It has been said that there is no substitute for realisation and, indeed, the impact of a realisation – whether of a small understanding or a major new paradigm – is an experience of an energy which irrevocably changes us in some way whether slightly or all-pervasively.  It flows and vibrates finely and exquisitely throughout our being – in our mind, through our feeling nature and finally as a physical sensation, a frisson, as though a cool, clear air has swept away a fog we didn’t know existed until it was blown away and which we recognise only in the instant that it fades and is no more. Realisation pervades our being completely.  It is not just a mental or theoretical experience, or an emotional reaction or a physical sensation but comes from outside and around those aspects which anchor us in the three worlds.

A realisation is the impact of the emanating presence of truth as it meets that which is true within us and is hence a meeting with itself across the illusory divide between the individual and its divine milieu. It’s a meeting which fans a light that dispels the illusion of separation. At the core of the experience there is a kernel moment, however brief, in which we are immersed in the realisation and have no awareness of the separate self. How much more could be realised – made real through our being – if we could stay still in that moment rather than grasping hastily at the light before the powerful tide of our habitual worldly view sweeps us away in its flood and drowns our attention?

In that brief moment we can look outward to the immense and infinite presence in which we exist or downwards to the world of form and experience and see the underlying inspiration and essence of the greater existence working out, unfolding through events in ways that cannot be perceived through a worldly view. A worldly view is from an anchorage point within it, within “the valley of the shadow of death” where we cannot see beyond the mountainsides forming the valley walls that echo back to us only our own voices, and so reinforce a limited and separate reality rather than the freedom of the infinite expanse from the mountain-top. At the mountaintop we are “in the world but not of the world”. It symbolises where we “dwell in the house of the Lord”.

The nature of realisation is beautifully essentialised by Christine Townend in commentary and quotations from the teachings of Vimala Thakar:

“When the psyche ‘wakes’ or becomes aware, the ‘movement of Intelligence’ is felt in all levels and lays of the being. This movement, this Om, this sacred ‘sound’ or vibration is perceived on the physical level as something akin to being massaged, or to standing under a waterfall. Just as a distant rumble of thunder is felt as a vibration in the body, so is the subtle movement of Intelligence felt when the being is in the state of Awareness, when that dimensional shift or mutation has occurred in the psyche.

… ‘before the personality/ego/ psyche is awakened and aware ‘The energy of Reality contained in you (mainly Intelligence) and the energy of Reality contained outside of you, they are covered up by the darkness of your casualty, callousness, unmindfulness’ [The Message of Chandogya II]

… ‘Gross are the sense organs. Subtle is the mind, more subtle than the mind or the thought structure is Intelligence. But beyond the energy of Intelligence encased in a human body, is the Cosmic Intelligence, which is all-pervading, all-permeating, non-individuated, non-divided and therefore more powerful, more free than the Intelligence embodied or encased in the human body.’ [Insights into the Bhagavad Gita]

… ‘You see if an energy is non physical then it cannot mingle and get blended with another non physical reality, unless they have the same quality, the same frequency.’ [Message of Chandogya II]

… The magnificent and complex structure which is called a human, which is inter-connected with all life, with all nature, with all prakriti, is a magical, mysterious instrument of many dimensions, levels and layers of energy, from the gross to the formless, a construction of prana, fire and agni, irreversibly unseparated from the Cosmic Movement, the paramatma, but mistakenly thinking it is a separate being, until that Awareness, that divine Presence, that Witness wakes to its Reality, that it is a small spark of the Absolute, an Atma within the unchanging, all-permeating paramatma. And this, I believe, is the message of Vimalaji’s life, that it is innate and guaranteed that this possibility will be eventually realised in each and every being.”

The world is changing as the human sense of identity shifts. We are, more than ever before, the One Humanity – increasingly inspired by our humanness and our common purpose more than by our uniqueness of expression in culture, religion, ideology. More of us are seeking and finding the common course of our living that flows on no matter the definitions and strictures we might build to separate, divide and control. It is a living flood which although dammed and blocked in one direction, flows on into new paths – unstoppable, uncontainable and constantly renewing.

Thus might we see either the narrow view of the form constraints or the eternally renewing essence. The world economy might appear to be constrained by the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, governments, banks, businesses and corporations when the reality is that there is an arterial flow around the world of the concretised energy we call money – through family connections dispersed through the diasporas of migration, through the many humanitarian and government agencies bringing support to those in need, through wherever the arteries of the human heart reach and bring life.  The human agents are creating multicultural communities and global networks through which money, experiences and ideas flow.

A great life-sharing process is underway before our very eyes if we suspend all previous assumptions, judgements and ideas of identity, if we stand still and silent at the point where realisation enters in. Here is where the magic is wrought – where truth (reality) can be uncovered and realised (made real) in the world. For we are told: “When water, land and air meet there is the place for magic to be wrought” which is symbolically described in the Old Commentary:

“When the fire is drawn from the inmost point within the heart the waters suffice not to subdue it.  Like a stream of flame it issues forth, and traverses the waters, which disappear before it.  Thus the goal is found.”

“When the fire descends from the One Who watches above, the wind suffices not to blow it out.  The very winds protect, shield and aid the work, guiding the falling fire unto the point of entrance.”

“When the fire emanates from the mouth of the one who thinks and sees, then the earth sufficeth not to hide or kill the flame.  It feeds the flame, causing a growth and magnitude of fire which reaches to the narrow door of entrance.”

Energy follows our thought and the eye of our vision directs that energy while we hold to it and avoid looking judgementally sideways.  Such is the task before each and every one of us – individually according to capacity, together where we coordinate, and always as one in heart and mind.  This is where the soul of humanity shines into the world and magically creates the new Human, the new Civilisation, the new World and the new Earth.  

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