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 | Saturday, September 8, 2012 | Clarifying Confusion, Spiritual Evolution |
“It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.”
– Will Rogers
Identity with one reality ‘ain’t so.’ Yet it is the state of humanity that people strive to find the one reality that answers all questions and responds appropriately to all situations.
Life is a-maze-ing. Existence is a reality continuum – mandalas of realities, interconnected, yet unifying polar opposites. Anything you know ‘ain’t so.’
The dance of Lord Shiva that manifested this universe is far more illusive than unidimensional thinking can even begin to fathom. Yet humanity continues to seek the unidimensional reality that will answer all questions.
It just ‘ain’t so’.
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by Michael Mamas | Monday, August 6, 2012 | Clarifying Confusion, Spiritual Evolution |
Why do you meditate, go to the temple, and do acts of service? It is commonly done for spiritual growth, eradication of bad karma, or other forms of personal gain such as health, wealth, happiness, etc. That is understandable and a good thing. Some may even wonder why else anyone would possibly do such a thing.
However, that is not why I created Mount Soma. It is not why I meditate or go to the temple. It is not my motivation. To know your motivations is not as easy as you may think. You must look deeply into your heart to know your motivations. It is also natural to project your motivations onto others… to think what motivates you is what motivates them. Such projection is so instinctual, so spontaneous, so automatic, as to go unnoticed. Your projections are not something you usually think about, question, or are even aware of. They are so fundamental to how you function that they cannot be identified without a great deal of disarming introspection and self-honesty.
Beyond personal gain lies the motivation involving kindness, compassion, love, service to the world, to humanity, and to the universe. I am speaking here of a level that transcends even the good feelings you may experience through acts of kindness, etc. It is not about what you get in exchange for your actions. This is what nonattachment to the fruit of your actions is all about. Your actions come from being overtaken by the Divine flow underlying all of life. The flow then occurs through your persona, but transcends the persona. The motivation does not involve the persona. In that sense, you cease to exist. Only the Divine exists. The Divine overtakes the small persona. You realize that you are not the persona. You are one with God… the Divine Flow. The term used to encompass that level is called Krishna. Imagine using that term unencumbered by any current notions you may have regarding its meaning. This meaning and the word “Krishna” are inextricable from one another. They are inherently one, each defining the other, complete with the personified correlate. To really live life in that way is not an attitude or philosophy. It is a level of consciousness. However, it is of great value to reflect on this. Doing so will help clear the way for your future growth.
So the next time you meditate, go to the temple, or perform some form of service, take a moment to reflect upon your motivation… not as a self-judgement tool but as a means of inspiration and aspiration. Divine motivation is not an attitude, philosophy, or belief system… though religions of attitude, philosophy, and beliefs are built around it. Such things are qualities of the persona. Divine motivation lies beyond the persona.
What you long for lies beyond the persona. It is called liberation. It is called emancipation. It is called evolution. It is called enlightenment.
It is a state of physiology.
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