Visit to Seattle, October 2006

The True Miracle: Raising Human Consciousness

If you want to read the volumes of miracle stories collected from my disciples, there you will find miracle after miracle.⁴⁸ You will see many, many miracles. But sometimes you may believe in the miracles that took place 2,000 years ago, and not believe in the present-day miracles.

The most difficult miracle, most powerful miracle, I tell you, is the miracle of raising one’s consciousness. No other miracle can be compared to the raising of human consciousness. And if you meditate with me, if you are in a high consciousness, and if I also am in a high consciousness, I will raise your consciousness. You will see the difference between your higher consciousness and your lower consciousness. There is a yawning gulf between your own higher consciousness and lower consciousness.

When you meditate with me or on my Transcendental Picture, when you raise your consciousness, that is the most difficult miracle in your life. You may say, “Oh, it is so easy.” But try to keep your consciousness high, very high even for an hour – not to speak of one day. For one hour try to keep your consciousness higher than the highest. You know your own highest consciousness. If you can raise your consciousness and keep it high for only an hour, then I will be so proud, extremely proud of you. That is a great, very high miracle in your life, and in my life as well.

Try to raise your consciousness high, higher, according to your capacity, according to your receptivity, and maintain it even for an hour – not for a day, not for a week or a month, but for one hour. Then if you can keep your most sublime consciousness, even for an hour, I will call it the miracle of miracles. Your consciousness is the real miracle. To raise your consciousness and keep it high, very high, that is an infinitely more powerful miracle than some of the other miracles that you may hear of.

In your own life what do you want? Only to keep your consciousness high, higher, highest so that you can commune with God directly.

I know how difficult it is to raise one’s consciousness. A trance is simply higher than the highest consciousness. When you have raised your consciousness considerably high, and if you happen to enter into the Universal Consciousness for a fleeting moment, the joy and bliss you will get are simply unimaginable. The ‘Universal Consciousness’ – these are not mere English words. If you have a glimpse of the Universal Consciousness, you will not need anything else either from earth or from Heaven.

20 October 2006 Seattle