Why India’s Independence Day matters to me as a spiritual person

 

Today, 15^th August, is the Independence Day of India.

India is the best country to live and die in.

Despite its numerous social, political and various other drawbacks and shortcomings, India yet beats every other country in the world at least as far as spirituality and metaphysical matters are concerned.

The mystical truths revealed in the ancient spiritual texts of India are far intellectually incisive and metaphysically relevant than all other esoteric texts of the world put together. And this I say after having gone through most of the basic and most essential scriptural writings of the major religions of current times, as too of the faith and belief of other societies and cultures existing outside India, now or in the times past. In fact I have no hesitation in saying that the scriptures elsewhere in the world - except may be for some Sufi writings here and there and the hard Gnostic teachings of Jesus, if understood with an Eastern eye of the yogic way - the knowledge contained in these foreign texts is but kindergarten stuff in comparison to, say, the Upanishads and the Vedanta.

This is because laissez faire in spiritual matters reigns India.

Anyone and everyone in India has always been free to believe in his or her own crap! In this holy land one may defer to and believe in any deity one fancies; or is foolish enough to hold true. Another may hold true One God theory. Yet the next fella may well worship all the 330000000 gods and goddesses that are said to be there in the Indian belief system. An atheist too is not shunned here. Neither is a devil worshipper or a witch burned. It may have happened in a freak case here and there in the past, committed by some utterly ignorant and extreme elements within the society. But never has it been sanctioned by the Church, as indeed had been the case in Western societies. Indians even find god in a stone. One’s next door neighbour could be an idol worshipper. In other words, as many people there are in India that many belief systems are here in India!

Yet, and despite the above mentioned open and latent differences in one’s faith and belief, the Indians do what they wish or will in spiritual matters. Of course some bad customs and rituals also exist in my motherland vis-a-vis religious practices. As often as they crop up that often they are also opposed by many. At times Indians even take it to the Courts.

However, in India opponents of each other, unlike other religious cults around the world, do not propound the ridiculous theory of the disbelievers going to hell because of their non belief. Nor do believers in one god bay for the blood of another Indian who venerates his or her own fancied deity in one’s own way.

It is so because deep within its spiritual ethos in India lies an unsaid unity of thought. Even if it is not said so aloud, it yet is present consistently and permanently hereof since the ancient times. It brings about an unsaid gentle and generous amicability of heart, mind and spirit between people. Within the Indian societal structure and culture, even among the more simple minded ones, this unwritten metaphysical tenet is held sacred. It is amazing, almost surreal, how it comes about. But it does.

Somehow people of India for most part believe that despite everyone worshipping one’s own god or goddess, at the End is but One Godhead.

This higher metaphysical truth and reality as espoused by Indian sages and seers is that an indivisible, unbreakable, eternal oneness of infinity underlies each and everything. Its message and essence stays within the ethers, so to say. It does so as do dawn and dusk in the sky, and the sky in the cosmos.

Therefore, owing to the ethereal and optimal metaphysical wisdom of higher scriptural texts of ancient India postulating that each and everything is but One, its metaphysical fundamentals, howsoever little and broken, do seem to reverberate in the skies. Thus this ‘oneness of all’ basic tenet of Indian spirituality does seem to linger on and filter down to even the lowest strata of the Indian society. As a result many a religious dispute is settled by just saying, “Well, in the End, is not there but One God?”

So, the Indian spiritual system is very unlike the Abrahamic religions.

The latter label the disbelievers in their own fancied scripturally endorsed (one) god as heathens and infidels. It is interesting to note that Judaism and Christianity do not believe their respective god is identical to each other’s or the same as the Islamic god. Thus Christian god is not the Jewish god. And Jehovah is not Allah. It matters not what the Muslims assert. However, in one way the Abrahamic religions concur. All three seek the non believers’ heads, including those of the other two! More often than not it is sought so literally.

