The prophecies of Nostradamus
Resurrection And Last Judgment 2
The
body without soul no longer to be sacrificed:
Death's
day will be birthday:
The
divine spirit will make the soul happy,
Seeing
the word in its eternity.
Century 2:12
It
will be shown that the body is not important because the
soul always continues,
And
death will be regarded as the same as birth.
The
understanding that the spirit is divine will make everyone
joyful,
Because
they will see the truth on a broader level.
Manuela Dunn
Mascetti and Peter Lorie
Nostradamus: Prophecies for
Women
(Manuela Dunn
Mascetti and Peter Lorie, Nostradamus: Prophecies for
Women, Simon & Schuster, 1995, p.
187.)
The
body without soul no longer to be sacrificed:
Self-Realization
is rebirth of the physical human into the spirit being. This
is what Shri Jesus meant when He directed that one must be
"born of the Spirit." Once this takes place the
Holy Spirit (Mother Kundalini) within begins to
nurse, nourish, cleanse and guide Her child. The first birth
body (physical body) no longer
needs attention. The second birth body
(spiritual body) is the soul itself and must be nursed
constantly. The new lunar consciousness will reveal
that all religious rituals — fasts, sacrifices, celibacy,
penance, confessions, vegetarianism, caste, kosher foods,
and sharia laws — are to be discarded like old garments.
There will be no more religious austerities of the external
physical body but nourishment of the inner spiritual soul,
with inward growth, meditation, peace, joy, happiness,
bliss, love, compassion, humility, tenderness, tranquility,
and Truth. All the false ministers of the External Idols will be
abandoned as they suffocate the human spirit with layer upon
layer of rules, regulations, laws, dogmas, theologies,
interpretations, falsehood and lies. These are the false
prophets who have worked diligently over the
centuries, devising ingenious ways to divide and rule His
children.
Then there are countless false gurus relieving gullible
seekers of common sense and, of course, cash. And not to
forget the mushrooming yoga schools and their fertile imagination
to stretch both body and naivety.
When the air is full of lies and half-truths good men flock
to the truth like moths to a flame.
A Unique Discovery
by The Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh-Devi
"Man
in his search of joy and happiness is running away from his
Self, which is the real source of joy. He finds himself very
ugly and boring because he doesn't know his Self. A human
being seeks joy in money or possessions, in power or human
limited love, and ultimately in religion that is also
outside. The problem is how to turn one's attention inward.
The inner being, which is our awareness, is an energy. I
call it the energy of Divine Love. All evolution and the
manifestation of material energy is guided by the supreme
energy of Divine Love. We do not know how powerful and
thoughtful this unknown energy is. The silent working of
awareness is so automatic, minute, dynamic, and precious
that we take it for granted. After Self-realization, this
energy appears to us as silent throbbing vibrations flowing
through our being. But we have been unable to achieve
Self-realization because we cannot fix our attention on
something that lacks form (abstract Being). Instead, our
attention wanders outside on forms. Now there is a method to
tap the Divine power—Sahaja Yoga. At the very outset, I
have to say that the working of Sahaja Yoga is very simple,
although the operation within is quite complex. For example,
if you want to watch television, it is very easy. But to
explain the engineering technique of a television set is
very difficult and the explanation is complicated. To learn
about a television you also need a qualified engineer who
understands it and who can explain its working.
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![Jesus: Marvel not that I said unto thee,
ye must be born again.”src=]()
Sahaja Yogis
awakening the Kundalini of a young woman which
appears as "tongues of flame", a feat
witness by the apostles 2000 years ago and
recorded in the
Bible
(Acts 2:1-22) "In the New Testament of the
Bible the Initiation of Fire is revealed to the
apostles on the day Pentecost, the traditional
birthday of the Christian Church."
Note the calm disposition of the young woman,
who appears to be in meditation, as ordinary
housewives work collectively to substantially
increase their ability to raise the Kundalini
from the Molaadhara right to the Sahasrara
within a matter of minutes.
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I will try to explain
Sahaja Yoga in the simplest way, but please note that it is
really complicated if you want to know it in detail. The
best way to enjoy television is first to switch it on and
watch. Then later you can try to understand its engineering.
As a mother I would say that I have done the cooking for
you. Why should you worry about how it is done? If you are
hungry you should start eating. If you are not actually
hungry, but only inquisitive, what can I do? I can neither
force you to eat nor make you hungry with discussions or
lecturing. I leave it to your wisdom and to your freedom to
feel that longing.
Some Background On
Sahaja Yoga
The word
"Sahaja" (Saha + ja) means born with you or
inborn. Whatever is inborn manifests without any effort.
Hence Sahaja Yoga is the name given to my system, which is
effortless, easy, and spontaneous. It is a part of Nature,
you may call it life's source—the vitality of the Divine.
To understand life,
consider the case of something that is living: a germinating
seed. The seed grows by itself into a tree, blooms into
flowers, and then the flowers become fruit. Any human effort
cannot change the process of growth from a seed into a tree.
The gardener can only look after the growth of the tree. In
the same way, the process of the growth of our
consciousness, to further evolution, takes place
effortlessly. When a fetus is between two and three months
old, in The Mother's womb, a column of rays of
consciousness, emitted through the all-pervading Divine
Love, pass through the developing brain to enlighten it.
The shape of the human
brain is prism-like. So, the column of rays falling on it
gets refracted into four diverse channels corresponding to
the four aspects of the nervous system. These are:
-
Parasympathetic
nervous system
-
Sympathetic
nervous system (right)
-
Sympathetic
nervous system (left)
-
Central nervous
System (This need not be discussed as it is the link
with objectivity).
The set of rays that
fall on the fontanelle bone (apex of the head known as Taloo)
pierce in the center and pass straight into the medulla
oblongata through a channel (Sushumna). This energy, after
leaving a very thread-like, thin line in the medulla
oblongata, settles down in three and a half coils in the
triangular bone at the base of the spinal cord (Mooladhar).
This coiled energy is known as Kundalini.
The subtle energy
enters through the center of the brain (Sahasrar
Brahmarandhra) and precipitates six more centers on its way
down. The gross manifestation of this subtle energy, in the
Sushumna channel of the spinal cord, is termed the
Parasympathetic nervous system. The centers of chakras are
expressed as plexuses outside the spinal cord. Surprisingly,
we have the same number of plexuses and subplexuses outside,
as the number of chakras and their petals inside, the spinal
cord. Medical science knows very little about this system.
Science calls it the autonomous nervous system, meaning the
system that works spontaneously—on its own. For example,
if we want to increase the rate of our heartbeat, we can do
so by exerting ourselves (activity of the sympathetic
nervous system). But we cannot directly reduce the heart
(activity of the parasympathetic nervous system). The
parasympathetic nervous system is a system that is like a
petrol pump through which the petrol of Divine Love fills
us. But when a human child is born and the umbilical cord
breaks, a gap is created in the Sushumna (the subtle channel
in the spinal cord).
And on the gross
level, one can see there is a gap between the solar plexus
and the vagus nerve of the parasympathetic nervous system.
