The 5 Fundamental Principles of Evolution

Evolution means progressive change.

There is no progress in life without change.

From the Vedic perspective, we need to embrace the following 5 elements if we wish to have optimal growth to higher states of consciousness.

STABILITY
means being unshakable and is a product of the mind having grounded itself in Being.  Stability gives us the capacity to continue to grow our repertoire of capabilities and is an outcome of practising Vedic Meditation.

ADAPTABILITY
means having adaptive responses to demands or changes of expectations rather than stress or fight-flight responses.  This is enhanced by the practice of Vedic Meditation.

INTEGRATION
means being able to integrate into our lives new, innovative and useful knowledge that enhances our repertoire of capabilities.

PURIFICATION
means being able to let go of rigid attachment to obsolete and irrelevant ways of behaving that are no longer helpful to us or serve the evolutionary process and are therefore holding us back.

WILLINGNESS TO GROW
means having a willingness to look at new ways of doing things and that means embracing change enthusiastically. To what extent am I willing to be a tool of evolution?

As Vedic Meditators, we need to check in on these 5 areas regularly to ensure that we are not retarding our progress in any way.  By doing this we will make sure that we are living a sustainable lifestyle and therefore our survival will be a spontaneous by-product.  According to the Vedic Worldview, survival is a product of the extent to which one progresses and evolves.

With love,
Limor

Accessing the Source of Happiness within

Vedic Meditation gives us the opportunity to step out of Object Referral Consciousness, and to embrace Self Referral Consciousness.

Object Referral Consciousness is characterised by the conviction that someone (or something) other than oneself is the source and the cause of our happiness; likewise, someone (something, many people, many things) other than oneself is the source and the cause of our unhappiness or our circumstances in life. Object Referral Consciousness doesn’t take responsibility for one’s own experience and attributes blame on others: the opinion is that; ’I am not responsible for my suffering; the behaviours and shortfalls of others is the cause of my suffering’. Consequently, to minimise suffering, it is believed that absolutely everything must be controlled; all experiences, all thinking, all actions, all attitudes, in all people. This is obviously not sustainable because there is no body and no thing that was purpose built to make us happy.

During the practice of Vedic Meditation, we allow the mind to naturally and effortlessly de-excite, settle down and experience bliss consciousness. Consistently experiencing this, over time, yields a state of baseline inner happiness or true and lasting happiness which is one of the features of Self Referral Consciousness.

Self Referral Consciousness is the sustainable approach to happiness because it is based on:
- tapping into the source of happiness within (the type of happiness that is not circumstantial).
- and then attracting to our lives all of the desirable things and circumstances that reflect our true state of happiness.
In this model, we cultivate our happiness from within; it’s lasting - no matter what is happening around us.

Self Referral Consciousness is characterised by the following understanding, based on experience:
‘I am Totality; my consciousness is cosmic, It inhabits not only this human body, it inhabits all bodies and all things.
I am Self-sufficient.
I am Nature’s intelligence Itself,
I am the fountainhead of all creativity.
I cannot be made happy; I have Self-sufficient happiness.’

With love,
Limor

Letting go of the unsustainable

When we learn Vedic Meditation, we are taught that if at any moment during the meditation session we feel that we are beginning to forget the mantra, then we should not try to keep on remembering it, we should let it go.

One of the profound and common effects that we experience by meditating twice daily is that we are able to let go of the unsustainable in our lives.

Unsustainable friendships or relationships or careers, toxic substances or any other unsustainable habits that were able to continue to be sustained before learning to meditate are much harder to sustain once we add twice daily meditation to our lives.

Quite simply, Meditators are able to more easily follow charm, move away from aversion and let go of the unsustainable.

Vedic Meditation gives us a systematic method every day of removing stress from our physiology. This allows us to rely more and more on our intuition and we therefore find it much harder to strain and maintain the unsustainable.

So next time a life-long habit that you previously found charming starts to lose its charm, then simply apply the same instruction we use in meditation: if we feel that we are beginning to forget it, then we should not try to keep on remembering it, we should let it go.

With love,
Limor