“Awakening is a process where you wake upfi’om the dream to
~ Sri Amma Bhagavan
reality. Life this way is so ordinary that it is extraordinary. One
feels that is how one has always been.”
What is awakening?
Most of humanity is in a state of daydreaming. It is essential that they become free of daydreaming, which we call awakening.
So, why does humanity need to be awakened?
Most of humanity’s problems arise from the fact that they are not awakened. An awakened humanity will enter the Golden Age.
And what are the benefits if we are awakened?
If we are awakened, we experience unconditional love and limitless.
Right now there are over 170,000 people awakened in the world. Because so many people are getting awakened, more and more people will get awakened naturally and spontaneously until all of mankind is awakened. When that happens, we will enter the Golden Age.
Four Stages of Awakening
4 STAGES OF AWAKENING
They are very different like waves in the ocean they keep coming and they keep going. And in the awakened state, you could still get hurt, still there could be pain and you’re very much there, even though you are in an awakened state. To be awakened is to be in a permanent state, a state where you are no longer there. You have clearly realized that there is nobody there to become awakened and you are gone. And you do not get hurt, you do not get pain, it’s a very different state. So the awakened state is very different from what we call the Awakened One.
When you are truly in an awakened state, it does not matter where you are, whether you are alone or in a crowd, whether you are at work or at home. But if the awakened state is very weak, then certainly you would be more comfortable staying at home.
Would there be a sense of separation even after awakening?
It depends on the level of awakening. When there is a change in your brain, we say you are awakened. That is the first level of awakening. The brain is neuroplastic in nature. When the brain changes, your perception changes. When your perception changes, the brain changes. You may or may not be aware of this. Once you are able to stay with ‘the what is* without effort for 49 minutes, then you undergo a change of heart. They call this flowering of the heart. I call this also transformation just like in the first awakening, the brain changed physically. Now the heart changes physically. We call this awakening level 3. Flowering of the heart, we call that awakening level 3. After that, you will be able to stay with the what is without effort keeps on increasing until it becomes 24 hours of the day and becomes natural like breathing. At that point, I can say you are fully awakened or enlightened at that point, the sense of separation and the self are completely gone.
What does the level of awakening mean? What changes in a being as the level of awakening increases?
When we talk of the level of awakening, we are talking about the amount of change that has happened in the brain. When awakening happens, by a change in the brain we call that awakening 1. After that, if you are able to stay with ‘the what is’ without effort because you are awakened, we call that level 2 awakening. When this happens for more than 49 minutes, we call that level 3 awakening. Once this happens for more than 49 minutes, the heart begins to change. We call that level 4 awakening.
Then what happens is staying with ‘the what is’ without effort happens all the twenty-four hours we call that level 5 awakening. We also use the terms fully awakened or enlightened. Thereafter begins God-Realization.
What is the difference between the level of consciousness and the level of awakening?
When you are awakened and you look at a tree, you do not feel separated from the tree. We call that the level of awakening. Depending on a higher the level of awakening, you become the tree itself.
Consciousness on the other hand, indicates how bright and how clear the tree is to you. You are still there and there is a separation between you and the tree, but the tree is bright and clear. That is a higher level of consciousness, but at the higher level of awakening, you and the tree are not separate. You the observer become the observed that is the tree. That is the difference.
In my experience, there were some people who were afraid of becoming awakened. They fear that they could internally move away from their families. Let me emphasize when you get awakened, you actually get close to your families. You discover unconditional love and there develops a great concern for your family. Awakening brings families together, it does not break families. For the first time, you will know what it is to have a family.
Awakening & the Akashic Records!
Your dates of Awakening are recorded in the Akashic records. But the Akashic records are changing depending on what you are doing to the planet. Your days of awakening are found in the Akashic records, but these dates are not fixed. The dates are constantly changing depending on what is going on, on the planet.
FEAR OF AWAKENING
Some of us have the problem of having an idea of awakening and that is putting fear into you. The actual thing is very different from what you imagine it to be. When we talk of awakening, we are talking about our natural state. And once you are there you are quite shocked to realize how you have missed this all these years. It is like a man who wants to learn swimming but is not ready to jump into the waters. You cannot learn swimming and then jump into the waters. You first have to jump and then you naturally learn swimming. It’s the same thing. Once the process of awakening starts everything is very natural without you having to do anything.