Consciousness ? Quality Consciousness ?

Jesus! What a heavy topic!

I don’t know how does these topics cross my mind 🙂  But Consciousness itself has been my subject of deep research for some years, running wild in the deep recesses of my mind.

So what is it? Why should one improve it qualitatively? Is there any quantity to it? How does one improve it? Questions & questions? Good!

Some questions never have an answer, for everything else, there are doubts!

Ponder over the story below. I have modified it from where I read from Swami Sukhabodhananda.

There lived a small family in the sleepy town of Benares. This family had a mother, father & a son. For some reasons, the son was never in good terms with his father.  His father too, felt the same vibration, in the presence of his son.  Life was hell for the family as the son grew up.

Suffocating within the bitterness which had no apparent reasons, the relationship of the son with his parents started turning, cancerous.

At some point in their life together, the father somehow ignored the sensitive nature of his son & hurled abuses at him, for his innocent mistakes.  He never seem to have praised him. They never sat together for a heart to heart chat. Somehow the son was convinced that his father was just a heartless businessman. But the father was always shy of showing his true affection & deep love for his son. He was just not conditioned to express his true feelings.  With his experiences in life, the father was handicapped in sharing his thoughts with his son. He adored his son, loved him immensely 🙂

After the son grew up, he developed a psychological reaction towards his father. Convinced that his parents don’t love him, he was frustrated, deluded, demotivated to lead a life.  At the ripe age of 22 the son decided to end his misery.

That night the son prepared his mind & heart,  for the last time.  He bought a bottle of rat poison & kept it ready until midnight.

His father returned late that night from a temple.  There they received a discourse on LOVE.  In between the discourse, the father heard a beautiful song of divine. It reminded him of his immense love for his son! Tears rolled down from his eyes for the first time in 50 years!!!  In the 22 years since the birth of his son,  his ego was shattered,  his conditioning melted 🙂

The saint of the temple gave a lord Krishna idol to the crying father & said ” Go, give this to the person you LOVE the most in this world!”

As the father entered his house, he saw his son preparing to sleep for the night. He looked at him & for a moment felt that maybe he should talk with his son the next morning. He started walking off…

Suddenly a voice came from within “This is it!”

The father went up to the son & took him out in the balcony. Handing over the lord Krishna idol to him, he said “Son, in all these 22 years, I have been wanting to say this, but could never break my ego & express my true feelings. Today the temple saint gifted me this beautiful symbol of Love & said to gift it to the person I loved the most.”

“You know Son, I love the most in this world after your mom…”

For a moment, everything froze… The winds were not blowing, the sounds muted, the breaths held…. the moon hid in the clouds….

Then, the son started wailing like a baby. He said, “Father! Look, I was going to end our misery tonight with this poison.  All these years I believed that you and mom never loved me.  You abhorred me.  I couldn’t live it anymore…”

The father’s hand started trembling. His stiff upper lip gave in & both started wailing like newborns! Love stuck!!!

The story has three major essence.

  1. Impressions or latent Karma don’t let us act with our true consciousness. With impressions we act mechanically, unknowingly & unconsciously. They lead a cycle of emotions & reactions.
  2. To improve our consciousness, there will always be some events, some people, some subtle things that will guide us. We have to be aware of them & make a self effort in changing the impressions created on us.
  3. Once we recognize these impressions & act in the opposite nature to them,  a new energy will pervade our consciousness & make it like a flowering lotus in a mud pond!

If you have come till this far into this blog, I must say congratulations!!!

You are perhaps qualified to know how to improve your consciousness. After all knowledge is only useful to the one qualified to receive it.  For others it is just stress! The only, true, purpose of knowledge, is liberation…

All the techniques discussed here are my own tried & tested.  For over a few years I have been experimenting with these. Some are common,  some given by my dear guru,  but most have been my babies!

I will also discuss which are the most simplest, little & most difficult ones & what are the signs that will give you a bio mechanic feedback that your consciousness is improving!

