Shivohum to all of you, today we are going to understand teachings of Mulavarga Self Ascension journey. So when we say Self-Ascension journey means the meaning of self means our true nature, our divine self, our true home. So our true self is Shiva consciousness, Shakti consciousness, Shiva Shakti consciousness, truth consciousness or soul consciousness and it is made of pure awareness. The pure awareness is called unconditional love. That is what our master Thirumoolarji explained it as Anbe Shivam. So this is a path where we are here on this human format or in the physical plane having a physical body with the senses and having an energy body, astral body, mental body and the soul body and we are a being of a truth consciousness and living in the third dimension. Now we want to ascend from this third dimension to our divine source that is the unconditional love. So this is the journey from human to divine, from Jeeva to Shiva that we need to understand. To go back to our source, we need to understand what are the important teachings are there on the path to ascend from a human to divine, from Jeeva to Shiva. So we are already having a physical body here. As we all know the physical bodies are made of organs, bones, muscles, body fluid, blood and all of that and having a senses through that we interact with the external universe. Also when these senses are awakened as a psychic senses, we interact with the inner world of a consciousness, inner world of a thoughts, inner world of a feeling that is what we call subtle plane.
So we are not just being having a physical body but also we have an energy body, astral body, mental body and then the soul body. This energy is all the thoughts energy, all the feeling energy, all the emotional energy of this life and past life. All the psychic impression, karmic impression, all the history of you in this and past life, everything is stored and collected in this energy body. So that is what we call one of the very subtle body that is energy body. Another body is astral body. It is made of all the feelings, emotions that are stored that is what we call astral body. Then we have a mental body. It is made of a thoughts, all the thoughts, bundle of thoughts of this life, past life, from the birth until now, what are your experiences, the positive thoughts, negative thoughts, everything is in this mental body. And last one is the soul body. It is made of a pure awareness, pure consciousness. So we are a being having a physical body, energy body, astral body, mental body and soul body. Plus we are living in this earth dimension where the time is called linear time dimension. It’s like a past, present and future. It’s a linear, it’s a one-way. You cannot go to the past in the physical dimension. But in a non-linear dimension where we have a subtle dimension, energetically you can go into the past, you can go into future. Astrally you can travel to your childhood or the past life, you can also travel to your future. Mentally also you can travel back and forth. So this is the dimension of our self, a very subtle dimension. I can say fourth dimension type thing it is. This is the third dimension, I’m telling in terms of timing . And then we have a last soul plane, soul dimension where there is no time, there is no space, there’s nothing in that. Only it is a timelessness, eternality. Only the divine presence we can feel it.
So we are spiritual, divine spark of a Shiva Shakti came on this earth having this physical body, energy body, astral body, mental body and soul body. Now when we are here on this earth we are experiencing a positive thoughts, negative thoughts, positive emotion, negative emotion and positive feeling, negative feeling, positive situation in the outside world, negative situation in the outside world. So we are going through a different dimension within our self. When I am feeling guilt, hurt, shame, addicted, I am living in the second dimension. When I’m worrying about the past, future and this, I’m just living in the third dimension. When I’m celebrating, joyful, forgetting the past, present and future and I’m living in this present moment that is a joy, that celebration. When I’m in a meditation that divine bliss, boundless consciousness is the fifth dimension. When I’m meditating, working with my subtle plane, I’m in the fourth dimension. When I go beyond the bliss, joy and forget myself, forget the external world, I’m completely in the bliss state, I am in the seventh or higher dimension. So from morning to evening, every day I am going through a different dimension, different thoughts, different emotions, different phases of my life. But when I want to ascend from lower self or from the human dimension to a divine dimension, I need to learn how I can transform my fear, my guilt, my hurt, my all the lower emotions into a positive emotions that are my soul qualities. What are my soul qualities? Love, care, acceptance, compassion, forgiveness, awareness. All these are my soul qualities. So to overcome my lower emotion, lower thoughts, lower feeling, I have to apply my soul qualities. That is where the life lessons are there. So when I say self-care, it is not just taking care of a physical body. I’m taking care of my thoughts. I’m experiencing less negative thoughts, less negative emotion, negative feeling. That is the way I not only take care of the physical dimension, I also take care of my subtle dimension. When I say I accept myself, I am not just seeing myself as a body, but I also accept that I am a multidimensional being beyond this physical body. I have all of this and ultimately my true self is a soul. I am having this physical body, energy body, astral body, mental body, but I am a soul taken all of this to experience the earth dimension. There is a lesson there, okay. Like this self-love, self-forgiveness. If you don’t learn to forgive, you cannot overcome guilt feeling. If you don’t learn to forgive, you cannot overcome the hurt. And like this, all these lessons are very very important when you want to master the self-ascension. So life lessons are very, very important on your path of spiritual growth. Then we have illusions of the life. So one of the life lessons is the awareness who you are and what are the external world and its reality.
