The Role of the Observer:ย How to Grow and Evolve Through Your Lessons of Karma
by Jeff Poole
Editor’s Note:ย Jeff has joined our faculty for teaching Vedic Astrology Courses and will be offering a special class on Nakshatras.ย Details below.ย
Notice how when you align with the daily forecasts your life begins to take on the qualities of the greater mysteries of truth?
You see those truths in the world reflected in whatโs happening each day. Thereโs a mental alignment to the planetary energies and psychology of the signs and a spiritual alignment with the observation of the deities ruling the Nakshatras. These are all written before those days occur, but each day observe their accuracy in your awareness.
Thereโs an evolutionary rhythm to each day which shows everything thatโs happening that day. Itโs not magic, itโs the science of Vedic Astrology which is the โEye of the Veda.โ Jyotisha is another name for it which is about โShining the Light to see what is.โ You have inner light which is called โJyotiโ itโs connected to your intuition. It operates when you cease judging things and just observe truth. Truth is whatโs happening in every moment. Just accept that, itโs your truth.
The Jyeshta Nakshatra in Scorpio today is a clue to this observation. It shows you are the Elder. Itโs called the โSakshฤtโ which means the Observer. Your true role is to be fixed there. Thatโs truth.
So observe how today is a day of devotion to deep connection. When you feel the deep connection, you donโt need to fear emotions because they are just ripples on the surface caused by the storms brewing around you, but theyโre not inside of you. So let them run their course and roil as they roll around you. The secret of connecting deeply is that they become like dust devils. You see them but you remain untouched.
The enlightened or awakened ones, the Elders, arenโt touched by those storms because they donโt get sucked into them. Theyโre witnessing them, and seeing how foolishly others get sucked in because they become those storms and they even think they are the storm. That is an illusion because you think you have something to protect. So watch how all that hubris and feelings of selfishness arise and then you become lost in that.
Better than that surface response is to witness that from your depths and feel the bliss that you are observing the phenomenon with wonder. When there is wonder there is no mind, so youโre the innocence of the observer. So, itโs when all the reasoning begins that you start to question why. At the deeper level, there is no why, there is only whatโs happening. Questioning is the beginning of the mind. Then as the mind starts to act it mindlessly becomes everything that it sees.
This is why you want to cultivate connection to the depths because there youโre untouched. Since itโs there you are the source. This is where the control switch to everything resides, deep within. This is where you become the creator of your world, where you are the creator. This is the seat and home of the creator thatโs deep in your heart. The creator is Love, the very substance of creation that youโre made up of. Love is not an emotion.
This depth and center is the home of nature, where all the laws of nature reside. Itโs where the deities reside. Those deities are the personifications of the laws of nature. Some rule, some are the doers, which are called the Devas. Theyโre what do everything.
So when youโre relaxing there in the depths in the Self, you only need to think an intention and theyโll serve you in the highest way to bless you with whatever you desire, and youโll observe you donโt do anything. Because youโre at home where all the laws of nature reside. After residing there more and more through your practices, the Devas will soon become attuned to your preferences and theyโll bring you things even before you feel the need for them. Because youโre aware of who you are and theyโre impulses of you.
So in the depths everything is provided for, and itโs just exactly what you need. You do nothing and accomplish everything. This is the secret of the Elders. That everything has its time, and when itโs time, those things will happen. Since as the observant consciousness you notice that everything just happens and that Youโre not the Doer.
In the Vedas there are tests for measuring the evolution of your consciousness, theyโre found in the Puranas. Theyโre stories which shake your consciousness. Depending on your response of stability you observe your level of evolution.
The sign of Scorpio plays this type of game with your psychology, testing to see if youโre vulnerable. If you become that vulnerability then you werenโt deep. Itโs like a fire drill. In a drill you test your emergency preparedness measures to see how youโre evolving and how you respond. Are you prepared for anything? If youโre fully alert, awake and aware, you become wise to this test, this game. Thatโs real wisdom thatโs evolved, not to be blown off your center. To never lose your smile, come what may. To do that you have to connect deeply.
At the bottom of the Ocean is where all silence and stillness lies. So too at the depths of consciousness you are fixed, deep, and still. Your practices and principles to do those practices daily will connect you to that depth.
Then when you rise to the occasion, you can become like a cloud. You can float freely above everything and not leave any impressions. There above the fray you can serve everything freely because youโre not involved. Any rain that falls is happening under you. Youโre not affected at all. Youโre free. When youโre free inside you can laugh at the stories happening everywhere. Itโs a big cinema of light and shadows. You are the screen on which they play. Untouched, unblemished, ever free and filled with light.
