The Matrix and the Sanskrit Texts

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Ramakrishna Paramahansa was God Intoxicated, always slipping in and out of Samadhi. His states of ecstasy were and still are contagious! He is perhaps the best known saint of nineteenth century India.

Ramakrishna explained on different occasions that God is both form and formless, and can appear to the devotee either way. He often asked visitors whether they conceived of God as having qualities or as being beyond qualities. He then proceeded to teach the devotee according to the way he or she viewed the divine. His acceptance of different approaches to the worship of God and the validity of different religious paths, such as Christianity and Islam, is in the best tradition of the universalist approach to religion common throughout India today.

Those who followed the Vedic prescription of religious universalism summed up in the phrase "There is but one Truth, but sages call it by different names" noted that Ramakrishna practiced the rituals of many religions, and found that they all brought him to the same divine reality in the end. For those who worshiped many different saints and deities throughout India, this universal approach echoed their own multi-faceted religious practices.

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa Part #4 - YouTube

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa Part #4 - YouTube

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There is No Need to Ascend Anywhere!

The etymology of the word Matrix is Latin meaning womb or any cavity in which anything is formed. Just as the pod carries seeds within it, so the seeds of ideas of all possible occurrences of the totality of this universe are always contained within her Matrix. These seeds are the particles and potential spawn that simply await a resonant frequency to produce the correlative hologram.

Hiranyagarbha is the Golden Egg or Golden Embryo that contains the Matrix of this universe. This symbol of a ‘World Egg’ is cosmogonic and occurs in many other primordial metaphysical traditions.

The cosmic egg was filled. Never was it a void.
- The Shiva Purana, Rudra-Samhita Section I, Verse 33

The Sanskrit word hiranya means golden and garbha means womb. The Hiranyagarbha matrix already contains the possibilities of every yuga in all the Maha-Yugas in all the Manvantaras, and in every Kalpa.

With the explanation of one manvantara all the manvantaras have been undoubtedly explained.
- Linga Purana Section 1, Verse 95.

This world is indeed without end in the sense that the Cycles of Time are eternally occurring. There are according to the Linga Purana 25 possible differences, meaning variations within the Matrix.

What happens in one set of four yugas is repeated in the other cycles of four yugas in the same manner and at the same time as well as in the same order. The differences that occur from creation to creation are limited to twenty-five, neither more nor less. The kalpas too have the same characteristics as the yugas. The same characteristics mark all the manvantaras also.
- Linga Purana Section 1, Verse 86-92

Thus all the Cycles of Time are the same or at least so similar that the very real possibility exists that when you recall or access a ‘past life’ memory, it might be from this cycle of time or from one in another Manvantara. All the cycles are occurring simultaneously within the holographic matrix, like the classic metaphor of onionskins, as waveform frequencies one within another. Time only exists as illusion and is relative to consciousness.

We are currently in the 28th Maha-Yuga (made up of the four yugas) of this Manvantara, and we are now in the 7th Manvantara of the 14 Manvantaras make up a Kalpa, meaning one 'Day of Brahma'. To me this means that I have already repeated, many times, experiences within this temporal illusory holographic matrix. If some things are familiar to you, apparently there is a preponderance of dang good reason.

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Experiences emerge within the hologram when a resonant frequency is emitted from a consciousness and therefore has the correlative ‘Key’ to produce or ignite them. Thus Purusha [ATMA] as the soul and Prakriti [the Matrix] as the forces of nature (Maya-guna) are interactive. In fact on the highest level, beyond the illusion of separation, Purusha and Prakriti are ONE in the same. All are Oneness, ATMA, Paramatman, which is the Supreme. Sanskrit offers so many lovely words that describe various states of consciousness.

Once you know and realize this, you can access any part of the hologram. This is the point in your unfoldment when you naturally begin to acquire the Siddhis, meaning yogic (union) powers such as remote viewing, etc. Enlightenment truly does await any being who can by their own efforts access the dormant holographic treasure of true Knowledge.

My understanding of Krishna is that he is God totally realized within the body of man, similar to what some term "Christ Consciousness". For me it is simply enough that I have supernal treasure of the Bhagavad Gita to read and learn from. In the Gita, Krishna says

“Even if you are the worst criminal of them all, you will cross over all villainy with just your lifeboat of knowledge.” [IV.36]

To me this means that we all have the God-given right to Liberation!

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The entire hologram is within every part of the hologram. There is no need to go to any sacred site on the planet as ‘sacredness’ is within you. Your location is a function of your consciousness. God is everywhere not just in grand cathedrals or lovely temples, and not only in religious statues or idols, or any other symbols that may represent God to the human mind and heart.

There is no need to ‘ascend’ anywhere – except in your own consciousness. You only need the force of your own focused Will and by your own efforts – which naturally evoke the concomitant Grace (ANUGRAHA) of the God-within you – generate the resonant frequency to activate the latent energies ‘sleeping’ within the holographic matrix to access all encoded primordial Wisdom-Knowledge and happily your enlightenment.

The Kashmir Saivism of Abhinavagupta tells us that there is no need to ascend to anywhere:

The state of liberation is not confined to any special abode, nor does it necessitate any ascension (towards any celestial abode). Liberation is the illumining of one’s divine potency attainable by the means of resolving the knots of ignorance.

Fully liberated beings do not have to ascend to any divine abode, that in my understanding are the illusory waveforms – however enchanting or sacred – of the Phantasmal Hierarchies and the myriad LOKA worlds.