Alternatively, even an uneducated average Indian does not thus believe or  hold true and endorse. It is so because of the ever lingering ‘one godliness’ idea ever-present in the average Indian mind; as perpetuated by the ancient saints and yogis of earlier times.

This sets apart India from rest of the world.

In other cultures elsewhere, as historically proven, more or less their traditionally handed down superstitions and beliefs seek compliance with and sublimation to their own ancestral nansy pansy. Dare one defy it or believe otherwise, then, this same cultish parochialism seeks downrightly and up-tightly the damnation and destruction of another fellow’s faith and fancy.

Howsoever lacking behind Indians may be economically, at least spiritually they are not so. For they hardly behave as badly as the belief system of other nations makes do people around the world. At the very least an overwhelming Indians would not ever harbour the thought of killing each other for believing in a god different than their own. To them it would be unholy.

If in the more recent times it has happened, then, it did so because alien cultures and their cults belligerently believe in conversion of the natives to their own fold. It is a sad fact that the pre-independence Colonists and invaders, owing to their insular and non secular isms, keep seeking an active degradation and destruction of the Indian system of faith and belief. It breaks the societal peace.

In the spirit of truthfulness and fairness it must be stated that both Christianity and Islam, though adopted by many an Indian, is largely spread here in India by conceited conversion. Though denying doing so, both isms do so. The Jews and the Zoroastrians in India keep to themselves. Unlike the Christians and the Muslims, they have never ever had any issue with their fellow Indians over matters of religion. Not a drop of blood has been shed thus. The Jews and the Zoroastrians live in peace in India. On the other hand, both Christianity and Islam are evangelical and proselytizing religions. Thus over matters of faith both are forever at war with the rest of the world; as indeed they are in India. 

On the whole however every Indian is constitutionally entitled to, as too as a verifiable ground reality, is able to practice one’s religion in peace. An average Indian does not seem to give a damn about another’s belief. If some do, then, they do so of their own free will and volition. But there is a reason even for this bad behaviour. It stems from the historical fact that Indians have been suppressed for long, for hundreds of years in fact, by the Mughal invaders and the European Colonists. Their leftover loyalists’ yet pervasive and invasive religious attitudes and actions do seem to rankle and rouse many an Indian.

Independence of India has done much to bring its people to its roots.

The root belief of India is of everyone being a child of God. It is that of there being One Godhead despite innumerable gods and goddesses. And that whatsoever faith one professes, it will take one to That Which Is, sooner or later, one day or another. Thus being the quantum idea of Indian spirituality, it makes the people of India far more peaceful than the followers of all other isms and religions elsewhere on earth.

Peace is at the root of spirituality in India.

Consequently, the mindset and milieu for seeking and finding the Alpha and the Omega in the land of my birth is exquisitely equivocal and coherently conducive for anyone sincerely wanting to know the Ultimate Reality.

Now, what has Independence of India got to do with it all?

Well, had not India got freedom from the British colonists on 15^th August 1947, we the Indians would have remained chained to the invaders’ yoke as an enslaved bull, going in circles, never getting anywhere. We would have been kept down as subdued animals and primates by this ungodly lot. These self righteous uppity usurpers, the Colonial masters were made to leave after a hard fought freedom struggle in India. Had they a choice these Colonists would have been yet bleeding India dry to date.

Written records of those times make manifest the fact that the moral and movable value system under whose banner the alien masters set foot in India was to by hook or crook convert us heathens into Christians. Their agenda was mostly religious. But it expanded and mutated into a more economical one once these greedy foreigners realized there was much bounty to be had in this wonderfully rich ancient land. The French as also the East India Company gained hold here. As did other foreign powers, the British royalty also realized they had a goldmine in their hands. Hence, with conceit and cruelty and with deceit and thuggery the Colonial British Empire occupied India.

With impunity, for close to two hundred years the British colonists pillaged and looted this holy land, which is my motherland.

