What is that truth and spirit that is the preferred and highest worship? Why is God unmanifest and manifest worship greater than salvation itself?
God is the creator of all the heavens and galaxies. God is the creator of the planets and all their existing life forms and beings. God is, also, the creator of all revered Deities, Gods and Goddesses residing subtley within all the plains and realms of existence. God is everything as it is and is everything before anything ever was: the nature of God is imperishable and formless in its existence. God cannot truly be known. And in order to know a portion of the almighty one, divine worship of the truth and the spirit pervading everything and in everyone is necessary. The heart of each individual contains that portion of God dwelling inside of him: to know that is to extend into and know God.
Lord Jesus believed and knew that the only true worship was that of the one true God in truth and spirit. The life that God hath breathed into man is that Supreme Light of God; this is not full God, but a portion of that truth and spirit. It is said that all things are made by God and nothing is possible in existence without that knowledge of that one pure God. This knowledge has been bestowed into man from time immemorial; however the dilusion and ignorance in vast amount has led to the seeking of that one true spirit externally in all forms. And over the course of time, man knows not how to seek that kingdom of God within him that reveals all things to him. So naturally, even salvation itself is sought from God externally. Man no longer knows that the one true God manifest within him--as the truth and the spirit--can grant that salvation itself; it is a gift from God.
So for a man to be pious and merciful before another, this can become the greatest evil and work of egoism. Lord Jesus says salvation is for the Jews because he saw them as a people seeking to gain the glory of God for salvation; Lord Jesus believed that man should worship God as the truth and the spirit for the sake of worship itself and becoming one with God (like Lord Jesus). God should be obeyed and worshipped with grace for attaining oneness and binding back to that true nature from which man has come. In this light, nothing needs to be asked or begged of God. The man of God has the glories of God within him by having grace itself with that one true spirit. Lord Krishna emphasizes that the dilusion of pairs of opposites [dualities] must be transcended as one worships God with a firm resolve. To know God as that one true spirit that gives all things--as it is all things--not only does one reach salvation, but he also becomes that salvation itself, for himself and others.
Lord Jesus reminds all that God is spirit and must be worshiped as the truth and the spirit. The truth is all things in manifest and unmanifest: humans, animals, elements, nature, dirt, planets, universes, galaxies, good, evil, friends, enemies, and so on. As mentioned, God is all things and in all things. Before there was intelligence of a thing or a conceived thing itself, there was that one true God: the spirit. God is not aware of these things happening because God is all things happening and not happening. No one knows what the brain is doing when it is not being observed. It is only because we observe it, we are somewhat aware of is intricacies. However, we have a belief and feeling that something is happening there in the skull. There could be universes, galaxies and whole existences of sorts--beyond our tiny understandings--occuring in our brain at a grand scale. Nevertheless, it is not possible to truly know because one cannot see and know the inner workings of the brain at each and every moment: there are more neurons and cells in the brain than there are people on the planet.
The same can be thought with God. God is an entity that has all these things going on in and around the imperishable form. It is not possible for God to be aware of the infinite number of things occuring simultaneously and in tandem of everything else. And because God is the truth and the spirit, for God to attempt to know or gain intelligence and understanding of himself is ignorance. God is the creator, sustainer and destroyer of himself in all moments of all things and existences. It would be like a human seeking the true nature and origin of his existence(s) instead of living and being in that existence itself. In essence, to search for one's calling, origin, history or true nature is not only ignorance, but it also takes that person out of the now existence of himself; he leaves the present moment of the eternal witness within him.
Without God as a spirit, not one thing is possible. This is why it is said that in God is life and that life was the light of men. Lord Jesus requested men to worship this one true God because there is nothing else to be named that is not God: name, title and form is irrelevant because it is all God in truth and spirit, by nature itself. Lord Jesus believed people to be ignorant to be worshiping things other than the one true God. Even Lord Jesus himself was aware that he existed as God in manifest truth and spirit. Many a time did he profess that his disciples only knew him because of the spirit of God flowing through him and not because of the body that was given. To worship the truth and the spirit is to be in the light of all things and live as God does: unaware of even his own formlessness.
Man must go firmly towards God. All existences are a part of that one true spirit. To worship the one true God is to worship everything: Jesus, Krishna, Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu, Buddha, Mohammed, Allah, Moses, Solomon, rivers, oceans, trees, plants, fire, air, Earth, universes, galaxies and everything that is the base and cause for all of these. The ways of God are beyond the word infinite itself. Nothing can contain God.
