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Signs of Spiritual Transformations
Adapted from The Book of Secrets by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press, 2004).
The six emergent spiritual properties are clarity of awareness, knowingness, reverence for life, absence of violence, fearlessness and wholeness.
Clarity means being awake to yourself around the clock, in waking, sleeping and dreaming. Instead of being overshadowed by externals, your awareness is always open to itself. Clarity feels totally alert, and carefree.
Knowingness means being in touch with the level of the mind where every question is answered. It is related to genius, although knowingness isn’t focused on music, mathematics, or other specific subjects. Your area of knowledge is life itself and the movement of consciousness on every level. Knowingness feels wise, confident, unshakable, and yet humble.
Reverence for life means being in touch with the life force. You feel the same power flowing through you as through every living thing; even the dust in a beam of light dances to the same rhythm. Reverence for life feels warm, connected and exhilarating.
Non-violence means being in harmony with every action. There is no opposition between what you do and what anyone else does. Your desires do not clash with another person’s well-being. When you look around you see conflict in the world at large but not in your world. You emanate peace like a force field that subdues conflict in your surroundings. Non-violence feels peaceful, still and completely without resistance.
Fearlessness means total security. Fear is a jolt from the past; it reminds us of the moment when we left a place of belonging and found ourselves in a place of vulnerability. The Bhagavad Gita says that fear is born of separation, implying that the original cause of fear was the loss of unity. Ultimately, that separation is not a fall from grace but a loss of who you really are. To be fearless feels, therefore, like yourself.
Wholeness means including everything, leaving nothing out. At present we each experience life sliced up into bits of time, bits of experience, bits of activity. We cling to our limited sense of self to protect the slices from falling apart. But it’s impossible to find continuity in this way, hard as the ego tries in its struggle to make life hang together. Wholeness is a state beyond personality. It emerges when “I am” as it applies to you is the same “I am” everywhere. Wholeness feels solid, eternal, without beginning or end.
Adapted from The Book of Secrets by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press, 2004).
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add your comment »my GREAT kindred SPIRIT...i yearn to be so close to you...it is you that i so miss too much...when?how?miaxo
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Reading these articles daily has changed my life to great extent. I will be needing more of it, since I have a long way to go.
May Allah bless you Dr. Chopra.
RIver
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I am very grateful to be a part of this website and receive this constant encouragement from Deepak to keep moving onward on the path ...joining us all together for a better world highlighting peace and harmony and most of all love.
Love makes the world go round...
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i so appreciate words above from thou deepest heart and mind gatherings....as i read all the above entries for today...and someone (me tioned
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Thank you for sharing your wisdom. These properties ring true for me. I really feel supported on my path each time I read your words. You are a gift to us all. Blessings to you. Marilynne
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I'm working on it.........I have just given myself gifts of self love that will make realizing spiritual transformation easier, I have quit smoking and become more vigilante about thought monitoring and excercise (yoga). Peace is in sight..........inner and outer, Thank you for the guidance.
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Thank you Deepak, for this enlightenment. I am currently experiencing all of these transformations through various bodywork modalities. Holistic massage, acupressure, Reiki, gyrokinesis, and tai chi in specific. This work has given me a broader energy awareness and connectivity to all things. It takes me on a journey of oneness with the universe. This work gives me great peace, love, and understanding and allows me to share this energy with others. It's been a bilateral therapy experience - I just now realized it's really a spiritual transformation process.
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Knowledge is liberation, it is what permits us to see a unified movement amid much diversity.
~Immanuel Kant~
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What Deepak Chopra tells is external truth. There cannot be any dispute over what he says as the five emergent spiritual properties as clarity of awareness, knowingness, reverence for life, absence of violence, fearlessness, non-attachment and wholeness. These are things we have to personally experience to believe it. It is a bliss to English Reading and Western Educated intellectually dissipated people all over the world to learn such invaluable things from Divine Soul Deepak Chopra. Keep it up Deepak. God bless you. There is a clear vacum in the world and in the hearts of mankind. You have the good stuff to fill it up before the vacum sucks undesirable things. Spread this message as wide as possible and feasible. Of course it is not you and me who are doing it, but that ultimate Truth and the Universal Spirit/Energy ....Soular Energy!!!!!!!!!
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The harder I hold onto an idea the more I loose my center.
I must be in the process of "clinging to my limited sense of self trying to protect the slices from falling apart" and I think I am hanging on for dear life........... when I just need to let go and flow with life.
Thank you :o)
Sending love and light,
Robin
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