Here are prescribed simple steps to taste spiritual emancipation in a few minutes without any practice.
Spare 30 minutes to an hour to complete the process.
Whatever our age. Mine is 73. We start with our present age and ask these questions for previous (reducing by 10 years) ages till we reach the age of 3 years. (Jump from 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, to 3). One can choose to write down the questions and answers specific to ages as applicable.
Tap this link to obtain a printable PDF of the questions. Questions
For me I will ask for ages 63, 53, 43, 33, 23, 13 and 3.
1. Where was I living.
2. What was I doing.
3. What was my family like.
4. How was my life.
5. What did I think about myself.
6. Did I have a name? What was it.
7. How did people address me - socially, at work, at home, by siblings.
8. What made me feel proud.
9. What made me feel hurt, pained, insulted, ignored, left alone, not regarded, slighted or blamed.
10. What made me feel angry, sad and anxious.
11. Did I own a self identity which when hurt made me feel hurt.
12. Could I forgive and forget wrong done to me.
13. Did I yearn love, affection and praise.
14. Did I recognise : Ah that's me.
15. Did I possess a sense of self.
It is at the age of 18 months that we for the first time recognised ourself as in : Ah, that's me! When we looked at ourself in the mirror. The self was born at that age. Till then we were a first person pronoun, I, He, She without ego.
We had a fully functional biological existence at the 23rd week of foetal life. The systems are functioning since then.
Till then we were passing through the germinal stage of 0-3 weeks after conception, then the embryonic stage from 3-8 weeks after conception, then developing foetus 8-23 weeks after conception and developed foetus waiting for delivery pains 23-40 weeks after conception. Tap this link to read about foetal development Foetal Development
Earlier to conception we were an egg for the age of our mother's life to delivery plus age of her mother's life. If I was born when my mother was 24 and she was born when her mother was 24 then I spent 48 years waiting to be conceived. My mother's reproductive system was developed when she was passing through 9-10th week of foetal life.
Prior to that our existence was food that our grandma ate.
So we are born of food, are sustained by food, and are an expression of food. The food partaken by our grandma was eaten by others too.
Food is organic as well as inorganic.
That is our true existence.
Prior to that backward timeless energy assuming and changing forms and existence
We ourselves have been living for millions if not billions of years.
We are not distinct from any one or any body.
Our core identity is one. One-ness describes our identity.
A rope is mistaken for a snake in dim light.
A snake is mistaken as a python, green snake, water snake or a cobra.
My snake has a name too - I call it Tinku. I possess it.
So also we think of ourself as distinct from everybody else. It is an illusive sense of identity.
We can journey backward and realise our true identity of being the universal one.
Emancipation is at hand for the asking if only we care to know and realise it.
To know more read verses 65 to 75 from Ashtavakra Gita Chapter 8 Part 2 with special emphasis on Verse 70 highlighting illusion by tapping this link Pt 2 Ch VIII ASHTAVAKRA Gita and tap this link for reading the entire Ashtavakra Gita Full Ashtavakra Gita
Emancipation is denied because we are unable to give up the possessive I, mine. No only that we action it by adding sense of possession to it. Thus we convert illusion into reality, then hold on to it as if it is for fact. Ego is generator of all ails. It is the thread that provides possessiveness. Removing or burning the thread returns the beads to the universality of their existence. We do not give it up. We dissolve it whenever it becomes an impediment to our release from bondage. Example of a washerman's donkey is given in shastras to explain how illusion of belonging is generated.
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