by Michael Mamas | Thursday, June 28, 2012 | Spiritual Evolution, The Gods |
There is one God. Each Deity is the personification of a different aspect of God, as if God puts on a different attire to present another quality of His/Her divine nature. The Gods are the laws of nature, the mechanisms of existence. You are one with all that is, with the source of all existence, with God. Each aspect, each personification, of God is within you.
Generally, your relationship with the Gods starts with viewing God as if outside of yourself. You revere God as distant… as something beyond you. However, your relationship with God culminates in becoming one with God… in finding the Gods within you. This, of course, is not done through the superficial personality level, but instead within the depth of your being. The different Gods then are different aspects of your psyche and of your physiology. Cultivate your relationship with God with the intent of moving in that direction instead of holding God at a distance.
There will be a time when you actually have a choice of taking that final step of mergence with God, or keeping the very slightest separation so that you can revere God as other. However, that is another subject entirely and one that is not possible to really understand until that time comes.
For now, lean in the direction of finding God within you. But know it is a process. It evolves and grows over time, just as it takes time for the seed to become the tree. Patiently sit before each aspect of divinity and explore your relationship with that God or Goddess. In time you will merge. You will find that divinity in you as you… as some aspect of your being, your psyche, your physiology.
This is indeed a subtle process. For example, finding Karthikeya within you will not mean your personality transforms into what you may think a Commander and Chief of the Army of the Gods would be like. How He emerges through you will be unique to you. For example, some will remain soft-spoken and appear meek. Others may be commanding in their demeanor. To find Karthikeya within you will transform you in profound yet subtle ways.
Such discovery is attained primarily through meditation, yet proper reflection and discernment will facilitate the process… very much so.
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by Michael Mamas | Thursday, May 17, 2012 | Clarifying Confusion, Spiritual Evolution |
I was asked the following question:
I was in Deep thought the other day and I couldn’t get the words of Maharishi Raman out of my head. “The ideas of purpose and responsibility are purely social in nature and are created by mind to exhort Ego. God is above all such ideas. If God is immanent in all and there is no one except him, who is responsible for whom? Creation is expression of inherent laws in the source of creation.” This just kept bring up the question, “Am I really in control of my own life? Or am I a mere puppet to be played with?”
To which I respond:
There is only karma and dharma. Both can be considered the will of God.
Karma is simple action of cause and effect… you have no free will in that arena.
Dharma is action in harmony with your nature… your true will, which is one with God. Freedom.
Dharma means action in accord with Nature. Your true nature is one with Mother Nature. Though rules of dharma exist and do have a valuable purpose, your true dharma cannot be imposed upon you. It must be discovered within you as you progress along the path of evolution.
You cannot just decide to be free… that can still be karmic. Just because you think you are free or you feel free, does not mean you are free. Most lives are more karmic than dharmic. Most people have less freedom than they think.
As you evolve, you live more dharmicly and less karmicly. The spiritual path is the path of evolution, is the path to freedom. It leads to a life lived in Oneness with God… free and unbounded.
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by Michael Mamas | Sunday, April 15, 2012 | Spiritual Evolution, The Gods |
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Rama, the creator, reveres Lord Shiva, the destroyer.
With the birth of a new understanding, the old must dissolve away.
In other words, you can’t take it with you.
This is challenging enough in the material realm. In the domain of the emotional, it can be a most formidable task.
Evolution means change.
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by Michael Mamas | Tuesday, August 2, 2011 | Spiritual Evolution, The Veda |
I had a very interesting experience the other day.
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I asked several Vedic scholars to interpret the same line from the Veda. The interpretations were very different, though tangentially related. This emphasizes something that I have talked about but it brought it so fully to light that it even surprised me.
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The Veda is a field of abstraction – nature is based upon profound abstraction. It’s not concrete. It’s not well defined. Abstraction is all encompassing and it’s all pervasive.
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It’s just like with an electron. An electron is a cloud, a probability cloud. Only when we grab on to it and reduce it down to something as inane as a point, do we interact with it. Through that interaction it is compromised.
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All of life is that way. Every sloka in the veda is like that. This is because it’s the actual language of the underlying essence of life – the field of pure abstraction, the nature of Mother Nature.
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We try to quantify that. We try to embrace life as if it is reducible to very concrete forms, and we behave in life in that manner believing it is the ‘truth.’ But it’s not consistent with nature. It’s not consistent with Mother Nature, and it’s not consistent with our true nature.
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I do understand that my relationship with life is not conventional. I relate to life in a very abstract manner. People ask me questions and they look for a concrete response. But I know from within my own being, my own soul, my own heart, that life is just not that way. The universe doesn’t work that way. It is pliable. It is dynamic. You can take an infinite number of slices through that same one pie, and they all have some validity, yet they all contradict one and other.
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So if people ask me again, searching for a particular answer, I am capable of bending in that direction. But nevertheless, through that process there is some compromise. There is some accounting of the person’s inflexibility.
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So take what I say and work with it to try to develop a deeper understanding of life, rather than trying to take what I say and force it into the mold of your own relationship with life as it currently is. Evolve your relationship, not only with me, but with all of life.
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Embrace this understanding and use it to evolve. The other approach confines and limits you. And that limitation has been the fate of humanity throughout history.
The Master’s words come from the unbounded, yet they are received through the filter of limitation and confinement. Commit yourself to looking deeper.
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That is the path of wisdom, the path of discernment, the path to enlightenment.
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by Michael Mamas | Friday, March 25, 2011 | Announcements, Spiritual Evolution |
I am having so much fun at Mount Soma!
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The Temple is incredible. I have seen larger temples, but I have never seen a more beautiful one. Also, the feeling of it, even from the distance is astounding. Very powerful and it is not even being used yet!
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Pundit Prasad and his wife Lakshmi Anasuya have arrived from India. He is a very highly respected priest. I am giving them a couple days to rest before I visit with them for the first time.
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We are planning to keep the stapathi and shilpis on for an additional month or so after the inauguration to build a Maha Nandi (great/huge Nandi) statue directly across from the temple. It will be located in the area of the first Havan Kund (fire pit) that we used for homas while many of you were here in 2008. The priests loved the idea of the Nandi. He will be an awesome sight and will certainly amp things up.
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It is so much fun to see everyone every day at the Center. More and more people are joining the ashram program. It is a great delight for me. I love it. People are really moving forward. Evolution is not always the easiest thing for people, but the underlying current of growth supporting and feeding their lives is palpable and so nurturing to their being. Wonderful!
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The Student Union building is nearing completion. At the rate things are going, we will need another building for housing as soon as it is completed!
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We are getting a cow and calf today and are all excited about it. People here are having fun constructing the barn for them. What a joy it will be to see them each day.
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Life is more than good here. It is fantastic. I look forward to every day.
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There is nothing more fulfilling than rapid evolution.
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