Short story: Consciousness is not who we are

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Sri Gustav Norabindo, a spiritual master, was discussing consciousness with his students. He said that consciousness, is not who we really are, but we use consciousness, in a similar way as to how we use our minds. Here is some more of what he said: "We are a spiritual being, and we use all of these tools, our body, our heart, our intuition, our mind, our consciousness, our emotions, as addons to our soul, that we can make use of in our life." "None of these, on their own, reflect the real us to anyone, as the real us, is always more than all of these parts combined too." "We cannot expand our consciousness then, because it is a tool to use, and the idea is that what we do is to use more of this consciousness, or connect to it more strongly, more fully." "Consciousness as the tool, stays as it is, the same always." "None of these parts of us, including our consciousness, is the cause, or the creator, of our life." "The cause and creator of our life is, of course, God." "We can be more of our self by living more fully as our soul through all of these parts of our self, coordinated to act wholly co-operatively together, as one." "Our soul is also growing in the wisdom, understanding, and truth, of God." "If we try to grow our mind alone through various measures, we are really just playing games with our life, on a diminutive way, as we need to be our soul first, and use our mind, which will expand naturally, as we need it to do so in our life." "Mind enhancing drugs, hypnosis, and other forms of mind control, then, only ever slow down our growth as soul, digging a pit that we sit in for a while, before our soul can dig us out again, and so we can keep moving forwards again then as our soul." "Our life is said to be driven by our choices, so make sure that your choices, your decisions, come from your soul on down, and are not made first by your mind, emotions, or consciousness, reactively, before you allow your soul, to make the decision for you, with its connection to God, via prayer, and love, so that each decision you then make will be part of God's plan for your life, and not work against it." "Any decision made by your mind, your heart, your emotions, your body, or your consciousness, made on its own, without going through your soul first is always a wrong decision, and will end up working against God's overall plan for your life." "Only our soul, working with God, can know the right way for our life to go in." "Soul is the vehicle, love its fuel, and God was the maker." "Never forget the proper order of things, and never live by/from any lesser part of you; live as/from your soul." Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com