The Quest for God and Vegetarianism

"If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it." - [Albert Einstein]

Plainly and simply, at least as far as past and present gurus, yogis, free mystics and enlightened beings of India such as Buddha, Mahavira, Rama, Krishna, Saint Kabir, Guru Nanak, Vivekananda or Gandhi are concerned; the quest for The Ultimate Truth or God is futile without a vegetarian lifestyle. That’s how these great but humble people lived in the East.

So also, Saint Matthew and Saint John (who are historical narrators of The Gospels) were vegetarians; not without a reason. And, pray, why were Saint Martín de Porres, Saint Richard, Saint John de Brito, Saint Angela de Merici, Saint Francis of Paola Saint Hilarion, Saint John Chrysostom, Saint Catherine of Sienaand Saint Francis of Assisi pure vegetarians; if Christianity, to them only conveyed it was righteous to kill innocent animals to cater to one’s taste buds?  Some modern day scholars advocate that Jesus belonged to Essences; a sect that shunned non-vegetarian food.

Why did Sufi Saints, as Rabia Basri, Ibn Arabi, Al Ghazali, Nizamudin Aulia, Moinyundin Chisti or Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and other such gentle souls from meat-eating Islamic background live a humble, vegetarian life in their quest of God? For what reason are Jewish spiritualists like Rabbi David Cohen, Rabbi She’ar Y Cohen or Nobel Laureate Nobel Laureate Shmuel Yosef Afgnon vegetarian? How many of us know Martin Luther King, the German Church reformer and founder of Protestantism, was a vegetarian?

And, how come; but why! was Confucius a vegetarian?

“Why is it that the Thus Come One does not allow eating meat?' The Buddha replied, "It is because meat-eating cuts off the seeds of great compassion." – [Cherishing Life, II 5]

It is no secret that ancient yogis, as also modern day scientists, uphold that All Existence is One Indivisible Reality. Mystics arrive at this conclusion in a much similar but circuitous route, though travelled differently, than the one undertaken by the scientific fraternity. The former’s search is within, the latter look outside. For the spiritualist, the search for The End Reality or God is deeply personal; for the scientist, it’s integrally impersonal. Yet, somehow, modern day science and pre-historic mysticism arrived at the same conclusion. It is that this world is but One Inseparable Whole in The Ultimate Reality; once existence is delved into its root composition. Quantum Physics and Enlightened Mystics agree on this end result.

Now, it’s known that past, present and future is but One in Existence.

Scientists may view this oneness in nature as an insentient phenomenon; spiritualists see this as One Life, sentient and alive, in all phenomena. To the former, all life is some molecular nothing; the latter view all as life – in, as, unto everything. However, scientists have only now started seeing Oneness and Unity of All That Is. Free mystics, since the beginning of time, have advocated thus. At least, Indian yogis did; yet do.

"He who sees that the Lord of All is ever the same in all that is - immortal in the field of mortality - he sees the truth. And when a man sees that the God in himself is the same God in all that is, he hurts not himself by hurting others. Then he goes, indeed, to the highest path.” [Bhagavad Gita 13.27-28]

Somewhere, in the depth of their mind and soul, great thinkers know the truthfulness and sagaciousness of this basic, fundamental and primordial spiritual and mystic concept. From Socrates to Plato, Hesiod to Horace, Pythagoras to Leonardo da Vinci, Voltaire to Vincent Van Gogh, Plutarch to Plotinus, Virgil to William Blake, Leo Tolstoy to George Bernard Shaw, Milton to Shelly, Abraham Lincoln to Nobel Laureate Poet Rabindranath Tagore; all these high and mighty but humble in humility and humanity, followed and postulated a vegetarian diet for a healthy, wealthy and a wise life.

“What is virtuous conduct? It is never destroying life, for killing leads to every other sin.” - [Thirukural, 2-3 B.C.]

In India, millions follow such a diktat. Alternatively, some minions, in many millions, among Indians too; as also elsewhere in the world, do not. Most adherents of Abrahamic faiths such as Christianity, Judaism and Islam find nothing wrong, and perfectly sanctioned, nay holy even, to not only sacrifice but mercilessly butcher and eat anything that dare move – well, except for a pig here and a crow there. In Korea and China, our beloved pets - dogs - are a delicacy to be skinned alive, savoured and salivated upon.

"Those sinful persons who are ignorant of actual religious principles, yet consider themselves to be completely pious, without compunction commit violence against innocent animals; that are fully trusting in them. In their next lives, such sinful persons will be eaten by the same creatures they have killed in this world." - [Bhagavat Purana]

It is interesting to note that a number of renowned scientists have been vegetarians. These include Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, Nikola Tesla etc.

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." – [Albert Einstein]

This religiousness, of respect for all life, is inherent in every sensitized and sentient being; be it an agnostic or even an atheist. Einstein was no believer in God; but godliness permeated this scientist’s beautiful soul. Theologian and Nobel Prize winner, Albert Schweitzer, more than seconded this view point of the greatest scientist humankind has probably known.

"One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings." – [Leonardo da Vinci]

"A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite." - [Leo Tolstoy]

Yet, meat eating does not stop. We continue with our mayhem. The Westerners have their scriptures to quote to continue doing what they have been doing since thousands of years. Millions of non-vegetarian Buddhists and other Easterners do not even have their scriptures to support them.

“People who eat meat.. are all great demons.. They are not disciples of the Buddha. Such people as these kill and eat one another in a never-ending cycle.”  - [Shurangama Sutra, Buddhism]

"What need there be said of those innocent and healthy creatures endued with love of life, when they are sought to be slain by sinful wretches subsisting by slaughter?” - [Mahabharta]

Other well known eminent citizens of the world as Kafka, Sir Edwin Arnold, Charlotte Bronte, Henry David Thoreau, R.W. Emerson, Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, humourist Mark Twain, H.G. Wells, industrialist Henry Ford, as also late Steve Jobs;  were all vegetarians. Today, along with many Hollywood celebrities, many a kindred soul, such as Dr. Abdul Kalam (Ex-President and Nuclear Scientist of India), Paul McCartney, Reshma (Muslim Pakistani Folk Singer), Amitabh Bachchan and world-level athletes Carl Lewis, Mike Tyson et all; for one human and humane reason, follow a vegetarian lifestyle.

Some people are becoming vegetarians or vegans for health reasons too. In fact, medical science is providing more than enough data against a non-vegetarian diet and for benefits accruing by adopting a vegetarian lifestyle.

