tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29800667738648802202024-03-06T03:06:01.490+05:30freemysticsINFO, TOOLS, TIPS for METAPHYSICAL Understanding, SELF-REALIZATION, Life, Death Beyond. Spirituality, Philosophy, Occult, Paranormal, Seeking & Finding IT. ENLIGHTENMENT. Truth. God. Reality. THAT WHICH IS.Fakeer Ishavardas Th.D, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219932163866655418noreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980066773864880220.post-66495062134307884592020-08-15T15:37:00.000+05:302020-08-15T15:37:51.938+05:30Why India’s Independence Day matters to me as a spiritual person<p> <img alt="Indian flag Stock Photos - Page 1 : Masterfile" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-lt="" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQ6NOEeLIcfafHAvFQzNOFPTqIC9oyTz7MWgg&usqp=CAU" height="180" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQ6NOEeLIcfafHAvFQzNOFPTqIC9oyTz7MWgg&usqp=CAU" width="235" /></p><p></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Today,
15<sup>th</sup> August, is the Independence Day of India.</span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">India
is the best country to live and die in.</span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">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</i> - the knowledge
contained in these foreign texts is but kindergarten stuff in comparison to,
say, the Upanishads and the Vedanta. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This
is because laissez faire in spiritual matters reigns India.</span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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! </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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. </span></i></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This
higher metaphysical truth and reality as espoused by Indian sages and seers is
that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">an indivisible, unbreakable, eternal
oneness of infinity underlies each and everything</b>. 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. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Therefore,
owing to the ethereal and optimal metaphysical wisdom of higher scriptural
texts of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ancient India postulating that
each and everything is but One</b>, its metaphysical fundamentals, howsoever
little and broken, do seem to reverberate in the skies. Thus this ‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">oneness of all</b>’ 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?” </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So,
the Indian spiritual system is very unlike the Abrahamic religions. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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.
</span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Alternatively,
even an uneducated average Indian does not thus believe or <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hold true and endorse. It is so because of the
ever lingering ‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">one godliness</b>’ idea ever-present
in the average Indian mind; as perpetuated by the ancient saints and yogis of
earlier times. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This
sets apart India from rest of the world.</span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">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</i>. To them it would be
unholy. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">owing to their insular and non
secular isms</i>, keep seeking an active degradation and destruction of the
Indian system of faith and belief. It breaks the societal peace. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Independence
of India has done much to bring its people to its roots.</span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Peace
is at the root of spirituality in India.</span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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. </span></i></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now,
what has Independence of India got to do with it all?</span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Well,
had not India got freedom from the British colonists on 15<sup>th</sup> 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. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With
impunity, for close to two hundred years the British colonists pillaged and
looted this holy land, which is my motherland. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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 ‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">harvesting
souls</b>’ for their god. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But at the core
of the black hearts of the Whites was greed and villainy</i>. 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! </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Not
many people know that even after the Independence of India <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the French kept occupying part of India till 1954</b>. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Denmark-Norway held colonial possessions in
India for more than 200 years</i>! 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. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Spanish were given
territorial rights in India by Pope Alexander VI on 25<sup>th</sup> September
1493</b>, but the rights were taken away after a year or so. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Portuguese continued to occupy Goa and left
only in 1961</b>; 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! </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">India
has never invaded another country. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mind
you, all of these predators and marauders were Christian. Before them, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">from 643 A.D. onwards the Arabian looters
started raiding India. Their reign lasted uptill1958</i>, when the British
defeated the last Mughal emperor and exiled him. Of course, as we all know,
these Arabian invaders were Muslims. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Independence of India was also from
these mental-gentle powers of alien lands. </span></i></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thus 15<sup>th</sup> August, the
Independence Day of India, is a born-again day for all Indians</i>. 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. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We
are a young democracy. But we are an old civilization. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And
what are we today? </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As
a direct consequence of the Independence of India, its beneficiaries, we the
people of this nation can just be! <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No
kings or queens, unlike many of the European countries even today, rule us</b>.
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. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
other words, we Indians are free to think for ourselves. </span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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!</span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">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.</span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
breathe free. I live free. I shall die free. I am free.</span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
have a life. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></p><span style="color: #ffa400;">
</span><p><br /></p>Fakeer Ishavardas Th.D, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219932163866655418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980066773864880220.post-69458980234800537642020-06-05T14:52:00.002+05:302020-06-13T14:46:46.658+05:30Who are God's chosen people?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Each and everyone of you, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">whether friend or foe,</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> is </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">the Chosen One of God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">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 t</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">he very obvious phenomenon of being created or formed and birthed, and thus and thereof born a living being, and a human at that</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">. The deeper spiritual and metaphysical aspect vis a vis this subject shall be taken up later on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">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!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">For
in this modern age, today’s scientifically calculated and its seen and
observable empirical scientific evidence lets us know clearly that </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">a healthy adult male can release between 40 million to 1.2 billion sperm cells in just a single ejaculation</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">. Furthermore, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">all it takes is but only one sperm cell to impregnate the female cell to produce a baby</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">This is how we bumbling buffoons were created!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Any one of us ego maniacs may well have been the one ‘</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">un-chosen</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">’. Hence, could have been left out from this humongous one billion, but were not. </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">We all could have been our very own unborn, dead siblings</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">!
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 ‘</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">chosen one</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">’?
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!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">We the ‘</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">live</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">’ lot among the humans, are extraordinarily lucky animals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">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 ‘</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">unborn</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">’
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</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;"> second in the race to reach the mother sperm cell. </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Were these</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;"> could-have-been-siblings </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">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!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">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 ‘</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">God’s chosen people</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">’?</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">This</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">said </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">simple-minded silly concept</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> belongs to times long gone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Yet many a </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">pugnacious assertion and supremacist superstition of those unenlightened and dark ages </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">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.
</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">To showcase one’s own racial and religious superiority</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">. To be one up over the rest of the world’s populace. In their own mind at least.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Let us now openly and out rightly</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">‘out’ </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">the inner beast of people</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">This </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">beast within</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> makes a set of people, especially the supremacist and the superstitious kind, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">behave akin the animals we humans really are</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Consequently, whether it is said so or not, it is very much an open secret and an undeniable fact and ground reality that </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">almost
every other religion and faith is prone to propagate and perpetuate the
simplistic and imbecilic idea and ideology that its own ‘</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">personal god</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">’ is the one and the </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">only God</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Well, at the very least most of the </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">overzealous but simple-minded among the adamant adherents of such cults</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> simply and seriously do very much believe or at least </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">cradle a very cuckoo thought</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">. It is that somehow or the other </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">they are specially and specifically blessed by the Lord Almighty</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">. And therefore, </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">they are God’s own holy crap!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Yet, it is exactly that: a witless wasteful thought, and a wanton yap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">It is precisely so because the higher ethereal facts are found to be otherwise. For </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">essentially and metaphysically</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">, in quintessence, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">the real primordial composition and the bio-chemical structural make-up</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> of</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">our life or soul and inner being</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">, at the End, is found to be an</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"> Eternal Oneness</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">. Better than us, the ancients got it so. And the</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"> self-realized, enlightened ones</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> discovered that everything, this </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">cosmic existence</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">, is nothing more other or less than an </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Indivisibility and Infinity of One Whole</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">In other words, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">the whole of existence is a forever-ness of oneness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">That being so, </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">neither you nor I </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">are, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">deep within, at the quantum level of the soul, </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">any which way more than or superior to our touted infidel or foe</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Better minds among the scientific intelligentsia, like the older lot of the </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Nobel prize winning physicists such as Erwin Schrodinger, Max Plank</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> etc., also were in agreement with the earlier seers, sufis and sages. Some of the present lot of </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">quantum physicists</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> too have</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;"> reached an almost identical conclusion </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">as had the </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">free mystics of India in ancient times</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">In short, </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">metaphysically speaking</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">we are all one and the same essential and ethereal substance in our inner make. </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Thus it may be conclusively said that </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">nary a difference exists between one thing and another</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">; here on earth or ‘</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">up there</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">’ somewhere, in the celestial nowhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Therefore, all those who have </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">by Divine Grace succeeded in letting go the devils within</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">, they are rather quick to rid themselves of the </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">crazy and cuckoo notion</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;"> of being somehow born as one up over the other, in one’s soul and its structure</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">.
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 ‘</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Chosen of God</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">A fool says what he may, a nutcase too thereof makes hay!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">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!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">From </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">the Whole of One</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
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!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Wise is it to seek to </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">be one with One</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">. Hereof the Son is the Father, and the Father the Son. And all is </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">One-o-One</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">O’ ye! The chosen one! Be such a son of a gun!</span></div>
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Fakeer Ishavardas Th.D, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219932163866655418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980066773864880220.post-5814913489887171682020-04-08T08:01:00.001+05:302020-04-08T08:02:26.609+05:30Is Corona Virus God sent? Will it be the End of the World? What do we do?<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NSfOa9_YlN4" width="459"></iframe>Fakeer Ishavardas Th.D, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219932163866655418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980066773864880220.post-77235203023189434182020-03-05T05:10:00.001+05:302020-03-05T05:10:25.612+05:30What experiences does chanting the Beej Mantra bring about for a seeker?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It is said there are <b>70 million mantra(s)</b>.</div>
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In simple words, <b>mantra</b> is an instrument (tra) of the mind (man). To do what? To take it to the <b>Final Objective</b>.</div>
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And what is the <b>Ultimate Aim</b>? It is to take the mind to <b>the Origin or the Source</b> of whatsoever is, here or there.</div>
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Some call this <b>Stateless State </b>as the Alpha and the Omega or the <b>Absolute Truth</b>. Others refer to it as the Realization of the Universal Self i.e. <b>Self-Realization</b> etc. Most people call it God.</div>
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<b>God is not any bodily entity.</b></div>