To date the British have not rendered any apology whatsoever for the various atrocities committed by them in India. The Jalianwala Bagh tragedy in Amritsar is a moot point hereof. The British had ordered opening fire thereof. It resulted in killing hundreds of innocent, unarmed people who had gathered therein to protest against the British atrocities. The Queen has repeatedly refused to return the Kohinoor diamond which her loyalists and royalists stole from India. In fact, it is argued with some pretty good reasons that the Industrial Revolution in Britain came about only with the booty looted from India.

Through implicit and explicit colonial ambitions, the cohorts of the Spanish, the French and the Portugal royalty too occupied India for long periods. Their said agenda too was religious: of ‘harvesting souls’ for their god. But at the core of the black hearts of the Whites was greed and villainy. They wanted very much to do exactly what the British were doing in India; namely, suppressing the locals and taking away their vocals. Thus the aim and objective of the foreign Colonists was to eventually leave the natives impoverished, humiliated, with their basic rights as human beings usurped and eroded. And of course in the process getting the national treasure of India in their ships loaded!

Not many people know that even after the Independence of India the French kept occupying part of India till 1954. Denmark-Norway held colonial possessions in India for more than 200 years! And oh-so goody good Dutch had invaded India but got defeated in 1741. They never recovered from this defeat, and thereafter left us in peace. The Spanish were given territorial rights in India by Pope Alexander VI on 25^th September 1493, but the rights were taken away after a year or so. The Portuguese continued to occupy Goa and left only in 1961; that too only when the Indian armed forces left them no choice but to surrender. The British left after 200 years of plunder of India, the Portuguese after 400 years!

India has never invaded another country.

The so-called pillars of democracy now days and the supposedly civilized nations of the West - France, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Portugal, Britain - all of them did.

Mind you, all of these predators and marauders were Christian. Before them, from 643 A.D. onwards the Arabian looters started raiding India. Their reign lasted uptill1958, when the British defeated the last Mughal emperor and exiled him. Of course, as we all know, these Arabian invaders were Muslims.

Independence of India was also from these mental-gentle powers of alien lands.

Despite the predatory and proselytising nature of both Christianity and Islam, the people of India yet do manage to get along with them. And in modern times the Indian people are to a large extent accepting and tolerant of these alien religions, even though these faiths seek the conversion of whole of India to their own harboured god and ism.  

As a citizen of India born much after the Independence Day of India I have been made healthy, wealthy and wise by the fruits of a free society. The sacrifices made by our ancestors, my country’s freedom fighters, have enabled me to grow up in a free, secular and democratic India.

The freedom that every citizen of India enjoys now and is entitled to after its Independence cannot ever be repaid by us who are born after it. Thus 15^th August, the Independence Day of India, is a born-again day for all Indians. Exonerated from the cruel influences of and inflictions by the Colonists, we the people of India are able to hold our head up high, even now when the Chinese dragon lurks nearby. Of course much needs be done. But much has been.

We are a young democracy. But we are an old civilization.

Our minds, though often burdened by modern living, are free. Had we yet been an enslaved people we would not have been who we are today.

And what are we today?

As a direct consequence of the Independence of India, its beneficiaries, we the people of this nation can just be! No kings or queens, unlike many of the European countries even today, rule us. They may be titular heads of State, yet their monarchy yet is retained and to a large extent revered by the Whites. We got rid of the maharajas, the Europeans have not. No dictators, unlike the heads of many Arabian nations, can dictate terms to us. No religion or religious heads can enslave us.

In other words, we Indians are free to think for ourselves.

Therefore we the people of a free India were we to so choose, can be theist, agnostic and even an atheist. Alternatively, we could very well get what in ancient times Buddha did, or what the sages and seers of India had self-actualized and self-realized from the beginning of time, and that which in modern times Guru Nanak got. Thank God!

Consequently, owing to the freedom of thought and action granted to me by my holy motherland under its democratic and secular milieu, on this day, the Independence Day of India, today I as a spiritual being have got what I wished for, and wanted to be.

