Alter your state of consciousness
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November 28, 2010
I will express a few words on altering the state of consciousness. Ultimately, if you let go of whatever is happening, you don't need to alter it! You will naturally be in pure consciousness, the highest consciousness. But because you constantly move out of the highest possibility and put yourself into the lower levels of ordinary consciousness, I need to help you to raise yourself back again and again to the highest state of consciousness.
Altering the state of consciousness means altering your physical, mental, social and spiritual understandings. It means carrying the right eternal understandings about the world, God, society, nature, and yourself.
When you have the right understanding about all these four components of your life – jeeva (your individual self), jagat (humanity and the world) and Ishwara (God)you will know the real source of any problem you face, and you will know in which line you need to work to come out of the problem without suffering.
Many times in your life, not being able to find the real problem is the real problem! Have the right understanding about these four different components: the self, the world, humanity, and God.
Even your simple problem of having a low mood for no reason is because you don't have the right understanding about the self. But unfortunately, you are not able to understand that the problem is internal, and you start connecting it to all kinds of reasons from the external world. You confuse it, mess it up, and get trapped in bigger and deeper problems.
I am telling you, when you have a low mood for no reason, understand that it is happening do to an inner quality, not due to an outer reason. Do not associate any external reason with that low mood. All you need to do is go through that low mood with a mood of acceptance, so that it becomes peace and silence in you. Know how to play with different states of consciousness and awareness you experience, and learn to live with different modes and operations happening within you. Know the truth, so that you handle every situation properly with the right understanding. Altering the state of consciousness helps you to find the right problem and the right solution.
For example, if you are facing an
external attack, don't blame
yourself and say, 'Oh, I have this
kind of a mental set-up and body,
that is why I have this problem.'
No! The moment you start
blaming your body and mind, you
are already divided. When you are facing an external attack, be integrated inside. That is not the time to judge yourself and suffer from guilt, depression or a low mood. Finish the outside problem first, then you can sit and analyze it and improve yourself, so that you don't get into the same problem again. For example, if you have a disease, because of your mental set up you start criticizing yourself for having the disease. No! That is not going to work. Fight with the disease and see that you don't create that once more. Alter the mental state just for that. No time to judge or suffer with guilt. Standing together, being internally integrated during the external crisis, will happen to you only when you have the right internal understanding. Altering the states of consciousness will make you understand the right problem and will give you clarity to find the right solution. That is the main purpose of altering the state of consciousness so that you understand the spiritual problems spiritually, the social problems socially, the economic problems economically, and the physical problems physically.