Smoking Mirrors – Jan 31, 2021
Dog Poet Transmitting…….
Greetings, my dear friends. This morning, as it is every morning, I read a chapter from The Bhagavad Gita, from the Eknath Easwaran translation. Occasionally, I follow this with a chapter from “Aphorisms of Yoga”, (though not this morning) translated by Shree Purohit Swami. I identify the authors of the translations because both the text and the attending commentary can be widely divergent from one another. I prefer less commentary and greater clarity and I usually find what I’m looking for because I don’t stop looking until I do.
Remembering that I offered a less than verbatim extract from The Gita yesterday, and then finding myself reading the source I had extracted it from this very next day, I thought I might offer it for your consideration. If you can grasp what is being said here- and it is not hard to do- you will have all the basic principles and clarifications you will ever need. This chapter hit me with great power during the reading this morning. Sometimes that happens. Lately, it has been happening a lot. The winds of a great and sweeping spiritual change are blowing and growing stronger.
Portions of humanity are being pulled and influenced in several directions. Other portions are confused. Still, other portions are indifferent and altogether uninformed and disinterested regardless. Destinies are being written, altered; everything manifest is subject to change. Now is one of those intense periods of transition and few of us are handling it well. Far more of us have no idea it is even happening. Pray that God may inspire you all to a greater sense of urgency and of promise. God is calling. Answer God in the fashion that appeals to you.
Here is that chapter called, “The Royal Path”>>>
“Because of your faith, I shall tell you the most profound of secrets: obtaining both Jnana and vijnana, you will be free from all evil.
This royal knowledge, this royal secret, is the greatest purifier. Righteous and imperishable, it is a joy to practice and can be directly experienced. But those who have no faith in the supreme law of life do not find me, Arjuna. They return to the world, passing from death to death.
I pervade the entire universe in my unmanifested form. All creatures find their existence in me, but I am not limited by them. Behold my divine mystery! These creatures do not really dwell in me, and though I bring them forth and support them, I am not confined within them. They move in me as the winds move in every direction in space.
At the end of the eon these creatures return to unmanifested matter; at the beginning of the next cycle I send them forth again. Controlling my Prakriti, again and again I bring forth these myriad forms and subject them to the laws of Prakriti. None of these actions binds me, Arjuna. I am unattached to them, so they do not disturb my nature.
Under my watchful eye the laws of nature take their course. Thus is the world set in motion; thus the animate and the inanimate are created.
The foolish do not look beyond physical appearances to see my true nature as the Lord of all creation. The knowledge of such deluded people is empty; their lives are fraught with disaster and evil, and their work and hopes are all in vain. But truly great souls seek my divine nature. They worship me with a one-pointed mind, having realized that I am the eternal source of all. Constantly striving, they make firm their resolve and worship me without wavering. Full of devotion, they sing of my divine glory.
Others follow the path of Jnana, spiritual wisdom. They see that where there is One, that One is me; where there are many, all are me; they see my face everywhere. I am the ritual and the sacrifice; I am true medicine and the mantram. I am the offering and the fire which consumes it, and the one to whom it is offered. I am the father and mother of this universe, and its grandfather too; I am its entire support. I am the sum of all knowledge, the purifier, the syllable Om ; I am the sacred scriptures, the Rig, Yajur, and Sama Vedas.
I am the goal of life, the Lord and support of all, the inner witness, the abode of all. I am the only refuge, the one true friend; I am the beginning, the staying, and the end of creation; I am the womb and the eternal seed. I am heat; I give and withhold the rain. I am immortality and I am death; I am what is and what is not. Those who follow the rituals given in the Vedas, who offer sacrifices and take ‘SOMA’, free themselves from evil and attain the vast heaven of the gods, where they enjoy celestial pleasures. When they have enjoyed these fully, their merit is exhausted and they return to this land of death; (like we say here, it’s all on the meter.) Thus observing Vedic rituals but caught in an endless chain of desires, they come and go.
Those who worship me and meditate on me constantly, without any other thought – I will provide for all their needs. Those who worship other gods with faith and devotion also worship me, Arjuna, even if they do not observe the usual forms. I am the object of all worship, its enjoyer and Lord. But those who fail to realize my true nature must be reborn. Those who worship the devas (we know them as angels) will go to the realm of the devas; those who worship their ancestors will be united with them after death. Those who worship phantoms will become phantoms; but my devotees will come to me.
Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart – a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water – I partake of that love offering. Whatever you do, make it an offering to me- the food you eat way, the sacrifices you make. The help you give, even your suffering. In this way you will be freed from the bondage of your karma, and from its results both pleasant and painful. Then, firm in renunciation and yoga, with your heart free, you will come to me.
I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them. Even sinners become holy when they worship me alone with firm resolve. Quickly their souls conform to dharma and they attain to boundless peace. Never forget this, Arjuna: no one who is devoted to me will ever come to harm. All those who take refuge in me, whatever their birth, race, sex, or caste, will attain the supreme goal; this realization can be attained even by those whom society scorns.
Kings and sages too seek this goal with devotion. Therefore, having been born in this transient and forlorn world, give all your love to me. Fill your mind with me; love me; serve me; worship me always. Seeking me in your heart, you will at last be united with me.”
I don’t know how you may feel after reading that but I hope and pray that it strikes you in a moving and memorable way. My God!!! We live in a time of tremendous opportunity. Anything you wish to know, or discover, is virtually dancing on The Internet; not to mention, already within you but hidden from you. In what manner and to what end do so many spend their time? It is truly saddening.
