Therefore, by norm, I should tick off all the definitions of a successful and relatively accomplished human being, predictable and satisfying most norms of a society product of the 21st century.

However, I am completely and utterly not that! I do not believe in living a formulaic life and many who have heard and known me over the years will wonder at how I am where I am given the absolute detached way I seem to view and respond to my experience of life.

I never prepared for corporate presentations, hardly ever did anything spectacularly crazy to achieve the phenomenal results that eventuated especially given the senior positions I held, and seldom thought I would end up doing two international masters degrees with top marks having left my home country at 22, when the only thing that intrigued and interested me was to become a renunciant since the age of 16.

Truth be known, during those years of study, shutting myself in my dorm room for my long meditation sessions were the only interest I had, besides being the reason for me to want to leave my home so I would not be under constant supervision and criticised for ignoring studies to be a failure and not ‘become’ a responsible young man.

So, if you ask people who are really close to me about their opinion of me as a person, they will most likely say that Gaurav’s views usually converge to a philosophical view of the world/ human experience. I am unpredictable, quite random and even though mostly seen to be highly knowledgeable about the physical world, my behaviour and personality type cannot be boxed into a specific pattern.

I think some of us may view that as being normal to many of us?

So, what am I trying to say? Certainly that I am unique. By common sense therefore, you are unique as well. The fact is, EVERYONE is absolutely and fundamentally unique.

None amongst the 8 billion inhabitants of earth (not counting all the non-human format living beings) can therefore be seen as a replica of each other in terms of thoughts, behaviours, values, ideas and any other characteristics.

I hope that conclusion is agreeable and something that cannot be argued upon. Therefore, each one of us must know, there is NO comparable! You are truly your own example of the benchmark that can be! This means, you should be able to simply accept YOURSELF just as you are! Society’s rules and expectations and formats of existence don’t matter to the extent you are able to hold yourself in a space that makes sense to you.

Most of my beliefs center around:

• ‘I am not even here’
• ‘this world is my oyster’,
• ‘nothing really should matter as much to seriously worry me’,
• ‘just be who you are’,
• ‘accept everything as it is, because none of this is going to last anyway’
• ‘it will all turn out the way it was meant to be, best for our own growth and we will finally realise, it was all for the good’

AND most importantly,

• ‘we are much greater than who we think we are’.

So, in my personal opinion, we must give this one LIFE, in which we seem to have been blessed with both the intellect and intelligence, a chance at truly discovering ourselves! I say this, because most of the world seems steeped in ignorance. People mis-identify themselves given society’s conditioning without trying as much to pause and think. I therefore consider it a duty and privilege to be able to share my experiences. That if they may resonate with even one soul, and one life may transform given some relatability with my own experiences, it would be a worthy life experience.

I experience myself as pure energy and pure consciousness — at times! At other times, I feel this human dimension as more real. Then, there are times, when I can clearly experience transitioning and transforming from the physical gross, to the vibrational subtle! I also experience myself as the pure awareness of everything and nothing.

In this journey of transitioning, which can sometimes occur within minutes, the human body sensations totally disappear. Even the physical breathing can be experienced to completely stop, certainly at most times slowing down to the miniscule bare minimum without making any effort whatsoever, compared to my usual breathing patterns.

I must share that it is indeed fantastic to experience this transformational experiential phase which clearly demonstrate to me personally, why this body mind complex is such a limited perception of who I feel to be at times.

Certainly, as my experience shifts to the subtle energy layer, the earthly dimensions completely lose their physics and external bearings, and really, neither gravity, nor the feeling of residing in this physical body, seem to register in my personal experience. The spirit world becomes quite evident as I can clearly perceive and interact with souls who I have known, and those who I know are familiar to me, though cannot be categorised into any specific ‘known’ human association.

In some of my meditations, I am now being allowed to welcome and uplift existing soul forms who need to connect with their higher selves. The meditations have become so much more powerful with both the physical human and inter-dimensional spirit presence.

But really, the spirit world is not the end. When one is able to reside in their highest SELF (what can be described in language parlance as an ascension feeling through the Sahasrara or the Crown chakra that then seems to transcend all sense of physical existence), one starts experiencing their absolute state of STILLNESS without beginning and end, the pure awareness of absolute nothing-ness, absolutely devoid of thought, feeling, breath, body, sound, time, distance. One is in the KNOWING — without feeling oneself as the perceiver; certainly not the perceived.

his state can certainly be described as Pure or Supreme or God Consciousness (in English language parlance). It is your OWN NATURAL state. It is who you are! It is the ultimate destination of the journeying you are on. Full Circle. You started from it, and you merge into it.

NOW, am I saying that there is a physical journey from and to something?

NO! It is not a physical journeying of the soul. The projector projects the movie. Everything seems real. The figures, sound, storyline, everything is as real as can be. They aren’t really there, are they?!

You are transformed during that time as if to live that movie for those hours. Devoid of any external disturbance, of babies crying or children running, or your partner or neighbour tugging at your elbow, you are simply the movie itself.

BUT, the truth is, the light that emanates from the projector, is the source. If the light goes (say the electricity is turned off), everything disappears!

The body and senses may allow you to perceive this so called dimensional reality. But, that is not YOUR reality, that is not YOUR identity, that is NOT your TRUTH. Can the bulb glow without the electricity? No!

It is YOU who FIRST appeared even before the body took birth! It is your presence (you may think ‘literal presence’ but I am not indicating that), that then allowed the perception to be perceived.

In fact, the body was just a lifeless foetus before that power (that gave everything its identity) arrived.

YOU are that LIGHT!

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It is completely up to you to continue experiencing the limited conditioned perceived combine of ‘time’ and ‘space’ as your truth! And it is completely up to you to break your shackles and evolve to your own truth and reality of who you truly are!

To be continued….

In gratitude,

Gaurav

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