What Does It Mean
to Live in the Depths?
A reader asks: what does it mean to live in the depths?
When we live on the surface, we are fixated on that which comes into our mind through our senses. The visual and auditory streaming in overwhelms and clouds our judgments. It is faulty because the Mind has little time and wherewithal to think rationally, logically, and judiciously. Therefore, right understanding that comes through rationality, a calm mind, light or illumination, and intuition and revelation of knowledge are unlikely occur. We are simply too caught up in the surface of things. However, when we move to a deeper poise within, we are able to understand the unfoldings of life with more penetrating insight, and from a deeper and wider perspective. We not only think more, rather than react to the sense data streaming into our mind, but we consider more possibilities, examining the conditions from several sides. The deeper we move within, the more truth perceiving we engage in. We even begin to sense the subtle unfolding of life around us, which leads to right conclusions and judgments that precipitate decisions and actions that have the very best outcomes. As we move deeper still, not just sense, but our Minds and thought itself begins to recede from our consciousness, and we are able to Silently look out on the world through a Witness consciousness, mirroring the spirit Being that looks out silently on Its Creation. In the deepest depths one reaches the subliminal and psychic parts (the evolving soul) where one experiences a profound oneness with all things and others; where one communes with the Inner Guide whose voice gently intimates to us what to do and what to avoid. Also, there we are more likely to feel the presence of the Supreme, and feel the urgency to surrender to the divine Mother. Sri Karmayogi says that the more we consecrate our action, circumstance, and personal limitations, offering our actions to the divine, the more we forge a path to these deeper parts within. From this poise, our mind begins to expands to infinity -- through experiences of intuition, revelation, and supramental perception, which is the capacity to know the object directly, it its integral totality and unity. Sri Karmayogi says that the more we consecrate our action, circumstance, and personal limitations, the more we forge a path to these deeper parts within. From this poise, our mind expands to infinity -- through experiences of intuition, revelation, and supramental perception, which is the view that knows the object directly, it its totality and unity. |