Ignorance regarding one’s real nature, consisting of supreme and divine potency, is bondage and as soon as such ignorance is annihilated, one’s really natural purity and divinity shine through the spiritual luster of his own pure consciousness and that is liberation. Such a being is liberated even while living in the physical form.

A person who realizes his real nature does not feel any dread from any quarters because everything is his own SELF. He does not experience any grief because, in reality, there is no death or destruction.

A person becomes liberated even while residing in a mortal form when the knots of his ignorance are resolved, his doubts are removed, his delusion eradicated - and his piety and sin are perfectly consumed.

When the impressions of the correct knowledge of one’s real nature become deeply impressed on his person, his ignorance, his doubts, his delusion etc. become annihilated and his good and bad deeds lose their power of fructification. Since it is ignorance with it results, which is bondage, such a person attains liberation even while living in the mortal world and is consequently known as a JIVAN-MUKTA.

Quoted from:
Essence of the Exact Reality or Paramarthasara of Abhinavagupta
Translated by Dr. B.N. Pandit
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 1991, New Delhi


The SIVA (Shiva) Purana, Part I
Translated and Edited by a Board of Scholars
Edited by Prof. J.L. Shastri
Motilal Banarsidass Publishers; 1973 & 1997, Delhi

The LINGA Purana
Translated by a Board of Scholars and Edited by Prof. J.L. Shastri
Part I & II
Motilal Banarsidass Publishers; 1973 & 1997, Delhi

The Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata
Translated by J.A.B. van Buitenen
University of Chicago Press, 1981

Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta
Rene Guenon, 1925
Sophia Perennis, 2001

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* Expanding into the Entire Universe

Our Real nature is God Consciousness, the Oneness, Parabhairava.

The Sanskrit word BHAIRAVA is an acrostic word:
BHA indicating bharana, maintenance of the world
RA, ravana or withdrawal of the world
VA, vamana or projection of the world
In one sublime word the principles that create, support, and destroy our universe are contained.

As we move along on our journey Home, our Real nature within continues to expand, moving our awareness ever further and deeper out into this entire universe.

Everything and everyone in all the myriad worlds, even energies we might judge as evil or negative, all are manifestations, extensions of the one God consciousness of which we as individuals have always been a temporal expression.

“Whatever is found in this universe is existing in universal consciousness. So there is nothing to eliminate, nothing to separate from your consciousness. [Lakshmanjoo]”

The Sanskrit word jagrat means the ‘waking state’ - and for the yogi who has understood the Reality of the ubiquitous all-pervading Oneness, the waking state is just another form of God consciousness and an expanded awareness of our Self.

“In speaking of the waking state, the dreaming state and the state of sound sleep are also included. So for such a yogi, these three states, which are experienced in daily life, are not other than universal God consciousness. [SLJ]”

There comes a moment in our journey when every moment and everything in life becomes sacred. God is everywhere, permeating everything. Even the simplest acts and perceptions of our daily routine life can be experienced as God consciousness and therefore can provide entry into the subtle blissful states of our Real Being – Samadhi.

Play each note as if it is a universe …

India’s traditions consider the world sacred. In a recent biography of the greatest living master of the bamboo flute, the bansuri, Hariprasad Chaurasia, there is a wonderful example of this understanding of the sacred in the mundane.

In search of the deepest subtleties of classical Indian music, the raga, Hariprasad found his guru in Annapurana Devi, the wife of the famous sitar player, Ravi Shankar. Hariprasad was already quite successful and famous in India’s film world when he approached this reclusive lady for instruction. She made him prove his dedication as if he were a beginner, making his every effort an arduous challenge.
His patience was rewarded with her superlative wisdom.

Annapurana taught Hariprasad that he must play each note as if it is a universe.

How would this kind of superhuman concentration and focus of our five-sense attention manifest in our own everyday life? Wouldn’t time slow, and each and every moment become the potential for God to reveal Its concealed beauty and bliss in every bit of sensory data transmitted from the external world to our brain.

We would see and hear God everywhere.
We would move through our days nestled in peaceful bliss.

“Beneath the curtain of each atom lies concealed, the life increasing Beauty of the face of the Beloved."
- Sufi Mahmud Shabistari

God is not found only in places of worship, in grand cathedrals or magnificent temples; nor is God confined to our limited ideas of what we imagine to be sacred. God is everywhere. Everything and everyone is sacred. When the Heart is opened - the universe and every atom in it, is felt sacred.

The universe is the Creator’s Cosmic Sacrifice.

God ‘sacrifices’ Its Oneness in the expanding and contracting, revealed and concealed manifestation of infinite energies, power and will. When we offer God anything, our prayers or a flower, we are returning that ‘sacrifice’ to the Source of its origin.

When we surrender our small identity ego and offer our limited consciousness to the God within, we are returning the sacrifice of what is manifested into the Ocean of Consciousness. We are going Home.

“In this universe, there are only two aspects found – energy and the energy holder. Of these two, it is energy that is held in each and every part of the universe because this universe is, in fact, the existence of energy. And the energy holder is Maheshvarah (the Great Lord, the Oneness) himself alone."
- Sarvamangala Shastra – SLJ

 
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When you become that which you always were and are, God Consciousness, you will not need to read or listen to the Sanskrit texts or other sources of wisdom. They will no longer hold your interest.

In the Bhagavad Gita II.52, Krishna says:
When with an enlightened intelligence (buddhi), you have crossed over the delusion-thicket (moha-kalilam), then you will be disenchanted – the Sanskrit word actually translates as disgusted - with the teachings you have already heard, and even those you have yet to hear.

As Swami Lakshmanjoo has said:
When you actually understand what I am teaching you, then you will not want to listen.

