This Is No Secret: The Path to the Awakening of Your Heart

By Joy Kapur

It is almost impossible to capture the richness and the beauty of the idea contained in this book within the confines of one book or thousand books. This is the essence of my own thinking and reflection, based on my spiritual studies from various sources of knowledge and the wisdom of the ancient seers in the last forty years or so of my life. It will be more appropriate to say that it is a product of my new awareness or call it the gift of grace that I have been able to put together multi-faceted ideas about the “Heart” in a new frame of light. We hear about the heart everywhere, whether it is in a romantic tune or about love from the heart or emotions emanating from the heart or somebody singing about his or her broken heart. Contrary to the popular belief that it is the brain that does everything and that it is mind or the brain that is the seat of consciousness; we now know that it is the heart, not the physical but the spiritual heart that is linked to the source of infinite intelligence.
Since ages, in every culture and every religion, much has been written about the heart metaphorically. As per the wisdom of the ancient Hindu seers, Greek and Buddhist scholars; heart is the seat of human consciousness. Here are the lines from Rig Veda (X129), written more than 3,000 years ago”:
“In the One arose Love,
Love the first seed of the Soul
The truth of this the sages knew
Found hidden in their hearts,
Seeking therein the essence of wisdom,
The sages found that bond of union
Between the known & the Unknown.”
Mankind has reached the highest expression of life or perhaps coming close to the ultimate states of human evolution when it comes to emotions, feelings, perceptions and subtler or higher realms of consciousness. The natural laws of the universe are coaxing the humanity to seek the oneness, the unity and the harmony in the hearts of everybody and everywhere by rising above any barriers of divisiveness and separateness.
It is true that we can observe the mind through that faculty of the mind, which observes the mind, call it the faculty of reflection or self-introspection. It is the mind that observes the lower mind or the monkey mind and through developing this new awareness, becomes the higher mind. Let us call this the super-mind. This super-mind has the faculty to absorb the heart-based consciousness beyond the limited and conditioned consciousness of the baser mind. In other words it is only through the light of this new awareness that mind becomes the super-mind. It is only through unity of the mind with the heart that the aspirant can experience a quantum leap in awareness and bestows the aspirant with keen intelligence. This keen intelligence is not a product of the lower mind but the mind that soaked in the heart-consciousness and the ennobling qualities connected with the heart.
The heart is far more than a mere organ that pumps blood all day long, it is a generator of information energy and its cells are storehouses of info-energetic memories. Heart is a feeling, thinking, receiving and communicating organ having spiritual powers.
Heart is the most sophisticated internal cosmic antenna, capable of receiving and remitting healing rays, through thoughts, feelings and prayers in the form of positive vibrations. This not based on some heresy or some old man’s tale or hunches, it is based on self-knowledge, wisdom and discernment and qualities of head and heart.
It is your thoughts and passions deep down your heart that determine who you are and your core passions and what you will be based on knowing first and then implementing those passions through a plan of action. When we know what we are deep down in our heart, it is easy to go about following what we love and loving what we do.
All our desires, ambitions, fears, loves and passions reside in embryonic form in our heart-center. We are naturally attracted to whatever we secretly harbor in our heart’s DNA, and whatever we harbor with passion has the p

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• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 19, 2009
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Joy Kapur

Joy (Jagmohan) Kapur was born in India and came to the U.S in 1967 to pursue his dreams. Armed with eight dollars and a Masters in English Literature, he came to America with truly a little more than a shirt on his back. A lifelong student of meta-physics, his quest for the Unknown took him back to the wisdom of the ancient Indian seers.

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CONTENTS

1    Heart is the Center of Universe

Heart & Divine Consciousness

Heart—Our Spiritual Center

Heart & Transformation

Heart—The Cosmic Antenna

Heart—A Powerful Force

Path of the Heart (Heart Awareness)

Heart—The Abode of Truth & Love

Heart & True Awakening

Oneness through the Heart

2    My Brush with the Infinite

3    I have Heart: therefore I am (Know Thyself: From Your Heart)

Super-string Theory

Mind, sub-conscious mind, lower mind, higher mind and heart

Mind reflects heart

Heart is life & living

Know thyself

Chariot and the horses

You become what you think all day

Seven levels of consciousness

Higher mind or higher self

You are That!

