give life some
meaning. But please know this: What actually gives life meaning is the
willingness to live it. You are the spiritual being expressing itself as a
human being for a little while.

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In this post, we will also explore how you can find your Life’s Work after
you awaken spiritually. At times after spiritual awakening, your old
profession doesn’t resonate with your soul anymore. Once you are
awakened, the Universe uses you to express itself through you. Hence
you will be surprise what UNIVERSE want to pursue through you after
awakening.

Your Life Purpose is to Awaken and bring


awareness to the world
Your main purpose in life is to awaken. To live life fully means you
experience every aspect of life by being fully aware and alert. Our life’s
purpose comprises inner purpose and outer purpose.

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Inner Purpose! (Your Main Purpose of Life)


Your inner purpose is to being aware or bring awareness to whatever
you do! It concerns Being. It does not concern what you do but what you
are- that is to say, your state of awareness!

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To be fully present, bring your attention to your breath and feel your
inner body. Just breath fully. Now you are aware and alert as your
attention is fully withdrawn from your thoughts and five senses. Now you
are connected with your inner purpose. You are Awakened in this
moment and fulfilling your life purpose.

When you connect with your inner purpose, the outer circumstances
change for the better. You will first realize what is no longer working in
your life and then you will understand what is truly fulfilling to you.
Instead of resisting negative events, you will accept and resolve them
without mental torture. Finally, you will exude love and respect for all
human beings

Outer Purpose! (Your Secondary Purpose of


Life)
Your outer purpose is secondary and it concerns Doing. Your Outer
Purpose can change over time. It varies greatly from person to person.
In that way, Your worldly profession is your outer purpose

Your Outer purpose is the profession or business you choose to survive


and thrive in the world. The Outer purposes are often the purposes you
inherited or learned from your parents and childhood experiences.

Your Outer Purpose Journey starts from a Lesser Outer Purpose Towards
a Deeper Outer Purpose. It can change over time and is unique for every
person. You have to pass through several Lesser Outer Purposes to
reach your Deeper Outer Purpose.

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What Are The Signs Which Indicates That


Universe Is Calling You to Choose Deeper Outer
Purpose?
1. You Suddenly lose interest in your profession or mission that
previously motivated you highly.

2. Your mind is tearing you apart after losing interest in your old
profession by creating a tug of war between your old and the new
mission. You are wavering between the two, like a pendulum of a
clock.

3. No matter how much you try to go back to your old profession, the
door keeps shutting on your face. At times an illness or accident
can happen if you try to knock on the same door repeatedly. The
“Fierce Grace” is showing you to pursue a new path.

4. Once your awakening intensifies, you feel clear, unconfused,


unburdened, and inspired to pursue that new mission. And you are
doing it for the sake of love for that mission and serving your family,
community, or the world.

5. You feel your “Why” Strongly than “What,” “How,” or “Whom” for this
new mission.

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How to Choose Your Deeper Outer Purpose

Deeper Outer Purpose

Visualize a circle in which the center is your Deeper Outer Purpose. Other
outer concentric circles surround that circle. Those layers of outer circles
are your Lesser Outer Purpose. Once you leave your short-term careers,
every time over several years, you will come nearer and nearer to your
Deeper Outer Purpose as those outer circles are getting dissolved. You
are approaching your Deeper Outer Purpose and slowly realizing your
true self.

Your life is a journey from Lesser Outer Purpose towards Deeper Outer
Purpose! The more you are connected with your inner purpose (being
aware), the better you will be able to discover your deeper outer
purpose.

Sometimes, you realize your Deeper Outer Purpose when your


identification is broken with your wealth, possessions, profession, or
luxury lifestyle.

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This happens due to some tragedy or misfortune which suddenly takes


place in your life. Either you lose all your wealth, you lose a person you
loved so much, or you lose such a dear relationship.

In some cases, while performing a spiritual ritual like meditation, once


people connect to their highest self, they find their present profession or
business really unfulfilling. They intuitively realize that it’s not the right
profession at this stage of life, and somehow they feel repelled from it,
even though the old profession has produced ample wealth for them.

Either you leave your lesser outer purpose to choose your Deeper Outer
Purpose or you recreate your old profession in such a way that now it
fulfills your inner purpose and greatly serves the world.

