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Namah Reflections

and reflecting the higher levels… Energy is one’s very being — is a constant churning
ever conserved… and ever serves, the way of energy transformations, beckoning to
we make it serve us. accept the subtle and gross reflections and
projections, in the body and the mind and
In terms of consciousness, too, it is a matter of outside, of the various levels and layers of
the infinite, birthless, deathless — the journey consciousness, and transform them, through
of desire to aspiration, a gradual shift or a leap the raising of the level of consciousness, to
to the higher levels of consciousness. When reside in and as, embodying, the Highest,
the Universal, the Eternal, is aspired for, ‘a the Divine-consciousness, the Oneness-
spire’ is scaled by the Grace of the Universal consciousness, the consciousness embodying
— the very aspiration, too, Grace — and the the Truth, Oneness with the Divine. And this,
union with the Divine, attaining Divine- happens with, as and by Grace, emphasising
consciousness, the ‘true consciousness’, the significance of the aspiration for the
blesses with the experience of universality Divine, Its Grace.
of the being, blessing with, along with, the
insights and creations that are called forth So extols and invites, affirms and encourages,
through the aspiring being… the divine “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
aspirant, the Divine’s aspirant. righteousness; and all these things shall be
added unto you (2)”, beckoning the aspiration
Desire, like everything else, is a reflection for the Divine, and solely for the Divine,
and manifestation of a specific energy state, which is all that there is, Love Unconditional,
having its various, further subtle layers, and hence, leads to all that matters, dissolving
which camouflage themselves, ‘appearing’ as the dualities (and multiplicities) through
an earnest wish, prayer and even aspiration. It transcendence.
is difficult not just to transcend and transform
desire, but to even discern desire from the Everything incubating in itself the so-called
other garbs with which it masks itself. The ‘good’ and the ‘bad’, positive and the negative,
discerning too happens with an elevation in the negative holds in itself the potential to
the level of consciousness, brought about by reach the pinnacle of the positive. So has
Grace, initiating and sustaining the urge, the it been aptly stated that a photograph too is
aspiration to dissolve desire by transforming developed in the darkroom, turning the negative
it to aspiration. Aspiration, too, is another into the positive!
unique energy state, reflection of a much
higher (though immeasurable the ‘gap’) level, The tunnel of darkness, ignorance, leads to
and when desire takes the quantum leap to the Light, Truth-consciousness.
aspiration, it is an energy transformation…
It is a matter of transformation and not destruction,
Transformation is the essence of the process as is the matter of energy, everything! Likewise,
and purpose desire is not to be uprooted but transformed,
causing a change in its nature. Automatically,
This, the process and purpose of Self-realisation it gets uprooted as it ceases to be desire,
— God-realisation, the divinity-realisation of having transformed to aspiration — aspiration

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