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It is interesting, however, to note that some people see Auras. If you do, you must be are of the fact that perhaps it is the person you are looking at that is projecting the Aura to you, or is it you who are in fact seeing his Aura. Also as your Chakras open you begin to see the Aura differently and most often with different colors. Some authorities will give different colors than others,

It is not remarkable that we can see Auras, some better than others and you can put it to the test yourself. Sit in a dark room with a large piece of black velvet hanging on the wall. Now have someone come and sit in front of it. Leave your eyes unblinking and stare at the periphery of the person. You will begin to see a mass of fine hairs seemingly electrically charged standing out from the body some 14 inches. Now the interesting thing here is that should the hairs be droopy, the person is not to well or lacking in energy. If the hairs are turning in over the over, ask the person to have a check up. You may see many small droopy and turning in areas. as for the color of these fine hairs you may see, well they sometimes have to do with you and sometimes to do with them. Once you perfect looking for Auras you will improve and know what to look for. It should only be used in rare cases and never to show off. For those inclined to heal with hands it gives a wonderful opportunity. Healing with hands — on the body and off. Now that is another story!

1 Plane of Reality and 8 Planes of Illusion

Try and think of the Turiya State of Attributeless Consciousness, as a circle with a center everywhere and a circumference nowhere.

All of the other states have their Attributes in the Concomitant Laws set up for them through Ego, Avidya, and Maya — all of these make it appear that the experiences one has, are in fact real.

You will notice that the Objective Waking State of Consciousness is resting on top of Turiya, the Dream and the Subconscious State are resting within the Waking State.

Most people think that everything we conceive comes out of the Waking State Objective World. In other words, the Dream State is nothing more than an extension of this Waking World.

When Ultimate Reality is experienced then that is known not to be true, but to the contrary, all the Worlds are thrown out of the Turiya State. It is our job to get back there as quickly as possible. That bit of advice is only for the Spiritually Mature, as most people could not even conceive of any other state of BEING outside what they already know. That is the power of Maya.

The job of the Yogi is to get to know the Concomitant Laws of each state that he MUST pass through, so that he can learn the way to Awaken from each one at will. That way he then knows that it was an Illusion.

To be caught up in the Astral World in a bad trip is pretty scary for the novitiate and if he hasn't been guided how to Wake Up and come back to the Waking State he can come to harm.

The other worlds do not hold that fear for an unsuspecting traveller amongst the stars. The danger here is stretching the silver cord which holds you to this Physical Body to the breaking point because one wants to travel further and further into these nether worlds of Consciousness. It is hard for a novitiate to let go of these experiences as nothing more than another aspect of Maya>.

In all methods given by Yoga teachers there is always a tendency that one can get lost in a blank space and, without awareness, be thrown into some unsuspecting mental realm which is dangerous for him.

Under the guidance of the Atman, no harm can come. How is it possible that the Atman can guide you? When one has harmonized through Yantra, the brain cells become rearranged in such a way that the connection to the Atman is pure and simple. For instance, if you want to transmit water, you use a water pipe. If you want to transmit Electricity efficiently you use wire.

Most people's brain cells are like water and the Atman is transmitting electricity. You can imagine, scrambled eggs!

To allow the Atman to guide you, you must have a harmonized cell structure in the brain. That way when Atman sends a proverbial message from the inner SELF up to the brain of outer SELF, it is nice when the sender and receiver are in the same frequency.

None of these Worlds really exist. It is only the appearance of them that exists. We become attached to the Concomitant Law of Each World and thus are trapped into thinking they are real.

It is not always true that these worlds are visited only in meditation. A Schizophrenic, not knowing what is happening to him, becomes caught up in the Astral World and his Illusory people become real only to him as he walks down the street, shouting obscenities, usually at them. It all takes place in the Mind. He was thrown into the Astral deeper realms of his mind before he was ready to wake up from it, as we can awaken from a dream.

It is hard for a neophyte to understand that being all ONE, like one huge cell, that has through Ego divided itself, thinks itself unique and separate and thus gets trapped into his unreal visions and this Waking World is one of our visions. We really do believe it to be real.