Yet, for a spiritual person; knowing Oneness of All That Is as one’s own life and soul “stuff”; not following a vegetarian diet, is not an option. It’s a sine qua non.

“Only the animal-killer cannot relish the message of The Absolute Truth.” – [Srimad Bhagwtam]

Sadly, there’s no, one holy cow, for the elitist whole or the hoi polloi.

Drugs, Delusion and The Divine

“We have drunk Soma and become immortal; we have attained the light, the Gods discovered. Now what may foeman's malice, do to harm us? What, O Immortal, mortal man's deception?  - Rig Veda (8.48.3)

So, is usage of drugs divinely sanctioned?

This question has vexed even the best, at all times, in every time, since the beginning of time. Now, more than ever, many a people see no harm in “mild” form of drug usage in normal, everyday life. Banned or not, it cannot be denied that marijuana, hashish or “soma” herbs such as of charas, ganja, opium find their way in every society, at any time, every time.

The voices of those who are not religious, yet religiously seeking governmental sanction in usage of marijuana and other such intoxicating and addictive substances are becoming shriller day by day. Despite evidence to the contrary, of more harm than good coming from such usage of hallucinogenic drugs, people are increasingly taking a rather cavalier attitude towards it. Some countries and cultures either allow habitual usage of above mentioned easily available “soft” and seemingly “harmless” drugs or look the other way, without much of a say either way.

"There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman," said Andre Malraux. However, the twain has met. Now, in both East and West - drugs are the best.

“A gramme is better than a damn.. I wish I had my soma!” Aldous Huxley, in The Brave New World. And, William S. Burroughs refers to “soma” (Greek word for “body”) as a non-addictive, high-quality form of opium said to exist in ancient India. Soma was a Vedic ritual drink amongst early Indo-Iranians, subsequent Vedic and greater Persian cultures.

In nutshell, drugs, in mild or wild form, have been used in most regions and religions throughout history of mankind. Yet, do they induce mystical or hallucinogenic experiences?

There is no denying that drugs make us lose inhibitions and “make” the users see “things” which they do not usually witness in everyday living, without drugs. What happens? More importantly, why does this happen?

The metaphysical reality, as witnessed by yogis and free mystics of ancient India, is that Things That Be, quintessentially, are One. That is Consciousness, Life and Existence is composed of and emanate from One, Single, Indivisible “Stuff”. There are essentially no boundaries between The Conscious, Sub-Conscious and The Unconscious - like lines drawn across the sky.

Drugs make its users “lose” touch with the baser ego-consciousness; in the process, “crossing lines” as if, unto The Unconscious. In this “nowhere land”, drug users “see” hereto untapped potentialities. The yogi, on the other hand, consciously is “taken” to newer “realities”; which, continued over a longer period, “show” One Divine Reality as The Primordial Source of All That Is.

Hence, in the former case, using drugs one may “feel” bliss et all and “see” many a transcendental vision; yet, an unbalanced mind is not intellectually or spiritually endowed to “physically” get The Ultimate Reality as a verifiable fact. For, drugs diminish the incisive intellectual ability of the user; sometimes demonizing it so. That is, one hallucinates more than one understands What Is.

Self-Realization of The Divine Self, the fundamental reality behind everything, requires the practitioner to be fully aware and lucid; to “get” That Which Is. It’s An Experimentation upon The Self. The laboratory is one’s own physical entity. Just as scientists looking for the “god-particle” would not dare do so in an inebriated state; similarly, any search unto The Alpha and The Omega cannot be seriously taken up in a drugged state. It’s this simple.

Whether one believes in The Divine Order of Existence or not, or is an adherent of The Big Bang Theory; metaphysics or simple physics “experimentation” has to be conducted not in a stupor but in a serene way.

Metaphysically, “Soma” is “So”-That “Ma”-Am.  Or, “That Am”. So, when mystics or yogis of India spoke about taking “soma”, it was meant that they “took” The “am” of “That” – The Universal Self: The One Ultimate Reality.

Use of drugs is for “lower” isms. Higher science or spirituality must have nothing to do with it. Drugs lead to delusion, not divinity. Period.

Let’s understand this once and for all.

Why Do Evil and Suffering Exist?

“I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is deficient.. It knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and Eternity. Science sometimes pretends to answer questions in these domains, but the answers are very often so silly that we are not inclined to take them seriously.” - [Physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Nobel Prize Winner of 1933 in Physics]

Knowing less, we suffer more. Hence, before one ponders over good and evil, it is essential we know what existence or reality is.

Most isms, including today’s “rock star” ism of science, are unable to conceive  “god-particle” of existence beyond a couple of thousand to few billions years. Both are wrong.

Science is not god. And, god is not science.

The Ultimate Reality is inconceivable to limited minds. Confined to man-mind-made realities, fundamentalists of religion or science-ism believe in things blindly or conceive “things” boldly, but badly. Today’s science limits itself to some bang; yesterday’s isms of religion on their books hang. Mystic Reality is much, much more than a tiny “big bang” or some little religious thong.

Yogis, free mystics “see” The Ultimate Reality unlimitedly.

In “Samadhi” - Sameness as the (Eternal) Aim (Primordial Reality) -  The Observer and The Observed are “physically” One.  In this “physicality”, yogis report “seeing” The Whole as One “I”-ness. “There”, in Original Source Reality of Everything, in Godliness as if; each and everything - Seer and Seen – is Own-ness. There’s neither one-two; nor many. Each and All, is “seen” as The Self of The Whole.

"We ought not even to say that he will see, but he will be that which he sees, if indeed it is possible any longer to distinguish between seer and seen, and not boldly to affirm that the two are one.” - [Plotinus, 206-270A.D., Greek Philosopher]

Therefore, blaming neither science nor spirituality, or mankind and god; we need to have an integrated view of life. In simple words, what we see happening “here”, though of concern to any sensitive soul, must not trouble much a wise mind. For, in “there” - The Ultimate Reality of Existence – all “this” is but a chimera.

 “This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear – “Tat Tvum Asi” – THIS is YOU. Or, again, in such words as "I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world.” Thus, spoke Schrodinger, the Nobel Physicist – colleague and contemporary of Albert Einstein.

And, as quoted in The Eye of Shiva: Eastern Mysticism and Science (1981) by Amaury de Riencourt; the physicist explained Reality – “The multiplicity is only apparent.. The mystical experience of The Union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the way.”