This gap is known as the void in the Zen system of religion
and Maya (or Bhav Sagar) in Indian thought. Later when ego
and superego bloat up like balloons and cover our brain at
the apex of the left and right sympathetic nervous systems,
the fontanelle bone calcifies, and the all-pervading vital
force of Divine Love gets cut off completely. Then the human
being identifies himself as a separate entity and the
consciousness of "I" (Aham) presides. This is why
Man does not know His universal unconscious. His ego severs
this subtle connection.
Vital Energy
The sympathetic
nervous system uses the vital energy. There are two
systems-left and right. The two channels, which carry this
energy, in subtle form (in the medulla oblongata), are known
as Ida and Pingala respectively. The right-side system (in
the right-handed person) caters to the emergencies of the
active consciousness (extra efforts and emergencies). The
left-side system (in medicine they say it remains dormant)
caters to the subconscious mind of the psyche (libido).
Both these
sympathetic-nerve systems are called the Sun and Moon
channels (i.e., Surya nadi and Chandra nadi). Hatha Yoga
comes from the words Ha and Tha, meaning the Sun and Moon.
By this yoga you can control the activity of the
sympathetic; you can use more stored energy or else
completely stop the activity of the sympathetic for a short
time.
Just by using the
stored energy you cannot achieve the eternal flow of the
divine. With control over the sympathetic you can slow the
heart rate or even stop the heart for a short time. You may
achieve all the physical gross symptoms of the
parasympathetic. But you cannot activate the parasympathetic
which is the channel for your real yoga (meeting of the
divine). With Hatha yoga you may even control your mind. But
the mind thus governed is heavily conditioned for the
spiritual flight into the divine. One may keep good health
and good mind to be a good citizen in a society, but that is
not the only aim of life. The Channels Of Attention Both
sympathetic and parasympathetic act on the plexuses, but in
opposition to each other. The parasympathetic relaxes the
plexuses while the sympathetic squeezes the energy by
constricting them. One fills in the vitality and the other
consumes it.
There is a gap in the
parasympathetic nervous system (Sushumna) but no gap in the
sympathetic nervous system (at the navel). This is the
hurdle that has rendered all our searching-and entry into
the parasympathetic-fruitless so far. It is like three
ladders, two of them touching the ground while the central
one is hanging in the air. So whenever we try to rise in our
consciousness, we move on to the sympathetic system.
If we pass toward the
right side we enter onto the activity that goes on bloating
in the balloon of ego. Thus we feel responsible and active.
When this activity increases beyond limits, like a growing
tree whose roots are not equally grown, the being falls to
the ground.
Over activity of the
sympathetic nervous system causes tension, sleeplessness,
and ultimately all deadly diseases like cancer. These
diseases are caused by the constricted plexuses that have
been drained of their energy. If you can make the
parasympathetic dominate the right side, then we can
antidote the effects of over activity. Then all the diseases
and the effects caused by this right side get cured
automatically.
The left side
sympathetic nervous system (libido) has the power to store
all that is dead in us. It connects you with store houses of
the subconscious mind and with the collective subconscious (Bhootlok
or Paralok).
At the backside of the
brain, at the apex of this channel, the super ego exists
like a balloon. It becomes heavy by storing, the
conditioning of the mind through libido. So if the tension
is heavy it breaks the superego into many fragments. If you
still overexert by conditioning, a partial vacuum forms and
this sucks another dead personality from the collective
subconscious (Paralok) into your superego. So in your
pursuit of truth, if you take to further efforts and indulge in
concentration, training of the mind, forced abstinence,
forced meditation, or complete slavery to the emotional
attachment of the mind, the libido with the aid of the
affected superego may connect you to the collective
subconscious (Paralok) where all dead souls-bad, good, or
saintly-exist. These souls start manifesting through you and
you get siddhis or extra sensory perceptions. Actually these
are the different subtle (dead) personalities dominating us
through super ego.
Dangerous
Techniques
There is another
method that may be effortlessly employed by many so called
teachers. This method, by which they turn the chakra in the
direction of the libido, can put you into your subconscious.
This method either makes the aspirant go into a trance or
accept the complete domination of the dead spirits
introduced by the teacher through the plexuses.
In the first case, the
Sadhaka feels relaxed, his mind is switched off. But after a
few years of practice, he realizes his weakness. He cannot
face reality and takes to heavy use of drugs. In the second
case, the aspirant becomes a complete slave of the teacher
and starts giving away all material possessions to the
teacher without understanding the logic behind it. These
teachers never explain the technique they have employed, nor
do they give their powers to anybody else. In short, all
efforts in the name of religion, or the mishandling of
Kundalini by so called realized people, can only activate
the sympathetic nervous system (Ida and Pingla). These
activities cannot make any progress toward bringing about
the play of parasympathetic (Sushumna).
All mesmeric powers
such as materialization power (enslaving masses for money or
fame), visionary powers (Drishti Siddha), speech powers (Vani
Siddha), curing powers, transcendental feelings (powers of
switching off the mind), separation of body, and many other
powers, are very ordinarily found among those who practice
the control of spirits (Pretsiddhi or Smashan Vidya). All
such powers can be proved to be the powers of the dead in
any one of our experimental Centers. These are not Divine
powers because the Divine has no interest in these gross
subjects. It is interested only in the miracle of the inner
being and its further manifestation to bring about human
evolution. Thus those who indulge and use their attention (Chitta)
on such "siddhis" and those who run after such
gross miracles find it difficult to follow Sahaja Yoga.
We have noted that
when such people confront Sahaja Yoga, they start trembling
and shaking like lunatics. If with very great difficulty
such a person reaches the state of Self-realization, he
completely loses all interest in such powers and in their
exhibition. He is freed of all extra dead personalities who
dominated him. There is no need to pass through the
subconscious strata to jump the unconscious. The
subconscious is an end by itself and one gets lost after
entering its realms. These strata are placed vertically. The
only direct way is through the parasympathetic (through
Sushumna)—the central path that takes you to the Divine
(the universal unconscious)—through Sahaja Yoga.
It is very dangerous
to use the powers of the subconscious which may become
uncontrollable and torture the practitioner and Sadhaka.
Those who are temporarily benefited may suffer irreparable
loss to body, mind, or grace.
The Promised Goal
All religions have
promised inner silence when you reach the state of
Self-realization-the inner miracle of the subtle awareness
and not gross jugglery. The Bhagavad Gita says that you
become the witness (Sakshi Swarup) of the play of the
Divine. Many modern thinkers are also talking about the new
awareness. This has been described as "thoughtless
awareness" which results in collective consciousness.
We hear of many prophesies made by ancient and modern
writers about the evolution of a new race of super-human
beings of unique awareness. These are no longer empty words.
Through the discovery of Sahaja Yoga it is possible to
achieve the transformation of the human consciousness to the
higher planes promised by various seers.
