I was recently asked, “Why, in the Surya Meditation, which is effortless, is it not possible for bad energy to influence you?”
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To which I responded:
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The natural tendency of life is to move toward the Divine. Moving toward the bad is not natural to the essence of our being. It is only seen for the superficial aspects of our being to go bad.
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The Surya Meditation taps into the nature of the essence of life. That is NEVER bad.
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It is, in every case, always Divine.
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In the world today, some have been so overtaken by the surface of life that the truth of the Divinity of life’s essence is sometimes not understood.
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It is sad that some have been so swept away by bad and the fear of bad that they no longer can see that the essential nature of life is Divine.
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If you rest into your essence, you rest into Divinity. There is no other possibility. The great gift of this meditation is that it employs that principle.
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As it is said, “You can’t take heaven by storm.”
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The Divine can’t be taken by storm. It can only be rested into.
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It follows that the best meditation must be effortless.
The self is an abstraction? I experience it as a solid internal reality. To me an abstraction is a mental product, not an experience.
To someone who hasn’t experienced the transcendent, or doesn’t know if they have, the term doesn’t convey the reality that the transcendent can be experienced.
Sorry, I meant this as a comment to “The Self” blog.
Hi Mercy,
It is good to hear from you. Yes, it is difficult to find words that convey experiences. ‘Abstraction’ is a word for me that goes back over forty years, my teacher from India used it to describe the transcendent and I have taken it on. There certainly is truth to that. Yet your point has truth to it as well.
Of course, the transcendent lies beyond experience. It can not be experienced. However, what we call ‘transcending’ is moving very close to it, yet still in relativity where there is experience.
There definitely is a tremendous solidity to that experience. Yet it has no limit, no boundary, no edge. In that sense, it is abstract… not clearly definable. Words fall short, yet we do our best to use them. Your point is well taken, We will leave it to others to use what words they feel work best and do our best to understand one and other. Thanks for your input. I will keep it in mind when I discuss this in the future.