Hence, waves play with “own”-self of other waves - in water-self. As does storm with own air-self. Similarly, in “this” life we call our world, life-forms inter-act with each other; in a “stormy” or selfless way; with love or love-less nay. Yet, it’s all a play. Good or bad, evil or ugly – yet! It is Illusory.

So - Behold! This! - life’s illusion. Live and let live - let go! Delusion.

Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Song of The Soul

I am neither ego nor reason, I am neither mind nor thought,

I cannot be heard nor cast in words, by smell nor sight ever caught:

In light and wind I am not found, nor yet in earth and sky -

Consciousness and joy incarnate, Bliss of the Blissful am I.

I have no name, I have no life, I breathe no vital air,

No elements have moulded me, no bodily sheath is my lair:

I have no speech, no hands and feet, nor means of evolution -

Consciousness and joy am I, and Bliss in dissolution.

I cast aside hatred and passion, I conquered delusion and greed;

No touch of pride caressed me, so envy never did breed:

Beyond all faiths, past reach of wealth, past freedom, past desire

Consciousness and joy am I, and Bliss is my attire.

Virtue and vice, or pleasure and pain are not my heritage,

Nor sacred texts, nor offerings, nor prayer, nor pilgrimage:

I am neither food nor eating, nor yet the eater am I -

Consciousness and joy incarnate, Bliss of the Blissful am I.

I have no misgivings of death, no chasms of race divide me,

No parent ever called me child, no bond of birth ever tied me:

I am neither disciple nor master, I have no kin, no friend -

Consciousness and joy am I, and merging in Bliss is my end.

Neither knowable, knowledge, nor knower am I, formless is my

form, I dwell within the senses but they are not my home:

Ever serenely balanced, I am neither free nor bound -

Consciousness and joy am I, and Bliss is where I am found.

[By Adi Shankaracharya]

Rapture!

After

You,

O' Lord, dear!

Stopped,

looking; for

another, mirror!

[Poem from "A to Z of Mysticism" - Published Book, 2002]

 

 

And, then, God said, "Let there be Twitter!"

Twitter kick-starts my day.

After my early morning meditation, if I am not on silent mode; and after paying my dues at the pot, I usually go to twitter for a trot. Suddenly, the world opens up, like a pinch in the butt. Usually, it is someone somewhere letting out his or her crap. As a counter point, a few gentle souls whisper sweet “nothings”, hoping to catch somebody’s ear “out there”. It’s a “mixed-up” crowd here, on twitter. Luckily, as I have come to know, over time, the do-gooders out-twit the “crap” shooters.

It’s akin to watching ticket-less, the world “pass” us by, without necessarily saying hi. Once in a while, if one is lucky and feeling cocky, one is able to trap a gadfly. That is, one is able to counter punch a below-the-belt hooker. Though tit for tat following un-following is common, there are many a quid pro quo friendly encounters too. Some touchy, over-the-top gung-ho evangelicalism inevitably crops up now and then, but many a sane voice too has its say on twitter.

Considering my foot to mouth luck these days, after a little over 1100 days in “active service”, I yet have some 11, 000 friends on Twitter. Whether they “follow” me with any good intention or attention, is any fool’s wild guess. Since I value my sanity, I just count my blessing than my woes. But my sense of humour keeps me on my toes.

However, humour, especially about religion and god, my beta noire, is missing in large parts on Twitter. Poking fun with unfunny intentions is not humour, by the way. Few pretentious twits are purchasing followers too; some in hundreds of thousands. Many glum faces, too busy selling their wares to run with the hare, are also here. They obviously do not really care about befriending the “lesser” lot. Too many self-proclaimed gurus also tout their twitch on twitter.

Yet, overall, here, good guys are able to crinkle their noses at the wise guys. Perhaps this is what one enjoys. Anything extra or by the way by-product, could be “manna” from God.

Being a spiritual person, I hope it is.

Here’s wishing all a happy tweeting, my friends, in 2013. May we all be a little more caring, compassionate and little less country-specific in the coming year. For, amongst its many blessings, social media platforms, especially Twitter, have made us all a citizen of the world. Enough said.

What Happens To The Soul After Death?

Self-experience of free mystics differs much from "western" belief systems. Indian yogis, based on “physical” observations of own “self”, behold All as An Endless State of Being.

Following Rules of Yoga, especially no usage of drugs or non-vegetarian food, a snake like “being-ness” rises; separating from physical being of meditating yogi.

Thence, “single eye” of this “is-ness” delves deeper unto Self of Existence, “virtually” passing through “own-ness” of What Is; including esoteric “godly” visions beyond imagination of gods of science and isms.

Suddenly, this is-ness of single-eyed point of reference, ceases to be. In an esoteric instant, it finds its Self to be All-ness of The Whole. Wherever this “ i “ looks, it “sees” All as Own Self.

This is The End-Game of Self-Realization.

Thereafter, this “I AM” of ALLNESS comes “back” to Awareness of “this” realm. The “re-turned” Consciousness observes ownself as “Shakti” (Energy); entering as “breath of life” unto bodily-self of, now, Buddha-Yogi.

Hence, before or after death, “self”-soul, being of everything, stays unchanged, as Primordial Self of All That Is. Therefore, in Ultimate Reality, we are “clinically” seen as an illusory form “here”; but Eternal Oneness “There”.

We live nor die. Our illusory-self does.

Soul nor soul-less; beyond big-bangs, is and am, gods-devils, messiahs-religions-isms, science-spirituality or “is-ness” of any mortality, we are, in essence - Immortality.

Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Is there a heaven up “There”?

Recently, a neuro surgeon said he "saw" it.

 

Most cultures and religions of all creeds and regions believe in it in some form or the other. Depending upon one’s inherited belief system, cultural influences and acquired knowledge from elsewhere, consciously or unconsciously, people get imbued with a particular, peculiar idea about such matters. It’s not necessarily true.

 

Dreams seem frighteningly or fascinatingly real till we are asleep. Awakened, memory of this phenomenon may linger for a while, sometimes a lifetime. Yet, it remains in the realm of illusion. Gone like a whiff of air; here, there, then, nowhere.

 

Near death experiences usually “happen” in a comma, or, an un-awakened, unconscious state of existence wherein one is no longer in control of one’s senses. One is neither “here” nor “there”. This coma-somatic near-death experience is just a “take-off” on one’s religious or intellectual belief system. The reality in this semi or unconscious bodily condition can at best be accepted as dream-like panorama, albeit a vivid one. Therefore, it’s nothing more than what it is: One Big Illusion.

