Open-eyed cleaning

All theory
about interaction
with others
is intellectual.

The easiest way
to become
peaceful and
unstressed
is to surrender and
do your spiritual practice
effectively.

Do you know for yourself
that you have changed and
how you have changed
after every meditation,
after every cleaning,
after every prayer?

Every event in a day is cleaning.

Once you can clean effectively
with closed eyes,
start doing the same thing
with open eyes.

Watch as you become
lighter and lighter
after an event.
Purer and purer.
Simpler and simpler.

But that is possible
only if you feel
those three
after every cleaning.

What happens
in cleaning is
unwinding
what is stored.

What happens
in the event is
unwinding again
but also
new winding.

If you do
the same thing
during an event
that you do
during cleaning,
fresh winding
will not happen.

Also, unwinding will be
successful.

Here you have to
simply trust
your inner Master
until you become
sensitive enough
to feel it
palpably.

Sensitivity
comes with
interest
in yourself,
in your spiritual growth.
[~Daaji, paraphrased]

It is very simple.

Let the
impurities,
grossness, and
complexities
go without
paying attention
to them.

Pay attention instead
to the changes within you

-- purer, lighter, simpler --
as those things are
going out.

Most of
the spiritual work and
activity
is outside
your conscious
awareness.

As you clean,
pray, and
meditate,
the boundaries
of your consciousness
expand.

"Down" into the
subconscious and
unconscious.

"Up" into the
superconscious.

Use
that expanded
consciousness
every day.

Your unwinding
becomes
better, faster.

Every event.

Every encounter with
every person -
there is some cleaning
happening.

[Even reading this!]

Trust your higher self.

Trust your inner Master.

Don't try,
don't strain.

You can break through
without trying.
 

No, not "trying",
don't put
"effort"
into observation.

The only effort
needed is
to shift
your attention.

Observing others
without judging
is a strain.

Observe only
yourself.

When observing
yourself
without judging
is a strain,
observe

the inner self,
or its proxy,
your heart.

Then observation
becomes
simple feeling,
simple experiencing.

Silence.

Amidst activity.

Peace.

Light, life, love, understanding beneath my layers

Keeping this in mind as a base may be helpful:

>>>>
There is a light within.
That light is occluded.
Removing the occlusions is my work.
Then the light works naturally.
<<<<

(Whether the light is physical, mental, intellectual, etc. is irrelevant to me.

When I do the practice cheerfully and carefully, tangible naturalness results.)

Light of understanding
My misunderstandings
Remove my misunderstandings
Understanding or clarity results

Divine light
My overlying clouds
Remove my clouds
Divine light works as it should

Divine love
My ego, my overlying likes and dislikes
Remove them
Divine love flows unobstructed, unfiltered, unbiased, simply

Life
My layers - egoistic, emotional, intellectual
Remove my layers
Life "flows" naturally

Lightning evolution

Imagine being hit by lightning.

Your physical body

cannot handle 

the mega-amperes of

electric current and

it burns up.

Now imagine that, 

somehow, say through 

kundalini practices and awakening,

you become physically able 

to handle the titanic surge
of electromagnetic energy. 

Your brain changes as well and 

intellectual,

artistic, and 

emotional 

insights and abilities

open up.

Now you may go around 

searching for 

lightning strikes or 

similar high-power phenomena 

to evolve.

This is lightning evolution by

outside or outer circumstances.

 

Now imagine 

an energetic inner counterpart to 

natural lightning in the sky. 

Those strikes may again be picked up 

after sufficient kundalini practices and 

again change you 

physically and mentally.

This is lightning evolution by

inside or inner circumstances.

 

Imagine now 

a pre-energetic aspect 

to the inner lightning strikes. 

They can be picked up 

internally but mentally, 

when one's attention is 

sufficiently

expansive,

subtle, and 

swift.

 

This subtilization happens

by meditating

on something

infinite and

incredibly dynamic,

even swifter than

mental lightning!

Here, 

even without practices 

to change the body

physiologically or

energetically, 

one is able to 

catch lightning strikes

mentally.

 

Catching mental, 

non-physical,

yet material lightning strikes

can still cause changes in the 

energetic and 

physical layers or 

kośas (prāṇamaya and

annamaya).

 

Next consider

inner lightning 

--a time-bound event-- 

as a grosser manifestation of 

inner sunshine 

--eternally bright.

 

What level of inner subtlety 

would be needed 

to sustain that 

continuous brightness?