Find Your Calling

4    The Cosmology of the Mind Anchored in the Heart

Changing old conditioning—lower mind to super-mind

Intention (Bhavana or Niyyat)—the power of cellular transference

Lower-mind, higher-mind or super-mind

Intellect & Intelligence

(wisdom, discernment, dharma, Emotions, feelings, real understanding and love.)

Awareness

(Super-mind, awake, mindfulness, clarity, insight, Introspection, meditation, faith, grace, self knowledge, higher consciousness, bliss, love, Cosmic Force, happiness, joy awakening and Smadhi).

Cosmic Force

5    Heart . . . the Spiritual Corridor of the Mind

Heart Integration

Prana

Aham Tatva & Maha Tatva

Ego or Aham Tatva

Awakened Heart

Getting Anchored

Heart—The Seat of Self-realization

6    Real Abundance is of the Heart!

Richness of the Heart

Unconditional Giving

Love Energy & Heart

Gratitude with Humility—Real Transformation

Sharing

True Abundance

Faith—The Inner Abundance

Giving with Love

Heart the Source of Infinite Abundance

7    Faith & Trust—Twin Corridors of the Heart

Unconditional Love from Heart

Faith & Trust (Higher & Lower Realms)

Science & Heart

Thinker of the Thought

Our Evolutionary Journey

Real Transformation

Religion from the Heart

Silence of the Heart

Real Understanding

8    Real Transformation is from Heart

Knowing through Self-introspection

Heart-based vs Mind-based Life

Positive & Negative Currents

Heart & Purity

Paradigm Shift from the Heart

9    The Healing Power of the Heart

Holistic Approach to Healing

The Healing Power of the Heart

The Magical—Thymus Gland

Heart—The Seat of Consciousness

Emotions and the Heart

Changing Negative Thought Patterns

Love & Relationships

Heart Chakra

Ying & Yang

Affirmations & The Heart

Yoga & Pranayama

Meditation, Prayers & Healing

Yantras, Mantras & Tantras

Faith & Surrender

Healing Vibrations of Music

Awareness & Health

Heart & Love Energy

The Search for Truth

10    Hridaya Yoga (Yoga of the Heart)

Chakras or Psychic Centers

Anhata Chakra vs Hridaya Chakra

Evolution of the Word

Physical & Spiritual Heart

The Spiritual Corridor

EIGHT GREAT SPIRITUAL FORCES

Power of Sankalpas

Power of Pure Knowledge

Pranic-energy through rhythmic breathing

Power of Prayer and Meditation

The Power of Affirmation

Power of higher mind

Power of discerned action

Power latent in a self-realized person

Opening the Heart-chakra with Aum Mantra

There is only One of us!

Dwelling in Heart-centered awareness

11    Heart & Love are Synonymous (The secret lies in the heart)

Love is transforming

Love & its Ethos

Falling in Love

Love and Integrity

Experiencing the Elusiveness of Love

Real transformation is—a quantum event of the heart

Love and Mysticism

Purity of the Heart

A never ending mystery that is love

12    World Peace

Peace and Non-violence

Healing the Hearts

Globalization through Heart-based Life

The Real Purpose

Selfless Love from the Heart

Shift from the Heart Level

World as one Family

True Religion

Follow your Heart

Energy and environment/Putting planet before people and profits

Be the Change

What the world needs—Awakening the heart-consciousness

Need for spiritual values

Be the candle of light

Awakening the super-mind

Religion of love

13    Living in the Moment—Anchored firmly in the Heart

The moment of highest awareness"

Heart—your spiritual corridor

Don’t lose the pulse of the heart

Live your grandest vision this second

We are That

Listening from the Heart

Real Meditation is heart’s awareness

Real awakening

14    We are One

Shift from the Heart

The meaning behind 108

Cosmology of numbers 7 & 8

As our thoughts so is our universe

Higher potency vibrations

The oneness that sustains all

Divine energy in heart-centered consciousness

Follow the heart

We are One!

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The completion of this book is a small miracle in itself. It is a product of constant inspiration from my older brother Dr. Kanwar Krishan Kapur, without his helpful hints, his immense patience, his cheerful prodding, his untiring stamina and his ever scintillating optimism; this book would not have seen the light of the day. My heart-felt gratitude to Dr. Sushil Chandra, for his help in the editing process and provided his uncanny insights, his meticulous attention to detail and wisdom in deciphering the Vedic knowledge of the ancient Indian seers. He has been very kind and generous to write a Foreword to this book. I admire his disarming simplicity and humility born of wisdom.