I breathe free. I live free. I shall die free. I am free.

I have a life.

Who are God's chosen people?

 

Each and everyone of you, whether friend or foe, is the Chosen One of God.

By virtue of being born here and now, today, and at this very moment of time having been birthed and yet alive, you are the chosen one.

At the very onset, and first of all, let us seriously consider and sumptuously comprehend the real and factual position regarding this rather simplistic and specific issue. It is of the very obvious phenomenon of being created or formed and birthed, and thus and thereof born a living being, and a human at that. The deeper spiritual and metaphysical aspect vis a vis this subject shall be taken up later on.

The present day extremely advanced scientific data and thereupon the up to date information on this particular subject that is available to us, it enfolds an almost unreal, magical and a magnificent story. It is also easy to grasp, and self explanatory. It makes it very clear and manifests to us that very simply as to how so very exclusively, extremely and extraordinarily lucky we all are - that we idiots are even born!

For in this modern age, today’s scientifically calculated and its seen and observable empirical scientific evidence lets us know clearly that a healthy adult male can release between 40 million to 1.2 billion sperm cells in just a single ejaculation. Furthermore, all it takes is but only one sperm cell to impregnate the female cell to produce a baby.

This is how we bumbling buffoons were created!

Any one of us ego maniacs may well have been the one ‘un-chosen’. Hence, could have been left out from this humongous one billion, but were not. We all could have been our very own unborn, dead siblings! By Jove! All of us, presently alive on earth as the puffed-up piss-ants and prudes that all of us humans are, have won an impossible, unwinnable lottery! So, how can we silly bums, each and every one of us, not be the ‘chosen one’? We clearly are. If you yet think, without even a blink, that we are not so, then, my dear friend, you’re the dumb one - among us all, the chosen ones!

We the ‘live’ lot among the humans, are extraordinarily lucky animals.

For reasons unknown, perhaps undeserving even, Mother Nature chose us fools to be kept alive, and thus become the birthed ones. The billion or so who were left ‘unborn’ and thus could not be here on earth presently, were so because of one simple reason alone. It is that these poor fellows were all, unfortunately, the second in the race to reach the mother sperm cell. Were these could-have-been-siblings somehow the first one to reach our dear mother sperm, we the silly alive ones now, would have been the very dead ones at present!

Thus being the scenario, dare we nincompoops even have the temerity to yet thump our chests, and foolishly and fancifully claim that we imbeciles only, individually, are ‘God’s chosen people’?

This said simple-minded silly concept belongs to times long gone.

Yet many a pugnacious assertion and supremacist superstition of those unenlightened and dark ages persists. It is egotistically nurtured. And so perpetuated. It is also willfully caused to linger on somehow, any how. It is done so by vested interests. To showcase one’s own racial and religious superiority. To be one up over the rest of the world’s populace. In their own mind at least.

Let us now openly and out rightly ‘out’ the inner beast of people.

This beast within makes a set of people, especially the supremacist and the superstitious kind, behave akin the animals we humans really are.

Consequently, whether it is said so or not, it is very much an open secret and an undeniable fact and ground reality that almost every other religion and faith is prone to propagate and perpetuate the simplistic and imbecilic idea and ideology that its own ‘personal god’ is the one and the only God.

Well, at the very least most of the overzealous but simple-minded among the adamant adherents of such cults simply and seriously do very much believe or at least cradle a very cuckoo thought. It is that somehow or the other they are specially and specifically blessed by the Lord Almighty. And therefore, they are God’s own holy crap!

Yet, it is exactly that: a witless wasteful thought, and a wanton yap.

It is precisely so because the higher ethereal facts are found to be otherwise. For essentially and metaphysically, in quintessence, the real primordial composition and the bio-chemical structural make-up of our life or soul and inner being, at the End, is found to be an Eternal Oneness. Better than us, the ancients got it so. And the self-realized, enlightened ones discovered that everything, this cosmic existence, is nothing more other or less than an Indivisibility and Infinity of One Whole.

