The Best Yet: "Theory of Everything."

[melanie]

In the great scheme of things yes.

When you are asleep doesn't awareness alert you even though you are not 'conscious'?
The sensation that stirred your awareness brought things into relative consciousness right... Same difference except there's no "I" to sense anything. It's all Brahman, dreaming everything inot existence, even the dreamer who isn't dreaming but is aware none the less. Because we are one with that in all states; waking, dreaming and deep-sleep.
Is all the dream-scape of Brahman.

He is self-subsisting, all powerful, ever-present, all knowing.
Omnipotent, Omnipresent Omniscience. aka god.

That's exactly how i see it too Drifter.

When ever i try to tell this to other people, they think i'm barmy, especially my kids, who tell me to stop talking nonsense.

[Drifter]

The Self

"To many it is not given to hear of the Self.
Many, though they hear of it, do not understand it.
Wonderful is he who speaks of it.
Intelligent is he who learns of it.
Blessed is he who, taught by a great Guru,
is able to understand it." ~Katha Upanishad

[melanie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Para_Brahman

Thanks D and from that link ...

''The One is Bliss. Whoever perceives the Blissful One, the reservoir of pleasure, becomes blissful forever. (Taittiriya Upanishad )
Verily know the Supreme One to be Bliss. (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad ) ''

That's exactly how it feels D

And yet people might say, how can someone be in a blissful state all the time, and i say i don't know, i just am.

I think it's more, a state of knowing you are nothing and everything, and that it's all perfectly free and everything is taken care of, and there is no effort or tension anymore, just total liberation for nobody ...lol
Or something like that...

[melanie]

The Self

"To many it is not given to hear of the Self.
Many, though they hear of it, do not understand it.
Wonderful is he who speaks of it.
Intelligent is he who learns of it.
Blessed is he who, taught by a great Guru,
is able to understand it." ~Katha Upanishad

The funny thing is Drift, that when ever i read the bible, the koran, the vedas, advaita vedanta, upanishads, the tao, or any other esoteric scripture.
All these seemingly differing pieces of literature are all pointing to the exact same idea/message.

And i have always been able to comprehend this material, in fact when i started reading this stuff, i thought wow, this stuff is absolutely spellbinding, and it all made so much perfect sense to me.

One day the person i thought i was, just vanished and instead of being this little separate 'me' (drop in the ocean)
I became the whole ocean, and it was the most profound and beautiful feeling that i had ever experienced.

[Drifter]

Human beings have a core of nectar; but living on the surface, we wander like outcasts, searching for a sweetness, peace, and joy we can never find. If we we're fortunate, we may experience this sweetness for an hour or two, or glimpse, for an instant, the shadow of bliss. But these experiences never last for long. And when they end they only leave us hungier and craving.
Despite this we search for happiness in everything we do. From the time we get up in the morning to the hour we go to bed, what we eat and wear, the kind of car we drive, where we work and whom we marry..., every decision in our life is made with an eye to our greater happiness and pleasure.
Why are human beings like this? Why are we so obsessed with finding joy?
According to yogic scriptures, it is because happiness is our very nature. It not something we can forget about for a year, a day, or even a moment. It's who and what we really are. Our nature is explained like the frog or goose and the scorpion parable.

http://allaboutfrogs.org/stories/scorpion.html

According to yoga, bliss is our nature. This is why we can;t help but look for it in everything we do. And because it is our nature, it's always there inside us, waiting to be felt.
To most of us this is a revolutionary concept. You mean, we asked, happiness doesn't come from the people, events, and things in my life?

Not according to yoga, joy comes from within. Certain situations merely serve as an occasion for that joy. We then confuse the joy with the experience that triggered it.

Inside of us, the Siddhas say, there is an infinite reservoir of joy that is the source of all our worldly happiness and pleasure. When triggered by something in the outer world, a tiny trickle of this joy flows out into our experience of of a sense object and we taste it. We think the joy is in the object or event itself, bit in fact we are tasting our own inner bliss. All the sweetness and love we experience in life flows from this secret heart, this sea of power. Everyone has this place inside them, but some are better at mining its riches that others. Uniting with this inner place is known as yoga (union). Yoga calls this place the inner Self.

