The Big
Picture
By Kiara Windrider, June 26, 2005
The “deeksha” phenomenon is not new
anymore. Since this work began in a
more public way in August 2003,
thousands have received these deekshas,
and many have become enlightened. But
many have not, and questions come
pouring in. What is this enlightenment?
How do I know if I am enlightened? What
is the ‘self’? Does enlightenment mean I
will be rid of the ‘self’ forever? Who
am I if I am not this ‘self’?
Some people have experiences of
enlightenment where the sense of a
separate self disappears, accompanied by
a tremendous heart opening and a
profound state of joy and cosmic
oneness. Often, this is followed some
time later by an equally profound crash,
a dark night of the soul where one feels
adrift and alone in a desolate world of
spiritual dryness and emotional
deadness. Must everyone expect to go
through this dark night, and why does
this have to happen?
Some people “break through the wall”
in their very first deeksha while others
receive deeksha after deeksha with no
discernible shift in perception. These
people end up feeling a great
desperation in their quest, either
feeling not worthy enough or terminally
blocked in some way. Perhaps they feel
that they are the one mistake God ever
made and that everyone will get
enlightened except for them. They either
engage on a frantic quest for the
ultimate deeksha, or give up in despair,
wondering if the whole thing was a
pipedream or a hoax.
Since Grace and I went through our
own enlightenment process more than a
year ago, and later began giving
deekshas, we have had an opportunity to
reflect on some of these questions. I
have spoken before about the 3 waves of
initiation, and the necessity of the
‘dark night of the soul’. Here I would
like to respond from an evolutionary
perspective, and provide a bigger
context for our individual experiences.
Enlightenment is nothing new on the
planet. In the long cycles of human
history, many people have attained this
state. Mother Earth has always required
that there be a certain number of
enlightened people on the planet in
order to hold a state of cosmic balance,
and even in the darkest of ages, there
were secret communities that existed
where those especially called towards
this mission were trained and initiated
into these states of divine cosmic
union.
A new cycle is beginning, however.
We are moving out of an Age of Darkness,
or Kali Yuga, into an Age of Light, or
Satya Yuga. Our entire solar system is
moving into a region of space which is
far more luminous in its intensity than
what we have experienced before. A
galactic superwave is being emanated
from the center of the galaxy which is
causing a shift in the base harmonic
frequency of all matter, and therefore
all consciousness, in this part of our
galaxy. Earth is getting ready for a
shift in her electromagnetic fields
which will re-orient the morphogenetic
fields of human consciousness from
separation into oneness. The
Supramental Descent that the great
Indian mystic, Sri Aurobindo, referred
to, is approaching.
The Mayan calendar refers to this
time as the end of linear time. They
pinpointed this transition as taking
place sometime around 2011 or 2012. As
I see it, the end of linear time refers
to the beginning of a multi-dimensional
consciousness where our experience of
time becomes synchronistic, where we
begin to transcend the boundaries of
separate consciousness, where we realize
our oneness with all things while still
maintaining our linkage with bodies of
matter. It is a time when heaven can
descend on earth, where spirit can
incarnate in bodies of matter. This is
what Bhagavan refers to as the Golden
Age.
This is a time when not a few but all
humanity will step into the state of
oneness. Our normal identity at this
present moment in time has been as an
individual self separate and often in
conflict or competition with other human
beings on the planet. This is about to
change. Once the mass awakening takes
place, our experience of self will go
through a profound change. We will
begin to experience a deeper oneness
with the underlying web of all life. We
will experience ourselves simultaneously
as an individual being and also as a
planetary being, a galactic being, and a
cosmic being! Our human DNA will go
through a profound activation where we
begin to transcend the physical
limitations of our physical bodies. As
these things happen, all of our
planetary realities will undergo a
radical shift.
Many biologists today are pointing
out that the way biological evolution
works is through a long period of slow
gradual progression followed by an
extremely rapid quantum leap, a concept
which has popularly become known as the
“hundredth monkey phenomenon”. This is
what we are likely to see in the journey
of human consciousness. We have
progressed very slowly over many
millennia, gradually learning about
ourselves and creation through the
inexorable laws of karma, gradually
evolving physical bodies that can serve
as vehicles for a powerful divine
descent.