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But it <b>may be conceded</b> that most simple people - owing to their inherited simplistic notions handed down to them by their ancestral belief system - do <b>believe God to be a human-like or spirit-like entity. Or something of this and that sort</b>.</div>
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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).</div>
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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.</div>
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On the other hand, if it does - that is if the mantra has the divine potential or power to take one to the <b>Ultimate Reality of Existence</b> - then only is to be considered as the true-real seed or fruit bearing mantra; leading to the sprouting of the <b>Tree of Eternal Wisdom</b>.</div>
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Seed or beej mantra are single syllable sounds.</div>
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Except for OM, all other sounds are of the lesser or the lower kind.</div>
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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.</div>
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Now, coming to the specifics of as to <b>what has been my experience with the beej mantra</b>; 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.</div>
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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 ‘<b>hard</b>’ devotional and meditation practice years ago.</div>
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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.</div>
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However, OM is not the Sound of the Universe as most people propound.</div>
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OM is definitely a mystical sound heard during meditation. But OM by itself is not the end and the beginning universal sound as such.</div>
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For, at the Beginning and the End the only sound is but of <b>Eternal Silence</b>.</div>
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Out ‘There’ - <b>in self-realization or enlightenment</b> - when the Buddha-to-be is <b>single-eyed</b>; then, only the <b>One ‘I’ of Universal Self resounds as the Absolute of All That Is</b>.</div>
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Meaning thereby that one may take assistance of the basic/beej/seed mantra ‘Om’ to get ‘There’: the <b>Universal Truth or God</b>, if you so prefer to call ‘II’. <b>It is good. And it most surely helps</b>. As would a lighthouse in the sea assist the sailor find the shore.</div>
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Best is to chant an all-encompassing mantra which includes the seed-word ‘Om’, akin <b>gayatri mantra</b>. 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 ‘<b>maha mritunjaya</b>’ mantra too is fine.</div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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<b>Problem is people keep following lower isms throughout their life.</b></div>
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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 ‘<b>only god</b>’ or <b>a ‘personal’ god </b>of a particular parochial religion or region to be the Almighty God.</div>
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And at heart yet cursing the infidel lot!</div>
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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.</div>
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So too one must do with mantra.</div>
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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 <b>Highest Truth.</b></div>
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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.</div>
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From self-experience I say - <b>mantra does seem to put us on the way</b>.</div>
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But know its meaning in full, before indulging in it, and going at it full speed. Chant all you want. God speed! <b>Yet know that it is only in the silence after the mantra that will get you the Truth</b>.</div>
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<b>Be silent. To know the ‘That’, which is ‘It’ - is the Cosmic ‘I Am!’</b></div>
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Such is the Way. </div>
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Fakeer Ishavardas Th.D, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219932163866655418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980066773864880220.post-14969161216077408642020-01-15T09:11:00.000+05:302020-01-15T09:31:45.252+05:30Do all religions share a similar concept of soul? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Be it Christianity or Judaism or Islam or their derivative cults, none among them has an inkling about <b>what lies beyond the physical being of a human</b>. They have absolutely no knowledge about the <b>innate structural</b> <b>composition</b> or ‘<i>make</i>’ of our innate ‘<i>am-ness</i>’ and ‘<i>is-ness</i>’ i.e. about the soul and consciousness.</div>
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<i>Semitic isms hold that a human like physicality is God.</i></div>
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This humanoid is their racial, tribal and regional deity. The said ‘<i>physical</i>’ godly gentleman, their mythical manlike ‘<i>father</i>’ in ‘<i>heaven</i>’,
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!</div>
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Of course, this same ‘<i>kind</i>’
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. <i>As though the life and the horrific pain inflicted upon these so-called lower species is of no concern at all</i>. For, to this Christian deity and his followers, the <b>animals are but meat, and nothing more than inert matter</b>. Hence, do not matter.</div>
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Thus held, <b>it seems the god of Christianity has no concept of soul</b>.</div>
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The <b>followers of Semitic isms</b> are not only discouraged from thinking for themselves but didactically told that to do so i.e. <i>to question what has been penned down in their simplistic religious literature, </i>is to blasphemy. And in fact, <i>such an act, even in thought, is but going against God</i>.</div>
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Hence, <i>the Christian people are egged on and encouraged to not move an inch beyond the simple concept and precept of their bookish myth</i>. It is the truth, and so be it,</div>
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<b>The biblical view </b>is <i>unable to perceive above and beyond the physical aspect of existence. </i><b>Bodily being of living things, to their deity and laity, is the real thing</b>.</div>
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They think that the <i>seen and structured empirical being</i> is the only entirety and entity. And so assume that this very <b>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.</b></div>
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<i>As to what lies Within - </i><b><i>that which makes a being alive</i></b><i>, namely, consciousness and soul - about this metaphysical aspect neither their holy book nor their god has a clue.</i></div>
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Semitic cults worship a myth.</div>
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Their regional and racial mythology is their religious truth.</div>
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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 <b>highest truth</b>; which, by the way, comes from some kind of a force or fella <b>behind a bush</b>!</div>
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This <b>mythological fairy tale </b>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!</div>
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<b><i>Christianity</i></b><i>, and its interconnected Semitic ideologies, are based on blind belief. These isms are </i><b><i>not founded upon one’s self realization and own self discovery about the Origin of things</i></b><i>.</i></div>
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That is, <b>a personal metaphysical journey of fact-finding </b>about the<b> Divine Truth and Ultimate Reality</b>
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.</div>
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These poor people <i>have to but blindly believe and hold true that which has been told them by their stone-age minded ancestors. </i>And by similarly other <b>fancied messianic entities</b> - whether it is the unreal and unscientific idea of the earth standing still, or the sun rotating around it!</div>
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<i>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.</i></div>
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<b>To Christians, their handed down cultural and racial myth is the truth.</b></div>
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This kind of non-intellectual and irrational attitude further discourages a personal search of and about That Which Is.</div>
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Consequently, and effectively, <b>owing to being dictatorially barred from an independent intellectual and metaphysical pursuit by one’s own self</b>,
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.</div>
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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
<b>Jesus, the person, being God </b>himself.</div>
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Of course, all others,<i> the non-believers as you and I, </i>are to be cast into hell. Supposedly <i>we of every other kith and kind are but fit only to burn therein forever, unto eternity</i>. And physically so, with our bodily human-like structure and being in tact.</div>
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Thus, as such <b>Christianity
has really and truly no idea or concept of the soul as being a
metaphysical entity entirely separate from our physical being</b>.</div>
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It seems, <i>to the Christians the soul is a permanent physical entity in the make and image of the human self</i>. Therefore, <i>de facto it is the bodily being of the human-self itself</i>. And that it, this very physical person and soul, suffers in hell or enjoys heaven.</div>
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Their god too is a human-like entity, just like they are.</div>
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The ‘<b>Holy Spirit</b>’ or ‘<b>Holy Ghost’ </b>that is their ‘<b>Heavenly Father</b>’, he also is such. For, in turn, this <b>3–in-1 god </b>of Christianity is held to be very much the <b>bodily form and physical being of Jesus</b>.</div>
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So, better believe the Christian lore lest you’re cast unto eternal hell-fire, love!</div>
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The <b>self-realized truth and metaphysical reality of That Which I</b>s, as discovered by the <i>sufis, yogis and free mystics</i> of the world - <i>outside of Semitic faiths</i> - <b>is the exact opposite of what the common lot of Christians in general hold true</b>.</div>
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NON-CHRISTIAN CONCEPT OF SOUL / CONSCIENCE is as follows:-</div>
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<b>The body dies. The divine ‘</b><b><i>is-ness</i></b><b>’ within, does not.</b></div>
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Let us, for the time being, call it <b>soul</b>.</div>
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This said <i>‘am-ness’ of ‘is-ness’</i> - <b>the conscious soul, </b>so to say - <i>keeps birthing and dying, as an empirical entity, lower or higher</i>. This goes on ad infinitum. Until of course the time comes when it is blessed by <b>Divine Grace</b>. Or it by itself realizes that verily it is not separate from ‘<b>That</b>’ which is the<b> IT of the Eternal Source; in turn, which, by itself is THAT WHICH IS.</b></div>
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Let us, for now, call this, ‘<i>It</i>’, <b>God</b>.</div>
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In other words,<b> as the core and crux of its primordial essence</b> within the ‘I AM’ of our<i> innate empirical structural make-up and bodily being</i>, abides the ethereal IT-NESS of <b>Universal / Cosmic Consciousness</b>.</div>
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<i>It is the ever-alive, ever conscious eternal essence of Whatsoever Is.</i></div>
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As an empirical fact, eventually this is exactly what a worthy seeker of That Which Is / God finds, as the <b>Final or End Reality</b>.</div>
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That it, the ‘<b>chosen one</b>’ among the seekers of What Is, <i>in due karmic time by self discovers</i> <b>physically and literally</b> that one’s innate essence and consciousness are ‘ONE’ with the ‘THAT’ of WHAT IS.</div>
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<i>(</i>As has been told afore, this <b>self-realization process</b> is akin a drop of water within the sea coming by the <b>final understanding and self-realization</b> that verily it by self is H2O, which in turn is also <b>the fathering and mothering principle</b> of the sea).</div>
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<i>And that whatsoever exists is but a wholeness, a oneness. In ‘</i><b><i>it</i></b><i>’, there is no this or that, </i><b><i>nor any creator nor created</i></b><i>- as a matter of fact.</i></div>
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<b>All is ‘One’. As whole of the Whole. One Whole.</b></div>
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It seems that the<i> Christians think the soul and the human bodily self are one and the same</i>. </div>
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Alternatively, the <b>enlightened perspective of the higher metaphysics </b>is that the <i>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</i>.</div>
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Hence, <b>self-realized sages of non-Christian tradition tell us </b>that <i>it is not the human being by itself but the ‘is-ness’, the soul within it, which takes on a bodily form</i> and <i>experiences this earthly life</i>.</div>
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Yet, even <b><i>this worldly experience</i></b><i> is akin the wave going through the motions of ups and downs within its own essence, of the ocean</i>.
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 (<i>creator</i>) playing with its own wave-self (<i>creation). So, a</i>ctually nothing is going on - as the water is but engaged in play-acting with itself, as H2O.</div>
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Similarly understood, it must be comprehended by discerning seekers that <b>all existence is one whole</b>. Its <b>eternal essence is forever engaged in a divine play</b>. Of the <i>ocean-like higher self</i> (<b>universal soul</b>)<i> playing with its wave-like lower self </i>(<b>human soul</b>). And vice-versa.</div>
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The moment - <b>in enlightenment / self realization / god realization /revelation </b>- it comes to pass <b>as a physical self-experience </b>that in fact <i>nothing is going on in existence but the cosmic essence eternally toying with its own self</i>, the “<b>I and my Father are One</b>” is grasped as the ULTIMATE TRUTH and REALITY.</div>
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This ever ETERNALLY CONSCIOUS SELF ESSENCE is both the <b>soul-self</b> as well as the <b>universal self</b>.
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 <b>all is one self</b>.</div>
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Therefore, <i>no soul but all soul is! All one is! No other than ‘</i><b><i>it</i></b><i>’ is</i>.</div>
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Nothing is separate from the other, in Essence. So, be it Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus or what have you, <b>all are none other than each other</b>!</div>
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Thus, viewed from a <b>‘single eye’</b>, the<b> </b>enlightened perspective is <b>- when I see you, I see no other than me! Now, if I am you, who are you?</b></div>
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To so find is the <b>Final Goal</b>.</div>
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Fakeer Ishavardas Th.D, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219932163866655418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980066773864880220.post-70167951914507539302019-11-14T07:06:00.001+05:302019-11-14T07:06:38.227+05:30Why we believe in spiritual gurus with so much faith?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It is mostly so because it is ingrained in us by our ancient culture.</div>
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We
in India all grow up in a mystical culture that is uniquely respectful
to our ancestral and ethnic belief system. Of course it is similarly
true for other cultures around the world too. But more so here.</div>
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Thus, <i>wrongly
or rightly we all grow up faithfully believing in some ethereal thing
or the other, under the aegis of some spiritual guru or the other</i>.</div>
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<b>We all grow up within a believing social milieu.</b></div>
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Hence,
even though the person through whom we were handed down this peculiar
thought process or belief system may have been held and proven to be
rather misguided or so very wrong, people just are unable to let go.</div>
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For a very long time, maybe a lifetime, <i>the
believing lot that has become habitual to it, keeps holding dear even
the absolutely fabricated, false and fanciful teachings of an alleged
‘great self-realized’ guru’ or a self-anointed avatar or a
self-proclaimed messiah</i>.</div>
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<b>People cannot let go habits. They inbreed in us like rabbits.</b></div>
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More or less, it is <i>our deep faith-based societal learning and leaning</i> which later on proves to be our undoing. And we keep failing and floundering in the same quagmire over and over again.</div>
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<b>We in India are for the most part a deeply believing lot.</b></div>
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The <b>Census of 2011 </b>undertaken
by the Government of India and published in 2015, proves it so fully
and factually. For, as per this officially released governmental data,
out of a<b> total population of 1.21 billion </b>(in 2011) <b>only 0.24% of Indians went on record to say that they were non-religious.</b></div>
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<i>As per the official data itself </i><b>more than 99% of Indians are religious</b>.</div>
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Furthermore, the<b> PEW Research Center</b> based in U.S.A., in its 2015 survey found that <b>8
out of 10 Indians i.e. more than a billion+ people of India, hold
religion to be a very important part and parcel in their lives</b>.</div>
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No wonder spiritual gurus are believed in with such faith; even blind faith!</div>
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The most recent UN data estimates that the <b>2019 population of India is 1.37 billion</b> approximately. It means that <b>1 of every 6 people on the planet lives in India</b>. There is <i>1 birth every second, and 3 deaths every 3 seconds</i> in our country. As per the 2015 figure released by the ‘<b>UNESCO Institute of Statistics</b>’, the Adult LITERACY RATE of India is 72.1%, and the youth literacy is 86.1%.</div>
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<i>So, no matter how backward India may be Indians are yet rather educated</i>.</div>
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That being so, the question naturally arises thereof as to why, despite being educated, <b>do
most people yet believe blindly in silly superstitions and nonsensical
uttering or littering of many a little-minded, little-some guru of India</b>?</div>
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Perhaps it so because people in general do not have the answers to ‘<i>That Which Is’</i>.
