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Levitt:
“A good rule of thumb in decision making is, whenever you cannot decide what you should do, choose the action that represents a change, rather than continuing the status quo.”
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Rumi are meant to inspire an openness to the full spectrum of your emotional experience:
“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
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Māyā: this word translates to literally "illusion" or "magic" and has multiple meanings in Indian philosophies depending on the context. In later texts, Māyā connotes a "magic show, an illusion where things appear to be present but are not what they seem." Māyā is also a spiritual concept connoting that which "is constantly changing and thus is spiritually unreal" (in opposition to an unchanging Absolute), and which "conceals the true character of spiritual reality.
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There are no accidents. Hard to hear, but there’s no such thing as coincidence. It’s the butterfly effect. Things all add up, If we could be outside of time we can see how things mesh, the matrix of the machine so to speak.
But aside from trying to avoid pointing fingers at specific people or events - it’s to get Universities to take up the work of Dr. Greyson (“After”) Dr. Wambach (“Reliving Past lives”). We have this machine in place that tries to diminish, dismiss research that has contrary results.
It’s just research. Nothing to fear. I presented this as a study to the Templeton Project ten years ago. The notes from the dismissal were about the Harvard professor who was sponsoring it. Not about the research.
Take 100 people. Choose hypnotherapists who know what they’re doing. Have them ask identical questions. (This is what Wambach did). Eliminate the people who seemed biased (for or against). Focus on verifiable historical data - utensils used, construction materials, clothing. Focus on verifiable things a person doesn’t know.
Then ask them questions about the path and journey. (Again, Wambach). Take the replies (she had 2750 and go through the data. How many claim they were men or women? (Statistically accurate). How many claim to know when they joined the birth process? (No one under 6 months). How many report choosing or being forced to incarnate. (All reported volunteering, thought some reported feeling cajoled or “talked into a bad idea.”)
Focus on the data.
Take three mediums, have them ask the same questions to someone on the flipside. Do so in a triple blind study - that is the person asking the questions has no idea what they’re asking or why. The mediums have nothing to go on but a first name. (to parse the various people who might show up.) Ask the same questions. Study the answers. (“Talking to Bill Paxton” on Gaia has three mediums, same questions, same answers that only Bill could know.)
As Dr. Greyson notes in “After” - while the NDE is a subjective experience, by asking the exact same questions to thousands of people we can get objective results. Same applies to hypnotherapy or mediumship or meditation.
The book “Architecture of the Afterlife” is 50 people not under hypnosis recalling the same information, despite not being aware of the research or reports that matched their descriptions. Worth exploring.
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KY The origin of the Lahiri family goes back to the great sage, author of the BHAKT-SUTRAS and SHANDILYA UPANISHAD. The family's arrival in Bengal dates back to Yograj Bhattanarayana, who went to Bengal from Kanyakubja (present-day Kampur) along with four other sages, the request of king Adisura. Thus, it seems that there was a precious yogic tradition in the yograj's family, a fact that highlighted by Mahavatar Babaji Maharaj at the time of initiation. The surname Lahiri, was added to the family after they received a donation from a village in the District of Bagura, called Lahiri. "
Yograj's biographies, written by his grandchildren, offer a long and detailed genealogical picture of the family. spiritual as well as material view. Of course, this too contributed to its aristocratic character, to its independent natural seriousness."
"We do not know the name of the divine GURUDEVA of Sri Shyamacharan. The term "BABAJI" simply means father. Among Lahiri Baba's disciples, Babaji Maharaj was also called "TRYAMBAKA BABA" (one who has three eyes) and "SHIVA BABA" Almost nothing is known of her life, for generally great yogis like them are very far from the common of men. It is said that she has been on earth for hundreds of years and that there are many centuries of initiation, among others, to the great Shankaracharya in yogic practices. "
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In doing good we must sometimes suffer. To find the Lord we must be willing to suffer. What is it to endure discomfort of the flesh and discipline of the mind to gain the eternal solace of Spirit? Christ's joy in God was so great he was willing to give up the body for Him. The purpose of life is to attain that tremendous happiness to find God.
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda,
“Man's Eternal Quest"
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A wise Sage once said: “Mind is never where you are but awareness is always there where you are. Drop more and more mind and minding and become more and more aware and alert. Bring yourself together in the moment.
It is difficult in the beginning. Mind, because of the old habit, will go away again and again. Bring it back. No need to fight; simply call it back: “Come.” Again it will go, within seconds it will not be there. Call it back again.
And by and by, when you start enjoying this moment - the eternal now, the only time that there is, the only existence that there is, the only life that there is when you start enjoying it, the mind will be coming to it more and more and it will be going less and less.
Then a tuning happens. Suddenly you are here, at home, and the reality is revealed. The reality was always there, you were not there. It is not the truth which has to be sought, it is you who have to be brought home.
Strive to nurture a mind that doesn’t become proud with your achievements, a mind that doesn’t falter with failure, a mind that finds joy in giving and a mind that accepts criticism with love. Such a mind is what you should achieve. People with such a mind can never fail. Mind is just consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Realize that there is no you, only the state of freedom. Be that. Be free like the sky. Be still like the hill. Accept change like the seasons. Be silent like complete emptiness. You are that...........”
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A wise Sage once said: “Without Grace you cannot even start on the spiritual path. But Grace arises only from action, so action has to be performed. Just as one person stretches out his hand and gives while another puts forth his hand to receive. Similarly action and Grace occur simultaneously. Action itself is Grace, for if there is no Grace, from whence will right action emerge ? Any spiritual practice that we perform will always yield results. It release us faster from the bondage of our karma. All fear is nothing more than thoughts. If there is only One, there cannot be a second to be afraid of. If we look to our Self, as it is one, there is nothing else to be afraid of. To think that there is something outside ourselves is the cause of fear, but if we are firmly rooted in our own Reality, then there will be no fear, no doubt and no undesirable qualities. As all these are centred around the ego and the sense of a separate identity.
As long as man clamors for the I and mine, his works are as naught. When all love of the I and the mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done. For work has no aim other than the gathering of knowledge. When that knowledge comes then work is put away.
The flower blooms for the fruit, when the fruit comes, the flower withers.
The musk is in the deer, but it seeks it not within. It wanders about in quest of grass. As a truth seeker's soul unfoldment progresses, it will be seen that behind all forms, only God exists. The personality will be transcended and the true cosmic reality of what is behind the personality will be directly known and fully experienced.
Outgoing is natural only in the beginning, ingoing in the end. But in reality the two are one, just like breathing in and out are one. Events in time and space such as birth and death, cause and effect, these may be taken as one; but the body and the embodied are not of the same order of reality. The body exists in time and space and is transient and limited, while the Indweller is timeless and spaceless, eternal and all-pervading. To identify the two is a grievous mistake and the cause of endless suffering. You can speak of the mind and body as one, but the body-mind is not the underlying reality. There is a universal power which is in control and is responsible. Stand without desire and fear, relinquishing all control and all responsibility. Just realize the One Mover behind all that moves and leave everything to Him. This is the shortest way to Reality. Now I will tell you the essence of millions of books: Consciousness alone is the truth. There is no such thing as the world or maya. They don't exist. There are no individual beings. There is only the play of Supreme Brahman and it is that supreme consciousness which plays as the world.
Forgetting your true Self is the greatest injury and all calamities and suffering flow from it. If you take care of the most important first then the lesser will take care of itself. You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting in the light makes everything easy. So, let us wait with improving others until we have seen ourselves as we are and have changed. There is no need to turn round and round in endless questioning. Find yourself and everything else will fall into its proper place.” Om Kriya Babaji Namah Aum !!
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