Wednesday, August 07, 2019
Consciousness, Bliss, and Reality
Consciousness, Bliss, and Reality
Yesterday I listened to a respected spiritual teacher and learned two new things. For years I have felt that images of gods and goddesses were merely visual representations of the energies behind them, for what they ultimately depicted were simply human creations derived from the raw energies of their source (an imageless reality). She expressed this idea this way: these deity images represent more compressed vibratory representations of the imageless source from which they came.
For her, the 'imageless source" is the vastness that one seeks to enter during meditation. All is focused on this mental capacity. But she explained it this way: we know that we are seeing and indeed accepting as reality the "room" (setting) in which we find ourselves once meditation ceases, though this setting is created by our own perception and imagination. Actually the room exists only in our own consciousness––we create it in our awareness when our eyes are open. In the same way the Goddess of All embraces the totality of creation for it exists only as part of her vast consciousness. This explanation makes sense to me.
Although she is well aware of the role of bliss as part of the human experience of transformation, she did not include it in her discussion. I don't know why. I do not seek to enter an indescribable 'vastness" but rather to be aware fully and wondrously of the Great Bliss that enters and transmutes my system. Why contemplate nothingness when you can "know the divine' by opening to the vast bliss currents that power the universe? I think that bliss is the ultimate goal of yoga, meditation, and all the transformational techniques. Bliss is the closest we can come to God. Bliss is the state that tells us who we truly are. "Bliss is beautiful."
Dorothy Walters
August 6, 2019
(image from internet)