In other words, human beings are rather fragile beings, knowing little
of where we come from, whither we go, and whereof we have been.</div>
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Not knowing the answers to ‘<i>What Is</i>’,
most of us in one way or another and unsuspectingly or unknowingly fall
prey to many a charlatan along the way; who proclaims he is in the know
of the Alpha and the Omega.</div>
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In
the West, this nutty kind of an individual is prone to self-anoint
one’s self with messianic pretensions. In the East many a
self-proclaimed Buddha is apt to make a ‘<i>buddhu</i>’, a fool out of
people. In our dear beloved native land, self-declared avatars or the
so-called incarnation of this or that goddess or god abound. Like a
blood hound, they are ever ready to milk us dry, out of our well earned
money and till then our rather well kept mind. And this unsavory kind,
in this or that robe is always lurking nearby, or around.</div>
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Of late many notorious ‘<i>babas</i>’
or god-men in India, and priests of this or that kind abroad, have been
widely reported to have sexually abused minor children of their own
flock and following. What is surprising is that even many of the
educated followers of these devilish deviants still hold that the same
god-men have been mischievously framed and wrongfully blamed!</div>
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<b>Stranglehold of even bad spiritual gurus over people is beyond belief.</b></div>
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<i>What
is the way out of it? How may we rid the society of these bad apples,
seemingly always present within the spiritual traditions of each and
every faith? Is it really possible to do so, or is it merely an
over-simple wishful thinking, and rather staid?</i></div>
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Frankly, <b><i>the only way out of this sorry state of spiritual affairs is to raise our own metaphysical knowledge and awareness</i></b> to a much deeper and a higher level. And thereafter or thereupon also <i>seek the Truth ourselves - but under an able master and guru</i>.</div>
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That being so, <i>one may logically wonder as how can then one be sure that one’s chosen spiritual preceptor is really a true guru</i>,
and enlightened one at that? Does it not make one fall all over again
into the abyss of blind belief? For, mostly it is thus the very case
that <b>in general a spiritual aspirant is first and foremost asked to
believe in a particular faith or fella rather moronically and
mindlessly, before one is expected to see the results tellingly and
tangibly.</b></div>
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<i>Believing is easy. ‘</i><b><i>Knowing</i></b><i>’, so uneasy.</i></div>
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Therefore, most people believe. And hold faith dear.</div>
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The one who makes one believe so deeply in faith than reason, is usually a bodily being, a person.<i> This one may call himself a messiah and an avatar or a guru</i>. In time this seemingly righteous one, <i>who makes a believer and a spiritual aspirant a similarly zealous one as himself</i>,
such a person becomes hallowed a big name, with far fetched claims. The
poor and simple follower unwittingly becomes bewitched with, and
thenceforth, beholden to this ‘<i>lost</i>’ one, if not a nutty one.</div>
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It is a vicious cycle.</div>
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Very few people are able to outgrow or overcome it.</div>
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Personally, <b>I would advise a sincere spiritual aspirant </b>to <i>willfully nurture a </i><b><i>vegetarian lifestyle</i></b><b> </b>and <i>keep on with one’s endeavors, meditations and prayers by oneself</i> - <b>till fate finds, and karma make one meet the guru who can show him or her the Way</b>.</div>
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<i>Believe not blindly in nobody, and in nothing</i>! Better a skeptical and a sagacious non-believer than a silly and a stupid blind believer!</div>
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May all be blessed with the Way. </div>
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Fakeer Ishavardas Th.D, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219932163866655418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980066773864880220.post-19591638123092544252019-07-01T07:48:00.001+05:302019-07-01T07:48:46.010+05:30Do all religions share a similar concept of soul? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In these modern times truth must be told as it is, not in proverbs or rhymes.</div>
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So, truth be told, sorrily and sadly so <b>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.</b></div>
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Be it Christianity or Judaism or Islam or their derivative cults, none among them has an inkling about <b>what lies beyond the physical being of a human</b>. They have absolutely no knowledge about the <b>innate structural</b> <b>composition</b> or ‘<i>make</i>’ of our innate ‘<i>am-ness</i>’ and ‘<i>is-ness</i>’ i.e. about the soul and consciousness.</div>
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<i>Semitic isms hold that a human like physicality is God.</i></div>
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This humanoid is their racial, tribal and regional deity. The said ‘<i>physical</i>’ godly gentleman, their mythical manlike ‘<i>father</i>’ in ‘<i>heaven</i>’,
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!</div>
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Of course, this same ‘<i>kind</i>’
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. <i>As though the life and the horrific pain inflicted upon these so-called lower species is of no concern at all</i>. For, to this Christian deity and his followers, the <b>animals are but meat, and nothing more than inert matter</b>. Hence, do not matter!</div>
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Thus held, <b>it seems the god of Christianity has no concept of soul</b>.</div>
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The <b>followers of Semitic isms</b> are not only discouraged from thinking for themselves but didactically told that to do so i.e. <i>to question what has been penned down in their simplistic religious literature, </i>is to blasphemy. And in fact, <i>such an act, even in thought, is but going against God</i>.</div>
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Hence, <i>the Christian people are egged on and encouraged to not move an inch beyond the simple concept and precept of their bookish myth</i>. It is the truth, and so be it!</div>
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<b>The biblical view </b>is <i>unable to perceive above and beyond the physical aspect of existence. </i><b>Bodily being of living things, to their deity and laity, is the real thing</b>.</div>
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They think that the <i>seen and structured empirical being</i> is the only entirety and entity. And so assume that this very <b>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.</b></div>
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<i>As to what lies Within - </i><b><i>that which makes a being alive</i></b><i>, namely, consciousness and soul - about this metaphysical aspect neither their holy book nor their god has a clue.</i></div>
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Semitic cults worship a myth.</div>
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Their regional and racial mythology is their religious truth.</div>
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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 <b>highest truth</b>; which, by the way, comes from some kind of a force or fella <b>behind a bush</b>!</div>
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This <b>mythological fairy tale </b>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!</div>
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<b><i>Christianity</i></b><i>, and its interconnected Semitic ideologies, are based on blind belief. These isms are </i><b><i>not founded upon one’s self realization and own self discovery about the Origin of things</i></b><i>.</i></div>
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That is, <b>a personal metaphysical journey of fact-finding </b>about the<b> Divine Truth and Ultimate Reality</b>
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.</div>
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These poor people <i>have to but blindly believe and hold true that which has been told them by their stone-age minded ancestors. </i>And by similarly other <b>fancied messianic entities</b> - whether it is the unreal and unscientific idea of the earth standing still, or the sun rotating around it!</div>
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<i>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.</i></div>
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<b>To Christians, their handed down cultural and racial myth is the truth.</b></div>
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This kind of non-intellectual and irrational attitude further discourages a personal search of and about That Which Is.</div>
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Consequently, and effectively, <b>because of being dictatorially barred from an incisive, in depth and an independent intellectual and metaphysical pursuit by one’s own self</b>,
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.</div>
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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
<b>Jesus, the person, being God </b>himself.</div>
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Of course, all others,<i> the non-believers as you and I, </i>are to be cast into hell. Supposedly <i>we of every other kith and kind are but fit only to burn therein forever, unto eternity</i>. And physically so, with our bodily human-like structure and being in tact.</div>
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Thus, as such <b>Christianity
has really and truly no idea or concept of the soul as being a
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It seems, <i>to the Christians the soul is a permanent physical entity in the make and image of the human self</i>. Therefore, <i>de facto it is the bodily being of the human-self itself</i>. And that it, this very physical person and soul, suffers in hell or enjoys heaven.</div>
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Their god too is a human-like entity, just like they are.</div>
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The ‘<b>Holy Spirit</b>’ or ‘<b>Holy Ghost’ </b>that is their ‘<b>Heavenly Father</b>’, he also is such. For, in turn, this <b>3–in-1 god </b>of Christianity is held to be very much the <b>bodily form and physical being of Jesus</b>.</div>
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So, better believe the Christian lore lest you’re cast unto eternal hell-fire, love!</div>
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The <b>self-realized truth and metaphysical reality of That Which I</b>s, as discovered by the <i>sufis, yogis and free mystics</i> of the world - <i>outside of Semitic faiths</i> - <b>is the exact opposite of what the common lot of Christians in general hold true</b>.</div>
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NON-CHRISTIAN CONCEPT OF SOUL / CONSCIENCE is as follows:-</div>
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<b>The body dies. The divine ‘</b><b><i>is-ness</i></b><b>’ within, does not.</b></div>
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Let us, for the time being, call it <b>soul</b>.</div>
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This said <i>‘am-ness’ of ‘is-ness’</i> - <b>the conscious soul, </b>so to say - <i>keeps birthing and dying, as an empirical entity, lower or higher</i>. This goes on ad infinitum. Until of course the time comes when it is blessed by <b>Divine Grace</b>. Or it by itself realizes that verily it is not separate from ‘<b>That</b>’ which is the<b> IT of the Eternal Source; in turn, which, by itself is THAT WHICH IS.</b></div>
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Let us, for now, call this, ‘<i>It</i>’, <b>God</b>.</div>
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In other words,<b> as the core and crux of its primordial essence</b> within the ‘I AM’ of our<i> innate empirical structural make-up and bodily being</i>, abides the ethereal IT-NESS of <b>Universal / Cosmic Consciousness</b>.</div>
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<i>It is the ever-alive, ever conscious eternal essence of Whatsoever Is.</i></div>
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As an empirical fact, eventually this is exactly what a worthy seeker of That Which Is / God finds, as the <b>Final or End Reality</b>.</div>
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That it, the ‘<b>chosen one</b>’ among the seekers of What Is, <i>in due karmic time by self discovers</i> <b>physically and literally</b> that one’s innate essence and consciousness are ‘ONE’ with the ‘THAT’ of WHAT IS.</div>
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<i>(</i>As has been told afore, this <b>self-realization process</b> is akin a drop of water within the sea coming by the <b>final understanding and self-realization</b> that verily it by self is H2O, which in turn is also <b>the fathering and mothering principle</b> of the sea).</div>
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<i>And that whatsoever exists is but a wholeness, a oneness. In ‘</i><b><i>it</i></b><i>’, there is no this or that, </i><b><i>nor any creator nor created</i></b><i>- as a matter of fact.</i></div>
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<b>All is ‘One’. As whole of the Whole. One Whole.</b></div>
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It seems that the<i> Christians think the soul and the human bodily self are one and the same</i>. Alternatively, the <b>enlightened perspective of the higher metaphysics </b>is that the <i>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</i>.</div>
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Hence, <b>self-realized sages of non-Christian tradition tell us </b>that <i>it is not the human being by itself but the ‘is-ness’, the soul within it, which takes on a bodily form</i> and <i>experiences this earthly life</i>.</div>
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Yet, even <b><i>this worldly experience</i></b><i> is akin the wave going through the motions of ups and downs within its own essence, of the ocean</i>.
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 (<i>creator</i>) playing with its own wave-self (<i>creation). So, a</i>ctually nothing is going on - as the water is but engaged in play-acting with itself, as H2O.</div>
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Similarly understood, it must be comprehended by discerning seekers that <b>all existence is one whole</b>. Its <b>eternal essence is forever engaged in a divine play</b>. Of the <i>ocean-like higher self</i> (<b>universal soul</b>)<i> playing with its wave-like lower self </i>(<b>human soul</b>). And vice versa.</div>
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The moment - <b>in enlightenment / self realization / god realization /revelation </b>- it comes to pass <b>as a physical self-experience </b>that in fact <i>nothing is going on in existence but the cosmic essence eternally toying with its own self</i>, the “<b>I and my Father are One</b>” is grasped as the ULTIMATE TRUTH and REALITY.</div>
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This ever ETERNALLY CONSCIOUS SELF ESSENCE is both the <b>soul-self</b> as well as the <b>universal self</b>.
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 <b>all is one self</b>.</div>
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Therefore, <i>no soul but all soul is! All one is! No other than ‘</i><b><i>it</i></b><i>’ is</i>.</div>
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Nothing is separate from the other, in Essence. So, be it Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus or what have you, <b>all are none other than each other</b>!</div>
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Thus, viewed from a <b>‘single eye’</b>, the<b> </b>enlightened perspective is <b>- when I see you, I see no other than me! Now, if I am you, who are you?</b></div>
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To so find is the <b>Final Goal</b>.</div>
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O’ soul of souls. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Such is the <b>metaphysical self-experience</b> of the higher lot of <i>sages, yogis, sufis and free mystics </i>of ancient times. Of India at least.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In this <i>gnosis</i> or ultimate ‘<i>knowing</i>’, the highest knowledge so gained in the <b>stateless state </b>of <i>enlightenment and </i><b><i>revelation </i></b>manifests that in fact <b>what so ever is, nothing but One is</b><i>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That is to say that by one’s own ‘<i>Self</i>’ it is thus known and discovered that at the basic core and crux, <i>at the fundamental and essential quantum level</i>, in the ‘<i>make</i>’ or ‘<i>make-up</i>’ of our essence, <b>there is nary a difference between this or that</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In other words, and sorry to disappoint and let down the <b>holier-than-thou nuts</b> of all isms and faiths, factually and truthfully there exists no so-called ‘<i>lower</i>’ or ‘<i>higher</i>’ life here or ‘<b>up there’ </b>as such. For, a<i>ll is One</i> ‘<b>There</b>’. In the Alpha and the Omega. As the Absolute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>The Absolute is forever an indivisible, infinite, changeless oneness.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This Absolute or <b>First Principle</b>, call it the <b>God Particle</b> if you so prefer, is forever the <i>Formless Oneness of the ‘</i><b><i>That</i></b><i>’ of Which Is</i>. It gives rise to all the witnessed phenomena of forms. And when the time comes for <i>that which has been formed or is visible to us as a physical entity</i> - the worldly, earthly, human, animal form - to die; then, the same go back unto the <b>Formless Eternal Essence of What Is</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i>As would a wave rise, abate and so die unto the ocean; so do all forms.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">However, as does not an oil drop merge or dissolve naturally unto the water, so too does not the karma of beings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In
other words, as per our deeds and thoughts, the forms of afore - living
beings like us, higher or lower in physical likeness - lie dormant like
drops of oil in water, as a seemingly separate entity. To be born again
to die, and then be born again. Infinitum. Until of course this vicious
cycle of birth and death is broken.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i>It
may be ended if these physical entities realize by their own stupid
self that they are not any different in their soul-essence from That
Which Is.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Thus
this seemingly unavoidable cycle of unending birthing and so dying and
then again re-birthing and re-dying ad infinitum, can be broken down. It
could come about by the god-gifted good fortune of our own good deeds.
