Message #46356

[Jitendra Hydonus]

I had an unusual experience this morning mccoy, upon awakening I recalled a dream in which I was reviewing a sphere of thought that was brought into the portal. And I wanted to make an observation about it. But when I came on this morning I recognized that there was no such sphere of thought provided accept this thread that I am now posting on. So I believe that my dream was indeed leading me to this topic. Ofcourse I could also question the legitimacy of the dream I had, which also is a sphere of thought. Or the whole notion of spheres of thought.

Having said that, what is the sphere of thought that Anandamoy is bringing to us and that most of us that have stayed on the portal for any amount of time are accepting as reality? Is it not that our thoughts create our reality and that the reality we find ourselves a part of was created by ourselves from this life and all previous lives? This has brought us to the situations we have found ourselves in and a progressive future out of this material reality by practicing a meditation technique called Kriya that will make it eventually possible to not return here. Isn’t that what we are to believe? Anandamoy has also conditioned us to believe such a pathway of thought that includes a God that is somewhat responsible for us being here and in the predicament we find ourselves in. Yet we can help him and ourselves by making the effort to get out.

Now from an objective standpoint the notions we have had as a human race have notably changed dramatically from accepting slavery, making Gods out of people, atheism, agnosticism, to having for instance Sun Gods or believing we evolved from apes. So it is only natural to wonder if the current paradigm we accept that Anandamoy has given us applies for all time. Furthermore questioning our own spheres of thought or assumptions is also an approach which can be considered a sphere of thought. Being around Anandamoy for many years, it is easy to see that he was completely under the influence of Paramahansa Yogananda and a willing servant of his ideas. It appears as an admirable quality to us.

But obviously the majority of the population do not even accept such loyalty to another ‘human being’. Is this spirit of skepticism a sphere of thought that can entangle people such as myself in a lower vibration or a sphere of thought not helping myself and others? Or can we not accept the idea that a reasonable doubt or empirical proof should or can be applied? Paramahansa Yogananda’s response to that was that we should go into the laboratory of our own meditation and use the test tubes of our meditation techniques to determine if they have validity. But would this be an acceptable proof for the scientifically minded who seeks consistency and verification? Or has science itself become obsolete in the subjective experience of meditation? While science maybe able to prove certain biological and physiological phenomena, it is unable to currently verify subjective experiences and states of consciousness that someone meditating describes.