Bliss Knows no Bounds

 

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Bliss Knows no Bounds

Bliss is unbounded, just like an ocean. It is so vast that one is completely in it. Just as a dewdrop slips from a lotus leaf into the lake and becomes one with the lake, in the same way man has to slip out of the ego and become one with existence, only then is there bliss. Ego is misery, the source of misery, the only cause of misery; and egolessness is the source of bliss. Ego gives one boundaries, identities, it makes one a certain person.

Swamiji teaches us yog, which is different from yogasanas (physical exercise) – yog is the simple way to reach a high state of meditation through a process of transference of the Master’s values into his disciples. This transfer takes place very subtly and the disciple progresses spiritually based on his/her commitment and dedication.

This natural state of Sahaj Samadhi, which in truth is simply the realisation of our divine nature as Consciousness Itself, is the goal of all spiritual pursuits. It is an effortless state of supreme relaxation, absorption in the recognition of the Truth, and an overflowing of profound bliss beyond all threat of extinction. It is the spontaneous arising of undifferentiated existence-as-awareness. As such, it is also the revelation of the actual condition of the cosmos, of things as they are, the Truth.

Spiritual practice is the process of becoming aware of the subtle levels of resistance that remain for the seeker. Spiritual progress is the gradual releasing of this resistance, and spiritual liberation is the sudden, final, and complete severing of that conditioned mode of consciousness which involves clinging and its resultant reification of objects.

It must be remembered that the concept of a subject also involves the objectification of consciousness. The only true subject cannot have any connection to sensory and cognitive forms, such as the body, memory, self-image, etc. The ultimate subject is identical to pure Consciousness Itself. In fact, the entire cosmos, and all beings, circumstances, and possible events are contained within—and as a seamless unity with—Consciousness. This sudden jump from gross and subtle object-identification to the recognition of no-mind is often preceded by many experiences of partial release. Final liberation transcends all progress, however, and alone propels the seeker into complete absorption in the natural state...an effortless condition of supreme bliss in which all suffering ceases.

Only through the death of the mind, in the state of no-mind - the concept-free state -can bliss manifest as the light beyond and through which all thoughts and apparent objects arise. This bliss is natural - it is obvious and unmodified. This bliss is total -nothing exists or can exist outside of it. This bliss is completely satisfying - all desires having been extinguished, nothing is left but peaceful rest. This bliss is freedom - nothing can oppose or confine it. This bliss is the supreme, effortless, divine self-disclosure, bringing to an end all struggle, all seeking, all doubt.

Having achieved the supreme goal, all duality is dissolved in effortless bliss. The effortless abidance of supreme bliss resides timelessly—as past and future are only mental constructs. The effortless abidance of supreme bliss spontaneously gives rise to all phenomena. The effortless abidance of supreme bliss transcends all activities of the body-mind.