Or by living a godly, a non-vegetarian and a non violent life style. It
my even happen by praying, worshiping and by meditation etc.<i> It also may bless us in the form of our karmic due. Or by Divine Grace</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is the fate of all living beings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It includes us the self-centered silly dumb human beings. As too the so imagined and thought of ‘<i>lower things</i>’ akin the trillions and millions of life-forms like that of ants, mosquitoes etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>As per the metaphysical ‘knowing’ and understanding of Indian sages and free mystics of ancient times</b>, those who have done real bad deeds in their previous lives are born again and die so again and yet again as ‘<i>lower life forms</i>’ - as keet-patanga i.e. as ants/flies/mosquitoes etc. Till of course, as per their karmic due, at the given time, it all ends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Yet it must be understood well by a seeker of What Is that quintessentially and metaphysically <b>there is nary a difference in that which is life</b>; be it of the so-called higher or lower one. For there is but only ONE LIFE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So, it may be said that <b>we humans are no better or different in make and essence than anything else</b> - be it ants, mosquitoes, lizards, bees etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>All is One.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i>This
indivisibility and infinity of oneness that flows through us all as our
self and soul, is identically self-experienced by all enlightened ones
and the god-realized sages and saints of every era and age.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Those who do not know of ‘<b>It</b>’ thus, the ‘<b>That</b>’ of Which Is, know not God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i>Oneness of all that is, is the Only God.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>There
is no other godly entity or physicality up there other than a
beginning-less and an endless inseparability and unified wholeness of
infinity</b><i>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i>The </i><b>final knowing</b><i> is that no fancied and favourite personal gods, yours or mine, exist anywhere; here or there!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i>Only One is. Everywhere.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hence, respect all life. Or you shall be babying a barren woman’s unborn baby! An untruth. This the only metaphysical truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">May all pluck out non-knowledge, as one would a rotten tooth. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">The pristine and purest Ultimate Truth as per Hinduism is that ‘ALL IS ONE’.</span></div>
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else or other than it, is but an explanation of it. All the scriptures,
philosophies, isms etc. of India are but its exposition.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Spiritually of India is thus. More or less.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">And for that matter, even scientifically, the ultimate reality is such.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">That
is, if modern science were to catch up to it - the Absolute of All That
Is, as self-realized by the ancient Indian seers and sages. Then, it
too would find that there is no other absolute reality than it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>A unified singularity of eternity, </i><b><i>unto everything as everything</i></b><i>, in indivisible unity, is the eternal reality.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>All is an infinite and an indivisible wholeness and oneness.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">It is the everlasting truth and reality of each and every little thing. It is the ‘thing’ of things. It is IT!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>This eternal, infinite and inseparable immanence of the Whole, is the invincible, indestructible primordial Essence of All.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Call
‘it’ the soul of all, the universal soul, god, or nothing at all. Thus
is the nitty-gritty of it all. It is the gist and genesis of the <i>Source</i> et all.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">This
immanence of permanence runs in the veins as though of the cosmos, the
universal phenomena, including the transient and the impermanent.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>‘It’ is everything, of everybody</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Of you, and I. And yeah, even of your infidel buddy!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">In all simplicity, thus is the quintessential and eternal truth of ‘<i>Sanatana Dharma</i>:
the Eternal Religion. And to so seek and find the ‘It’ of Which Is,
thus is the pristine and postulated duty and dharma of every Indian -
nay! of all people on earth, irrespective of their religion or ism.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">It is also simplistically and colloquially referred to as Hinduism.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">So, salute the soil of your motherland, where you’re born!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">For
hither, not thither! You’ll the Truth be shown; which, by the way, to
most of the world and to billions of it inhabitants, remains unknown.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>One, and oneness is all.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">There is nothing more - to seek, or find. So, seek That Which Is. And if it be your karmic due, in this very birth, <i>you’ll find none but One</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Thereafter live and die, accordingly.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Chill out. Say, bye bye birdie!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">And you’d have won. Are done! </span></div>
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Fakeer Ishavardas Th.D, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219932163866655418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980066773864880220.post-80369833285469567142019-02-17T08:08:00.001+05:302019-02-17T08:08:45.980+05:30How can we 'awaken' the KUNDALINI?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Kundalini</b> is the ‘<i>Son of God</i>’ or the ‘<i>Tree of Knowledge</i>’ within us.</div>
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It is the mystical ‘<i>serpent’ </i>that has to be ‘<i>lifted up</i>’ / awakened / ‘<i>raised up</i>’ from slumber - to get <b>the Truth of the Absolute</b> within us. To reach God, as if.</div>
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The yogis tell us that this <i>seed or son of the Source</i> <b>lies dormant</b> at the bottom of our spine, near our genital area. It is said to lie thereof, at the base of our spinal column, in a <b>deep sleep</b> or <b>somnolence </b>as though - <b>until roused by us</b>.</div>
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<b><i>Or so is done for us naturally by the Grace of the Divine</i></b><b>.</b></div>
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is the cosmic stuff or matter from which our own life and that of the
universe is formed; and thereafter, birthed into being as a manifest
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It is the <b>soul </b>of our core and crux.</div>
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<i>So, what preparations must the seeker make to rouse or awaken the kundalini?</i></div>
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could repeat for you what the yogis or the yogic texts say. But this
much you can get from reading ancient yogic books from India. At least
the theory of it.</div>
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Hence, I will not pen down the above said bookish knowledge over here.</div>
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Alternatively, I will <i>give you some practical advice and information</i> out of that which I have learnt and gathered <i>from my own personal experience of kundalini awakening</i>. It will cut down the non-essentials. It will speed up the process.</div>
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<i>In fact, I will make it very, very simple for you.</i></div>
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At the very onset - FORGET ABOUT KUNDALINI!</div>
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<i>It shall rise up and awaken by itself </i>if you do as follows:-</div>
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<li><i>Leave eating non-vegetarian. </i><b><i>For, all life is One Life</i></b><i>.</i></li>
<li><i>Sit straight. Do not slouch or lie down in ‘</i><b><i>shava asna</i></b><i>’ i.e. in a sleeping position, lest you fall asleep. That you will, in time.</i></li>
<li><i>Do some ‘</i><b><i>pranayama</i></b><i>’ or breathing exercises. It will bring stability.</i></li>
<li><i>Chant
your mantra (s) if you have any, with closed or eyes open. Preferably
with eyes closed. The latter activity gets better results.</i></li>
<li><i>Concentrate without tension, in a natural manner, ‘loosely’ so at the space between the eyebrows (</i><b><i>gyna chakra</i></b><i>).</i></li>
<li><i>Bow deeply, within. Concept free, </i><b><i>without attachment to whatever you have learned about kundalini, god or religion etc</i></b><i>. Be detached from your favourite and fanciful ideas of and about Which Is i.e. God or Self-Realization or Revelation etc.</i></li>
<li><i>Keep repeating the whole process. Over and over again, everyday. </i><b><i>Until Divine Grace dawns</i></b><i>. Then, kundalini will rise by itself. Without you having to do anything.</i></li>
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In a nutshell, all you have to do is to <i>be a humble, a hungry and a thirsty </i><b><i>seeker and devotee</i></b> of <b>Divine Reality - </b><i>whatsoever it be.</i></div>
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<i>For until it happens, self-realization, none comprehends fully That Which Is.</i></div>
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<b>NOTE: BEWARE!</b></div>
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<li><i>Do not get attached to any visions or sounds etc. that come about. And they will, if your </i><b><i>karmic due</i></b><i> it is. For, they will blind you, make you dumb, and bind you.</i></li>
<li><i>Do not get discouraged. Keep going. Observe. Detached.</i></li>
<li><i>Do not get puffed up if </i><b><i>during meditative state</i></b><i> you witness a godly figure, especially your </i><b><i>familial-familiar deity</i></b><i> of your own particular </i><b><i>region-race-religion</i></b><i>.</i></li>
<li><i>Do
not be unnecessarily fascinated by matters in-between. Know that all
sounds and visions of any kind, your imagined or imbibed ones, die a
natural death as you advance on </i><b><i>the Path</i></b><i>.</i></li>
<li><i>Do not get frightened of or attached to any seemingly abnormal or paranormal ‘</i><b><i>happenings</i></b><i>’. Your body too may </i><b><i>shake</i></b><i>. Other things too will happen. Your ears may ‘</i><b><i>ring</i></b><i>’. You will ‘</i><b><i>see</i></b><i>’
much, even with eyes closed. Worry not about a thing. There are miles
to go! They mean nothing. They will come, and go. Fear nothing!</i></li>
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<b>You are the sired of, and in the ‘make’ of the Absolute!</b></div>
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All the best. Be resolute. </div>
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It may be <b><i>pertinent to mention here</i></b> that anyone who has <i>had even a little bit of the self-experience of KUNDALINI</i> will in all probability ‘<b>overcome</b>’ and ‘<b>rise above</b>’
all distinctions of caste, creed and country; of race, religion and
region; of man, woman and gender inequality; of difference betwixt any ‘<i>lower</i>’ or ‘<i>higher</i>’ life, of there being any ‘<i>beast</i>’/animal life and silly human life, between ‘<i>this</i>’ and ‘<i>that</i>’ life - whether of friend, family or foe!</div>
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In fact, anyone who witnesses ‘<i>All That Is</i>’ <b>after kundalini awakening, </b>he or she<b> </b>loses and lets go all such simplistic ideas of ‘<i>mine</i>’ and ‘<i>thine</i>’; which, we as insipid and stupid humans have egoistically and egotistically imbibed from our ‘<i>worldly</i>’ and ‘<i>earthly</i>’ knowledge - be it of our superstitious ancestors, or from today’s this-that all-knowing Joe!</div>
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Why does this happen?</div>
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It happens because <b>kundalini </b>or the ‘<b>wise serpent of God</b>’, once woken up from slumber as if, by itself - owing to its inherent ‘<b>holy ghost</b>’ - brings in the self-experience of <b>the Source of What Is</b>: of the <b>Absolute or God </b>as though. Hereof <b>All is the Whole, and the Whole is One</b>. Thereof <b>none is other than ‘One’</b>.</div>
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And <b>whosoever sees One, does so as One - is ‘One’.</b></div>
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To this ‘<b>Tree of Knowledge</b>’ <i>awakens us the kundal</i>ini. Welcome!</div>
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Fakeer Ishavardas Th.D, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219932163866655418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980066773864880220.post-13434488558986490712019-01-07T08:40:00.000+05:302019-01-07T08:40:06.785+05:30Are Indians pro LGBT?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Frankly, no.</div>
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For the <i>facts enumerated</i> in the <b>latest Census of India (2011)</b> make it absolutely, perfectly and perceptively clear that <i>taken
as a whole, an overwhelming majority of the people of India does not at
all support the ill-conceived and unenlightened practice of
homosexuality, lesbianism and bisexuality etc.</i></div>
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As to why it is so, to that aspect we will come later on.</div>
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Let the facts speak for themselves, for now.</div>
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In the <b>latest available statistics on religion</b> - which are of the 2011 Census, <i>made public on 25th August 2015 by the government of India</i> - for the very first time since the Independence of India, a new category of “<b>no religion</b>” was added to the said survey and its statistics.</div>
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As per this released data, out of a<b> total population of 1.21 billion </b>(in 2011) <b>only 0.24% of India is presumably non-religious.</b></div>
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Derivative
thereof, it could thus be considered that these people either do not
follow any particular religion, or alternatively, fall under the
category of non-believers, atheists, skeptics etc. In other words, this <b>minuscule percentage</b> of the Indian population, could very well be said to be actually and factually <b>not</b> <b>practicing any formal religion as such. </b>But
it does not mean that these very same people may not be following some
other kind of a spiritual path or a free mystical practice than that
could not be formally listed under a religious faith or considered to be
one of the major or minor religions of India.</div>
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The major religions of India are <i>Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism</i>. A small number of <i>Zoroastrians</i> and some other <i>religious minorities </i>- constituting approximately <b>0.67% </b>of the population - are also listed in the 2011 Census of India.</div>
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The <b>orthodox and well laid down traditional view</b> of <b>Christianity, Judaism and Islam</b>, as found and is well known from their holy scriptures -<i> from unimpeachable written records</i> - is not only <b>vehemently and violently opposed to homosexuality and lesbianism</b> but also <b>seeks death</b> for those following this kind of a considered <i>hedonistic lifestyle</i>.</div>
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On May 25th 1999, in a recorded public interview, the <b>Dalai Lama</b> made clear that <b>homosexuality etc. cannot be condoned in Buddhism</b>.</div>
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<b>Hinduism</b>, <i>though not seeking death penalty for homosexual behaviour</i>, too <b>does not in any way approve of it</b>.</div>
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As early as <b>350–450- B.C.</b> it was laid down in the ancient Hindu scriptural text <b>Dharmasutra of Apastambha </b>(1:19:15) as follows:</div>
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“<i>A man </i><b><i>who ejaculates his semen in any place other than the vagina</i></b><i> becomes equal to a thief, </i><b><i>equal to a murderer of a Brahmin</i></b>.”</div>
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The ancient scripture <b>Manusmriti</b> which was penned down in <b>200 B.C</b>. - though traditionally said to have been written in <i>1500–2000 B.C.</i> - considers homosexuality etc. as “<b>an unnatural offense</b>”, causing one to <b>fall from one’s high state of birth </b>(11:68).</div>
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As for <b>lesbianism</b>, <i>Manusmriti (8:370-371) advocates</i> <b>tonsuring the offending woman’s head, cutting off her two fingers and parading her on a donkey in front of the entire community</b>.</div>
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In the holy book of <b>Sikhism</b>, in <i>Sri Guru Granth Sahib</i>, though no mention of any such act as homosexuality etc. is made in written, the <b>natural state of being</b> (<i>sahaj</i>) is <i>advocated for God-realization</i>.
