Preparing for awakening can take your whole lifetime or it could take just a few minutes. It all depends on you and your past spiritual progress. This past spiritual progress could involve lifetimes of effort that you or others are not even aware of. But there is plenty you can do in this lifetime to get ready. And there are some very good reasons to do so.

Preparing for awakening is the most important thing you can do if your life is devoted to Enlightenment. Because process of Self-realization and later; God-realization can be pretty rough on you physically, mentally, and emotionally. All of your bodies need to get ready if just for the huge increase in energy and light that will be flowing through it.

The bodies of the common consciousness person have not yet evolved enough for tremendous amount of power available in Self and God Realization. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi once answered a question about whether or not he could give a student instant enlightenment. He said he could but wouldn’t do it because the student would burn to a crisp.

It takes time, proper training and spiritual practice to get the physical body ready for Awakening. And there is even more work to be done on the emotional and mental levels. We all carry baggage with us from life time to life time. I call this baggage unresolved negative emotions. With the first Awakening lots more energy and light begins to flow through us. This can feel wonderful at first, but later the light begins to shine on all the dark hidden places inside of us. And you have to look at it and let it go. You have to because you don’t get to hide from any of that stuff and reach the higher levels of spiritualty.

The posts in this category will help you with preparing for awakening.