The Vastness of Life Perpetually Expanding
Satsang Teaching by GurujiMa Our view of life is often so circumscribed by the healing issues that we're facing inside ourselves, or the difficult circumstances that we're living with, or the nature that the though the world of society and politics and global issues are presenting us with. And there are so many of them that are so compelling, of emotions of distress, and depression, and disappointment and wondering how things are going to be straightened out.
We have all of these swirls going on around us and in us of things that are trying to be healed, and trying to change and trying to find a new way of being in all of it's in motion. That's the nature of the time that we're in, that everything's in motion, the inner process of you, and your own journey and your own healing is actively in motion. You may not feel it's going fast enough. But it is actively in motion. And so it is with the world, and its own purification and its own momentum, it's coughing up all these things that need to change, all these things that we look at and say, how can how can this still be going on? Why isn't it different? Where is it going to come from that we can have something be different. And that applies across the board, to violence, to climate change, to injustice to discrimination, there is a whole long list of things that we are wishing to change and that are being coughed up by the momentum of the time that we're in…
I want to talk to you about the nature of the universe. Because there is in the midst of all this, a stability and a wonder, and a magic that's going on at the same time. And we just don't see it often enough to know that the underpinning of all the commotion that's going on all of those things that were so greatly in need of change. …The underpinning of that is this vast, quiet space of reality that vibrates with the expression, the emanation of love, and of harmony. Now, if you look at the world, you're not going to see it with your physical eyes. Love and harmony are not what you're going to see for the most part. But if you look with your heart, or with your deeper knowing, you will see something else. Because that vastness of creation, that unchanging, this is going on, right now.
When we look at the Earth, for example, we see and know how many things that we wish were not happening are happening to the beloved earth, we see pollution of the oceans, we see an over abundance of refuse tossed into streams, rivers, oceans, lakes, we know about the detrimental effect of small plastics, going into fish and being coming part of the food chain. We know all this. But we don't know that life, that is of the Divine Mother is ever present, renewing itself, all of the time.
When you look at the Earth, you can see all that needs to change. And you can see all that has come into existence. So let me tell you about existence. Not something we think about so much. existence means that you are alive. It means that anything that we notice, or a call by a name, that has movement and breath is life. But the universe didn't start out that way. Life was given. It didn't start out that way.
If you want to picture magic, divine magic, you know you need to extend yourself into beyond your personal concerns. So that you can experience wonder, wonder comes from knowing that everything is gift, and that life is gift. The Universe didn't start out with life, it started out with consciousness, it started out with thought.
Now, I know that that is a very large idea. And you don't perhaps know how to grasp it. Because in order to know that everything is thought or consciousness, we would have to be out of our bodies, and in some other frame of reference. So let's just say hypothetically, that we accept this. And then you could picture a vastness that has no form, no shape, no name, no thing in it, no thing outside of it, because it's infinite. It's just a vastness with a capital V. This vastness is aware of itself. You could say that it's aware of its own Being, its own, its own life, this vastness is an analogy.
…if you stop talking and stop thinking, you could be aware of your own breath. When you stop, if you become silent inside, you could be aware — "I’m in my body. I'm just breathing". So that's not a perfect analogy. But it's like that, the existence of consciousness was breathing in itself. Nothing outside, just awareness, breathing. And even breathing is not the right word. Because that's the doing of something. And this isn't about doing but let's say we call it breathing. So, that which is consciousness that's everywhere, is the capital, is a vastness with the V capital V. And nothing is defined and everything is all one mixture all together. And then a light comes into their consciousness a thought and something happens that awakens it to think, what could I become? If I wanted to have more, more of myself? What could I become, so that I could feel more of who I am.
This is consciousness thinking, but it's based on a light that goes on consciousness thinking, “I would like to become more of myself”. So the thought, gives rise to the way of becoming, but there was no becoming, because there was no life, there was just consciousness. And yet this light went on this magical light, that is the source of creation — went on. And that Breath that was inside of the vastness started extending outwards. Now, there was no out. So, there is no such thing as in and out in an Infinite unified situation. So the Breath extended outwards, and began to define Itself into those beings that could reflect back to it, what it was like a mirror, the Breath went out, and the mirror became the beings of creation. There was no creation, there was just Breath, just awareness. And then the Breath went out, and looked back at Itself. And all of the beings were the vessels in which that which wanted to see Itself and know Itself and extend Itself could do that. And all those beings were the extensions of the breath.