If you are not aware of the illusions of the life, you fall again and again. You cannot overcome with the problems. You are stuck in this dimension, in the third dimension of the physical dimension, I can say. That you need to understand. So what are the illusions? First illusion is that I am the physical body. So you know that. Every Upanishads are telling, all the scriptures are telling that you are a Nirguna Nirakara Parabrahma Svarupa. You are a spark of a Shiva Shakti. But what is the first illusion is that I am a body. And second thing is I am the permanent soul body having a temporary human body living in a temporary world that is controlled by a linear time dimension, past, present and future. And everything that run in this world is because of universal of polarity, universal of duality. That is positive is there, negative is there, day is there, night is there, male is there, female is there and good is there, bad is there. Nothing is permanent in this physical dimension. Everything is temporary and in this temporary world having a temporary body, I am looking for a permanent happiness and looking for a permanent love, looking for a permanent establishment on this earth. This is a second illusion that we face on this earth. And third illusion is our mind. It is always makes decision because of the pleasure. Wherever there is a pleasure, it will run into that. If I take an example, if I give you very sweet taste food, take example as a chocolate and the bitter taste neem kashaya, what could be your choice? It is always you want to eat a chocolate, you want to make a choice to eat a chocolate but not the one neem kashaya. Okay, even you are going through a disease but still your mind is influenced towards a pleasure, not the healthy food that is needed for you. This is just an example I am giving to you. Same thing if you want to meditate early morning when the alarm is ringing so you are sleeping, there’s always a choice. The pleasure is sleep some more time and the pain for the mind is to get up and meditate. So like this every day whatever we make a choice even in a relationship, even there is a truth that your behaviour is not good, certain skills are not developed but somebody is revealing that truth to you that looks very painful to you and some other person who is just admiring even it is not true, you like him. So always our mind is towards pleasure. Every action in our day-to-day life, every choice we make is most of the time because of the pleasure seeking. This is also one of the Maya. If I don’t come out of this pleasure seeking mind, I cannot master my emotion, I cannot master my body, I cannot master my life, I cannot attain the real success in this life and then there is another illusion is there that you believe that something is missing in you that you know no matter earlier you struggled to get a job but after getting that job you will not be completely happy with that. Again you will be searching for one more. The same thing which will happen with the job, same thing will happen with the mantra, same thing happen with whatever you have always there is a inner feeling that you are incomplete, something is missing and you go on looking for that and you find ultimately you cannot fill that illusion that is within you and second thing another very very important illusion is that you believe that you are separate from the divine.