 

This does not mean anyone describing such stupendous visions is lying. At the same time, since these visions of hell, heaven, divine beings, bright lights or “things” are “seen” sans a fully conscious awakened state of rationality, only susceptible, supercilious or superstitious mentalities believe in their “solid” reality.

 

However, such “visions’ are a mundane “happening” in meditation. Yogis and mystics of India, ancient to present, experience them. It’s no big thing.

Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

The “ I ” of Awakening - Getting IT - Beyond SCIENCE!

Seemingly, science is god today.

 

It has done away with many a devil of the past. The Big Bang and Evolutionary Theory satiate many. This has led many “know-it-alls” to presume and postulate that we are but soulless, randomly assembled chemical particles, now moving as living beings. And, are nothing more than a “chance” offspring of one “big-banging” universe. We are just a “thing”; worth nothing. In short, we without cause, come; sans effect, are gone.

 

However, owing to advanced scientific knowledge, except for people of Judeo-Christian and Islamic belief systems, no educated person worth his brains minds much that the earth is just not 5-6 thousand years old. Science had added some billions of years to our birth date and place. Yet, it would be false crediting science with this discovery; when, in fact, spirituality, did so much before any Darwin-Dawkins or Higgs-Hawkins set foot on this earth. Ancient Indian texts, such as the Upanishads and Vedanta treatises, inform us that this universe is as old as eternity itself.

 

Hence, n India, even the big bang is a hang.

 

In higher mystical traditions, this “seen” world is held to be the visible “solidification” of “Shakti”, Cosmic Energy. Yet, it’s all “Maya”: Transient ILLUSORY Phenomena. It keeps “big-banging’, arising and vanishing, unto “That” Which Is. Ad Infinitum. We are as old as THAT.

 

This is the ‘Single Eye” of Self-Realization.

 

Mystics “know”, attain this Eternal Wisdom after self-experimentation, in the deepest realm of “Awakened” Consciousness; of which philosophers, psychologists, and psychiatrics do seem to have some inkling, from time to time.  On the other hand, Yogis, ancient and present, swim in this mystic rhythm like a well-versed note. “Who we are”, in “That” WHICH IS: getting “IT” is the aim and objective of these “Spiritual Scientists”.

 

As these insatiable seekers delve deeper unto the darkest depths of “What Is”, the web of acquired belief systems gives way to new realities. The “little” visions - deities, gods, messiahs, demons, fairies, angels, hell, heaven et cetera - of our inculcated, ingrained, inherited isms are “overcome” by Actualization of The Unlimited.

 

Without an “edible” physicality, a metaphysical seeker or a physicist remains a skeptic. Some religions do not take well to agnosticism and atheism. Such “trivialities” irk none in India. No Indian guru lambasts science or scientists.

 

Seeking in Maya (Make Believe), “this” visible world, we merely “see” The Outside. Not “baptized” unto Tao of What Is - “Kingdom of God is Within” - the best too lose “It”, like the rest.

 

The Answer does not lie on moon or mars.

 

Who seek “there” miss the muse “here”. Our Quintessence - call it Soul, God Particle, Root of Existence - is never separate from All That Is.

 

The Part is The Whole.

 

This Universe, each “black hole” and every “dark matter”, is one “stuff”. Duality seen as you-me-him-her or this-that-here-there is but “surface” reading The Source.

 

The “stuff” of our life and existence is Changeless. Infinite Big Bangs are born, die every moment. So does evolution. They come, go.  Changes in The Changeless do not a Change make.

 

The Whole remains Whole.

 

The Visible World is ever “One” with its “Invisible” Common Original Source. Nothing is separate from anything else. The Self consorts with Own Self. “Here” now, “there” next. As fire in wood, all is unto The Self.

 

Yet, the only advantage mystics have over others is that through trial and error, ecstasy and terror, these seekers of “What Is”, came to “know” The WAY a bit before the rest.  Presto, Sids got it before Christo! It means zilch. It is just an historical fact that Siddhartha-Buddha came before Christ; hence, got “It” first.

 

At any time, the Ultimate Truth must remain An Eternal Constant.

 

It does. Mystically, “I am in my Father, my Father is in me,” and “I and my Father are One” simply means All is Unto Each Other. As One Quintessential Primordial Self. Or, simply, “All is One”. Could “God” be clearer than this?

 

Science is getting “There”.

 

The “life” composition of everything, living or seemingly non-living, anywhere in this manifest universe, is one. The Un-manifested too holds true thus. This perception of Unity of All, now, is dawning on us all.

 

We are “One” every which way.

 

Thus, a “Knowing One” would abide by “Love thy neighbor as thyself”; not because it is godly true but because, oddly, it is the truth.

 

Who cares if this “I” of Awakening comes from science or spirituality!

O' Sufi, Protest!

[From "A Sufi's Fable: Travelogue of a Free Mystic", #Book Published, 2002]

 

O' Sufi, protest

don't follow rest -

duality, is grotesque.

 

One, "there" Is

here, "That" Is'

- "THAT Am!" Is.

 

If get not

call One, naught

- be Sufi, not.

 

Oh! Without "Him"

what's Sufism -

first, get HIM.

 

If don't get

don't ever rest -

O' Sufi, protest!



Are WE "Lower" ANIMALS?

"Man is the Reasoning Animal.

Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this.

In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends.

I put them in a cage.

In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey.

They lived together in peace; even affectionately.
Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping.

Then I stayed away for two whole days.

When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh.. not a specimen left alive.

These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail..

.. AND carried the matter to a Higher Court.”

(Modified by Breaking into Smaller Paragraphs. But Original Content remains Untouched.)

From:
[ "Letters from The Earth: Un-Censored Writings" - By MARK TWAIN]

  

IS there NO NEED for a GURU or a PATH?

THIS No GURU & No PATH, which, now days, everyone seems to harp about is not that simple an issue.

When we are barely able to learn ABC etc. without a teacher, that is, if SIMPLE Knowledge is not easy to attain without someone to guide us; surely, such a complex issue as ENLIGHTENMENT merits a GURU.

We must not foolishly fall into such a clichéd “Cool” Pool.

In fact, we must resist, consciously so, from becoming an easy prey to this “learned” propaganda of shirking a Spiritual Preceptor (Guru).

