About Deepak Chopra
Time Magazine heralded Deepak Chopra as one of the 100 heroes and icons of the century, and credited him as "the poet-prophet of alternative medicine." Entertainment Weekly described Deepak Chopra as "Hollywood's man of the moment, one of publishing's best-selling and most prolific self-help authors." He is the author of more than 50 books and more than 100 audio, video and CD-Rom titles. He has been published on every continent and in dozens of languages. Fifteen of his books have landed on the New York Times Best-seller list. Toastmaster International recognized him as one of the top five outstanding speakers in the world. Through his over two decades of work since leaving his medical practice, Deepak continues to revolutionize common wisdom about the crucial connection between body, mind, spirit, and healing. His mission of "bridging the technological miracles of the west with the wisdom of the east" remains his thrust and provides the basis for his recognition as one of India's historically greatest ambassadors to the west. Chopra has been a keynote speaker at several academic institutions including Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Divinity School, Kellogg School of Management, Stanford Business School and Wharton.His latest book is
"Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul."
"state of unity consciousness"
"consciousness still continues to grow and expand."
"true bliss" is a permanent state of happiness. Basically it is one in all and all in one or it is everything or nothing.
Ha, a person need to experience the true bliss to know it. A state from where nobody would like to come out of.
Rajesh
The moment
It is interesting ( appallingly exciting) to imagine how it wud feel to have familiarity with highest level of expanse of consciousness.
I have just a guess that is exactly vedic guys quote as Satchittanand( True-spiritual-pleasure )and Param-ananda ( Ultimate pleasure or bliss).
I choose pleasure to bliss because of formers' naughty-addictive component( in my case at least) as Lord Krishna mentioned in Geeta ," one may remain in illusion of physical relationship as the ultimate moment of pleasure, which is momentary , just a fleeting one.Ask those who remain in permanent state of pleasure having found it out through Adhyatmic (spiritual) conduit.That is ultimate of all pleasures."
For me ,it is spiritual-pleasure addiction.It is interesting the way we shift from addiction to addiction from 'physical worlds' unrealism to spiritual worlds' realism'.
Consciousness and awareness of it turns into an addiction, a dependence.One wants to stay in it 24*7 hours.Yep, it certainly can be argued as 'The reality' to justify the addiction.
I guess, Nirvana isnt acheivable until a soul gets devoid of even this addiction or desire for exploring more and more of consciousness.
Can "this presence" be described? I have a continuous awareness that has a subtle frequency, it's like a soft continuous pitch that never goes away. At times it gets louder and when that happens its usually followed by a gentle vibration in the left lobe of my brain. The vibration last a few seconds at most and is never annoying. Then at night while sleeping, there's a different sensation, i'm still struggling with this one because… well let's just say… I call it a spiritual flash but others might call it a hot flash.
Hugs, Lily
Thanks for the post. It precisely puts into words that the quest (enlightenment) is never ending. There are no boundaries. This is profound and beautiful at the same time.
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Good enough. Feeling the bliss and the conciousness continues to grow and expand….Now what ? Even if of the highest level, was it all for a Feel Good expirience?
I think, the very intent to attain this state is to attain my peak level of efficiency/performance. Now, starts my Karma, my deeds in the right direction to fufill in serving my Lord, God, the Universal One. This, by being very much with the people, enviorment. Only then, I can feel the real thrill, when I am channalising my full energy thus obtained, through productive work. Like a sportsman would go through rigorous exersises to reach peak level, so that he/she can give his/her best in the field/game.
Else, it remains only a 'Feel Good' experience in aid of none, not even to himself either. Besides, this extrime spiritual 'pleasure' will not be sustainable if not connected to or channalised in hectic activtiy. Like, having a huge powerhouse of electricity, yet not a single light lit !
V C
Dr. Chopra's answer reminds me of one of my spiritual teachers, Rev. Koyo Kubose, who has always told me, "Keep going, keep going," whenever I had any sort of awareness growth.
Needless to say, I follow his advice and have found so many teachers along the way to remind me that this is the way.
Tom
How does one really know if/when they have achieved their full potential? Or is it just their mind telling them another "story"? Could it be that potential has no boundaries? Or levels?