ANOTHER STUDENT FEELS THE LIFE FORCE

It is so strange. People dismiss the path of love, of Bhakti as just being in the phenomenal realm and allude to the unchanging, unborn Self that sustains the whole show, the play area of Nisargadatta and Robert Adams.

I know this area well having my awakening here recognized by Robert in 1995 and then spending 15 years passively watching both the world and the Void that contains it as it unfolds.

Then I found love, bliss, God and the life force. I knew immediately that neither Robert or Nisargadatta, let alone Ramana, knew of this world. Zen totally ignores this world as does most of Buddhism and certainly Advaita.

I also knew immediately that this was the spirituality for our time. It is based in emotion and Shakti which are a more natural approach to God and the infinite than is self-inquiry, and also is so much faster.

Deeya and I initially called this path of worship and love "Devotional Advaita." But I soon realized that bring the Unborn, the pre-existing Absolute into the equation made for excessive complexity. Let us stick with the simple and straight forward path of devotional love and surrender and see where that alone in its simplicity takes my students.

I am so pleased how powerful this simplified path works, and at its end, also leads to discovery of one's essence as being beyond consciousness, the witnessing without a witness.

The following is from a man in his late 60s who has been with Deeya and myself for four years. Notice where he is and how relatively painless his progress has been.

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When I focus on you Ed- immediately a force field engages my body and subtle body.

That force is like atomic fusion energy. It is so immensely powerful way beyond what I felt in the past.

Almost scary at first, like I this me will be obliterated by this force.

As it enters my subtle body every cell starts giving off light
of its own - a dormant light that is re-activating after eons. 
Its recognizing the Life Force as consisting of its own make up and flares up like an inferno, a Burning Bush out of the bible.

From the deep core of this body it ignites every single part, every cell, every atom
In such bliss and pleasure that
Is indescribable.

The 'me' part disappears and I become the bliss and pleasure and undulations and swirling colored emotions, the stars and moons, the flowing universe.

I become the Life Force itself.