by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, August 21, 2013 | Clarifying Confusion, Spiritual Evolution, The Veda |
“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.” – Albert Einstein
This universe is a reality continuum… an infinite number of simultaneously valid yet contradictory realities. On one level, in one reality, you and I are one… everything is the unified field. In the physical reality, you and I are separate. People cling to one reality or another and call it truth. Divergent branches of Hinduism insist they are right and the opposing Hindu philosophy is wrong.
The enlightened cling to nothing. They align with the reality that best serves the moment. They spontaneous live life in harmony with the reality continuum. They live in freedom. Their life is infinitely creative. What they align with is not based upon what any teacher told them or anything they have been indoctrinated into. They use the philosophies of different realities, yet the philosophies do not use them. They express themselves in terms of popular world views to be understood more easily, but see beyond those views at the same time. They may use quotes and philosophies of famous people to give expression to what they experience, but are not limited by any philosophy, world view, or belief system. An infinite number of world views emerge from deep within them from moment to moment as best serves the situation. They are not enslaved by any world view.
They see clearly. They see what is. They place little value on what they are told should be. It is called spiritual emancipation for a reason. They are free of indoctrination… free of samskaras… free of limitation…. unbounded… infinitely creative from moment to moment. The enlightened live in harmony with nature. Their nature and Mother Nature are one. Nature then determines the philosophy they align with from moment to moment.
If you are to comprehend what is being said here, you must strive to do so. Yet it is quite understandable that you may strive to refute it in order to keep your current understanding, your current knowledge, your current belief system in tact. However, if you do that, your resistance will likely be enough to prevent you from understanding what is being said here. You may try to refute this as another belief system. You may claim you already understand it but just disagree. You may insist that it just does not interest you, or you do not need to know it. You may search for a way to prove it wrong before you really even comprehend it. I assure you it is a profound and most important thing to comprehend. Once comprehended, you will realize that it is the essence of what the tradition of enlightened master, the rishis , were saying. If it were not just that subtle and elusive, everyone would have been enlightened long ago. Also remember, the spiritual path is a long one. A lifetime of study is a very short time. The spiritual path is not measured in years or decades. It is measured in lifetimes.
The knowledge of Veda is sometimes thought of as a secret knowledge. However, it is not a secret because it is hidden away. It is secret because even after reading, studying and listening, it remains a secret to the student. It is as elusive as the mystery of life and existence itself, for that is exactly what it is about.
The genuine spiritual Guru uses philosophies to lead the student to a place that lies beyond the grasp of all philosophies. This level of teaching is extraordinarily rare and oh so very precious.
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by Michael Mamas | Sunday, June 9, 2013 | Clarifying Confusion, Spiritual Evolution |
I was asked about Rakshasas and how they feel threatened by the rise of the Deva, Divinity value… to which I respond:
Divinity is the perfection out of which worldly existence is born. Beings in the world lose themselves to limited thinking… samskaras, conditioning. This is the Rakshasa value. In Kali Yuga, that value permeates the hearts and minds of human beings. When those Rakshasa values are threatened, they feel threatened… they fight back.
The path of evolution is to stay with Divinity, to not get caught up in the Rakshasa value. Meditation is the most powerful tool to do so. Also, discernment is required to act wisely in life. Truth is more elusive than you may believe. Echoes of Truth, perceived as Truth, hold Truth at bay for lifetimes. The Rakshasas uphold what they believe to be Truth. Ignore-ance ignores Truth and clings to samskaras, in the name of what it perceives as Truth. See?
A great healer once said, “I do not deal with disease, I deal with health.” Healing means bringing forth health, not stamping out disease. We bring forth light. We do not try to stamp out darkness. We do not worry ourselves with the darkness. We stay with the light.
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by Michael Mamas | Thursday, May 30, 2013 | Clarifying Confusion, Spiritual Evolution, The Gods |
I was asked the following question:
My son, who is 16, and I were discussing some of your articles about The Big Bang and levels of consciousness. He said to me, “I understand that God is pure consciousness, pure energy, but where did that “energy come from? How was God created?” How would you respond to that question?
To which I respond:
Firstly, IS-NESS = CONSCIOUSNESS. That is something to reflect on… for many years actually.
Because it is the nature of consciousness to be conscious, it becomes in the beginning conscious of the only thing that is… namely itself. Perceiving itself, then, as ‘other’, duality is born and cascades out like a crystal of self interaction to create the full range of multiplicity.
Secondly, there is, strictly speaking, no such thing as energy. However, the structures created in consciousness are fascinating… appealing, alluring…. by their very nature. That compels consciousness to move, so to speak, or at least appear to move. This is called the force of maya. Maya means illusion. Energy (Shakti, the feminine principle) is a quality of illusion, like the movement in a dream is really just part of the dream. The dream is really only happening within consciousness (Shiva). This is why it is said that without Shakti, Shiva is powerless. It is all just the play of consciousness. Yet the power of the illusion is a vast source of infinite energy.
The world is a dream. People become so overwhelmed by the allure of the dream that they forget their true nature. They are lost in the dream. But to free yourself from the dream, you must work through the dream. The dragon of the dream cannot be slain with a real sword. It requires the sword of the dream. To intellectually know this is an illusion is not to see past the illusion. It is a good first step to intellectual know about.
All too often, when people know all about spirituality, they believe they ‘get it.’ I call that the ‘I get it syndrome.’ I work with people to move them through and out of the ‘I get it syndrome’. There are a great deal of levels of clinging to ones current level of identity with the illusion all along the way. Every level along the way is a new level of consciousness… infinite in number.
Knowledge is structured in consciousness. People think of facts as knowledge. But the same fact has an infinite number of levels of understanding depending upon the individual’s level of consciousness.
Sometimes people feel dejected to think that this world is maya… illusion. But that is not correct thinking. This world is grand. It is beautiful. It is pregnant with meaning. It is to be loved. The trick is to “have the boat in the water, but no water in the boat.” Live in the illusion, but do not lose your Self to it. You are one with the source of all that is. Your domain is the universe.
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | Clarifying Confusion, Spiritual Evolution |
Truth is found only in the depth of your being. Collectors of knowledge, Vedic or otherwise, will only have real Knowledge when they find it within themselves.
You are educated only when you have awoken to the place within that lies beyond the grasp of theories and philosophies. ‘Knowing all about’ is a good beginning all too often mistaken for the goal.
Seek true Knowledge.
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by Michael Mamas | Sunday, November 18, 2012 | Clarifying Confusion |
“You are more me than I am me.”
To understand anything is to understand everything. Upon awakening to the depth of your being, you awaken to the depth of all beings… of all that is.
Imagine a reed swaying in the wind. The root is grounded in Truth… in Mother Earth. The reed sways in the winds of karma. The enlightened do not look to the winds for Truth. The winds are known to be merely the playground of life. Such a life is a life of Freedom. Looking to the winds for Truth is a life of bondage. To act in the domain of the winds of karma while not losing your connection to the Mother is called dharma. Such action is poetry.
The true teachers play in the winds of a karma serves as the guide to Truth. It works better and better as the student sees more and more the beauty within the movement of such a life. Do not ask the teacher to provide Truth. Truth is only found within you… through you. The teacher embodies Truth and thereby points the way toward Truth for those willing to listen, to watch, and to learn.
Truth lies just beyond the horizon of the winds of karma… untouched and untamed by those winds.
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