Elena Sidelnikova – Lessons Enlightenment (страница 3)

Why did you die then? I mean, your level of consciousness and purity should have dissolved or neutralized the poison.

You haven’t fully understood. Complete non-resistance. If I try to neutralize the poison in the soup, that too is an action and a form of resistance. Therefore, full acceptance literally means accepting the poison without change.

I mean something else. I imagine it this way: a certain level of consciousness, like the one you had at that moment, is a kind of automatic disinfection system. That is, the quality of consciousness automatically purifies everything it comes into contact with.

Yes. If done unconsciously. A saintly hermit lives, mad, meaning he has completely shut off his mind, and the quality of his radiance automatically disinfects and purifies the space around him. But he does not control this process. He simply is the sun, which cannot help but shine because all obstacles to radiance have been removed. This is one of the paths. I too am the sun that cannot help but shine. But I can control this process, and in certain cases choose not to use my radiant qualities. In this case, I trusted the process and chose not to use this quality to neutralize the poison. That is, I fully accepted everything that was happening.

I don’t understand. Let’s take the case of the saintly hermit. He is the sun, and there are no barriers to his radiance. Does that mean you set barriers to your radiance?

Rather, they are not barriers but focusing mechanisms. A laser beam is more powerful because it is confined, because all its power is focused in a beam rather than in a wave. Likewise with you: if you control your consciousness and your radiance, you can be the sun, or you can be the beam. The choice is yours.

Alright. Let’s go back to meditation. How should one meditate correctly? Is it necessary to turn off the mind, and how can this be done?

When you say “turn off the mind,” you imply a specific action to turn it off. Like flipping a switch, or like locking thoughts inside something from which they cannot escape. But that already is an action and is resistance. And therefore, you don’t need to turn off the mind. You need to dissolve it.

Dissolve the mind?

Yes. When a river flows into the ocean, it dissolves in it and loses its shape and its properties of swiftness. Therefore, you need to become the ocean, and then the rivers of the mind will simply and naturally dissolve in it.

It’s easy to say. But how do you become this ocean?

You don’t need to become it. The ocean is already within you. You just need to open it, to remove the barriers that separate your consciousness from this ocean.

How do you do that? What are these barriers? I thought the mind itself was the barrier.

You have many barriers. That’s why you need to remove them one by one, sequentially. And that’s why these paths often take decades. But there is another universal path. It’s the path of fullness. You divert a lot of energy to actions that are insignificant from the perspective of moving towards the Creator. This is your choice, and no one can interfere with how you spend your Divine energy. But if you eliminate from your life those actions that are useless in terms of accelerating your movement towards the Creator, you will free up a tremendous amount of energy. Then your river will truly become a river and surge towards the ocean, breaking through all dams. This path is widely known to you, and many practice it. THIS IS THE PATH WHERE THE EGO IS REMOVED, THAT IS, ACTIONS OF RESENTMENT, REJECTION, MALICE, JEALOUSY, IRRITATION, AND SO ON, ON WHICH YOU SPEND A COLOSSAL AMOUNT OF ENERGY EVERY SECOND. Moreover, if you remove some activities that are not particularly significant to you and are more performed automatically because it’s customary, or because others would judge you if you don’t do them, a significant amount of energy will also be freed.

Therefore, as you free your river of consciousness from various barriers, you become an increasingly powerful stream of consciousness that naturally strives towards the Creator. And so, one day, you experience what you call enlightenment. That is, all the remaining barriers, even the small ones, are swept away by this stream of consciousness, and you break through into the ocean of consciousness and reunite with it. If you continue to cling to obstacles, like a swimmer clinging to driftwood floating in the river or to the roots of trees on the shore, you will not reach the ocean of consciousness, and you will spend all your strength on clinging. On the attempt to hold on to the shore. On resisting the current.

This is fear and distrust of the process. What are you afraid of? Losing your life? But life, as you know, doesn’t end with the visible world you perceive. It doesn’t end with this current perceived reality. Life is infinite and eternal. And therefore, it cannot be lost. You may lose your personal attachments. You may lose exactly those ties. But you cannot lose everything. For everything always dwells within you.

Alright. But maybe people are afraid of losing their physical life because in physical life there are many temptations, physical pleasures, and sensations. Well, let’s say, in a subtle state, I won’t be able to feel the taste of a fruit or the scent of a flower.

At another level, different elements and instruments of sensations and pleasures will be available to you. But you are stuck on one level repeatedly and do not wish to move beyond it. Haven’t you tried all the tastes and smells in your life?

Probably all. At least most of the available ones.

Then what holds you here?

The fact that I haven’t explored everything in this world yet. That I’ve just awakened to conscious exploration, and so everything interests me.

Yes. But you must realize that an even more fascinating exploration awaits you ahead. And so, there’s no point in lingering on the path; just trust the flow of life. The flow of life is designed so that everything happens precisely when it is possible and necessary. It’s very important to understand this. And if death comes, it means that it is both possible and necessary right now. If these two concepts do not align, death will not occur or will pass you by. If it is possible, but not necessary. Or vice versa, if it is necessary, but impossible for a number of reasons. For example, your unpreparedness.

Do only those who are ready die?

Yes.

But that’s not true. Many die young, in accidents, and their consciousness wasn’t ready for it. They didn’t choose this.

How do you know that?

Here’s the translated version of your text, with emphasis on questions where applicable:

From the stories of their relatives. From the stories of friends about what a person said or thought before death.

You are confusing two processes: the journey towards death and death itself. The journey towards death can take a long time. In fact, you are moving towards it throughout your entire life. For most of you, life is a slow journey towards death from the moment of birth. In every second, there is a convergence of two concepts, two requirements: possibility and necessity. And if these two requirements do not align in a given second, in the moment of here and now, death does not occur. A person can walk towards death for a very long time, but in every moment of the here and now, in every second of their awareness, these two moments do not coincide.

There are many cases of suicide attempts where the person does not die. It seems like they chose it, but somehow they were miraculously saved, or someone intervened. This means that the possibility and necessity – determined by many moments and circumstances and being specific energetic states – did not align. But at some point, these two moments do coincide. Perhaps before this, in the preceding hours or days, the person was not seeking death and was full of plans. But precisely in that second, these two requirements – possibility and necessity – aligned, and therefore death occurred.

Because death is like a flash. And enlightenment is like a flash. “Possibility” is the combustible material. “Necessity” is the match, the fuse. If they come together, a flash occurs. If not, it doesn’t. The match burns out without having anything to ignite. The combustible material has the potential to ignite but lacks the fuse or match to set it on fire.

So, throughout your life, you prepare yourself as combustible material for the consciousness to ignite. And there is always the life-giving fire next to you, the fuse that can ignite you. But until you have accumulated enough “combustible material,” you will not ignite. Or you may ignite, but quickly burn out.

For many, a teacher, guru, or master serves as that match or fuse, helping you ignite with their fire. But the same teacher, guru, or master spends a long time preparing you as combustible material, purging you of everything that cannot burn, everything that hinders your ignition. And this is the path of enlightenment. Both the path of enlightenment and death are essentially the same process. Because at the moment of death, you become enlightened. But you become enlightened not in the physical body, as enlightened masters do in earthly incarnations. Therefore, enlightenment is akin to death, the death of your physical form. If you are not ready to die, then you are not ready for enlightenment.