5. You Are One With God

Our minds are all one and the same. We are not individual separate entities, as we think. Our minds are interlinked and directly affect each other and this is what is meant by collective consciousness.

How can we understand this more deeply? Let us start with a familiar occurrence. We all catch a cold from someone from time to time. We suffer physically for a few days and eventually get over it. In the same way, sometimes we catch thoughts or borrow attitudes from other people. But unlike with a cold, we suffer mentally, forever. Not once, but forever.

Our own thoughts affect those people directly touched by them and also extend out further and affect every living thing on our planet.

This connection does not end at the mental level. A greater connection exists at the deeper levels of consciousness. These energy layers of our body are : Physical, Pranic, Mental, Subtle, Causal, Cosmic, and Nirvanic.

At the physical level, we all seem to be different entities, with many different characteristics. We, God and the master are physically removed from each other at this level. There is enormous distance at the physical level.

Love and suffering affect us at the physical level. We do not want to suffer but we cannot escape from it and so we suffer from physical pain, mental anguish or spiritual bondage. We suffer because we are not aware that we are a part of the collective consciousness. We think that we have an individual identity, a separate ego. When we reach the deeper energy levels, we do not have an individual entity and we do not suffer. We are a part of the collective consciousness.

Dive a little deeper, from the Physical to the Pranic level. The distance between us, God and master is somewhat reduced. Travel farther down into the Subtle level and the distance gets further reduced. The distance between God, master, and us constantly shrinks as we enter into deeper energy layers.

Our journey ends at the Nirvanic level. Here there is no distance between God, master, and us. We are all One. In a sense, we reach the centre of the universal energy. It was this experience that led ancient sages to declare that everything we need is within us.

It is very difficult for the intellect to believe or accept this; our minds will resist the very idea, but this is the Truth. We are God and are deeply connected to are everything. We become aware of it as we ascend the energy layers.