In other words, the whole of existence is a forever-ness of oneness.

That being so, neither you nor I are, deep within, at the quantum level of the soul, any which way more than or superior to our touted infidel or foe!

Better minds among the scientific intelligentsia, like the older lot of the Nobel prize winning physicists such as Erwin Schrodinger, Max Plank etc., also were in agreement with the earlier seers, sufis and sages. Some of the present lot of quantum physicists too have reached an almost identical conclusion as had the free mystics of India in ancient times.

In short, metaphysically speaking, we are all one and the same essential and ethereal substance in our inner make. Thus it may be conclusively said that nary a difference exists between one thing and another; here on earth or ‘up there’ somewhere, in the celestial nowhere.

Therefore, all those who have by Divine Grace succeeded in letting go the devils within, they are rather quick to rid themselves of the crazy and cuckoo notion of being somehow born as one up over the other, in one’s soul and its structure. This wise lot does not set much credence upon any such asinine and idiotic assertions by some vested interest group or of a peculiar race of people. Of being the only ones of the Almighty who were or are, for some fanciful reason, individually and specifically more blessed than the rest of humankind. And thus are to be considered as the ‘Chosen of God’.

A fool says what he may, a nutcase too thereof makes hay!

One should not be a buffoon; a wild man hurling stones meaninglessly at the far off moon. Such a dumb, dorky dullness of the mind makes no sunshine emanate from any imagined or illusory sun. Neither does it birth any good morning nor gives it rise to a high noon. As does not a priest become a nun!

From the Whole of One are we soulfully, and wholesomely birthed. Ebbing every moment, all die soon enough. We shall all be there! In time, thus and henceforth soon: out of breath!

Wise is it to seek to be one with One. Hereof the Son is the Father, and the Father the Son. And all is One-o-One.

O’ ye! The chosen one! Be such a son of a gun!

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What experiences does chanting the Beej Mantra bring about for a seeker?

It is said there are 70 million mantra(s).

In simple words, mantra is an instrument (tra) of the mind (man). To do what? To take it to the Final Objective.

And what is the Ultimate Aim? It is to take the mind to the Origin or the Source of whatsoever is, here or there.

Some call this Stateless State as the Alpha and the Omega or the Absolute Truth. Others refer to it as the Realization of the Universal Self i.e. Self-Realization etc. Most people call it God.

God is not any bodily entity.

But it may be conceded that most simple people - owing to their inherited simplistic notions handed down to them by their ancestral belief system - do believe God to be a human-like or spirit-like entity. Or something of this and that sort.

Therefore, there has been a higher and a lower concept of God ever since the beginning. Similarly, there are the lowly and the highly evolved mantra(s).

Any perceived seed (beej) mantra, if it does not take the seeker to the Absolute, then, it is a lower kind of instrument of the mind.

On the other hand, if it does - that is if the mantra has the divine potential or power to take one to the Ultimate Reality of Existence - then only is to be considered as the true-real seed or fruit bearing mantra; leading to the sprouting of the Tree of Eternal Wisdom.

Seed or beej mantra are single syllable sounds.

Except for OM, all other sounds are of the lesser or the lower kind.

The other beej mantra cater to some self-invented or fancied and believed in mind-made gods. Or the same are said to arouse the basic 7 chakra within the body, in line with the spine, that yogic literature tells exist in us.

Now, coming to the specifics of  as to what has been my experience with the beej mantra; well, I can say that except for OM, eventually, the other said single syllable ‘seed’ sounds did not mean much to me as a seeker back then. And even now after getting the ‘That’ of Which Is.

Without going too much into detail, it may be said that the seed-word OM did form the frontal word of the mantra(s) I chanted during my ‘tapasaya’ or the ‘hard’ devotional and meditation practice years ago.

I heard the sounding akin OM just once - that too when I tried to confirm if such a said sound does exist. Well, it does.

However, OM is not the Sound of the Universe as most people propound.