Therefore, no sagacious and spiritually inclined member of the Sikh
community would ever even think of condoning lesbianism or
homosexuality. <i>Frankly, and generally speaking, the Sikhs scoff at it</i>.</div>
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Now, from 2011 Census of India we already know that <b>99.79% </b>(<i>minus 0.24%, who say they have ‘no religion’ per se</i>) <b>of Indians are rather very religious in nature, in their living and lifestyle.</b></div>
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In its <b>2015</b> survey, the<b> PEW Research Center</b>, based in U.S.A., recorded that <b>8-in-10 Indians </b>(<i>out of the 1.31 in 2015</i>)<b> said religion is very important in their lives</b>.</div>
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Hence, close to <b>1,048,000,000 or approximately 1.05 billion Indians </b>(in 2015) held that <b>religion is a vital component and a sine qua non in their life and living.</b></div>
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In other words, this <b>humongous religious populace in India</b> <i>to whom religion is extremely important in its life - </i><b>being true followers of one’s own particular religion</b> - would <b>most likely abide by and similarly hold </b>that <b>whatever their specific faith postulates, </b><i>be it in the matter of such acts as HOMOSEXUALITY & LESBIANISM etc.</i><b>, it is to be upheld, and followed to the farthest extent, come what may</b>.</div>
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Of
course a few among them being a bit more liberal minded may not be so
strict in judging the LESBIANS, GAYS and the BISEXUALS. But in general,<b> since their religion specifically teaches so, more or less the people too believe what their religion teaches</b>. Otherwise they would not be following it.</div>
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So, empirical facts tell us that INDIANS ARE NOT PRO LGBT.</div>
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Very recently the Supreme Court of India decriminalized certain sections of <b>Article 377</b> regarding imprisonment for homosexuality etc., though not the portions that concern pedophilia or bestiality.</div>
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Yet it is apparent from the available <b>self-explanatory empirical data</b> provided above, that on the whole the <b>vast majority of people of India neither approve of nor advocate any acts of homosexuality, lesbianism or bisexuality etc</b>.</div>
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It may also be interesting to note that in the afore said case in the Supreme Court, <i>in the affidavit filed by the Ministry of Health</i>, it was submitted that “<b>The population of Men who have Sex with Men was estimated to be 25 lakh in India</b>.”
Thus, even if extending the number all that much more to include the
lesbians etc., still the number of LGBT community would stay very, very
small.</div>
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<b>This troubled lot though tiny, trouble themselves more, and then so many.</b></div>
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on a metaphysical level too such sexual acts are considered a silly and
a simplistic mistake, at the very least an aberration, and a fall from
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This is so because in SELF REALIZATION it is found that the <i>Essence of each and everything in existence</i> is ONE.</div>
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From ‘It’, this ONENESS, manifests all that is, whatsoever it is.</div>
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We keep birthing, dying and are reborn time and again in a never ending vicious cycle because<i>
in dual-consciousness the human mind and being has been misled and thus
mistakenly learned over time that we are a separate entity from the
Whole</i>.</div>
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<b>The birthed soul, under an illusion of dual-consciousness, forgets that it is One with, and never separated from That Which Is.</b></div>
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Again, <i>in this illusory world of duality</i>, the poor human being yet gets all the more entangled in the snare and allure of its monkey-mind.</div>
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<i>It,
the human brain, somehow tricks the humankind to think it is this and
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Thus is birthed the illusion of one being who one is not!</div>
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<i>First of all, we are not mere some bodily beings. </i><b><i>We are a spiritual state of non-being</i></b><i>. Secondly, we are not just beings. </i><b><i>We are beyond being</i></b><i>.</i></div>
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We are in fact the ‘That’ of What Is.</div>
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In quintessence, at the core of our being this ‘<i>is-ness</i>’ of the <b>Immanent Source</b> in us - unknown to us thus far - is our TRUE IDENTITY.</div>
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Therefore, <b>sexuality is an illusory state</b>.</div>
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Already burdened by the <i>duality-conscious state of mind</i>
in this birthed entity, some frail people become doubly troubled and
ensnared by another set of tomfoolery and disunity i.e. homosexuality
etc.</div>
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<b>In Essence, we are neither a man nor a woman; or even an entity.</b></div>
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<i>We are the Infinite, Immanent Eternity itself.</i></div>
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Thus the Awakened find. <b>In enlightenment, at the End, no this-that or sexuality is</b>. <i>Not even uni-sexuality is</i>. All that exists a DIVINE UNITY is!</div>
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<b>To this end, to understand that we are IT, are we born</b>.</div>
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to become all the more little, by taking up this or that duplicitous
identity, is to lose ‘It’: the Ultimate Truth and Reality of What Is.</div>
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To attain it - <b>the Absolute Truth </b>-
we have to break all our chains, be it of the mind or of spirit. We
have to purposefully and resolutely free ourselves from the entails of
all our inculcated concepts, imbibed isms and even get rid of some of
the imbecilic teachings somehow left meandering in own inherited
religions - truth be told.</div>
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Besides it, thinking and doing otherwise -<i> folly fully fancying oneself to be what in essence one is not </i>- is to but getting needlessly and unnecessarily entangled in the devil’s horns.</div>
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<b>We have to learn to be more. And be Whole</b>. ~_~</div>
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As
in today’s time, even in the ancient times people were rather reluctant
to talk about such matters as homosexuality etc. For it was either too
embarrassing a matter or is an act of such a lowly and a ‘lower’ kind
that spiritual people in general just stay away from talking about it.</div>
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Thus,
it must not be assumed LGBT has any sanction whatsoever of the Indian
populace. Or that the people just do not give a crap about it. They do.
Very much so. The facts stated above speak for themselves.</div>
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<i>Come to think of it, I too would not have spoken about it.</i></div>
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then, like the readers, I am from these modern times. I have the
privilege of having had one of the best basic and advanced education my
parents and my motherland could provide. Hence, like other people of
today, for or against any matter, I stand. And speak.</div>
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<i>The metaphysically aware would be wise to keep on the Way, without getting distracted by erroneous ways of those who stray.</i></div>
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Ponder over it.</div>
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May all be healthy, wealthy and wise. ~_~</div>
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Fakeer Ishavardas Th.D, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219932163866655418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980066773864880220.post-45297227611431945342018-10-02T06:56:00.001+05:302018-10-02T06:56:54.896+05:30Is it possible to meet your alternate self in a parallel universe?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the Absolute Reality, alternative realities do not exist.</div>
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But,
yes, theoretically, parallel universe akin our own, could very well
exist. However, do they, other universes, exist for real?</div>
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Science speculates, does not exactly have an answer. Hawkins thought there may be a few, in all probability and possibility.</div>
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Since
the query has been addressed to me personally, therefore, it may be
safe to assume that the answer sought is also from a metaphysical view
point. Thus, it seems the query does not limit itself to seeking answers
from only the present-day scientific view. It is open to learning and
getting to know the alternative findings, especially of the free mystics
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Hence, I shall speak only of the metaphysical reality of the universe.</div>
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Scientists,
through empirical means, by their own observation and experience in
this limited three dimensional world, seek to find the nature of the
universe.</div>
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<i>The ‘other’-worldly or supra
natural self-experience - within the naturally endowed human
Consciousness - is more or less ignored and hardly acknowledged by
popular modern day science, if at all.</i></div>
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Mystics know this world, as well as any other normal person of this world.</div>
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But
they do not bind themselves to this modern day indulgence, of seeking
the answers to existence in only one dimension - the earthly or the
worldly one.</div>
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<b>Scientists limit themselves. Mystics do not.</b></div>
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Do the mystics find any parallel universes in their search for Truth?</div>
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Well, putting it succinctly, eventually, <i>the self-realized free mystics of every area and era find an endlessness and oneness as the Whole of Whatsoever Is.</i></div>
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It is, and shall so be found, at all times to thus be metaphysically true.</div>
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<b><i>At the End is but One Whole. In ‘It’, no parallel universes or alternative universes are found to exist or subsist.</i></b></div>
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An immanent, infinite, indivisibility permeates everywhere.</div>
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From
this immanence of permanence, emanates each and everything - including
our known universe, and other unknown cosmic phenomena.</div>
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<i>There is just One Self. All else is its illusory elf.</i></div>
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<b>Since
there is just One I-ness as the eternal and end reality, the
possibility of a parallel or an alternative self does not arise.</b></div>
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<i>So, no! No parallel self is found anywhere ‘out There’.</i></div>
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<b>Only ‘One’ - as the Infinite, Eternal, Indivisible Self - is found as the Alpha and the Omega. And as the Beginning and the End.</b></div>
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This One Real Self, is the immanent reality in everything. Is the All of What Is.</div>
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‘It’,
the Universal Self in itself - as per its eternal and infinite nature -
is immanent and indivisible. It does not divide itself, reproduce its
‘clone’ self, or make an alternative or parallel to its own-self. For,
it is but One Self.</div>
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The seeming reproduction from this changeless ‘It-ness’ is but a mirage.</div>
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It does not happen, but seems to.</div>
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This
seemingly ‘sired’ illusion is what is witnessed as the ‘seen’ universe.
So are we, as human beings, an illusory play from ‘It’. In its ‘make’.</div>
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Now, a question arises, consequently.</div>
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It would run thus - “So, okay, <i>in the Absolute there is no alternative reality or parallel self. Just One Self and its Ultimate Reality</i>.<i>
But on the way to ‘It’, could there be parallel universes, and
therefore, the possibility of meeting an alternative self to one’s own
self</i>?”</div>
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Theoretically, anything is possible under the aegis of Theo.</div>
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But practically, no!</div>
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Seekers in the paranormal and supra-normal realm, do not find or witness an alternative self, a parallel-self to one’s own-self.</div>
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They
do witness a fantastical, unimaginable, supra natural scenario ‘out
there’ in the meditative consciousness. Even indefinable permutation and
combinations of alternative, incredible realities!</div>
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Yet, no alternative or parallel self! Sorry.</div>
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Therefore, it is advisable to let go seeking mind-made, made-up fantasies out ‘here’. For, sadly, facts speak otherwise.</div>
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Know that besides ‘One’ nothing is ‘out there’.</div>
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And so too out here! ~_~</div>
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all fairness to the questioner, the ‘That’ of Which Is, call this ‘It’
or whatsoever, is absolutely and inherently capable of making manifest
any alternative reality. Or a supra natural spectacle.</div>
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Thus, it - Mother Nature - can and does seem to produce the ‘alternative self’ phenomenon some times.</div>
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So, it is <i>known in metaphysical circles</i> of people <b>witnessing simultaneously</b> the <i>‘alternative’ or ‘parallel’ self</i>
of another ‘higher’ being - say, of a spiritual guru or a self-realized
person etc. - at another place other, than the one this physical entity
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In other words, this supra normal phenomenon - <i>of a person reportedly seen to be present at two different places at the same time</i> - has been reported.</div>
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Have I seen it? No! Have other people? Yes! Do I personally know of it actually and factually happening? Yes!</div>
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But yes! I have personally been witness to physical phenomena akin it, in kind.</div>
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And
yes! Being of a scientific temper, with even a degree in science,
having witnessed such ultra-scientific happenings, I’ve been as much
boggled and bowled over as would’ve been any other person witnessing it.</div>
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It happened years ago though. Half a century back!</div>
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Anyway, theoretically, in the metaphysical realm anything is possible.</div>
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Even producing anything out of nothing! ~_~</div>
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From whither cometh, thither all goeth.</div>
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what is soul, and what’s death? Do we possess a soul, or are we just a
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Such questions arise naturally in a thinking being. And they must be addressed.</div>
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Science
would have us believe in its invincibility. However, it has no answers
to life and death beyond a dictatorially thrown-up, theoretical
explanation. Of ‘dead’ chemicals somehow coming into being owing to a
big bang a few billion years ago, whereby ‘all this’ was created. And
then, the same non-sentient chemicals whimsically got to ‘banging’ each
other. Thence, <i>owing to the ‘dead’ screwing with other ‘non-life’, up comes life</i>! In a process of a evolution of sorts.</div>
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<b>As to how consciousness enters life, science has no explanation.</b></div>
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higher spiritual traditions, especially of India, do provide answers
about the basics of the soul, its consciousness aspect, and its
hereafter. Many an ancient gnostic scripture exist thereof, laying down
the fundamentals of the metaphysical reality. It is all told
straightforwardly by the sages of India, based on their self-discovery
of the Absolute of All That Be.</div>
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So, <i>what is the self-experience of freemystics vis-a-vis the soul, and death</i>?</div>
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the meditating being whose destiny it is this time to “get” the
Beginning and the End as a verifiable fact, this Buddha-to-be finds that
in the Absolute of Truth, the Ultimate Reality is that<b> nothing exists ‘here’ or ‘there’ except a soulfulness of oneness. </b>As the Innate Essence.</div>
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In simple words, <i>no separate soul of the living being is found, as existing differentiated from anything else ‘out there’</i>. This is the self-realization of enlightened sages of India.</div>
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<i>All existence is an unbroken, a unified all-ness of oneness.</i></div>
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That is,<b> only One ‘I-ness’, as the All of the Whole, is the End Reality</b>.</div>
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This
‘I’ of the Cosmic Absolute does not see itself as different from
existence as a whole. Wherever “IT’ looks, it finds its SELF.</div>
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Therefore,<i> quintessentially, we are all the indivisible infinity of existence</i>.</div>
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Alternatively, it means <i>all existence is a singular self-knowing soul-ness</i>. In other words, <b>there is no soul in us, but a universal soul-full-ness</b>!</div>
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‘It’ is the life of all, as a unified wholeness, <b>an unbroken oneness sans a second</b>.</div>
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Hence, <i>life
and the Beyond is an indivisible and an inseparable infinitude of
singularity, of a unity-conscious-soulfulness. Of endlessness</i>.</div>
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In order not to drowned in undue verbosity, it may be simply stated that <i>the Ultimate Truth of the Absolute Reality is that life and death, and the thereafter, is but a Single Whole</i>. As say, heat would be in fire. Or as milk is in curd.</div>
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That
is, in its essential pristine soul-substratum and life-substance, no
separation exists in life and death, or the beyond. All ONE WHOLE is.</div>
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Therefore,
after death, the soul exists as a possibility of re-birth - as a wave
does in the ocean. The wave rises - is born as though - and then,
subsides. So, it seemingly dies. Yet it rises up again - reborn as if -
and so on, and so forth. Similarly is the case of the soul of the living
beings. <i>It - the soul</i>, so to say -<i> stays as an ‘alive possibility’ within the Whole</i>. In time, becoming a this or a that. Until it’s return to the Absolute.</div>
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As
the essence of the wave and the ocean is but one - is water -
therefore, both the creator (ocean) and the creation (wave) are
identical in ‘make’. Analogically, from this theological reference, it
may be said that the soul of the wave neither lives nor dies, but is a <b>foreverness of possibility</b> within the ocean, of water. It is thus similar for the living entities, especially us, the humankind.</div>
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In time, as karmically ordained, <i>the soul which is in fact nothing but a duality-conscious no-thing-ness of everything-ness</i>, this seemingly ‘dead’ entity is ‘reborn’ in <i>the infinite indivisibility of the unity-conscious wholesomeness.</i></div>
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Summing up, it may be said that <b>the soul is nothing but the ‘forgetful’ oneness that thinks it is separate from the indivisible whole</b> - which is its true identity.</div>
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It lives, dies, and is reborn in dual-consciousness. Ad infinitum. Until it reaches the <i>State of the Stateless - of self-realization - that it is nothing else or other than the Whole</i>.
