April 14, 2025
The descent of light into the heart is the awakening of insight. There is clear perception of the truth. This perception transforms the world without touching it, transforms life without changing it. In it you see the world as it is, life as it is. You realize that 'you' are part of the world; the mind functioning in the body thinks, and thinks it has a mysterious relationship with the 'rest of the world' outside the skin of the body! This relationship is of indivisible duality. With every event in this world, an experiencer somehow arises within the individual body; this experience begins to store some memories, giving rise to the 'me' (ego-sense).
The 'me' is the past. It has no future. This understanding frees awareness about the past and the future. The 'me' has energy built into it — the past momentum (known as prarabdha karma); it does not need further fuel (ambition or desire). Ambition is unnecessary for life, in life. The body-mind complex may be allowed to exhaust the energy: this leads to total freedom from the self or 'me'. If the body (and even the mind) functions without additional fuel, there is freedom for awareness.
This awareness realizes that the whole universe is sacrifice (both in the sense of destroying, and 'making sacred'). Everything comes into being and ceases before it takes another form. Rising-setting is the order of creation. All material objects, all thoughts and emotions obey this law. But then, why not the ego — why does it not rise and set, without creating a perpetual problem?
It is the false 'surviving' ego that is to be sacrificed. When its nature is thoroughly investigated, the ego is sacrificed; and in its place something sacred is realized. This extraordinarily beautiful realization is thus stated by Lord Krishna: “By this you will see all beings in the Self and in Me.” This is the realization of oneness.
When the ego is thus sacrificed, only then does sin come to an end. It is not the ego that sacrifices and gets rid of evil. When the veil ('evil' spelled differently) is lifted, the ego is no more — no more an enduring entity. It continues to rise and fall in common with all else in this universe.