Final article of this year...The "Holy Persons" are not persons, but levels of reality

Spiritual Evolution: The Divine Plan for Life

by angel fire website.

1. Every man, woman, and child on this planet is God. Every man, woman, and child lives forever, through countless physical lives.

Everything known and unknown, everything that is and is not is God. There is nothing that we can see or not see that is not Him (Her, It - God has no gender. I'll follow the conventional use of sages here and refer to God as a "He"). That being the case you are God and I am God and everyone else is as well. Being God, we're not capable of being destroyed or ceasing to exist. We're therefore eternal, though our physical bodies are not.

The "immortality" that such teachers as Jesus spoke of is not immortality of the soul, which is already immortal, but the cessation of the need to be born into a physical body again. As it happens we reincarnate endless times until we reach the point of needing no more to be reborn physically. But that is not the end of spiritual evolution, which continues until we return to God, whence we came, through a virtually endless process of successive enlightenment.

Spiritual evolution means that, not simply the physical body evolves as Darwin said it does, but the spiritual bodies that we also inhabit do as well.  We journey through lifetime after lifetime, learning , discriminating, improving our ability to discern the Real from the unreal, until finally we realize the One fully. We have then progressed from unconscious awareness to conscious awareness of our nature as God.

2. The purpose of life is enlightenment. The purpose of life is that God should meet God and, in that meeting, taste His own bliss. For that purpose was all of life made.

God is One without a second. In His highest expression, God is formless and thus encounters no forms and can draw on no tools or technologies. God is alone in the universe of form and beyond. There being no other, there is no one to know God and no means for God to know God.  In light of this, to satisfy a desire to know Himself and taste His own bliss, God created life forms and assigned them the task of knowing their true nature, their original identity.

He implanted in them a longing that can only be satisfied by the realization of their identity as God. He created universal laws that aid the individual being in the journey from God into the world and from the world back to God again. Each time a life form realizes its true identity as God, God meets God, and for this meeting was all of life created.

3. All of us have journeyed out from God, by His command, and will be liberated from the cycle of physical birth and death the moment we know that everything in this world, including us, is God. Hindu sages call this level of enlightenment vijnana (perfect wisdom) and sahaja (or natural, permanent) nirvikalpa samadhi.

When all movement in the mind stops, when the spiritual heart (or hridayam) opens and never shuts again, the individual being realizes God in sahaja nirvikalpa samadhi, the stage of liberation from the need to be physically reborn (or mukti).  This level has been called vijnana (or perfect wisdom) by some and nirvana (or cessation of movement).  But spiritual evolution does not cease here.  Only the need to be reborn in this Third Dimension stops. Orders of existence stretch on in an endless vista, through dimension after dimension, universe after universe.

4. The Father created the domain of the Mother (mater, matter) as the setting for our spiritual journey and education. We wander in this material realm lifetime after lifetime, constantly learning.

The first creations in life were what Christians call the Holy Spirit and the Christ or Son and what Hindus call the Divine Mother or Shakti and the Atman.  The first is a primal universal creative vibration known as Aum/Amen, the Logos or Word. Known to Solomon as "Wisdom" or Sophia, to Lao-Tzu as the Mother, this level of reality is the Phenomenal world whereas the Father or Brahman is the Formless Transcendental, beyond the Phenomenal world.

The Christ or Atman is "the Father in me" or "Brahman-within-the-individual," a "fragment" or "spark," metaphorically speaking, lodged within the body (or bodies), which are created by the Mother. One cannot know the Father without first knowing the Son in a moment of enlightenment. This first sight of the Light grows, with meditation, till one day it becomes the sight of the Father's Light.  The Son is the Father but the Father is greater than the Son. The Father is in me (in the heart of the individual) and I am in the Father (as are all things).

Neither is the Father male nor the Mother female. These designations were conventional teaching devices used by sages of old. There is no cosmic male, strictly speaking, and no cosmic female.  The difference being pointed at is the same as the difference between movement (Mother) and rest (Father), sound and silence.  Only the Father is not physical or material; everything else, no matter at how sublime or refined a level it exists, can be said to be physical or material when compared to the Father.

5. The Father made the material domain lawful. The most important law for us to know is the Law of Karma, which requires that what we do unto others shall be done unto us.

The material domain is the only domain in which law applies. Law does not apply to the Maker of the law, although He may submit to be governed by the law as in the case of an Avatar. The Mother is the "Voice crying in the Wilderness," the sound of Aum/Amen echoing throughout the Phenomenal domain as the music of the spheres, which creates, preserves, and transforms all things. The Father is the Wilderness in that no law can bind Him.

The most important law for us to attend to as Third-Dimensional beings is the Law of Karma. The Law of Karma is like guardrails which prevent a vehicle from leaving the road. It keeps the individual soul from going too far to the left or right and ensures that the individual keeps moving forward towards the destined return of the Prodigal Child to God, once it tires of all experiences in the material world.

6. The form of our total journey is a sacred arc, like Jacob's Ladder, away from and back to God. But, day by day, we also follow a spiritual spiral, returning to the same karmic lessons repeatedly until we learn them.

