The True Self

Connecting with one’s True Identity

The Supreme Soul i.e. the Higher Consciousness – The only One that does not identify with this world’s physical dimension and constantly maintains the perspective of eternity; The One who is ever pure and does not take birth nor experiences death; The One who is incorporeal and has a luminous form and is an Ocean of virtues and a powerhouse of silence and purity – that One reveals our True Identity to us as Beings of Energy i.e. Soul or Spirit that have a Point of Light form visualized as a tiny shining star residing in the center of the forehead in between the eyebrows.

The True Self  is luminous, sentient point of energy that connects to the outer world through a perishable body. The Soul is eternal, the body is mortal. The Soul is the driver of this body. The Soul is separate from the body. Soul consciousness means living in the awareness of one’s real identity. An identity that has never changed with time. An identity that is permanent.  

• Who am I?
• Why have I come to this World? What am I doing in this bodily costume on this World stage?
• Where do I come from?
• To whom do I belong?
• What is my eternal identity? Who am I, apart from this bodily existence?
• What do I need from life, from relations?
• What is my life’s goal and purpose?
• What all do I think of throughout the day?
• What is the underlying cause of my uneasiness, sorrow?

All these questions are answered by The Supreme Soul.

Soul’s Form

Soul’s Form is a Point of Light, a Subtle Star. Soul is Massless and Weightless. Soul is energy driving the bodily sense organs (Soul performs Karma through the Body). Soul is separate from the Body. Soul is Master of the Body. Soul is indestructible, imperishable, immortal (Eternal/sense of security). Soul experiences sorrow or happiness through the Body.

Soul is energy … identifying with the true form of a point of light self deflects all other negative energy created out of body consciousness. Point means essence from all expansions.

Every individual is a Being of Conscient Energy – Energy of Peace, Energy of Love, Energy of Happiness, Energy of Wisdom, Energy of Purity, Energy of inner Power, and Energy of Bliss.  

Soul’s Location

Soul’s Temporary Address – Soul resides in the Center of forehead in This Body, which is perishable. Soul has had multiple temporary addresses i.e. bodies across various births. Soul is merely a Tenant in this perishable Body.

Soul’s Permanent Address – All Souls descend from the Soul World, which exists beyond the limits of the Cosmos and is the Home of Sweet Silence for all Souls. The Soul World can be visualized as a vast Realm of vibrant golden red light.

How many times do we go home during the day? What feeling do we get by being at home?(comfort, safety etc.) If a home of 5 elements of nature can offer us comfort, can we imagine what comfort our eternal home has to offer?

Souls experience deep silence in the Soul World.

Every Soul has a determined place in the Soul World. Shown below is the arrangement of all Souls in the Soul World.

Soul’s Eternal Parent

Every Soul belongs to the Supreme Soul – the Parent of all Souls, who is the Supreme Being of Pure energy and is incorporeal.

The Supreme Soul (God Father) is the Soul’s sole Eternal Relation i.e. our unconditional support (24 hours a day/7 days a week). Soul has all attainments (Teacher/Guide/Father, Spiritual Empowerment) from this Relation . What belongs to Supreme Father belongs to children automatically (The Supreme is an Ocean of all positive qualities). We Souls are innately pure, positive, peaceful just like our Parent.

One must contemplate on how often do we remember/interact with our biological parents, and our eternal Parent? Why do we need our biological parents? Would The Supreme, our Eternal Parent, not satisfy our needs that the biological parents fulfill? How do we Souls benefit by learning about the Supreme Soul? It is by Living with The Supreme Soul in our day to day life.

Soul’s Original Nature

•7 innate qualities –Truth/Wisdom –Purity –Peace –Happiness –Love –Bliss –Power

Enhance each quality by creating thoughts centered around it

Soul’s quest in life is for these 7 qualities

Soul’s Lifespan is Eternal

Sole’s Role in The Body

All Souls perform a Role on this World stage. All Souls acquire a body and a role in that bodily costume. Home, Office, School, Social interaction venues etc. are all various stage settings on this massive World Stage, where each Soul performs their act. Souls while enacting their parts with other stage partners, lose memory of their True Identity, their Original and Permanent Home of Sweet Silence, their True Parent (The Supreme) and their Eternal Relation with The Supreme.

Souls mistake this world stage’s acts to be real, stage partners to be real partners, and thus attachment with the temporary existence of other actors on the stage leads to sorrow.  While every stage scene is settling karmic debt or karmic credit amongst Souls, this reality is hardly ever realized and leads one to experience of sorrow or transient happiness. Karmic debt is the account of negative energy that needs to be zeroed out. Karmic credit is the account of positive energy that needs to be zeroed out. Karmic account settling means experience of happiness or sorrow depending on the type of karmic account.  The reality is that each Soul enters and exits this world stage alone without taking anything from the stage with oneself. The only thing that the Soul takes along upon exiting the bodily costume is the fruits of one’s own actions i.e. karma. In order to settle this karma, the Soul then enters a new bodily costume.