The subject of
Kundalini is no longer a matter of book knowledge. Now you
can see, with the naked eye, the breathing of the Kundalini
at the Mooladhar. You can feel the different chakras in the
spinal cord with your fingers. Formerly, bridging the gap in
the Sushumna was the insurmountable problem. But it is being
discovered that this gap can be filled with the vibrating
power of Divine Love. The Kundalini rises like a majestic
mother and breaks the apex of the brain (Brahmarandhra)
without giving the slightest trouble to the child (Sadhaka).
It happens in a split second, in the short spell between two
successive thoughts. Of course, if the aspirant (Sadhaka) is
diseased or his chakras are constricted by over activity of
the sympathetic nervous system, the Kundalini, being the
Mother of every individual and the embodiment of love,
knowledge, and beauty, knows how to reveal Her love
beautifully and to give rebirth to Her child without causing
any hurt.
There are many
descriptions about Kundalini warning us against the dangers
and perils of the taming of Kundalini. Also many books
describe various gross or frightful experiences of the
Kundalini awakening. Actually this is caused because
Kundalini cannot rise without Sahaja Yoga, i.e., if someone,
who is not Self-realized, tries to awaken Her, the Kundalini
does not leave Her seat and, without the proper invitation,
the Kundalini becomes adamant and angry. Thus the
sympathetic gets into activity. When She is accused of sex,
She sends heat waves over the sympathetic nervous system
which causes the constriction or blockage of the plexuses
and the path of the Kundalini is completely broken down.
Sometimes one gets into funny gesticulations or loses
complete awareness of the outside. Moreover with mishandling
of Chakras and Kundalini due to the ignorance or greed of
the teacher, the chance of realization for the aspirant can
become very poor and sometimes impossible. The mind that is
very much conditioned, or the mind that is the slave of
self-indulgence or of egoistic actions and thoughts, is also
a very slow conveyance for Sahaja Yoga. Even if you read too
much about the deconditioning of the mind, you may get only
further conditioned. If you try to decondition by efforts,
you can become conditioned much worse than what you
were.
Deconditioning is only
possible through Divine Love. The main "condition"
of Sahaja Yoga is that your will and freedom are always
respected. In Sahaja Yoga the person is fully aware and
alert and receives inner silence and experience without
doing any unnatural movements. He sits in a completely easy
pose throughout or he also may lie down (Sahajasana or
Shavasana). The breathing is normal or less than normal.
Religion
Religions are also the
expressions and experiments of realized souls-the seers.
They also talk about the inner being, second birth, and
about Self-realization. In the beginning, in India, they
tried to take the attention inside by introducing symbols
(idols) that they saw of this unconscious, universal being
within. This gave rise to pantheism and the aspirant's
attention got stuck to symbols (Sakar) and to rituals which
killed the main objective.
So the other type of
experiments of talking only about the abstract (Nirakar)
gave rise to many other religions which ended up as dogmas
or "isms." The reason is obvious. Talking about
the flower or the honey cannot take you to the honey but can
only create dogmatic "isms" in the mind. You have
to be a bee to reach there, i.e., you have to be reborn.
This has to happen within to take you inside. It is too
great an achievement and unbelievable, but I feel the search
of ages has brought great results.
The End Of The Path
The mind, with a
child-like innocence achieves very quick results. Whatever
may be the loads of the mind, if the longing is honest and
earnest, sooner or later, the aspirant can get
Self-realization. After reaching this state the vibrations
start emitting from the extremities. These are described by
Adi Sankaracharya in his work "Ananda Lahari."
These vibrations are
the waves of Divine Love that can fill also other persons'
inner being and give them the same experience of
Self-realization. This is how the chain reaction starts. One
light enlightens another.
The physical
manifestations are as follows:
The pupils of the eyes
become dilated (Parasympathetic action). The face becomes
radiant, the body becomes light, all tension is completely
removed. The rising of the Kundalini can be seen by others
and felt by the aspirant. First the throbbing is clearly
felt at Sahasrara (apex of the brain) and when it stops,
complete silence is felt within and in all awareness. The
flow of grace is felt coming down, cooling the whole being.
As the attention moves to the subtle, gross attachments drop
out. A person gradually loses identification with falsehood
and artificiality. In matter, he sees beauty and not its
possession value. In knowledge, he identifies himself with
the Truth and is not afraid to profess, nor does he indulge
in the double standards of life. His flow of love becomes
spontaneous, generous, without any tinge of attachment,
possession or any return. The person becomes ageless - a
hollow personality. Now let us see what happens inside.
"What
is God-Realization? First is the Self-Realization
... What is God-Realization? Is to know about
God. You see to know about God is to know how His
Powers are working, how He controls, by becoming
part and parcel of God Almighty... You know
about God. You know about His Powers. But you have
to know, to know through love, through devotion .
. . for that a complete humility is needed.
You can become God-realized means God acts through
you, uses you as His Power, as His channel, and
that you know. That you know what He is doing to
you, what He is telling you, what His vision is
and what is the information. The connection is
that."
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Sri
Tattvamayi Shri Nirmala Devi
Tattvamayi
(907 th):
Here 'Tattva' means 'Siva-Tattva,' the
Ultimate State of Consciousness. The name refers to
two states of Samadhi — God-realisation. They are
known as 'Samprajnata' where the Sadhaka retains
his Prajna or ordinary mental faculty while he
experiences the Samadhi and the Asamprajnata where
the Sadhaka is without mental faculty. The name also
means that She is Herself the three Tattvas of 'Atma,'
'Vidya,' and 'Siva,' or the fourth according
to some. There are 36 Tattvas according to
Saiva-Siddhanta and She is immanent through all of
them.
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The attention of the
consciousness moves to the inner being (Kundalini). As the
thread (Sutra) of a necklace is passing through every bead
of the necklace, the inner consciousness (Kundalini) is also
passing through every human being. As soon as our attention
moves to our inner consciousness we can move on to
everybody's Kundalini. One starts feeling the Kundalini, its
nature, its position in other persons. Collective
consciousness is thus established. Now you become a
universal being. After some days you cannot say who is the
other person. The power of love is so great and dynamic that
with the movement of your fingers you can move the Kundalini
of thousands. It becomes child's play. This is how the en
masse evolution of human beings will take place. These are
the signs of the advent of the Golden age of Truth (Satya
Yuga). Let us forget whatever hardships we have suffered in
our search in the past. It does not matter if some could not
find it before this. You have to open your mind and
understand that though the discovery is unprecedented, it
does not make any seeker or predecessor small. If some
experiments are made, it does not matter if, ultimately, we
have found out the way. It is a collective achievement.
Perhaps in the chaos of Kali Yuga it was to happen and many
of us, who have been earnestly searching in many lives, are
reborn to have their promises fulfilled by the Divine. Maybe
we were our own predecessors.
On the Tree of Life
there might have been very few flowers but now the Blossom
Time has come. Their fragrance of longing has collectively
materialized the manifestation of Sahaja Yoga. Many are
going to jump into the realm of thoughtless awareness where
you get introduced to yourself and start identifying with
your universal nature. Those who deserve will get the throne
of their inner being which rules the Skies of Peace, and the
Oceans of Divine Love and Supreme Knowledge within, which is
limitless (Anant)."