The RIGHT PATH must be sought, and, chosen. The “NO Path” quote is cool to quote; not so easy to follow. Frankly, it does not work.

At The FINAL Stage, yes, WHAT "happens" THERE, is The GRACE of "That" WHICH IS. There is no “this” or “that” Human or Angelic figures “over’ THERE; to take The SEEKER anywhere: HELL or HEAVEN, THIS or THAT.

No such things, places, or beings exist therein. Get it.

WHEN Advanced Masters speak of “No Guru” and “No Path”, they do so after having attended the “feet’ of an HOLY ONE. That is, after remaining so at the humble point of “nothingness” - of No EGO: as a lowly learner, a student or “shishya” of ALL Paths; as if walking “No Path”.

This Path of Path-less Divinity is, actually, that of utter humility.

But, FIRST One has to "get" THAT. Then, one does not make such SIMPLISTIC Assertions. The EGO says: "No Guru". The Spirit: WAHE (Hail!) GURU. Our egotistical, “Inherited”, MIND says: “No Path”.

The “Enlightened One” FOLLOWS The PATH.

Of NO-THING-NESS: where no theories or theologies remain, no this-that contained, and, is no “Chosen” ones’ domain.

“Get” IT. Or, LOSE “It”.

Your choice.

The MYSTIC TOUCH: Beyond The Fact, Mystic Musings

Excerpt from OWN #Book, Published 2002

Sub Heading: ZEN to END of MYSTICISM

By any name, whatsoever, if Divine Wisdom be called

No Chosen Ones' domain would yet be : Lord of All.

That Which Is, no religion's playground is : Free is All 

Whore of Isms isn't; Holy is Spirit : whatever way called.

In person sought must be Father : the Mother of All

No he-she or name-form energy is : One, be called.

Vital Source of Being and Non-Being - by Self, All

in "That" Image am I, whatsoever name THAT be called.

Should The SEEKER Contemplate on "Nothingness" to Know REALITY?

Cautiously. For, even NOTHINGNESS is A Presumption of sorts. That is, one is assuming there is NOTHING out "There".
There is.Of course, it is not a Personal God, a human-like "form" of ANY of our forefathers' religions or books of faith. Yet, IT is not “Nothing” either.

Our Mind, however much we deny it, cannot remain unaffected by the inadvertent influence of this-that, Eastern-Western "inherited" ISMS.

The Baghwad Gita, one of the most revered Hindu scriptures, calls our mind a 'monkey". It is that restless. Hence, meditation.

Better it is to CONTEMPLATE on “WHAT IS”.

This rules out any assumptions our mind makes about The Ultimate Reality. It also keeps us humble. In check. And, a Seeker. Not a pompous “Master”-in-Waiting. Our “monkey” MIND must be MASTERED. And not master Us.

In fact, everyone must ask him-herself “KO-HUM”- Who Am I? And, it is told in Higher Mystical Scriptures of India: IF one seeks thus in all humility, faithfully following Yogic (Divine Umity) Instructions of one’s Guru, The ANSWER comes. In Self-Realization. As “SO-HUM” - That I Am. AS is “That”, so I AM.

Or, “I” am THAT “ i “: AM.

Sounds familiar?

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On Truth & Reality: Philosophy Physics Metaphysics of Space, Wave Structure of Matter. Famous Science Art Quotes.

MUST be READ by ALL Free-Thinkers!

On Truth & Reality: Philosophy Physics Metaphysics of Space, Wave Structure of Matter. Famous Science Art Quotes.

Is GOD a PERSON?

"The IDEA of a Personal God is a CHILDLIKE One." [Einstein]

Thus it is to ANY Advanced Mystic. ANYWHERE.

"The IDEA of a PERSONAL GOD is An Anthropological CONCEPT which I am Unable to Take SERIOUSLY." [Albert Einstein,1946]

No one, in "know" of Higher Spiritual Texts (Upanishads etc.) of India, believes in "God as a Person". It is a Simpleton's Way of looking at The Infinite.

Worship of "forms" or rituals thereof, were permitted in some mystical circles in ancient times (in India) to take The Seeker from "lesser" to Higher Knowledge of The Ultimate. Sadly, most people get stuck in this lower form of Worship and Understanding of "That" WHICH IS.

This is the case in most religions. Sans exception.

Thus, such "lower worship", of forms OR Gods in "LIKENESS" of a person, is not encouraged in Advanced Mystical Orders.

AND "That" - The Ultimate Reality, God etc. - Truth of WHICH IS, is no "energy" either. Cosmic Energy or "Shakti" is but "Maya" (ILLUSION) of WHAT IS.

ACCORDING to Science, An ATOM is 99.99% Space. Just .01% is "Matter" (Energy we "see" as "form"). THIS Visible Shakti-Energy originates from "something". Call IT God, Nothingness or "That": WHICH IS.

THIS "Ground of All Things That Be", should be a Seeker's Aim and Objective.

The Yogis and Free Mystics of India, THEN and NOW, Seek THUS.

And FIND "All" to be One Infinite Oneness.

No gods or messiahs stand "There".

In Self-Realization.

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Oneness: Ancient to Modern

Oneness: Ancient to Modern

Is it Time for YOGA to GROW UP?

It is time for us to “grow up” TO Yoga. Not the other way around.

Now days, Yoga has become a “fast-food” of the West. BUT as the joke goes here, “There’s a Yoga Guru sitting upon every other brick.” “And one under it.”

Under-trained, ignorant Yoga Teachers abound in America, as here, in the birthplace of Yoga. Being a Private Practitioner myself (i.e. I do not teach) since the past 3 decades, then some; I have observed that injuries during any type of exercise, games etc. & in yoga occur owing to One Reason: LACK of Proper WARM-UP. Simple.

One must not get into sudden “jerking” motions at the beginning of any exercise. There is a techinque of getting into “asnas”. One has to “warm up” by “simple” postures before “taking on” Complicated Asnas. Yoga Routinue cannot be rushed into. In India, one never hear of “yoga” injuries.

ALSO, sex is not the reason one gets into Yoga. At least not in India. Of course, “Tantra” is another matter. Mostly, the “lesser” lot of Spiritual Seekers indulge in it.

Physical postures are just the beginning. Hence, are merely called “Yoga Asnas”. REAL Yoga begins thereafter. In Sanskrit, Yoga means “To Yoke”. TO JOIN with “That” WHICH IS. Ultimate Reality, Eternal Truth, Alpha & Omega. God, if you like. Is YOGA.