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Swami Lakshmanjoo lived in Kashmir all his life and did not bother to sell himself to the west. He was taught by Kashmir Shaivite masters, and spent his entire life reading, studying, and mastering for himself these texts. He spoke Sanskrit fluently. He was born with a photographic memory and from memory alone could spontaneously quote verses.

“Due to events of the past, the tradition and teachings of Kashmir Shaivism have remained concealed for the past eight hundred years. Swami Lakshmanjoo is the last and the greatest of the Saints and Masters of this tradition. He is like a splendid and rare jewel. He spent his whole life, beginning when he was a small boy, studying and practicing the teachings of this tradition and in so doing, has, due to his intellectual power and the strength of his awareness, realized both spiritually and intellectually the Reality of its thought.

“It is this oral teaching which is the very life of this tradition and it is Swami Lakshmanjoo who is the last living repository of this secret wealth.”
[John Hughes – Introduction to Kashmir Shaivism]

Here he is in his 80s and is teaching from the enlightening gem, the Sansrit text, The Paramarthasara by Abhinavagupta and encourages the seekers to go on, go on and God will carry us. The Oneness within responds in us all.

No matter what happens go on remembering God and he will carry you. - YouTube

No matter what happens go on remembering God and he will carry you. - YouTube

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I hope you don't mind me plugging your site on FB svarga.
I have been looking for things to post up there that isn't just doom and gloom scary stuff.
I will be taking bits from this thread to try to counter the depressing posts.

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Originally Posted by beldazar

I hope you don't mind me plugging your site on FB svarga.
I have been looking for things to post up there that isn't just doom and gloom scary stuff.
I will be taking bits from this thread to try to counter the depressing posts.

Of course I don't mind.
Thank you!
I don't know what the FB is ....
But everything here and on my website is for everyone.
I'm not selling anything.
Just offering what I have learned in heartfelt gratitude to all those who over the years gave to me.

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Originally Posted by svarga

Of course I don't mind.
Thank you!
I don't know what the FB is ....
But everything here and on my website is for everyone.
I'm not selling anything.
Just offering what I have learned in heartfelt gratitude to all those who over the years gave to me.

Facebook. Used to post information only mind.

I feel this information is most welcome and ought to be embraced by all.
Thanks svarga.

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Originally Posted by beldazar

Facebook. Used to post information only mind.

I feel this information is most welcome and ought to be embraced by all.
Thanks svarga.

Big smile from me, and thank you.
You go, lady!
Raise the consciousness.

We can Remember who we are!

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"Chakra" is a general term meaning "wheel" or "circle," and it refers not only to the energy centers of the body where the kundalini energy is strongly felt, but also to other collections of forces, as we shall discuss. In your body, they are the centers where you can most palpably feel the kundalini energy; they correspond to the "third eye" of the forehead, the throat, the heart, the navel, the sex organs, the base of the spine, and the crown of the head. The para stage of manifestation, known in the individual as parakundalini, corresponds to the base of the spine, the pashyanti stage to the navel center, the madhyama stage to the heart, and the vaikhari stage to the throat.

While the west seems to ignore the 7 body chakra system the clues are absolutely EVERYWHERE as I discovered while creating the Magic 7 thread.

http://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?t=168933

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Originally Posted by beldazar

While the west seems to ignore the 7 body chakra system the clues are absolutely EVERYWHERE as I discovered while creating the Magic 7 thread.

http://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?t=168933

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Wonderful, beldazar!
Yes the number seven is absolutely sacred and revealing primordial Knowledge expands awareness.
Keeping us in ignorance of this kind of Wisdom-Knowledge is precisely how we have been kept in delusional bondage. I believe that David understands that in order to Escape the Matrix, we humans are going to have to wake-up to the power of God-Consciousness within us and that Realization will in fact give us the power to change the material-political-environmental realms. Without an understanding of the Metaphysical Principles that support all life, we are lost. We have this amazing vehicle super-computer, meaning the subtle, spiritual & physical body, and no 'users manual'!

Human Energy Centers (Chakras) Explained (Pt 1) - YouTube

Human Energy Centers (Chakras) Explained (Pt 1) - YouTube

Human Energy Centers (Chakras) Explained (Pt 2) - YouTube

Human Energy Centers (Chakras) Explained (Pt 2) - YouTube

Human Energy Centers (Chakras) Explained (Pt 3) - YouTube

Human Energy Centers (Chakras) Explained (Pt 3) - YouTube

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One of the biggest control mechanisms in the current Kali Yuga Matrix, if not the biggest is the FEAR of Death. Especially in the West where the understanding of the transmigration of the Soul has been obliterated. How can anyone in only one lifetime achieve much of anything. From genius to sainthood, would one life account for the innumerable variances in all of us?

I had posted part of this on the 'white light' thread because I felt clarity was needed regarding this fear loaded "stripping of memories" teaching which many of the channels are purporting. But I will post here again and include all the three parts because I feel this is so important.

May be all be liberated from the Fear of Death!

From:
http://forum.davidicke.com/showthrea...=177557&page=6

This idea that some astral entities snatch our memories in the "light" is repeated by many channels. Remember that we are all operating at different frequency levels of consciousness. If you accept this idea, then you are operating in a frequency of helplessness.

Being a successful astral projector does not mean that you are an Enlightened Master. Indeed one who is enlightened would have no need to project their consciousness all across the universe. They would have Become ONE with it.