Shri Mataji
Nirmala Devi
Death's
day will be birthday:
The
day of death will be celebrated as the day of birth! The day
of physical death will be celebrated as the day of spiritual
birth! The last day on Earth will be the first day in the
Kingdom of God! Nostradamus, How deep are
your prophecies! How illuminating are your visions! And how
were you able to find this priceless gem of a parable? We,
the seekers of Truth and Eternity, salute you!
"General
George Patton of World War II fame, no stranger to personal
reincarnational remembrances (he claimed to recall previous
battlefield experiences as Napoleon), once observed,
"For Hindus death is the most exalted experience of
life." This idea is naturally hard for non-Hindus to
grasp — all the more so for atheists facing Eternal
Oblivion and those of Abrahamic faiths which define death as
a punishment for man's sinful disobedience. To them, death
is the ultimate sign of man's spiritual failure, a belief
which arouses instincts of denial and injustice. One may
feel penitent and guilty, not to mention uncertain about the
destination ahead.
No
such thoughts attend the dying days of a Hindu. Of course,
there is much sadness surrounding the passing of friends and
family, but that is honest acknowledgement of our loving
attachments. Inside we know death is OK, natural, that the
soul, even if it was less than perfect in this life, is
continuing its appointed journey across life's oceanic
phenomena toward Liberation and will, in time and without
fail, reach the other shore. The Hindu's presumption of
numerous births mitigates the tragedy of death, whether the
passage is his own or another's. So, Hindus call death by
lofty names — Maha Samadhi, "Great Superconscious
State" and Maha Prasthana, "Great Departure."
To be near an awakened soul at the time he or she gives up
the body is considered among the most blessed of
opportunities. While ordinary people are remembered on their
day of birth, Hindus honor enlightened souls on the day of
their departure, translated in English as "liberation
day." ""
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Hinduism
Today, January 1997
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Death
will be a joyous occasion for those who know the Ultimate
Reality beyond this brief sojourn on Earth, and welcomed
with open arms as "what happens after death is so
unspeakably glorious that our imaginations and our feelings
do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of
it." (Carl Jung) For most of the devotees of the Shri
Mrtyumathani Shri Nirmala Devi it will be their last birth
on Earth! It will be the beginning of Spiritual Eternity! It
will be the attainment of Eternal Freedom! Why shouldn't
Death then be welcomed? Why shouldn't Death be celebrated
with joyous abandon for the very first time in history? Why
shouldn't there be happiness and celebrations amongst those
whose loved ones meet Death for the last time and experience
His Promise of eternal life? Why shouldn't death during
the Resurrection be commemorated as a priceless victory, the
beginning of a new life as a spirit in the Kingdom of God?
A
profound change in human values will take place among the
devotees of the Great Divine Mother who penetrate the
Reality of Eternity. They will gain an insight that will end
all tears, pain and sorrow. They will be free at last.
The
elderly will be highly respected and held in high esteem by
the disciples of the Ancient Primordial Mother. They will
enjoy the glory and status accorded to venerable saints.
Wise old Sahaja Yogis will be beaming with joy, hope, fulfillment,
peace and great expectations. Even the greatest happiness of those
in the prime of youth will pale in comparison to the endless
Bliss of the elderly devotees of the Great Primordial
Mother, as they meditate day and night on Her in their
Sahasraras. Powerful vibrations will continuously flow
freely from these sacred saints, divine proof that they are
spiritually cleansed and ready to enter the Spirit World. Their
death-days will be celebrated with the joy and happiness of
birthdays as only in death will the Truth of Eternal Life in
the Spirit World begin. Self-Realized souls will look forward to the Day of
Departure with happiness, cheerfulness, and peace.
On
the contrary a vast majority of elderly beings, senile and
sad prisoners-of-religion, will be waiting in fear, apprehension, loneliness, and
gloom for Death to claim them. Their death days will be
greeted with wails, shrieks, sobs and tears from friends and
relatives. Their one-night stand on Earth will end is dismal
failure, spent on seeking pleasure, wealth and power. As
Lord Jesus has said "It is easier for a camel to pass
through the
eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the
kingdom of God." (MT 19:24)
"In
a human form you decrease your age as your birthday comes.
But with this you increase your age. And you are proud that
you are growing. In the human level you feel unhappy that
you are growing; here you feel proud that you are
growing."
Shri
Sadasiva Shri Nirmala Devi
The
Way Of Our Spiritual Growth And Sahaja Penance
London,
U.K. — April 22, 1984
"And
when you die what happens to you is a very simple thing —
that you feel liberated, absolutely, and then you feel your
freedom, completely, and you can decide what to do. It's
all under your own guidance, your own desires, everything
works out. You don't feel that you have come out of your
body and this is what (I) should tell you: that there should
be no fear of death but on the contrary should be welcomed
because you will feel much more liberated, much more at ease."
Shri
Sarva-mrtyu-Nivarini Shri Nirmala Devi
To
Achieve Complete Freedom,
Cabella, Italy — May 7, 1995
"Those
who have spiritual enlightenment tell us that the basic
cause of fear of death is our metaphysical or spiritual
ignorance, which lies in the identification of the spirit
with the body. As long as we are not aware of our true
spiritual essence, of the reality of the spirit or the true
self within us, it is natural that we are subjected to this
fear of death.. The body is subject to the laws of nature.
It is born, it grows, it attains maturity, it declines and
it perishes. When we identify with this body and we have no
understanding of our spiritual essence, naturally we feel
that decline and eventual disintegration of the body mean
our decline and destruction. So in all religions, the great
spiritual geniuses have declared unequivocally that the more
we know of our true spiritual essence of our being, the more
we overcome the fear of death. We take a deeper perspective.
We realize destruction of the body does not involve
destruction of our spiritual nature, which is immortal and
imperishable in character. Therefore, it is evident that the
best way to conquer and overcome this fear of death is to
sharpen our spiritual understanding and experience... .
As
the great philosopher Spinoza said, the essence of spiritual
wisdom is to be able to behold life under the aspect of
eternity."
Dr.
Haridas Chaudhuri, The Essence of Spiritual Philosophy
(Dr.
Haridas Chaudhuri, The Essence of Spiritual Philosophy,
Thorsons Publishing Group, UK, 1990, p. 133-6.)
".
. .'to become the very self of every being' (BG. 5.7) does
not mean the loss of a personal relationship with God,
and probably with other liberated beings as well. This is in
line with at least one type of Upanishadic thought
typified in the dialogue between Indra and Prajapati
in Chandogya Upanishad 8. The relevant passage is 8.12,
1-3:
Bountiful
One! For sure this body is mortal, held in the grip of
death. Yet it is the dwelling-place of the immortal,
incorporeal self. And this self, while still in the body, is
held in the grip of pleasure and pain; and so long as
it remains in the body there is no means of ridding it of
pleasure and pain. But once it is freed from the body,
pleasure and pain cannot as so much touch it.
