Sep 22, 2009, 04.05pm IST
Nimishananda.
If you wish to experience bliss referred to as satchitananda, nirvana or enlightenment, it would help to first come to an understanding of yourself in a scientific as well as spiritual sense.
Scientifically we have the gross physical body that is matter, and spiritually, that is, energy-wise, we have the causal and ethereal bodies. If the body that is made of flesh and bone is understood to be our physical body, then what constitutes the spiritual body?
The spiritual body consists of the causal body. It is made up of mind, intellect, logic, reasoning, analytical powers, skill, talent, inherited and self-retained tendencies from past lives, self-learnt and practised habits by association, education and society norms and cultures from this life. All these are stored in the four sheaths or energy fields.
There is a second aspect to the causal body: the ethereal body. That is, the energy field of bliss or ananda, the cosmic mind or chit which is the built-in software or motherboard of our system, life and sat, the truth. Sat is the pure cosmic energy of the Creator.
The fruition or the activation, the blossoming of life happens when the three factors blend together as sat-chit-ananda. The chit or consciousness in us is like a trampoline or the bouncing membrane wherein all our spiritual and religious sadhana effects might bounce off because of a lack of awareness of the pure energy in us.
Invoking the Divine Mother Devi as Lalita during the Navaratri celebrations would enable us to regard her as a guru and therefore inspire us to ignite and stoke the chit within and blend it into sat. When sat and chit meet, the next step is attainment of ananda or bliss, with the blessings of the Mother Goddess as Lalita.
During the Navaratri season when we start invoking Devi as Lalita ^ whose nature is playful ^ the whole of cosmic creation is revealed to be her divine play. Lalita, when faced with the devotion of those who invoke her, she uses the devotee's chit as her platform to perform the dance of ultimate enlightenment or the amalgamation of knowledge, existence and bliss as sat-chit-ananda.
In this manner, by invoking Lalita in our own chit or cosmic mind, we can connect the cosmic consciousness to our physical body through the umbilicus or belly button. This place is nabhi, where the primordial sound or nada ^ the shabda ^ resides. At the navel the nada links itself to our breath and becomes the naadi or pulse that can trigger the Pranava Naada, the AUM sound.
This is in a way a kind of cosmic combustion for it releases a lot of cosmic energy that is totally divine. It further infuses sat or truth as artha, the meaning of life, to our causal body of intellect, mind, logic and reason. There is a total awareness that has not been hitherto experienced.
When the chit is activated in this way, we begin to get intuitive prompts from within. Intuition effortlessly reveals the right course of action in every moment of our life. With the faculty of intuition, our future is known and our life is full of certainties and security. Intuition and inspiration make each day in our lives divine and extraordinary. Then all our confusion, conflict, duality, ignorance, mindset, the vagaries of the past and future totally vanish, and we get established totally in the present.
Today is Lalita Panchami.
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