Not "all the Spirits in the Afterlife are still in enslavement" - in fact there are many realms that hold great adepts and enlightened ones, thousands of Bodhisattvas, Taoist and Sufi masters, who desire to help us who are here in Density, Maya's Matrix, evolving at a multitude of levels of consciousness as we make our way Home back to that which we have always been ---- God-Consciousness, the Oneness.

This said 'vampire stripping' of your memory is a fearful teaching, and as such will hold you in fear. Knowledge of the occult is still differentiated perception and will hold you in multiplicity. What is important is the establish an adamantine 'relationship' with the God-within you - that Oneness that dwells in the Heart and simultaneously pervades and permeates All. Recognition that you are in fact the Oneness and always have been will carry you safely across.

"And at the hour of death, he who dies
Remembering Me [the Oneness],
Having relinquished the body,
Goes to My [the Onenenss] state of Being.
In this matter there is no doubt."
- Bhagavad Gita VIII.5

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These are my sources:
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Swami Krishnananda; The Divine Life Society, Uttaranchal, Himalayas, India, 2006.
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, commentary of Sankaracarya, translated by Swami Madhavananda; Advaita Ashrama, Kolkata, India, 2004.
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Commentary of Sri Madhvacarya, Translated by Rai Bahdur Srisachandra Vasu Vidyarnava; Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office, Varanasi, India, 2001.
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Swami Sivananda; The Divine Life Society, Uttaranchal, Himalayas, India, 2002.
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad; in The Upanishads, A New Translation by Swami Nikhilananda, Vol. III; Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, New York, 1990.
Siva Sutras, The Yoga of Supreme Identity, translated by Jaideva Singh; Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi, India, 1991.
The Gods of India, Hindu Polytheism, by Alain Danielou; Inner Traditions International Ltd., 1985.
The Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata, translated by J.A.B. van Buitenen; The University of Chicago Press, 1981.
 
Three posts follow: What Happens When We Die
 

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What Happens When We Die – Part One

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.iv.1

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is thought to be one of the oldest of over 100 Upanishads. It is dated somewhere between the 8th and the 5th century BCE and is often said to be the most important. There are many highly intriguing verses, which in the west might be called ‘occult’ or esoteric. But surely we all have the right to know what happens when we die.

In the Bhagavad Gita (II.28), Krishna tells his friend Arjuna that death is certain for all. The beginnings of beings are unmanifest, their middles are manifest, and their ends are again unmanifest. Then he adds – Over this, what complaint?

Death comes to us all. No one escapes this experience. So let us look at what the Brihadaranyaka – the great wisdom of the forest – has to say about what happens when we die and the process of transmigration.

We all know that the physical body begins to fail and normally there are varying degrees of pain, but what is occurring in our consciousness? What is the subtle body experiencing? The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad states that the five senses move into the heart and we can no longer see with our physical eyes.

What are the five senses? In Sanskrit they are known as the indriyas and are said to be gods, deities representing specific principles of energy. Indra is the king of the gods and thus the five senses are termed indriyas. The senses are also described as tejomatrah or particles of light. Tejo represents brilliance, light and fire; and the etymology of matrah is mother.

In Kashmir Saivism the word ‘mother’ can mean the mother of all sound that generates the world. It is the power of sound that produces this entire universe. From intensely concentrated energy waves, heat and sound pour out into Space and Time. This heat and sound are not what we experience with of senses. We cannot hear this sound with our physical ear; it is said to be ‘the unstruck’ sound. These sounds are waveforms that become our senses.

“It is the particles of sound floating as ether in space that carry the light of intelligence within them, which they instill into inert matter to animate it into a living being which then enjoys life for a limited period of time.” (The Rig Veda, Shyam Ghosh)

Our five senses are described as particles of Light (tejomatrah). They are the mechanisms by which electrical impulses send messages to our brain. The world is in our brain. It is the brain that interprets these impulses according to our individual conditioning, based on various factors, including previous lives. We see only what we are capable of seeing; and we all see, hear, etc. quite differently.

Like our computers we are all programmed, and the five senses continue to program us as we move through our life. A man is what he thinks and believes. (Bhagavad Gita XVII.3)

In the heart

We are told that as we die, we lose the ability to see, hear, etc. The five senses (indriyas) move into the heart (hrdaya). We are not talking about the physical heart, but rather the heart chakra, the Anahata-chakra. When our senses move here, we are told that we lose consciousness of external forms. The subtle body wants to leave the physical one.


Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.iv.2

In the next phase of dying, all the senses move into the Heart. The ability to see, touch, hear, taste, smell move out of the physical body and become centered in the Heart chakra, wherein resides the Soul (jiva) in the subtle body. We are no longer conscious of the external world. Our loved ones may be standing around our deathbed, but we cannot experience them through the physical body.

When the senses have all been centered in the Heart, what occurs is a burst, a flame at the top of the Heart, which creates a portal through which the Soul/Self can depart. It is said that then we can depart through any part of the body. The point of departure reflects the world (loka), as a consciousness, we are drawn to. Those who leave by the top of the head are said to be rising to the higher worlds, the heavenly ones. And naturally the lower exits lead to locations of a lower consciousness.

Whatever we have done, thought, and felt in this body will be the fuel that thrusts us toward the next. Our feelings are the primary fuel that builds the ‘fragrances’ (Bhagavad Gita XV.8) we carry with us from one life to another.

In Sanskrit these accumulated impressions are known as Samskaras or Vasanas. They are like self-generated magnets that compel us into the next temporal illusory hologram. Thus we move from body to body in the endless quest of fulfilling our own desires – until we Remember that we are the God-within and not these temporal identities that drag us though Time and Space. When we are tired of playing, we begin the adventure of waking up to what is Real!


Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.iv.3

These impressions, Samskaras or Vasanas, carry what we have experienced, what we have learned, what we know. It is obvious that some are born with great talent, gifted in math, music, or art, while some are born ‘leaders’ and those around them recognize their destiny. These skills were acquired in other lives and it seems that little or no effort is required to utilize them.

“The soul goes from the body accompanied by the mind, the vital force, the senses, knowledge and the subtle elements.” (Sivananda)

Those who ‘speak’ with the dead report them saying that they are exactly the same person as they were when they occupied their body. There is no change. You remain you, made up of whatever you have achieved, whatever cumulative consciousness you have become.

The precise frequency of your consciousness, as a collection of your experiences, feelings, and knowledge will propel you to various planes, other realms, until you are pulled by your own proclivities back into a physical body.

Those who are attached to the ancestors, the manes, meaning their genetic lineages, the clan, race or tribe, will be drawn into those correlate worlds (lokas). According to the verse, there are worlds of music (gandharvam) and many others. There are heavenly and not so heavenly worlds. Those who are intensely attached to their own delusions of anger and greed can fall into “unclean” worlds, hells (Bhagavad Gita XVI.16). Based on our consciousness at the time of death, we go to our own belief systems.

http://www.metaphysicalmusing.com/ar...0whendie01.htm

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What Happens When We Die – Part Two

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.iv.4 & 5

The One dwells in the Heart of all beings (Bhagavad Gita XV.8). Your soul is an ‘apparent’ portion of the One-ness – this is only the appearance of separateness, a temporary perception, as the One remains one. The soul is called the Self/Atman and when it departs the current body it does so in the vehicle of the subtle body (puryastaka). The subtle body retains the mind and the five senses that operate through the physical body, and the subtle elements that produce it. (Abhinavagupta, Bh.G)

As gold can be melted and one ornament transformed into another, so our new physical bodies are created from the subtle elements and reflect the impressions (samskaras) of our previous lives, those ‘fragrances’ we carry with us as the wind carries the scents of a garden (Bh.G.XV.8).


We are the One-ness, we are Brahman

This Self/Atman that transmigrates from one body to another, via the subtle body, is none other than the all pervading One. That which seems far away is in truth, ever so near in the Heart. Even as portions of the One, our essence is never lost. We are always part of the imperishable totality that is our source.

In this text the One is termed Brahman. Brahman is not the deity Brahma, who is the Creator god and generally depicted as a wise old man sailing about the cosmos in a perfect lotus.

Brahman is the principle of Fullness that creates Space and Time. The universe cannot exist without space and time. Brahman is the great Immensity, the equilibrium between the centripetal and the centrifugal, between concentration and dispersion, between the forces of creation and those of destruction, between light and the darkness. Brahman is the principle of Space-Time. (Alain Danielou)

The Self-Atman is Brahman. We are that Brahman!


The Subtle Body - Puryashtaka

As the soul leaves the body, it can no longer use the data-collecting mechanisms of the physical body, i.e. the five senses, seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touch. The subtle body (puryashtaka) is our vehicle between lives. It functions as a magnet and attracts whatever it resonates with – like attracts like. Whatever we have thought, whatever acts we have done while in the physical body generated the impressions (samskaras), which have formed the subtle body.

The subtle body is made up of desires (kama). The One-ness manifested this universe to play. This ‘play’ or the Divine Lila, as it is called in Sanskrit, exists for the fulfillment of our desires. As long as you want to play in Space-Time, you will return through endless cycles of death and births (samsara) to fulfill your dreams.

Desire (kama) is the powerful driving force fueling your continued existence in this universe. Kama is often depicted as a deity who is not easily overcome by the puny human mind. Our desires constantly delude us. Essentially, we can rationalize anything we want.

It takes a great will to overwhelm the desires that are programmed into our DNA. Sometimes they lie latent for life times, even in the most advanced souls. Sometimes as you reach the end of your journey Home, they are fulfilled in the most surprising manner, and once fulfilled they can be easily renounced.

All acts are born of desire (kama) and every act leaves an imprint on and subtly alters the DNA, thereby passing on through the generations of bodies, corporal forms allowing every kind of experience. The soul (Atma) transmigrates to those bodies it resonates with based on similarity of consciousness and utilizes the DNA to create a fresh holographic reality. The subtle body carries these desires. Eventually through experience, we come to understand that no desire can fulfill. What we were desperately seeking externally, resides within us from the start.


The Pain of Death

The amount of pain experienced at the time of death is said to reflect the level of attachment to those desires that have been driving us throughout life. Individuals who are holding onto to the anguish of unfulfilled desires are said to endure greater pain.

This is one reason why forgiveness is often urged at the time of death. Those who are stuck in the desire of exacting revenge on others are themselves more vulnerable to suffering. We all know that some pass peacefully, while others suffer in agony. Desires based in greed, anger and hatred produce great pain.

The path to a painless death is said to be renunciation of desire. The more you “let go” of your attachment to things and people based on your attitude towards them, the less painful will the moments of your death be.

The letting go of your desires, and not wanting anything, is not likely to occur at the last moment of your life unless your have cultivated this understanding via your thoughts. This consciousness of non-attachment develops over time in the mental renunciation of all desires, through practice and your actions in daily life.

What you do in every moment every day contributes to the totality of your consciousness. That totality generates the quality of your death and the location you will find yourself in after you leave this plane.


The Objects of the Senses

The physical body operates through the five senses, which transmit information to the brain via electrical impulse. The five senses are always searching for an object of desire and in the Sanskrit texts, objects themselves are often referred to as “the Objects of the Senses.” This phrase encourages us to recondition our thinking into a higher understanding, which leads to wisdom and liberation.

