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Kamlesh Patel is known to many as Daaji. He is the Heartfulness Guide in a tradition of Yoga meditation that is over 100 years old, overseeing 14,000 certified Heartfulness trainers and many volunteers in over 160 countries. He is an innovator and researcher, equally at home in the fields of spirituality and science, blending the two into transcendental research on the evolution of consciousness, and expanding our understanding of the purpose of human existence to a new level.

Daaji

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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b87c06;">The Evolution of Consciousness</span></h3>

<h4>DAAJI introduces us to the inner journey that expands consciousness and the role of Yogic Transmission in that journey.</h4>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Just to recap, it is the subtle body that evolves, and as a result consciousness evolves, allowing us to transform and design our destiny. As we purify and simplify the subtle body, the joy of the soul radiates from within, and we are able to expand our consciousness into higher states, revealing more and more of our human potential.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Earlier, we looked at the process of refinement and purification of the subtle body, so that consciousness can expand and evolve. The purer and simpler our vibrational field, the more we can observe, explore, and expand across the spectrum of subconsciousness, consciousness and superconsciousness. In fact, without this cleaning of the subtle body, there is no real inner journey! As we progress, our ego becomes more and more refined, we develop wisdom and uncover the world of feeling and beyond, all of which are possible through a system of heart-based meditation with cleaning of the subtle body.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There is also a second process that aids our journey into higher and higher states of consciousness. Without it, we would not maneuver the obstacles, like with any journey into unknown universes. That vital ingredient is Yogic Transmission, known in the yogic literature as pranahuti. More particularly, it is Yogic Transmission utilized by a teacher of caliber.</p>

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Humility

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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b87c06;">The Evolution of Consciousness</span></h3>
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DAAJI explores the subtle body in depth, and how it evolves.</h4>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666699;">Which body evolves?</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Understanding that we have these three bodies – physical, subtle and causal – we can then ask, which of these bodies is evolving?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The soul is immutable. It is pure, absolute and unchangeable, and so the causal body does not evolve.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The physical body cannot change much. Its structure is fixed, although some minor changes can occur in weight, posture and fitness etc., but we cannot grow extra arms, wings to fly or a tail in this lifetime.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It is the subtle body that can evolve, so that we can design our destiny. It changes according to how we purify and simplify it, so that the joy of the soul shines and radiates from within, and through this process we find the evolution of consciousness.</p>

<h3><span style="color: #666699;">The Subtle Body</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The subtle body is a vibrational field; the heart-mind field. Depending on how we manage this field, it can either be turbulent and complex, like a roaring ocean during a storm, or, at the other extreme, it can be like a still pond where even a feather landing on the surface creates ripples. This is where a spiritual practice has a vital role to play, as it gives us the techniques to regulate, purify and simplify this field, bringing clarity, stillness and peace.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In yogic philosophy the heart is known as the field of action for the mind. This is a vast topic. Let’s start to explore what this means. ...</p>
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How does the subtle body evolve?

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<h4>DAAJI describes the paradox of stillness that manifests with an expanding and evolving consciousness.</h4>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2e5869;">He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, </span>
<span style="color: #2e5869;"> is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.</span>
<span style="color: #2e5869;"> —Albert Einstein</span></h5>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The above quote of Einstein resonates with some ideas I have been thinking about lately on consciousness. Imagine a beautiful flower blooming in the garden. If you run past it you will not be able to appreciate its beauty, whereas if you are walking by you can enjoy it more, and if you stand still in front of it you will appreciate its beauty even more. If you are flying, then you will not even see the flower below you on the earth. So when we are moving rapidly, we miss out on many things.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The mind is even faster than any physical movement. When the mind is moving rapidly from one object to another, one subject to another, one venture to another, what you miss is the blooming of the flower that is inside you. You are not merely missing out on the details, you miss out completely on the existence of the flower itself.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now what is that flower? It is your soul.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Let’s explore this idea further and ask a question: is it possible to move at speed and still be present in each moment? Can we reach a critical speed where we stand still in movement?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To understand this better, let’s revisit the various bodies of a human being. The soul is the center of our being, around which we have the four main subtle bodies that we know as the mind. The first is consciousness, the canvas that is the field or fabric of the subtle body. Then there is the ego, which is our identity, so it is also deeply entwined with the individual soul. Then comes intellect, which allows us to discern and make choices, and then at the surface level of the mind we have the thinking function. And then there is the physical body, which is the outermost layer. If noticed keenly, it is always the ‘subtle’ that supports the ‘less subtle’ in its wake. The soul is the subtlest, followed by consciousness, ego, intellect, mind and finally the physical body, and hence the origin of the sequence in the order mentioned above.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Think of a wheel. The very center of the wheel is quite steady, without movement, whereas the circumference of the wheel experiences maximum movement. Similarly, the center of a tornado, the eye, is in utter stillness. If you want to be calm, position yourself in the center of the tornado and keep moving along with it, and then nothing will affect you.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And what is our center, around which the vortex of life exists? It is the soul. ...</p>
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