Science is getting ahead of Spirit in this sense, as there are too many scientists that now know the illusory quality of this waking world. Of course it is all scientific and they don't know how to wake up from it into Turiya and have that Bliss experience, but still it is a start to know intellectually what they are up against.

Some have stated that that experience of Bliss is nothing more than a sub experience that is rooted in this Waking World realty, and in a sense that is true. Imagine. for instance, an amnesiac having flashbacks of his life forgotten while he is living his present life known.

A very disconcerting time for this person with amnesia, and in a sense attaining Samadhi is much like that. The flash of Union immerses one so much into the experience of Bliss that the NOW time of the Waking World is forgotten altogether, and more interestingly. the time of Bliss cannot be known. It can only be experienced. When the Seer and the act of Seeing and the object seen become one, the Seer is diminished — non–existent.

In this sense of Bliss, the moment one returns to the Waking State world of concomitance, one can then associate it like, it was like this or like that. In other words, when explaining Bliss it becomes second hand.

That is why no Master can say he is a Master. It is a contradiction in terms. By the same token, you cannot recognize a Master except that you are one yourself for verily you and the other are the same cell — ONE. Thus, as we judge others we are in fact only judging ourselves, as each one of the cells is a mirror held up in front of us.

This is not always true, as there are novitiates who will glamorize their Guru as a Master when he is not, until they discover he has done something abhorrent to them, usually a sexual act or an obvious act of greed. The shame is not that the teacher acted as his nature intended, but that the novitiate idealized and was thus disappointed — a natural outcome to all ideals.

One must eventually get over this business of looking for Masters or trying to become one, because eventually one experiences Turiya themselves and realizes that All is perfect just as it is — even you — and there is in fact nothing to attain.

What we are doing, by studying Yoga, is learning how to Wake Up. That is all. You all know how hard it is to wake a young man up to go to school. It is almost as though he has been drugged. He has to learn how to get up at the first call especially if he joins one of the services.

Well, Yoga tries to wake you up to your own perfection and to the fact that you were dreaming this life with all it's attached worlds, and that you can leave those dreams behind, wake up and reside in SELF while still living out your Dharma in this life time.

I don't mean by saying that, that there is any other lifetime. Just because we have other sleep nights, and we have beginnings and endings, and people don't like to think they don't go on forever, there is a huge tendency to think also that this life is one of many.

In the former cases we know we have existed while we slept and while we were awake. In the latter case we have no other lives to relate with. We have no memory of our death or our birth, so it is comforting to dream them into existence by engaging our wondrous imaginations, and so we have people who specialize in telling you what your past life was. Invariably it was a Prince or an Egyptian Slave (very romantic) or some Royal Lady in Waiting, but who ever heard of one being a Whore or some Lowly Beggar of which the world was mostly populated just two to three hundred years ago and earlier.

The imaginative process is what I have explained before, linked to the Akashic Record. To pick up what has always been there is not without possibility, but to link it with someone in particular in present day, is nothing more than fancy. It is this, along with an individuals wish to have been here before and thus exist yet again, that gives rise to other lives and re–incarnation.

You have this one life and you can awake into Turiya now. The mere idea that you are looking for God Union, or that you need a certain number of years to find him, or have to do a certain number of techniques to unite with him is an Illusion. God is not lost. You don't have to find Him. You just have to Wake Up.

One of the techniques a Mother uses to wake her dead sleepy son is to pour cold water on him. Another technique my Grandmother used was to repetitiously call my name over and over again in the most gratingly shrill voice, that was paused just enough time for me to almost go back to sleep again and then, another onslaught. In those moments I hated her, but I knew she had me. It wasn't many days with Grandmother before I jumped up on the first call. I refused to be tortured anymore.

So you see, these few techniques and articles that I written are all just Wake Up calls. One day, within three years, you will be able to throw everything out as you will have awakened.

YOU ALREADY ARE PERFECT. YOU CANNOT DENY YOUR OWN EXISTENCE, AND AS YOU CANNOT REMEMBER YOUR BIRTH TIME, NOR YOUR DEATH TIME, YOU ARE EVER EXISTENT. WHEN YOU AWAKEN YOU WILL BE EVER CONSCIOUS AND THAT WILL LEAD TO BEING EVER BLISSFUL.

Satchitananda.

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