There are two important factors that indicate that you are on the right
path of choosing your Deeper Outer Purpose. These two factors are:

1. You enjoy what you are doing without worrying about the end
result!
2. You intend to serve the world unconditionally.

To serve humanity meaningfully with your Deep Work is the unchanging


core of your life purpose. All successful entrepreneurs, spiritual teachers,
scientists, artists, and sportspersons live to serve the world with their
calling. Their main theme is to “Serve the World Unconditionally” in any
venture they undertake without “worrying about the result.”

Through inner purpose, you will recognize yourself. You will have self-
realization and you will be able to choose your deeper outer purpose.
And through that deep work, the world will recognize you.

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Let’s extend this analogy to the Lamp. Let’s say you are the lamp giving
light to the world, which is your deep work. The light will flicker if the
lamp wire is not connected to the electric current (inner purpose). In the
same way, when you are not totally aligned with your inner purpose, you
tend to choose a lesser outer purpose, which makes you suffer greatly!
But once the lamp wire is firmly connected to the electric current (inner
purpose), the light will be continuous and bright!

Hence by firmly connecting yourself with your inner purpose, you will
choose your Deeper Outer Purpose and enlighten the world with your
Potential.

So just remember to awaken to your inner purpose and serve the world
unconditionally with your Deeper Outer Purpose. And that, my friend, is
your life purpose.

Your life purpose is to Awaken to the fullness of your Being. As Jesus


said, When You Realise Your Kingdom of Heaven within You, Everything
is Added To You!

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7. How To Get Rid of Fear

We experience many types of fear. They are like different leaves on the
same tree. You can waste your life plucking every single leaf, as there are
thousands of them, or you can strike directly at the tree’s root and
destroy all the fear leaves. Then the fear leaves will cease to grow..

Let us investigate the root of fear.


All fear arises from a sense of mind’s cultivated lack. All fear stems from
a sense of learned unworthiness that the outside world imposes on us
from childhood. Our mind has cultivated a feeling that we are incomplete
and that lack is to be filled with different forms brought from the outside
world. Those forms consist of thoughts, ideologies, people, relationships,
money, respect, and qualifications.

Why do most of us live life as if we are


compensating for a sin? As if we have to pay
the price for living.
When you have that feeling of lack or unworthiness, you become
ambitious. So you are compelled to achieve and acquire more and more,
placing your self-worth on external things. Now, as you are always
concerned about how others perceive you, your whole sense of self-
esteem, self-worth, and self-concept depends on the world.

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All identities are derived from the outside world. Everything you value is
now coming from outside yourself.

Your thoughts and assumptions are, “I am intrinsically unworthy and will


only become worthy after acquiring such and such things for myself to
prove to the world! Remember, this is all conditioned. This is part of your
childhood training that says you don’t matter without achievement. So
you grow up and go out and succeed. But now, your entire sense of self
is based on outward successes. And you achieved all these things
because you want to be loved by the world.

Why Ego always make us feel fearful and


Insecure?
Why we are always in the fear of filling our sense of lack with this or that?
It is due to our egoic mind. Ego is identification with forms which
primarily means thought forms. If evil has any reality—and it has a
relative, not an absolute, reality—this is also its definition: complete
identification with form—physical forms, thought forms, emotional
forms. This results in total unawareness of my connectedness with every
“other” and my inner being

The ego structure is to identify and enhance itself through association


with its contents. To keep “wanting more” it’s contents by comparing with
others, once your short-live excitement of “having this or that” is finished.
The Ego loves to be a separate entity as “I” which is better and greater
than “others” ( as ego lives on separation).

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Ego hates the present moment as it is preoccupied with the worry of the
future or regret of the past. Time-past and future- is the lifeblood of ego.

The ego’s desire to become, to accomplish, stems from the inherent


belief that something is lacking inside it . This characteristic of “Ego’s lack”
is existential and then fuelled by the world through the systems
surrounding us, such as education and society. That something is
missing within ourselves and that we must achieve to fill that void.

How to engage in achieving worthy goals!