There are still a few enlightened souls in the world who only spread happiness, joy and bliss wherever they go. One such person is Mr. Lachhman Das, who devoted many days checking the manuscript thoroughly and painstakingly and correcting the mistakes and doing it so unconditionally.

My deepest gratitude to the gracious copy-editing help from Monica Munjal and for being so helpful, just like her parents Mr. & Mrs. Swaran and Krishan Munjal.

And then there are some people who are divinely sent. One such person is Cliff Carle, who is an editor, creative writer and publishing consultant. Without his help this book would not be what it turned out to be.

A special note of thanks to Sarna Keswani, who deserves my heart’s gratitude because it is she who kept me going and provided care, faith and moral support in the completion of this book. Thank you Sarna from the bottom of my heart, for your patience, understanding, support, love and all you did to make this book a reality.

Thanks to the lessons I learnt from my mother, the late Mrs. Rampiari Kapur and for her dedication, unconditional love and silent prayers and who lovingly labored all her life to make us what we are today. My heart goes out with gratitude to those who are no more with us today like my dear uncle R.S Kundan Lal Kapur, Dr. Dev Nath Ghai & my sister Vimla Ghai and my cousin Mr. Tilak Raj Khanna.

Words are not enough to express my gratitude for those who consistently support me and the ones whose constant guidance I treasure most include my younger brother Mike Kapur and his wife Prabha Kapur and my adoptive brother Abdul Suleman and his wife Zarine Suleman. I owe much to the wisdom, clarity and spiritual insights of Naina Singh. My heart-felt thanks to my good friend Dr. Naras Bhatt and for his very insightful book on Heart and stress disorders.

I do not have the right words to express my deepest gratitude for true friends Gretchen and Lawrence Eisenberg.

I am blessed for being born in a great family. It is with great pride that I mention the name of my father Late Shri Ram Lal Kapur, my uncles and aunts, Mr. & Mrs. N. N. Mehra, Mr. & Mrs. D. N. Mehra, Mrs. Chanchal Mehra, my cousins, Mr. & Mrs. Captain A.L. Kapur, and Mr. & Mrs. Sham Sunder Kapur.

A special note of thanks go to to my dearest sister-in-laws, Geeta Kapur and Prabha Kapur and to my ex-wife Nalini Kapur.

I wish to thank all of my friends who want to remain anonymous and those who bring light to my world the likes of Sunita and Shree Nichani, Raju and Chandru Jagtiani, Sonia and Jai Sainani, Meenu and Kishan Tejwani, Pushpa & Mohan Shahani, Krishana and Ram Kirpalani, Vimal & Ranjit Advani, Aruna and Vinod Sood, Neelam and Sarabjit Thakur, Renu Nagdev, Shirley Balwani, Aunti Shantiji, Anita, Deena and Air Marshal Satish Inamdar, Anita & Kamal Gunsagar, Kusum & Suren Gupta, Anita & Ram Vij, Vinoo & Pyare Khanna, Pammi & Vijay Kapoor, Usha and Suresh Belani, Poonam and Satish Bhutani, Mr. & Mrs. M.L. Handa, Mr. Mrs. Madra, Mr. & Mrs. T.S. Khanna, Mr. & Mrs. Lachhman Das, Mr. & Mrs. Vishwa Sharma, Mr. & Mrs. Peter Sahjani, Mr. Luis Uribe, Mr. and Mrs. Gurdip Gujral and Shobha, Ashok Dadlani, and a great soul Dr. Nilima Sabharwal of hohinc.org and Kindness Kitchen.

My very special gratitude for Maira Shafqat ([e-mail]) for her graciousness and for her god-gifted talents to design the cover of this book. And thanks to Sasha Sanders, Kathleen Walker and Caroline Williams for being what they are . . . they spread light wherever they go.

Last but not the least, my two sons Ravi Kapur and Rishi Kapur, who deserve special thanks for their unconditional love and support and who are a constant source of joy, bliss and inspiration in my life.

