"Darsana" is any direct revelation from God which you see in your meditation. Geometrical diagrams called Yantras are seen in your deep state of tranquillity. The best of Yantras is the renowned Sri Chakra or Sri Yantra. Such Yantras are called apaurusheya not created by people. The meditator has spent no effort at all in creating them.
How do you distinguish whether what you experience in your mind's eye is coming from your mind or from outside? You can distinguish in the following way. How much effort did you spend trying to create that object? If you have spent no effort at all, then it is a creation of God. I open my eyes and the world miraculously appears. What effort did I do to create it? Nothing. That is God's creation and I am just happening to see it. Don't think that revelation is something that you see only with your eyes closed. The whole world that you see is your revelation. The world is God. The world is yourself. You must understand that your mind is a mirror in which you are seeing yourself. Mind is such a pure mirror that we do not even suspect its existence. You are only seeing yourself, but you are not realizing that you are seeing yourself. That is from where you get the notion of "other". Out of the notion of other comes the fear and all the rest of these thingskama, krodha, moha, etc. (lust, anger, delusion, etc.) which flow one out of the other.
Worship of the Sri Chakra
What do we mean by worship of the Sri Chakra? It means worship of yourself, loving yourself, understanding yourself, understanding the process by which you have become differentiated from others and trying to retrace the steps and then merging with your true self. You define for yourself a role model and then live that: that is what you are. You have to understand that this life is like a drama in which you have to make a role for yourself and learn how to play that role. You can take up a different role. It is your choice what role you want to play. "I want to be a goldsmith". That is fine. "I want to be a mother". That is fine. But remember that you are playing the game and that these are only rules for the game that you have defined for yourself. One who can hire a person can fire the person. Those who make the rules can also break the rules. So don't be afraid to break rules if you feel the need to outgrow them.
The whole trouble comes with the teaching because when a person comes to a guru the guru is accepted as a guru as long as the disciple hears what he wants to hear from the guru. The moment the guru says something not liked by the disciple, the guruship is done for, gone. The guru is no more a guru. You may go and say to the guru, "Oh, I will give my life to you, you only have to ask for it, I'll give you even my life". But if the guru says after a little while "I have to get my daughter married, can you give me a loan of 10,000 $"? Then he is no more a guru. You were prepared to give your life, not the $. Money has a higher value than life! That is an illusion, a value accepted by you as true!
The Sri Chakra symbolizes reality. The center point is reality, and so are the outer enclosures, and so is the path. They are all aspects of reality. The same reality is seen from different perspectives. There are different hills and different views from different peaks but the same scene is there below. In the same way, if you are seeing the world from the perspective of the world, being the world, from all possible perspectives, then you are God. If you see from the perspective of the individual, then you see individual people with so many life forms. That is just your view point. The thing to realize is that you don't stop being God when you are an individual.
How do you distinguish whether what you experience in your mind's eye is coming from your mind or from outside? You can distinguish in the following way. How much effort did you spend trying to create that object? If you have spent no effort at all, then it is a creation of God. I open my eyes and the world miraculously appears. What effort did I do to create it? Nothing. That is God's creation and I am just happening to see it. Don't think that revelation is something that you see only with your eyes closed. The whole world that you see is your revelation. The world is God. The world is yourself. You must understand that your mind is a mirror in which you are seeing yourself. Mind is such a pure mirror that we do not even suspect its existence. You are only seeing yourself, but you are not realizing that you are seeing yourself. That is from where you get the notion of "other". Out of the notion of other comes the fear and all the rest of these thingskama, krodha, moha, etc. (lust, anger, delusion, etc.) which flow one out of the other.
Worship of the Sri Chakra
What do we mean by worship of the Sri Chakra? It means worship of yourself, loving yourself, understanding yourself, understanding the process by which you have become differentiated from others and trying to retrace the steps and then merging with your true self. You define for yourself a role model and then live that: that is what you are. You have to understand that this life is like a drama in which you have to make a role for yourself and learn how to play that role. You can take up a different role. It is your choice what role you want to play. "I want to be a goldsmith". That is fine. "I want to be a mother". That is fine. But remember that you are playing the game and that these are only rules for the game that you have defined for yourself. One who can hire a person can fire the person. Those who make the rules can also break the rules. So don't be afraid to break rules if you feel the need to outgrow them.
The whole trouble comes with the teaching because when a person comes to a guru the guru is accepted as a guru as long as the disciple hears what he wants to hear from the guru. The moment the guru says something not liked by the disciple, the guruship is done for, gone. The guru is no more a guru. You may go and say to the guru, "Oh, I will give my life to you, you only have to ask for it, I'll give you even my life". But if the guru says after a little while "I have to get my daughter married, can you give me a loan of 10,000 $"? Then he is no more a guru. You were prepared to give your life, not the $. Money has a higher value than life! That is an illusion, a value accepted by you as true!
The Sri Chakra symbolizes reality. The center point is reality, and so are the outer enclosures, and so is the path. They are all aspects of reality. The same reality is seen from different perspectives. There are different hills and different views from different peaks but the same scene is there below. In the same way, if you are seeing the world from the perspective of the world, being the world, from all possible perspectives, then you are God. If you see from the perspective of the individual, then you see individual people with so many life forms. That is just your view point. The thing to realize is that you don't stop being God when you are an individual.
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