Letter # 78: "A Visit To Heaven's Gate"

For two years, I used a combination of medications and psychotherapy in order to treat a 71 year lady’s longstanding anxiety and grief. As she improved, I helped her to become increasingly confident of her spirituality. I took and still take immense joy from witnessing the great strides she has made in her mental, social and spiritual well-being. One day, as we were talking I asked her if she would allow me to take her on a visit to “heaven’s gate”. She had enough trust in me to say yes. First I had her relax, and then I did the neti-neti meditation of jnana yoga, a technique that was described in the Vedas several thousands of years ago (please review Logic Of Neti-Neti. Letter # 58). You can try the meditation and experience it’s wonderful truth and calming effects. Just like anything in life, the meditation must be practiced over and over for best effect. Here’s a gist of it.
First sit back and relax. Then think this way:
I am breathing. I am aware of my breathing.
I am not this breath. I experience this breath. I am the experiencer. I am being.
I experience many thoughts. I am not my thoughts. I am the experiencer of thoughts. I am being.
I’m feeling emotions. I am not these emotions. I am the experiencer of emotions. I am being.
My direction of my will keeps changing. I’m not my will. I am the experiencer. I am being.
My actions vary from minute to minute. I’m not the actions. I am the the experiencer. I am being.
I eat food, which becomes my body. I am not this body for it keeps changing. I am the experiencer. I am being.
My relationships keep changing. I’m not these relationships. I am the experiencer. I am being.
My experiences change. I am not the experiences. I am the experiencer. I am being.
I am being.
Being I am
Being you are.
Being is he.
Being is she.
Being are we,
Being are they
Being is all
All is Being.
Being is One
All is One
One is All
When I glance at the material world, I categorise it into the qualities of goodness (sattva) , passion (rajas) and ignorance (tamas). Those are transitory.
I live and walk in this transitory material world but I am aware that My Being is not of it.
My Being is of a different world, a Permanent World, the World Of Heaven.
The World Of Heaven is in Me.
The World Of Heaven is in All
Love is That
That is Love.

Tat Tvam Asi; God Bless; Allah Hu Akbar; May The Forces Of The Universe Bring You Harmony; Hare Krishna; Radha-Swami; and Nanak Naam Chardi Kala Tere Bhane Sarbat Dha Bhalla.

I wish to express my gratitude for your comments, which inspire me to carry on writing. Please forgive my fallibilities in presenting this material. Also, feel free to send this message on to someone that you might think would like to receive it. If you do send it on, my only request of you is that you send it as it is, in its entirety, and to not alter or modify any of the text, references or authorship information. Thus you will help to give credit or liability to where they are properly due.
Jas Bhopal
Copyright© 2008
References: "The Holy Bible" Online version; "The Koran" as translated by SV Mir Ahmed Ali 2005 ISBN 0-9761870-0-0); "The Bhagavad Gita As it Is" as translated by Srila Prabhupada ISBN 0-89213-268-X; The Srimad Bhagavatum as translated by Srila Prabhupada ISBN0-89213-259-0; "I Am That. Talks With Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj” ISBN 0-89386-022-0; The Dhammapada ISBN-10:1-84483-344-5; The Sacred Sukhmani ISBN 81-7205-098-4; Wikipedia.