In reality you are always grounded into a divine. Because of your karmas you are disconnected, because of your identity with your body you disconnected with the one soul, one divine, one consciousness, one energy. This is also one of the illusion. All these illusions are beautifully explained in Durga Saptashti. Madhu and Kaitaba. Madhu is a pleasure, Kaitaba is the pain and then Mahishasura where he is distracting your mind, he is distracting and making you search outside. He will not make you happy with yourself. You will be thinking neighbours are very happy, neighbours will be thinking you are very happy, job people thinking business people are very happy, business people thinking job people are very happy. Like this always your attention will be taken outside that Mahishasura is working. Then you have another Raktabija where one desire leads you to again another desire. Earlier you have a desire, then you start living a life with a partner, again your partner desires become your desire and then you have a child, their desire become your desire, then the grandchildren and this seeking and fulfillment itself is suffering, but we will not see this. We only think that if I don’t get a job, if I get a job then I overcome with the suffering, but the seeking and fulfillment itself is a karmic cycle, itself is an illusion until unless you don’t overcome pleasure and pain, seeking and fulfilling this cycle of illusion, you cannot be happier. There’s one more illusion Shumba Nishumba. You see that many people have this one of the Sattvic demon within us where they think that they know everything. By understanding they believe that they know everything. In spirituality it is too much. They come to the workshop, they just introduce to the techniques of the Sri Vidya Sadhana, the idea of the Sri Vidya Sadhana and the principles of the Sri Vidya Sadhana, but they think that by understanding the mantra, they think that they know the mantra. No, this is not.
They understand the mantra. When they practice mantra for many years, experience this energy, specialized consciousness in their body, mind and soul, with that realization they know that I know the mantra, but they have the illusion, I know everything. By seeing the idol of Divine Mother, they think that they know the Divine Mother, but it’s not true. So like this many people are self-deceiving themselves. They are physical body but in reality they are not a physical body. These are all the illusions of life. You need to come with awareness. That’s what the lesson of self-awareness, who you are, where you are, what is the world you are living in and how you should have an understanding, how you could raise yourself from all these angles. So this is another aspect that we need to focus when we are on the self-ascension journey. Then very very important, when we are walking on the path of truth, we need to have the right tools to resolve our karmas. You see that many people are suffering health problems due to lifestyle related or their laziness or their food habit or their negative thinking or due to negative emotions where they need a tool to apply, overcome that. So such one tool is physical exercise and yoga. And then we have a pranayama, physical pranayama, very good for problems with the health related and to clear the energy body. The pranayama is very important. Then we have a very powerful mental pranayama. This is where we teach in the third level of Sri Vidya Sadhana, you know Navakari pranayama, where we use the mental pranayama to dissolve the psychic impression, karmic impressions stored in these subtle bodies and chakras. Then a very important is a forgiveness exercise.
Our complete life on this earth is relationship. First relationship is with yourself. Sometimes you hate yourself, sometimes you love yourself, sometimes you hurt yourself, and sometimes you don’t forgive yourself. So the relationship with yourself, relationship with your family, relationship with your world and the employees, friend and all that is there. When we have this relationship, we are not just physically connected, we are energetically connected, chords are connected to us. If we don’t forgive ourselves and others and dissolve the negative energy chords, then what happens? We again and again experience this similar situation that will take you to the lower dimension of anger, lower dimension of frustration, lower dimension of hatredness, lower dimension of guilt, lower dimension of shame. All these are the second dimension. Instead of ascending, you go down in your life, in your path of spiritual. So forgiveness exercise is very important.
Then energy clearing and healing. This I think many people already know the way they apply the reiki healing, pranic healing, siddha healing and other different types of astral healing and divine healing, yogic healing. There are many forms of healings are there. If this energy is not cleared, then you cannot meditate properly. You will have so many paths, so many angles, so much unnecessary things of your life shown up in your meditation. So energy healing and clearing is very important. That’s what the filling yourself with a pure white light, filling yourself with a protection shield is what we in our Sri Vidya and all meditations, we use a protection shield. That is one type of protection and clearing yourself. This protection shield not only fills and surrounds you, it will also fill you. So that will clear all the negative thoughts, negative emotions that will prepare you to start your meditation. And then comes the very important tool, this chakra meditation mantra japa. This has been used by all the yogis, Avadhootas, paramahamsas to clear their own karmic baggage that are stored in mental body, astral body, energy body and chakras and overcome all the different type of doshas, different type of negativities, different type of negative behaviours in their life and manifest abundance at all levels of their existence. And mantra japa, especially when you take the initiation and then you do the mantra japa, according to universal law of energy replacement, higher energy of divine mother, higher energy of deity consciousness replaces the lower energy that is stored in your chakra, that is stored in your energy body, astral body, mental body and helping you to ascend from lower dimension to higher dimension. And another very very important, especially if you are a spiritual sadhak, then you should know that you need to connect with your higher self. If you don’t connect with your higher self, you cannot know the purpose of your life.