OM is definitely a mystical sound heard during meditation. But OM by itself is not the end and the beginning universal sound as such.

For, at the Beginning and the End the only sound is but of Eternal Silence.

Out ‘There’ - in self-realization or enlightenment - when the Buddha-to-be is single-eyed; then, only the One ‘I’ of Universal Self resounds as the Absolute of All That Is.

Meaning thereby that one may take assistance of the basic/beej/seed mantra ‘Om’ to get ‘There’: the Universal Truth or God, if you so prefer to call ‘II’. It is good. And it most surely helps. As would a lighthouse in the sea assist the sailor find the shore.

Best is to chant an all-encompassing mantra which includes the seed-word ‘Om’, akin gayatri mantra. Even chanting just ‘Om’ would be good by itself. But my advice is to practice such mantra only whose meaning the seeker can understand simply and straightforwardly. The ‘maha mritunjaya’ mantra too is fine.

Summing up, use only higher seed or beej mantra. The ones catering to this or that fancied godly figure - of one’s culture - is not for the really serious seekers.

Now, this does not mean that in the beginning stages, and for quite a while, I did not recite or chant the lower kind of mantra or pray to ‘lower’ gods as such. I did. But as I advanced, and learned more, I quit the lower practice.

Problem is people keep following lower isms throughout their life.

If one is born in a particular faith, one continues to believe in its crappy part as if it only is the whole truth. One is unable to rise above it. Till it is too late. And one conks off. Harboring firm but fanciful beliefs, of a simple ‘stiff’ kind. Thus one lies in dirt with a stuck-up butt and a stiff neck in the grave or at the funeral pyre, as a stiff! Behaving akin a bot. And right till the very end, as one rots, yet believing as a bigot and a buffoon in a this or that ‘only god’ or a ‘personal’ god of a particular parochial religion or region to be the Almighty God.

And at heart yet cursing the infidel lot!

A serious seeker must meditate, self introspect, and be incessantly engaged in gaining a better metaphysical knowledge about matters that be. Then, if need be, correcting oneself; and thereafter taking the higher route. To get to the Absolute.

So too one must do with mantra.

Mantra is simply nothing but a vehicle and an instrument advocated by the seers and the sages to get the seekers to a higher metaphysical understanding, and get the higher spiritual experience. Thence, if possible - and it is very much possible - to reach the Highest Truth.

Choose a higher basic/beej/seed mantra. It will take one ‘There’ faster. It is akin taking either a car or a bullock cart to reach a destination. Your choice. Your destiny. And you know your station. Be wise.

From self-experience I say - mantra does seem to put us on the way.

But know its meaning in full, before indulging in it, and going at it full speed. Chant all you want. God speed! Yet know that it is only in the silence after the mantra that will get you the Truth.

Be silent. To know the ‘That’, which is ‘It’ - is the Cosmic ‘I Am!’

Such is the Way.

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Do all religions share a similar concept of soul?

In these modern times truth must be told as it is, not in proverbs or rhymes. 

So, truth be told, sorrily and sadly so Semitic religions and their offshoots have not a whiff or tad of an idea about the actual composition of the soul or the real nature of consciousness.

Be it Christianity or Judaism or Islam or their derivative cults, none among them has an inkling about what lies beyond the physical being of a human. They have absolutely no knowledge about the innate structural composition or ‘make’ of our innate ‘am-ness’ and ‘is-ness’ i.e. about the soul and consciousness.

Semitic isms hold that a human like physicality is God.

This humanoid is their racial, tribal and regional deity. The said ‘physical’ godly gentleman, their mythical manlike ‘father’ in ‘heaven’, is believed to have created a physical place like hell and heaven, as this empirical earth. And of course this same man-like entity is said to have created the humankind from out of mud etc. And later on, in a fit of rage, had booted out the silly man and his woman from heaven, and sort of sent them down to earth. This came to be because the stupid man ate the fruit of knowledge, on the egging of the silly wily woman. And this fact their jealous god could not digest!

