So… a question that came here was: "What about this process of Enlightenment?" See, the process of Enlightenment, what you'd call the process of Enlightenment, it's possible that you refer to what happens to the body and also the mind, to all these changes that occur in the course of this work. Is that it? Because when we talk about the Enlightenment process, we can only be referring to this, to all this psychophysical change, to all this process that takes place within this work.
So, it's possible for changes to happen and it's quite natural for those changes to happen in both body and mind, and that's what we could call the process towards Enlightenment or process towards Spiritual Enlightenment.
But, see, your Being, What You are, isn't within any process. There is no change in What You essentially are, with respect to Awakening or Spiritual Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening.
What You are does not change. It is not what You are that changes or undergoes any process. This whole process is a process in this psychological background or this biological structure.
So, the body and mind go through a process indeed; it is natural that they go through a process. Some people call this process "the Awakening of Kundalini," but I want to tell you something here: don't mind studying This since it doesn't matter.
What your body and mind will have to go through, they will go through within this process, but you don't need to understand what that is. This is something that happens naturally once you are turning to this work, which is the work of Awakening, Self-Realization or Enlightenment.
So, it's a natural process in the body and mind, whereas You as Consciousness don't go through any process. Here, all you can do is trust Life, Existence, and everything will happen… everything will happen in a very Intelligent way, under and within this Divine Action, within this Action of Grace.
I see people worried about the phenomena that arise. They say "look, after I started meditating, I started hearing bells, hearing… some things started happening."
So, some processes start happening in the body, like heat, some form of pain at the top of the head, or something like that. However, that isn't necessarily evidence that something needs to happen like this for this Blossoming, for this Realization to happen. Because you can create an equally illusory expectation about it.
So, studying This can create within you the illusion that these signs necessarily precede Awakening, and that is not true. Each case is different. Each mechanism, each body, reacts in a certain way to all this. So, don't mind about this issue of the Awakening process, mind the work of self-investigation, mind the work of self-observation, of the observation of this movement of consciousness, this movement of the mind present here and now.
That's why I haven't talked about it and I don't talk much about it here, because it doesn't matter. All you need to do is to observe your reactions, observe every movement of the mind, psychologically speaking, internally speaking – your reactions, fear, desire, anxiety, worry, the movement of thought producing every form of restlessness… Looking at this and disidentifying from it. The disidentification from this process is something that really matters. Mind lives within this movement. All it knows is this movement, producing thoughts, producing images, producing stories, producing imaginary constructions.
Observing this, directly, must be your work. That's what you have to mind about, not about what the body is going through, not about whatever process the body has to go through when mind is observed, when these reactions of thought arise, when these feelings, these emotions, these thoughts or these imaginations appear.
So, remain disidentified also from the body and mind while facing this so-called "process," because this process is not what You are. What You are does not change. I repeat: What You are is Consciousness. Your work is to become aware of What You are, which is beyond the body and beyond mind, and therefore beyond whatever the body and mind experiences.
So, don't care about any of that! Just ignore it, don't value it, don't overvalue it since you may run the risk of believing in an idea thought formulates about this process, and thus falling into another fantasy, another imagination…
I have seen some people say that they are Awakened, or Self-realized, or Enlightened, precisely because they have, at some point, gone through some kind of process like this. That's yet another great egoic daydream.
Abandon this completely, turn to What You are. This Awakening, this Realization, is the end of the illusion of the sense of separation. It has nothing to do with signs or miracles or any other form of psychic situation that arises because of this so-called "Awakening process" or "process of Enlightenment," because basically, Enlightenment is You in your Being, in your Natural State, free from all contradiction, and all conflict, and all suffering produced by that false center, by this false "me." It's no longer present there. There is no longer the presence of this egoic sense, of this sense of separation.
Thus, Enlightenment is, basically, the end of suffering, life in Love, Freedom, Peace, and Happiness. It is basically that.
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