You can attain Cosmic Consciousness by birth, psychedelics, incantations, or purification.

The transition to this higher consciousness arises through grace, the manifestation of the divine power of creation flowing into the physical realm.

Like a farmer who irrigates the field by removing a dam that blocks the flow of water to it, you remove your obstacles so grace can pierce through.

Every mind was created from from egoism.

Every mind is busy with different activities, but one director, one singular awareness, underlies the many vortexes of consciousness.

Consciousness born of meditation isn’t bound by the law of cause and effect and doesn’t accumulate new personality traits, habits, or conditioned behaviors.

The law of cause and effect isn’t all black and white. The practice of yoga puts a third factor in play…

The conditions you create by your merit and qualities. The habitual tendencies only manifest under certain conditions.

The ego’s memories and personality traits go with you even as you change your appearance, live in different places, and move through the phases of life.

Memories and personality traits accumulate without interruption and you can’t wish them away.

They’re a tangle of cause (ignorance), effect (the law of cause and effect), the actor (the ego), and the stimulus (the experience of separateness).

Your true form (Loving Awareness) is always there to be experienced. What makes the difference is your actions and way of life.

Your actions and way of life manifest subtle differences in your qualities.

At your core, you are constant and unchanging (Loving Awareness).

Consciousness and Existence are the same. The two seem separate because of the way Oneness manifests itself in this apparent duality.

Existence depends on and owes its existence to Consciousness. If there were no Consciousness to conceive of it, it would not exist.

Every object comes in and out of existence according to the need of Consciousness to know itself in every possible mode.

Consciousness knows every mental vortex of every mind at all times.

Because of being knowable, your mind does not illuminate itself.

Consciousness cannot be cognized. It is cognition. It is impossible to be both at the same time.

There is only one Consciousness. If it were knowable by another Creator with its own consciousness, those would be infinite, creating confusion and chaos.

Consciousness doesn’t mix with the human mind, but it does transform it, allowing you to observe your own thoughts.

Reflecting both the knower (Consciousness) and the known (Existence), your mind perceives the whole, the Oneness.

Your mind may accumulate the residues of countless experiences, but it has only one reason for being, to serve Consciousness, the source of its power.

You are an essential, inextricable aspect of the whole of existence. Your individual consciousness has the same relationship with Cosmic Consciousness.

As you become more constantly mindful of your oneness with everything in your field of awareness, you gravitate toward independence from the ego.

Don’t be discouraged if you’re triggered by the memories and personality traits that have habitually dictated your behavior.

Just keep working to remove your obstacles and afflictions through the seven stages of the wisdom and the eight limbs of yoga.

Eventually, you will enter a state of Cosmic Consciousness known as the Cloud of Virtue, an uninterrupted state of discernment.

It is a state beyond the reach of the vortex of actions driven by the obstacles of ignorance, egoism, craving, aversion, and attachment.

With all impurities removed, the knowable (the ego) shrinks and wisdom grows infinite.

With that, the last change necessary to expand your consciousness, even the gunas will have fulfilled their purpose and cease their fluctuations.

This final stage in the evolution of discernment is the uninterrupted stream of conscious awareness unfolding moment by moment.

Absolute freedom comes when the ego dissolve, leaving nothing in the way of Cosmic Consciousness and Loving Awareness shines in its own pure light.