I am not saying here that striving to achieve this or that and making your
life better with possessions is not a worthwhile thing to do. It is an
integral part of outer purpose for most people, but the outer purpose is
inherently unstable and temporary. This does not mean that you should
not be engaged in achieving and acquiring worthy goals. It means you
should connect them to your inner being so that a more profound
meaning flows into what you do on outer level from your inner being.

The World Is An Illusion


Remember that what the world gives you can be taken away by the world
anytime. So you live in this desperate thought that the world will not
recognize you if you don’t achieve continuously. This thought is known
as fear. Remember, this is an egoic illusion. Ego and the world has
implanted this illusion in us.

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The dysfunctional thought of inner lack lies at the root of fear. It


manifests itself in several ways. For example, we always want to look and
feel perfect—the common fallacy of perfectionism. We portray ourselves
by applying makeup on our faces, behavior, interactions and CVs.

This feeling of achieving this and that arises from a strong inferiority
complex. It is this that has created fear and anxiety in us

We are continuously told that something is wrong with us and that we


must always act to portray our self-worth in front of the world.

The Trap of Materialism


Don’t you have a large house? Then there is something wrong with you.
Is your car small? Then you are not worthy enough! Buy our new product
and it will enhance you. Oh, you don’t wear our clothing? Then you do
not deserve to be called successful! You don’t get paid this much? Oh,
then you are really mediocre! What keeps you alive? People don’t accept
you in their circle or invite you? You are not deserving of life. That’s what
you’re continually told: your whole self-worth is based on the world’s
perception of you.

Nobody comes to you and tells you that you are whole, beautiful, and
wonderful exactly as you are. That you are enough as you are . That you
may be weak in skills or knowledge. But you are whole as a being!. . All
signals we receive from the media, educational society, or other people
can be seen as attempts to make us feel inferior and/or diminish our
soul.

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The Secret of Living Fearlessly


You’ve assumed that something is missing in you, hence you are in the
continuous process of “becoming” in all area of life. Kindly know this,
what is genuinely precious can never be taken away from you. You are
ever eternal being that has just identified with your mind and body. Your
inherent quality is Sat-chit-Ananda. Being-Awareness- Bliss

The world has never given you anything meaningful, so how can it
deprive you of it? Your being essence is so inextricably linked to your
existence that no one can touch it.

The secret to living fearlessly is to be unattached to the outer world. The


more you rely on the outside world, the more terrified you will be of your
life.

Remember that you may miss worldly materialistic things here and
there, like knowledge, ability, money, status, and so forth. But it’s all
illusionary and transitory. These things of the world are simply the tip of
the iceberg. Your being is always eternal, aware, and blissful. One who
lives in this understanding is not fearful. Fear will appear, but it will have
no impact on him.

As Bible says, “Don’t store up treasures on earth! Moths and rust can
destroy them, and thieves can break in and steal them. Instead, store
your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy them,
and thieves cannot break in and steal them.

As per Jesus, heaven is your inner kingdom of heaven. Your Being. Your
Atma. Your inner stillness.

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8. The Direct Way to Spiritual


Awakening and Freedom From The
World

Spiritual awakening is – Resting in your Being.

I cannot even use the word “your” as you ARE Being, and beingness is all-
pervading, but without language, it’s impossible to explain.

We will see and learn how to access our being permanently even while
doing our worldly interactions.

Spiritual awakening is not a special feeling, state, or experience. It is not


a goal or destination, somewhere to reach in the future. As the Buddha
told us, it is not a superhuman achievement or attainment. Spiritual
awakening is your natural state of felt oneness with Being. To have
continuous awareness of Being and to abide in that state of “feeling-
realization” is spiritual awakening.

When you experience the Joy of being or life itself, finding purpose and
meaning in the outer realm is finding the light of a candle when you
already are Sun!

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The nature of your Being is Sat-chit-Ananda.


Sat is Being ( Sat means “Truth” too) Chit is Consciousness or Awareness
Ananda is Bliss

So the Being is conscious and Blissful all the time. Whenever you rest in
your Being, your nature is conscious and blissful.

Once you turn your mind inward and rest it in your Being, your mind
transforms into being itself. When your mind goes outward, it becomes
the Ego and a thousand things of the world.

What Is The Ultimate Desire of The Ego?