The
wind has no body. Clouds, thunder, and lightning — these
too have no body. So, just as these arise from the broad
expanse of space up there and plunge into the highest light,
revealing themselves each in their own form, so too does
this deep serenity arise out of this body and plunge into
the highest light, revealing itself in its own form. Such a
one is a superman (uttara purusa); and there he roves
around, laughing, playing, taking his pleasure with women,
chariots, or friends and remembering no more that
excrescence which was his body ...
Liberation
is no longer the isolation of the classical Samkhya-Yoga:
rather it is the end of what Christians mystics call as via
purgativa, the way of the vishuddh'tma, the
'purified self' (5.7: cf. 5.11:6.12.) It is the beginning of
the personal encounter of the integrated and liberated self
with God."
R.C.
Zaehner, BhagavadGita
(R.C.
Zaehner, BhagavadGita, Oxford University Press, 1969,
p. 234.)
The
divine spirit will make the soul happy,
The
Great Divine Spirit will make the departed soul happy. In
Reality there is absolutely no death. Humans understand
death as an end to either Paradise or Hell. The Great Holy
Spirit says death is just the inability of the soul to
control its destiny due to its lingering earthly defects of
its owner. Only the freed soul is free of any further physical
deaths and has absolute control over all its future
desires and destiny for all eternity! Joy will know no
bounds when the Truth of the Great Holy Spirit becomes a
Reality and that the Spiritual World exists! And that there is
eternal AfterLife! And that this is just the beginning of an
infinite spiritual adventure! And that they can be reborn
again on this Earth as humans or angels if they so desire! And that they are
perpetually and completely
free forever! And that ...
"An
astral person meets a multitude of relatives, fathers, mothers, wives,
husbands, children, and friends, acquired during different
incarnations on earth, as they appear from time to time in various
parts of the astral cosmos. He is therefore at a loss to understand
whom to love especially; he learns in this way to give divine love and
equal love to all beings, as children and individualized expressions
of God."
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Paramahansa
Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, Self-Realization
Fellowship, 1974, p. 415.
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"Birth,
play, marriage, children, old age — life is finished. That
is not living! Life is much deeper and more wonderful ...
When you know God there is no more sorrow. All those you
loved and lost in death are with you again in Eternal Life.
The souls of those loved ones who departed before will come
to welcome: fathers, mothers, wives, children, friends.
Hundreds and thousands and millions of them! From hundreds
and thousands and millions of past lives and rebirths! From
hundreds and thousands and millions of millenniums ago! How
many wives we must have had in previous lives and how many
husbands God alone knows."
Shri
Maha-vidya Shri Nirmala Devi
London,
U.K. — June 21, 1981
"But
you know that you have eternal life. You can never die.
Death is not this body disappearing. Death is where you are
absolutely without any control of your soul. Once you are a
Realized soul you have all the control, all the Powers to
take your soul wherever you feel like — to be born if you
like, if you don't want you will not be born. To be born
with the people, in the families, in the communities,
wherever you like."
Shri
Trikonantara-Dipika Shri Nirmala Devi
To
Achieve Complete Freedom,
Cabella,
Italy — May 7, 1995
"The
resurrection of the body. Just as clear, however, is the
real, indeed materialistic, significance that lies in the
Christian understanding of the resurrection. A dualistic
understanding of what is to be human, which assumes an
essential difference between the spiritual and the
material-bodily sides of human existence, necessarily leads
to the idea of the immortality of the soul. According to
this view, imperishableness belongs to spiritual nature
alone. The Christian hope, however, does not aim at the
immortality of the soul but at the resurrection of the body
... This hope was expressed by Vladimir Solovyov: What
help would the highest and greatest moral victory be for
man, if the enemy, "death," which lurks in the
ultimate depth of man's physical, somatic, material
sphere, were not overcome?
The
goal of redemption is not separation of the spirit from the
body; it is rather the new human in the entirety of the
body, soul, and mind... .
Although
it is not an uncontroversial point, there is in the New
Testament, in the observation of many, a progression of
salvation in history. Indeed, there is a progress of both
the individual human being and of mankind as a whole, what
might be thought of under some terms and conditions as a
potential for the progressive perfection of the human being.
This characteristic stands out already in the proclamation
of Jesus. He promises his disciples: "Then the
righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their
Father. He who has ears let him hear." (Matthew 14:12)
... In connection with the breakthrough of the idea of
evolution through Darwin in the areas of biology, zoology,
and anthropology, the tendency asserted itself — above all
in 19th century American theology — of
interpreting the Christian history of salvation in terms of
the evolution and expectation of future human perfection in
the form of reaching even higher charismatic levels and even
higher means of spiritual knowledge and communication."
The
New
Encyclopaedia
Britannica (1992)
Seeing
the word in its eternity.
The
liberated soul will know the Truth that this Earth is not
the only one in existence and neither is this universe. It
will realize the Truth that on the Cosmic Clock a hundred
billion years are not even equivalent to a split-second! It
will understand the very essence and vastness of Eternity.
And
the soul will see a new Heaven and a new Earth for the first
heaven and first earth were passed away. The soul will bow
in humility, silence and reverence before the Holy Spirit
and the Creator in His Kingdom. For such
souls there will be no more sorrow, no more tears, no more
fears, no more pain, no more sickness, no more deaths, no
more grief, no more heart-breaks, no more anguish, and no
more crying, for the former things are passed away. There
will be eternal Bliss, Joy and Consciousness.
For
Hindus, death is nobly referred to as mahaprasthana,
"the great journey." When the lessons of this life
have been learned and karmas reach a point of intensity, the
soul leaves the physical body, which then returns its
elements to the earth. The awareness, will, memory and
intelligence which we think of as ourselves continue to
exist in the soul body. Death is a most natural experience,
not to be feared. It is a quick transition from the physical
world to the astral plane, like walking through a door,
leaving one room and entering another. Knowing this, we
approach death as a sadhana, as a spiritual opportunity,
bringing a level of detachment which is difficult to achieve
in the tumult of life and an urgency to strive more than
ever in our search for the Divine Self. To be near a
realized soul at the time he or she gives up the body yields
blessings surpassing those of a thousand and eight visits to
holy persons at other times. The Vedas explain, "As a
caterpillar coming to the end of a blade of grass draws
itself together in taking the next step, so does the soul in
the process of transition strike down this body and dispel
its ignorance. (Satguru
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami)
Professor
Raimundo Panikkar in his masterpiece, The Vedic Experience,
explains: "Modern
Man wonders about death and weaves innumerable theories
about it; he seems to be sure about only one thing: its
factual reality and thus its inevitability. In spite of
startling news produced now and then by the scientific
shamans of our age, contemporary Man seems at a loss when he
is confronted with one of the most ancient myths of mankind:
the possibility of avoiding death. Because death is seen to
be inevitable, modern society tends to wipe out from the
memory of the living all dealings with the dying and the
dead. The fundamental Vedic attitude is almost the opposite:
it does not reckon with death's inevitability and it does
not try to smuggle death away from everyday life.
According
to this vision, which is common to other cultures as well,
death is not inevitable; it is only accidental. You die if
your life is snatched away before you reach maturity, or
before you marry, or if something unexpected happens to you
which prevents you from achieving what you yourself or
society was expecting of your life. Death is limited to this
rupture, this misfortune, this accident. Thus it is always
an unnatural event, and it is always akala mrtyu, untimely
death.