As Jesus said, we come out from the Father into the world, remain for a while, and then return to the Father in what can be conceived of as an arc.

Nonetheless, the Law of Karma ensures that we return to the same lessons again and again until at last we learn them and this return through successive lifetimes can be seen as a spiral.  Thus the shape of life, if you will, can be visualized as a spiraling arc or circular coil.  This virtually endless journey is depicted in many religions as a ladder of consciousness or a stairway of existence which we travel down and then up.

7. From one day to the next, we may expand or contract, but all the while we are cosmically drawn back to Him by a sub-sensible, eternal longing, planted there by Him, for Him: a longing for liberation .

The longing for liberation is just one of the design elements built or hardwired into life forms. Most people, experiencing this subsensible tidal yearning, try to fill it with possessions, experiences, relationships, and so on. But God so designed life that nothing will satisfy it except the return to God. We go through life endlessly acquiring, enjoying and casting aside, ever unsatisfied, in an endless cycle of desire. This develops discrimination in us. Gradually we are made aware that nothing but God will satisfy our ineffable thirst and hunger. Then we develop detachment. At that point we cease to be prodigal children and begin our return to the Father, who welcomes us with open arms.

This longing then acts as a homing beacon or magnet on all life forms, no matter how exalted, drawing them ever onwards until they merge again with God. Hence the love in the eyes of saints towards God and the deep devotion of exalted beings, in whom the longing for liberation acts more strongly than in us.

8. In the cosmic Drama, there are three Actors we must realize: God the Father, God the Mother, and God the Child. These are the Transcendental, the Phenomenal, and the Transcendental in the Phenomenal. Christians call them (note the change in order) the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Hindus call them Brahman, Atman, and Shakti. The Formless became two Forms. The One made trillions of forms through the agency of the Two and then mysteriously entered into them. We are required to know that Trinity.

The "Holy Persons" are not persons, but levels of reality. They can be described as the Transcendental, the Phenomenal, and the Transcendental in the Phenomenal. We are the Transcendental in the Phenomenal, sparks of divinity who reside in the womb of the Mother until our divine birth. The Mother educates her children in the school of life until they are ready to be brought to meet the Father.

All religions have a conception of this Holy Trinity, though it may take some digging to correlate terms. We "know" the three levels in successively-higher experiences of enlightenment. We know the Son, Christ, or Atman in the experience of "stream entering" or "spiritual awakening" when the kundalini reaches the fourth or heart chakra.

We know the Mother in an experience of savikalpa samadhi or cosmic consciousness when the kundalini reaches the sixth or brow chakra (and the Third eye opens).

We know the Father first in an experience of kevalya nirvikalpa samadhi when the kundalini reaches the seventh or crown chakra and permanently in an experience of sahaja nirvikalpa samadhi when the energy reaches the spiritual heart or hridayam.

The Christ or Atman is often called the "Self," which leads us to say that we cannot know God until we become knowers of the Self. Translated that means we cannot have the experience of seventh-chakra enlightenment until we have the experience of fourth-chakra enlightenment. Therefore know Thyself. Meditate on the Self that is known and it will become the knowledge of God. All of Jesus's parables about the treasure buried in a field, the pearl of great price, the mustard seed, and the measure of meal concern this journey of enlightenment.

Knowledge of these three levels of Reality is required of all beings before they graduate from humanness . Their knowledge represents a progressive accomplishment. There is not simply one enlightenment or one level of enlightenment, but many. And beyond humanness there are also many further gradations of life.

9. Everyone will reach Him – some in the morning; some in the afternoon; and some in the evening. Experiences will vary, but all will eventually know God.

No one will fail to return to God. Even the very small number who choose such evil that they are liquidated can be said to return to God.  For all the rest, they journey at varying speeds to enlightenment. I'm led to believe that God does not worry about the time it takes us to return. There is no dishonor at taking more time than our neighbor. Moreover, different beings are created at different times. Those who are reaching enlightenment when we do not may have been created earlier than we. Those people who reach enlightenment without rigorous discipline probably  practiced rigorous discipline in other lives. Others are already enlightened and return in an unenlightened condition to serve by demonstrating what spiritual practice looks like.

10. Every genuine path will work. God plays all roles and observes all actions. He has become many; next to Him, there is none.

There is no religion or spiritual practice that is invalid, if genuine and sincerely followed. Some cults and orders may have dark purposes but the spiritual experiences of all genuine masters, translated into religious teachings (if rendered and maintained purely) are all acceptable in God's eyes. There is only one God. The God of the Christians is the God of the Muslims and God of the Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Taoists, Sufis, etc.  God is One but His names are many.  Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God. The Lord is One, without a second.  There is none else besides God.

Some will see Light; others will see a "form" of God; still others may have an intuitive sense of knowing. All genuine paths sincerely followed lead to God. God, through the Mother, designed the many paths to suit the various tastes of seekers, but all are efficacious. There is no ground to say that one religion or path is superior to another. There is nothing that supports the belief that the earnest followers of one religion will reach God and the earnest followers of another will not. God is on no side and on all sides.