So abandon ignorance, illusions, and egoism: it is no use in grasping to anything. It is all God. God is the truth and spirit. And God is also the base of the truth and the spirit itself. God is everything and nothing, infinitely. So go straight to God: what more...
Love and Light...
doM
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HOLY BIBLE
JOHN 1: 3-4
~All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made.
~In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.
JOHN 4: 22-24
~Ye worship ye know not what; we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
~But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
~God is a spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
BHAGAVAD GITA--VIJNANA YOGA
28. Those mortals of pure deeds whose sins has come to an end, who are freed from the dilusion of pairs, they worship Me with a firm resolve.
NIT NEM: JAP(U)JI--SATGURU NANAK DEV
~One who obeys God, reaches the door of salvation.
~One who obeys God, Loves truth.
~One who obeys God, never has an occasion to beg.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
IMPERISHABLE YOGA: IT NEVER DIES, NOR LIVES
Lord Krishna says,
"That Imperishable Yoga was taught to Vivasvat (Surya)...But it was also taught in succession to kings and sages.
And upon being learned here, these kings and sages saw themselves to be intelligent; this Yoga was lost.
The same Yoga of old was taught to you [Arjuna] because you are my devotee and dear friend."
What is that imperishable Yoga [of old]? Why did that which was imperishable die upon being learned by men? Why is Arjuna able to learn that imperishable Yoga as it was learned by the Gods (Vivasvat and Manu)?
The Yoga of imperishable is like that of energy: never created nor destroyed. However, like energy, it has the ability to become lost, forgotten or simply change to a more diluted form. The new forms rise simply because of the existing and undying imperishable nature of that Yoga. In order for things to exist, there must be an imperishable, unmanifest base for the manifest existence itself.
The ability to join the spirit has always been in existence because the nature of God (Brahman) is also imperishable: all things supported by that formlessness itself. The Yoga has a state within Brahman. One can join the spirit to all things because it is that: it can join to a thing which comes from the same nature as itself. There is nothing distinct and separate about it, except the form; the base is not only imperishable, but also stemming from a time immemorial. The joined and the unjoined are both existing parts within that impeishable nature, as it is all God. Without name, form and identification, there is oneness beyond human understanding. And as a thing is devoted to living God, it cannot know anything outside of that: it is that which is unknowable and knowable. The duality and pain begins with identification of the senses with the body and mind.
The Kings and Sages knew not that all things came from God. They could not understand that identification and non-identification is also from that imperishable nature itself. By learning the Yoga, they thought it to be someting undone and done, created and destroyed. They thought this because they associated this same belief with their own Self. They knew not that the Self is changeless and indestructable, as it is a portion of God. By believing that their is a begining and end to all things, they believed themselves to be unjoined and that it was required to be yoked back to God, itself. But their very existence is God in manifest. Hence, the Yoga of imperishable is lost.
If something is deemed imperishable, its begining, middle and end cannot be conceived; it is beyond the idea of being conceived. Man can teach another in many different ways; the moment he uses his body and mind to teach a notion or idea from his own tongue, that which can be learned is limited. To have an intention to teach implies that one "knows something": association with the body and mind. One believes that he has understood a concept on some level. But to unconciously say "I know" would force you to limit your perception of that which is imperishable; you would have to take a portion of the undying knowledge away from the whole and teach it in part. In essence, the teacher loses the idea of imperishable Yoga and no longer knows that. This is why the teaching itself is lost. Even the word infinite cannot truly describe that itself.
Arjuna was taught this imperishable Yoga because he was the utmost devotee of Krishna as that almighty Lord of the imperishable nature: Brahman. He was also called the friend of the Lord. Arjuna was living for the sake of the Lord. He had many divine qualities; in particular he sought knowledge. Arjuna looked to the Lord as his everything and the reward to him was the secret teaching of the imperishable Yoga.
He taught Arjuna the things required to attain that Yoga of old. Arjuna was able to understand the divine teachings because it came directly from Brahman: the imperishable taught of the imperishable. A man, king or sage (living) can only teach one the ways of that itself. The ways and knowledge of God (Brahman, the Imperishable) can only be taught directly to man by God that is already dwelling within him.
