Seven Steps to Divinity

A reader of Tattva wrote to me: “As part of Sanatana Dharma, our duty as human-kind entails that we become DIVINE in our metamorphosis, constitution, lifestyle, and composition.

Divinity and divine spiritual thoughts bring us firstly peace, secondly love, and thirdly compassion: the three most significant qualities we need to understand our own kind and our own Atman.”

One suggested strategy for attaining that metamorphosis is to set your feet on the following seven steps to divinity.

1. Relax. There is nothing to agonize about so long as you keep the objective of spiritual progress in mind.

2. Study the scriptures. Broaden your reading to include the Upanishads, world history, astronomy and philosophy.

Exploring a wide variety of ideologies and beliefs creates an individual value system that is as unique as you are.

Your personal ideology will begin to flow through the whole of your life, growing ever more broad and specific to your life, benefiting you in ways you never thought possible.

3. Believe in your heart. Within each of us there is a source of wisdom that is ours and ours alone. It is the inner voice we occasionally hear advising us during periods of uncertainty.

Whether we label it the conscience or the heart of consciousness, this voice is usually quiet and unassuming, which means that it can easily be overshadowed by other concerns.

We must listen to it carefully and attentively; the wisdom it offers will guide us toward the most rewarding alternatives.

4. Purify the personality. We all have things we keep closeted away in our minds – thoughts about who we think we are, thoughts that are so personal and embarrassing that we would never want to let anyone see them.

In this step, we let these thoughts go. This brings an amazing sense of lightness and freedom.

5. Know the self. I have always found the fifth step most satisfying. Now flip the exercise around and examine your own goodness.

Feel the radiance of your own heart; touch the depth of your own wisdom. This exercise helps us imbibe more divine qualities.

6. Meditate everyday for at least 15 minutes. During the meditation, experience your divinity by identifying with Lord Shiva or Mother Lakshmi or any other form of God. Start by visualizing the deity “out there” in front of you.

Gradually draw the Being within yourself with each breath until it becomes who you are.

7. Trust the Sanatana Dharma. This is a science verifiable by reasoning, research, and experience. Even in this world, plagued by terrorists and wars, there is something which helps us awaken.

As great saints discovered through direct experience, the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; the goal of every human being is to discover himself, to find out who he really is.

So let us recognize and respect the sacredness of everything.

If you have seriously cultivated enlightened consciousness, the next time all hell breaks loose, you will see it for what it is - a movie on the screen of material existence.

And you will be able to flip the channel to another program even while expertly dealing with the calamity on hand. This is the divine nature of consciousness.

Why live an ordinary material existence which culminates in old age, disease, and death when you can instead live a life of unlimited adventure at the vanguard of existence, relishing unlimited transcendental bliss at every minute?

It does not matter where you are or who you are. You can constantly taste the sweetest happiness if you will take shelter of the transcendental platform.


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