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Does global consciousness exist?

There is only one Consciousness that is omnipresent.

Like when you are dreaming at night, everything in the dream arises from one Consciousness and that one Consciousness is playing all the parts of the dream. A dream character is only consciously aware of what it can be aware of via its senses, but the fact still remains there is only one Consciousness that is omnipresent in a dream.

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If consciousness is fundamental, do you believe that we are all part of a single consciousness? And if so, do we return to this single consciousness after death?

Originally Answered: If consciousness is fundamental, do you believe that we are all part of a single consciousness? And that we return to this single consciousness after death?

Consciousness is all there is even now.

We are not “all part”…but that there is only a single Consciousness now.

Kind of like when we are dreaming at night. We feel that we are a specific character in the dream, but in reality we are the entirety of the dream. If you dream of someone chasing you down an alley, it is you chasing yourself. There is no one else in the dream…it is all arising from one Consciousness. The one Consciousness plays all the parts of the dream. And if a dream character dies, it does not return to this single Consciousness because it was never other than the single Consciousness and never was apart from the one Consciousness.

Conscious awareness is of the body….and is only aware of what that body could be aware of via its senses and experiences. Just like in a dream…you only know what your dream character knows and yet the entire of the dream arises from a single Consciousness. Every body/dream-character has its own conscious awareness and yet it is a single Consciousness playing them all simultaneously. There is no viewpoint in which all the characters’ or bodies’ viewpoints of conscious awareness as seen at once.

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How does an unenlightened person know that he is not enlightened yet without even experiencing enlightenment beforehand?

An unenlightened person cna know that they are not enlightened yet by the amount of suffering experienced in life. Are you still filled with regret, anxiety, boredom, loneliness, etc, etc.? Then you are not enlightened yet.

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How do enlightened beings decide when to use the mind and when to rely on direct experience?

It is not a mental decision…it is not a matter of deliberation.

The mind spontaneously arises as a helpful servant when needed…and when not needed the mind is not there to get in the way of direct experience. The normal mode (so to speak) for the enlightened is to be 100% devoted to the feeling/experiencing of the moment (i.e. direct experience). But if such a one needs think and plan about what to get at the grocery story, the mind/thought is there for a short time and when done disappears again leaving just the experience of now.

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Does knowledge hinder the process of spiritual enlightenment? Will I have to sacrifice my love for math and science in order to become an enlightened spiritual being? If not, how can I mix between the both?

No, you will not have to sacrifice your love for math and science to become enlightened. The only knowledge that could be a hindrance is the knowledge of who/what you think you are and what enlightenment is.

Enlightenment is also known as Self-realization. You do not know the Self because of the mental concepts (i.e. knowledge) of what you already think and feel yourself to be. In fact, whatever you think you are is wrong. You are not anything you think yourself to be. And so, the knowledge you have acquired about who you are is sacrificed.

Math and science have no issues and so mix without needing an answer on how to mix between the both.

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Shivam Shivakaram Shantham Lyrics

Lyrics of Shivam Shivakaram Shantham mantra of Lord Shiva. This is one of the main namaskara mantras of Mahadeva. Chanting the mantra daily will help you to attain moksha.

Shivam Shivakaram, Shantham,
shivathmanam, Shivothamam,
Shivamarga Pranetharam,
Pranamai Sada Shivam

English Meaning

Salutations to the God who is peaceful,
Who lives in peace,
Who creates peace,
Who is peace itself,
Who is the soul of peace,
Who is greatest peace,
And who shows the path of Peace.

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Guru Gabriel Pradīpaka

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Natalia Ambikaa: Gurujii is speeking about karma, kinds of karma, etc.

My point is that “no human being can become an egoless creature (e.g. the animals) after his death”. Why? Because that would amount to “losing his ego” in the process. If his ego is lost, all the accumulated impressions of his previous actions are also lost. The law of Karma will not allow him to lose his ego or he will not experience the fruits of his actions ever!

There are three kinds of karma:

Sañcitakarma — Accumulated karma. The residual accumulated karma generated by actions which have been done in previous lifetimes but that will not bear fruit at the present lifetime.

Āgamīkarma — Future karma. It is the result of actions which have been done during the present lifetime but that will bear fruit in future lifetimes.

Prārabdhakarma — Karma which has begun. This is what is usually called ‘karma’ by common people. It is the residue of previous actions which is bearing fruit at the present lifetime. Nobody but Videhamukta-s can escape from this karma. Even Jīvanmukta-s must tolerate it till the body finally falls.

So if you have to be reborn, you will experience Sañcitakarma in your next life, and at that time Sañcitakarma will become Prārabdhakarma or “working” karma. This karma is always good and bad according to the previous actions. In other words, not all the fruits of your actions of a previous life are appearing in your present lifetime, but many of them are “suspended” and “accumulated” for the next lives. And Āgamīkarma is the one you are generating right now with your actions and will bear fruit in the next lives. Jīvanmukta-s don’t have accumulated karma for future lives, because they won’t have any future lives except they need to be reborn at a certain place, at a certain time in order to help this mankind. In turn, they are not generating new fresh karma bearing fruits in future lives, for the same reason: There will be no future lives, except lives produced “at will” in the case of certain jīvanmukta-s who decide to retain the fourth body. Other jīvanmukta-s can be reborn in the future or in the past, everywhere, because they retained the fourth body.

Anyway, while the physical body is retained, there will be suffering one way or another, even in the case of jīvanmukta-s. This is inevitable because the physical body is prone to suffering and the Prārabdhakarma (the karma which has been started and is bearing fruit in the present lifetime cannot be stopped even by a jīvanmukta). Only Sañcitakarma and Āgamīkarma were stopped in his case, in order not to generate more and more future karma.

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“I love the Buddha, I really do. But I am not promoting the religion of "Buddhism" for anyone.

I love just as much Ms. Buddha the Vajrayoginī, Her Holiness the Shekinah, the Great Mother, the blessed Moses, holy Mary, sweet Jesus, brave Khadijah, the holy Muhammad, wise Laozi, insightful Confucius, Radha and Krishna, Uma and Shiva, White Buffalo Woman, Wakan Tanka, Quetzalcoatl, Chalchiuhtlicue, countless shamanic teachers of indigenous peoples, and every single wise and loving grandmother.

So many holy teachers, gods, and saints! They all perform such wonders and benefit so many, opening all kinds of amazing doors for all kinds of beautiful people, each to discover their own divine qualities, their wise intelligence and loving heart.”

-Robert A.F Thurman

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Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work(Karma yoga), or worship(Bhakti yoga), or psychic control,(Raja yoga) or philosophy(Jnana yoga) — by one, or more, or all of these — and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.
- Swami Vivekananda

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