Awaken your soul: spiritual ascension

How do you awaken the soul? This means you admit it is sleeping. If we could figure out why it is sleeping or what is causing it to be asleep, we can awaken it. Sage Patanjali said we have been kind of poisoned, so we will die — sooner or later! Each one of us dies. We don’t need to take a poison to die, we will die anyway, it’s just a matter of time. We get worried with the fear that poison will kill us, but we are never worried that we will die anyway.

There is a poison that we can’t see which causes death of each being. If we use an antidote for that poison, we don’t really die, we become immortal. Sage Patanjali called out this poison as klesha. What a scientist! He clearly defined there are 5 kinds of poisons or kleshas, if we overcome them, our soul is awakened. Here they are: The five kleshas are: Avidya (delusion or ignorance) is the first of the kleshas because it is the basis for the others. By destroying avidya, the other kleshas are no longer an obstacle. Avidya obscures the higher Self by firmly establishing negative habits and preventing change.

Asmita (egoism) is the attachment to ego and the ego's sense of reality. It is mistaking the physical, emotional and mental aspects of the mind-body for the true Self. Raga (attachment) is the desire for material objects, relationships, status, power or other unevolved desires. Dvesha (repulsion) is aversion to unpleasant things, people and experiences. Abhinivesha (will to live) is the fear of death and desire to live, even if life is filled with misery. With an authentic Guru, we can walk on the spiritual path and get over these. Guru is bhavaroga vaidya, doctor for the malady of worldly existence. He can help us in neutralising the five toxins mentioned above.

The mind is hierarchical, it's got levels of spirituality, it thinks like a pyramid scheme. There is always levels of awareness, levels of understanding, a spiritual ascension. But if you stop now and be as the sensation of the body, is this a level? It's not a level is it? Only the mind thinking creates the idea of levels. People on a spiritual journey, meditating to be here and now, believing in levels of awareness while they are here already? You as life are either aware as this or unaware as this. It doesn't change this. This is this. That's the joke, for a spiritual sense of self, this is far too mundane to be it. This isn't bliss!

Yes it can be bliss. Bliss is the absence of me and awareness as this.. Just like a hot cup of tea coming in from the cold, it is in the simple mundane acts of life in the here and now that joy abounds. Stillness… In Action..It will be “my next level of spirituality” until you no longer find you.. Levels have long gone…Spirituality may have long gone also.. You are, as if you are not because you……The beautiful life you are settled here as this, knowing the abundance of this, the grace of this, the completeness of this.. Life has not been easy for me, and though things are better, they continue to be difficult, and at times, depressing. But I am not complaining about life's hardships, as they come with every life.

I used to pursue a life free from hardship, free from pain and free from worry. What is surprising is that for a few yeas I actually managed it. And it was more peaceful than before, less anxious. But I could not stay there in that tranquility because there was a hole in my heart, a void that still needed filling. I have found that Jesus fills that hole that nothing else can. Now, I find purpose in the darkness by trying to tell others about Christ as well. Jesus makes my life infinitely better, just by existing. And the best part is, he is totally free. If you want Him, all you have to is pray and ask him to save you. It really is that easy, but the choice is always yours. Cheers!