Ultimately every desire of the Ego is the desire to realize God. The Ego is
the unconscious and unobserved mind which identifies with thought
forms and material forms and tries to find God in thoughts and worldly
things. Every Ego desire is a disguised desire for ultimate satisfaction and
fulfillment. The Ego wants to realize the Source of all life that is being, but
it goes outward to realize it. Once it turns inward, it finds it’s beloved and
merges with the Being. Then the mind rests into Being and realizes God.

You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are
awareness, there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All you have to do is
to give up being aware of other things, that is, the not-Being. If one gives
up being aware of them, then pure awareness alone remains, which is
the Being.

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How The Mind Turns Into Ego And The World?


We know now that our inherent nature is Sat-chit-Ananda.

When the mind goes outward, it turns into the Ego and a thousand things
of the world.

Sat, which is being, turns into non-being by identifying with thoughts,


emotions, and worldly objects.

Chit which is consciousness, turns into unconsciousness, that is,


forgetfulness of being in the form of anxiety and fear.

Ananda which is bliss turns into suffering as we get lost in the world,
reacting to people, events, and circumstances.

So you see, our true nature, Being-Consciousness-Bliss, turns into


NonBeing-Unconsciousness-Suffering once the mind turns outward and
gets lost in the world.

Now you ask. But how can we rest in our being while engaged in our day-
to-day interactions?

Resting in Being Practice While Engaged In


The World
Let your mind rest in God while doing worldly duties with open eyes. We
will see how you can connect with your being while engaged in the world.

Whenever you are engaged in the world, whether its your work, family
or social interactions always keep some attention within you. Be
intensely aware.

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Keep a minimum of one-fourth of your attention within yourself and give


three-fourths of attention outside to your work. In this way you will
always be rooted in your Being, that is God itself.

Your mind will create noise that, without full attention to the outside
world you will not be able to perform on an optimal level. But the
opposite is true. By keeping your mind in God (in your Being), God will
be the doer of all your worldly activities and not your mind. Non-doership
is the greatest spiritual practice and its only possible once you realize
your being.

Because if you are operating from unconscious mind. Ego can’t


surrender the doership. When your Ego understand that you are doer
and experiencer then karma will act on you. But once you fully realized
that you are not doer or experiencer by realising being that is always
conscious and blissful, you are free of karmic cycle.

You can realise non-doership by keeping some attention within yourself


while engaged with the world. The best way to keep some attention
within is to continuously feel the aliveness of the inner body, preferably
in your chest area. Some people keep some attention on their breath
too.

The Spiritual Heart – The Center of Being


One of the greatest sages, Ramana Maharishi, and ancient scriptures
said that our spiritual heart is slightly on the right side of the chest and
it’s the “center of our being”. The spiritual heart differs from the physical
heart and is the seat of spiritual experience. This spiritual heart pervades
both inside and outside the body.

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The Spiritual Heart is not an organ you locate physically, it is the inherent
Source itself, and one can only be aware of its real nature by being it. It
cannot be reached by concentration. The spiritual heart is Being or God
or Atma, whatever you call it. It’s the essence of the whole universe.

Keeping your attention in your inner body, preferably in your chest, while
engaged in the world will ground you and connect you to your inner
divinity. With this practice, your mind will not be successful in making you
identify with thousands of things of the world, and you will not get lost
in the world.

Feeling Oneness With The World


Once you rest in your Being and realize you are pure awareness, by
which the whole universe exists and shines, the world will also become
ONE with you, losing its false, frightening dualities. You will have freedom
from the world’s fear and anxiety as you feel the same ONENESS of your
Being with the world. You will see the whole world as yourself. Your life
will be totally transformed if you understand this wisdom. Keep some
attention to yourself while you are engaged in the world. Just feel your
deep I AM without I am this or that.

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The Greatest Question to Ask Yourself After


Spiritual Awakening during Trials and
Tribulations!
If you are going through spiritual awakening process, then this is the
most significant event that can happen to any human being. And it has
already happened within you. The whole world is waiting for it but you
are blessed with the awakening now: The separation process of thinking
and awareness. After the spiritual awakening the universe want to act
through you and fulfill its divine purpose through you. But as your
awakening is still not complete. So universe will give you trials and
tribulations to deepen your awakening in the form of “Fierce Grace”. Your
Ego will resist this Fierce Grace and will make you suffer because it is
dying and it is not resonating with trials and tribulations of universe. Your
psyche is in the process of cleansing through this fierce grace.