11. In His love, He is universal, impartial, and supreme. What He wills must happen. He decreed this Drama for His own Pleasure. Each time someone knows its Self -- "Oh Thou I!" -- God meets God!

God loves all life forms - human, non-human, subhuman, superhuman. He makes no distinction among life forms. His Will must prevail. All is happening within His Being. He created the drama or lila for His own pleasure, a game of blind man's bluff (or buff), in which God plays all roles and is the object of the search as well as the searcher and the search.   Only God can realize God. Whenever anyone realizes God, that one simply realizes itself and the Self that it realizes is God.

My Creator is my mentor.........

I yelled !!! 'Help! Get me out of here!' 

A man who had just lost his job went over to a shop and with the last of his money decided to buy a beautiful teacup for his wife. On the display shelf, he saw the perfect cup and told the sales person to take it down, "I've never seen a cup so beautiful!" he said as she handed it to him and he paid the money.

The man had tears as he handled the lovely cup but felt sad as he looked at his empty wallet. Suddenly the cup spoke: "I have not always been a tea-cup," it said, "there was a time when I was just a lump of red clay. My master took me and rolled me pounded and patted me over and over and I yelled out, "don't do that. I don't like it!  Let me alone", but he only smiled, and gently said; 'Not yet!!'

"Then. WHAM! I was placed on a spinning wheel and suddenly I was spun
around and around and around. 'Stop it! I'm getting so dizzy! I'm going to be sick!', I screamed. But the master only nodded and said, quietly; 'Not yet' He spun me and poked and prodded and bent me out  of shape to suit himself and then he put me in the oven."

" I never felt such heat. I yelled and knocked and pounded at the  door. 'Help! Get me out of here!' I could see him through the opening and I could read his lips as he shook his head from side to side, 'Not yet'. "When I thought I couldn't bear it another minute, the door opened. He carefully took me out and put me on the shelf,  and I began to cool. Oh, that felt so good! 'Ah, this is much better,' I thought.

"But, after I cooled he picked me up and he brushed and painted me all over. The fumes were horrible. I thought I would gag. 'Oh, please  stop it, Stop it!!' I cried. He only shook his head and said. 'Not yet!'. 

"Then suddenly he put me back in to the oven. Only it was not like the first one. This was twice as hot and I just knew I would suffocate. I begged. I pleaded. I screamed I cried. I was convinced I  would never make it, was ready to give up. Just then the door opened  and he took me out and again placed me on the shelf, where I cooled  and waited and waited, wondering what's he going to do to me next?  "An hour later he handed me a mirror and said 'Look at yourself.' And  I did,  
"I said, 'That's not me; that couldn't be me. It's beautiful. I'm  beautiful!"' 

"Quietly he spoke: I want you to remember, then,' he said, 'I know it hurt to be rolled and pounded and patted, but had I just left you  alone, you'd have dried up. I know it made you dizzy to spin around  on the wheel, but if I had stopped, you would have crumbled. I know  it hurt and it was hot and disagreeable in the oven, but if I hadn't  put you there, you would have cracked."


"'I know the fumes were bad when I brushed and painted you all over, but if I hadn't done that, you never would have hardened. You would not have had any color in your life. If I hadn't put you back in that  second oven, you wouldn't have survived for long because the hardness would not have held. Now you are a finished product. Now you are what  I had in mind when I first began with you."

The beautiful cup looked up at the man who had just lost his job, "So don't cry my friend. You are going through the shaping and heat and  painting I went through. But when the potter stops you will be lovely  to behold..!

So when life seems hard, and you are being pounded and patted and pushed almost beyond endurance; when your world seems to be spinning  out of control; when you feel like you are in a fiery furnace of  trials; when life seems awful and terrible, try this: Brew a cup of   your favorite tea in your prettiest teacup, sit down and think on  this story and then, have a little talk with the Potter ..(creator).

He knows what He is doing and may just tell you: "Not yet..!"

(source article courtesy: Story credit goes to her entirely sukanya .blogspot.)

if we are not facing enough troubles, if you are not facing heat of the time, if you are not yet tested of your patience than think some thing is wrong in you, why the creator has not yet picked  you up yet to bake  you..to pound you ...to heat  to paint ?..........(My  Creator is my mentor).

Modern spiritual teachers in west influenced by east....

What does the Self mean to you?

The self is me, awareness.

And how do you define awareness?

You are a conscious awareful being. It is just your ordinary everyday awareness, not the subjective objects—thoughts, feelings and perceptions—arising in it. It is so much you, so natural to you that you don’t even notice it. You think it is something hidden far away, mystical perhaps, only available by some insight or epiphany.

It is because of that awareness that you experience what you experience. As yourself it is how you know what you know. Ignore what you know but HOW you know. And the answer is so simple that you will discount it immediately. It is because you are aware. You are aware because you are awareness...................................................................Teacher James Swartz

 "Can I realize myself beyond time?" - M: "Yes. Drop time."

Dont give up....