And finally, imagine 

a potentiality, 

a nothingness, 

from which 

that sunshine, 

and in turn, 

that lightning 

arises. 

 

Not darkness, 

but greyness, 

black with just a faint hint 

of brightness.

 

What would be the 

mental or

intellectual level 

needed 

to feel and 

understand 

that?

In sum, one sequence of evolution is the ability to withstand or apprehend:

1. physical lightning
2. psychic lightning
3. mental lightning
4. mental sunshine
5. mental potentiality/nothingness
   

Starting from 5. should develop capacity to withstand 4-3. Perhaps it also develops capacity to withstand 4-1, too?

NOTES

 

1. Lightning and sunshine analogy inspired by (but inverted from!) Sri Aurobindo's  Levels of Mind/Consciousness. C.f. Fig.2. The Vertical System - Levels of Consciousness and later explanations in the online Our Many Selves - Practical Yogic Psychology

 

2. "Darkness to light, light to grey" is from Babuji.  He may have been referring to wisdom as light, and omniscience as potential which manifests into actual wisdom as needed.

3. Consider also Babuji's increasingly subtle sequence of matter to energy to absolute, and the increasingly grosser sequence of manasa-vāca-karmaṇa (thought-word-action).

Continuous learning

Learn.

Unlearn.

Learn 
continuously, 
eagerly, 
even enthusiastically, 
about 
the mechanical and 
technological aspects of 
your inner and 
outer worlds.

Unlearn 

the emotional and 

egoistic 

aspects of life.

Why unlearn these aspects?

Storing them, 
regurgitating them, 
building illusory layers,
drain brain energy and 
physiological energy 

(with stress hormones, e.g.),
causing suffering.

Just as one 
cleans, 
maintains, 
repairs, or even 
discards 
physical tools, 
one keeps 
one's inner tools -
mind, ego, and intellect -
free of impurities, 
complexities, and 
grossness 
for optimal learning 

through the
rapidity,
expansiveness, and
subtlety 

of response to

events.

Love is 
a lubricant, 
a microscope, 
a telescope, 
a fuel.

Individual love is 
stored, 
limited, 
exhaustible, 
rationed.

Divine love flows
inexhaustibly and 
incessantly,
but it can be blocked
just by individual 
mental, 
egoistic, 
intellectual 
closing.

Enough individuals 

closing their hearts, 
divine love cannot flow
through and
around them.

Enough reopening, 
divine love flows again.

Life is 

a moment by moment 

flowing.

The mind, the ego, the intellect - 
the instruments or 

modes 

of consciousness - 

sample,
block, 
dam, 
redirect, and 
make turbulent 
the flow of life.

That happens 
when instruments become 
more important 
than consciousness or 
life.

Hone 

all instruments and 

learn - 

for the joy and

love 

of learning. 

A little 

unstressed 

learning 

every day

in one life 

adds up 

tremendously.

Imagine 

continuous 

unending 

learning 

in all fields

across 

an infinity of lives.

Now imagine 

how much time and 

energy is being 

wasted!

Choices

Limited OR unlimited

Individual one OR infinite one, infinity

Separatedness OR oneness

Few relationships OR infinite relationships

Few to many humans OR all humans

Self-awareness OR self-forgetfulness

n=1, 1000, 1 million, ..., 1 trillion, ... OR just uncounted infinity, no n at all

Expand to larger and larger limits OR be unlimited

Individual, group, many groups OR wholeness

Dividing and trying to rejoin OR not dividing at all

Analysis and synthesis OR simple, natural acceptance, and doing

Manifested many OR unmanifest none

Separation OR union

Outward OR inward

Choosing OR being

Listen to heart, act with heart

Listen to your heart.

How?

Emulate women in seeing the big picture all the time.

How do they do it?

They accept everything or see everything, clearly and without distortion, with love, without blinkers or filters. [1]

Like space, the subtlest and least separative level of manifestation. [2]

Act with or from your heart.

How?

Emulate men in doing for themselves, by themselves.

How do they do it?

Alone, with intense energy, unmindful of consequences.

Like earth, the grossest and most individual level of manifestation. [3]

An ideal human, man or woman, should strive for both

- accept or witness Reality without distorting or filtering

- act tirelessly without worrying [4]

And accept or be and do with love flowing. [5]

NOTES

• What has to be accepted or done varies across human beings.
  