Or it is so blessed by the Grace of That Which Is. Owing to which, even
without knowing the Ultimate Truth, the devout born-entity thereafter
lives on eternally as the Infinite Absolute of the Whole of What Is.</div>
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The <i>choice for spiritual seekers is to either reach enlightenment or seek Divine Grace to take care of the worshiper</i>. The former state a rare one reaches, the latter anyone may be blessed with.</div>
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The
really wise ones stay endlessly in devotion to That Which Is, harming
none on the Way, and surrender in worship to the Grace of the Absolute.</div>
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Thereupon, the human soul rests in peace.</div>
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Not
in isms, or under the stupid dictum of silly god-men or of ill-informed
and self-proclaimed messiahs, but at lotus feet of the Divine Truth and
Reality. Of Unity Consciousness of Oneness, of All That Is. Most call
this - the Absolute - God.</div>
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May you live, and
die in Self-realization. As the Universal Self - the divine ‘It-ness’
that is neither this nor that, soul nor soul-less-ness, empty nor full,
and neither lives nor dies. But is the forever ‘Is-ness’ of the Whole.</div>
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So, go nowhere, but within. To live forever. As ‘That’.</div>
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Fakeer Ishavardas Th.D, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219932163866655418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980066773864880220.post-20433327485543839642018-07-04T05:47:00.001+05:302018-07-04T05:47:59.348+05:30Is BLACK MAGIC real?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There is no black magic. Just a wondrous oneness of ‘All That Is’.</div>
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The
reality is that owing to our duality conscious ego-derived and driven
mindset, we see and experience only ‘this’ and ‘that’ every day of our
life. That is, everything seems separate from us, as some subject or an
object - hardly ever a part of us.</div>
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However, <i>in quintessence, at the principal substratum level, all that we see hither or thither is nothing but an indivisible whole</i>. What it means in simple words is that whatsoever is,<b> this existence now or hence, is a continuum. An unbreakable unity of being</b>.</div>
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Only
at a simplistic level of understanding do people view “all this” - our
world “here”, and the rest of the universe “out there” - as something
“other than us”.</div>
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“<i>The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real</i>.” ~<b>Erwin Schrodinger</b> [Austrian physicist, <b>1933 Nobel Prize for Physics</b>]</div>
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The freemystics of ancient India called this seemingly world-appearance as ‘maya’ - an illusory state of non-being.</div>
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In other words, though we may see it so, and therefor, feel to be a part of this world, yet “all this” - I, you, them! And a<i>ll that is, the universe and us - is but a ghost of nothingness</i>.</div>
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It is very much like the serpent we see in the rope at night, but in the morning find it to be unreal.</div>
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Similarly,
once the bio-chemical “this-that-ness” of existence is delved into its
essence and to the extreme, the most advanced scientists insist, as did
the <b>Nobel prize winning physicist, Niels Bohr</b>, that “<b>everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real</b>.”</div>
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One of the most brilliant <b>theoretical physicists</b> of the 20th century, <b>David Bohm</b>, held <i>identical view of this existence as the freemystics of India</i>, of it being an “<b>undivided wholeness… an implicate order… an unbroken and undivided totality</b>.”</div>
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It is no wonder that these physicists, all possessing wondrous minds, along with other <b>Nobel laureates </b>as <b>Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg</b> etc. had read, and had derived the basics of their quantum science and beyond from the <b>metaphysical teachings</b> propounding the <i>oneness and unity of everything - </i>namely, the<i> </i><b>VEDANTA</b> texts, the <b>UPANISHADS </b>of ancient India.</div>
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So,
how does the above provided information answer your question, of black
magic being “real” or not? Well, it should, without my telling you - if
you’re receptive, and perceptive enough.</div>
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But
telling it as it is, you should “get” it that the epitome of knowledge,
as revealed by the self-realized ancient freemystics and sages of
ancient India, and by the advanced scientific minds as the
afore-mentioned Nobel laureates, is that <i>the “otherness” experienced by us is just an illusion, an unreality sensed foolishly as though as real, by our physical senses</i>.</div>
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However,
once the seeking of ALL THAT IS goes beyond the “seen” phenomena, both
the ancient freemystics and the modern physicists self-discover that “<b>Basically, everything is one,</b>” as observed the Nobel prize winning scientist, <b>Barbara McClintock</b>.</div>
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What should all this mean to you?</div>
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It tells us that <b>we must not be afraid</b> of <b>shadows of unreality</b>.</div>
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This <i>whole world phenomenon, ultimately, is a magical unreality</i>. Meaning thereby, that in the final analysis, even<b> we are nothing but an is-ness of no-thing-ness</b>.</div>
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For, that we call <b>existence, is but an infinite indivisibility of unity</b>.</div>
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Now, <i>in this unreal world, the possibility of another unreality - black magic - is but an impossibility</i>!</div>
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Learn to <b>be a detached witness</b> to all that is happening in this illusory world.</div>
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And <i>whenever
the “otherness” strikes your heart and mind, crush it like the bug it
is in light of “oneness” that is the ultimate reality of this universe,
and existence</i>.</div>
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“<b>The task is, not so
much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet
thought, about that which everybody sees.</b>” ~<b> </b>Erwin Schrodinger</div>
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Live freely. In Self-Knowledge.</div>
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Fakeer Ishavardas Th.D, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219932163866655418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980066773864880220.post-60614805430160247462018-06-07T06:56:00.003+05:302018-06-07T06:56:49.936+05:30Why does meditation help reduce stress?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Meditation or ‘dhyana’ in Sanskrit, mean more or less the same - to contemplate.</div>
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This
concentration of one’s being and senses, and the resultant byproduct -
the deeply endused contemplation thereof - could be over anything.</div>
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<i>It may be over nothing but the inner self itself too.</i></div>
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The
latter would be the metaphysical aspect of meditation. It is about this
particular and specific ‘kriya’ or process brought into play, that the
general populace is more curious about.</div>
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The query herein is perhaps regarding this esoteric side of meditation.</div>
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For, <i>a
normal person is apt to wonder as to how by merely closing one’s eyes,
and then staying concentrated thereof, do anything at all</i>?</div>
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More specifically, how could this seemingly simple act relieve one of stress?</div>
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But
before we go into the metaphysics of the matter, let us first find out
as to what exactly is stress, and how does it effect or enter our being.</div>
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Stress
comes about when the bodily being deals with other similar contesting
or contrasting entities in this world. Or when the incessant happenings
going on in the outside world somehow disturb the inner status or
equilibrium inside us.</div>
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<i>Stress is natural and normal - once we are born.</i></div>
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It
is a part and parcel of life. Nobody is free from stress. Few are able
to get rid of it completely. It effects even the wisest amongst us.</div>
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<b>Why is it that stress effects us all: comes to us whether we want it or not?</b></div>
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It is is because we are not in harmony with life itself. We are ‘two’ with the world. We are unable to be ‘one’ with it.</div>
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<b>Why are people not ‘one’ with this cosmic juggernaut called life?</b></div>
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People experience the outside world as one’s competitor.</div>
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<i>Seeing
‘two’, in a dual-conscious state of mind, they do not ‘get’ the
metaphysical reality that the outside and the within are but One.</i></div>
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To
be able to comprehend or at the very least tangibly feel that the
outside and the within are not separate in quintessence, one has to
meditate.</div>
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When one meditates, one goes within one’s own-self.</div>
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Now, only the spiritually aware and the metaphysically awakened know that <i>the
moment one closes one’s eyes, concentrates within, an unsaid cosmic
‘kriya’ or otherworldly-process comes into play automatically</i>.</div>
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All one has to do is to just do it! The rest, Mother Nature does.</div>
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<b>It is the Way of the ‘That’ of Which Is. It is the Nature of the Absolute.</b></div>
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<i>For,
when any entity having life at its core goes unto its self, a
cosmic-current that is immanent in Whatsoever Is and its creation, gets
automatically connected to its Source - howsoever feebly.</i></div>
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<b>Even an atheist would get a feeling of calm as he or she goes Within.</b></div>
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A
non-believer or a skeptic may not put it down to anything metaphysical,
but they cannot deny that by the mere act of closing one’s eyes,
staying still therein, does bring in a certain level of tranquility in
one’s body and being. It may be less or more, maybe even negligible, but
it does happen.</div>
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Why does it happen? And what happens when we go Within?</div>
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Going within sets in motion a domino effect. <i>The
bricks of the stubborn walls of dual-consciousness start falling one by
one, each taking down the other - whether one wants it or not</i>.</div>
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Once put into motion via meditation, the ensuing and inevitable cosmic process cannot be prevented from happening.</div>
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<i>For, within us is an infinite immanence that stays unperturbed and one with All That Is at all times - in fact, forever</i>.</div>
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<b>Not
even life, death or afterlife can disturb this immanent cosmic unity
running through the primordial essence of each and every little thing
which was or is or shall be!</b></div>
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<i>What is Within does not view the outside as another but its own Universal Self.</i></div>
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Hence,
the dual-conscious mind-set that ‘dares’ go Within, starts getting
grabbed-up by the ever-present unity-consciousness within. As a
long-lost sibling as though.</div>
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<b>It is the Nature of the Thing-in-Itself that whosoever goes towards it, is cosmically embraced by the ‘It’ of What Is.</b></div>
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Thus, if you meditate, you are in trouble!</div>
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<b>The Cosmic Absolute kicks in the moment anyone ventures Within.</b></div>
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For,
within us is the domain and reign of ‘That’ which is the soul-essence
of our life and being. It is akin the vast ocean, which by its very
inbuilt and endowed nature cannot but take-in each and every drop of
water, as one’s own self.</div>
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Hence, the moment
one closes one’s eyes and meditates and goes within thereof, the Cosmic
Self starts pulling the duality-minded entity towards itself. As say, a
giant magnet would an iron pin.</div>
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Now, since
the Universal Absolute is but single-eyed at its core - meaning thereby
that it ‘sees’ no ‘other’ than itself as all that is - its <i>cosmological
nature of eternal oneness starts absorbing the duality-conscious
being-ness unto its Infinite Bliss of Unity-Consciousness</i>.</div>
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<b>Consequently,
the dual-conscious body and being, howsoever stressed or sad - once it
has got connected to the Within - it sort of gets pulled unto the
embrace of the Transcendental Equanimity of Eternal Reality.</b></div>
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As
a result of this indescribable, inexplicable and immanent
metaphysical-happening within, the dual-conscious body and being of a
practitioner of meditation starts feeling his or her stressed-out self
getting stretched-out into a sleep-like joyful state of being.</div>
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<b>It feels as if one has bathed in the Ganges of Tranquility.</b></div>
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For, unknowingly, the meditating person has!</div>
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In short, <i>the
meditation process by its very nature makes the inherent micro-cosmic
and macro-cosmic metaphysical aspects, lying dormant in our self, come
alive. And become One with the Absolute of all that is</i>.</div>
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Therefore,
a meditating person, whether spiritual or agnostic, would feel the
stress going out of them after a while - as though getting absorbed, or
pulled-in somewhere there in the vast comic-ocean deep Within.</div>
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At
the very least, as one continues the ‘kriya’ of ‘dhayana’, one’s stress
would either be substantially reduced after meditation, or it will be
found to be but ‘missing in action’ altogether!</div>
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So, yes! Do not meditate, lest your stress is distressed! </div>
