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= Why Expand and Widen? =
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The very nature of mind, life and body is to evolve. The One Consciousness divides itself into innumerable fragments for the need of expansion. </span><span style="background-color:#fce5cd;color:#000000;">Life itself seeks for the perfection which it is eternally capable of</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The pressure from the spiritual worlds prepares a field to manifest the indwelling spirit. There is a constant labour of nature to ascend into a higher principle of being. It takes up all that is lower into the higher values.</span>
<span style="background-color:#fce5cd;color:#000000;">We start with the will to expand from the ignorant consciousness to a boundless finite</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">We engage in new range of activities. We work with the sense of unity with the Divine. We feel the Divine moving, thinking and feeling in us. To feel the body in the wide free self and not attached to the limitations of the body.</span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Make all activities an outpouring of </span><span style="background-color:#fce5cd;color:#000000;">love for the One in All who is the Highest</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Love for all forms and creatures around us, we break free from the shell of ego.</span>
<span style="background-color:#fce5cd;color:#000000;">Surrender</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">of our little selves - our personal ideas, desires and attachments so that the Divine may take up everything. If we insist on our own ideas and reasonings, greater Light and Knowledge cannot come.</span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">By becoming more </span><span style="background-color:#fce5cd;color:#000000;">quieter and calmer</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">without getting excited and agitated, we put ourselves in a capacity to receive from the higher forces.</span>
= Outcomes of Expansion of Consciousness =
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Widening and expansion gives a great joy of being, a clearer sense of truth and things and an inner silence. We see things in a larger light and detect the origin and law of our feelings, emotions and sensations. The thick layer of </span><span style="background-color:#fce5cd;color:#000000;">ego gets thinned</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and we see ourselves reduced to a point of working of the universal force. We are not carried away by the shocks and injuries, we deal with it in a </span><span style="background-color:#fce5cd;color:#000000;">calm equality</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">. </span>
= What Prevents Expansion of Consciousness? =
* = <span style="background-color:transparent;">The </span><span style="background-color:#fce5cd;">submental, subconscient, inconscient influence on nature</span><span style="background-color:transparent;">. Disrupts the mind’s natural tendency to reach beyond the mind by laying down its impulses and instincts.</span> =
* <div style="color:#000000;margin-left:1.27cm;margin-right:0cm;">Fear, distrust and skepticism</div>
* <div style="color:#000000;margin-left:1.27cm;margin-right:0cm;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">Volatile vital with its </span><span style="background-color:#fce5cd;">desires, restlessness and unstability.</span></div>
= Methods and Practices to Expand One’s Consciousness =
* <div style="color:#000000;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">Connection with the vastness of nature - </span><span style="background-color:#fce5cd;">gazing at the sky/stars/water body and expand into it.</span></div>
* <div style="color:#000000;">Do many different things - music, painting, reading varied subjects, learning languages, explore/travel.</div>
* <div style="color:#000000;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">When bored or troubled - thinking of the </span><span style="background-color:#fce5cd;">immensity and eternity of space</span><span style="background-color:transparent;"> and time before us. </span></div>
* <div style="color:#000000;">Participating in some work everyday as an expression of goodwill for all.</div>
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