There are two ways you know the purpose of your life. With the help of your ishta devata, with the help of your guru, with your master, with the help of the higher self. When you go to the higher self, when you go to the guru during the deeksha, one of the very important aspect guru does is he connects you back to your source, your higher self, your own soul, your super conscious mind. That will help you to, this higher self-start manifesting in this conscious mind and start interfering and organizing the life event in such a way, you start manifesting the life purpose. This is one of the very important aspect in our Sri Vidya Sadhana, Level 2 Thirumoolar Navakari Mantra Sadhana. We do this with not only I connect, plus even then, as you regularly practice Thirumoolar Navakari Mantra Sadhana, chakra meditation, you connect and slowly you start manifesting the purpose of your life. There are many tools, but these are very, very important tools. And again, it is a lesson of self-care. You need to clear all the karma, take care of yourself, your energy body, astral body, mental body. So all these things are very important, So with all these tools there is a possibility that in a meditation we start experiencing the temporary bodiless state of consciousness. And here there is a lot of misunderstanding in this state. Many people think that this is a self-realization, but it is a temporary state. How it can be a self-realization that many people don’t understand. So many, many students I have seen, they come to this state and then they fall. They don’t reach here, here. After they come here, it has taken them many years, but after this state to go here you need the grace of a Guru and Parampara. Otherwise you cannot go from this temporary bodiless state to self-realization. All these tools will help you to reach here. Okay. And if you are, having a grace of Guru plus these tools, then you can easily make a transition from this state to a self-realization state. What I have seen, many people reach here, then they fall down, then they become a very fake Gurus and create a lot of problems to the humanity. They create a cult and they start, whatever they have desired that are unfulfilled for money, for, you know, the other things, power, they start exploiting the people and doing all the things. Because they have gone through this state, they reached here, but they cannot reach here, but they assumed that this temporary bodiless state is the self-realization, they create all the problems. I have seen many Western Masters, they have not done this. They got a sudden awakening of the bodiless state. They feel that stillness. They feel that divine presence. They believe that itself is a realization of the soul, that itself is the ultimate state and they fall in this trap and then they come out of this state. They start assuming they reached the ultimate and they started writing a book, taking the workshop and satsang and all. Again, they exploit the students, money and all they will find. So, many, many students also I have seen. They are in this bodiless state.
They are in the stillness, temporary stillness they experience, temporary silence they experience, temporary peaceful awareness they experience and they realize this is the ultimate and they fall down. So, please understand that when you reach to a self-realized state, this is a state of a Mukti. It means you are in a witness state, in a waking state of consciousness. You are witnessing everything from morning to evening, every day-to-day activities you will be witnessing with a detached attitude and you are not entangled with anything, a positive emotion, negative emotion, happiness or sorrow. Somebody is reacting, somebody is scolding, something happened good, you fall down, whatever the situation you are just a witness consciousness. You realize that this body is not you, this world is not you. You are just witnessing consciousness, just awareness and this is your continuous state. It is not a temporary state of a consciousness. This you need to understand. When you reach that state that is the first stage in your ascension that is we call a Mukti. Why we call it as a Mukti? You are no more attached to anything. You are detached. You are not expecting anything. You are in a state of a desire less consciousness. So, you are Mukti means there is no karmic thing because you are not a doer. You are just witnessing all of that. So, you are in a first stage. But there is no bliss in this state. It is one of the very important. I have seen many people you know reach here but they cannot go here. They reach here and they take many many lifetimes from here to go there. So, bliss is something very very higher state of consciousness.