On
the other hand the old Man, "the Man of long
life," as the Vedas call him, the one who has lived his
life, who has fulfilled his life span, his ayus, 1 does not
die; he does not experience a break and, thus, a trauma; he
has simply consumed the torch and exhausted the fuel. The
flame of his life goes on and it burns in his sons, his
daughters, his children's children, his friends, his work,
and in his ideas which are scattered to the four winds. Even
his body, with its own energy, has already enriched the
earth on which he has walked, the rivers in which he has
bathed, and the living beings with whom he has been in
communication and communion. Only the last gifts of his body
and breath still remain to be given away. The old Man does
not die; he simply finishes his commerce with life and
achieves the transmission of all that he himself has
received, as the Upanishads describe. 2 He cancels the
constitutive rna, the debt of gratitude for the gift of his
existence. 3 The natural extinction of one particular
carrier of life or the completion of one's own life is not
death.
Indeed,
not every Man who is old in years reaches long life,
maturity, and thus immortality. It is not a question of mere
number of years but of growth, for which the passing of
years — the hundred autumns — is certainly required but
of which it is not the only condition. Time, in fact, is
more than its measurement by the passing of days and
seasons; it is the qualitative coefficient of human growth
itself. To disentangle the immortal from the mortal, to
liberate himself from the claws of death, is the task of
every Man. On the one hand there is the asu or
life-principle, the power of life or vital strength, which
is assimilated in some traditions to the ahamkara, the
selfish ego of unfulfilled desires and unachieved projects.
This ego is not pure, later periods will say, inasmuch as it
consists of unburnt karmas; it is this ego that is afraid of
death, because it must certainly die. There is, on the other
hand, the personal atman, that spark of the paramatman,
which does not die. Jiva, in spite of the variety of
meanings given by different schools, could also be another
word for immortal Man."
"So
this happening that we are afraid of death is absolutely
absurd for Sahaja Yogis. What is there to think even
about your death. There is nothing like death for you
because you have got eternal life."
Shri
Anarghya-Kaivalya-Padadayini Shri Nirmala Devi
"So
you must know your position as eternal beings — what is
your work; what is your idea; what you have to do. So one
has to get rid of this idea of death because death does not
exist for you — It is finished ... your spirit is
free."
Shri
Vidya Shri Nirmala Devi
To
Achieve Complete Freedom,
Cabella,
Italy — May 7, 1995
"The
Upanishads do not teach a death experience, but an
experience of life. Ultimately there is no experience of
death and the death experiment is, in the last analysis,
unreal because the "subject" who died was not
real. The supreme Upanishadic experience is discovered
precisely by realizing that the experiment of death is only
a psychological experience, made by the immortal atman.
The
Vedic experience is one of liberation, of freedom from
everything. It thus includes freedom or liberation from
time. What both fascinates and haunts Upanishadic Man is not
anything that comes after, but that which has no after. As
long as we are entrammeled in the net of mere temporal
existence, we are in the clutches of death, even if we
postpone death by a sequence of successive existences. An
afterlife is as inauthentic a life as a prelife. The
piercing of the skin of time as with a needle, without
either hurting or destroying the spatiotemporal epidermis
and yet transcending it, is what liberation is all about. .
..
Now,
the end is not death and dissolution, nor is it an
indefinite and horizontal repetition of one and the same
circle. One of the discoveries of the Vedic wisdom is
precisely that, whereas time is circular, Man is not, so
that for him it is not a question of beginning all over
again. On the contrary, it is imperative that he escape the
enclosure of the circle. The circularity of time indicates
its ontic finitude, whereas Man is infinite. Man has to
break the circularity of time in order to reach the
ontological fullness of his being. To enter into this other
nontemporal, but no less real, sphere is to attain
realization, to reach liberation from the encirclement of
time and freedom from temporal chains. It is a truly new
life, not in the sense of a "recycled" life but in
the sense of a new type, a new kind of life, indeed, the
only real and authentic life."
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Professor
Raimundo Panikkar, The Vedic Experience
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"Religions
are the expressions and experiments of Realized souls —
the seers. They also talk about the inner being, second
birth, and about Self-Realization. In the beginning, in
India, they tried to take the attention inside by
introducing symbols that they saw in this unconscious
Universal Being within. This gave rise to pantheism
and the aspirant's attention got stuck to symbols and to
rituals which killed the main objective. So the other type
of experiments of talking only about the abstract (Nirakar)
gave rise to many other religions which ended as dogmas or
"isms." The reason is obvious; talking about the
flower or the honey cannot take you to the honey but can
only create dogmatic "isms" in the mind. You have
to be a bee to reach there, that is, you have to be reborn.
This has to happen within to take you inside. It is
too great an achievement and unbelievable, but I feel the
search of ages has brought great results.
The
mind with a child-like innocence achieves very quick
results. Whatever may be the loads of the mind, if the
longing is honest and earnest, sooner or later the aspirant
can get Self-Realization. After reaching this state the
vibrations start emitting from the extremities. These are
described by Adi Sankaracarya in his work Ananda Lahari.
The vibrations are the waves of Divine Love that can fill
also other persons' inner being and give them the same
experience of Self-Realization. The physical manifestations
are as follows: The pupils of the eyes become dilated. The
face becomes radiant, the body becomes light, all tension is
completely removed. The rising of the Kundalini can
be seen by others and felt by the aspirant. First the
throbbing is clearly felt at Sahasrara and when it
stops, complete silence is felt within and in all
awareness. The flow of Grace is felt coming down, cooling
the whole being. As the attention moves to the subtle, gross
attachments drop out. A person gradually loses
identification with falsehood and artificiality. In matter,
he sees beauty and not its possession value. In Knowledge,
he identifies himself with Truth and is not afraid to
profess, nor does he indulge in the double standards of
life. His flow of Love becomes spontaneous, generous,
without any tinge of attachment, possession or return. The
person becomes ageless — a hollow personality. Now
let us see what happens inside.
The
attention of the consciousness moves to the inner being. As
the thread of a necklace is passing through every bead of
the necklace, the Inner Consciousness is also passing
through every human being. As soon as our attention moves to
our Inner Consciousness we can move on to everybody's Kundalini.
One starts feeling the Kundalini, its nature, its
position in other persons. Collective Consciousness is thus
established. Now you become a universal being. After some
days you cannot say who is the other person. The Power of
Love is so great and dynamic that with the movement of your
fingers you can move the Kundalini of thousands. It
becomes child's play.
"Many
beings remain for thousands of years in the casual cosmos.
By deeper ecstasies the freed soul then withdraws itself
from the little casual body and puts on the vastness of the
casual cosmos. All the separate eddies of ideas,
particularised waves of power, love, will, joy, peace,
intuition, calmness, self-control, and concentration melt
into the overjoyous Sea of Bliss. No longer does the soul
have to experience its joy as an individualized wave of
consciousness, but is merged in the One Cosmic Ocean, with
all its waves — eternal laughter, thrills, throbs ...
