I think it is appropriate to say that we should worship the Atman (true self) that resides in our hearts. We will cherish this important and sacred Atman.

This Atman is also the universe. There is a universe within our hearts.

This is something that is often said in spiritual and yoga practices, but I had not truly felt it until recently. While I had heard that there is an Atman within the heart, or that the Atman in the heart is the universe, I only thought "maybe" when I heard it. But now, I feel that "indeed, this is the universe."

Looking back, I think I had this feeling as a child, but after a long period of being surrounded by a negative environment and experiencing difficult events, I gradually lost this feeling and became a victim of energy vampires. It seems that people with high energy are easy targets for those around them, so it is important to be careful.

The Atman that resides within our hearts is delicate, and therefore, it needs to be protected. If the expression "worship" is not a problem, we can say that we worship the sacred Atman, or we can simply say that we cherish it. In any case, it is important to maintain the attitude of protecting this sacred feeling within our hearts.

Perhaps some people are born with this feeling, while others are not. Those who are born with it may take it for granted, but I think that there are also people in the world who are born without this sacred feeling. For those who do not have this feeling, or who have lost it during their lives, finding the Atman is equivalent to finding God in life.

The saying that "God is not outside, but within" is often heard, and it is literally true. It is not a metaphor, but it is literally true that the Atman resides within ourselves.

When I meditate, a pressure like air (what is called prana) appears in the Sahasrara chakra, and this air flows along the axis of the body, passing through the slightly narrower throat with a slight force, and smoothly enters the small room in the depths of the heart where the Atman resides. This can be called an aura, or it can be called light. I think that the Atman that resides within our hearts is taking in prana (as said in yoga).

As the Atman (within the heart) repeatedly takes in prana, the light eventually becomes stronger, and a soft aura spreads around the heart in the chest. The aura radiates like light, sometimes with a slight warmth, and I feel that the Atman is becoming more energetic.

A feeling arises that I don't want to do things that the Atman dislikes.

It is often said in spiritual teachings and yoga that "the body is a sacred place where God dwells." However, I now understand that this is not just a metaphor, but literally true, and therefore, I feel that I, as a physical being, do not want to do things that the sacred Atman dislikes.

As I meditate, my conscious awareness has gradually been ascending to higher dimensions. However, even so, there seems to be a distance between my conscious awareness and the Atman itself, and a feeling of wanting to worship the Atman remains in my conscious awareness.

It starts from a relatively low level of consciousness (what is called the Jiva), but from there, I feel that I have connected with something like a divine consciousness (or higher self) in the depths of my chest, and my level of consciousness has somewhat increased. However, the Atman that has emerged here is even more dimensionally higher, and even from my conscious awareness, which has somewhat ascended, it seems like something sacred enough to be a subject of worship.

This is not something that is explicitly stated in any doctrine. I have read such things in scriptures and spiritual books and thought, "Maybe that's true," but now, I have come to the point of thinking, "Ah, that was actually true." I think faith is necessary to some extent, but blind faith is not good, and it is important to maintain a posture of acknowledging what you don't understand and temporarily suspending judgment. This was one of those things, but I have now come to understand that it is literally true.