June 4, 2010

Get Yourself Out of the Way

There have been a few liberated souls who have lived on this planet—there have been quite a few, and there are a few today. They have not saved millions of people, or even thousands or hundreds. Some have saved a small handful, and some have saved just themselves. In fact, neither have they ‘saved’ nor been ‘saved.’ They have played the drama, watched the drama, and left the stage of life to go on to other worlds; they have left other worlds to go beyond, and then they go beyond the beyond.

Do you want to save yourself from unnecessary pain and suffering? Then you need to do your own ‘homework.’ No one can erase your mistakes for you, no one can make you free, no one can give you salvation, and no one can take you to heaven on their shoulders. That is all a hallucination born out of ignorance of your Real Nature.

You decided on your own to play this Game, to live this Life. You knew what you were getting into before you started. Even though you have long since forgotten why you came and where you are going—even this forgetfulness is part of the drama. You will remember when the mind is clarified. You will get to where you are going when you get your self out of the way.

April 24, 2010

Image Worship is the Problem

Most people are image-worshipers. The image they worship is their own self-image. Our self-image is the idea we have of our self and project to others. This idea is a superimposition on the mind. It is formed as a result of our identification with the mind, and by extension, the body and its interrelationships.

So, images are created by ego (the ‘power of identification’). This identifying-power is manifested when the Energy of Consciousness is channeled through the Principle of Knowledge (Mahattatwa), which is manifested from the union of Spirit (Purush, Energy of Consciousness, Atman-Soul projecting its own inherent soul-force or PRANA) with Matter (Prakriti, which in essence is simply pure nothingness).

In reality (Ultimate Reality), our images are nothing, our ego is nothing, everything is nothing. Beyond all this is THAT which is Real. When this is THAT, we are Real. Until then, we remain caught up in unreality. When what was and what will be is dissolved into now, Eternity is experienced in the moment, which is now and forever.

OM