So that was the beginning of life, there was no life, you have to understand there was no life until the Breath, went out from the vastness and said, “I want to know Myself, I want to find a way to see more of My Being”, there was a light that went on. So that life then went into all of these beings, human beings, and angels, and four legged creatures, and the hierarchy of spiritual beings that are not in bodies. In all, all of Creation, it's multiple dimensions, we're all Eyes. Eyes to see the One Vastness, every consciousness that became a life form, where a pair of eyes even if it didn't have eyes, even if it didn't have physical eyes, it was reflecting back to the Vastness what it was. And then things began to crystallize, develop a form, they didn't even have a form, they just had a shape an identity that was more or less the thought behind it.
You are a human being, that's your shape, or you are an angel. It's your shape, the consciousness, gave rise to these different strata of life, within the Spiritual Hierarchy of dimensions. And all of those dimensions had eyes, not physical eyes, but reflections. And so life began to take shape. And the Emanation from the Infinite was what we call the Mother of the Universe. The Mother of the Universe, is the capacity to give birth to life. That which we call the Father of the Universe, is this the thought of the intention to do it, but the Mother of the Universe is the way of giving birth to life.
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She is the Life and when and If you think about it, your own existence, or the existence of animals or plants, inside of everything that lives is the Mother of the Universe, because She is the life, there was no life before it was given birth. It didn't exist, you didn't exist, nobody existed. And that's the magic. That's the magic that's in everything, while everything else is going on, that we feel distressed about — is that life is that life continues. And if we can tune into life continuing in the presence of everything else, then we will know that that purpose is being continually renewed, and continually being fulfilled, and continually expanding the purpose for each life came into being.
There are different ways we can look at a plate of food, nourishment, something looks good, and we're looking forward to tasting it. We look at it in relation to our bodies, mostly, or in relation to our taste buds, both. But there's something else that's magic about food. Because the Infinite came into life as existence, and came through the body of the Earth and gave the Earth existence, and then the Earth's existence, gave rise to the plants, that we're going to be for nourishment, for everything. We're all the beings that are connected with the Earth. This is a Stream of Life that came from the point of Creation. And that went into first the planetary body, and then the Earth, giving rise to the form of plant life. And then the plants becoming food life, and then the food life becoming our life. And it's all the Mother. And it's all live. That life is renewing itself, even while we are distressed, about everything else that's going on. And we need to look for it. Because it can be hidden behind the distress. We need to look forward, especially in our own life.
Now, you may think that's a paradox. And perhaps it is that in the midst of a very challenging time, in which much healing is needed, and much healing is taking place. That you could celebrate your own life. Celebrate your own life that you exist, there was a period before which you didn't exist. You didn't exist at all, you came into being because you were created individually, to exist, to the life to the life of the Mother, and the thought of the Father, and then both One.
These are just names. There was a place before you existed, and then you were given life, and that life is breathing you and it's renewing you and it's making you grow, just like a plant grows. You may think that you're involved with difficult healing issues, and you are, and most people are and the world is, yes. And in the meantime, while that's going on, and what is bringing those difficult healing issues up is the life of the Mother trying to bring everything into greater wholeness.
So everything that you see that is distressing, is simultaneously moving through life into greater wholeness. You are doing that, everyone is doing that, the planet is doing that, the solar system is doing that, the universe is doing that. It's all moving into greater wholeness, because it was given life from the Mother. And because it was created as a reflection by the seed of light or the light that went on in the mind of God to extend to Breathe out and make forms and give them existence. In a way, what I am saying to you is encouragement, to not get lost in your own difficulties, to not get lost in your own sense of what remains to be healed in you, in the world. Because that is not the foundation of what's happening. The foundation of what's happening is life is the movement of expansion of life, moving into greater life. And we can also say, in this context, life producing greater consciousness or greater awareness in you, in the Earth, in all beings, consciousness is expanding.
Beloved ones, I wanted to bring to you this picture of the Universe of Creation, because it exists all the time. And it's an anchor for hope. And it's an anchor for joy, in the midst of all that needs to change — in the midst of that, this is what you can turn to, the principle of life that was given as a gift to you. And that is perpetually expanding, even through even through times of difficulty, and through the difficulty. The difficulty is part of the expansion. The difficulty is part of what brings more life into being.
Perhaps, you will hear my words and feel that you can take a deeper breath into your own joy, into your own joy, with all the problems you may have, or all the problems that the world may have. There is still the possibility of joy. And the reason is simple. It's because you exist, you exist, and you exist as an expression of this extraordinary gift of life that has brought you into existence. May that be your awareness, beloved ones, no matter what challenges you're facing in life that you exist and that therefore joy is possible.
Sunday Satsang 2/5/23https://lightomega.orgTranscript edited by Johanna Raphael
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