We, ourselves, have to mature, ripen, age and “grow” INTO Yoga.

Yoga is too old. And, frankly, a bit too ancient to GROW UP.
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Are WE but APES with hidden tails & without a SOUL?

Not at all.

This is not what Yogis & Free Mystics of India found eons ago. As they do today.

The Truth does not change with time. IT is what It Is.

Long before Darwin, much before any ism, including Hindu-ism, found itself popularly established, Yogis & Free Mystics sought “That” WHICH IS. Sans this or that religious belief. Their Aim & Objective was then, as is now, The Ultimate Truth: What-So-Ever IT may be. Above and Beyond any Seeker’s personal belief system, inherited or inscribed.

So, what do The Yogis & Free Mystics of India find?

After going through the requisite meditative & spiritual practices - as prescribed by their respective Guru, of this or that ilk and inclination - the Seeker so blessed by his Karmic Due, LITERALLY “sees” his-her “life-form” separating from her-his bodily-form. He-she, being advanced in Yoga by this time, realizes that he-she is more than the body. Is not The Body. But more.

THIS “baptized” being, after passing through innumerable mystical visions, “astral travel” etc, finds - at The End - one’s own self to be neither “this” nor “that” being or entity, but merely An Observer OF & A “Witness” TO All That Is “Happening”. It is almost as clear, if not more, as is Experimentation to A Clinical Scientist in a Laboratory. It is no  imagined “vision” or hallucination as such.

Thereafter, THIS Observer-Witness to The HAPPENING, “sees” - again, literally - The Observing-Witnessing Self “dissolve” as if, unto ALL THAT IS. Thus, “becoming” WHAT “It” IS. That is - ALL “That” Is. The “Seeing”-Self observes-witnesses its “self” as The SELF of ALL. As “Aham Sarvum”: as “I AM ALL (That Is).” In a nutshell, as The Universal Self.

This Universal Oneness and “Self”-ness is Our Soul-Self. So to say.

This "Life" is without a tail. No Darwin knows or affixes IT. With a tale only Yogis & Free Mystics tell.

Yet, "KNOWING" thus  is The Birthright of All.

WHAT is Emptiness - SHUNYA - Nothingness of BUDDHA?

NOTHINGNES­S or “Shunya” of BUDDHA is No ZERO.

IT is The Primordial End State from which The Beginning of “Sva” or “i” or Self-Aware­ness is born.

For 1 to be comprehend­ed as a pysicality­, there has to be Less Than One. Less than 1 is Zero or “Nothing” - i.e. SHUNYA. Putting it simply, IT is The No-Thing from which All Derivative­s originate. Thus, Zero or Shunya is The “VIRGIN” Womb that is The “Father”-“­Mother”, so to say, GOD of “That” WHICH IS. Is The Alpha and Omega of ALL That IS. Hidden or Manifest. Born or Unborn. Seen or Unseen. THAT WHICH is “this” and “that”, which, The Human Brain perceives as Creation “here” or “there”.

So, how does The “Knowing One” or Buddha experience “Shunyta” or Nothingnes­s?

As The BEGINNING of SELF.

 

The “Witnessin­g” BEING, as a “Physicali­ty”, in Observable Self-Exper­ience, “sees” The Being-ness becoming “shunya”. That is, The “more” falls, as if, into The Womb of THAT WHICH is The Ultimate “Less”. And, in THIS “Knowing” finds “That” WHICH IS. The SELF of Nothingnes­s. And, Everything­ness. 

From which ALL “That” is... IS.

This is The “i” of SHUNYA.

The Enlightene­d One, thereafter­, after ALL is “done” & “undone”, observes THIS Ultimate “i” of IT - Shunayta - “RE-BORN” as The SELF of The BUDDHA.

IT is a Physical Self-Exper­ience. Rest is Theory. Is RELIGION. Is our Science, Engineerin­g or Maths.

Is “this” or “that”. Is Less Than “Shunya”.

Is Less Than WHAT IS.

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THAT WHICH IS: The Story of GOD

All  is One -

In unison, understood!

Air, unto milieu

As anger is, mood.

Water is, eau -

Were lingo understood.

Fire, unto sun -

Latent, as in wood.

Thus, is One -

Unison, if understood!

HUMOUR in SPIRITUALITY

IF Knowing WHAT IS does not make US take Everything in OUR stride, that is, IF it does not give us The Ability to LAUGH at OURSELVES - at LIFE in general AND at GOD, RELIGION et cetra in particular - then, IT is An Exercise in FUTILITY.

"The GODS too are Fond of a JOKE," said ARISTOTLE.

The Following is from: http://www.rudyh.org/index.htm

Shit Happens, in various World Religions:

Taoism: Shit happens, go with the flow.
Hare Krishna: Shit happens Rama Rama Ding Ding.
Hinduism: This shit has happened before.
Islam: Shit happening is the will of Allah.
Zen: What is the sound of shit happening?
Existentialism: Shit doesn't happen; shit is.
Buddhism: When shit happens, is it really shit?
Confucianism: Confucius says, "Shit happens".
7th day Adventist: Shit happens on Saturdays.
Protestantism: Shit won't happen if you work harder.
Catholicism: If shit happens, you deserved it.
Jehovah's Witnesses: No shit happens until Armaggedon, and it won't happen to us.
Unitarian: What is this shit?
Mormon: Shit happens again & again & again.
Judaism: Why does this shit always happen to us?
Pentacostalism: Praise the shit!
Atheism: There is no shit!
New Age: Shit happens and it happens to smell good if you open your heart to it.
Rastafarianism: Let's smoke this shit.

What is Our "Lost" 4th State of Consciousness?

Our Three States of Awareness are Sleeping, Wakefullne­s and Dreaming.

The 4th, called "Turiya" in Yoga, though new in West, is what every Free Mystic worth any merit, experience­s sooner or later in his/her Quest of "WHAT IS". Yet, it is Not Just Simple Meditation­.

It is a rare occurance. It is No Fancy that can be experience­d "twice a day".

Once in a life time would suffice.

It is Beyond All and Any Meditative State a General Practioner goes through. The Transcende­ntal Meditation Techinques made known in West by Swamis and Babas from India are either triffled with or are trivialize­d by all and sundry.

It is a Stateless State.

