The Story of Awareness, Part Two

Author: Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami

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Description: Gurudeva's return from Innersearch India and Sri Lanka in 1969 and his amazingly intuitive purchase of what is today Kauai Aadheenam. Awareness explored. The power of the eternity of the moment. Regulate the breath, take awareness to the source of energy, the power of the spine. Live two-thirds in the internal world. Related Shum series on awareness: kamsi to aymibimkamtyekamsi. "Master Course Trilogy". "Merging with Siva", Chapter 5; Lessons 31,32. "The Guru Chronicles." Text of talk: Good morning everyone; nice to be back. Today we are continuing with "Merging with Siva" Chapter 5 which is entitled: "The Story of Awareness" and is drawn from "The 1970 Master Course". And there's lots of wonderful events described in "The Guru Chronicles" for that period, 1969-1970. Oh, this is an excerpt describing after the 1969 Innersearch Program to India and Sri Lanka. "The monastic staff were so exhausted by the journey around the world that Master delayed their return to San Francisco and flew them to Kauai, where he had held the Ashram Kauai retreat in late 1968. They checked into a hotel at Poipu for much-needed rest. But Gurudeva seldom did well at that, and he immediately undertook a project, to explore buying the idyllic tropical Inn they had fallen in love with. "When Gurudeva asked a monk to inquire about such a purchase, the response came back, 'But, it’s not even for sale.' 'Never mind that,' Gurudeva consoled, 'just go there and ask.' The monk dutifully drove the 45 minutes to the place and on his return reported that, 'The owner said it’s not on the market.' "'I see. Now go back and ask him, just theoretically, how much he would sell it for were ever it to go on the market.' "Back at the Tropical Inn the monk dutifully spoke with the owner, retired Col. Albert Roesch, asking for a what-if price. 'As my manager told you twice, it’s not for sale, young man.' 'Yes, I know. But if it were...' the monk sheepishly offered. Seeing there would be no respite until a number was coming forth, Col. Roesch grumbled in a slightly threatening voice, 'If it were to be sold, and I’m not saying it ever would, we would want no less than $300,000.' Back at Poipu, Master heard the number and decreed, 'Go back and tell him we can’t afford that much, but we can offer him $165,000 right away. No more. Tell him that.' 'But...' 'Trust me. Just go and make the offer.' An hour later the monk stood before the man and made the counter offer with great hesitation. 'Hmmm! Let me talk with my wife,' came the unrespected report [unexpected retort]. "The offer, amazingly, was accepted and Master moved to the new property on February 5, 1970, spending the first night alone on the property to take psychic control before inviting the monks to join him the next day." Isn't that a great story? So you are sitting in the former tropical inn. Show us Gurudeva's ability to understand the right price and then amazing knack of understanding the value of something. And, to our lesson: Lesson 31 "The Mechanics Of Attachment "Have you ever had people come to you and tell you all of their problems? What did they do? As a pure state of awareness, they came to you as a pure state of awareness. You were not identified in the area of the mind that they are living in. So, they came to you, because they want to get out of the area of the mind that they’re living in. They’ve been living in it so long, they think they are that area of the mind, like somebody that has lived in a house so long and is so attached to it that they would rather die than move from the house. So then, they come to you and start telling all the problems. First they start with the little ones, and then they start with the big ones, and all their complaints, heartaches and everything that that area of the mind involves. Now, you can do one of two things. You can gently talk with them and bring them out of that area of the mind into your area of the mind, or they can move your awareness right into that area of the mind, too. And when they go away, you are feeling terrible. You’re feeling just awful. "You’ve gone to a movie. The movie is just a screen. The film is just film. And the light is just light. And yet the combination of the three can move your awareness into areas of the mind that can upset your nerve system, make you cry, make you laugh, make you have bad dreams for a week, change your whole, entire perspective of life—the combination of these three physical elements can do this, if it can attract your attention. "Now, if you are sitting in a movie, and we are realizing that we are going through moods and emotions but we are not the moods and emotions that we are going through—all we are doing is being entertained by our senses—then that’s the mystic. He is enjoying life and what life has to offer. He is even remembering in past lives when he had similar experiences that the players are portraying on the screen, and he has empathy with them. He is living a full and a vibrant life, and yet when he walks out of the movie house, or walks away from the TV, he has forgotten the whole thing. He doesn’t carry it with him. His awareness is immediately right where he is currently. That’s the power of the great eternity of the moment." Then we get Lesson 32: "Living Two-Thirds Within "Living two-thirds within oneself and one-third in the external world—how do we do it? As soon as we live within ourselves, we become conscious of all of our various secret thoughts, all of our various emotions, that we would just as soon be without. Therefore, we distract ourselves and endeavor to live two-thirds in the external world and only one-third within ourselves. As aspirants on the path, you have to live your life two-thirds within yourself. When you are conscious of the thoughts that you don’t want to think, the emotions that you don’t want to feel, go deep within where they don’t exist. Take awareness to the central source of energy, right within the spine itself. Feel that energy flowing through the body, moving the muscles, enlivening the cells. Then you are two-thirds within yourself, and the world looks bright and cheery all the time; the sun is always shining. Immediately, when we begin to identify totally with our thoughts as being reality, then we begin to make mistakes. We are living two-thirds in the external world. "How to strike the balance? Regulate the breath throughout the day. Keep the spine always straight. Always sit up straight. As soon as the spine is bent, awareness is externalized. We are living two-thirds in the external area of the mind and only one-third within. As soon as the spine is straight, our awareness is internalized. We are living two-thirds within and only one-third out. "What’s the biggest barrier? Fear. Afraid of our secret thoughts, afraid of our secret feelings. What’s the biggest escape from fear? Go to the center, where energy exists, the energy that moves the life through the body. The simplest way is move your spine back and forth. Feel the power that moves that spine. Feel the power that moves that spine back and forth. Feel that energy going out through the physical body. Open your eyes and look at the world again, and you will see it bright and shiny. You’re two-thirds in and one-third out in awareness. You’re balanced. 'Be renewed by a change of your mind.' Be renewed by releasing awareness from one area of the vast universe of the mind, drawing it back into its source and releasing it again, sending it to another of the vast areas of the mind." The we get a related Shum series. kamsi Body, either physical or astral. tyekamsi A being, any kind of being, astral or physical. kamtyekamsi Conscious of awareness in four higher states of mind for many hours. bimkamtyekamsi Flowing awareness from one area of mind to another; this has the consciousness of the bearing between the aspects of the inner self when awareness has been transferred between one vibration that consumes it to another; awareness is sort of coughed out of one consuming area and, like water leaving a lake, flows to another; transition, superconscious, flow. mibimkamtyekamsi Seeing the actual movement of awareness. aymibimkamtyekamsi Moving awareness from one area to another. Thank you very much. Have a wonderful day. [End of transcript.]