Pathways to Enlightenment
by Joy Kapur

 

 

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(This is not my knowledge. I became a conduit in the hands of an unseen power. This book wrote itself. The words were handed out to me in spells that lasted for many days and weeks and sometimes10 hours at a stretch.  It has changed my life in ways that I cannot express in words. I hope the same knowledge changes yours.  All of us are connected to this electro-magnetic field of the heart but a few know how to make this energy flow in our lives, as there are many negative and stressful events that dissipate this energy from our bodies.)

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All of us have to find our center, our own heart-center, as everything and everybody in this world is centered in the heart. There is no other world and no other life than this. We are the God living in our own heart. Own up to ourselves by getting anchored in the purity of our own heart. We need to anchor ourselves in this new consciousness, deep within our hearts, creating a new kind of thinking, based on compassion, generosity, empathy and self-less service, responsive to the challenges of the new age and it all starts from the heart. Life should not be measured by the number of breaths we take but by the number of moments we live from our heart-center, with harmony, peace and serenity…and this is no secret!

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The essence of any religion is not worshipping, rituals or chanting, it is more of finding the path, it is unfolding of one’s own unique quest of an inner personal relationship with the divine…it is the catching of the “Unseen” in its own splendor; it is knowing the mystical peak or the dawning of heart’s wisdom, it is the understanding of the working of the “Invisible” force and accepting life as it unfolds, like a child, in complete surrender, with or without the use of intellect. The ultimate reality cannot be described or apprehended in terms of common language or in scientific terms. Certainly the scientists will not find in any laboratory with the help of gross scientific instruments.

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True wisdom lies in knowing yourself first before you know the world; it is finding what burns in your heart, what makes you tick and what makes you get up and go after every setback. What burns in your heart is more important than what is happening in the outer world. You have to know what you really are at the heart level…know your inner urges, your longings, your passions, your strengths, your weaknesses… deep within your heart. Learn how you can play your own drama in the story of your own life and on the stage and time of your own choice. You will find that knowing or uncovering the longest journey of your life, is covering the shortest distance …from your head to your heart and living from heart-based consciousness instead of mind-based consciousness.

You are what you are from your heart!

And this is the process of real awakening…which is the real secret.

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 Only the intuitive intelligence of the heart knows and lights the way and the scientists amongst us try to take the credit, the intellectuals, money hoarders and power politicians, oblivious to the divine reality, think they control our destiny. Life can be an adventurous journey and a taste of eternity or it may feel like a donkey’s burden or an exercise in futility. It can start with a bit of willpower and a touch of “Self” or self-confidence and can end with self realization. Only the self-realized discern that the same divine life flows in one and all. The heart-anchored mindfulness that stems from the heart… balancing and harmonizing, the lower mind tries to fathom it, the divine grace does it without doing and the heart knows it without knowing!

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The greatest meditation is the heart-centered one and the greatest secret lies in the “breath of your breath” and the greatest alchemy is in the power of self-introspection anchored in the heart. The real churches, mosques and temples are in your heart. The whole universe is a part of you, from the microcosm to the macrocosm. Life emanates from your first breath and ends with your last breath, breath is life and living, and without the breathing, pulsating and loving heart, there is nothing…And this is no secret anymore!

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Real wealth is wisdom. Gita tells us: You may lose your wealth, somebody can rob you of your possessions, you can lose your health, you may lose your family, your house may get burnt down, but nobody can rob you of what is within your brain or within your heart. Wisdom is not just bookish knowledge; it is intuitive insights. Divine perceptions are from the heart. Our true essence is within. The key to the inner wealth is though the DashamDwara or the tenth gate (The heart!).

The treasures of wealth abound in your inner self. The outer is just a mirror of the inner you…an ocean in a drop.

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What is needed is the awakening of this super-mind in all of us, the mind that is soaked and purified in the purity of the heart, the essence of goodness and godliness in us all. Only that super-mind can come close to knowing the cosmic mind. The highest goal of human life is to dwell in the heart-centered consciousness twenty-four hours a day and become That.  It is through faith and trust that the lame can walk, the blind can see and the deaf can hear and that nothing can go wrong in their lives. It is an understanding, not of the mind or intellect but of the heart.  Find faith and trust, two spiritual corridors of the heart, as sure as the heartbeat, in the beat of your own heart...And this is no secret anymore!

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Power of the heart is so elusive, so ethereal, so subtle yet so eloquent and encompassing that it leaves nothing untouched. Heart is like that mirror trying to get a glimpse of it purity in the mirror of its own making; even the reflective light from this mirror not only brightens the dark corners of our minds but also the universe around us. What is needed is the purified mind anchored in the heart and in sync with how we behave and how we communicate with others and that which brightens the world, through our thoughts, words and deeds.

