The Third Dimension: Spiritual Consciousness, Bliss and Inner Multiverses

We all believe we inhabit the same world. Yet depending on the state of our consciousness, we do not live the same reality. There are inner dimensions that ordinary life does not suspect — and one of them changes everything.. Among all the dimensions that consciousness can know, the spiritual dimension is the one that brings the most satisfaction

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The Third Dimension

When Consciousness Regains its Depth

We all believe we inhabit the same world. Yet depending on the state of our consciousness, we do not live the same reality. There are inner dimensions that ordinary life does not suspect — and one of them changes everything.

You may be familiar with the theory of multiverses. If you don't know it well, you have probably heard of it. According to this theory, there exists an infinite number of parallel universes.

I cannot pronounce on its validity, since the greatest physicists themselves do not agree with one another. What I can say with absolute certainty, however, is that human consciousness does not always live in one and the same dimension. It can inhabit a great many inner universes. There exist, in a sense, multiverses of consciousness.

Over the course of my life, which is beginning to be a long one, I have experienced consciousness in many different ways. Some of those ways were illegal and, if one is to believe the authorities and the doctors, not particularly good for one's health. But it was in India, in the company of sadhus, and it was a long time ago; I was young. The statute of limitations has long since run out.

I can therefore say with certainty that our consciousness can find itself in all kinds of dimensions, in very different universes. It does not inhabit them all at the same time, but it moves from one to another. Depending on which dimension it occupies, we do not live the same thing.

Not only do we not live the same thing; the world we experience changes with our consciousness, as though it had no single form, no single depth, no single colour. What seemed heavy can become light. What seemed complicated can become simple. What seemed closed can suddenly open.

Among all the dimensions that consciousness can know, the spiritual dimension is the one that brings the most satisfaction, the most joy, the most happiness and the most bliss. Of this there is no doubt for anyone who has truly known it.

When our consciousness finds itself in a less deep dimension, we may be happy, satisfied and fulfilled. We may also be sad, angry, anxious or unhappy. That is beside the point here.

Even when we are happy, even when we love and are loved, even when we have wonderful children who make us proud, a secure job and a comfortable income, that happiness does not have the same dimension as essential happiness, as the bliss experienced when our consciousness finds itself in the spiritual dimension.

For to know that difference, one must have lived both.

I know the spiritual dimension because I live it every day, through meditation, service and devotion. I also know the human dimension in many forms, dark and luminous, happy and unhappy. The repeated experience of these different states has allowed me to compare and distinguish them.

I can recognise the particular quality of the happiness, satisfaction and sense of fulfilment I feel when I am in the spiritual dimension through Observance. I can also recognise the quality of the consciousness I have when I remain in the human and existential dimension, even when that existence is a happy one.

It still happens to me, rarely, but from time to time, that I find myself in that trivial and ordinary dimension of consciousness. I am not necessarily the worse for it. I am by nature optimistic and positive. I have no real reason to be fundamentally unhappy in my life or deeply dissatisfied with it.

Then, through meditation, through the Holy Name, through the Nectar and, more generally, through Observance, I find the spiritual dimension again. And I notice that, just before returning to it, my consciousness was living in a kind of two-dimensional world.

Everything was there, but without any real depth. There was life, things to be done, thoughts, preoccupations, pleasures and irritations; but something was missing. When I return to the Holy Name, a depth reveals itself. I recover at least a third dimension.

Everything lightens, freshens and simplifies.

The simplicity I am speaking of is not a concept. It is not merely a simple way of speaking or doing things. It is a state of consciousness. It has to do with unity, with having returned to the centre, with being once again in harmony with truth, with the love of God, with his Grace and his Guidance.

We then feel light, because we have been relieved of the weight of our sufferings, our anxieties, our vanity and our questions. We are relieved of our limitations, our thoughts and, in a word, of ourselves.

When we are relieved of ourselves, our consciousness expands. It rediscovers a space it had forgotten. We breathe more freely. We become lighter and we rediscover the taste, the fragrance and the delightful mood of a happy childhood.

This simplicity was recommended by Jesus: blessed are the pure in spirit, for they shall see God and be called children of God. Blessed are the pure in spirit; not the simple-minded, but those whose spirit has become simple.

Good and Evil

If this spiritual dimension brings us so much peace and happiness, why do we not remain there constantly? Because there exist in us several tendencies. We all have this pull toward God and, at the same time, its opposite.

As darkness is the absence of light, evil has no existence of its own; it is above all the absence of good. Good is everything that brings us closer to the spiritual dimension of consciousness; evil is everything that takes us away from it. This is not a moral consideration, but an orientation of consciousness.

We are on Earth to learn to tell the difference between good and evil and to choose freely between the two; that is the purpose of life. For this, we receive at birth three principal conditionings: sattva, the positive conditioning; tamas, the negative conditioning; and, between the two, rajas, human nature, the thirst for life, the impulse that drives us to desire, to act, to love existence and to be greedy for its joys. When we turn toward sattva, it elevates us. When we yield to tamas, it leaves us in confusion.

We are pulled in two directions. On one side: procrastination, discouragement, sadness and confusion. On the other: lightness of being, light and deep consciousness.

Depending on where we are in our lives and how far along we are in our spiritual evolution, we are drawn more toward one or the other of these conditionings. We yield more easily in the direction we already lean.

Spirituality should help us lean more toward sattva. The only means I know of achieving this is the Observance of a sound sadhana. Regular Observance and trust truly make it possible to reach that particular dimension of consciousness we call bliss. But the word is flat in comparison to what one actually lives.

Bliss

When we know this bliss, this lightness, this freshness, this simplicity and this fragrance of childhood, we realise that no single word can contain them. Yet it is still the one that fits best: bliss.

And so I invite you to live it.

As for me, I am holding a good hand, as they say in poker. I tell you this for your sake, because I love to share. You accept this sharing or you do not; that is your freedom.

You probably know this bliss yourself. Perhaps you do not live it all the time or very deeply, but you know it. So whenever it manifests, consider it a reminder. Immediately practise the technique of the Nectar and the technique of the Holy Name.

Do not let a feeling of light joy pass through you without connecting it to meditation on the Holy Name. Make use of that small breeze coming from the higher consciousness to let it carry you. Raise the sails of your practice. Pause and unfold the Holy Name whenever you feel within you that light happiness coming from within.

Let that breath bring you back more deeply to the centre, expand your consciousness and allow you to realise.

If you are not a practitioner and have not yet received the Revelation, you may ask to receive it. It will be given to you.

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