Piercing through the Clouds
Yesterday afternoon we went to Einsiedeln. Our spiritual teacher, Dr. K. P. Kumar, who just returned from a 6 weeks’ tour to Spain and the Caribbean, had invited my wife and me to come over for an evening. We had a long talk, going from the present political situation between the super-powers, Burma and India, to a number of private questions and general points of spirituality. As usual, it was very uplifting.
We discussed the plan of our local group to organise a few meetings about meditation and everyday life. He suggested that we also explain to the people the meaning of the circle with the cross (which you see at the top of our blog):
It is one of the ancient-most signs representing the totality of life. The 4 arms of the cross are symbolic for the four stages of expression of life: as existence, awareness, thought and action. We know the dimension of action very well. All the day we are acting. And we fairly well know the dimension of thoughts, for they are guiding our actions. As per the other two dimensions we normally don’t know, but we get into them through meditation. The experience of pure existence is called Samadhi in the East. Normally we experience existence without awareness: When we awake in the morning we know that we have existed during the night, but without conscious experience. Pure awareness is also normally not known to us, because one thought after the other passes through our mind.
I asked him why it is so difficult for people here in the West to approach spiritual concepts, it sometimes gives me a feeling of a burden of heaviness. He said, that here in the West the focus is on the material side and that it is much easier in the East to get into the spiritual dimension: “But the West is needed as well. It is part of the whole.”
We have here a very dense atmosphere, which is difficult to pierce through. But with the help from higher circles we can magnetize it slowly. “The internet is a great facility to connect the searchers dispersed all over the globe.” He then explained how the work with colours – from violet flame to rose, to green, orange, and we can slowly get into more subtle planes. Orange colour helps to clean the mental. Then from colour to sound: “OM is creating a funnel through which subtle energies can manifest.” It needs stable channels for the energies to manifest. For this we work.
After the evening meditation and dinner we went back home. He, his wife and an Indian friend who had accompanied them left today, back to India.
Piercing through the clouds: Durga-Mountains, Nilagiris, India