Of course, this same ‘kind’ godly figure, as an afterthought, gave the hapless animals etc. to these imbecilic homo sapiens to lord over, and kill and eat the same to their heart’s content. As though the life and the horrific pain inflicted upon these so-called lower species is of no concern at all. For, to this Christian deity and his followers, the animals are but meat, and nothing more than inert matter. Hence, do not matter.

Thus held, it seems the god of Christianity has no concept of soul.

The followers of Semitic isms are not only discouraged from thinking for themselves but didactically told that to do so i.e. to question what has been penned down in their simplistic religious literature, is to blasphemy. And in fact, such an act, even in thought, is but going against God.

Hence, the Christian people are egged on and encouraged to not move an inch beyond the simple concept and precept of their bookish myth. It is the truth, and so be it,

The biblical view is unable to perceive above and beyond the physical aspect of existence. Bodily being of living things, to their deity and laity, is the real thing.

They think that the seen and structured empirical being is the only entirety and entity. And so assume that this very physical entity is by its very self - in the shape and form of a man or a woman - is ‘carried on’ unto the hereafter, after death.

As to what lies Within - that which makes a being alive, namely, consciousness and soul - about this metaphysical aspect neither their holy book nor their god has a clue.

Semitic cults worship a myth.

Their regional and racial mythology is their religious truth.

To this cultural deity they attribute higher powers, as and when they can or could. Thus holding, they fancy themselves to be endowed with the highest truth; which, by the way, comes from some kind of a force or fella behind a bush!

This mythological fairy tale they consider to be their religious duty to shove down every body else’s throat. Mostly by sword, as we learn from history. At other times, especially in the present times when conquering other people by force cannot be openly done and is not condoned, the same is accomplished otherwise - by pompous propaganda and pooh-poohing the beliefs of other people; who, of course are all of us, the infidels!

Christianity, and its interconnected Semitic ideologies, are based on blind belief. These isms are not founded upon one’s self realization and own self discovery about the Origin of things.

That is, a personal metaphysical journey of fact-finding about the Divine Truth and Ultimate Reality by using one’s own god-given brain and inner spiritual grain, is a strict no-no and an absolute taboo for the adherents of all Semitic religions, more so and especially of Christianity.

These poor people have to but blindly believe and hold true that which has been told them by their stone-age minded ancestors. And by similarly other fancied messianic entities - whether it is the unreal and unscientific idea of the earth standing still, or the sun rotating around it!

Not for them is to seek and find by their very own self as to what is or is not the truth and reality of the cosmic essence and existence.

To Christians, their handed down cultural and racial myth is the truth.

This kind of non-intellectual and irrational attitude further discourages a personal search of and about That Which Is.

Consequently, and effectively, owing to being dictatorially barred from an independent intellectual and metaphysical pursuit by one’s own self, the people of Semitic faiths seem to have fallen behind in gaining a higher metaphysical perspective and knowledge of the nature of the human soul and spirit, as too the conspicuously present and undeniable inner consciousness within us.

Christians think the physical bodily being survives death, and enters an empirical heaven, wherein they will physically live forever. And that they will thus live eternally along with their near and dear ones in this imagined heaven - all because they all profess a belief in their fancied idea of Jesus, the person, being God himself.

Of course, all others, the non-believers as you and I, are to be cast into hell. Supposedly we of every other kith and kind are but fit only to burn therein forever, unto eternity. And physically so, with our bodily human-like structure and being in tact.

Thus, as such Christianity has really and truly no idea or concept of the soul as being a metaphysical entity entirely separate from our physical being.

It seems, to the Christians the soul is a permanent physical entity in the make and image of the human self. Therefore, de facto it is the bodily being of the human-self itself. And that it, this very physical person and soul, suffers in hell or enjoys heaven.

Their god too is a human-like entity, just like they are.

