Vastness: A Catalyst for Inner Transformation and Healthy Living

There are many factors in life that can work as catalysts to allow the mind to undergo a fundamental transformation. Those who feel the poison behind unconscious life soon discover these catalysts and move toward a stable inner peace.

Most people lead an unconscious life within the vortex of conditioned response and never leave the cage of their own creation. This leads to mediocrity in life, which sustains fear, anxiety, anger, self-pity, jealousy, etc. The practice of religion brings a reflective attitude and moves you towards a certain serenity. However, people soon develop an emotional attachment to the religious system, and that creates its own problems, such as feeding the ego with its twin demands for satisfaction and security. If people went into the philosophical aspects of religion, then there is the possibility of psychological reflection, which can help them stay away from robotic life. It is unfortunate that not many religions encourage this approach; instead, they expect abject conformity. However, if people tend to be reflective, there are quite a few catalysts in life that can move them into esoteric avenues. These avenues help people find a new path for themselves so that they no longer function as conformists and gradually come out of unconscious life.

We explore one such catalyst here.

Immensity: The immensity of the universe, in space and time, is a measure of its immensity, not only in physical measurements but also in terms of its intelligence that holds everything together in a continuum of order and harmony. There are no lucky events. When we remember this as we go about our daily tasks, our minds develop a wide margin. The freedom that comes from it helps us lead our lives against the background of austerity.

Astronomy is one of the fields that remind us of the immensity that surrounds us. Let’s look at an example from our space age. Voyager II was a spacecraft sent by the United States in 1977 to study some planets in the Solar System. After passing close to the predicted planets, the spacecraft left the Solar System at a speed of about 100,000 km per hour. It is 50 times faster than an advanced fighter plane. That is unimaginable speed. If Voyager II were to go in a straight line towards Sirius, one of our nearby stars, it would take 100,000 years to reach the star! Can one imagine this mind-boggling distance to that star? If this is so for a nearby star, what about those distant stars and even more distant galaxies? An unimaginable magnitude of void exists between these celestial objects. If we look at the stellar canopy on a clear night, the impressive depth of the universe strikes us deeply. We have an idea of ​​the immensity in which we live.

Man in his current anatomy and physiology is reported to have lived on this planet for approximately one million years. On the contrary, those enormous dinosaurs of gigantic proportions are reported to have roamed the earth for 300 million years. They died recently, only 65 million years ago. There are other similar facts that take us on a walk through the immensity of the universe. Scientists have double- and triple-checked these numbers, and so sure, they’re not fooling us! Compared to those staggering dimensions, we seem to be totally insignificant. But it’s not like that! Because those immensities, colossal as they are, are still perceived by the mind that works in the small human brain! The Masters say that when the mind is free and liberated, it enters the Consciousness that fills the entire universe! Those who go through a near death experience feel that the Universal Consciousness is our true home. Reflections on these help us feel the intriguing nature of the universe and the Divine. At the same time, they increase our inner serenity and our healthy life.

The calm that results from our awareness of immensity keeps us company during our daily lives. Mental conflicts begin to dissolve because we see others as part of a larger scheme of things and therefore accept them as they are. During our sleep, the dream activity occupies a shorter period than before and thus the body goes into a healthier state.

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