The state referred to in verse three-“Then awareness abides in its essential nature”-is the result of awareness disuniting with the mental activities and remaining temporarily aware only of itself until thoughts again arise. In the Yoga Sutras, awareness is termed drashta, drik, chit and chitshakti. At other times, awareness takes on the form of the mental activities.” Awareness is the soul’s ability to sense, see or know and to be conscious of this knowing. Then awareness abides in its essential nature. Yoga is the restraint of mental activities. A clear statement of this idea is found in the first four verses of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras: “Now, the exposition of yoga. The first step is to understand and then identify ourselves as awareness rather than what we are aware of. We can move toward experiencing omnipresence using a series of progressive practices. This truth ultimately must be experienced by each of us. In Hinduism, it is not enough to simply state that omnipresence resides at the core of our soul. Sat is ‘you are.’ Chit is omnipresence-prakasha, light as from the sun, all-knowing. Paramaguru Yogaswami had a terse way of stating this: “Sat Chit Ananda. One of the goals of the meditator or yogi is to experience the natural state of the mind, Satchidananda, holding back the vrittis through yogic practices.” Also called pure consciousness, pure form, substratum of existence, and more. Satchidananda is perfect love and omniscient, omnipotent consciousness, the fountainhead of all existence, yet containing and permeating all existence. Lord Siva’s Divine Mind and simultaneously the pure superconscious mind of each individual soul. Satchidananda: Existence-consciousness-bliss. ” This interior network has a parallel to the external Internet with which we remotely access digital devices that are thousands of miles away from our computers! In Hindu philosophy, the Sanskrit term most commonly used for the Innernet of omnipresence is Satchidananda. I am also in America.” Not only was Yogaswami able to experience the Innernet, he was able to utilize it to accomplish tasks at a distance: “We can give initiation by thought to people in Singapore while remaining here. You are everywhere, but you don’t believe it.” He also made seemingly outlandish statements such as, “Now I am sitting here. My guru’s guru, Yogaswami of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, expressed it in this way: “Bliss, bliss, bliss! I am here, I am there, I am everywhere!” To make sure his devotees didn’t think that this was an attainment unique to him, he would also state, “I am everywhere. Realized beings have shared their experience of the Innernet. I have coined a word for the omnipresent network that is accessed by experiencing the core of the soul. We can compare this to the Internet, which was created by the US Department of Defense for their use but was ultimately given to the world for everyone to freely use. Omnipresence is found at the core of our soul. Not only is God omnipresent, He has graciously shared that attribute with us. Hindu thought differs from this perspective. God is present everywhere whereas man is only present in the location of his physical body. In a religious context, omnipresence is generally thought of as an attribute unique to God. Omnipresence is defined as the state of being present everywhere at the same time. How to separate your awareness from what you are aware of and enjoy a part of your mind that is always peaceful & all-pervasive
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