Guruji's teachings
Most of the time our awareness is split into pieces. Guruji explains how spiritual practice, and Ganapathi Tarpanam in particular, moves us toward one whole awareness.
From the teachings of Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati (Guruji). Shared on Guruji's blog, posted by Vira Chandra. Originally published at amritananda-natha-saraswati.blogspot.com on 21 April 2016.
We are conscious and able to focus only those parts within us that we are aware of. What we are not aware of we cannot focus on. Generally our awareness is fragmented. Freshness comes from being aware of all parts of our body.
When you have a bath or shower the freshness comes from being able to be aware of all parts your body as the water flows over the whole body. When you are fully awake you are in partial “anesthesia”. You are aware only of the “un-anesthetized” parts; your awareness or consciousness is fragmented and not unified.
When you go from fragmented consciousness to unified awareness it gives one freshness. Again, one could concentrate on something outside one’s body and have a fragmented consciousness though you cannot be conscious of a part in your body that you are not aware of. So there is a distinct difference between your conscious on yourself and outside of yourself.
The spiritual sadhana takes you beyond your own individual consciousness to unified consciousness. This is why the Ganapathi Tarpanam works best in achieving this unified consciousness. In doing Ganapathi Tarpanam the Kundalini energy moves from the Muladhara, solid state, with a de fined shape to the Swadhistana, liquid state, with no defined shape. When few people are seated and do the Ganapathi Tarpanam together, they gradually all merge into one form as the solid state rises to the liquid state.
When doing Ganapathi Tarpanam the individual state of consciousness merges into a collective state of consciousness. Typically you lose your ego, individuality and feel free and light. It is the movement from heaviness to lightness viz the application of heat to a solid that makes it a liquid with no shape. The solid shape disappears and loses its identification. It is the first step of realization or becoming conscious to “I’m the universe”. It is the first transition; you are getting light and free. At this stage the “partial anesthesia” is partly removed. It is still partial because you still need to evaporate the liquid form to vapour state to mix with other. Further “heating” will transform you into merging with space and then to time etc. to be in fully unified consciousness. Spirits could be unified or partially unified consciousness. What governs the difference between spirit and material things is the speed of light. Any material particle cannot exceed the speed of light. Anything physical is limited by the speed of light. The particles that are travelling higher than the speed of light are imaginary particles. A particle above the speed of light cannot enter the region below the speed of light and vice versa. The same can be said of the spiritual realm and physical realm. If you are at the border i.e. (just) at the speed of light you have the potential to experience either or both; you can experience the spiritual state and the physical state or become fully unified.
From the teachings of Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati (Guruji), shared on his blog and posted by Vira Chandra. Original post: "Awareness, consciousness, spiritual state and physical state", 21 April 2016, read it on Guruji's blog.
In Kaula practice the body is not something to rise above. It is where awareness is felt. Guruji starts from a plain fact: you can only be conscious of the parts of yourself you are aware of. Practice widens that.
The five elements are a picture he uses here. Solid, liquid, vapour, space and time stand for steps of letting go of a fixed shape. Ganapathi Tarpanam is the inner worship of the first step, from heaviness to lightness.
This is a description of an inner experience, not a method to copy from a page. Group practice is done in person with a guru, by willing adults. Guruji passed in October 2015, and Guru Amma Annapurnamba guides practice today.
Guruji describes it as awareness that is no longer split into parts. You feel the whole of yourself, and then the sense of "I" opens out toward the universe.
Guruji says the water flows over the whole body, so you become aware of all of it at once. The freshness comes from going from split awareness to whole awareness.
It is an offering practice in the tradition. Guruji says that in it, Kundalini energy moves from the Muladhara, the solid state, to the Swadhistana, the liquid state.
He uses it as a picture. Material things cannot pass the speed of light, and he says the same can be said of the physical and spiritual realms. At the border, you could experience either or both.
This page only shares Guruji's words. Group practice like this is done in person with a guide, and only by willing adults.
Read the original: Awareness, consciousness, spiritual state and physical state, on Guruji's blog.
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