"When
a soul finally gets out of the three jars of bodiily
delusions," Master continued, "it becomes one with
the Infinite without any loss of individuality. Christ had
won this final freedom even before he was born as Jesus. In
three stages of his past, symbolized in his earth-life as
the three days of his experience of death and resurrection,
he had attained full power to arise in the Spirit. The
undeveloped man must undergo countless earthly and astral
and casual incarnations in order to emerge from his three
bodies. A master who achieves this final freedom any elect
to return to earth as a prophet to bring other human beings
back to God, or like myself he may chose to reside in the
astral cosmos. There a saviour assumes some of the burden of
the inhabitants karma and thus help them to terminate their
cycle of reincarnation in the astral cosmos and go on
permanently to the casual spheres. Or a freed soul may enter
the casual world to aid its beings to shorten their span in
the casual body and thus obtain the Absolute Freedom."
"
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Paramahansa
Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, Self-Realization
Fellowship, 1974, p. 420-21
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This
is how en masse evolution of human beings will take place.
These are signs of the advent of the Golden Age of Truth (Satya
Yuga). Let us forget whatever hardships we have suffered in
our search in the past. It does not matter if some could not
find it before. You have to open your mind and understand
that though the discovery is unprecedented, it does not make
any seeker or predecessor small. If some experiments are
made it does not matter if, ultimately, we have found out
the way. It is a collective achievement. Perhaps in the
chaos of Kali Yuga it was to happen and many of us
who have been earnestly searching in many lives, are reborn
to have their promises by the Divine. Maybe we were our own
predecessors. On the Tree of Life there might have been very
few flowers but now the Blossom Time has come. Their
fragrance of longing has collectively materialized the
manifestation of Sahaja Yoga. Many are going to jump
into the Realm of Thoughtless Awareness where you get
introduced to your Self and start identifying with your
Universal Nature. Those who deserve will get the Throne of
their Inner Being which rules the Skies of Peace, and the
Oceans of Divine Love, and Supreme Knowledge within
which is limitless."
Shri
Trikonantara-Dipika Shri Nirmala Devi
"Many
people ask Me questions: "What about death?" ...
But you know that you have eternal life. You can never die.
Death is not this body disappearing. Death is where you are
absolutely without any control of your soul. Once you are a
Realized soul you have all the control, all the Powers to
take your soul wherever you feel like — to be born if you
like, if you don't want you will not be born. To be born
with the people, in the families, in the communities,
wherever you like. There are many great souls I know that
have taken birth daringly into societies which are very
much, I should say, deteriorating and are in danger of
getting destroyed because of stupidity they do.
So
this happening that we are afraid of death is absolutely
absurd for Sahaja Yogis. What is there to think even
about your death? There is nothing like death for you
because you have got eternal life. It's not that you
continue with the same body. You may go on changing your
dress but you are living, you are aware. And you know even
if this body is not there you will be there, all the time. I
will agree for Sahaja Yoga, for anything that is to
be done in the name of Reality. So you must know your
position as eternal beings — what is your work, what is
your idea, what you have to do. So one has to get rid of
this idea of death because death does not exist for you. It
is finished ... your spirit is free.
And
when you die what happens to you is a very simple thing;
that you feel liberated, absolutely, and then you feel your
freedom completely, and you can decide what to do. It's
all under your own guidance, your own desires, everything
works out. You don't feel that you have come out of your
body and this is what I should tell you: That there should
be no fear of death but on the contrary, should be welcomed
because you will feel much more liberated, much more at
ease... .
This
body is finished is a very good idea. So troublesome it is.
The most sticky thing we have is this body... . So to
forget about death is the easiest thing to do."
Shri Mataji Nirmala
Devi
To
Achieve Complete Freedom,
May
7, 1995 — Cabella, Italy
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"What Is This Self-Realization, Anyways?
A friend
wrote me and asked me about that "self
realization thing" that I had mentioned in
conversation. This was my response:
The Self-Realization that you mentioned is the goal of
life. It is basically the experience of knowing
the answer to the question, "Who am I?"
The way to have this experience is not
something difficult. However, there are many paths
that will give you a difficult route if you like. Many
people think it "has to be hard". Those who
do usually will find a hard path, and if a natural,
effortless path comes along, they will pass it by.
"Too good to be true. It can't be that easy, You
can't get something for nothing. Life is made to be
hard......etc. etc. etc." You get my point.
What is between you and your Self-Realization? Simply
the past experiences you've had in your life that
keep you believing in limitation and fear. Most of the
50-60,000 thoughts that people think throughout the
day are about the past (that you wish you could
change) or the future (which you fear.) This keeps you
from experiencing the perfection of the now.
Because your mind experiences what looks like chaos,
so does your body, and this lodges stress in your
nervous system. This in turn perpetuates these
thoughts. Thus, a downward spiral is formed. Old
habits, judgements, beliefs, and limitations can keep
a person so caught up that the Light of
Self-Realization within is covered and clouded. This
happens even though it is always there—always
within our hearts—unchanging. We don't experience
it because of everything covering it up. It is that
simple. It is the most incredible experience.
It cannot even be described by words.
Jesus did well to call it, "the peace that
passes all understanding." In the Eastern
world, it's called Enlightenment. These are
different descriptions of the same experience. Your
own personal experience is what's important. No
amount of knowledge about an experience compares to
having an experience. That bears repeating: many
people have all kinds of ideas and things about
the experience of enlightenment, which is not at all
anywhere near the actual experience."
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"Self-Realization, Its Meaning and Method
Self-Realisation is not an easy thing to
achieve, because the notion of the Self is a barrier
and a handicap. What do you mean by the Self when you
speak of Self-Realisation? Where is this Self
situated? "It is within me." This is a usual
glib answer available for any person. "I seek to
know my own Self." And why do I seek to know my
own Self? Because I want to live in peace. What do you
mean by peace? No answer can be given. Here, again, we
are in a state of confusion. Why do you want Self-Realisation?
To know my own Self. Why do you want to know your own
Self? To be in a state of balance in my mind and
outlook. What for is this effort? To be peaceful. What
is peace? That cannot be answered. We do not know what
this peace means, about which people talk so much and
which is the theme of the various rostrums in the
parliaments of cultural discussion the world over,
which are taking place from Peru to China! But, what
is this Self? While you may say, 'it is within
me,' and this may appear to satisfy the person who
has put this question, you will be sure that it does
not satisfy even your own selves. There is no use
merely saying 'the Self is within me and that is my
God.' We have a curious notion of Self and God,
indeed. It is within you! When you say, 'the Self is
within me,' what do you mean by this 'me'? What
is this 'me' or the 'I'? Again, the same
question arises. Here, again, we are bodily shackled.
We are men and women, we are human, and we cannot be
anything else. So this 'within' in which the Self
seems to be situated is the 'within' 'this
body.' You have confined the notion of yourself to
your bodily existence finally, though your intention
is to break through the barriers of bodily
consciousness in search for the Self... . Many of the books will not
answer this pose. If God is not within, where else is
God? And if you say that He is within, within what?
within the body? You are caught again by the very
answer that you are giving, which is supposed to be
the solution to your problems."
