To me these were all words until the guru blessed me with some experiences of their reality. When the consciousness begins to get interiorized and we experience a little peace we begin to crave for more. We are able to have a certain amount of intuition about people and circumstances surrounding us. We are grateful for that discernment because the material reality has so many traps and pitfalls. We begin to understand what the affect of those around us is to our consciousness and how we are letting the vibrations of those around us maintain our current level of consciousness.
We also recognize that the pain we are exposed to because of mortal consciousness and its experiences on the earth plane is part of a disciplinary energy for the transformation of consciousness. Because of this we are more willing to endure austerity and discipline while the desires continue to draw us outward into restless ignorance. We begin to understand energy and how our energy or prana is manipulated by the objects of desire. We get a dim view of how desire is the source of our being here and the source of our limited state of consciousness.
