Are we just the body, or are we something more?

When we enter this world, where does this “life” factor come from? Our breath? We are alive due to our breath. It means that we are connected to a phenomenon called “consciousness” through our breath. The consciousness is our source. That is, we have come from this consciousness state. It is a total state of joy and bliss, or it is pure LOVE. And only love is the truth of life, rest all is ego. To believe it, it is best to experience it. To experience it, it is best to meditate. When we meditate, we observe our breath. When we observe, we use minimum of our mind. Therefore, it is possible to go beyond the mind. Observing breath is the highest form of meditation.

In this state of consciousness, there is no space and no time. But it can be quite boring to be in a constant state of bliss. Therefore, we decided to create and enjoy our creation.

Imagine, we are in a huge desert, in a form of a ball and this ball is a total bliss. And imagine, there is no time nor space in this desert. Now this ball, is the consciousness. So, this ball decides to create and enjoy its creation. Therefore, this ball fragments into several forms and in order to enjoy, it creates several dimensions. It created this universe, where we live. The other dimensions maybe of numbers or colors or anything. In this universe, these fragments take forms of trees, water, mountains, humans, animals, birds, etc. We can call these fragments as souls. Here we can understand that WE ARE ALL ONE! We are that source, that consciousness.

The consciousness is in the form of energy. And it is the most subtle form of energy. Just like the steam. And like the water, the slightly gross form of this energy is the cosmic energy. And just like ice, the more gross form of energy is this universe, which we can relate to, through our senses.

Therefore, we can see that it was our choice to take the human form. It is one of the forms we have taken. We are playing this game of human life, to create and enjoy our creation and to experience. We go through all the experiences in our lives. This game of human life has two rules. One is that, we forget our source (the consciousness). Secondly, we have won the game by remembering what our source is!

Throughout our life, we have been discovering, inventing and searching for something…….what is it? We are never satisfied with all the materials we gain. We always want more of money, power, name, fame. But does it have an end? We are actually in search of our source, therefore, till we understand our source and feel that love, we go on and on endlessly! This explains why many rich and powerful people let go of their power and money when they find the real love.

After all, what do we live for? Only love?! Whatever we do ,is for achieving love. A militant, who takes lives of other people too, is in search of love. Somewhere, deep inside, he has been deprived of love. A man who wishes to earn money and power, wants others to love him or her for this money and power! A child throws tantrums only to seek the attention and love. There is nothing that we do not do for love. But we need to remember that this love is within ourselves and not outside of us.

When we observe the breath, we are in connection with our source. This source, has created the universe and millions of such dimensions. So imagine the potential it has? Or should I say, imagine the potential WE have? We only need to come out of the limitations and boundaries of this body and mind and connect to this unlimited potential, so that we can create a real heaven for ourselves on this earth!

Only love is real!

Written by Mrs Manasi Sose on her blog. Her Work: My Centre India