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4 LEVELS OF EXPERIENCING
1. A particular subject (ego) experiencing particular objects,
events, entities and subjects of the world. (normal consciousness
level)
2. A particular subject (ego) trying to experience the boundless
Spirit, animating, sustaining, illuminating the world through
concepts, theorising, and practices. (religious consciousness
level)
3. The boundless Being experiencing the world of experience, the
objects, events and subjects of experience in the herenow.
(meditative consciousness level)
4. The boundless being experiencing Its own boundlessness and
being. (divine consciousness level)
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1. A particular subject (ego) experiencing particular objects, events,
entities and subjects of the world. This type of experience occurs at our
normal consciousness level, when we move around the world doing our
activities of daily life. In this state, we feel ourselves as a crystallised
point of consciousness, located in a particular body-senses-brain-mind
complex. We are driven by our unconscious or semi-unconscious drives
and urges, our semi-conscious emotions and impulses, and our reflective
and projective capabilities. Our actions and thoughts are based on the
pursuit of personal pleasure, power, profit, progress, promotion, etc. They
are also concerned with the avoidance of sorrows, sufferings, setbacks,
separations, etc. Our basic motivation is self-survival, self-perpetuation
and self-enjoyment. We see ourselves distinct and different from
everything around us. We also identify or attach ourselves with certain
particular objects of the world. Even in our dreams, we tend to feel
ourselves along similar terms though not in the rigid and fixed waking
state mode.
2. A particular subject (ego) trying to experience the boundless Spirit,
animating, sustaining, illuminating the world through intellectual
concepts, theorising, and practices. This type of experience occurs at the
religious consciousness level, where we believe that beyond the ego there
is a dimension that is vaster, purer, more lasting, more harmonious, more
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enlightened, more pleasant, etc. The religious beyond is held as the
source of everything in the universe, inclusive of the universe with all its
events, objects, entities and ego-forms. The religious mind usually
conceives of the higher state as divine or godly in the sense that it
generates, organises and destroys the universe and all its contents. Thus,
the genesis, unfolding and ultimate destiny of the universe and all its
contents are controlled by the will of the god. By establishing contact
with that other-than-the-self or non-ego or beyond ego dimension and by
worshipping and surrendering to that, the ego is transformed into a divine
entity and absorbs all the divine qualities of that holy or sacred state.
3. The boundless Being experiencing the world of experience, the objects,
events and subjects of experience in the here-now. This type of
experience usually occurs at the meditative consciousness level, when the
mind is attentive or without any form of tension. It may be either the
result of surrendering one’s ego to the higher religious power or the result
of being fully alert, sensitive and aware in the present moment without
the interference of the ego and all its movements, whether semi-
unconscious, semi-conscious or rational-conscious. In this state of
surrender or just being aware of the present, a new level of experiencing
comes into being. One sees oneself in a blurred manner as a crystallised
ego experiencing the universe and its available contents. But this is not all
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to it. There is also an experiencing of a state of boundlessness underlying
that experiencing in the present moment. It is as if the attentive ego is
experiencing the immediate universe in an intense manner without itself
being the centre of that experience. It has a feeling, a sense of being in
touch with a wider dimension that is itself experiencing the ego and all
experiences tied to it in the present moment. With this new sense, the
mind undergoes an outside-in movement, which makes the boundless,
sexless, colourless, ageless, living Presence or Being more and more
vivid. In this state of experiencing, by the living Presence or Being, of the
immediate universe and its contents and movements through the attentive
mind, a sense of depth, peace, joy, immensity, everlastingness comes into
being. This reversal in consciousness may trigger off orgasmic thrills in
the body and brain complex. However, once the thinking and inner self-
talking process tries to capture the underlying Being or Presence or
attempts to explain or compare or conceive That, the ego becomes
predominant again and the immediate sense of boundless Being is lost.
4. The boundless being experiencing Its own boundlessness and being.
This usually occurs when the thinking and inner self-talking of the egoic
mind do not interfere with the sense of boundless Being or Presence.
There is then a sense of being complete in oneself, being whole, being
full in, to, for and by oneself. Mystics have called this as the level of
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divine consciousness, where the egoic consciousness is enlightened or
gets soaked in an ocean of boundless fulfilment. The degree of soaking
may differ from ego to ego, from one moment of enlightenment to
another. However, the actual and immediate soaking is a blissful
experience to the mind. The actual and immediate soaking is different
from the memories of past soakings, from the mental creations or
intellectual conceptualisations of soaking. It is actual, real and happens
only in the herenow. In the actual and immediate soaking, depending on
the degree of soaking, there is no sense or a very blurred of duality or
separateness. The absence of duality or sense of being separate from the
universe, of being distinct from the experience of the universe, of being a
crystallised point of consciousness tied to a particular body-mind
complex yields a total sense of fulfilment in consciousness. As
consciousness establishes more and more frequently in that dimension,
one feels united with the Whole, as the Whole, in the Whole.