Shift of perception

Byron Katie: Fear of the Future

To understand feelings I should have a heart....

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I can only get something I already have through knowledge.

But knowledge doesn’t happen by itself. It must come through a

vehicle or instrument.

*****

THE MEANS OF KNOWLEDGE

by

James Swartz

Perception, inference, and language are means of knowledge. The means of knowledge we use is determined by the type of object we want to know. For example, if I want to see a sunset I can’t use my ears. Knowledge of thought depends on intellect. To understand feelings I should have a heart.

The means of knowing relative things is obvious, but the knowledge

revealing the limitless I is subtle because it has to remove a deep and hidden

obstacle, the ignorance of my limitless nature. For the means to operate properly, assuming a clear message is  coming from the scripture through the teacher, the mind must be trained to listen.

Listening with an open mind requires disciplined and consistent setting aside of cherished views of oneself and world. A means of knowledge is not brainwashing, accepting a new belief system; its only purpose is to deliver of a clear vision of truth, the limitless I. Simply hearing that one is free of limitation is not enough. Doubt comes from incomplete and incorrect thinking and is only removed by careful and patient reflection Meditation as a thought-free state or religious ritual as devotional practice are valuable tools for purifying the mind, but will not remove self doubt. So, along with the knowledge that I am limitless Awareness, I should follow the method of thinking enjoined by the scripture, the negation of all incorrect views about the nature of the world and myself.

The most formidable obstacle to the assimilationof the truth is the thought “If only I were different or the world were different, I would be happy.” Looking forward to an ideal inner or outer situation is futile because life and oneself is already and always perfect. When this thought is removed the mind enjoys limitless vision. So spiritual practice, meditation if you will, is the struggle to purify beliefs supporting the notion of oneself as a limited being.

Words can only reveal known objects. For example, the word ‘television’ wouldn’t have been understood a hundred years ago. Words  only work to describe substances, properties of substances, actions, species  or classes, and relationships, so how can the limitless I, which is apparently not an experienced object and obviously beyond these categories, be revealed  through the teachings of Vedanta?  If I say “tree,” a tree thought takes place in the mind because we have experienced trees, but the words “limitless I” don’t mean anything to most of us because we think of our ourselves as limited I’s. And the limitless I is the part of ourselves that can never be objectified, so it seems words won’t work to reveal it. However, if the thought that we’re limited is a delusion and the limitless I present and accounted for, an intimate part of every transaction, words can reveal it.

Vedanta tackles the word problem by first informing me that I’m an

unlimited I. That I’m limitless is indicated by the fact that though I have

literally hundreds of thousands of unique experiences in my lifetime, I

continually experience myself as a simple conscious being, one transcending

all experiences. The same I, unaffected by time, witnessed my baby body,

youth body, adult body, and feeble old-age body and their myriad transactions.

Talks of JKM

Ending of memory...

The Mind cannot enter into a totally new dimension if there is a shadow of memory of anything.

conversation with  Pupul Jayakar

Real revolution...JKM

Jiddu Krishnamurti was born on 11 May 1895 in Madanapalle, a small town in south India. He and his brother were adopted in their youth by Dr Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society. Dr Besant and others proclaimed that Krishnamurti was to be a world teacher whose coming the Theosophists had predicted. To prepare the world for this coming, a world-wide organization called the Order of the Star in the East was formed and the young Krishnamurti was made its head.
In 1929, however, Krishnamurti renounced the role that he was expected to play, dissolved the Order with its huge following, and returned all the money and property that had been donated for this work.
From then, for nearly sixty years until his death on 17 February 1986, he traveled throughout the world talking to large audiences and to individuals about the need for a radical change in mankind.

Real revolution

Essence of Deepavali....Drive the darkness and enlighten yourself.

Essence of Deepavali....Drive away the darkness and find the door of enlightenment.

There was a man who invented the art of making fire. He took his tools and went to a tribe in the north, where it was very cold, bitterly cold. He taught the people there to make fire. The people were very interested. He showed them the uses to which they could put fire: they could cook, could keep themselves warm, etc. They were so grateful that they had learned the art of making fire. But before they could express their gratitude to the man, he disappeared. He wasn't concerned with getting their recognition or gratitude; he was concerned about their well-being. He went to another tribe, where he again began to show them the value of his invention. People were interested there too, a bit too interested for the peace of mind of their priests, who began to notice that this man was drawing crowds and they were losing their popularity. So they decided to do away with him. They poisoned him, crucified him, put it any way you like. But they were afraid now that the people might turn against them, so they were very wise, even wily. Do you know what they did? They had a portrait of the man made and mounted it on the main altar of the temple. The instruments for making fire were placed in front of the portrait, and the people were taught to revere the portrait and to pay reverence to the instruments of fire, which they dutifully did for centuries. The veneration and the worship went on, but there was no fire.

