Esoteric Teaching: Holographic Meditation
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2017-05-24

This series is classified *Introductory | General*
So far we have been discussing the Esoteric Teaching in terms of a simple linear, cyclical or two-dimensional system. Now that the foundation has been laid & the categories of the Esoteric Teaching defined, we can go further. 

To escape the trap of conditioned existence, we must understand its nature and structure. The Fall is a process of becoming leading from subtle to gross, from fabrication of the body & mind to death & rebirth. The Path is a similar process of becoming reversing the stages of the Fall, leading to Self-realization. 

The Path is a method of transformation—not of our Being or consciousness, which is already perfect—but of our body & mind: from conditioned to unconditioned. To reach enlightenment we transform our body & mind from a trapped conditioned state to a sādhu. This is done by the yogic methods of the Path.

This is not a linear process. Just as many bodily & mental functions happen simultaneously, the stages of the Path function in the different chakras in parallel. This is the Holographic Model of the Esoteric Teaching. The Fall and the Path are divided into 6 sections or stages. Although they are presented linearly, in practice they go on simultaneously on different levels of consciousness. 

The stages of the Path are taken from Upadeṣa-Undiyar by Śrī Rāmaṇa Mahārṣi. They can serve as the context and template for all spiritual paths because they are completely universal and non-exclusive. Because Rāmaṇa is a fully-realized Jñāṇī, he is fully open and affirming, just like Brahman, the Self of All:

“Know that Upadeṣa-Undiyar is a light of knowledge [jñāṇa] which our Father Rāmaṇa composed and bestowed upon Muruganar, who entreated, ‘Graciously reveal the secret of spiritual practice [sādhana] so that the people of the world may attain liberation and be saved by giving up the delusion of action: karma’.”
— Upadeṣa Undiyar Prefatory Verse

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