I will be failing in my duty if I didn’t mention that my greatest gratitude and indebtedness belongs to the country of my birth . . . India. (Yes, my heart belongs to India!). My life and living has been molded by the teachings of Vedanta (the greatest scriptures of Indian tradition, the Vedas and the Upanishads). This book is a drop from the Infinite wisdom contained in Vedanta philosophy and my humble tribute to the timeless wisdom of the ancient Indian seers. My salute to the genius of Swami Dayanand Saraswati, who brought out the wisdom (to diffuse knowledge and dissipate ignorance) contained in the Vedas to the world.

The following statement is borrowed from Hu Shih (1891-1962), Ambassador of China to the U.S. with a slight change: "India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her borders and will conquer the entire world spiritually (minds & hearts) during the next 100 years." (The words in italics are mine).

Joy Kapur

December 8, 2008

San Francisco, Ca

INTRODUCTION

It is almost impossible to capture the richness and the beauty of the ideas contained in this book within the confines of one book or even a thousand books. This may be taken as the essence of my own thinking and reflection, based on my spiritual studies from various sources of knowledge and the wisdom of the ancient seers in the last forty years or so of my life. Though I admit it is not my knowledge. In my quest for the ‘Unknown’, I felt a certain mysterious force around me, compelling me, coaxing, and prompting me to write this book. It will be more appropriate to say the book wrote itself. I became a conduit in the hands of a mysterious power to give this message to the world.

This is no Secret is a product of my new awareness or call it the gift of grace. I have been very fortunate to put together multi-faceted ideas about the Heart in a new frame of light. We hear about the heart everywhere, whether it is in a romantic tune, or about love from the heart or emotions emanating from the heart, or somebody singing about his or her broken heart. Contrary to the popular belief that, it is the brain that does everything, or that it is mind, or brain that is the seat of consciousness; we now know that it is the heart, not the physical but the spiritual heart that is linked to the source of infinite intelligence.

Since ages, in every culture and every religion, much has been written about the heart metaphorically. Per the wisdom of the ancient Hindu seers, Greek and Buddhist scholars; heart is the seat of human consciousness. Here are the lines from Rig Veda (X129), written more than 3,500 years ago:

"In the One arose Love,

Love the first seed of the Soul

The truth of this the sages knew

Found hidden in their hearts,

Seeking therein the essence of wisdom,

The sages found that bond of union

Between the known & the Unknown."

Mankind has reached the highest expression of life or perhaps coming close to the ultimate states of human evolution when it comes to emotions, feelings, perceptions and subtler or higher realms of consciousness. The natural laws of the universe are coaxing the humanity to seek the oneness, the unity and the harmony in the hearts of everybody and everywhere by rising above any barriers of divisiveness and separateness.

It is true that we can observe the mind through that faculty of the mind, which observes the mind, call it the faculty of reflection or self-introspection. It is the mind that observes the lower mind or the monkey mind and through developing this new awareness, becomes the higher mind. Let us call this the super-mind. This super-mind has the faculty to absorb the heart-based consciousness beyond the limited and conditioned consciousness of the baser mind. In other words it is only through the light of this new awareness that mind becomes the super-mind. It is only through unity of the mind with the heart that the aspirant can experience a quantum leap in awareness and bestows the aspirant with keen intelligence. This keen intelligence is not a product of the lower mind but the mind that soaked in the heart-consciousness and the ennobling qualities connected with the heart.

The heart is far more than a mere organ that pumps blood all day long, it is a generator of information energy and its cells are storehouses of info-energetic memories. Heart is a feeling, thinking, receiving and communicating organ having spiritual powers.

Heart is the most sophisticated internal cosmic antenna, capable of receiving and remitting healing rays, through thoughts, feelings and prayers in the form of positive vibrations. This is not based on some heresy or some old man’s tale or hunches, it is based on self-knowledge, wisdom and discernment and qualities of head and heart.

It is your thoughts and passions deep down in your heart that determine who you are and your core passions and what you will be based on knowing first and then implementing those passions through a plan of action. When we know what we are deep down in our heart, it is easy to go about following what we love and loving what we do.

All our desires, ambitions, fears, loves and passions reside in embryonic form in our heart-center. We are naturally attracted to whatever we secretly harbor in our heart’s DNA, and whatever we harbor with passion has the potential to manifest and sprout in our lives. The heart through its morphogenetic field attracts what we really put out in the cosmos through our thoughts, feelings and vibrations. It depends on your obsession or involvement in a certain project or discipline that contributes to your success.