Where’s the fire? Where’s the love? Where’s the freedom? This is what spirituality is all about. Tragically, we tend to lose sight of this, don’t we? This is what Jesus Christ/Krishna/Gautama Buddha   is all about. But we overemphasized the “Lord, Lord,” didn’t we? Where’s the fire? And if worship isn’t leading to the fire, if adoration isn’t leading to love, if the liturgy isn’t leading to a clearer perception of reality, if God isn’t leading to life, of what use is religion except to create more division, more fanaticism, more antagonism? It is not from lack of religion in the ordinary sense of the word that the world is suffering, it is from lack of love, lack of awareness. And love is generated through awareness and through no other way, no other way. Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear....

 Excerpt: Father Anthony de mello

From dawn to dusk I spend my day in vain talks,

From dawn to dusk I spend my day in vain talks,
Not even for a moment do I think "Who am I?‘ My Lord, you have told me if you  speak one word it will multiply into many words.

Ramana Deva, I am only pretending to be your devotee and not conducting myself as one.

I am a sinner who wastes most of his time listening to others‘ misdeeds and talking about them.

I have many defects myself, but if others mention them, my mind boils with rage.

Thinking that there is no harm in it, I do not hesitate to utter small lies. Oh!
Ramana Deva, is it not high drama to fall at your feet as if I am your devotee?

Though I have become old and suffer from various diseases, I have not destroyed the  desire for women.

The ghost of my mind desires to see their beautiful faces, converse with them, and listen to their honey-like speech.

Even though I give advice to the mind, it does not subside but wanders after them. Ramana Deva, when will this delusion end and my mind become firm? 

You know that my qualities and character are poor. You also know that among the ignorant full of defects, I am the worst.

Though you know all this, you still sort me and took possession of me. Ramana Deva, 

how can I explain this wonder?...........Sivaprakasam Pillai ((devotee who lived with ramana maharishi))

One devotee asked Bhagavan, ―Bhagavan, Sivaprakasam Pillai was such a 

great ascetic. He unswervingly put your teachings into practice. Reading 

his poems, I wonder where I stand! If he is in this wretched state, what 

will happen to me?‖ Bhagavan responded with a beautiful reply: ―When 

extolling God, Adi Shankara and other sages have berated their selves 

and said the same thing.  This is how  the sages guide others and warn 

aspiring aspirants.‖

"How is one to understand the mind?"

....Contd

"How is one to understand the mind?"

The way of the mind is the way of life - not the ideal life, but the actual life of sorrow and pleasure, of deception and clarity, of conceit and the pose of humility. To understand the mind is to be aware of desire and fear.

"Please, this is getting a bit too much for me. How am I to understand my mind?" To know the mind, must you not be aware of its activities? The mind is only experience, not just the immediate but also the accumulated. The mind is the past in response to the present, which makes for the future. The total process of the mind has to be understood.

"Where am I to begin?"

From the only beginning: relationship. Relationship is life; to be is to be related. Only in the mirror of relationship is the mind to be understood, and you have to begin to see yourself in that mirror. "Do you mean in my relationship with my wife with my neighbor, and so on? Is that not a very limited process?"

What may appear to be small, limited, if approached rightly, reveals the fathomless. It is like a funnel, the narrow opens into the wide. When observed with passive watchfulness, the limited reveals the limitless. After all, at its source the river is small, hardly worth noticing.

"So I must begin with myself and my immediate relationships."

Surely. Relationship is never narrow or small. With the one or with the many, relationship is a complex process, and you can approach it pettily, or freely and openly. Again, the approach is dependent on the state of the mind. If you do not begin with yourself, where else will you begin? Even if you begin with some peripheral activity, you are in relationship with it, the mind is the center of it. Whether you begin near or far, you are there. Without understanding yourself, whatever you do will inevitably bring about confusion and sorrow. The beginning is the ending.

"I have wandered far afield, I have seen and done many things, I have suffered and laughed like so many others, and yet I have had to come back to myself. I am like that Sannyasi who set out in search of truth. He spent many years going from teacher to teacher, and each pointed out a different way. At last he wearily returned to his home, and in his own house was the jewel! I see how foolish we are, searching the universe for that bliss which is to be found only in our own hearts when the mind is purged of its activities. You are perfectly right. I begin from where I started. I begin with what I am." 

By J.krishna murti on individual and the ideal.

MARVELLOUS GEMS OF GAUTAMA BUDDHA

 

Buddham sharanam

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." ...Gautama Buddha.

Ø Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Ø A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden."

Ø Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Ø The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Ø It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Ø There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.

Ø The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Ø It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Ø To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear. Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

Ø What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Ø Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."

Ø "A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker."

Ø The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Ø Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom

Ø You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together."

Ø The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

Ø The tongue like a sharp knife, Kills without drawing blood.

Ø To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?".....Gautama Buddha.

  The Buddha's final words are reported to have been: "All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence"

Gautama Budhha,           four noble truths,        Noble Eightfold Path

Tumse milne ke baad life main bahut aage aayi hoon...