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"Principles
of Self-Realization (PDF)
We are more than our bodies, ego or personality.
Inwardly we are eternal spiritual beings that are
already, on its own level, perfect and one with God.
We are therefore multilevel beings, with each layer
consisting of a conglomeration of attitudes, beliefs
and feelings. The aim of Self-realization is to clear
the outer layers so that one's inner or higher Self
may manifest and express itself without distortion.
Everything real already exists within. This inner
reality is not affected by what we do.
Some universal qualities or characteristics of one's
inner Self/spirit are: love, peace, joy, light, power,
will, beauty, energy, purpose, knowing, infinity,
creation, movement, unity and timelessness.
Realizing one's Self requires that we stop blocking it
and surrender to the promptings of the spirit and the
longings of the heart that opens to and allows an
experience of these impulses—love, joy, peace,
light, etc.
Realizing one's Self entails letting go: of fears; of
assumptions of separation, lack and special needs; of
negative judgments and preconceptions; of guilt,
self-doubt and pride.
Our minds are part of One Whole Mind that is
interwoven with all creation. However, because we hold
a perception of separation and fragmentation we
therefore experience things this way.
As we change our minds, our world and experience will
also change because what we inwardly hold to (not just
on a conscious level), we will create and experience
in our lives.
Our experience in the world allows us to recognize
what we assume to be real.
Creating our reality begins with our choice in how we
perceive our experience. The aspect that we focus on
and identify with is accentuated.
Everything that we seem to experience outside of
ourselves in the world is really contained within the
Self. (Negativity has no substantial reality but
rather is a denial of spiritual reality.)
What we are unconscious of in ourselves we will
experience as projections on to others and events
happening to us that seem out of our control or will.
What we judge against in others, we judge against in
ourselves. Conversely, what we forgive and accept in
others we forgive in ourselves.
Pain and suffering come from the instinctive tendency
for the ego to become attached to and identified with
things that it believes we need and are.
Choosing values and beliefs which are out of accord
with the truth of our Self entails pain and suffering.
Integrating the Self's qualities and purposes releases
the distortion causing the pain.
Every pain therefore contains some gift if it is
utilized— some awareness, Self-knowledge and
realization.
Choosing integrity and authenticity means ultimately
bringing our personality into alignment with our inner
Self so that we may become outwardly what we already
are spiritually.
Love and sexual attraction outwardly reflects the
inner process of becoming whole, by integrating the
ego with the inner Self. What we seek to unite with in
another is our Self.
Therefore, the purpose of relationship is not to get
but to share and gain awareness—by expressing
ourselves we realize who we really are and fulfill the
intention of the Self.
Desire, which becomes attached to sense objects,
ultimately derives from and can be redirected to the
urge to reunite consciously with one's source or inner
being.
Love acknowledges the essential unity of all life and
the urge to realize this oneness.
Violence in the world is an expression of negativity
associated with Self denial.
Fear results from identifying with the body and not
understanding the nature of reality—there is
ultimately nothing to fear.
It is not the ego that becomes self-realized, rather
identification with the ego is released as we live
from a deeper place of wholeness and affirmation."
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""Song
of The Sannyasin
Wake
up the note! the song that had its birth far off,
Where
worldly taint could never reach, in mountain caves and
glades of forest deep,
Whose
calm no sigh for lust or wealth or fame could ever dare to
break;
Where
rolled the stream of knowledge, truth, and bliss that
follows both.
Sing
high that note, sannyasin bold! Say, "Om Tat Sat, Om."
Strike
off thy fetters! bonds that bind thee down, of shining gold,
or darker, baser ore —
Love,
hate; good, bad; and all the dual throng.
Know
slave is slave, caressed or whipped, not free; for fetters,
though of gold, are not less strong to bind.
Then
off with them, sannyasin bold! Say, "Om Tat Sat, Om."
Let
darkness go; the will-o'-the-wisp that leads with blinking
light to pile more gloom on gloom.
This
thirst for life forever quench; it drags from birth to
death, and death to birth, the soul.
He
conquers all who conquers self.
Know
this and never yield, sannyasin bold! Say, "Om Tat Sat,
Om."
"Who
sows must reap," they say, "and cause must bring
the sure effect: good, good; bad, bad;
And
none escapes the law. But whoso wears a form must wear the
chain." Too true;
But
far beyond both name and form is atman, ever free.
Know
thou art That, sannyasin bold! Say, "Om Tat Sat, Om."
They
know not truth who dream such vacant dreams as father,
mother, children, wife and friend.
The
sexless Self — whose father He? whose child? whose friend,
whose foe is He who is but One?
The
Self is all in all — none else exists;
And
thou art That, sannyasin bold! Say, "Om Tat Sat, Om."
There
is but One: the Free, the Knower, Self, without a name,
without a form or stain.
In
Him is maya, dreaming all this dream. The Witness, He
appears as nature, soul.
Know
thou art That, sannyasin bold! Say, "Om Tat Sat, Om."
Where
seekest thou? That freedom, friend, this world nor that can
give. In books and temples, vain thy search.
Thine
only is the hand that holds the rope that drags thee on.
Then
cease lament. Let go thy hold, sannyasin bold! Say, "Om
Tat Sat, Om."
Say,
"Peace to all. From me no danger be to aught that
lives.
In
those that dwell on high, in those that lowly creep — I am
the Self in all!
All
life, both here and there, do I renounce, all heavens and
earths and hells, all hopes and fears."
Thus
cut thy bonds, sannyasin bold! Say, "Om Tat Sat, Om."
Heed
then no more how body lives or goes. Its task is done: let
karma float it down.
Let
one put garlands on, another kick this frame; say naught.
No
praise or blame can be where praiser, praised, and blamer,
blamed, are one.
Thus
be thou calm, sannyasin bold! Say, "Om Tat Sat, Om."
Truth
never comes where lust and fame and greed of gain reside.
No
man who thinks of woman as his wife can ever perfect be; nor
he who owns the least of things,
Nor
he whom anger chains, can ever pass through maya's gates.
So,
give these up, sannyasin bold! Say, "Om Tat Sat, Om."
Have
thou no home. What home can hold thee, friend? The sky thy
roof, the grass thy bed;
And
food what chance may bring — well cooked or ill, judge
not.
No
food or drink can taint that noble Self which knows Itself.
Like
rolling river free thou ever be, sannyasin bold! Say, "Om
Tat Sat, Om."
Few
only know the truth. The rest will hate and laugh at thee,
great one; but pay no heed.
Go
thou, the free, from place to place, and help them out of
darkness, maya's veil.
Without
the fear of pain or search for pleasure,
Go
beyond them both, sannyasin bold! Say, "Om Tat Sat, Om."
Thus
day by day, till karma's power's spent, release the soul
forever.
No
more is birth, nor I, nor thou, nor God, nor man. The
"I" has All become, the All is "I" and
Bliss.
Know
thou art That, sannyasin bold! Say, "Om Tat Sat, Om."
"
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