Becoming Divine
Consciousness is not merely awareness; it's the luminous backdrop against which the mind performs. The mind operates atop neural processes—like a conductor before an orchestra, but consciousness is the concert hall itself. The space that makes the performance possible.
Our mental clutter obscures this fundamental relationship. We confuse the two because we live trapped in mental noise. Like mistaking the mirror for the reflection, we lose sight of the one who sees.
Through focused concentration and ethical discipline, we remove these veils one by one, allowing consciousness to illuminate the mind's workings with increasing clarity.
Concentration peels away the fog. Not by force, but by quieting the chatter until only awareness remains. Worship serves as sacred theater in this process.
It's not empty ritual but choreographed concentration (dhyāna) that trains the mind to recognize its relationship to deeper awareness.
The temple, with its calculated proportions and directional alignments, stands as a cosmic map. When we enter it, we step into a model of existence itself.
Ritual becomes the moving meditation through which we synchronize with cosmic rhythms. Time's passage becomes not merely marked but meaningful.
In the theater of worship, we don't just observe the sacred - we become it. Because consciousness does not need to be created — only revealed.
