Mind Power - The World's Illusion, Spiritual Awakening and Enlightenments

The world around us looks so real, and to proclaim that it is only an illusion may seem sheer nonsense. How can it be? Yet, it is possible to accept this idea. I believe you agree with me, if I say that the body is some sort of an extraordinary machine. It is made up of a combination of materials, but it functions as a unit. Can you say confidently that you are the body? Are you the hair that is cut and thrown away when you go to the hairdresser? Are you your fingers nails, nose, legs or thighs? The body changes through the years, are you this changing form? Can you say that you are a particular thought? Many thoughts pass through the mind each day. They are like a movie that passes in front of your eyes. Sometimes the movie is interesting, and sometimes it is boring. Sometimes it engenders happy feelings sometimes it causes the rise of sadness or anger. Do you remember a thought that you thought an hour ago? Yesterday? How can these thoughts be the real you? You think them, but you are not them. The same thing goes for your feelings. It is not true to say, "I am angry", "I am sad", and "I am happy". It is truer to say, "I am letting now a feeling of anger, sadness or happiness to occupy my consciousness for a while". You, the basic you, stay the same, while feelings come and go. You are not your feelings, which change constantly. Then who are you? The mind cannot describe what is beyond it, because it has not been there. It can understand mental descriptions, which only give it a clue of the reality beyond it. To know who you really are, you have to transform your awareness beyond the mind. You are beyond the physical body, feelings and thoughts. You are the eternal, impersonal consciousness that created and infused life into this conglomeration of body, feelings and thoughts that you call "me". This homogenous, indivisible, complete Consciousness manifests in everything. It is the life principle of the manifestation that you consider to be yourself. The manifestation, which is the combination of body, thoughts and feelings, is nothing without this life principle. We can certainly say that the Consciousness is the only real thing, and every manifestation is just a creation, and therefore not permanent, eternal or real in the sense that it can exist by itself. Can you become aware of this great Consciousness? Yes, of course. You are it. You are letting thoughts and feelings cloud it. If you constantly pay attention to the outside world, then it becomes very real for you. If you find a way to detach yourself from it, and turn your attention within, to the Consciousness beyond the mind, you can tear off the screen of illusion, and live consciously in this great Consciousness. Silence of the mind is the prerequisite to awakening spiritually. Only when the mind is silenced and there are no thoughts, you realize who you really are - the vast, eternal Consciousness. This is what has been called spiritual awakening or enlightenment. This is what yogis, saints and seekers on the spiritual path seek. It is here and now. All you have to do is change the way you view the world. You have to learn to dis-identify yourself with your body, feelings and thoughts, and develop true detachment. Through constant meditation the mind is made quiet. Then, from deep inside will raise a great silence, peace, life, consciousness and being. This is the real you. This is enlightenment. The way to spiritual awakening is open for everyone. Only attachment and erroneous thoughts and concepts hide it. It can come suddenly, and it can come gradually. The funny thing is that you do not have to search for it, and you do not need to reach anywhere. All you have to do is dive within with a quiet mind, become aware of this inner, eternal underlying consciousness and stay there. When you are spiritually awakened, your life will probably go on as before. You may teach and you may not. You may write about your experiences and you may not. You will still have to eat, sleep and take care of the physical life, though you know through your experience that everything is just an illusion. If you view a movie with detachment, you may enjoy it, yet you will not be moved by what happens in it. You know it is just a movie, the projection of light and color on a screen. You see it, but it does not cause thoughts or feelings to arise. It is the same with the world. The world is not real. You, your real "I", live in an undifferentiated eternity, yet the body seems to continue to live in a created world. When you are spiritually awakened nothing can influence you anymore. You are beyond life and death. You will still have to provide food, clothes and a house for the body, yet, whatever you do, you will do with inner detachment. You may go on acting intensively in the world, yet remaining uninvolved in consciousness, as if outside of the world. The power of the mind creates your world - the illusion you are living in. Thoughts and imagination are creative, and they mold this illusion. As your thoughts are, so is your world. When you awaken to your Consciousness, your mind will be quiet, but it will be focused, and you will be able to use it more effectively. When you awaken to your real Consciousness, and manage to stay in it more or less permanently, you may disregard the power of the mind, or you may use it to mold your illusion - your world, though by now you stop believing in its reality. As the "real world" continues to be seen, why not help yourself cope with the material necessities by using the creative power of the mind? You can choose the images to be reflected on the screen of your world. The thoughts you focus on become your "reality". This is the secret of creative visualization. With your mind power you change the appearance of the illusion. What you do is just create a different illusion. You may say that when you awaken spiritually, you will be beyond the world's illusion, and material things will not matter any more. This is true, but yet, the illusion has to be lived. You have to eat, pay bills and take care of the body. It is true, you will approach these matters in a completely different way, but you still need to take care of them. Even an enlightened master has to eat, drink and sleep. Going beyond the mind, beyond the illusion of the world, and awakening spiritually, puts a great power and responsibility in your hands, for then you have the power to influence the world. Your awakened consciousness is an immnese power that can stimulate the spiritual awakening in others. As all Consciousness is one, calming down your mind, and becoming conscious of your Consciousness, influences the whole of Consciousness. Posted By Emmanuel Ayomide Praise http://www.emmapraise.blogspot.com http://www.christianity.blogspot.com Article Source:http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Emmanuel_Ayomide_Praise