Last year, a friend of mine had a rare privilege of visiting India to a place called the
. They were invited to stay in silence and he was there for 21 days. The easiest thing he could say about that whole experience is that it took him out of his mind. Every day, they were being showered with an energy transfer called as Deeksha (but it is now known as the Oneness Blessing.) He began to let himself experience things instead of analyzing them; he find that practice simpler and easier than ever before. That’s a big deal for him—up to this day, he discovered that living in a state of Oneness is definitely a gift of grace.
The very first step is oneness with yourself, then with each other, and then with the animals and plants and the life that surrounds us and ultimately with all that is, or God Himself. My friend actually invites us to know and research the Oneness Movement and to see and experience for ourselves this phenomenon. Or, at the very least, begin to take note where you live in separation—the not me and the me, the yours and mine syndrome. We go through the several stages of spiritual growth as we move through our midlife. Oftentimes, we learn to move on from being a victim, to being totally and fully responsible and accountable for manifesting our lives.
Then, we begin to learn how to surrender into something higher than ourselves, although completely part of ourselves. You may notice that even when you start to pray, there are times that there is still this sense that there is the life of God and there is your life somewhere else… for years and years, it still happens. Yet with each realization, insight or
, you have instances of being conscious or aware the life of God that surrounds you, that the life of God itself that is in you, the personal sense of a life aside from God starts to lessen, the life of God which is anywhere and everywhere is your life.
The last stage or phase of spiritual growth is one that not so several people discuss about, because it is one of which we attain only a brief look. This is the phase of spiritual growth which the aged mystics called the Unitive Way and which enlightened masters call a state of Oneness. To move from the 3rd level to the 4th, we just have to give up and surrender our sense of separation…a personal sense of a life aside from God. We have to come into a much greater condition of beingness. So in the sense of separation, to move into that condition of being that sense of separated starts to dispel.
Now this phase is very significant because it is very possible to have a genuine surrender, to free and let go to the presence of God while you maintain a dual sense. My friend had that privilege of sharing the Oneness Blessing every week and he noticed that the more he let himself receive, the more incredible his
becomes.
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