This is a state of a Turiya. This is a state of a Turiyaateeta. You cannot go from Turiya to Turiyaateeta by yourself. You need Guru’s grace. When Guru connects with your soul, when Guru meditates with you, Guru will lift you from here to here. From here to here, none of these tools will work. Please understand. These things are up to here. But from temporary bodily state to self-realization, the grace of a master and Guru Parampara is important. And Guru is not ordinary Guru. Guru should be in this plane like Thirumoolarji, like Kriyababaji, Lord Shiva in Agasthyamuni like this where they have manifested a physical immobility, where they are one with the cosmic consciousness, where they have a power to dissolve your karmas. You need to understand this. All Gurus don’t have a power to dissolve your karmas. Lord Jesus has this power. Thirumoolarji has this power. Kriyababaji has this power. Raghavendra Swami has this power. Sridhar Swami has this power. Shiridi Sai has this power. Lord Krishna has this power. Dattatreya has this power. Sripada Vallabha has this power. The Datta Parampara has this power. Guru Goraksha Nath has this power. Navanatha, Siddhas, Natha Parampara has this power. But all other Gurus don’t have this power. Please understand. Once you have this type of master, then that master does the necessary dissolvation of the karma, do the right surgery in your consciousness, then you will be lifted from here to here. And then after many years of Tapasya, under the guidance of master, you will be lifted from this state to a God Realization. That is a complete blissful state. This is a Turiya. This is a Turiyaatheeta. This is a Savikalpa Samadhi. This is a Nirvikalpa Samadhi. This is a state of Paramahamsa. This is a state of Avadhoota in the physical body.
If you see Avadhoota, they are like children. They don’t have awareness about their physical body. They are not aware of the outside world. They are not aware of their bodily activities. Whether they are sleeping on the road or they are somewhere, even insects are coming and biting their body, but they are not aware. They are in a complete bliss state. It is something, a very pure consciousness living in their human body. Then with the grace of a Siddha master, there is a possibility to go to this state. And one is Paramahamsa, then you go directly to the Siddha state or Paramahamsa you go to the Avadhoota state. And from Avadhoota, it is possible you come to the next life if it is needed because of your Guru. Because if Guru has the order for you, you reach this state, again you need to come back to serve the Guru Parampara, then you have to come back. And then you have to again start your journey there. At that time, you don’t have this type of life lessons. The person who has taken a birth, have a karmic baggage, he has life lessons and tools needed, but the Avatars don’t have all these things. Lord Krishna don’t need to come and do all of this.
He can be in this state and help you to learn all of this. Many Avatars come on this earth, on this state of consciousness and they help you in all of this and help you to lift you to this state of consciousness. That is the power of the Guru Parampara. That is the power of the Moksha Gurus. So many people are not aware what is the importance of the Guru, what is the importance of the living Guru, what is the importance of Guru Parampara. Many people don’t know. They are just attached to a living Guru and they are just clinging for their day-to-day life problems. Give me this mantra, that mantra and all. But they don’t know how difficult it is to ascend from here to here. It is not a one lifetime possibility. Sometimes it will take many many lifetimes to go from here to here. So if you found a Guru and Guru accepted you as a disciple, then only it is possible that you will transition from physical to a divine. You will experience your true home. Sat Chit Ananda Swarupa or Shiva Consciousness, Maha Tripurasundari Consciousness, Lalitambika Consciousness or you reach a level of Siddhatva like Thirumoolarji, the 18 Siddhas where they have started the journey and have reached here. So we are following the same path followed by the Siddhas of Mulavarga Parampara. The Mulavarga is the group of the people, group of the students, group of the Sadhakas under the guidance of Thirumoolarji following the path. This is what the entire blueprint we have. So this is all the teaching we do in our Parampara. So I made this video for our sincere students because some of them they are doing only Mantra Japa, not doing the Chakra Meditation. Some of them are very good healers, they are only working here. Some of them are only doing the Yoga, but they are not doing this. Some of them don’t know the importance of the higher self. Some of them are not following this life lesson. They are not doing the Swadhyaya in the Sri Vidya Five Pillars. I explained Swadhyaya, being aware of your emotions, your thoughts