Tumse milne ke baad life main bahut aage aayi hoon......................( After meeting you i gone a head in life.)

hello friend,

There is nothing infront(आगे ) of life nor there is back(पीछे ), there is nothing in top(ऊपर ) nor bottom(नीचे)...na toh kabhi tum peeche thi na abhi age ho..tum jahan ho wahi ho(neither you are moving a head nor you trailing, you are just there where you are.)..The change appear in awareness of self. if any one Begin to learn, distinguishing between physical body, physical mind, subtle mind..., ego ( not pride {I}).. psyche (not ego nor self)...soul(not parmatma)....The different levels of consciousness of self.

All the sensory perception are illusion, they are the manifestation of the inner subtle mind, which giving you the pleasure of that moment...This statement is wrong until someone have real experience to go beyond ego, beyond ego there is no sensory perception hence no mind, than what is there left? and who would be the knower?...if someone has experience of that thing he would say there is no movement in life, its just level of awareness of being...there is not relativity..there is no newton theory working, Matter is not the ultimate reality there is some thing beyond the matter(material); exists, that which is continues to live every where  which very much evident in all  the cosmos. 

tabhi vedas say" tumahre aage namaskar peeche namaskar oopar bhi namaskar neeche bhi namaskar...namashkar every where am every where...am every where...am every where..

When you Demolish the walls of Turbulence, you will find city of PEACE. .

when you begin to understand inner mind mechanics; you begin to have patience , when it is clearly visible to us who the devil is - making turmoil in the life.  we clearly identify the culprit. defined, visibly amplified in front of us. We begin to know the strengths , well wishers, cooperators who enhance the strength to fight the battle with demons.

Maine kuch bhi nahi kiya na diya( i  did nothing nor i have given anything to u , i cant infact)...its there ..its you...you have begun to see yourself..thats it.
your friend and well wisher.



To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, "You may live with me, but don't become my follower." "Whom, then, shall I follow?" "No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth." 
"All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After ( I )'m gone, I trust you will notice the river"............................Father  Anthony de Mello

अहं सर्वस्य प्रभवो मत्तः सर्वं प्रवर्तते

अहं सर्वस्य प्रभवो मत्तः सर्वं प्रवर्तते। इति मत्वा भजन्ते मां बुधा भावसमन्विताः॥

मैं ही सब कुछ का आरम्भ हूँ, मुझ से ही सबकुछ चलता है। यह मान कर बुद्धिमान लोग पूर्ण भाव से मुझे भजते हैं।१०- ८

This confirms that Lord  is the generating cause and origin of the all the wonderfully, marvelous and fascinatingly phenomenal displays of activity found abounding in all creation comprised of intelligent and non- intelligent beings and objects. He alone energies all of creation and manifests the impulses required for all actions. The spiritually intelligent are the mahatmas or great illuminated beings who matva or realise His Supreme Absolute position as the ultimate controller of all existence. Who possesses all illustrious attributes such as compassion, affection, reciprocity, friendship, etc. These great beings are bhava- samanvitah or endowed with a wonderful way of serving Lord  in bhakti or exclusive loving devotion according to their internal mood. The spiritually intelligent cultivate their minds in such a way as to acquire this mood and deeply immerse themselves in it. ....(Translated by RAMANUJA CHARYA)

This verse is beautifully explained us that why are you looking outside, when ( I) is the generator of origin of the all wonderfully, marvelous phenomenon lie within us.

One should be always keep order his own house first, rather than  to viewing others .The spiritually intelligent person cultivate their mind in such a way to acquire this mood and deeply immerse in it. To untie the mind which is so attached to view others, a rupture( भंग) should take place, to initiate the process within. Those times would only come when either there is big jolt outside happened , which lead us to look inside because there is no hope outside, we search for inside, or we met more powerful person who can initiate us to look inside using tool of inside , even staying outside.Does it mean we should not look outside? the answer is no, infact we should look outside with open eyes and have pleasure of the creation,because all the manifestation outside is the reflection of internal thoughts,which are accumulated in from of ( I )

The conclusion is that what ever be the circumstance The ( I ) individual ego has to go to make it happen the inside self to open up ,  whom we call jivatman (individual atman).  That is self, originator of cause of our being.(it shouldn't  be confused as self to parmatama he resides every where.)

Satsang means communion with Truth

Satsang means one should have the communion with Truth- as the truth makes him free. What is that truth?

This question comes to mind. Truth never dies and it remains always as it is; To speak truth; is not that which we are discussing about.

As you know that at this time it is true to say that the Sun is - over our head but at the same time an American will not accept this truth, So such truth is limited, but our truth that we are discussing is unlimited and found everywhere the same. " They who knows Truth in truth and untruth in untruth arrive at truth and follow true desires" . But those who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth never arrive at truth but follow vain desires" such type of man suffers in this world and he also suffers in the next, he suffers in both. He suffers when he thinks of the evil he has done he suffer more when going on the evil path.

But the follower of the the truth is happy in this world and he is happy in the next , he is happy in the both. He is happy when he thinks of the good he has done. He is still more happy when going on the good path. The truth tell us that all created things are grief and pain . He who knows this and see them becomes passive in pain , this is  the way of purity as all created things perish." He who knows and see truth becomes passive in pain, this is the way to purity" Buddha.