“The object also promises a tentative satisfaction on account of the misconceived affection which the senses have for the object. But no object can satisfy any sense, because the senses are mere agents of the desires that exist inside. The senses themselves are not responsible for our bondage. They are used as tools …” (Krishnananda)

We have forgotten who we are. We have forgotten the God-within us. We have become identified with our desires and their objects of the senses. We are deluded, lost. In this state we transmigrate endlessly in the ocean of death and birth (samsara).

We are like children playing in the twilight. The night is coming and our Mother calls us to come inside. We sigh and beg – “Only a few more minutes, Mom.” And wisely our Mother allows us more time, until we see the darkness moving in and weary of playing, come inside. It is up to each one of us to decide when to come Home.

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[svarga]

What Happens When We Die – Part Three

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.iv.6

From the previous verses we have understood that when we leave the body we take a subtle form of the mind and the five senses with us. After their death, people realize that they are the same person as when they were in their body; only they can no longer use the body to interact with the living. They can see and hear us, even though most of the living cannot see and hear them. They have become invisible, and they cannot touch or taste anything in this material plane.

The subtle body is made up our desires, and the five senses are the mechanisms through which we fulfill those desires. Thus the subtle body requires the mind and the senses to experience the various worlds we are drawn towards after one life has ended - heavens and otherwise. The subtle body, its desires and the technology of the mind & its senses will also draw us into our next incarnation as we transmigrate through Space-Time.

“The mind, which is the ruling principle in the subtle body, carries with it the results of its actions…” (Krishnananda). We cannot shake off anything we have done; and those acts, which are the expressions of desire, must find completion in a new lifetime and a fresh body. For example, we may for a time find ourselves in bodies made up of light. There are myriad worlds in which we can exhaust the results of our actions. However, eventually we return here to this world, the earth plane, because this world is the microcosm of all the others.


Liberated from Desire

Those who are attached to the results of their acts are caught up in endless cycles of transmigration. But what of the few who have come to the end of their desires, who are weary and long to return to their Source? The few who understand that everything in this universe is God, and who have therefore become solely devoted to the Self, the God-within, they have no desire other than the Self/Atman. They experience death in a very different manner.

When you Know as experiential knowing that God pervades and permeates the All, then temporal desires cease to compel you. You simply lose interest. You are no longer ‘owned’ by the objects of the senses. No external and material things can hold our interest in the best of circumstances.

Why would you want to possess incremental fragments of this universe when you are Becoming the Creator of it? Real gold lies within in the Heart. Real happiness and fulfillment are within each and every one of us, waiting for us to turn inward, to Remember who we are.

“Desire cannot be satisfied unless it is directed to the Self … If your desire is for anything other than the Self, it is not going to be fulfilled, because you are asking for that which is not there.” (Krishnananda)

It is not there. Everything you are experiencing with the mind & senses is your own self-generated temporal illusory hologram. The world of desire is not the Real. When you understand and shift your consciousness into this higher, deeper Truth, you lose interest in external desires.

You only desire the God-within you. This frees you from all other desires, which will literally back away from you. Freedom is salvation! Once you have seen the Real, the objects of the senses turn away from you (Bh.G.II.59). You have lost interest and therefore you no longer magnetize them into your consciousness. We only think about what we want.

There is no need to act - and no need not-to-act (Bh.G.III.17). We no longer need other people (Bh.G.III.18). We have Become that which is the Source of every person and thing. All our desires are fulfilled because we have Become “merged in the Universal Self” (Krishnananda). As desire-less beings, we no longer need the vehicle of the subtle body, the mind & the senses. We do not require a new data-collecting vehicle to inhabit in order to work out our previous actions.

We are liberated from the illusions we have created to play in. Our subtle body and its mechanisms get dissolved “like bubbles in an ocean”. (Krishnananda)


Why are we driven by Desire?

All of us to one degree or another are ‘owned’ by what we want. At times it seems that our possessions own us far more than we own them. Who has not experienced wanting some thing or someone for what seems like an eternity and then once we have gotten the thing or the person, we slowly but surely lose interest. Our passion for it fades. What is it that drives us to want what never can fulfill us anyway? Are we just stupid?

There is a terrible longing in all of us. This longing gets masked and confused as the need for power and possessions. Our consciousness becomes deluded as to the real nature of the longing, and it is transferred and projected out into the external. We want lovers, gold, power, attention and praise.

Most humans idolize the rich and famous, and yet how often do we learn that so many of our idols are never satisfied. The stories of beautiful unhappy women are endless. Great athletes, politicians, and financial wizards are never what they appear to be – and occasionally worse than we could imagine. As long as the media can make money off these people, they will continue to be raised up and then vilified; but it is only about profit.

What are we missing? An earlier verse in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (II.iv.5) answers this question and is interpreted beautifully by the astutely wise Krishnananda. Everything is consciousness. The mind is nothing more than a state of consciousness that has been formed over many lifetimes. Its job is to allow the soul to explore the adventure of Space-Time through the senses. The mind is made up of defined proclivities that draw its attention to specific objects or people. The mind is directed outwards to the external.

As we progress over many lifetimes through the Cycles of Time, the external, the temporal illusory hologram we ourselves have projected, distracts us. We forget that we are the creators of all this. We lose our Joy, that sublime feeling of being immersed in the God-within us. We begin to feel isolated and alone. The emptiness inside of us grows and we flail around seeking anything that will ease that restless ache.

