Sunday, December 3, 2023

Ishwar-ji's Twelve Experiential Precepts

 


  1. All that we are, see and experience is a part of the Totality of Consciousness we can call Bhagavan.
  2. The cause of all creation is the desire for experiencing "the other", i.e. duality. Love is singular, but the desire creates the other as the beloved. 
  3. There are several layers of experiential reality and each is created for experience within time and space, and thus is not constant. 
  4. All life is a play written by the Totality of whom we are all a part, each an actor as much as an experiencer. It is thus a Leela, nothing more, nothing less. 
  5. Only the Experiencer is thus the Constant Reality, nothing else.
  6. We choose at the moment of our creation our set of experiences that we then live through the mind, senses and body, birth after birth. Our identification with the mind, senses and body creates the experience of duality when indeed each one (call it a soul if you wish) is a part of the many in the one called Totality of Consciousness.
  7. We act, meet people, and experience things and situations, based on the irrevocable Law of Karma. 
  8. The key to freedom is to realise myself as the experiencer and the mind, senses and body to be mere costumes we wear as actors. 
  9.  When we are fed up with this cycle of duality and experiences, we want to merge into the Totality. This seeking is the beginning of the return journey. When the seeker is really ready, the Master or Guru appears. 
  10. The Guru experiences all the layers of reality simultaneously, rooted in the five dimensions of Reality = Bliss, Intuition, Creativity, Aesthetic Sense and Love which are the true attributes of the Totality going beyond all the experiences of duality. 
  11. The Guru takes the seeker home through his Love and the seeker's response i.e. Devotion. All spiritual practices and meditations are merely mental and physical exercises to keep the seeker busy in the meantime.
  12. The best the seeker can do is to experience the Guru and His Love constantly with Devotion and offer all his thoughts, words and deeds as Prayer, an act of Devotion.