Manifesting for Spiritual Evolution

By Sanjay Desai

I believe that Manifesting is a ladder to greater consciousness and spirituality. Let me explain how.

Over the ages it has been believed that high spiritual states confer great manifesting power. If intent arose in the Buddha in his heightened state of awareness, it would manifest. The lives of Jesus, Gautama Buddha, and several other enlightened figures are replete with such examples. Hindu mythology is also full of these examples. Hindus also believe that Brahma was the Creator of the Universe, and we, as his descendants carry the power of manifesting. This is also apparent in nature all around us. However, not many of us believe and act such that we are so empowered.

Even in modern times, the Law of Attraction school of thought has been advocating that one can manifest whatever one wants through meditation, affirmations and positivity. But how many of us are able to sustain a positive cycle required for such manifestation? A majority of us seem to be caught in the web of vicious cycles of negativity and failure, unable to break out.

Since childhood we are taught and conditioned to believe that the world is a ‘given’ and we have to ‘fit’ into it and conform, and succeed in securing our security, comforts and other material trappings. Accordingly, we are schooled and trained technically, to deploy our acquired skills in the best possible manner. We get our social marks and acceptance from the degree to which we succeed in this. This reality has us invariably caught into a ‘material cycle’ of living, believing in the physical and the rational, and advancing our progress and success in this realm. The spiritual is a decidedly separate plane, for those to whom there is some appeal. The material and the spiritual have become distinct and disintegrated.

Now if you look at those examples of manifesting stated earlier, doesn’t the spiritual seem to have deep-rooted links to manifesting the material? The picture then looks dark. So, many of us are attempting to succeed in the material world - with physical and mental power - but without an obvious link to the spiritual. Could that be one of the reasons for so much strife and despair in society? Where does one go from here? Waving a flag of spiritual power seems like hogwash to many of the materially and rationally grounded.

I believe that there is a window of opportunity here, a bridge to cross the chasm.

Some of us, who have been fortunate to have a strong material and spiritual grounding can hardly, fail to see the link between the two. Spiritual practices open up a realm of possibilities to help you on your material quest. I have my consciousleap.life/index.php/2016/08/19/why-manifest/ to relate, which ran parallel between my material and spiritual progress.

As we manifest out of a material and rational grounding, few will say that success comes out of thin air. It is usually a story of struggle and hard work, falling down many times and getting back up again with persistence. Even for those who have seemingly had an easy journey, it is seldom unqualified. The circumstances we attract during the journey forces self-reflection and introspection. There is a degree of self-awareness and self-inquiry that develops even in the most rational player.

Self-awareness is the overarching bridge that can lead us to our inner and spiritual resources, which help manifest better.

We carry layer upon layer of shadows that obstruct us at different levels, carrying us into a cycle of negativity on our journey to manifest. The challenge of any manifestor is to become positive again as positivity begets the desired result. Spiritual practices like yoga and meditation enable us to become positive. As one engages in these practices, albeit for manifestation, self-awareness rises and the material manifestor evolves to higher levels of spirituality.

The manifesting journey is a reflection of the dreamer's state of mind at different stages of the journey. The dreamer gets a chance to realize this, when she takes up the journey, she gets a chance to come face-to-face with her shadows, become aware, heal through spiritual practices and become a more complete person.

In www.amazon.com/Jasmine-Builds-Shifting-Sands-Self-Help-ebook/dp/B01GXN4PT4 , I have brought this out through a fiction story. It also brings out the principles of manifesting in a manner relatable to everyone, whether materialist or spiritual. Do have a look.

AUTHOR’S NOTE: A corporate professional turned entrepreneur, Sanjay Desai’s true passion lies in stimulating evolutionary change. Sanjay’s next venture, ConsciousLeap, seeks to trigger the spark of consciousness, using the literary and arts media, to engender self-reflection and self-awareness. Log on to www.theconsciousleap.com to know more about his latest endeavor and follow www.consciousleap.life for his latest writings. You can also follow him on Twitter @conscioussanjay

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