The ‘Holy Spirit’ or ‘Holy Ghost’ that is their ‘Heavenly Father’, he also is such. For, in turn, this 3–in-1 god of Christianity is held to be very much the bodily form and physical being of Jesus.

So, better believe the Christian lore lest you’re cast unto eternal hell-fire, love!

The self-realized truth and metaphysical reality of That Which Is, as discovered by the sufis, yogis and free mystics of the world - outside of Semitic faiths - is the exact opposite of what the common lot of Christians in general hold true.

NON-CHRISTIAN CONCEPT OF SOUL / CONSCIENCE is as follows:-

The body dies. The divine ‘is-ness’ within, does not.

Let us, for the time being, call it soul.

This said ‘am-ness’ of ‘is-ness’ - the conscious soul, so to say - keeps birthing and dying, as an empirical entity, lower or higher. This goes on ad infinitum. Until of course the time comes when it is blessed by Divine Grace. Or it by itself realizes that verily it is not separate from ‘That’ which is the IT of the Eternal Source; in turn, which, by itself is THAT WHICH IS.

Let us, for now, call this, ‘It’, God.

In other words, as the core and crux of its primordial essence within the ‘I AM’ of our innate empirical structural make-up and bodily being, abides the ethereal IT-NESS of Universal / Cosmic Consciousness.

It is the ever-alive, ever conscious eternal essence of Whatsoever Is.

As an empirical fact, eventually this is exactly what a worthy seeker of That Which Is / God finds, as the Final or End Reality.

That it, the ‘chosen one’ among the seekers of What Is, in due karmic time by self discovers physically and literally that one’s innate essence and consciousness are ‘ONE’ with the ‘THAT’ of WHAT IS.

(As has been told afore, this self-realization process is akin a drop of water within the sea coming by the final understanding and self-realization that verily it by self is H2O, which in turn is also the fathering and mothering principle of the sea).

And that whatsoever exists is but a wholeness, a oneness. In ‘it’, there is no this or that, nor any creator nor created- as a matter of fact.

All is ‘One’. As whole of the Whole. One Whole.

It seems that the Christians think the soul and the human bodily self are one and the same. 

Alternatively, the enlightened perspective of the higher metaphysics is that the human being and entity is like the outer garment, while the soul is the real thing which survives the death of the bodily human form.

Hence, self-realized sages of non-Christian tradition tell us that it is not the human being by itself but the ‘is-ness’, the soul within it, which takes on a bodily form and experiences this earthly life.

Yet, even this worldly experience is akin the wave going through the motions of ups and downs within its own essence, of the ocean. In fact it is but water playing with itself, as both the wave and the sea. For both the created and its creator are but water i.e. H2O. Thus it means that it is but the ocean (creator) playing with its own wave-self (creation). So, actually nothing is going on - as the water is but engaged in play-acting with itself, as H2O.

Similarly understood, it must be comprehended by discerning seekers that all existence is one whole. Its eternal essence is forever engaged in a divine play. Of the ocean-like higher self (universal soul) playing with its wave-like lower self (human soul). And vice-versa.

The moment - in enlightenment / self realization / god realization /revelation - it comes to pass as a physical self-experience that in fact nothing is going on in existence but the cosmic essence eternally toying with its own self, the “I and my Father are One” is grasped as the ULTIMATE TRUTH and REALITY.

This ever ETERNALLY CONSCIOUS SELF ESSENCE is both the soul-self as well as the universal self. IT, in quintessence, is both the created and the Creator. It is One. As both the Essence within us, as too of the Cosmos and the Universe. It is the lower as well the higher self. Nay! In fact all is one self.

Therefore, no soul but all soul is! All one is! No other than ‘it’ is.

Nothing is separate from the other, in Essence. So, be it Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus or what have you, all are none other than each other!

Thus, viewed from a ‘single eye’, the enlightened perspective is - when I see you, I see no other than me! Now, if I am you, who are you?

To so find is the Final Goal.

O’ soul of souls.