How to Realize God? – Swami Sivananda

 How to Realize God?

 

God is a question of supply and demand. If you really yearn for His Darshan, He will reveal Himself to you in an instant.

You need neither art nor science, neither study nor erudition for God-realization, but faith, purity and devotion.

Combine all the love you cherish towards all worldly objects — wife, children, wealth, property, relatives, and friends— and then apply this combined love towards God. You will realize in this very second.

To serve God and Mammon at the same time is impossible. You cannot enjoy the bliss of the Self and the sensual pleasure in the same cup. You cannot have light and darkness at the same time.
 

The Lord demands your whole heart.

Reduce yourself into zero before God. Only then, will God completely take care of and guide you. Only then, surrender becomes complete.

Forget your own interests, your own longings, your own desires. You will attain the bliss of the Supreme Self.

Crucify, sacrifice the lower self, if you wish to have union with God.

Empty your egoism. You will be filled with God. Lose your personality. You will find the Divine Life. You will realize God.

Swami Sivananda

The Quantum Vacuum and the Infinite Self / Menas Kafatos

Menas Kafatos explores the Quantum Vacuum and the Infinite Self at the Science and Nonduality Conference 2012.

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Perception and the Self: Mystery and Amazement by Menas Kafatos

 Perception and the Self: Mystery and Amazement

Menas Kafatos is Professor of Computational Physics and Director of Excellence at Chapman University

The nature of the mind and the subjective experience remain great challenges in modern science and philosophy. Neuroscience assigns mental activity to physical process. This has yielded little in the actual understanding of the mind. Relying on physicalist assumptions actually assumes a world view put to rest by quantum theory more than 80 years ago. What I propose is an uncompromising view of the fundamental nature of underlying consciousness, the source of the mind. It is based on the “amazing hypothesis”, reality is amazing because at some levels is very simple, while at the same time mysterious. The universe is much richer than our perceptions tell us, infinitely so. Perception limits what we view as reality because it depends on our senses, our own specific environment in our own planetary system, our own species. It is a prism that distorts underlying reality.

This underlying reality is universal Consciousness, which operates at every level of existence of the universe, the physical, the mental, the beyond. It is founded on the fundamental I-awareness, which is the true Self. The Self projects the universe out of its own infinite existence, through a series of fundamental principles, which apply at all levels, by first separating Itself from Itself, in what appear as infinite numbers of objects. However, it never loses its own I-ness. In the unfoldment of the universe, qualia, the collection of vast numbers of subjective experiences, play a fundamental role, for all species, of all individual organisms. Perception is based on qualia, perception is in fact qualia.

The sages of ancient monistic schools (Advaita Vedanta), the philosophers, taught through practical steps the experience of the Self. Its names are infinite, its nature mysterious because it can never be studied through perception or through the mind. But it is the one, amazing truth: The creative process can be experienced in one’s own being. The Self should be understood and experienced as the ultimate Witness Consciousness. In this vision, the Universe is participatory, consisting of countless acts of observation, forming a web of entangled processes at all levels, obeying fundamental principles which the Self utilizes in the creative process.

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