A wise and good man who knows the meaning of this should quickly clear the way that leads to Nirvana. One who lives hundred years not seeing the truth, a life of one day is better if a man sees the immortal one. So search find and share the truth to enjoy everlasting life. 

Mentor
Gwalior, 1977

THE IMPOSTOR'S TRICKS

THE IMPOSTOR'S TRICKS

The Most Rapid and Direct Means to Eternal Bliss

(new title)

The ego controls all thinking. The ego can create an argument against anything. Therefore, reserve all arguments against what is being presented here until you have read the book at least three times. Otherwise, the ego will generate arguments against any anti-ego presentation, thus blocking what is being presented.

See the vicious circle:

The ego in its attempts to block the ego from being exposed for the imposter that it is, and to block the realization that the ego is the cause of all human sorrow and suffering, creates arguments against what is being revealed in this book. Because the ego sets the standards for the debate, the ego always wins the debate. The way to break that vicious circle is to delay all arguments against what is being presented here until you have read the book very slowly at least three times.  When the ego forms an argument against what is being presented in this book, see the argument as an ego preservation strategy and ignore it, delaying all argument until the presentation is complete. Having the motivation to understand, instead of to argue, will help to produce an insight into what is being presented here. Put the arguments on hold until you have read the book at least three times. By that time you may be so skilled at recognizing the ego’s preservation strategies, you may decide to delay the arguments forever.

At least give what is being presented here a fair chance by being aware of the arguments that the ego creates and disregarding those arguments until an insight into what is being presented here is awakened. Plenty of time to argue later, after you have read the entire book. The ego has been deceiving humans for as long as there have been humans. 

Be aware of when the ego is trying to deceive you.

The ego controls all thinking, therefore, various combinations of thoughts, ideas, beliefs, and opinions are the ego’s primary tools to preserve the ego’s imaginary “self” and to prevent you from discovering your true Self. Most humans live their entire lives without ever having observed the background of awareness. Therefore, whatever opinions most people have about what the background of awareness is, what are its qualities, what is the true Self, etc., have no basis. If you observe the background of awareness for many hours everyday for a number of years, then you will eventually know that your awareness is: infinite-eternal-awareness-love-bliss. Because most humans spend their entire lifetime looking outward at thoughts, the body, the world, people, places, things, etc., most humans have never even once observed their own awareness, not even for one second, in their entire lifetime.
What is important are not concepts, beliefs or conclusions. What is important is Direct Experience.

Be aware of your thoughts, ideas, beliefs and opinions and see how they are serving the ego.

See chapter one for a clarification of the difference between the ego and the true Self.

What is being presented here in this book is a practical guide to Direct Experience, not some theory for intellectual entertainment. Because the ego is afraid of ending, the ego directs and creates thoughts, ideas, concepts, beliefs and opinions that will help the ego to continue its illusion of being real and to prevent it from being brought to an end. Those concepts are ego preservation strategies. Those concepts are the ego’s tricks. Because thoughts can be combined in trillions of combinations, the ego can create trillions of preservation strategies.

The ego has the ability to hide what it is doing from itself.

The ego can be creating preservation strategies throughout the day and you may not be aware that the ego has been creating preservation strategies throughout the entire day. If you are not aware of how the ego preserves its imaginary self, then the ego succeeds in preserving its imaginary self.
One of the purposes of this book is to look in detail at how the ego preserves its imaginary self. If one million people study a spiritual teaching and only one of those people ends the ego illusion, why did the other nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine miss the opportunity?
The reason the other nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine missed the opportunity is because of the ego’s fear of ending.
Due to the ego’s fear of ending, the ego creates strategies to preserve its imaginary self. Distorting the teachings is one of the many strategies the ego has to preserve its imaginary self. That applies to the teachings in the book you are now reading and to other spiritual teachings. Right from the  beginning, the ego’s preservation strategies have to be dealt with, otherwise the ego would block out . Then, instead of being an extraordinary journey, this would be just one more failed attempt.

The ego’s preservation strategies can be brought to an end Usually any mention of exposing the ego’s preservation strategies makes the ego run the other way. To be willing to look at the ego’s preservation strategies is a sign of spiritual maturity. Most people are not willing to look at the ego’s preservation strategies. Reading a book that reveals some of the ego’s preservation strategies does not make one immune to them. One of the ego’s preservation strategies is the thought “This does not apply to me”. The ego is very tricky and deceptive in all humans. The ego is a liar in all humans. The ego lies to its imaginary self. Therefore, when something is pointed out in this book and you think “This does not apply to me”, take a second look. Maybe it does apply to you and the ego is blocking that fact out, as a preservation strategy.

Challenge the thought “This does not apply to me”. 

The thought “This does not apply to me” may be an ego preservation strategy.
One of the differences between the one out of a million who awakens and the nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine who do not, is the ability to stay focused on an essential point until it becomes an insight and a tool that you can use.