Arjuna is also being taught because he knew not how to do these things forcefully. He feared that the ensuing war (in the Bhagavad Gita) could take him away from God and he would not fight upon knowing this. By devoting his energy more to God, he was taught the techniques required to fight while maintaining his devotion to God. Arjuna was doing these techniques from birth; so he knew not how to learn them if forgotten or teach them to others. The Lord himself, dwelling in his heart, gave him all answers.
Arjuna turned to the Lord first before other men. His devotion to the almighty one pleases Krishna so much that the Lord himself teaches him all te beautiful ways of Yoga and knowledge. Intent on God alone, Arjuna not only receives all, but he becomes God...
doM
"That Imperishable Yoga was taught to Vivasvat (Surya)...But it was also taught in succession to kings and sages.
And upon being learned here, these kings and sages saw themselves to be intelligent; this Yoga was lost.
The same Yoga of old was taught to you [Arjuna] because you are my devotee and dear friend."
What is that imperishable Yoga [of old]? Why did that which was imperishable die upon being learned by men? Why is Arjuna able to learn that imperishable Yoga as it was learned by the Gods (Vivasvat and Manu)?
The Yoga of imperishable is like that of energy: never created nor destroyed. However, like energy, it has the ability to become lost, forgotten or simply change to a more diluted form. The new forms rise simply because of the existing and undying imperishable nature of that Yoga. In order for things to exist, there must be an imperishable, unmanifest base for the manifest existence itself.
The ability to join the spirit has always been in existence because the nature of God (Brahman) is also imperishable: all things supported by that formlessness itself. The Yoga has a state within Brahman. One can join the spirit to all things because it is that: it can join to a thing which comes from the same nature as itself. There is nothing distinct and separate about it, except the form; the base is not only imperishable, but also stemming from a time immemorial. The joined and the unjoined are both existing parts within that impeishable nature, as it is all God. Without name, form and identification, there is oneness beyond human understanding. And as a thing is devoted to living God, it cannot know anything outside of that: it is that which is unknowable and knowable. The duality and pain begins with identification of the senses with the body and mind.
The Kings and Sages knew not that all things came from God. They could not understand that identification and non-identification is also from that imperishable nature itself. By learning the Yoga, they thought it to be someting undone and done, created and destroyed. They thought this because they associated this same belief with their own Self. They knew not that the Self is changeless and indestructable, as it is a portion of God. By believing that their is a begining and end to all things, they believed themselves to be unjoined and that it was required to be yoked back to God, itself. But their very existence is God in manifest. Hence, the Yoga of imperishable is lost.
If something is deemed imperishable, its begining, middle and end cannot be conceived; it is beyond the idea of being conceived. Man can teach another in many different ways; the moment he uses his body and mind to teach a notion or idea from his own tongue, that which can be learned is limited. To have an intention to teach implies that one "knows something": association with the body and mind. One believes that he has understood a concept on some level. But to unconciously say "I know" would force you to limit your perception of that which is imperishable; you would have to take a portion of the undying knowledge away from the whole and teach it in part. In essence, the teacher loses the idea of imperishable Yoga and no longer knows that. This is why the teaching itself is lost. Even the word infinite cannot truly describe that itself.
Arjuna was taught this imperishable Yoga because he was the utmost devotee of Krishna as that almighty Lord of the imperishable nature: Brahman. He was also called the friend of the Lord. Arjuna was living for the sake of the Lord. He had many divine qualities; in particular he sought knowledge. Arjuna looked to the Lord as his everything and the reward to him was the secret teaching of the imperishable Yoga.
He taught Arjuna the things required to attain that Yoga of old. Arjuna was able to understand the divine teachings because it came directly from Brahman: the imperishable taught of the imperishable. A man, king or sage (living) can only teach one the ways of that itself. The ways and knowledge of God (Brahman, the Imperishable) can only be taught directly to man by God that is already dwelling within him.
Arjuna is also being taught because he knew not how to do these things forcefully. He feared that the ensuing war (in the Bhagavad Gita) could take him away from God and he would not fight upon knowing this. By devoting his energy more to God, he was taught the techniques required to fight while maintaining his devotion to God. Arjuna was doing these techniques from birth; so he knew not how to learn them if forgotten or teach them to others. The Lord himself, dwelling in his heart, gave him all answers.
Arjuna turned to the Lord first before other men. His devotion to the almighty one pleases Krishna so much that the Lord himself teaches him all te beautiful ways of Yoga and knowledge. Intent on God alone, Arjuna not only receives all, but he becomes God...
doM
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