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Calling mind false or true is calling the sky grey or blue; only thing that is real, is in the unrealities of ego or delusion; mind still takes the credit while the heart heals and makes it whole. While the mind looks outside for cures, nectar of love, health and immortality exist in the shrine of our own hearts. Let us delve our minds in the purity of the heart and become transformed and live in the essence of Tao, and let that heart-anchored mind’s (or super-mind) healing gaze heal the physical and emotional wounds.

When mind is soaked in the purity of the heart…mind becomes mindless and you don’t exist…while the mind is soaked gazing into the heart…you become the moment…and the moment becomes eternity…the moment of silence…the moment of energetic healing.

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Needless to say, in scientific terms, there is the start of a chemical happening in the brain that starts from the heart…some kind of higher force or energy, subtler than the cells, is the source of power behind what is happening in the cells…some call it the morphogenetic field of the heart…a force that knows and encompasses everything. Call it the life-force or call it a mystery or call it the key that holds the clue to the mysterious String Theory…this mystery will remain a mystery. Saints and sages have talked about it, open-minded physicists like Einstein have alluded to it and some of us have experienced its power. There are others who swear by it…and for some, the mainstream skeptic scientists, it will always remain a secret. And this secret is very close to me and you know this secret now and you can decipher it too, not with your mind or senses, or by your intellect either, but by the power latent in your heart…not just the heart but with the purity of your heart, and that is That.

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I am talking of love that disguises as love in human nature, the love that contains the finest emotions in human hearts; it is the same love that comes in myriad human packages, it is the same love that always sparks in the heart of a mother for her child, or an infant feels for the mother or a caring son for his father. It is the same love that hides behind the smiles of the beloved, it the same love that twinkle’s in the eyes of the lover the moment he lays his eyes on her and it is the same love that floats from the lips of a lover’s kiss or in the gentle loving embrace of two human hearts beating at the same wave lengths. It is the same love that the Master receives from his disciple’s caring devotion, or a thoughtful server receives from a guest’s appreciation. We humans are lost and deluded in the so-called love that originates from the so-called egocentric human love. The real or pure “LOVE” is from an infinite source. The lover deludes himself thinking that it is he whom she loves, rather than the Infinite’s love responding in her. It is the Infinite love that disguises Itself in the human heart in three ways: Love, lover and the beloved.

This is perhaps life’s greatest secret. Only a few know its eternity, fewer know its mysteries and a few transformed ones understand its secrets and NOW… you know it too.

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There is no God that resides in the 7th Heaven, overlooking everything you are doing; god is you, god is life, god is in your noble intentions, god is in the breath of your breath, god is living through you. Think god and you become god. Live the way you think god lives…the way god thinks…the way god conducts…the way god speaks. All you have to do to become god is to transcend your limited self. Refrain from using your power to hurt others; you will be hurting yourself only as you are part of the universal oneness. The Universal Spirit resides everywhere, including in your heart; don’t go looking for it around the world; It pulsates in every beat of your heart. There would be only one word that holds the secret for world peace, each one of us on this planet has the power to uncover THAT in his or her own heart and that secret word is LOVE.

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What a paradox of human existence!

You can never have the present…it is too elusive. You can never have the past…it is already gone forever. You can never have the future…it may never come. You can only have the “present” gift-wrapped in the mystery and beauty of this moment’s “Nowness”, until you un-wrap it. The only way to unwrap this gift is to learn to surrender and enjoy the beauty and sacred timelessness of this moment, welcoming each moment as it unfolds, without the mental concerns of the past or the future, understanding the secret of each moment, you get connected to the silence of the purity of your heart and feel the ecstatic moment of NOW. When your mind is not there…your heart is…that is living in the moment to the fullest, in the effulgence of divinity.

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Follow the Heart,” should be the slogan or Mantra for the new millennium. Make the heart your new mind, the one that can hum without the tongue, hears without the ears and feels the pain of others and be ‘AWARE’ 24 hours a day. And in the literal sense of the word, it means follow the heart-soaked vibrations emanating from the qualities of kindness, compassion, love, empathy and recognizing that we are part of the same divine force that dwells in every heart. We are one! The same divinity passes through all of us like a string that passes through the garland of rosary beads….it integrates and holds sacred, all diverse forms of life together. It is about the time we dig deep into our hearts, into the purity of our intentions and let our consciousness guide us intuitively to know our role in the healing of this planet.

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We are one…one as the rainbow colors in the white light…one as in universal oneness of mankind and one with universal divine intelligence. Universal love has no barriers, makes no barriers and knows no barriers of language, race, color or creed. It is delusion of separateness that is the root cause of all evils and misery. We cannot be really happy if our fellow beings are suffering. We are all one, connected together from our hearts with the same infinite Energy.  Oneness of mankind is linked from the purity of the heart. We are one with the universe, we are the universe and we should insist on Universal Oneness.