Belief and Reality

THATHATHAN --- Belief and Reality.

When we hear the words higher consciousness what come our mind is thoughts of God almighty. High consciousness and high thoughts are not the same thing. So far we are concerned, thinking about God is only a belief principle. That belief may be because of some culture of a particular place, the knowledge acquired by reading, or what is heard from some one else. That belief has not turned into our experience. High awareness or higher consciousness is not a belief or theory. That is one’s own experience of Truth.
There is a lot of distance between belief and experience. God-belief is creation of society. Society maintains this in order to utilize the good aspects of belief. For example, the priest appears in this world as the authorized representative or spokesman of god. Maintenance of belief is their requirement. Religious leaders and politicians take advantage of belief systems based on their narrow interests. On the other side the atheists say that there is no God. Is it after really experiencing or understanding the truth that they say so? Never! Atheists need to deny god in order to justify their belief in their systems. They deny God only for that purpose.
Thathathan is not saying that belief in god is not necessary. It is, of course, necessary. That our belief today goes or obstructs the experience of god is the contradiction, because, the actual presence of god is waiting to sprout and grow within us. It remains within us as butter in milk. It is our mind of to-day that hinders the consciousness from waking up. The mind which expresses outside today is not our real mind. That is merely the society’s mind. Society’s mind does not need the experience of God. Only belief in god is necessary for it. Actually the social mind opposes God-experience. The life of Thathathan itself is an example of that. It is to uproot and destroy the God-consciousness in me that my father, family and the society tried.
Where does our mind stand today? If you think a little deeper you find that our consciousness is at the level of the body only. It is that we call also as Animal Awareness. That is the un-awakened state. Getting agitated suddenly, becoming emotional without control, mindless indulgence in desires etc. are signs of blind awareness. Adamancy, thoughts of vengeance, desire of domination, conquest, enslavement of others, are also signs of body level awareness. To raise it and experience the awareness that lies beyond and behind the body level, to higher a level, is the core of spiritual life.