by Michael Mamas | Monday, March 21, 2016 | Spiritual Evolution |
Pure Consciousness is pure Is-ness. It is the ‘stuff’ this world of relative existence is made from.
Consciousness interacts with itself, views itself as other over and over again as the crystalline nature of existence unfolds. That is embodied by Yantras. There are an infinite number of identifiable patterns in the crystalline structure. As ones awareness becomes free, all the patterns become lively, accessible, integrated and harmonized within the awareness. The time comes when it all crystalizes within ones awareness. It all comes together. It all unifies. One awakens to the big picture, the underlying basis which is Pure Consciousness. All the parts are experienced in perfect union, wholeness, integrations, coherence.
That is what is meant by “Before you become enlightened, you must experience everything.”
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by Michael Mamas | Thursday, February 18, 2016 | Spiritual Evolution |
When watching an autumn leaf tumble, it’s easy enough to know that it will eventually make its way back to Mother Earth. A breeze may catch it, sending it swirling away, but you know in time, it will rest upon the ground. It’s simply gravity.
Now imagine expanding that process, not over a matter of minutes, but over millennia. Suddenly, the principle of gravity is not so easily identified. Everything is gravitating back to Oneness, the unified field, God, but the process takes time and the path swirls like the leaves. If you are on a path that facilitates your evolution, your return to God, progress still swirls in the breeze. For that reason, it’s not so easy to know what is evolutionary and what is not.
The Veda provides us with guidelines to facilitate our evolution. Certainly, following those guidelines hastens the process—the journey back to God, to home, to fulfillment, to joy, health, and happiness. But how easy it is to lose sight of this nature of life in a world filled with swirling winds! The trick is to keep a steady hand on the rudder, not be distracted by the winds of life, and stay one-pointedly committed to the purpose of life: the expansion of life as you continue on the journey home.
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by Michael Mamas | Sunday, January 10, 2016 | Spiritual Evolution |
The central point of the Christian Holy Cross represents the Atman, the place deep inside a soul that is One with the Divine. The cross indicates that everything points to, leads to, the Atman… enlightenment.
The Swastika is the cross with the four arms ‘bent’ indicating that the path to enlightenment is elusive, not a straight line. The central point correlates with (maps on to) the North Star, the pole star…Dhruva in sanskrit. Everything, all the stars revolve around the Pole Star, Dhruva.
The seven stars of the big dipper are the Saptarishis, which by rotating around Dhruva, form a swastika. (more information) The Saptarishis as the guiding lights of dharma point the direction to the Atman, enlightenment.
In Vedic literature, Dhruv was the son of a king ignored by the king and denied his rightful place in life. Dhruv vowed to attain a place in life even higher than what he was denied, and went off and worshipped Lord Vishnu. Vishnu then gave Dhruv the status of the Pole Star. In other words, Dhruv awoke to his Divine nature, became enlightened, and realized that the entire universe revolves around the true Divine Self, the Atman.
Dhruv being ignored is like the Self, the Atman, being ignored in the state of ignor-ance before enlightenment.
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by Michael Mamas | Friday, January 8, 2016 | Spiritual Evolution |
The swastika is an ancient sacred symbol. For more information, click HERE & HERE:
The seven stars of the Big Dipper map on to (correlate with) the seven SaptaRishis. These Rishis are the upholders of Natural Law. Natural Law means Dharma.
In the course of a day, they complete 360 degree rotation of the stars around the north star (every 24 hours it happens).
However, in winter it is dark out at the opposite stage of the rotation than in the summer. In other words, the stars seen in the middle of the night are up in the middle of the day six months later. This is because the Earth rotates around the Sun. So through the months at the same time of day, you are seeing the big dipper at a different stage of the 24 hour rotation. This of course occurs incrementally day after day as we progress through the year.
So through the four seasons, the SaptaRishis form a swastika in the sky.
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by Michael Mamas | Thursday, January 7, 2016 | Spiritual Evolution |
“Jivo Brahmaiva naparah” – “The individual soul is Brahman, the Totality, and nothing else.”
from Crest Jewel of Discrimination by Adi Shankara
This quote is so beautiful. Yet it can easily succumb to a simplistic understanding of something like: “I know. We are all one. I get it. What else can you tell me?”
Consider, for example, viewing this quote from the perspective that there is no space, no time, no bottom line, no relative. When Tat Wale Baba was asked why the universe manifested, he simply responded, “It didn’t.”
Or perhaps consider from Rig Veda, that Purusha has one thousand eyes.
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