  
• Men and women vary in their fidelity to being in ideal acceptance and being an ideal actor. Good parents come closest.

[1] Especially mothers, who know the foibles of every child

 

[2] Posted by Daaji on social media 13 Mar  2025: 

Women are inherently creative; they sustain humanity.
They embody the original principle of space, which is deeply inherent in them.
This space signifies the capacity to accommodate -- to embrace and contain everything.
Space also symbolizes emptiness, a void where nothing exists, yet it holds the potential for everything.
Similarly, the feminine principle, like space, remains boundless, accommodating, and essential to the process of creation and existence.

 [3] Not tamasic-ally, not stuporously, not statically, but with tangible power

 

[4] Like a Feegle!

 

[5] Do-be-do-be-do with love.

Four levels of hearing - an analogy for mental devolution

 1. Total deafness (almost)
due to self-created coverings --
past and presently continuing.

2. Partial deafness
by continuing further creation of coverings
along with
partial hearing
from removal of self-created coverings.

3. Partial hearing
when removal of coverings
exceeds
replacement
by ongoing creation
which still cause
partial deafness.

4. Total hearing (almost)
from maximum removal of coverings and
minimal to zero ongoing re-creation.

For mental devolution,
think of
impurities and
complexities,
as well as
coverings
from the hearing analogy.
In Sanskrit,
per Babuji, [1]
malam,
vikṣepam, and
āvaraṅam,
respectively.

All three
skew or
screw up
one's understanding
through
biases,
stereotypes, and
habits,
resulting in
the tendency
for instant --
usually negative,
definitely individualistic
and separative --
reactions
in various situations.

Reactive action --
reactive thinking,
speaking, or
acting --
is in contrast to
responsive action,
either mindful and
careful
responses --
usually at first,
then
affectionate and
heartful
responses --
usually later.

Initially,
responding
will be
slower than
reacting.

Thinking and
doing,
especially
overriding
instant
reactive
habitual
thinking,
takes more time and
energy.

But the Indian spiritual tradition
seems to point to an interesting idea:
once the mind and
heart
are purified,
response time
will actually be
faster than
reactive time.

This increased speed is,
perhaps counter-intuitively,
associated with reduced ego.

So how does
a reduced ego
result in
individual actions
happening faster?

And how can
more selfless or
transcendentally beneficial
actions
such as the mahavratās (ahiṁsa, satya, ...)
occur faster than
selfish or self-centred reactions?

After all,
neuroscience claims that
the emotional or
the amygdala-brainstem subsystem
is the fastest part
of the human brain
since it has to work for
the physical safety of
the individual human being.
The "no time to think" idea.

The argument that follows
is more from experience
than theoretical logic.

And while it is
observational and
subjective,
it is the common experience
of meditators.
 

1. As one's
   self-created
   impurities,
   complexities, and
   coverings
   get removed,
   the speed,
   responsiveness,
   clarity, and
   expandability
   of one's inner instruments
   increases
   exponentially.
   
   
2. This allows
   ongoing,
   real-time,
   directing of
   one's inner and
   also one's outer
   instruments
   by a transcendental entity
   whose instruments
   are even faster.
   
   
3. An attenuated ego --
   minimal to zero --
   reduces
   the processing needed
   for a signal or inspiration
   from that entity
   to take effect.
   
   
4. When such inspirations
   have consistently beneficial results,
   trust becomes blind faith,
   in that one may not know
   (as an individual)
   how one's actions will turn out
   until after an event. [2]
   
   
5. Understanding
   the immediate situation
   is also speeded up
   because it is understood
   transcendentally than
   individually.
    
6. Even at the
   partial deafness or
   partial hearing
   stages,
   one can observe
   one's thinking
   shifting
   from individualistic
   to empathic
   to group
   to universal.
   
   
7. At the total hearing stage,
   one's actions tend to
   naturally be
   more beneficial to all
   than only for me.

In sum, inner instruments work faster at subtler levels 

without an individuating or separating ego,

resulting also in faster yet more altruistic actions 

across manasa-vāca-karmaṇa (thought-word-deed) levels.

NOTES

[1] Ram Chandra (Babuji). 1954 (2010 reprint).  Reality at Dawn. p. 55, Ch: Spiritual Training. Spiritual Hierarchy Publication Trust, Kolkata.

[2] Babuji reportedly used to wait for orders from "above" to be repeated 2-3 times to confirm that he was not fantasizing.