Love, perhaps the most ennobling human emotion, is directly connected to the source of the heart. It is connected to the very source of the Universe where things emanate from nothing. There lies the greatest source of energy, infinite in nature and capable of doing things that are impossible for the average folks. There lies the gift of Infinite abundance, infinite wisdom, where in a miraculous ways, men material and resources all line up to be at your service, at beck and call, without struggle. All you need is to learn how to connect with that infinite source in fulfilling all your desires, your fondest dreams, without lifting a finger so to say.

When a person gets deeply anchored in his or her heart chakra or heart center, he or she begins emanating a quality of integrity, a kind of discipline and slowly, it becomes his or her mode of thinking and ultimately helps to know his or her path. The essence of any religion is not worshipping, rituals or chanting, it is more about finding the path, it is the unfolding of one’s own unique quest of an inner personal relationship with the divine . . . it is the catching of the Unseen in its own splendor; it is knowing the mystical peak or the dawning of heart’s wisdom, it is the understanding of the working of the Invisible force and accepting life as it unfolds.

Your life is your journey of your mind’s inward gaze into the wisdom of the heart and through this knowledge to experience the awakening process of unity and non-duality, to uncover and follow the inner urges and the longings of your heart and to become your best spiritually.

I feel deeply grateful to the ‘Invisible Finger’ that prompted me to write this book. My humble and pray-full intention is that this book will touch at least a billion hearts around the planet and the ideas contained in this book, that had such a transforming effect on my life, will equally touch the lives of those who would read the following pages. This is not my knowledge but a modest attempt to bring out and spread India’s ancient wisdom to the world.

Joy Kapur

FOREWORD

I was fortunate to have reviewed the manuscript of this scholarly book written by Mr. Joy Kapur. This book shows an approach to modify our life in a very integrated way. Mr. Kapur indicates his brush with the infinite before he started writing this book. Most of us mortals are not so fortunate as to have that experience in this life. For those who are not very happy about their daily life and are looking for an approach to get in touch with divinity, this book is a must read. He basically develops three themes. First of all, this book is non-sectarian. It does not preach any religion and does not ask anyone to change his or her church or place of worship. It talks about oneness of humanity.

His numerous quotations are from world literature. He even talks of world peace and shows way to achieve it by transformation of the heart. His second theme is that our pure heart is at the center of our spiritual development. Our body is our temple. He defines spiritual heart as separate from physical heart and suggests its integration with what he calls super mind. Super mind is higher than lower mind, which is what mostly we use every day. Once this integration between super mind and spiritual heart happens, it leads to development of compassion, love, kindness, fearlessness, generosity and other noble feelings in the person.

True knowledge is realization of divinity that is within each one of us. True tranquility is that of mind anchored in the spiritual heart. The third theme is that we have the power within us to change our lives. We really don’t need any temple or church to achieve that integration between our spiritual heart and super mind. He outlines step by step approach to uniting heart with the mind, which leads us from mundane life to more peaceful and purposeful life. Some talk the talk and walk the walk but it is another thing to walk the talk and still get up after every fall, still have the same faith and trust in the higher power. This book shows us how.

Those who decide to read this book may find their views on life altered for the better. It is a serious study and needs time to assimilate it in life.

Dr. Sushil Chandra

CHAPTER 1

HEART IS THE CENTER OF UNIVERSE

(Awakening the infinite potential of your heart)

It is no secret that the Heart is one of the most important physical parts of the human anatomy, and positively the most vital psychic center in our bodies. Hridaya Chakra or Heart-center is different than the physical heart that regulates the blood circulation; without which the physical body will come to a stop.

The heart is called Hridaya in many Indian languages and is derived from the Sanskrit word Hridayam (hrit+ayam) which means, This is the CENTER. This heart center is not only of the physical body but also the heart of the scriptures. It is spiritual center of the body . . . synonymous with various terms like Heart-cave, Aatman, Abode of intuitive wisdom, Seedless trance, Home of inner-silence, *Tenth Gate, the Fourth State or *Turiya Avastha.

Guru Nanak called it Sahaj guphaa mahi aasam baandhyaa . . . (In the cave of my heart, I have obtained a seat, I hear the unstuck melody of bliss there and I am in ecstasy.)

The heart is the center in our physical body and the whole body vibrates around it just like the solar system revolves around the sun.