I would like to describe my experience of the connection between one’s inner-self and the Universe. Such an experience leads to complete surrender, and surrender takes away the ego out of one’s self; it leads to merger of individual with the Universe/Source.
I have been in All India Services for three decades and always in active postings. The nature of work adds tremendous pressure on the body as well as the mind. Furthermore, there is always the danger of being an organisational man. I often felt a disconnect between my inner self and the demands of this job, to such an extent that I felt I was living in a false world. Under such circumstances, there is always the risk of being judgmental and non-trusting, resulting in a hyperactive mind. I found the practice of Heartfulness providing tremendous calming effects during the most trying times.
Using the tools of Heartfulness, one learns to relax one's body, dive deep within oneself during the meditation, thus understanding oneself and the world around one much better.
Tools such as the Heartfulness Cleaning help in ‘letting-go’ at a much deeper level. In Heartfulness, we meditate on the heart, as the heart is the seat of an innate well-being and of all emotions. One of the unique aspects of Heartfulness meditation is the support of transmission that is defined as a Universal energy that is used to transform man. When this transmission is directed to heart, it enters the heart and slowly during the time of meditation reaches every cell of the body, charging us completely inside out. As we meditate and dive deeper in our beings, the core of our illusions begin to chip away. Barriers that we perceived to exist between us and others slowly begin to fade. The acceptance that we have of ourselves now begins to reflect for the people surrounding us. When one sees oneself in others, the judgmental urge goes away. Not being judgmental leads to better inter-personal relationship, better comprehension of happenings all around, our consciousness expands, and we move to an altogether different elevated level. Prioritisation, better use of time, understanding the energy of love and search for purpose of life are the positive outcomes of meditating at a physical level. They orient us towards progress by putting things in right perspective.
Albert Einstein said that love was an untapped energy whose potential mankind had not yet understood. Heartfulness meditation is all about meditating on the heart which helps to move from thinking to feeling. With feeling, the human being begins to understand that reality is much beyond a narrow definition based on man’s limited levels of comprehension.
Consciousness at the human level is a narrow spectrum. It is sandwiched between the sub-conscious level involving individual earthly experiences or subjectivity and super-conscious level that has objectivity at the ultimate level. When man is able to travel the entire spectrum of consciousness through meditation, his comprehension becomes very vast, thus helping him understand his worldly existence in the right perspective. The Source, God, Nature or whatever man would like to call it, is within oneself and understanding of oneself invariably leads to a deep and heartful understanding of the overall scheme of things. This can be possible only through personal experience. No amount of words could ever describe the feeling or joy of experience.
{The writer is Minister (Coordination), High Commission of India, London}
