The Voice of God

by Michael Mamas | Sunday, May 20, 2012 | Clarifying Confusion, The Gods | 11 comments

With my cultural upbringing, the idea of speaking with God seemed too far-fetched for me to accept.  That, compounded with the New Age channels and ‘psychics’, left me with a great deal of skepticism.

Yet when I was told by Holy men on several different occasions that I spoke the language of the Gods, I knew what they were talking about.  I was confronted by all of this directly when Pandit Prasad told me I should go to the temple every morning and speak with Shiva.  Though many astounding confirmations of what He said came forth, I was still uncomfortable talking about it.

This morning when I was doing my mantras at the temple, I could feel Lord Shiva calling me to sit.  By now, I know that feeling and knew He has something to say.  I sat and he proceeded to clarify the issue as follows.

Super ego is a term from psychology that refers to the inner voices of authority you hear inside your head.  It is your mother, father, teacher, role model, etc. speaking. It is the words of those you have taken on as an authority figure.  It is riddled with your and their samskaras… their limited thinking… their conditioning… their distortions. Now that is not to say that you should not listen to the wisdom and guidance they offer, but that is another topic.

The point here is that if you remove the samskaras as per Vasistha’s discourses in the Yoga Vasistha, then what the super ego becomes is the word of God.  It is only our stresses and strains, i.e. our conditioned and limited thinking that prevents us from hearing God’s words clearly.

The Gods do not speak in our worldly language.  They speak directly to your soul as sublime inner knowings within your soul.  When your inner knowings cease to be colored by the surface of your life, and instead become expressions of the Divinity within, you understand the language of the Gods, and they will speak to you. This is on Their terms, not the terms of your small self.

To hear the Gods speak, to know the language of the Gods, the small self must cease to be.  It must become only a virtual image projected upon the field of maya, there only in order to interface with the world of maya.

When your super ego becomes your Super Ego, you can speak to the Gods.

Devotion

by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, May 16, 2012 | Clarifying Confusion, The Gods | 7 comments

Today is the one-year anniversary of our Sri Somesvara Temple at Mount Soma.  We will be at the temple throughout the day.  Yesterday we had a beautiful Hanuman puja.  Hanuman is devotion.  I had intended to write about devotion… what it is… how it consumes ones life.  I did speak about this at the temple.  It was very moving for me to do so.

Somehow, I am having a hard time bringing myself to write about it.  The feelings run too deep.  It is too intimate.  Some things are best whispered at only the just right moment.

It is beautiful here at Mount Soma.  We are creating a field of harmony, which will radiate peace and coherence to the world.  Liberation means freedom from conditioning.  It means flowing with the stream of your own Divinity.  It means flowing with the Cosmic Flow that permeates and feeds all of life.  That means finding God within you.  This is the deepest meaning of devotion.  Total surrender to your true nature… to God.  Emancipation.  A life of devotion.

But how can this be conveyed? Devotion on that level is not an emotion… not an attitude… not something done to gain anything… not done to gain even enlightenment. It, in fact, only comes after enlightenment.  It can be compared to nothing worldly.

Where do you see such devotion?  It is rarely ever seen.  When it is seen, it is not understood… not comprehended… not believed.

In this age of ignorance called Kali Yuga, life lived in “devotion” often seems to be devotion to making money.  There, one may tirelessly effort without reservation. One may continually burn the midnight oil with pride and conviction, willingly depleting the life blood in pursuit of that… one pointedly focused and committed.

Imagine a life of such devotion, multiplied to infinity in purity and commitment, to the Divine flow that feeds and supports all the world… all that is.  Who can even imagine that?  Who can perceive that, even after they see it… who can believe it? Every breath, every moment… lived in full devotion.  Not just an emotion or attitude, but a life lived fully.

Many aspire to enlightenment.  Why?  What do you reach for?  What do you want? Is it about you as a human being?  Or is it about you as a Divine Being?   And what does that mean to you?  Devotion is not an emotion.  It lies much, much deeper.  Though it permeates thoughts and emotions, it lies infinitely deeper.  Devotion to God is union with God is enlightenment is Hanuman.

Curse of the Snake

by Michael Mamas | Tuesday, January 10, 2012 | Clarifying Confusion, The Gods | 4 comments

In response to the previous blog, Sarah asked, “How does one know if one carries the curse of the snake?”

Right off we need to address the phrase, “curse of the snake,” which no doubt for some people (particularly westerners I suspect) has the feeling of a grade B movie about vampires or some such thing.  Instead, we need to remember the principle of mapping.  The idea that every operator permeates all levels and aspects of existence just as mathematics permeates all of existence.  The different ‘operators’ of math are things like addition, multiplication, division, etc.  The operators that permeate existence can be referred to as the Gods, each having their own unique nature.

The quality of one such operator is that of the serpent or snake.  To understand an operator, you can begin with how it feels.  Firstly, the idea of a snake has a powerful effect on the psyche.  Some are enchanted.  Some are terrified.  In every case, the feeling is powerful because the operator is a powerful one.  We also know that it is an operator that must be handled with great care and respect.  If not done, the snake may bite.  If not done, the medical (crest) error may cause great problems.  If not done, the powerful practice of kundalini yoga can create terrible damage.  The serpent power is not to be employed with a cavalier attitude.  If you are just innocent about it, this is all intuitively obvious.

So the serpent power has a very positive aspect.  Yet the undesirable quality the word ‘curse’ elicits is intuitively there also.  How do you know the nature of that quality? That is easy.  You FEEL it. How do you know if there is imbalance with respect to the serpent operator?  You feel it.

Now admittedly, when you enter the arena of feeling, your biases, fears and other distortions easily overtake your perceptions.  Then enters the age-old question: Are you experiencing perception or projection.  That we have discussed in great length many times.  You could even say that striving to perceive accurately, when done wisely, is in and of itself the entire path of human evolution.  Again proper meditation and wise, reflective (admitted redundancy here feels necessary) discernment are you greatest tools.

The way to determine if there is imbalance with respect to the serpent operator (in other words, if there is ‘the curse of the snake’) is to feel it.  Otherwise, at least one of the list of signs provided below could apply to everyone.  Yet the list is valuable if it is wisely used to assist you in getting a feeling for that arena.

Now, take what is said here in a limited sense and you learn a bit about the serpent operator.  Generalize these principles however, and you have the path to enlightenment in a nutshell.

Pandit Prasad and Lakshmi offered the following additional information regarding the Curse of the Snake question:

If a person has the curse of the snake, there is a problem with the kundalini energy.  These are some signs:

• Marital problems
• Problems getting married
• Having all girls and no boys
• Long-standing unresolved problems
• Negative thinking and problems interacting with people to the point that most interactions are negative or give a negative result
• Hearing problems from birth
• Skin diseases (psoriasis, etc.)
• Intestinal problems

If all the planets in the Vedic birth chart are between Rahu and Ketu (Kalasarpa Dosha) when going clockwise, that is another sign of the curse of the snake.