Be intensely aware: If you meet your trials and tribulations with your own
deepest realization, you will be purified of your egoic conditioning and
your divine being will shine through your human form. You need to act
from the depth of your being. If you act with your egoic mind, you will
again and again get identify with egoic thought and emotional patterns.
You will halt your awakening process and in some cases, reverse it. And
you will suffer. So the greatest question to ask during spiritual
awakening is “Am I responding these trials and tribulations from
Being or Mind? From Presence or From Unconsciousness?

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The divine weapon you have against unconsciousness is your alert


awareness. After the Dark Night of the Soul, your Being will shine like a
sun, and deep down, you will start to feel its presence. While a spiritual
awakening is the process of rebirth of everything you are! The Dark Night
of the soul is the process of dying of everything you are not!

How To Attain Grace To Realize Spiritual


Awakening?
Awakening spiritually requires grace, and grace is always available to us
as our Being. But because our mind is making too much noise we never
realize that grace. To Access that inherent grace, we need to understand
the Knowledge of Being (Jnana Yoga) and Surrender To Being with
devotion and love (Bhakti Yoga). These are the same principles.

Let me explain

The constant “knowledge of Being” in the form of our awareness that


we need to abide in being and rest in Being is the only grace we require.

And then Surrender To Being with utmost love and devotion. This
require understanding that God- That is Being- alone is all loving and the
Source of creation of the whole universe. Except by surrendering myself
(my mind) entirely to it, there are no other means of liberation for me.
The bible verse “Be still and know that I am God” points to the same truth.
It’s a verse that tells us to surrender to our inner stillness, and once
surrender is complete, we realize that we are God itself.

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Surrender to Being is simply devotion to Being


with intense love.
Surrender To Being has three devotional qualities.

It must be

Exclusive Devotion (Ananya Bhakti)

Continuous Devotion (Nitya Bhakti)

Selfless Devotion (Nishkam Bhakti )

Exclusive Devotion: Here the mind is devoted and surrendered


exclusively to Being and Nowhere else in the world. We must live in the
world but let not the world live in us. Just as a boat is in the water, but
the water is not in the boat. As jesus said, To Be in the World but Not of
the world

In the Bhagavad Gita, it is said, for those who always think of Me with
exclusive devotion and surrender, I am easily attainable because of their
constant absorption in me.

Continuous Devotion: Here, the mind abides and rests in being all the
time. It feels the presence of God all the time. Our remembrance of Being
must be continuous for divine grace to manifest. Hence the bhagavad
gita repeatedly stresses continuous remembrance. While going about
our worldly duties, we must have a feeling-realization of our Being all the
time. Thus our consciousness will remain connected to him. We can do
our work for his Joy, as an offering to the divine.

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Selfless Devotion: Our surrender to our Being must not be motivated


by self-seeking. True love is when we are willing to give our everything
and seek nothing in return. If we surrender to Being and, in return, ask
for worldly gains, then it does not remain love, it becomes a form of
business transaction. Its like, “O God, I will love you, but You must Give
Me This”. Why does love fade so quickly in the world? Why do people act
for their selfish reason first? The reason is that the Ego is selfish. Both
parties are focused on their happiness first.

Divine love is selfless. The goal of divine love is the Joy of the beloved.
And who is beloved? The God itself.

Purifying The Mind and Integrating Being and


Doing
Surrender To Being with exclusive, continuous and selfless devotion
qualities purifies our mind, and then the mind can easily abide in Being.
Now it can rest within and lose the desire to go out in the world and find
God in thousands of things. At the same time, all your worldly doings will
be transformed into awakened doing now. Your outer business and
worldly affairs are taken care of with much more ease.

And every doing exude quality and enjoyment. Because of this practice,
your enjoyment of doing something, transforms into enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm literally means “possessed by God”.

Your Being and doing integrate once you rest in your Being. This is called
feeling-realisation of your being all the time. And that is Spiritual
Awakening

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Does an enlightened teacher or Guru can


manifest spiritual awakening in you?
Some people say you require an enlightened teacher or Guru to awaken
yourself. The idea is that you will be a recipient of his grace and guidance
once you associate with him.