But if that's the case, where exactly inside us is this Self and how do we attain it?

This of course, is the burning question.

[melanie]

Thanks D and from that link ...

''The One is Bliss. Whoever perceives the Blissful One, the reservoir of pleasure, becomes blissful forever. (Taittiriya Upanishad )
Verily know the Supreme One to be Bliss. (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad ) ''

That's exactly how it feels D

And yet people might say, how can someone be in a blissful state all the time, and i say i don't know, i just am.

I think it's more, a state of knowing you are nothing and everything, and that it's all perfectly free and everything is taken care of, and there is no effort or tension anymore, just total liberation for nobody ...lol
Or something like that...

But then there is all the crap going on in the world, the suffering, the hunger and the killing, but it doesn't have to be that way, does it?

What if every person in the world awakened to this truth, they would stop killing each other, instead they would embrace each other with un-condidtional love and harmony?

Because they would know that every other person on the planet is just an extension of their self, not separate from.

All the fear in the world is generated from fear of separation when in reality there isn't any.
That's what people have to wake-up to and realize.

That's why they say heaven is within you, it is keeping a sane head while all around are losing theirs.

I believe that if you do good without wanting anything in return you will reap no karma
no karma means going with the flow of natures natural rhythm where it is carrying you rather than you carrying IT

Have no selfish desires or expectations and everything will fall into place, and the sun will shine on the righteous.

[Drifter]

The funny thing is Drift, that when ever i read the bible, the koran, the vedas, advaita vedanta, upanishads, the tao, and any other esoteric scripture.
All these seemingly differing pieces of literature are all pointing to the exact same idea/message.

And i have always been able to comprehend this material, in fact when i started reading this stuff, i thought wow, this stuff is absolutely spellbinding, and it all made so much perfect sense to me.

One day the person i thought i was, just vanished and instead of being this little separate 'me' (drop in the ocean)
I became the whole ocean, and it was the most profound and beautiful feeling that i had ever experienced.

Same ear hear Love.
I see what you're saying.

Namaste`
Drifter

[melanie]

Same ear hear Love.
I see what you're saying.

Namaste`
Drifter

So if you and I can ear and see this, then surely every other can too?

[Drifter]

But then there is all the crap going on in the world, the suffering, the hunger and the killing, but it doesn't have to be that way, does it?

What if every person in the world awakened to this truth, they would stop killing each other, instead they would embrace each other with unconditional love and harmony?

Because they would know that every other person on the planet is just an extension of their self, not separate from.

All the fear in the world is generated from fear of separation when in reality there isn't any.
That's what people have to wake-up to and realize.

That's why they say heaven is within you, it is keeping a sane head while all around are losing theirs.

I believe that if you do good without wanting anything in return you will reap no karma
no karma means going with the flow of natures natural rhythm where it is carrying you rather than you carrying IT

Have no selfish desires or expectations and everything will fall into place, and the sun will shine on the righteous.

Remember the two monks and the bride by the stream parable?
You still carry the same old baggage?

None of "the goings on in the world are in your immediate present, you have chosen to bring them in and their woes with them. You True Self is in no position at this time to be of any material help to them, they have to deal with their own individual situations/present as best they can.

"The Ascent of Society; by Dr. John Hatcher, would be any interesting book for you to read.

Really though,
Perhaps it is why ascetics live in caves/forests and don't mingle socially, to hard to remain focused on what's most important. Society has too many woes.
One's own true Self.
Expect negative feeling to arise if you entertain 9thoughts astray, negative things?
Bother one self only with cleaning ones own side of the street.

[melanie]

It's our thoughts that shape our reality, we all live in our own little reality tunnels...universes within universes.
Each to their own i suppose.

THOUGHTS become THINGS we can heal ourselves from all negativity, because half of it is purely psychosomatic, our problems are all in the mind.
With that same mind you can infuse yourself with the healing powers of pure light energies.

We already know that our DNA responds to emotions
and our immune system to guided imagery-- and our bodies to our attitudes.

Exciting scientific research shows that many genes are being turned on as well as off every single day by your beliefs, feelings and attitudes.
In fact, every thought you think ripples throughout your body, affecting your immune system, brain and hormone system.



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