and feelings. Understand the quality of your life. Analyze from morning to evening how many times you get the anger, how many times you are experiencing the stress, anxiety. Then you know that what is the lesson you need to understand, how I can apply the awareness, how I can apply the forgiveness, how I can apply the core essence of love, how you can carry yourself, how you can accept you are a spark of a Shiva Shakti. When you accept yourself as the highest being, everything is possible, you can overcome everything. Then you need to understand the Maya of this universe. If you don’t understand the Maya of this universe, many people, it takes many lifetimes to understand this one. So I think these teachings of Mulavarga Self Ascension journey will help you where you are, what mistakes you are doing and where you are going to reach here. And please understand, people who are reaching this state and creating problems to the humanity, they don’t born again as a human. They fall down in this dimension. They born as a Brahma Pishacha, Brahma Rakshasa, Bethala and they stuck in this dimension many, many thousands of lifetimes. Even they don’t take a human body. If they don’t take a human body, again they cannot work on the path of a self-relation, God relation, the Moksha. My sincere advice to all the students who are in this state, please don’t fall back. Don’t create a cult. Don’t create a problem to others. Don’t think that you are ready to teach, you are ready to help. You are here in this plane only. So don’t do that. That will again, you will stuck here. It will take you many, many lifetime to reach back to your true home, to Ascension. So work on all of this. These are very important. Every day you need to work, use these tools.
Every day you need to apply the life lesson, being aware of your inner choices. Every day that you are making, it should be healthy choice. It should help you to progress, whether you eat a junk food, good food, whether you sleep or exercise or walk, whether you meditate or giving excuses, telling that all other things in your life is important, but meditation is not important.
This is also one of the illusion. Meditation is the pillar of your life. It is Antahkarana from lower to human to divine. If you don’t hold that ladder, you cannot reach to Shiva, the ultimate dimension. So please don’t fall on all of this. Sincerely meditate, meditate, meditate minimum 10 to 15 years. If you see any Siddha, any Master, they worked 24 hours a day for minimum 12 to 15 years under the guidance of a Moksha Guru, then only they could able to touch here, here. Otherwise it is not possible. Now we are living in this 21st century, too much diluted information through YouTube videos, social media sites. People are just distracted. I have seen many students after 10 years, what they have done is they have changed the mantras, changed the God, changed the Masters, changed the Yantra, but they have not changed. They are not even coming to here. They are coming here, but again they are falling, they are frustrated. They fall back so completely in this dimension of senses. Again they are seeking the pleasure and exploiting themselves, self-deceiving, shumba nishumba and also deceiving others.
So please understand, it is a not easier path. Walking on the path of truth is very very hard. You need to have a right guidance and the right Guru Purampara and you should have a right meditation techniques designed by Siddha like Thirumoolarji, Kriyababaji, Dattatreya Maharaj and all these divine Moksha Gurus and then their grace is very important and the grace of Ishta is also very important. If Ishta has a grace, he will send you right Guru. Ishta will not work directly to you because he knows that you are not able to sense his messages and Ishta cannot be there all the time, but Guru is a living person who will be helping you at the physical level, energy level, astral level, mental level, make you aware of all these teachings. So Ishta Devata through Guru helping you to reach from human to divine. You need to understand the role of Ishta Devata. Ishta Devata directly helping is very very rare, but Ishta Devata indirectly help you. When you are surrendering to Ishta Devata, right master will come, right book will come, right thought will come, right outer situation will come that will help you to take one step towards the path of self-ascension.
I offer these teachings, today’s explanation at the feet of Thirumoolarji and Sri Mata Lalita Ambika and pray to all our mulavargas who are following our teachings and pray to all the sincere seekers of the truth, understand all this mechanism on this different dimensions we are existed and have awareness where we are, what are the problems, what are the tools and what are the guidance we need, what are the illusion is there and how we need to approach from here to here. Anbe Shivam.
Mulavarg Self Ascension Journey – By Sri Sadguru Sivapremanandaji
