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Your True State of Being

In meditation, we reclaim what we already are. It is a returning to our centre. It may betermed a process of upward relaxation into superconsciousness. Superconsciousness isforever our reality. It is our true state of being.

You will attain superconsciousness more quickly, and not only in meditation, if you seekto attune yourself with it in your daily activities. The more you seek to be guided byintuition, which is an aspect of superconsciousness, the greater success you will meet inevery undertaking. For the rational mind can only point to probable solutions. Intuition,rooted as it is in superconsciousness, will supply you with clear answers. From asuperconscious perspective, all life is a unity.

To live superconsciously is to maximise our abilities in every department of life. Therational mind, with its focus on differences, is essentially problem-oriented. Thesuperconscious, with its broader, more unitive view, is solution-oriented. The unitiveview is justified objectively in Nature. Every natural problem has a correspondingsolution.

Superconscious living means to trust one's life to the flow of a higher wisdom.Superconsciousness arranges things in ways that we might never imagine. I haveseen this principle at work on countless occasions. Always it has worked better thanany solution i might have provided myself.

Can we really attract inspiration at will? Yes indeed! Strong energy, powered byconfidence (which must be rooted in faith; it must not be ego -confidence) can attractinspirations, opportunities, solutions to problems - anything. It isn't a question ofwanting anything personally, but of wanting it because it is right. It is important toexclude ego-motivation as much as possible and to see that faith doesn't become anexcuse for irresponsibility. To live superconsciously means to cooperate with thesuperconscious flow, not to expect that flow to do everything for you. It's a question ofenergy in cooperation with faith. Be wholly focussed on whatever you are doing,without seeing yourself as the doer.

Guidance often comes only after an idea has been made concrete by setting it inmotion. If, therefore, you receive no answer in meditation, act in whatever way seemsreasonable to you, but continue to listen for guidance in the heart. At a certain point, ifyour direction is right, you will feel the endorsement you've been seeking. But if yourdirection is wrong, suddenly you will know it is wrong. In that case, try somethingelse, until the endorsement comes. To refuse to act until you receive inner guidanceis good only if you can keep your level of energy and expectation high, for it is highenergy and high expectation that attract guidance.

In seeking guidance, form a clear mental picture of what it is you need. Then holdthat picture up to superconsciousness at the point between the eyebrows. No time atall is needed: only sufficient mental clarity and energy.

Never use the claim of inner guidance as an argument for convincing others to listento you. The flow of superconsciousness is always humble, never boastful. It doesn'tcooperate with attitudes that discourage others from seeking their own innerguidance. To tell a person, "This is what my intuition tells me, so this is what we mustall do," is to say, in effect, "God will speak only through me, not through anyone else."The divine law does not endorse pride.

- Swami Kriyananda

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