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Fakeer Ishavardas Th.D, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219932163866655418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980066773864880220.post-31568629428934861222018-04-15T07:00:00.001+05:302018-04-15T07:00:46.271+05:30What is the thing that outlives death?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">The truth, ‘SAT’ (swai tatwa) i.e. <b>self-essence outlives death</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Now, query may arise as to whether this ‘<i>truth/essence of the self</i>’ is the soul or is it consciousness, or are they synonymous - each the other? And like you, one may legitimately ask as to whether it is one or both of these ‘things’ that a human being takes with him/her after death.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Cutting the talk short - for, I’ve given many interconnected answers to, if not to identical then at least to very similar queries as this one, before this time.<i> </i>So, let us go straight to the end of all matters<i>. </i>In fact, <i>to the end of all ‘matter’ as such</i>. To the Beginning and the End.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">So, <b>what is ‘There’, as self-realized by the enlightened beings</b>?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">At the very end, it is self-discovered that the ‘<i>formless point of reference</i>’ that had been witnessing its separation from the body, and thereafter, had been ‘seeing’ itself going unto a ‘<i>surreal astral travelling</i>’, into wondrous comic realms beyond imagination -<i> </i>all of a sudden, in an astonishing moment, in a zillion of a second as though - this<i> self-witnessing ‘it-ness’ ceases to be a this or a that</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">It’s ‘i-ness’, of being a witness consciousness, ends magically, and majestically.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Suddenly, as would a ray of sunlight find its ‘self’ to be the <i>fathering principle</i> - as the sun itself; similarly so,<i> the witnessing ‘is-ness’ finds itself to be the Self of the Whole of What Is</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Speaking more simply, the <i>conscious alive-ness </i>that had been till then ‘seeing’ the astral and the cosmic wonders as separate from itself, stops being this <i>dual-conscious witness of the ‘happening’</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><i>It finds itself losing weight - </i>literally!<i> - of this duality conscious ‘is-ness’</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">And in less than the tiniest blink of the eye, the<i> witnessing soul-ness loses its self-consciousness of being the observer of the enfolding Cosmic Reality</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>An all-ness of oneness - </b><i>with no reference point of being the witness</i><b> - finds its Self to be the Whole thereof - inseparable from all existence!</b></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #6aa84f;">No souls, messiahs, or gods stand herein. Just the Self of Allness.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Having <i>witnessed its Self to be the ‘I’ of the Universe, </i>in an equally surreal moment,<i>this Cosmic Self ‘returns’ to its now ‘reborn’ enlightened self and being ‘here’</i>. And thus,<i> finds its Oneness, and its Infinite, Indivisible Cosmic Consciousness ‘becoming’ the being-ness of the duality-conscious ‘is-ness’</i> of the mediating being.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">The <b>freemystics narrate</b>, that the moment this dual-consciousness ‘returns’ to its earth-born original physicality, the ‘shakti’ or the power of life reverberates into existence. And as the breath of life, it enters the ‘is-ness’ of the meditating being-ness. <i>This is how life comes into existence</i>!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">So, to answer your query specifically, all that is ‘taken’ from ‘here’ and ‘left alive’ out ‘There’ - in the Alpha and the Omega, in God as if - is nothing but ‘That’ from which it was birthed - <i>the Immanent Self of Infinity</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">But then, this is the ‘knowing’, the Self-Realization of a Buddha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">The metaphysical ‘happening’ which is observed in the case of the non-realized, normal ‘souls’ so to say, is dissimilar from that of the enlightened being.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Those of us <i>who die in dual-consciousness</i>, unaware that they too are verily the Whole of the All, these sad sacks <i>take away their karmic ‘is-ness’ with them ‘out there’, after death</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">This<i> is-ness of dual-conscious being-ness of the Cosmic Self </i>keeps birthing - taking this or that form, in the false belief that it is separate from the Universal Self. Until Divine Grace ends this vicious cycle of coming and going, once and for all.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Therefore, <i>what is found ‘There’, at the End, is an aliveness of all-ness. </i>It is <i>conscious of being the ‘Am-ness’ of the Cosmic Absolute - of God</i>, if one so prefers to address the Divine Reality.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">‘IT’ - <i>this Infinite Oneness of the Whole</i> - is in us at this present moment too, within this bodily name-form. <i>As our life, breath, soul-ness, and consciousness</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">We just are not necessarily ‘awake’ to’It’</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">If we live, breath, and die in this self-realization of the Unity of All, then - if be the Will and Grace of That Which Is - <i>this self-knowledge of our own Eternal Abode, </i>we take away with us ‘There’.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Of course, it is all subject to karmic dues. The same, if unpaid, then, this ‘chip’ on the shoulder we carry with us to a dual-conscious ‘is-ness’ up there too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">This <i>duality-torn soul-ness is born again unto a this or that-ness</i>. Until all is set right, by its own self-realization, or by the Mercy of the Cosmic Divine Whole-ness.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">So, <i>there is no soul separate from anything ‘out there’, as differing from Cosmic Consciousness</i>. But then, <i>neither is this divine consciousness devoid of a soul-fullness of the ‘life’ of That Which Is</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Hence, <i>out ‘There’, only the Cosmic Self, aware of it being the ‘I’ of the Whole, stands alone as the ‘am-ness’ and ‘is-ness’ of the ‘life’ of existence</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Unable to reach the Gnosis that we too are ‘It’, the <i>human beings keep coming and going endlessly, unto a dual-consciousness of separateness from the Original Primordial Source: </i>GOD.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">The choice is simple.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Get the Absolute of the Truth and the Final Reality of All That Is by own effort, through self-realization. Or keep seeking, and praying. Doing good deeds, Harming no one intentionally. Nor taking away the life of another living being for our culinary tastes. And by staying in utter humility at the lotus feet of the Divine Truth. Either way gets us ‘There’.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Choose wisely.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Get ‘It’ out ‘here’. Take away the same out ‘There’. Unto foreverness.</span></div>
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Fakeer Ishavardas Th.D, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219932163866655418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980066773864880220.post-19905800630993508482018-03-03T06:30:00.000+05:302018-03-03T06:30:55.912+05:30What is the difference between formless worship of the Almighty by Islam and Nirgun Bhakti of Hindus?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Fancies of fools are similar follies and equally non-existent, be they of any ism.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The worship without adding attributes or qualities etc. to the Almighty Truth - or God if one so prefers to name the Absolute - maybe called ‘nirguna bhakti’. Ascribing a form - <i>even formlessness - to the Ultimate Reality, would yet be considered a lower form of worship</i>. For, it is more or less assuming and allotting a definitive ‘guna’/attribute and quality, in this case formlessness, to be the formal nature of the entity and physicality of God.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">In any case, some ‘hadis’ - the authenticated records written down verbatim from the uttering of companions and compatriots of the self-proclaimed prophet of Islam - these texts reveal that the so-called god of Islam, Allah, was actually seen by Mohammed. This brief is given according to the prophet’s child-bride, Aisha. Another believable Islamic writings of earlier times propound their grand god to be a 30 meter tall human-like figure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Interestingly, in an obvious attempt to be one up over the gods of other religions, <i>now days many a Muslim hypothesize that the Islamic god is a mysterious and a faceless-form or something akin it, that cannot be seen by anybody</i>. Saying so, one seemingly assumes that it adds an extra bit to the aura of their fancied deity. Sort of making it a tiny bit more than the infidel’s god.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Yet it is nobody’s case that <i>some earlier writings of Islam do insist that Mohammed had indeed seen their god, Mr. Allah</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">It is said that their all-seeing and all-knowing self-anointed <i>prophet had once witnessed Mr. Allah in the form of a bearded youth</i>. Alternatively, it is also told that this god of the Muslims was<i> thought of by their prophet to be as a huge super-humanoid</i>. However, all this is now being denied by a few amongst the faithful in Islam.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">It does not change the truth of the matter though.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The truth is that the <i>Islamic heaven or hell</i> is thought of and taught so by the Muslims themselves to be very much<i> a material, a solid and a virtual physical place of sorts</i>. Hence, the ruling entity over these material but otherworldly regions is or ought to be logically and similarly a physical and an empirical reality.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">It is therefore the obvious inference that Allah, the fancied god of the Muslims, too is a physicality, a human-like entity. <i>Anyway, denying or not, he, </i><b>Mr. Allah, is believed to be an empirical entity </b><i>by all and sundry in the Islamic world</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Under this gentleman, the Islamic god Allah falls the <i>physical command </i>and care of the bountiful heaven to accommodate the faithful - be they even the vilest of people, or the most murderous, mad, malevolent lot. Oh, and as we all know so very well, sure hell-fire is <i>physically guaranteed </i>for the doubters and the non-believing infidels like us. Again, under the same majestic and merciful caretaker, the<i> Islamic god, in person</i>: ah! our very own, dear Mr. Allah.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">In short, <i>the Muslims believe, as did their prophet, that the next world - that is, a heaven or a hell - is not some sort of an abstract form of non-physical existence but a definite material realm and region</i>. It is as real to them as is this existence on this earth, and as the ground felt under one’s feet right now. Similarly, their god, Allah, too is a physicality. Akin their own bodily self.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Thus, the <i>Islamists have no concept of the Divine except with a form.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">As to what form, well, that may be disputed. A spirit-like entity? A humanoid, albeit a gigantic one? Or some other this-that thing, <i>but very much a touchable, a physical thing</i>!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">And though the part whether he, this Mr. Allah, can be seen or not by the faithful may be taken under advice and the opinion reserved, yet there is no denying nor may be doubted that <i>the common lot of the Muslims imagine their almighty god is virtually and physically existing as a this or that something or the other</i>, as do they find them earthly and bodily self.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">And it is taught by the holy book of the Muslims that<i> when the time comes, ‘he’, one Mr. Allah, shall </i><b>physically rouse the dead</b><i> and the buried coreligionists up from their rotting graves</i>. Thereafter, after taking account of their life on earth, <b>their god-entity shall physically put them in a material but a perpetual heaven</b><i> with 72 virgins, and with nubile young boys serving the men (not the women, mind you! Just the ‘superior’ gender of men only) amongst the faithful</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>To reach this fancied folly of a physical heaven, Jihadis kill imaginary infidels</b>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Many common lot of Hindus too think of their god possessing a form.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">On the other hand, <i>the more evolved among the Hindus and the Sufis of the higher sort, both worship the Divine in the Way as self-realized by their enlightened sages and gurus - as the Primordial Essence of the Whole.</i></span></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The Abrahamic faiths - Christianity, Judaism and Islam - all faithfully follow a physical god, who is personal to them. And it is believed, and hence so propagated, that these ‘chosen’ people are able to talk to ‘him’ as we do to another human being.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">So, more of less, this Abrahamic god is thought to be a humanoid akin us the human beings, only differing from us in some supposedly surreal way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Thus,<b> the believed in Islamic god is thought of by the fundamentalist followers of Mohammed to be a verifiable physicality, and as a virtual entity like us humans.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">For the simple lot of Hindus too, their god - and they have 33,0000000 gods amongst them! - is very much in the image of an empirical but an ethereal material entity. Supposedly, the same is made-up of a life-stuff akin their own self. Or something thereabouts. In their own make and likeness, at the very least.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">In effect,<b><i> the god of simple folks is a physically existing entity, akin themselves</i></b><i>.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">However, unlike the Abrahamic faiths, the Hindus have always worshiped the Divine in both the ‘saguna’ and the ‘nirguna’ way. That is, <i>as per their learning and leanings, the people think of their god to with a form, or being formless in form</i>.</span></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">So, how different is the god of Hindus from that of the Abrahmic faiths?</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Well, <i>so long as the Divine is worshiped with the concept of it being a this-that form, in such a sense there is virtually no difference between the worship</i>conducted by the simple lot of Hindus and the complete lot of the Abrahamic faiths, especially by the Muslims.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">This lot of worshipers of all isms have a similar mindset: t<i>hey simply cannot conceive of the Divine without some form or the other</i>. And even if they could, then too their god is thought to be a physicality of sorts, howsoever mysterious or majestic or magical in design!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">At best, to get the better of those of another faith, the Almighty of Islam may be projected or put forward by the faithful of this ism to be a formless sort of being, that cannot be seen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Alternatively, having evolved beyond the parochial mindset of their inherited religion of Islam, <i>the Sufis worship God as the ‘It’ or ‘That’ in the whole of Creation. As do the Vedanta adherents and the more sophisticated amongst the gnostic Hindus</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Thus, it may be said that the worship of God without a form is yet a ‘saguna’ concept. That is, it is done so with a definitive thinking of the Almighty possessing a formless-form, be it a spirit-like one. <i>At best this sort of worship may supposedly be indulged in by an unverified and an unheard minority amongst the Abrahamic religions</i>. This could be termed as the ‘nirguna’ kind of worship in these isms - if indeed any among them do so think and pray to such a deity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">But in reality, and one may check out this fact oneself, nary a one among the really and truly faithful of the Abrahamic lot, especially from among the Muslims, thinks of the Ultimate Reality or God as being anything other than a plain-simple material physicality, albeit a spirit-like entity, if that!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">On the other hand, the Sufis and the Hindus of the higher metaphysical knowing and understanding do not think of the Divine Reality as being a physical being of any sort. <i>They worship the Truth in the like manner as their self-realized Masters</i>.</span></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The Allah of the Sufis is a name given to the Absolute Almighty Oneness that is the life and soul of everybody - even the infidel.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The above-told ‘nirguna’ or attribute-less and quality-less idea of the Absolute of Almighty Existence is not the theological concept of the Abrahamic faiths.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The Abrahamic god, and especially the Allah of the Muslims, is nothing like the one worshiped by the gnostic sages, yogis, Vedanta believers and the freemystics amongst the people of India. Or by the Sufis.