Transcendence/bliss and God for Self Development

Going beyond language to experience an observation of what is around does not need any conceptual tools. This can happen by a flash or quirk of the mind. Afterward comes the challenge of expressing that experience in the language to share your experience. This seems to depend on how you interpret the experience using the language, though its not meant to be done!. Such experience going beyond language is a sign of arriving at a state of bliss, that is beyond the senses that are trapped in the meanings and senses of the world.

Transcendence leads to bliss, and freedom of the mind from the patterns of thinking based on concepts, and forms present in the memories of the past, or in the anticipations of the future.

Is transcendence to do with God?

Many philosophies equate the state of the mind in transcendence to God. That is the reason the idea of God as omnipresent is well based on this kind of experience of it. Also the the reason for the idea of the presence of the God in everyone's heart

Transcendence can get you closer to God, as your ego becomes pure in it.

In the experience of the transcendence, as the concepts becomes less relevant and the observer is stripped of them, the observer loses the dualities. It is not something that can be cultivated as a habit to be in the state. The role of the past experiences is minimal or the least.

God's thoughts can interfere in any state of the mind. But invoking God in with such state of the mind seems to be a practice in some meditation disciplines.

Because forms don't have a role in that state mind, we tend to claim God to be formless. We also confuse that state to be a state of self realization. Some consider the state to be ultimate. But it is no recommendation for in-action. Converting the thoughts into positive ones, and action oriented is important. Use transcendence to clean up old habits of fears, negativity, depressions, tensions, which are signs of the mind's bondage to the concepts and forms.

Transcendence is important to make mind free and clear. But, we also need to be focused. We also need a guidance. That is where getting into relationship with Him is one main tool.

We don't need to put an effort for transcendence. Between the gaps of our thoughts, there is transcendence. But we don't notice it. We are habituated to depend on the feelings and thoughts to let time flow to create ourselves to be somebody and something and to see others as somebody. There is some pattern of thoughts behind the perceptions. That pattern is your mask to see the world. Are you ready to clean up these patterns for allowing that innocence of pure ego?

A simple technique to experience transcendence is by visualizing yourself to be an infinitesimal point of energy. Also God to be one like that. Then coming to relation with Him. When that really happens, the cognitive process of your thoughts have totally different quality, and flow of the self. You can engage Him into a conversation, which can lead to insights that are new and helpful.

Confusions on Transcendence and God

Meditation disciplines explicitly or implicitly touch on a state of the mind, which is free from the symbols, and forms and their concepts. Such state of the mind has different interpretations which often came from the old stuff, ie your beliefs. These beliefs come from the philosophy that you subscribed about God or not.

Often, the challenge has been about not spiritualizing or Godifying such state of the mind. There have been many names given to it. Nirvana, God realization, Universal consciousness, non-dualistic God, etc could be the names for such state of the mind. I think, such pure state of the mind, where the conditioning or the programming of the mind has stopped, could be diluted to fit your beliefs. If you have come that far, please notice what beliefs are active to interpret the experience of it.

In my view, confusion is due to an attempt to verbalize an experience pertaining to that state of the mind, when it is not meant. Also the confusion is also due to the value that we create out of it for organizing belief systems.