28. Surrender Alone Brings Bliss

We are interconnected through our bodies and thoughts.

The moment we understand how deeply, totally, and intensely connected we are, we will open many new dimensions of living. We can experience bliss. This is the ultimate spiritual experience.

Every day in our lives, we are stressed. We are continuously disturbed. We think that we have too much to do. We think that we have one body, one small body, to think or enjoy. And the troubles and trials the body faces everyday is too much for some of us. All our troubles melt away when we disappear into the collective consciousness.

When we disappear into the collective consciousness, we will have so many dimensions, so many possibilities. These are unimaginable now. Sometimes we have so much fun, so much joy bubbling within our body. Suppose we have two bodies, imagine how much joy can pour forth from it. Being in the collective consciousness, disappearing into the collective consciousness, is simply multiplying that joy many fold! It is something like having three different bodies in three different continents living in different cultures. The joy derived from each of them is all the same. The bliss or joy of living in the collective consciousness is beyond all these.

When we completely experience that we are consciousness without boundaries, it is an inexplicable experience. It is difficult to imagine or visualize the experience.

At the end of the programs that I conduct, I have seen people filled with ecstasy. In their exalted state of ecstasy, they forget their name, identity, social status, education, qualifications, wealth, and religion. They forget everything. They forget who they are and what they have. They simply begin to look at each other with great respect, as a microcosm of the universe! They start respecting the other effortlessly. They fall at each other's feet with no second thought!

I have seen a father-in-law fall at the feet of his daughter-in-law. In Bharat this never happens. It is too much to ask for from the traditional people. But this has happens at the end of our programs. They do it because they get a glimpse of the divinity in the other person at that moment. The mother-in-law sees the divinity in her son-in-law and falls at his feet! A grandparent touched the feet of a granddaughter. The bosses touch the feet of their staff.

We need to go layer by layer, level by level, to realize that we are a part of the collective consciousness. We each are a part of the collective consciousness. Think about this concept. Meditate on it. It will cause radical changes in you.