This thought for the day is for me important as it talks about the brother of the king and it corresponds to dreams and insights I had about it, and he was the king when he left the body, of course it was the man coming in our dreams to awaken present in that way as the king.
Some of it as it feels like the core of it is in that thought for the day and it feels like bringing it together.
Every insight has its own meaning and its own right and has to get to a right conclusion, he was also in the dream and said that he is the insight and the following step.
The brother of the king we mentioned already and in many ways as it had been in the dream stage as brother. In these words is the right answer, it is about that brother, it is a stage in the progression of the soul to oneness or the oversoul.
That oneness is in the Atmic principle and we talk always about that Atmic principle, because it is the basis and the answer to the spiritual question, 'who am I' and everybody has to answer it on his own level and in his own awareness.
It is all about oneness, he is the one, he is 'that' and as he always was telling us, 'I am God', with other words, the 'I' is universal and not identified with the body and 'that' is divine love and God.
We are reminding people constantly that we are not the mind and not the body, but 'that', divine love. It is pure love as long as we are individuals and when it is universal it is divine love.
At the first sight this text may sound difficult; it is about the relationship with the Lord developing from one stage to the next.
Some people I know in our center would not look at it as there are so many Sanskrit expressions in it, we just have lost the fear of it a bit since we mentioned in the study circle that the Sanskrit words need not to be understood, they relate us to the source as we are all over the world and Sanskrit we find in the Veda only.
It is just telling us that the relationship with the Lord develops from being in his vicinity only to nearness and to the absorption into the form.
If we had no experiences with the 'I am that' and how everybody is him only, we all are He, we have to understand the absorption in the form, but when we get aware that we all are he, the same 'I am that' and the recognition that it is Swami, we get absorbed in his form.
The relationship with the Lord is described as developing from Salokya (in the vicinity) to Samipya (nearness), to Sarupya (Form of the master) and then on to Sayujya (absorption into the Form). You can understand this clearly, if you take Salokya to mean, being in the kingdom ruled by the Lord, or as a servant in the palace where He dwells. You are under His fostering care. In the Samipya stage, you feel you are a personal attendant on the Lord, privileged to be near Him and to be called upon by Him for some personal service. You have neared the principle of Godhead, intellectually; you feel His presence ever, emotionally.
We know how it feels to be a personal attendant of the Lord and the man coming in our dreams to awaken said, personal staff and at that time it was surprising, we had not been in Prashanti for the last years and he said, I had been abroad.
The contact with Swami at the inside was close, much closer than I ever thought it would be. A lot of the dreams during that time when he left the body had to do with that progression explained in that text here.
From feeling like nowhere and trying to find answers somewhere else, frustrated and exhausted, burned, it felt like enough waiting for nothing at that point really and I didn't know yet that we have to get to that point of not being able to take it anymore.
As he said we have to be on the point we cannot take it anymore or faint, we know both ways, but the fainting was easier and didn't take that much time.
Swami is always talking about the Atmic principle and if we do his work, we talk about the Atmic principle as well. We should not forget it ever and how to get there; it is by meditation and contemplation, thinking it over.
In the Atmic principle we are one, all are He and it is not about family, it is more a way to understand it, the Atmic principle is different.
We get it with the man coming in our dreams to awaken we get the right insights about the Atmic principle. It is that 'I am that',it was in the air during Darshan and it was in an inside Darshan again.
Next, the stage of Sarupya is like being the brother of the King. He can wear the same robes. One has the splendour, the glory that bespeaks the full blossoming of the Divine latent within. Lastly, when you are the son, the heir apparent, you approximate as much as possible to the Royal Power and so, you can say, 'I and My Father are One.' These are the stages of the soul's journey to Realisation of the Oversoul.
Swami is very clear about it in that study help about love, it is in the introduction, he tells us in many ways that he is only here for the Atmic principle, not for a religion, not to get disciples and not to create ashrams, but for the Atmic principle only and if we do his work it is about the Atmic principle.
It is the way of the soul's journey to realize the Oversoul, it is at the core, the main thing, it is the A and O of his teaching, everything we do it to clean the mind, as he said every activity keeps us in the right direction it is a help to keep the focus ongoing, but the main thing is the realization of that divine principle.
We have to understand the different stages, exactly as explained here in his words.
It is about self-realization, but it means the realization of the soul that our higher self is not different from him as we all are He. It is about the realization of those different stages of the oversoul.
In fact, in that thought for the day are most of the dreams and there were lots of dreams of the man coming in our dream to awaken during that time with Swami, when he left the body, it is the core of it, the inner center of his very being in those dreams as described and explained here in that thought for the day.
It is a real gift to read these words and getting aware of the deeper meaning in it.
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