As we transmigrate from one body to another, we long to fill that yearning. When our desires cannot be realized, we become angry. Desire (kama) and anger (kroda) go hand-in-hand. Anger leads to more delusion, to hatred, to war, and the litany of greed and violence that make up our written human history, the last 6000 years.

We have forgotten that we are the source of all we seek. We have forgotten the God-within. The form our mind’s consciousness has taken is the cause, the reason we are magnetized to one object or person and not another. We all are attracted by a wide variety of different objects of desire. In astrology this is easy to see. We are constructed to have certain likes and dislikes based in our past life experiences, those fragrances, impressions (samskaras) that follow us down the pathways of Time.

The person we fall in love with holds the promise of fulfilling our emptiness. But this can never be. For what we want is ‘completeness of being’ (Krishnananda), not the person or object. They too are seeking this ‘completeness’ and so how would they be able to give it you? There is a temporary satisfaction, which is merely the result of the feeling that we have won the thing. This never lasts.

“… nothing external can give you happiness … You have missed the point in asking for the things of the world. … it is a wild goose chase from birth to death …” (Krishnananda)

Everything in the external world will leave you. This is inevitably a world of sorrow, the proverbial valley of the shadow of death. The people you love will die, you will die, and thus lose the possessions you have sold your soul for. There is something particularly insidious and evil about advertising in this regard, as people cannot be urged to conspicuous and compulsive consumption when they have recognized this truth. Things promise us eternal youth?

We do not understand that finite objects “are only appearances of a single Reality” (Krishnananda) which we in fact are!

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[svarga]

For those of you who are so inclined and would like to read the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad online,
here is a good translation:

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
by Swami Krishnananda

http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/brhad_00.html

Krishnananda is very easy to read, a gentle highly intelligent soul who translated and wrote many books.
bio
http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/about.html

[svarga]

WHAT THE SOUL DESIRES
by: Augusta Theodosia Drane (1823-1894)

THERE is a rapture that my soul desires,
There is a something that I cannot name;
I know not after what my soul aspires,
Nor guess from whence the restless longing came;
But ever from my childhood have I felt it,
In all things beautiful and all things gay,
And ever has its gentle, unseen presence
Fallen, like a shadow-cloud, across my way.

It is the melody of all sweet music,
In all fair forms it is the hidden grace;
In all I love, a something that escapes me,
Flies my pursuit, and ever veils its face.
I see it in the woodland’s summer beauty,
I hear it in the breathing of the air;
I stretch my hands to feel for it, and grasp it,
But ah! too well I know, it is not there.

In sunset-hours, when all the earth is golden,
And rosy clouds are hastening to the west,
I catch a waving gleam, and then ’tis vanished,
And the old longing once more fills my breast.

It is not pain, although the fire consumes me,
Bound up with memories of my happiest years;
It steals into my deepest joys--O mystery!
It mingles, too, with all my saddest tears.

Once, only once, there rose the heavy curtain,
The clouds rolled back, and for too brief a space
I drank in joy as from a living fountain,
And seemed to gaze upon it, face to face:
But of that day and hour who shall venture
With lips untouched by seraph’s fire to tell?
I saw Thee, O my Life! I heard, I touched Thee,--
Then o’er my soul once more the darkness fell.

The darkness fell, and all the glory vanished;
I strove to call it back, but all in vain:
O rapture! to have seen it for a moment!
O anguish! that it never came again!
That lightning-flash of joy that seemed eternal,
Was it indeed but wandering fancy’s dream?
Ah, surely no! that day the heavens opened,
And on my soul there fell a golden gleam.

O Thou, my Life, give me what then Thou gavest!
No angel vision do I ask to see,
I seek no ecstasy of mystic rapture,
Naught, naught, my Lord, my Life, but only Thee!
That golden gleam hath purged my sight, revealing,
In the fair ray reflected from above,
Thyself, beyond all sight, beyond all feeling,
The hidden Beauty, and the hidden Love.

As the hart panteth for the water-brooks,
And seeks the shades whence cooling fountains burst;
Even so for Thee, O Lord, my spirit fainteth,
Thyself alone hath power to quench its thirst.

Give me what then Thou gavest, for I seek it
No longer in Thy creatures, as of old,
I strive no more to grasp the empty shadow,
The secret of my life is found and told!


"What the Soul Desires" is reprinted from The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. Ed. Nicholson & Lee. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1917.

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Svarga,

Please explain to me why there are vicious people who rape, then murder other people and don't remorse.

Thanks.

[svarga]

Originally Posted by mrdragonfly1234

Svarga,
Please explain to me why there are vicious people who rape, then murder other people and don't remorse.
Thanks.

As we descend through the Cycles of Time, these truly hardened beings have so immersed themselves in their own selfish desires that they have Forgotten all memory of and connection with the Oneness, the God-within them.

Every dark cruel act draws the Veils more densely over their consciousness and their subtle body becomes laden with anger and deluded confusion - a magnet that draws them into even more unfortunate incarnations.
Drowning in a miasma of amnesia, they are wretched indeed.
They are lost, fallen into demonic frequencies of consciousness.
They have Forgotten the Oneness within them.

They too can Remember who they are and wake up at any moment.
Even the worst can Remember.
Even they are that Oneness, but they are free to pursue their desires - just as we are.

Sometimes it is up to us to protect the innocent from these fallen beings.
We need to know when to stand and fight - and when the greater wisdom is to smile and walk away.
The Bhagavad Gita is a guide for warriors.

I know this one is very hard, but think of it like this...
There can be nothing that is not the Oneness.
This is a polarity universe.