Interesting? Sure it is for a person hell-bent on knowing the truth in life 😉

  • Hug. But be careful! Know the place & person 😉
  • Laugh….. like there is nothing else more important & like there is no tomorrow !
  • Take a buddy walk
  • Walk with music, don’t stop, walk over, around, or under obstacles. Obstacles can be people, buses, autos, bridges… Just don’t stop for even a second.
  • Do some Yoga, with lots of  Surya Namaskara. Nothing beats this.
  • Meditate. Learn form a teacher the correct ways and techniques. This combines with Yoga is going to be the next potent medicine for all problems in the world!
  • Dance, with an opposite personality!
  • Sit & talk only about the person in front of you. Keep everything else aside.  Just concentrate on the person in front of you & talk about him/her. Of course don’t fall in Love with him/her !!!
  • Sing, close your eyes for some moments then again sing. Go and hear some temple chanting & do this there. Again very good technique for today’s world.
  • Observe silence for a day! Come on… You can do it.  It doesn’t mean you don’t talk. It means you talk only when necessary & manage without it.
  • Live your day without the ‘I don’t s‘ & ‘I wants’. Just mentally accept whatever you have been offered in the day. Live without having any likes or dislikes.
  • Spend time with children below 15 &  people above 70. They will improve your vision, solve your problems & hence improve your consciousness.
  • Whenever you wake up, don’t leave the bed immediately. Think about your last day, what you want to change. Then with a resolution that you will change it consciously today, live your entire day. Just bring your entire focus on this very thing that you want to change. See how it achieves MAGIC 🙂
  • Maintain a spiritual diary. In this diary, every day when you retire to bed, you write to some one to whom you surrender all your actions. You write you HEART OUT in this diary. This process is very beautiful 🙂
  • Avoid any complaints for the day. Avoid complaining about anything in the day especially any negative commenting. Just refrain from any sort of comments.
  • Do the opposite, learn to do the opposite trait. If you are a voracious reader, then just listen to songs. If you are a mechanical person, i.e. works in a job demanding very less creative abilities, then learn an instrument.
  • Don’t gossip! Especially hard for the ladies 😉 But trust me Men are catching up too !!! Lol 🙂
  • Lead an effortless day just with intention. Very, very, very powerful. If you succeed, you will feel it on a physical level, the improvement. Just think about what minimal things you need for the day. That important report, that phone call, that email, that message from a loved one! Just have that deep intention & surrender.
  • No TV, Computers, Mobiles.  Easiest to do na ?
  • Drive without stopping at signals. Difficult ? Naaaaaaaa 😉 What I do is when I start from home, I drive around from signals that are red or turning red.  Even if it takes longer to reach. I drive with a single intention of not putting my foot down till I reach my destination ! It Works !!!
  • Learn a new sport.
  • Don’t read or write. Just listen whatever is going on around you. Silently just observe it in your mind.
  • Do some service or seva for people who cannot give you back.. For animals, for some unfortunate, for some sick… See what happens.
  • Just praise anyone you come across in the day. Give them Huge, BIG, unflattering compliments.
  • Get in touch with your long-lost friends. Email them, message them, say HI to them…
  • Say hi to your Exes! But this is dangerous… It can work the other way round if you are not intelligent !
  • Whenever possible instead of chatting, meet the person face to face. This is the new age mantra for a world obsessed with emails, chatting and all sorts of machine interactions.
  • Drop all those inhibitions & share your deepest secrets with your closest people. This is the first level.
  • Drop all those inhibitions & share your deepest secrets with strangers whom you hardly knowe. This is the second level.  Very powerful, truly liberating and improves our consciousness a lot.
  • Look at something very intensely,very joyfully, very lovingly. A word of caution, if it is a human specie !!! Be careful, don’t be stupid!!! Just ponder over that thing forgetting everything else. It is like object meditation 😉

The most simplest ones are those which you can practice almost daily & are in our nature.

The little difficult ones are those which need a time & environment to begin.  They need some self effort towards creating that environment.

The most difficult ones are those which need tremendous self effort, persistence,  intention & intelligence. Try these only after you have tried others. Or you are sure to lose the charm.

Our physical body is such a fine piece of craft that whenever you break a substantial amount of your impressions, it will give away signals.They can be increased sweating, feeling relaxed, a head-ache, slight to severe trembling, heightened intuition/awareness/alertness, feeling thirsty/hungry, feeling of immense joy for no reason etc…

So Wake up! Realize that you are born with fullness & you will die with fullness, it is only in the journey between we live like beggars 🙂

Everything is important is Karma Yoga, Nothing is important is Meditation… The true mediatator wants Nothing & is Nothing – Sri Sri

You cannot even take your Happiness when you die,  so what is the Big deal we make out of our worries ! We are born & will dissolve in this vast consciousness.  So come,  let us experience it, without any worry 🙂

Jai Gurudeva,

In Service, of Love

Varun Rishi Uniyal