The fact that the intellect understands what is written here is not enough.
The book you are now reading is filled with the insights that lay the foundation to be the one who awakens and not one of the nine hundred ninety nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine who miss. Dwell on what is written in every sentence in every chapter until an insight is awakened that becomes a tool you can use. To awaken insight, don’t read what is written like you were reading a newspaper or a book of trivia, and don’t read for the purpose of gathering information.

To awaken insight, read as though you were reading instructions about how to fly that are vital so that you do not crash. Slowly reflect on each line.That is why the sentences are often separated with a space between them, to encourage you to slowly reflect on them and not to be in a hurry to get to the next sentence. Continue to read and re-read long after the intellect has understood the meaning of the words.

Reading very, very slowly is insight reading.
Read very, very slowly. 

The ego is like an inchworm that lets go of one thought only when it has grabbed hold of the next thought. Therefore, when re-reading every chapter over and over, don’t be in a hurry to proceed to the next sentence. It is important to understand the difference between insight and intellectual understanding.

Never confuse intellectual understanding with insight.

Intellectual understanding, which is to understand the words, is good as a first step. However, after one has understood the words, if one then goes on to another concept before the insight has been awakened, the words will become obstacles and hindrances to ending the ego instead of tools that end the ego. Intellectual “understanding”, an intellectual appetite and an intellectual approach to “spirituality” are what characterize the nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine who miss. Insight is what characterizes the one in a million who brings the ego to its final end.

Most people study “spiritual” teachings because they enjoy the concepts.

The ego is fundamentally dishonest in humans and has the ability to hide what it is doing from its imaginary “self”. Therefore, most people may not allow themselves to see that they are studying “spiritual” teachings because they enjoy the concepts. The desire to go quickly to the next concept and to gather more and more information and to read more and more spiritual books and to think about what has been read and to discuss what has been read and thought about are symptoms of the intellectual appetite and are symptoms of intellectual “spirituality”. Approaching the study of spiritual teachings intellectually, as just described  is an approach that the nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine who miss use.

There are no opinions, philosophies or beliefs being presented in this book.
The report of Direct Experience and a practical guide to Direct Experience is what is being presented in this book.

What is being pointed towards in this book are not ideas.
What is being pointed towards in this book is the awareness that is prior to thought and how to directly experience that awareness.

The ego likes to scatter attention.

Scattering attention is one of the ego’s preservation strategies. Thinking is scattering the attention. To bring the attention to a single point and to dwell on that single point for a very long time is the way to awaken insight.

Insight is not thinking and insight is not belief.
Insight is: a permanent new perspective.

To find one powerful quote, not a quote that the ego that wishes to preserve itself selects, and to stay with that quote until insight awakens is the kind of approach the one in a million who brings the ego to its final end uses. One might stay with a single quote for one day or one week or much longer than one week. Those who use this approach are rare. Keeping the attention directed outward is one of the ego’s fundamental tricks. Creating unnecessary activities is one way the ego keeps attention directed outward and is another of the ego’s tricks. Dropping all unnecessary activities, to create the maximum amount of time for spiritual practice, is an essential key to bringing the ego to its final end. Pretending a journey through thought is an authentic spiritual journey is also one of the ego’s tricks. The ego has as many tricks to draw upon as there are concepts, ideas, beliefs and opinions. Choosing belief instead of Direct Experience is one of the ego’s tricks.

Wasting time is one of the ego’s tricks.

Spending time in entertainment that could have been spent in spiritual practice is one of the ego’s tricks. Almost all thoughts are just the ego’s tricks.

Reflect on one sentence for a very long time before reading the next sentence.

Reflecting means looking. Reflecting does not mean thinking and reflecting does not mean arguing. Stay with each sentence until you have an insight into it.

The previous sentence  describes a key approach that the one in a million who succeeds in living in infinite-eternal-awareness-love-bliss uses. There are a few key principles to be understood and a little reading may be required for that. However, to go on and on reading spiritual books is an ego preservation strategy, another of the ego’s tricks. Most reading, discussing and thinking about spiritual teachings is an ego trick. The ego keeps thoughts about spiritual concepts going to avoid the practice that leads to the ego’s final end.

The ego keeps people lost in an endless maze of concepts.

Spiritual concepts do not lead to freedom.

Only practice leads to freedom. However, it must be the most rapid and direct practice and not a practice created by or distorted by the ego.
 (source extracted from website albigen,Richard_Rose book all credit goes to him)

Rose recommended a number of authors to his students and disparaged other authors, based on his research. Those he most highly recommended were Indian guru Ramana Maharshi, Chan master Huang Po, Christian mystics St. John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila, George Gurdjieff, and researchers Paul Brunton and Richard Bucke. In Albigen Papers he described H.P. Blavatsky's books as "some of the most valuable a student can own," and in his publication of Profound Writings East & West, called her text Book of Golden Precepts (also Voice of the Silence) as "a condensed guide to the deepest teachings of mankind." Rose advocated the study of what he called thaumaturgical laws[25] as a means to protect oneself from unseen influences, for anyone who would explore the dimensions of consciousness ("the mind dimension"), referring to texts by Eliphas Levi and others.[26][27]
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