The Soul’s existence on this World Stage while enacting Roles is fulfilled when the Soul enacts with it’s 7 innate qualities of –  wisdom, purity, peace, happiness, love, bliss, power. The purpose of life is to express and experience these innate qualities. Otherwise, the Soul’s role is not fulfilled accurately, and thus karmic debt accumulates which requires further settling via means of emotional, mental, physical, relationships, or financial suffering or karmic credit settling through happiness.  Souls then get caught up in the so called maze of Life – which is actually nothing more than a Drama that needed to be enacted with the correct mindset of being an actor in a bodily costume i.e. Soul Consciousness. 

Soul’s Faculties

What does the Soul do in the Body?

•Soul thinks via the mind, decides via the intellect which thoughts to bring into action using the body, and forms new habits by repeatedly performed actions • • •Soul experiences the physical world via bodily sense organs – eye nose ear mouth skin; these experiences are recorded as impressions on the Soul (need to be mindful of what we take in through these senses) •

•Mind –Monitoring Quantity and Quality of Thoughts –Positive, Negative, Waste, Necessary Thoughts (Feelings), Mundane, Pure, Divine •Intellect –Discern, Decisions, Visualize –Influences, Stable (Awakened thru Knowledge and Meditation) •Habits (Sanskars) –Original, Previous Births, Inherit, Environment, Will Power . Storage of impressions as: Images, Sounds, Feelings, Thought patterns . Organization of impressions as Memories, Habits, Tendencies, Values, Beleifs, Learnings, Talents, Insticnts, Personlaity Traits

Soul is the Master of these Faculties –Setting Daily Mind Goals; Apply S.O.S on Mind –Meditation to Awaken and Sharpen the Intellect –Create New Habits by Strong Will

We find it difficult to meditate because of our body consciousness. The sole obstacle on our path to self-realization is body consciousness.

Soul consciousness Vs Body consciousness

A contrast of Soul consciousness and Body consciousness is given below.

Soul Consciousness

• Our Mind and Intellect is constantly connected to (i.e. thinking, visualizing, and thus experiencing) Point of light energy form of the Self – The Soul
  • Mind connected to 7 qualities of The Soul and in deep experience of each innate quality (peace, love, bliss, happiness, inner power)
  • Mind and Intellect consumed by a strong Relationship with the Supreme Parent
  • Mind and Intellect connected to The Soul World
  • Constant awareness of Soul’s Role in the present body as an Actor
  • Attainments :

–Happiness long lasting, unlimited, independently acquired –Don’t know how to /technique to acquire such happiness so we aspire and settle with what we know how to acquire happiness from   worldly stage .

Positive self-image, true self-respect, confidence, you love yourself

Self-mastery, you respect your body and treat it well

Improved relationships

Inner happiness, not based on external gratification

Not afraid of death or of the future

Body Consciousness

• Our Mind is constantly occupied with thoughts centered around this body, world, worldly beings, situations, material possessions, role, status, fame, name, glory
  • Waste Thoughts
    • Mind and Intellect connected to past events of life on this world stage
    • Mind held hostage by anxiety, confusion, and questions – why did this happen to me, why did someone behave that way, why am I not being respected, how will I get out of this situation, how will life get back to normal, when will this mess be resolved, who is responsible for all that has happened, where do I go from here now, what do I do with this difficult person, what will happen now, what factors caused the present situation? while some of these questions are necessary to analyze the root cause of a situation in order to learn from it and avoid making similar mistakes going forward……apart from that most of the time these questions lead us nowhere and provide no benefit to us and result in leakage of energy of the soul and weaken our mind
  • Negative Thoughts
  • Intellect influenced by vices
  • Mind captured by dissatisfaction, temporary attainments, resentment, temporary bonds with worldly beings
  • Mental pull or attractions towards worldly aspects
  • Body and Mind under the effect of past Karmic Accounts
  • Attinaments –

–Worldly Happiness is temporary and has external dependency (Relations, Possessions, Body, Status, Situations are all short lived and changing

Ego, inferiority, low self-esteem

Lack of control over senses,    compulsions & addictions

Prejudice, stereotyping, making comparisons, judging others

Happiness doesn’t last, sorrow results from unfulfilled desires

Afraid of death

Soul Consciousness means living in the awareness of one’s True Identity. In order to connect to one’s True Identity, think about the following –