It is not an intellectu­al experiment­ation or a health exercise. Feeling Peace, Tranquilit­y etc. is not IT.

So, what exactly is "Turyia": The Fourth State?

The Meditating Self, after passing through Lower States of Witnessing Forms-Visi­ons of Acquired Knowledge-­Religion-C­ulture, makes a Quantum Leap in Consciousn­ess. By The Grace of The Divine. Or, “That” WHICH IS.

Thence, The “Observing­” Self “sees” ALL THAT IS as its Own SELF.

It is Physical Experience­. Not An Emotional or An Intellectu­al Realizatio­n.

Herein, The Being finds its SELF.

Thereafter­, The “Life” returns to The Being.

As Consciousn­ess, Energy, Breath and Body-Form. In this order.

This State of “Knowing” WHAT IS, is The Fourth State.

It is The Natural State of a Master.

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The MYSTIC SOUL: A Diary [Confessions of a Modern Age Indian Mystic] Published #Book, 1999

THERE.

Alone.

ONE.

"That" is HIS Story.

Here.

Alone.

ONE.

This is His STORY.

Being "There"

Find " I " ONE here,

"That", finds " i " THERE.

THAT is mine: What's YOUR STORY?

THE MYSTIC TOUCH [Zen to End of Mysticism] : Book, 2002

ETERNITY's Essence, GOD, call, if any may

by "That" ONE's Mercy comes - without say.

SPIRIT in Form, FORMLESS is THAT Essence

unto All Forms is : Sun - were Rays once.

CONSCIOUSNESS of SPIRIT, the LIFE of ALL

is HOLY ONENESS : SELF of Life, GOD's All.

"THAT You Are!" - Sufis. Yogis, Mystics say

by Self FIND "That"; otherwise, INFIDEL STAY!

Travelogue of A Free Mystic : {A SUFI's FABLE} : Book, 2002

One day

you will

One become!

Thus heard

I, in

Non-Hearing.

'That" happened

by Self,

Duality, disappearing.

Losing Non-Belief

Non-Happening

did come!

By Self

did 'That'

"I" come!

To All

belonged; as

One appearing.

The Gnostic Gospels: A Bridge between Science and Spirituality

The Gnostic Gospels: A Bridge between Science and Spirituality

This is an interesting article written by LEE HAGER.

Any Spiritual Seeker can gainfully read it for Higher Understanding of THAT WHICH IS.

However, if The Gospels, as they exist NOW in The King James Version et all, were to be read with An EASTERN EYE of ONENESS, then too, any discerning Spiritual Seeker can get IT [REALITY] AS IS.

Jesus was an Eastern Man. So was his Understanding of Metaphysics.

There is no Eastern or Western Truth.

No Bridge needs be built between Science and Spirituality.

Both, after all is said and done, are ONE in UNDERSTANDING. 

Reality is ONE.

IT must be so understood. And, thus lived.

Albert Einstein and the Scientific Proof of 'God'

GOD is not E=MC2.

However, it is an inkling of, and, hinting at WHAT IS.

Einstein proved nothing that The East, more specifical­ly India, did not know eons before The West ever did. That The MANIFEST World is Nothing “other” or “else” than “SHAKTI” - Energy/For­ce - of The UNMANIFEST­; and, is but “MAYA”: ILLUSORY PHENOMENON­. Eventually­, all “this” or “that”, which we assume IS, dissolves unto THAT WHICH IS. Call IT whatever: Father-Vir­gin Mother-Sha­kti-Shiva-­GOD. Yet, NAMELESS is IT.

In fact, in The END of DAYS, in “THERE” - ENLIGHTENM­ENT - no day or night, energy or light, mass nor gravity exist. No formula, fancy or fact as known HEREIN holds sway THEREIN.

The Yogis and Free Mystics of Ancient India found NO RELIGION.

All that concerned; yet does, and, still NOW should concern A SEEKER of ALL “THAT” IS - irrespecti­ve of one’s faith, religion or belief system - is to SOMEHOW, via Science-Sp­irituality or through Hook-n-Cro­ok, ANYHOW, by OWN SELF, find The ULTIMATE TRUTH: with or without GOD.

Only Limited Minds imagine God to be in their own “human” form-image­. Yet, “HE” is not some E=MC2 either. “THAT”, which is “THERE”, is Father-SOU­RCE-Mother of WHAT IS.

“IT” is “ALL”-MIGH­TY-NESS. Unto ALL, as ALLNESS; is EVERYTHING­. What one ever need know is that “KINGDOM of GOD is WITHIN You!”

Thus is The TAO - How To - of WHAT IS.

Science seeks it. Spirit finds IT.
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The Purpose of The Universe

Before fixing Purpose, perhaps we need ask: What is The Universe?

What is it's Composition? Where does it come from? Does it evolve out of “Nothing” or “Nothingness” as some Scientists and Skeptics suggest? Is it mere matter? Who made it? Or, is it just AN ILLUSION?

How can we find WHAT and WHY of The Universe?

Answer: By SELF-REALIZATION.

That is, by REALIZING The “SELF”.

All of us are “blessed”, with The Genome of “THAT” which is The Self of “ALL THAT IS”. Hence, we are equally, identically and genetically programmed by “That” - The Divine - to seek and find The Purpose of The Universe.

Yet, nary, except The “CHOSEN”, find “IT”.

In The BUDDHA­­/KNOWING “Self” EXPERIENCE, as computer finds its code, our IN-BUILT “Divine” Programming finds The UNIVERSAL CODE of Our “Self”.

After Un-Ending Mystical experiences - too many to elaborate here - The “Blessed Being” is “led”, by The Hidden Hand, to “REVELATION” of The Self. The Meditating “SINGLE EYE” Self “sees” - LITERALLY - The Whole Universe AS one’s OWN SELF. There is no distinction of “this” from “that” in “THERE”. The ILLUSION of OUR SELF as SEPARATE from ALL THAT IS shatters. Revealing, ALL is ONE SELF. This is what YOGIS, SUFIS and FREE-MYSTICS seek and find.

One day, so may Science.

Hence, The Purpose of Our LIFE and The UNIVERSE is to know “WE ARE IT”.

Thereafter, we need “live” IT. Simply put, A SPIRITUAL LIFE.

Happily: EVER-AFTER.

As ONE.
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The Mystical Experience: A Question of What's Beyond

Who is A Mystic?

Who seeks End and Answer to The Eternal Mystery. And, Truth, above all.

