Showing posts with label Heart is the Seat of the Soul. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 9, 2023

Other Voices on Where the Self “Lives”

Other Voices on Where the Self “Lives”

By Steve Beckow

Posted on November 9, 2023


The Self lives in the deepest reaches of the heart, the Seat of the Soul. Credit: Ute Possega Rudel


Three days till 11/11.

When, at Xenia Retreat Center in Sept. 2018, I ventured in meditation into the very bottom of my heart, the depths of my heart, called the Seat of the Soul, I there found the Light of the Self.  (1)

But, after the experience, I was filled with doubts. The soul doesn’t “live” in the heart; it fills the whole of creation.  Who else can be found to support that statement? And then I promptly forgot about the matter.

But today I came across a section in From Darkness Unto Light, which features a large group of enlightened masters saying exactly that: That the Self, the soul, the spirit lives in and is to be sought and found in the heart. (2)

I feel buoyed up having found such a range of evidence in support of what sounded to me like a statement in need of corroboration. Here is that evidence:

Within the city of Brahman, which is the body, there is the heart, (1) and within the heart there is a little house. This house has the shape of a lotus, and within it dwells that which is to be sought after, inquired about, and realized. (Swami Prabhavananda and Frederick Manchester, trans., The Upanishads. Breath of the Eternal. New York and Scarborough: New American Library, 1957; c194, 74.) (Hereafter, UPAN.)

(1) Not the Heart Chakra, but the heart behind the hridayam or heart aperture.

The ancient, effulgent being, in-dwelling Spirit, (1) [is] deep-hidden in the lotus of the heart. (UPAN, 17.)

(1) The Self, the soul.

Smaller than the smallest, greater than the greatest, this Self forever dwells within the hearts of all. (UPAN, 18.)

Both the individual self and the Universal Self have entered the cave of the heart, the abode of the Most High. (UPAN, 19.)

He who … sees [the Atman] inhabiting the lotus of the heart, living among physical elements, sees Brahman indeed. For this First-Born is the immortal Self. (UPAN, 21.)

The Supreme Person, … the Innermost Self, dwells forever in the heart of all beings. (UPAN, 24.)

The Self exists in man, within the lotus of the heart, and is the master of his life and of his body. (UPAN, 46.)

Within the lotus of the heart (1) he dwells, where, like the spokes of a wheel in its hub, the nerves meet. Meditate on him as OM. Easily mayest thou cross the ocean of darkness. (UPAN, 46.)

(1) Not the heart chakra, which is shaped like a lotus, but the Hridayam, or heart aperture, which closes like a closed lotus.

I am the Lord in the midst of the earth. (1) (Exodus 8:22.)

(1) “In the midst of the earth” = I.e., in the center of the body; that is, in the Heart.

The devoted … know Him always There in the heart, Where action is not. (Sri Krishna in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, trans., Bhagavad-Gita. The Song of God. New York and Scarborough: New American Library, 1972; c1944, 59.) (Hereafter BG.)

There in the ignorant heart … I dwell. (Sri Krishna in BG, 87.)

The fire (1) shall ever be burning upon the altar; (2) it shall never go out. (Leviticus 6:13.)

(1) The Father or Self. (2) The Heart.

The Lord is in his holy temple: (1) let all the earth keep silence before him. (2) (Habakkuk 2:20.)

(1) The body; more specifically, the Heart.
(2) Silently meditate on Him.

Oh, Lord, dweller within; You are the light in the heart’s lotus. (Shankara in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher lsherwood, Shankara’s Crest-Jewel of Discrimination. Hollywood: Vedanta Press, 1975; c1947, i.) (Hereafter CJD.)

Here, within this body, in the pure mind, in the secret chamber of intelligence, in the infinite universe within the heart, the Atman (1) shines in its captivating splendour, like a noonday sun. (Shankara in CJD, 53.)

(1) The Self.

The Atman, which is pure consciousness, is the light that shines in the shrine of the heart, the center of all vital force. (Shankara in CJD, 63.)

The Atman is … the real I, hidden in the shrine of the heart. (Shankara in CJD, 69.)

The first step to self-knowledge is to know that thou art composed of an outward shape, called the body, and an inward entity called the heart, or soul. (1) By “heart” I do not mean the piece of flesh situated in the left of our bodies, but that which uses all the other faculties as its instruments and servants. In truth it does not belong to the visible world, but to the invisible, and has come into this world as a traveller visits a foreign country for the sake of merchandise, and will presently return to its native land. It is the knowledge of this entity and its attributes which is the key to the knowledge of God. (Al-Ghazzali, The Alchemy of Happiness. trans. Claud Field. Lahore: ASHRAF, 1971; c1964, 21.)

(1) Al-Ghazzali here equates the hridayam or heart with the Self.

