When you have realized who you really are, then all you can feel is the bliss of brahmananda, or the realization that you are not separate from the cause of all causes, and therefore you lack nothing.
Such a state is rare, yet it was the goal of advanced yogis and mystic meditators since time immemorial. Those who attained even a glimpse of the goal, of linking up with the transcendent force, the holy source, and his feminine shakti energy, would lose all material desires because they would feel fulfilled. Thus, they had no more need to pursue the objects of the senses any more.
The ancient wisdom texts have always said that you are not your body, that you are consciousness currently experiencing life through your body. Now, in the twenty-first century, scientists and researchers in the field of consciousness are saying the same thing. Science has caught up with the ancient wisdom, a few thousand years later.
Quantum theories in modern science suggest that the body is more like a remote controlled drone, and the operator of the drone is experiencing what the drone sees, but is located somewhere else.
A scientist called Federico Faggin, who invented the first CPU (computer chip) and the touchpad that we all use today, has now also concluded what the ancient Sanskrit texts have been telling us for thousands of years.
We are both the observer and the observed. Consciousness is quantum and not localized within the body alone. The body is a quantum - and a classic - machine, from the scientific point of view. As that same consciousness, we as individuals are holographically able to channel the power of the source, experience it, in quality, if not in full quantity.
All is consciousness and we are a fragmental perception point through which consciousness perceives itself. And by labeling it as consciousness, I am implying that the almighty it is conscious, thus has personality, even if being on a different level to that of our ego personality.
Today quantum scientists suggest that every cell in our body has the info of the whole body. Thus on this localized level we are also holographic. Epigenetics, a field of research which is only a few years old is saying we a holographic.
In science today, nobody fully understands how light works, how cells work. They study it in a classical system which is becoming outdated and surpassed by quantum science.
We are quantum. Consciousness and free will cannot be fully explained. Quantum cannot be explained. Old dogmas of the scientific orthodoxy are now seen to be impeding us in deeper research into life on the quantum level.
And there is a quantum field. The field controls the cells, and it controls us, whether by electro-magnetism or something else, that is still a matter of research and debate. The point is that when you're in flow, when you're channeling the force, then you lose hunger and desire. Even sleep is unnecessary.
The old yogis of the sixteenth and seventeenth century Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition would enter states of ecstasy where they slept only two hours a night, and were awake the rest of the time absorbed in meditation or remembrance of the source. They wrote prolifically about it and about the practice of bhakti yoga, the yoga of loving ecstasy in union with the divine. That is the goal of yoga.
In modern science, the concept of quantum implies that multiple states exist at once. Reality is wholistic, not made of separate parts, it is integral.
Why do we still have archaic and outdated theories based on the materialist paradigm in science? Today the problem is one of power and control. Materialist philosophy wants to keep control of the narrative, yet you can't control quantum parts and the theory of quantum mechanics frees everyone who grasps it implications.
That's why they are reluctant to change their views. Quantum theory - nobody knows how it actually works. Also nobody knows how AI actually works yet, and that is an emergent field in just the past few years, where we appear to be creating something which we don't fully control, that could surpass us.
In quantum science, matter can be in superposition, or in more than one state simultaneously. When you measure it, then it collapses into one state or the other. Some say that this is free-will in action at this point. Influenced by the observer.
Similarly, the words I use to describe how I feel, are not the feeling, only a small representation. Our reality in this human body is only a part of the bigger picture of reality. It is a representation of something greater, and the body is the final expression.
When the yogi realizes that they are not the final expression but that they are something higher up the ladder of reality, and that they are in touch with or in union with the prima materia, the higher mind, the archetypes of the collective unconscious, the ancestral memory, the word soul, the universal mind, then they see things as they really are, not finite but infinite.
Bhagavad Gita ch6:4
यदा हि नेन्द्रियार्थेषु न कर्मस्वनुषज्जते ।
सर्वसङ्कल्पसन्न्यासी योगारूढस्तदोच्यते ॥ ४ ॥
yadā hi nendriyārtheṣu
na karmasv anuṣajjate
sarva-saṅkalpa-sannyāsī
yogārūḍhas tadocyate
SYNONYMS
yadā—when; hi—certainly; na—not; indriya-artheṣu—in sense gratification; na—never; karmasu—in fruitive activities; anuṣajjate—does necessarily engage; sarva-saṅkalpa—all material desires; sannyāsī—renouncer; yoga-ārūḍhaḥ—elevated in yoga; tadā—at that time; ucyate—is said to be.
TRANSLATION
A person is said to have attained to yoga when, having renounced all material desires, he neither acts for sense gratification nor engages in fruitive activities.
PURPORT
When a person is fully engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, he is pleased in himself, and thus he is no longer engaged in sense gratification or in fruitive activities. Otherwise, one must be engaged in sense gratification, since one cannot live without engagement. Without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one must be always seeking self-centered or extended selfish activities. But a Kṛṣṇa conscious person can do everything for the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa and thereby be perfectly detached from sense gratification. One who has no such realization must mechanically try to escape material desires before being elevated to the top rung of the yoga ladder.
Reference: Bhagavad Gita As It Is, translation and commentary by Swami A C Bhaktivedanta, original Macmillan 1972 edition.
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