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The ‘nirguna bhakti’ or the worship of the Divine without attributing to it any qualitative form of existence, is the Way of the better metaphysically learned and the more spiritually advanced amongst the Hindus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">This is so done owing to the fact that <i>eventually the Almighty Truth is found not to be a god with a physicality.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">That is, <b>in the Revelation of Which Is, no god with a form or a formless ‘thing’ or something like it or a formless spirit-ness etc. is found standing, and lording over the absolute reality</b>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Such a supposition is not the self-realization of the enlightened beings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Frankly, <i>the Abrahamic faiths have not evolved to a higher metaphysical understanding of the Divine</i>. That is, they cannot even bring themselves to conceive of the Almighty Absolute to being more than the physical being and form of their imagined god: Jehovah of the Christians and the Jews, and Allah of the Muslims.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Jehovah or Allah are thought of as physical entities. So are the millions of gods of the simple ones amongst the Hindus. <i>These little-some gods are all the ‘saguna’ lot - with limitations prescribed to them, be it even of being formless in form</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">To worship the Divine sans assumptions or attributes of any kind, is the Way of the Sufis, yogis, freemystics and of the sages of India since yore.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The non-qualitative and non-defining, ‘nirguna’ worship of the Divine is advocated by the enlightened spiritual gurus and masters of India because eventually at the End, in the Absolute of the Almighty Truth, in self-realization and in enlightenment, there is found to be no ‘saguna’ deity - a god with a this or that physical form.</span></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">No such imagined or similar physicality or entity of a god with a particular form - even of formlessness - as the Almighty Lord, is found breathing ‘up there’ as the Ultimate Reality.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Therefore, from the very onset, at the beginning of the spiritual quest itself, the self-realized sages advice the seekers to worship the Divine Reality sans any pre-conceived ideas of any kind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">This open-minded approach frees the mind, the psyche and the spirit of the spiritual aspirants. It exonerates the seeker from the psychological clutches of any imbibed misconceptions, of their inherited religion and regional culture. Or of any other such acquired education of another kind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">In turn, this kind of ‘nirguna bhakti’ or worship of the Divine sans the addition of a this-that qualitative attribute to the Ultimate Reality, makes the seeker wander and wonder at leisure. And worship in freedom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">It makes one a free spirit, a freethinker, and a freemystic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">By this is meant that one actually sees what one really-truly does - in one’s metaphysical search for the Absolute Reality.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">In other words, the seeker does not falter unnecessarily in his or her search for the First Principle, owing to the ill-effects of some already existing funny or fancy ideas in the head about the Truth being a particular kitty in kind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Thus, because of such mindfulness one does not pre-assume the supra normal to be as told by others, especially as enshrined dogmatically in one’s own mythical-cultural-religious lore.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Consequently, as a result of a better metaphysical re-learning and de-learning, one seeks and searches for the Almighty Truth in total freedom, in spirit and in truth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><i>In the Abrahamic religions, more specifically in Islam, it is not the Absolute Reality that is worshiped, but a physicality of a tribal god of a peculiar culture and a people, at a particular time in history</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Thus, it is not the Truth that is paid obeisance to by the people of these isms. It is but an obsolete i-me-mine god-dogmatism of dark ages that is worshiped per force by the people of these religions.</span></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">A lowly, lower knowledge of lost times has no place in these enlightened times.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Now days every kind of information is freely flowing. One can easily find out, know and understand for oneself that Creation is not just 6,000 years old, as propounded by the Abrahamic religions like Islam. And that neither is the earth flat. Nor does braying of a donkey mean it has seen the devil - as said by Mohammed. And as recorded in the correct and authenticated hadith of the Muslims.</span></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Little knowledge makes people little, and that littler their gods.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Unlike in Islam where blind faith is a must, in Hinduism the emphasis is laid less on worshiping little gods and more on self-realizing the Divine Truth. By one’s own efforts. And by one’s own-self, as a first-hand self-experience.</span></span></div>
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<i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Worship in higher forms of Hinduism is for attaining self-realization.</span></i></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">No concept of attaining the Absolute Truth by own-self exists in any Abrahamic faith, especially in Islam. It is the Way in Sufism. It is not the accepted truth in Islam.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The enforced tenet and truth of Islam is in that a physicality in the form of a god called Allah is the lord and master of the universe. And this fellow, Mr. Allah must necessarily be worshiped. Whosoever does not worship this ‘saguna’ deity or this particular believed in physicality of a god - with certain notable nefarious qualities - and does not believe in ‘his’ messenger Mohammed, <i>the erring lot is an ‘animal’, is the infidel</i>. And the infidel is going to hell. The follower to heaven. The kafir must be forcibly brought into the fold. Or killed. Sans mercy.</span></span></div>
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<i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Islam does not accept the concept of Enlightenment.</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">In fact, to seek oneness with the Almighty, and therefore attain knowledge of the Universal Self - as the Sufis, yogis, freemystics et all do - is apostasy in Islam.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The above-said act - of seeking Unity with God - is called ‘shirk’. It is punishable by death in the Muslim religion, and in the regions ruled under the Islamic law of ‘Sharia’.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">So, let it be clear. <i>The Islamic god is a physicality separate from our own</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The Sufi and the Hindu concept of God being <i>‘That’ which is the limitless infinite oneness running in everybody’s veins</i>, such a reality above definitions - ‘niraguna’ divinity - is not only unimaginable in the Islamic mind, but is considered the highest and unforgivable ‘kufr’ - an infidel lie - of a heinous kind. Punishable by sure death.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Alternatively, <i>in better tuned-in spiritual schools of thought in India, the seeker is encouraged to seek the Absolute of Existence</i>. And not the god of one’s own flawed inheritance or fancied insistence!</span></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Islam claims its personal imagined physicality is the real entity, of God.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">All of us, the unbelieving infidels are expected to pay obeisance to this illusory fellow as the only god-reality, as postulated by Islam. It’s followers, the Muslims insist that the others too must worship this non-reality as the only god. Failing to do as dictated by their prophet, is to lose one’s life - physically so. Beware, fellow infidels!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">In a nutshell, as you must have gathered from the above long-winded analysis, the Islamic god Allah is a ‘saguna’ deity - a god with a form.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>Islam is incapable of conceiving God to be an immanent, infinite eternity within all that is here or there</b>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The idea of a ‘nirguna’ deity, <i>of the Divine to be the unbroken all-ness of oneness, which is unto the life and substance of everything </i>- was then, in the lifetime of Mohammed - and is yet, beyond the limited intellectual and similar metaphysical confines of an unsophisticated people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Hence, Islam is what it is. An ism for the unenlightened kind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The worship of the Muslims and the Hindus, therefore, is remarkably different from each other - be it the ‘saguna’ or the ‘nirguna’ kind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The twain do not meet.</span></span></div>
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<i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">With Sufism the higher teachings of Hinduism are in perfect agreement. But betwixt the two religions, of Islam and Hinduism, there is no meeting of the heart, the soul or the mind.</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Sorry. That’s the truth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Having stated this stark reality, have held back much. To be kind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">But then, one must by one’s very own-self read the Islamic literature as too the gnostic Vedanta texts of India, to make up one’s mind about the actual and the factual nature of the Absolute Principle of all that is. Call it the ‘god particle’, or God, or whatever. Even Allah!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">May that which is ‘That’ unto all, in believers and infidels alike, help you to get ‘It’.</span></span></div>
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Fakeer Ishavardas Th.D, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16219932163866655418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980066773864880220.post-33263958195055029642018-02-11T07:48:00.001+05:302018-02-11T07:48:51.210+05:30Do aliens exist? Is there a possibility of other intellectual entities living in this vast Universe?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Until we know the Truth, we’re alien to very own self.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Therefore, before we discuss the possibility of alien life, would it not be beneficial to get to know our true self, from which most of us are almost but alienated?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">So, what is the Self?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">And the Universe?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Elsewhere, in many an answer herein on this podium, the Nature of Self and the Universe has been discussed, and elaborated upon. Therefore, now, it would suffice to say, without going into the nitty-gritty of it all over again, that <i>at the End, in Gnosis, it is found that the quintessential substratum of the Self and the Universe is but One</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Whether science and scientists too find so or not, well, it is their problem.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">As far as the freemystics of the world, especially of India, are concerned; they had found the nature of the metaphysical truth and reality thousands of years ago. Perhaps eons ago.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Simply stated, <b>all is one</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Hence, <i>whatsoever is seen ‘here’ as life, and ‘there’ as the universe, is but a mirage and a chimera of dual-consciousness in the oneness of an infinite, indivisible infinity of totality</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">It means that<b> all is but one life, and a singular existence</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Therefore,<b> none is alien</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Each is the other. In quintessence. <i>There is no plurality in unity</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">And though <i>owing to dual-consciousness this unbroken essence of all-ness seems to project ‘otherness’, there is in fact only an eternity of oneness</i>. As the soul of the Self, and the Universe, so to say.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">The primordial substratum of the ocean and the river and the drop is but quintessentially water or H2O. Identically, <i>existence too is so! A Oneness</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">But that does not mean there is, in dual-consciousness of existence, no possibility of life elsewhere in the universe except on earth. That would be absurd. For, all is one life. And therefore, why cannot there be life at some other galaxy and in another universe - in the wild oneness of it all? Indeed there can be.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #274e13;">During higher meditative ‘happenings’, visions of luminous golden things and beings etc. are seen. As are witnessed suns beyond suns, universes beyond universes. So too is seen anti-gravity and anti-matter existence. And sans-matter is-ness etc. is also witnessed.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">In fact, every rule of the game that the scientists assume is true, there in the Beyond, all becomes untrue.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #274e13;">For, eventually, the eternal fact of oneness of all that is ‘out there’ breaks and annihilates all the rules of clinical and empirical observance that we, in simplistic naivety, have set up ‘in here’.</span></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: #274e13;">All exists as the All. In Essence.</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: #274e13;">Everything that exists or not, has existed in the past or is presumably liable to come into being in the future, is but an is-ness and am-ness of All-ness.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">In other words,<b> alien is foreign to existence</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">For, <i>the essential nature of all things is but an indivisible oneness</i>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #274e13;">So, do mystics see aliens ‘out there’?</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Well, <i>innumerable visions manifest in the dual-consciousness before self-realization, and in the pre-enlightenment phase</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">These visions or sightings may include the ingrained, pre-conceived duality-led ideas in one’s head. Say, of a heaven or a hell. Even aliens!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">The isms and cults that have been birthed owing to this silly notion of duality, of alien life and entity, are formed in nescience. Owing to non-knowledge, because of disunity within. Without the self-realization of divine unity that runs through everything.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #274e13;">Eventually, all alien-ness dies a natural death in oneness.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">No aliens are found ‘There’. At the End. In the Alpha and the Omega. In fact, not even God is!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">For,<b> in unity-consciousness, even the idea of god is alien</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">All that is self-discovered is but <i>One Self as the All</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">This Godliness - of All as One- is the Only God ‘here’ or ‘There’.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Nothing else exists but ‘One’. An infinite eternity, ever in unity. As the Beginning, and as the End.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">You are ‘That’.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">In Essence.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Sans this <b>understanding of the nature of totality</b> - <i>of an unbreakable unity without, as too within our soul-entity, and as our self identity-</i> as our guide and guru; we are all aliens! To each other, and to our own self.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Know thy Self.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">And you will find neither your little-some self, nor any as alien!</span></div>
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