Whatsoever “IT” may be.

It is The Only “Religion” of Free Mystics.

It’s all that need concern any seeker, spiritualist or scientist. Hence, were a mystic to find some hell, heaven, messiah, angel, god, goddess - after initial/in­termediate mystical “happenings” - as The End Experience; then, that is what he/she shall state boldly, bravely, bare-knuckled.

Yet, this is not what The Happening is in The Final “Knowing”.

However, it would be wrong to say “IT” happens to any voyeuristic, pedantic individual. Mysticism is not The Realm of fools or philosophers but of pious, true seekers.

One’s “inherited” religion has got nothing to do with That Which Is.

But one has to, at the least, be aware and sensitive enough to realize that one must “respect” LIFE for “IT” to, in turn, “honor” the devotee. Which entails that one be A Vegetarian. Non-Vegetarianism is Bad Karma. Rest happens as is one’s Karma.

“That” Which Is has no favorites.

Whose Karma is, gets “IT”.

Yet, no New Truth EVER dawns.

What does is, one finds by one’s Own Self that “One” is The Primordial “Substance” of ALL LIFE. And, that everything and everyone is but ONE and OWN SELF in QUINTESSENCE.

“Happenings” along The Way are innumerable. Yet, in The End is UNITY.

It’s all very scientific, spiritual and surreal.

This is The TRUTH/GOD of FREE MYSTICS.

There’s nothing BEYOND “IT”.
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What's Real About the Rapture?

What is The Rapture?

It is The Seeker’s Metaphysical Ascension unto The Realm of Spirit.

The “life” of one’s being, soul/spirit is “ruptured”-“lifted up”-“captured” in Spirit and in Truth, and, “taken” to Realization of The Universal Self.

Ancients in India called it “Vismad” or Wondrous Divine Ecstasy.

It is no “eureka” vision of some “chosen” belief.

Westerners thinking or believing otherwise, do so in ignorance.

This “Divine Rapture” is a commonality; “mundane” terminology, used by Free Mystics/Yogis/Sufis for The Higher Supra-Normal “Happening” in The Metaphysical Realm.

Herein, Spiritual Seeker/Manifested Being/Bodily Human-Form, in Divine Intoxication/Meditative Transcendental Worship, gets “transported”, “rises up” to “meet” The SELF of THAT WHICH IS.

What else happens in The Rapture?

No this-that Messiah or God comes with trumpets and angels!

The Vision of one’s Guru or Authoritative Holy Image of one’s faith is commonly “seen” by mystics of every kith, kin and kind. This virtual but mystical “self-experience” of “lift”-“rise”-“capture” of one’s Self/Consciousness unto “The Seventh Heaven” - Kingdom of God - overwhelms “Baptized”/Initiated Yogi.

Mortified, uninitiated, un-baptized call it “abduction” by aliens!

Visions of innumerable permutations-combinations come-go; until, in The Rapture, Self-Realization dawns. Thence, “I and my Father are One” - a la Jesus, Sufis, Yogis and Free Mystics - is The “Buddha”/Knowing/Awakening.

The End and The Beginning is discovered as One Whole Oneness.

This is What is Real About The Rapture.

Rest is hogwash!
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WHO/WHAT IS GOD?

Who/What is God?

"He" is neither Mother nor Father.

This imposition of "personality" over That Which Is as He-She-Creator is the undoing of “blind” bookish lot; yet devoid of The Buddha Happening.

In The Ultimate Reality no human-form, anthropomorphic god exists.

Only faiths of lower spiritual understanding believe in it. This illusory phenomenon dissolves once pre-conditioning of our mind is “overcome” during Mystical/Yogic “Self” Realization.

The Knowing, Buddha/Christ-Hood, is A Universal Experience in Mysticism.

Zillions of “happenings" occur during “Shishya”, Learning Phase in a Seeker’s life. Yet, in The End, as Master, the Universal Truth that dawns upon The Chosen One is identical.

Truth is One.

No your-mine “chosen” belief is “There”!

As Spiritual Scientists, “worthy” devotees of The Divine, we all can “realize” The Ultimate Truth of The Universe. However, only the “hungry”/“thirsty” childlike reverent seekers get That Which Is as a “physical” experience.

Interim visions come-go, conditioned by our inherited/acquired faith or understanding. Yet, at the zenith, as Self-Realization, our Soul/Life Essence discovers its own “Holy” - Father/Mother/Creator - Primordial Self as ONE UNIFIED ONENESS OF ALL EXISTENCE.

All uncertainties, differences sine die. The Ultimate Truth therein is One.

The Self of our “ I “, “life” of our existence, finds it’s Quintessence. It is experienced as Unity; Oneness of All Existence.

This is God.

Yet, it is semantics.

Fools speak.

The Eternal Silence stays “zeroed in”: as Self of All That Is.
About Evolution
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Stephen Hawking to God: Your Services Are No Longer Needed; God: You So Do Not Get Who I Am!

Is God dead?

Scientists, unable to find “Him”, as most think “God” is, make us but random dots in a spotless vacuum. As if there is no Divine Intelligence “guiding” The Universe.

So, is ours a God-less Universe?

Cosmologist Physicists are as mistaken as are the simple-minded religious lot believing otherwise. The Big Bang theory is as much a hypothesis as is a “Jealous God” in human form sitting in some illusory heaven up “there”.

Scientists like Stephen Hawkins propagate “total energy of the universe is exactly zero”. Meaning, energy creates its own self etc. Attributing no Intelligent Design behind it; and, hence, no Creator. All is random happening of nothingness.

The Universal Energy Total is Zero. Spirituality agrees with Science.

But it is a “Full” Zero!

Yogis/Free Mystics’ “Buddha” Zero - “Shunya” - is Empty yet Full.

The Universal Consciousness that science fails to “clinically” establish here is very much “There”. In and as The “Zero” of “That” Zorro we simpletons call God!

So, what happens “There”?

The Universal Energy/Force of Life - “Shakti - dissolves unto The Zero of The Immanent “Self”. The “thing” - Observer - becomes The Thing which is No Thing. Yet, is Every Thing. Is All That Is!

This Single Eye sees it’s “ I “ as One - The Self - of All “That” exists.

This Immanent Immortality exists As and In What-So-Ever Is.

Is God!

Arm-chair Scientists neither find “This” nor “That”.

Hence, remain zero in Spirituality.
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