The Guru is both external and internal. Once you are ready to receive
grace, Guru can come in the form of a person, suffering, book, events,
etc. These external gurus can push the mind to turn inwards and rest in
Being.

Internally, The greatest Guru is Being. There is no difference between


God, Guru, and the Being. Due to grace, once you realize your Being, it
pulls the mind internally and helps quiet the mind.

The truth is you need to be in Sat-sang of the Guru.

Sat is Being, and the only Truth.

Sang is Association.

Sat-sang means association with Being.


You are in association with Being all the time. And once you realize Being,
you have realized God and Guru.

The issue with most people is they can’t feel Being as their mind is
making too much noise, and they are lost in thoughts. Those people need
to realize being through inner body . Let’s learn the inner body
meditation.

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Resting in Being Practice as Meditation


Sit in a comfortable position or you can lie flat on your back. Close your
eyes. Choose different parts of your body to focus your attention. Start
with your head, hands, feet in the top to bottom order and then bottom
to top. Scan the whole body that way. Be with each part for five to ten
seconds. Feel the life energy inside those parts as intensely as you can.

Run your attention through the body like a wave a few times, from feet
to head and back again. It will take couple of minutes

After that, feel the inner body as a single field of energy in its totality.
Abide in that feeling. Be intensely present in the moment with every cell
of your body. You might feel a void, emptiness or nothingness. And that
is beautiful. In that state, there is no future or past; hence, there is no
human. The intense presence is Being itself. Don’t get distracted by
wandering thoughts, even if they occasionally take you out of your body.
Once you notice that happening, simply return your attention to inner
body.

You can do this meditation for a total of fifteen minutes. Above


meditation is not a substitute for the moment-to-moment practice of
resting in being while engaged in the world.

Resting in Being while active in the world is the most significant


spiritual practice, and once you deeply understand this, no spiritual
practice, scripture, or Guru is required, as while resting in Being,
you are ONE with God all the time.

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How to slow down the aging process and have


immunity against physical illnesses?
Resting in the Being is the ultimate secret of slowing down the aging
process and having immunity against physical illness.

You are forever one with God when you are rooted in your being.

The issue with most people is they can't feel Being as their mind is
making too much noise, and they are lost in thoughts. Those people need
to realize their being through inner body. We already discussed, Resting
in Being Practise as Meditation and it will really help you.

The real transformation only occurs through the inner body. If you want
to transform your life and taste the spiritual awakening be in touch with
your inner body.

The more awareness you direct towards the inner body, the higher its
frequency becomes – like a light that grows brighter when you increase
the flow of electricity. Negativity will not affect you at this higher energy
level; instead, you'll attract new circumstances that will help you in your
spiritual evolution that reflects this higher frequency.

In this way, you will make your home in NOW. The external world will not
have the power to devour you, and you will not identify with the
dysfunctional mind noise that is driving you crazy.

Yes, you will still have thoughts and emotions, desires and fears, but they
won't hijack you completely. Deep down, you will be rooted in your
Godliness, which is your inner body. As long as you stay in contact with
your inner body, you will be like a tree that is deeply rooted in the earth
or a ship that is anchored in the seabed so the storm will not destroy it.

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When you regret the past and worry about the future, you accumulate
stress in your cells, which significantly impairs its capacity for self-
renewal. So when you inhabit the inner body:

1. The outer body will grow old at a much slower rate, and even when
it does, your timeless essence will shine through the outward form,
and you will not look like an aged person.
2. Your physical immune system will strengthen as the body loves
your attention. Most illnesses will not creep inside your body as you
inhibit your inner body. When the master is present, unwanted
guests cannot barge in. Your body will be self-healing due to the
power of your attention.
3. Your psychic immune system will strengthen too. It will protect you
from the negative mental-emotional force fields of others, which
are highly hostile. Anything that vibrates at a lower level, such as
anger, fear, or depression, will not touch your reality. Negativity will
not affect you at this higher energy level because you will not offer
any resistance to it. It will pass right through you as if you are
transparent.

You don't need to believe what I am saying. Put it to the test in your life,
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