by Michael Mamas | Saturday, October 20, 2012 | The Gods |
Every aspect of the One, every God, acts as a mirror, reflecting back to you the nature of your relationship with a particular aspect of yourself. Through exploration of those relationships, you are afforded the opportunity to heal the psyche and to grow as an individual… to evolve. This is so for the full range of human possibilities… from the atheist to the sage.
God may remain a silent witness, yet whoever you are, your relationship with God plays out as a dynamic inner testament of your relationship with yourself and your world… not only your dharma, but also your karma.
Everyone strives for stable ground in one form or another, yet everything changes, including your understanding of Self, the world, and the Gods.
Your life, quite simply, is your journey Home. The only constant is the silence witness… the ocean of Being… the True Self… the One.
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, August 15, 2012 | The Gods |
My family and I just returned from the beach yesterday. Due to a cracked car wheel, a two-night jaunt became a five-night excursion. It was a blessing to have the opportunity to really talk with my kids while bobbing in the ocean and walking the beach. They grow up fast. Time to share our thoughts and feelings is precious.
My favorite time at the beach is early morning. Then the five elements seem to be in perfect balance.
Akasha (space), ruled by Vishnu, is the open sky above… cool and brisk in the early a.m.
Air, ruled by Surya, is delicately palpable as the rays of the sun twinkle the air and radiate gentle beams upon which Surya’s seven horses run… looking just like the pictures of Him on his chariot coming straight out of the sun.
Fire: The rising sun creating a display of liquid golden clouds in the horizon… Mother Divine’s soft presence of celestial fire causing every beach goer to stop for a least a moment to gaze in awe.
Water: Ganesh, the ocean, thrives before you… feeling His presence lively… abundant… dynamic… powerful, yet pacifying.
Earth: the solid sandy terra beneath your feet and between your toes connecting your being to solid earth… Shiva.
Walking on the beach pacifies the five elements within and all around you.
Returning home to Mount Soma was a joy. The air was sweet, the mountains pristine, the vegetation lush and thriving. Even my younger daughter smiled at how we all delighted and commented on the serenity of the mountains as we drove the last mile and through the gate upon our return home.
Shiva dwells in these mountains. Parvati is known as the Goddess of the Mountains. Here, late at night and in the early morning, you can even feel Sat Yuga whispering the promise of its return.
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by Michael Mamas | Sunday, July 22, 2012 | The Gods |
The picture of the leaf in the “Anger” blog interested me. Note how the shape corresponds to the shape of Ganesh’s head. This is no coincidence. The forms, the shapes, of the Gods are not arbitrary. They are the geometric correlate to the mathematical structure of the underlying fabric of nature emerging as Oneness (pure consciousness, the unified field) interacts with itself birthing creation. Those shapes permeate all existence and manifest on all levels in diverse ways… even the shape of a leaf or a cross section of the brain.
Looking at the forms of the Gods enliven the connection of the depth of your being with the surface. The result is integration of the physiology. Integration of the physiology is call evolution.
At the depth of your being, you are one with God. Evolution means more and more fully embodying that. All things gravitate back to oneness. Back to God. The diverse Gods are various aspects of the One God. All are One.
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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 | Tuesday, June 5, 2012 | The Gods |
I routinely visit Sri Somesvara temple in the early morning. This morning, Lord Shiva appeared in full lotus on the linga as per the picture shown here. I remember the time when, as a youngster, I would have thought this was mere coincidence.
The forms of God are not arbitrary. They are mathematically precise. Vedic knowledge includes the heart and the mind… the art and the science… the music and the mathematics. Please convey this to your children, in words that they will understand.
I am available to help with this. Hopefully, we will offer a course this summer for parents and children to convey the profound depth of Vedic knowledge in terms that modern mentality can comprehend.
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