Living from the center or from the periphery
by Atman Nityananda / Bkes
Living from the center (Consciousness, essence), we move closer and closer to light and freedom, living from the periphery (body, mind, ego), we move towards darker darkness and greater bondage.
In our center where our true nature shines, there is always peace, fullness, perfection, silence, bliss. At the periphery (the mind at all levels, the senses and the body) there is agitation, distraction, attachment, anxiety, worry, fear, discomfort (rajasotamasic states), as well as tranquility, satisfaction, happiness and joy (sattvic states).
Thus, we swing like a pendulum between sattvic (the minority of time) and rajasotamasic (the vast majority of time) moments and experience the pairs of psychological opposites, such as pleasure and pain, joy and sadness, satisfaction and dissatisfaction, liking and disliking, and we spend much time in the states of lack, insufficiency, existential emptiness, discontent, malaise, dysthymia, and boredom, craving, anxiety, worry, fear, liking, dislike, dislike, dislike, anger and fear.
The “secret” of a life of abundance, a life of harmony, happiness and satisfaction is to have a sattvic mind free of desires and ego and to live in every moment in conscious contact with our true Self (Consciousness).
It is in our hands to live from the center or from the periphery, to live consciously or mechanically and unconsciously, to remain dominated by the ego and its innumerable expressions (tendencies, patterns, defects, habits) or to eliminate egoistic tendencies, to transform ourselves at all levels of our existence, to convert the mind into sattvic and to unite fully and firmly with our divine Self.
The ‘secret’ to a plentiful life, a life of harmony, happiness and contentment is to have a sattvic mind free from desires and ego and to live in every moment in conscious contact with our true Self (Consciousness).
🌺 Peace, Love, Harmony
atmannityanada 