According to Bhagavan, and confirmed
by the calculations of various calendar
systems, mystical research, as well as
scientific research around the world,
this is about to change. A quantum leap
is now imminent. But in order for this
to happen, a critical mass has to be
reached. In Bhagavan’s view, this
refers to a group of approximately
64,000 people who are anchored in the
state of Christ consciousness.
This is not a lightweight
proposition. Those among this group
know who they are, and have come to
earth with a strong soul intention for
planetary awakening. They have always
known on some level that their soul
destiny would unfold at a certain point
in linear time, and have been making
themselves ready, each in their own
unique way.
The deeksha is a powerful means for
this awakening to take place, but even
for those who know nothing about this,
the awakening is happening spontaneously
all over the world in all kinds of
ways. My sense is that this awakening
will happen in a series of waves. It
starts off slowly, for there is a lot of
inertia in the collective mind to be
overcome. As more and more people begin
to awaken, it becomes progressively
easier for everybody to go even further,
until a time is reached when the
morphogenetic field of oneness is strong
enough to push people into the
experience of Christ consciousness.
When 64,000 Christ-conscious beings
begin to walk the planet, a quantum leap
of mass enlightenment can quickly and
powerfully take place. The Golden Age
will have then arrived!
A major aspect of establishing this
morphogenetic field of oneness, in
Bhagavan’s vision, is the completion of
the Oneness Temple, which is intended to
greatly amplify the power of
unity-consciousness in the fields of
matter. Designed to hold up to 8000
people maintaining a strong
morphogenetic field of
unity-consciousness, this will greatly
amplify the power of the deeksha for
each person receiving it, and greatly
amplify the morphogenetic fields of
Christ-consciousness
It is important to realize that in
the journey towards Christ
consciousness, each of us will have to
go through a “dark night of the soul”.
This is a time when we will begin to
lose all traces of our conditioned
identities, even our so-called
“spiritual identities”. We get plunged
into the unknown, into the dark mystery
of creation, where all our certainties
get shattered. We die to the last
remnants of the conditioned ego, and are
reborn to the full realization of our
divine self. For some people this could
be a beautiful process of inner
surrender and cosmic awakening. To the
extent that we are identified with an
illusion of the self, however, we might
also experience deep whirlpools of
uncertainties and fear, dryness and
desolation, darkness and despair, until
eventually we simply realize the
illusion and step into the direct
discovery of our true nature!
I would like to briefly address those
who have received deeksha and are still
awaiting enlightenment. It is important
to realize that even though Bhagavan
says this is very easy to receive in
this Age, it is not effortless. Our
part of it is to get to the doorway. It
is then up to divine grace to guide us
through.
Getting to the doorway requires a
certain emotional maturity so that we
can see ourselves clearly and embrace
ourselves fully. We must acknowledge
the places in our lives where we deny or
suppress either our dark side or our
light side, and then project this onto
other people or circumstances of life.
It requires that we notice our
subconscious ideas and beliefs about
God, whether we see God as someone who
is critical, punishing, or judgmental,
or someone who is friendly, loving, vast
and beautiful. It requires a
willingness to surrender to our inner
divinity, and to trust the process,
recognizing that our minds can only
grasp a tiny fraction of the immensity
of creation.
In the midst of all the human doubts,
uncertainties, and fears that will
inevitably come on this journey of
awakening, I feel that it is important
to keep our eyes on the big picture.
This big picture is not another concept
for the mind to get attached to but is
rather a way of seeing. It is about
shifting our perception from the little
self to the big Self, and from the quest
for personal enlightenment to the vision
of a planetary awakening. It is the
ability to see the universe as a great
big mirror, and to understand that as we
are willing to look at these mirrors
clearly, there is eventually nothing
left that remains unconscious. Then we
no longer perceive ourselves as a pawn
to be used by the universe for good or
for ill. Then the universe flows through
us in all its many reflections of
oneness. Then we return to God on the
In-breath of Creation in the knowing
that we have never been separate to
begin with!
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