Clare Rosenfield
Now why is it that certain kinds of insentient energy are around us and not other kinds? Because we created the forms in that way; our own desires invited the kind of insentient vibrations, which surround us.
"I made myself" is a new concept for those of you who were brought up to think that "I am made." The perception "We are makers" may frighten the mind. The mind tends to shrink from that responsibility because it is not used to taking that high position. It reacts in the old, conditioned way. It is not easy to uproot conditionings. For example, in India, even though the caste system has been abolished by law, many minds still remain in slavery to "untouch-ability," and the inferiority complex of the so-called "untouchables" has not faded easily.
We must come to know in our own experience that the whole galaxy is ours and that we are moving from place to place, from planet to planet without any obstacle. Everywhere we have access. Why? Because the whole universe is meant for sentient energy. The universe is nothing but a testing ground for atman's unfolding. According to our desire, our unfolding, our longing, our perception, our living, we select a form, a birthplace, a family, and all the accessories.
Until we get the experience of "I am immortal," we will not grasp the meaning of the unconditioned state of soul. The nature of soul is to live in freedom forever. In partnership with insentient, soul or sentient energy can experience this freedom in different degrees depending on its stage of growth and the depth of the meditative experience.
In meditation, we experience ourselves as a mirror of the divine, or the divine as a larger self of our self. We come to realize that creation is not a person but a process, a process over which we have control.
What is this process? According to the state of consciousness of our soul, our sentient energy will be either in a state of attraction or repulsion, or it will have transcended both poles. In its own natural siddha state, sentient energy has risen above these two and no longer sends out negative or positive vibrations. Its vibrations are what may be described as pure, unpolluted, formless and indestructible. When they are expressed by a pure soul, they are experienced as pure love and bliss. A human being who has not yet reached that state of realization will be at a certain level of attraction and repulsion. According to that level, he vibrates. According to those vibrations, thoughts are produced. These thoughts then take on a structure made up of the karmic particles they have attracted. According to the density and quality of the particles surrounding the soul, a person will act.
When people realize that thought has form that will be a new era for mankind. Just as our presence in front of an electrically operated door generates a form or force, which causes the door to open, so thought takes form. As we recognize the power in an electrical current though it is invisible, we must also acknowledge the power of thought forms.
How can thought forms be seen? By becoming aware of the way in which everything we think has a result. By seeing that our lacks, sicknesses, pains, sorrows are the results of our thoughts. By realizing that thoughts are more dynamic than physical actions.
Many people think that it does not matter what you think, but when the power of thought and its subtle yet direct effect on action is known, then people will make a change in their thought patterns. Do you think that you have been treated unfairly or that someone has abused you or that something has come to you from "out there"? Nothing comes to you from "out there" without first being invited by you from within you. This is a universe in which every thought is registered, and what is in the storehouse will come. So if you have lost your job or have contracted an illness, often it is because you have gone down in your thinking process.
We tend to see the results rather than the cause. We need merely to see that there is a connection between "me" and what happens. We must experience our inborn potentiality to make and create. What we are now calling ourselves - man or woman, short or tall, black or white, educated or ignorant, is nothing but our "make-up". We have made ourselves in that way. We cannot blame God that some are rich and others poor. We can only say this: There is a process of life. In this process, every soul, in one way or another, in a vibration of attraction or repulsion, during his night of ignorance or under the light of knowledge, makes his life form in that way.
With the recognition and acceptance of the fact that no outside element or person can be blamed for our present conditions, we realize that we cannot shirk responsibility for what we are. Our actions, life style, physical appearance, circumstances - these are concretizations of our own thoughts. Then we begin to become a gatekeeper to our mind, not allowing a single negative feeling or unpleasant thought to invade our mind. We know that whatever we put inside our mind will start working like a computer. With this new sense of inner strength and responsibility we start creating our future right now in this very thought moment.
For our thoughts to be dynamic, everything must synchronize - thought, word and action, and all three must be in tune with the highest level of sentient energy. Thought, word, and action must vibrate on the same frequency as all living life. Otherwise, a good thought may arise, but the result will not come. For example, a person may think: "I want to live long." But if he harasses or harms living beings in speech or in action, how can the universe vibrate in harmony with his desire for longevity? The universe cannot vibrate in harmonious response until thought, word, and deed synchronize. So he who wants to live long and happily must learn that first he has to let others live long and happily.
