While major Indo-European and Middle-East religions are theist, the great religious philosophies from the Far East - Taoism, Confucianism and Zen – have no God. In other words, their ultimate ontological principles do not conceive of Ultimate Being as separate from and prior to embodied life. Thus the ancient dualisms of man and God, matter and spirit do not arise. Where then do we find the transcendent in these spiritual philosophies? In Taoism, the transcendent is found in the invisible ordering mystery of the cosmic Tao. In Zen, the transcendent is the unmediated experience of the infinite in the Now. In Confucianism which is most widespread as a governing doctrine, Heaven refers to a self-subsistent moral law or Great Norm of cosmic harmony.
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Albert Einstein who inquires into cosmological laws as a scientist expresses the meaning more straightforwardly: “A human being is part of the whole we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thought as somehow separated from the rest – a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a prison for us - - Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature”. One might add to these words the framework of life-value meaning, “from which we come and to which we return, but made better or worse by what we have been”. How we tell better from worse is by life-value measure through the span, the primary axiom of value still missing from the undivided meaning. It includes the natural and social life support systems by which all live.
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It is a man is own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
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ADesire is everywhere. Every living thing has the desire to stay alive. Even plants “strive” to propagate themselves. Craving is our creator. Our parents’ craving for each other and our craving for rebirth combined to create us. Even painful feelings give rise to craving. When a painful feeling arises, we do not like it. We wish to get rid of the pain, and we wish to enjoy some pleasure. Both wishes are craving.aAAa
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Agelastic:
A person who never laughs
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Types of people To Avoid.
The Drama Magnet: someone who feeds off Gossip and loves to talk Negativity about Others.
➺ The Energy Vampire: Criticizes you all the time and never gives you positive feedback.
➺ The pathological liar: tells lies for No reason all the time, and constantly make you feel bad for them.
➺ The user: only contacts you when they need something or to ask a Question.
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That which transcends the entirety of all the principles (tattva) of reality, whose nature is unlimited and unbounded from (the earth principle) up to the Siva Principle, that is the Supreme Reality, composed only of the unbounded and unlimited Consciousness. That is the place where all things are established in their respective differences. That is the vital energy (ojas) of all. By means of that, everything breaths and that alone I am (aham). Because of that I transcend everything and because of that I am everything.
-Abhinavagupta
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Free and spontaneous self-apprehension (vimarsa) is the very nature of the light of consciousness. For otherwise, although reflections of external objects might fall upon it, it would be no better than an insentient crystal.
Because the Self is different from the insentient: therefore it is spoken of as pure consciousness (chaitanya), the implied sense of which is conscious activity or freedom with respect to conscious activities. Self-apprehending consciousness is the very self of consciousness. It is the supreme word(para vak) which always manifests itself by itself. It is freedom (svatantrya). It is the supreme power of the highest self. This consciousness is vibratory light (sphuratta). It is absolute reality (mahasatta) which is beyond spatial and temporal distinctions. This consciousness being the universal essence is called the Heart of the Lord.
-Utpaladeva, Isvara Pratyabhijna Karika (Verses on the Recognition of the Lord)
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The sanskrit term for God is Sat-Chit-Ananda. Eternal Being or Truth (Sat), Infinite Consciousness (Chit), and Ever-new Bliss (Ananda). Such is the paradox of creation, that God exists as the Soul of all men, creating and supporting them, yet does not Himself become entangled with them. And human beings, although saturated with God, are overcome by cosmic delusion and made subject to birth and death. A mystery indeed!
True wisdom is understanding how the One Consciousness becomes all things. The wise do not indulge in grief for things that are inevitably changeable and evanescent. Those who always weep and complain that life is filled with bitter things reveal the narrowness of their minds. In God's consciousness, all worldly things are trifles, because they are not eternal...They master the restlessness that is synonymous with mortal life, and experience consciously the complete calmness, or silence, accompanying freedom from identification with the body. When such a devotee reaches this immutable state of perfection, he witnesses all the changes of life and death without being moved by them. Identification with the waves of changes leads to misery, for to live and find pleasure in the changeable is to be separated from the Eternal. The wise, therefore, are not tossed with the ups and downs of the waves of happiness and misery. They dive deep into the Spirit-Ocean of Bliss, avoiding the storms of delusion, the waves of change that rage on the surface of human consciousness.
-Paramahansa Yogananda
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Sadhan is to wean out or remove from within these accumulated seeds of the past action which is possible only when the divine Shakti turns inward and becomes active. At this point one should give up their Sadhana, the prayers or meditation wherein you forcibly concentrate, and surrender to the Divine Shakti and sit for Sadhan.
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"As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The person who possesses gravitas (dhira) is not bewildered by such a change." (Bhagavad Gita, 2.13)
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Socrates said, ‘I know that I do not know.’ Can it be ignorance? It is wisdom.
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Lord Bhairava. Lord Shiva has many forms. One such form rules over the realm of death. That is Bhairava.
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e screen is always there but several types of pictures appear on the screen and then disappear. Nothing sticks to the screen, it remains a screen. Similarly, you remain your own Self in all the three states. If you know that, the three states will not trouble you, just as the pictures which appear on the screen do not stick to it. On the screen, you sometimes see a huge ocean with endless waves; that disappears. Another time, you see fire spreading all around; that too disappears. The screen is there on both occasions. Did the screen get wet with the water or did it get burned by the fire? Nothing affected the screen. In the same way, the things that happen during the wakeful, dream and sleep states do not affect you at all; you remain your own Self.
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WORLD IS DREAM STATE OF ISHWAR
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Ūdyān Trīvēdī, [07/01/2023 06:06]
An Important Message Everyone Must read from the excerpts of Hitopdesha
Q: What makes us forget that we are going to be dead someday like all those before us did?
A - Our attachment to the body and its gratification makes us forget about death. People regard death as unavoidable, so they feel no need to worry about it. Forget about death, and just get on with your life. Enjoy life while you can, before you die, they say. People, of course, know they are going to die, but they are in denial about it. They have chosen to forget about it. Death is the last thing people want to think or talk about. Nobody talks about death, unless, of course, it’s the death of some celebrity reported on the news. Even if a person is on his last breath, dying from an accident or some disease, what do people tell him? - easy now, everything is going to be ok. In reality the human life-form is meant to prepare for death. Death is the final exam in the school of life. That’s what most people forget or deny - how we conduct ourselves in this life is a preparation for the next life. People of an atheistic mentality deny this fact. Even though such a mentality is the very cause of our bondage to the material world, and its inherent miseries, they have chosen to forget about it. The human life-form is an extremely rare opportunity, however, for the soul to solve the problem of death, once and for all. Again, most people will deny that death is a problem. But when properly analyzed it’s our biggest problem. We may have so many problems in life - our wife leaves us, our kids are drug-addicts, we don’t have enough money, we can’t pay the rent, we can’t find work, the list goes on and on, but if I’m diagnosed with an incurable, fatal disease, all other problems immediately take a back-seat. So the biggest problem in life is actually death. For the soul to not take advantage of the rare chance the human life-form offers the soul to become deathless, is a signal to nature that this soul doesn’t need to be a human. Eating, sleeping, mating and defending the soul can do in any life-form, only as a human can the soul can get out of samsara, and regain it’s immortality. “Both animals and men share the activities of eating, sleeping, mating and defending. But the special property of the humans is that they are able to engage in spiritual life. Therefore without spiritual life, humans are on the level of animals."
✨ Lord Shiva ✨, [08/01/2023 18:00]
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