When a soul is completely liberated and has realized truth, you cannot describe what the soul is, because you yourself are not that spiritually evolved. I can say he is great, compassionate, peaceful, loving, nonviolent, and a blissful person, but those are words that just limit what he (as a soul) is. Today though, I wanted to try and attempt to describe Acharya Shree, in my eyes.
Personality wise, Acharya Shree can be very serious and funny, stern and gentle, free-spirited, and wise. When he speaks on the deepest levels, that is when I realize and know in my heart and soul who he really is. It's the knowing and feeling that comes from the trancefilled conversations, that I come to know the soul of Acharya Shree. Logically it cannot be described, its just a soul's knowing.
The depth of a conversation ranges throughout the day. Most conversations are light-hearted, and then some are really deep, that hit to the core of my soul. Today it happened again, a deepening and blissful conversation. It's the feeling, the energy vibrations, and my thoughts completely silent and heart open that I feel truth pours into my being in the conversation, maybe its in these moments I am aware of what it happening the whole day..I just don't know it.
My question today was, "What are examples of glimpses of realization?" He simply answers, "Realization cannot be described." I accepted the answer, because I know truth cannot be told, so I expanded into a more specific experience, of which I told him. Then he explained realization further, "Realization means, you are holding a diamond in your hand, and in the glimpses of realization you see this, but most of the time you are ignorant and aware, and it goes away."
Writing these experiences seems SO LIMITING! But the conversation continued based on my questions about the world and my meditation experiences of seeing the universe. Upon finishing my description/question of a meditation, he simply replied, "It's like you are a fish in the ocean, you do not realize you are in the ocean, you feel you are separate from it. It's like a fish, that is in the ocean, and still think its thirsty. When your soul knows the truth, and knows its not separate, it realizes exctasy and bliss were always there."
Furthermore, based on my meditation experience I explained to him, he stated that "Time and Distance do not exist. When you are liberated you are everything and everywhere. When you are still ignorant you are bound to time, distance, feeling separate."
Somehow, I got on the subject of me teaching.
"Well, what is my role this life? What am I suppose to teach?"
"Your first role is to awaken yourself, next you can share with others what you have realized."
"What about the corruption of spirituality, I have to address those issues, too."
"Criticize the bad traditions. People get trapped under those that are not realized."
"Is the earth the only place with corrupt spiritual figures?"
"Corruption is everywhere, that is why when it is the soul's time, and after they have learned, they can grow slowly and become awakened."
The way he was explaining the corruption of teachers and the ignorant souls disappointed me about the universe. Everywhere there is corruption, and on other planets souls are being mislead. Teachers claim to know everything, yet they are misleading seeking souls to nothing. (I have a passion against those who speak falsehood, but claim themselves to be real, its one of those things that gets under my skin, but I have to remember "the blind lead the blind." Only when it is the soul's time and with courage, can they breakaway.)
The conversation transformed towards the liberated souls, somehow, and he was saying that the liberated souls are everywhere, fully expanded, etc. I pointed to a "particle of air" and I said, "so I am touching a liberated soul, right now?" He said, "yes." I replied, "that's freaky!" :)
He continued saying that many people feel that they are not being watched, so they lie, steal, kill, and do bad things, but the liberated souls can see everything. It was in these few moments I had realized that I was surrounded and living in an inifinite number of liberated souls. The thought hit to the soul itself was strong enough for me to open my eyes a bit to my own thoughts, actions, and speech. How is it we suffer, yet we are surrouned by exctasy... "How is it the fish is thirsty, and is surrounded by the ocean?"
I was originally suppose to write about 1. Why I selected Acharya Shree and 2. Knowing him as a Soul, and 3. the experiences I feel during a lesson, but my blog evolved into sharing with my conversation with him today. Maybe in a next blog entry then... Go with the writing flow, right? :)
I just hope you can learn from the conversations I have with him, as much as I do. It's one thing reading about him, and listening to him on YouTube, versus, sitting right infront of him, engaged in deep though, connection, and conversation, and feeling your soul awaken, merely by his presence, and the few words he speaks to awaken you.
I am forever grateful to Acharya Shree, for the impact he has had on my life. For without his guidance, I don't think I would be as far as I am today, with the hope of evolving higher in the future years to come.
