Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

communications for that matter are not taking place.
If a loved one is feeling sad, despairing, or radiantly
happy, we can feel it. If he or she is in a raging
argument with their husband, wife or child, we can
feel it, and sometimes feel these emotions as our own
and wonder what brought these states on. It can
become really confusing for some—the origin of their
mental and emotional states.
One can actually “feel” on a deep, intuitive level
(which some call the astral level) the ebbing and
flowing of consciousness itself; as well as how that
flow is affecting those we are close to, or the Satsang
as a whole. Becoming aware of these energies, flows
and impacts on those we love is really an incredibly
interesting and exciting process taking place on the
plane of the manifest.
Robert certainly did not deny these levels existed,
but only emphasized they should be ignored as
irrelevant to one’s own liberation from the manifest
world, and all these empathic events are related to
the manifest world.
This increased empathy and awareness makes
ashram living both easier and more difficult, because
life is more subtle and nuanced, and we are more open
and influenced by “invisible and unexpressed” affects
and flows within consciousness.