[svarga]

[In response to mrdragonfly1234's intelligent and quite understandable question, let's take an example of 'lost' pieces of the Oneness who have Forgotten who they are and look at the mega-rich.]

The Mega-Rich: ‘Strangled with Hundreds of Nooses of Expectation’

‘...their dreadful actions are capable of destroying this world.’

Did you ever wish you were one of the mega-rich? You know, one of those billionaires with their 40,000 sq ft houses hidden behind great walls of gated communities, those men and women who now control our world, oblivious to the toxic legacy they are leaving our planet --- along with the destruction of what perhaps was once the world's most successful democracy.

Praised and exalted as they are by our degenerate culture, it wouldn't be unusual to envy them or unconsciously desire, however obliquely, to be born into their world.

In the ancient Sanskrit text the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna tells the warrior Arjuna the fate of these bloodlines:

"Puffed up by their egos, arrogant, drunk with wealth and pride, they offer up...[charity]...out of sheer vanity. Embracing egotism, overbearing strength, pride, desire, and anger… Those hateful, cruel, vile, and polluted men I hurl ceaselessly into demonic wombs… birth after birth…"

Not all who are wealthy are bad. There are those who have learned to use the freedom and independence money can bring to further their own spiritual evolution and hopefully, the well being of others. They have developed humility and compassion. There are others however who have come to believe that ‘greed is good’ - and that their delusional sense of superiority to others, entitles them to use and abuse not only human beings, but also the Earth and her resources.

Krishna tells Arjuna that because these people resonate with the negative polarity, they have no understanding of their relationship to the universe. Their lives are not built on Eternal Truth – on DHARMA. They are lost, living in a demonic hologram with little enlightenment and, as is all too evident from the poisoning of the planet, ‘their dreadful actions capable of destroying this world.’ [38.16.10]

Compulsively moving from one insatiable desire to the next, these sad beings are intoxicated by their ephemeral delusions of power. Think tanks daily produce new false doctrines to support the misdeeds of greed and avarice. Notions such as the bottom line, the trickle down theory, and the end justifies the means are spun into fresh webs of confusion to justify any action and bewilder the herd.

Lies are truth and truth is a lie – and so it goes spiraling down. One of the predicted symptoms of the Kali Yuga from the Sanskrit Linga Purana is that – ‘People will prefer to choose false ideas.’

Don’t imagine that these ones who are puffed up with their self-importance are happy and at peace with themselves. Addicted to power with the hounds of hell ever at their backs, they are always aware that another warrior will one day come along and conquer their kingdom. So they worry, to remain in the lead they become workaholics. There is no escape, never enough money, and no relief for their fears. Indulging in consumption for relief, for reward, they buy yet another villa, another yacht. Will one more do it for them? How many deals, takeovers, and whores will it take to make them relax, to forget, to satiate their desires for a New-York-minute? And all the while, Death is silently coldly breathing down their necks.

Krishna says in their desire and anger, they are – ‘Strangled with hundreds of nooses of expectation…’

Every day they count their victories – as the saying goes, Money is the scorecard. Every act is justified by their delusional sense of power and importance over others. As masters of this world, they deserve what others do not. When they give, it is most often to bolster their own self-esteem, to give more than their rivals. This is not charity – as Krishna says, this is vanity.

Magnetism is the Law in the Invisible Realms where like is drawn to like. Krishna tells Arjuna that he ‘hurls [them] ceaselessly into demonic wombs.’ Meaning they are drawn to similar bloodlines to be born into. Thus they are brought up with the same values, a reverence for power and control, and a lack of love that leaves them empty, craving.

Following the path of self-delusion, these unfortunates may, according to Krishna, eventually ‘lose their wits’ and fall into the temporal illusory holographic matrices of various Demonic Worlds, such as the Rasatala and Patala Lokas --- but not for all eternity. Remember these LOKA Worlds are temporal and thus, along with the rest of the hologram, will be dissolved at the end of the Kali Yuga. The Creator is Love and never so cruel as to doom any being forever. These arrogant deluded ones are after all playing their part. They are in their way holding the temporal illusory hologram together until the time of dissolution.

But in the Twilight of the Kali Yuga, there most assuredly is no need to envy these who are strangled with the hundreds of nooses of expectation.



*The Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata
Translated by J.A.B. van Buitenen
University of Chicago Press, 1981

[mrdragonfly1234]

Originally Posted by svarga

As we descend through the Cycles of Time, these truly hardened beings have so immersed themselves in their own selfish desires that they have Forgotten all memory of and connection with the Oneness, the God-within them.

Every dark cruel act draws the Veils more densely over their consciousness and their subtle body becomes laden with anger and deluded confusion - a magnet that draws them into even more unfortunate incarnations.
Drowning in a miasma of amnesia, they are wretched indeed.
They are lost, fallen into demonic frequencies of consciousness.
They have Forgotten the Oneness within them.

They too can Remember who they are and wake up at any moment.
Even the worst can Remember.
Even they are that Oneness, but they are free to pursue their desires - just as we are.

Sometimes it is up to us to protect the innocent from these fallen beings.
We need to know when to stand and fight - and when the greater wisdom is to smile and walk away.
The Bhagavad Gita is a guide for warriors.

I know this one is very hard, but think of it like this...
There can be nothing that is not the Oneness.
This is a polarity universe.

Thank you for the explanation.

Would a vicious man who has committed a crime has to pay his "debt" in a cumulative fashion as if we pay our debt with out interest and principal ? ( to be free himself ? )

or

He can be just free himself the moment he repents and gets the awareness in his next life , without paying what he has done ( crimes ) in this life ?