There is something nearer to us than Scriptures, to wit, the Lord in the heart to which all Scriptures come. (William Penn in Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy. New York, etc.: Harper and Row, 1970; c1944, 14.)

God, the true Philosopher’s Stone,
Who answers every prayer,
Lies hidden deep within your heart,
The richest gem of all.
(Paramahansa Ramakrishna in Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 235.) (Hereafter, GSR.)

The heart of the devotee is the abode of God. He dwells, no doubt, in all beings, but He especially manifests Himself in the heart of the devotee. A landlord may at one time or another visit all parts of his estate, but people say he is generally to be found in a particular drawing-room. The heart of the devotee is the drawing-room of God. (Paramahansa Ramakrishna in GSR, 133.)

Footnotes

(1) See “The Heart is ‘the Seat of the Soul’,” December 17, 2018, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2018/12/17/the-heart-is-the-seat-of-the-soul/

(2) From Darkness Unto Light at https://goldengaiadb.com/index.php?title=From_Darkness_to_Light

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Bigger, Better, and Forever; or, “X” Marks the Spot

Bigger, Better, and Forever; or, “X” Marks the Spot

By Steve Beckow

Posted on November 7, 2023


See? X marks the spot


Four days till 11/11.

When two key events happen, I’ll know that there’s no longer a need to cover the deep state and I can get fully back to spirituality.

Those two events are the Ring of Fire and G/NESARA. (1)

No, not the Reval, (2) because then my work will have just begun, but G/NESARA, because then everyone will have the abundance they need to lead a healthy and rewarding life.

The Ring of Fire because it’ll introduce the whole world to higher-dimensional love.  And then everyone will know “the secret.”

What is “the secret” of that smile on your face? I tap into an ever-flowing artesian well of love that exists in all our hearts. “X” marks the spot.

Now that the Ring of Fire has happened, I can lay down my pen and … float in the great Salt Lake or walk in a rainforest.

That flow of love, proceeds from the Mother, she tells us:

Divine Mother: Normally, [Light] would come from me to my realms, to the dominions, to the seraphim, to the archangels, etc., to the masters, to your guardians, and then to you. But that is why each of you is shining like a star with many facets. You are being bombarded by all of us. You see, there is no shortage of what I have to share. (3)

The Light from her is what’s causing our vibrations to quicken and us to ascend.

We say that our bodies are composed of stardust. At a deeper level, all our bodies are composed of love; all of us is. (4)

That love is what unites us and on the day of the Ring of Fire humanity will experience their oneness, their common source, their common sustenance, and their common salvation. That common source is love.

And when G/NESARA happens, everyone will have the means to address what’s necessary to live lives of meaning, happiness, and abundance.

You won’t need me then. I can set off on new adventures.

Ooops, I forgot about Ascension.

The Ring of Fire is a fourth-chakra, temporary heart opening; Ascension is a post-3D-chakra-system, full and permanent heart opening.  Bigger, better, and forever. (5)

But, once you know the love that exists, having had our hearts “opened,” the rest is a walk in the park.

The whole world will then know where we’re headed and I’ll bet everyone will be excited at the idea of cooperating, pulling together to get there.

We’ll all be operating with the knowledge of this love we feel. We now know that this is what we’re building together,a world experiencing and expressing this love and all the divine qualities it brings along with itself.

This is the world that works for everyone that Werner Erhard envisioned in the 1970s.

Love naturally and effortlessly flowing back and forth will produce that world. Immediately.  Even brief encounters will feature this exchange of love, this figure eight of giving and receiving.

That will be a naturally-occurring phenomenon on the Fifth Dimension and higher.

This love we’ll feel is the secret in life that we’re all wanting to know, the riddle, the cosmic lack that we’re always seeking to fill.

When we see it and feel it, we may find we ask ourselves: Who, in 3D consciousness, would have guessed the secret? Without the Mother granting us a heart opening, I think the answer may be almost no one.

Footnotes

(1) See:

(2) See:

(3) “The Divine Mother: The Role of Clarity,” Oct. 8, 2013, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/10/08/the-divine-mother-the-role-of-clarity/.

(4) Anything that can be conceived of as “created.”

(5) See:

Steve Beckow: Mother, I’m trying to understand what level of enlightenment Ascension corresponds to and I think it’s beyond the normal seventh-chakra enlightenment. I think it is what is called — and I’ll make this clear to readers — Sahaja [Nirvikalpa] Samadhi. Am I correct?

Divine Mother: Yes, it is beyond what you think of [as being] with your seven chakras. … We have emerged from the Third-Dimensional realm, which is that reference point for the [seven] chakra system, into the new. So yes, you are correct, in this question and in this statement.  (“The Divine Mother: Come to Me as I Come to You – Part 1/2,” Oct. 17, 2012, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2012/10/17/the-divine-mother-come-to-me-as-i-come-to-you-part-12/.)

Steve Beckow

 

 
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