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Two Priceless Skills Encouragements
If you take the help of Detachment and Practice, not forgetting how important faith and companionship are, you will find moments of ecstasy as you work your way forward. These flashes of ecstasy or light are encouragements, guiding signs that help you stay on track. They are indications from the higher consciousness of "Well done, my good friend."
These encouragements are not psychic but rather are genuine spiritual experiences:
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In your meditations, and
whenever you calmly close your eyes, pastel colors begin to be visible in your
forehead. These pastel colors may form patterns like circles and spheres. Your
mind has to be harmonious and relatively free of worry in order to experience
this.
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You may see flashes of light,
like lightning flashes. You may think you are seeing fireflies at times when
your mind is calmly pondering higher consciousness.
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You may see soft, mellow light
like that of the moon; or, you may see blazing light like that of the sun.
These experiences are profound indicators of something marvelous ahead.
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Centers of awareness in your
spine and brain begin to open, giving you indications of the talent and
potential within your being.
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For example, in your spine in
back of the navel you may feel a quickening of energy or a concentration of
energy which makes your body feel warm — hopefully not too hot. (Heat
indicates that you are pressuring your nervous system too much and you should
simply relax and let yourself calm down. On the other hand, in the presence of
a Master who is guiding the process, the heat may be an appropriate
condition.) As this center, called the navel center, develops, you find
yourself filled with courage. Your fears fly away and you also begin to notice
that whatever you really need in your life comes to you. Whatever you need you
can have.
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Possibly, the center in your
forehead, half an inch above your eyebrows, begins to pulsate and reveal
brilliant white, yellow, or rich blue light into your mind. This light may
flood your whole being. In this state, insight is rapidly developed. You find
it very easy to practice detachment and you find it progressively easier to
attune with the higher will.
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The ecstasy itself is wondrous.
It may be a calm buzz of energy at localized points within your body or all
over. Usually bliss begins occurring in the spine, the chest area near the
heart, or in the brain. In the bliss you feel immediately in the presence of
the higher consciousness. In bliss you find incomparable delight.
Incomparable, that is, until it matures into an even more delightful ecstasy
called ananda. In ananda your ecstasy becomes dynamic and expansive. It
is an ever-new joy — endless and boundless — while being sweet and tender,
not obnoxious or overpowering. The ecstasy — whatever its manner of abiding
— helps you integrate your life. It enables your body, mind, and spiritual
nature to work in closer and closer harmony. You will literally want to dance
for joy. In fact, why not?
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The main thing a seeker must do is hang in there! Neither ecstasy nor agony are as important as persisting. As one great saint, Lahiri Mahasay, said, "Doing, doing, done." Keep practicing, keep moving toward your goal, and suddenly you find your goal is accomplished.
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