1. What is my world without a body?
2. When there is no body what is my identity?
3. Without a body, what do I experience?
4. If I shut myself off from this body, am I able to visualize the true self… a shining star of light, emanating energy of peace. Am I able to visualize myself as the luminous energy that is driving this body, that is seeing through the windows of the eyes and listening through the ears i.e. connecting to the outer world through this body.   Am I able to shut myself off from the outer world by taking focus off of bodily sense organs and turning focus inwards on to the energy of peace and purity that is my innate quality. Am I able to stabilize in this thought and visualization? Am I able to stabilize in this state and experience deep silence? Or is the Mind connecting back to the outer world, to situations, to humans, to possessions, to my role, to past events of the day etc..  If the mind is wandering, steer it back again to the spiritual being of light, of peace, of happiness. Give the mind an anchor thought again … I am a being of luminous energy of purity and peace.  I am separate from this body. I am the energy of peace…. I am the energy of happiness. 
5. I am massless, and weightless. I am the master of this body and the energy that puts life into bodily organs. This body would otherwise cease to function without my presence in it. The lungs would stop breathing upon my exiting the body, the heart would stop, the brain would stop … the body can’t even sit up straight on its own without me holding it in position…if i depart from this body, the body can’t even move on its own and would require assistance to move it. This body will decay after I depart from it. I am not this body, I am separate from this body. The body is non-functional without my presence. The body is matter, I am consciousness. I temporarily reside in this body, which is perishable. I am a Being of Powerful Energy. I am eternal. 
6. I am not the name given to this body e.g. John Doe  – John is the role I play in this body. I play a role in this body. My name is given to the role in this body. My identity is not just this role. I am an Eternal Being, enacting a temporary role in this bodily costume. I am a Soul playing a Role through this body.
7. I originally descended from the Soul World. I originally belong to The Supreme Parent. I have a permanent home, the Soul World. I have an eternal parent, The Supreme Soul – The Higher Power.  I am indestructible, imperishable, immortal.  The moment I depart from this perishable body, I take nothing with me – neither this body, nor any relations, nor any material possessions, and all those situations that troubled me cease to exist for me.
8. I am the Master of this body. I am a Master of my mind. Mind is a faculty of the Soul. I, the Soul, direct the mind to my true home of sweet silence, The Soul World, my true Parent – The Supreme, and my innate qualities of peace, love, bliss.
9. I am not a Being of Body, I am an Being of Pure Energy. 

Mind is a faculty of the Soul. With daily practice, the Mind begins to listen to what we tell it to think and stabilizes in one thought eventually. Another faculty of the Soul is the Intellect, that has the ability to discern, decide, and visualize. It is the Intellect that visualizes the thought generated by the Mind. While meditating on one’s true identity, specific thoughts centered around our true identity such as the Soul’s form of point of light, the Soul’s home – The Soul World, are visualized by the intellect and further enhance concentration of the thoughts and richen the experience and feelings associated with those thoughts. The mind and intellect together function to enable the Soul to stabilize in one powerful thought of the true self being.

Few enabling factors that go a long way in assisting the mind to focus and the intellect to stabilize are the timing of meditation, the quality of food consumed by the body, the external environment, and meditation commentaries. If one would like a deeper, richer meditation experience, experimenting with the following factors would be helpful.

1. Ideal Time of meditation is between 2am and 5am or between 6pm and 9pm. This is when the day is gradually transitioning into a different phase a contrast phase of light i.e dusk or dawn. During these hours, the traffic of thoughts in the environment is minimal as the majority of population is in a relatively restful state of the mind. Thus, the interference from external thought energy is minimal on the soul’s mind during meditation, so the mind is able to focus better. If it is not feasible to meditate daily during these hours, it is okay to choose any time of your convenience. What matters the most is the deep desire to experience the peace, bliss, purity that lies within and as long as we persist to experience it, we will realize our true self. 
2. Preferably, chose the same time and place where you can meditate daily as the vibrations of peace, purity build up in that space gradually as you begin to meditate. Also, you can check out your local center where many souls have meditated and elevated the energy of that atmosphere, which helps beginners in their meditation journey.  It is just in the beginning steps that we need to dedicate time for meditation. Once the mind is trained and tuned into the soul’s innate qualities then meditation is no longer an explicit task but it becomes a habitual pattern of the mind to naturally begin to think in the way it has been trained during meditation. 
3. Turn on some meditation music and commentaries to help guide the mind during meditation.  Every hour, try to take a minute’s break  to meditate .
4. Taking precaution on the quality of food we consume plays a vital role in meditation as the food impacts the mind. Not only the physical ingredients in the food matter but the subtle ingredients of thought energy while preparing and eating the food also contaminate the food with negative vibrations, because the mind also impacts the food.  For a few days, if it’s feasible, try to experiment with a diet that avoids foods containing garlic, onion, shallots, leeks, chives, caffeine, greasy, spicy, or stale foods, and non-vegetarian products. Such ingredients aggravate the vices and cause the mind to race. Furthermore, meat, poultry, fish, fertilized eggs putrefy in the human stomach and are produced by inducing suffering to creatures.  Also, the human digestive tract is actually not designed for flesh foods, because the long transit time leads to unhealthy putrefaction.