MAKE NO MISTAKE, powerful entities from the Infernal Realm are seeking to drag humanity down into an inferno of deranged appetites and bad directions. The Dog’s of Desire are howling at The Moon. People are going mad. This is what happens when The Truth appears. One either embraces it or flees… on any number of highways into the darkness and off-ramp suicides. OH!! The light is too bright! It’s too bright!
If you only died, then that would be the end of it, BUT… you don’t die, you merely appear somewhere else. Then you are shown what your life could have been, in excruciating detail. Then you are sent back to The Wardrobe Department on The Moon for yet another life.
Most death is suicide of one form or another. Let me state here that suicide is a very bad idea, which becomes quite clear after having successfully accomplished it.
Look at the words that are arranged for your understanding. Ponder and contemplate what Krishna is saying. Call him Krishna, or Christ, The Mahdi, Maitreya, Kalki. God appears in various forms to appeal to specific populations at specific times. Here is one person’s take on avatars. Attempting to explain or discuss such things is beyond me. I am only a little guy in a vast and measureless space. I must demur. I have some few things to say that I say over and over in different ways. That is the sum of it, until God improves my understanding, which I KNOW that he will. As we ASPIRE, God INSPIRES. Use your time wisely, my friends. Go to the fountain of everlasting life and drink deeply. Let your capacity grow and increase.
Call out to God within as often as you can remember to. God IS listening, and if you are sincere, the angels will carry your prayers to The Throne. I cannot emphasize this enough; GOD IS REAL!!! God is LIVING and EVERLASTINGLY ALIVE!!! God is watching you right now. Turn your mind inward and drink the water. Drink the waters of conscious light. Sip from the sunbeams that radiate upon you all through the day. Look at The Sun, with your eyes closed, as you stand before it and speak to the angels of Lord Vivasvan. Sunbeams are communication currents that run in both directions. Remind yourself that The Sun is the source of all life on this planet AND SO… there MUST BE a great deal more to that if you think about it. The Sun is liquid gold, and it has finer and finer variants of itself.
Let the heart add its passion to your thoughts. This is a form of emphasis added, which fires and fuels it. Within this understanding lies the wisdom of love. Love is a heat and Truth is a light.
End Transmission…….
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Just more fantastic narratives of entanglement. I hate to break it to you, but there is no wardrobe department on the moon. No wardrobe department and no didactic moralists pointing out in excruciating detail the alleged phuck ups that you made in the life you were tasked with but didn’t even ask for. But feel free to improvise upon your swirling fantasies to your heart’s content as you amuse nobody but yourself. Perhaps I degrade myself in being contentious towards the perceived falsehoods of your narratives as opposed to cultivating a more robust devotion to ‘truth’.
Interesting. It would be useful to learn what L.S. knows about the whole “Moon/Saturn thang,” as one wag termed it. Given Mr. G’s “food for the moon” bit and the magic square brought-ha-ha, if you know what I mean. Anyone?
These are trancedental texts. Thanks Les Visible, I just needed that.
O and Ghost – seek not to demean but search for wisdom and understanding. the Wardrobe of the Moon is but an allegory in that LS is describing reincarnation. the object of reincarnation is to achieve perfection through experience. thus as LS rightly indicates one will reincarnate to learn lessons until all are passed – similar to going to primary, secondary and tertiary schools or for a better simile when the rough edges of a rock is smoothed.
@Tresmegistus
Metaphor or otherwise, it’s still nothing but pure speculation. The speculation of not only a frightened ego, but a vain one as well, if not masochistic. It involves so many contrived and Jerry-rigged assumptions that it’s worthy of being ‘demeaned’ and subsequently knocking the rider off the pretentious horse he rode in on. So the cancer cells that are multiplying in ‘excruciating detail’ within a child who will die from it, also has to face the didactic moralists who will review each and every one of his phuck ups that lead to the cancerous incarnation which only begets more and more and more…like a cancer. The authors musings are pretentious and juvenile.
After one dies, one goes to the astral plane; Yesod on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. One exists there until you reincarnate again either as a demigod, human, bipedal ape or other lower organism, depending on your actions & stage of evolution on earth. Those Aryans who reproduce with simian hominids/coloreds come back as them & their soul is divorced from their source (god). You become what you reproduce. Immortality exists, but its via transmigration, for the soul continues to incarnate through its racial descendants, if the blood is kept pure.
And more improvisation from Nico X. We know nothing of a so-called ‘Yesod’ nor its ‘location’ on an alleged ‘tree of life’. These are all improvisations promulgated by humans who subsequently encourage others to improvise (within the parameters of the given dogma) in a vain attempt to understand a universe beyond their ken. Others will attempt to improvise their way through a ‘fundamentalism’ that also pretends to provide succor and they will also deny your assertions of a transmigrating soul…”circle back” as the White House Press Secretary might assert, and get right with Jesus. Why the alleged author of perfection would require ONE murdered or diseased child in his schema is beyond me…Let alone making that child account for apparent flaws in design.
O = Zero
Why bother?
@O:
You remind me of the man who is looking in one direction, and behind him stands an elephant about to trample him to death. An onlooker says, “Look out! There is an elephant behind you about to kill you!”
Our fearless traveler – you – replies, “What nonsense! What elephant? I see no elephant! You are full of crap. There is no elephant here.” Onlooker says, “But just turn around and you will see it. Turn around and look, and run before it is too late!”
You say, “Why should I? I can see perfectly well in the direction I am looking. Why should I turn around for you, little deluded man? Your fantasies are all crap, I see no elephant and there IS no elephant! I completely refuse to become part of your fantasy world and will continue to look where I please and in the direction I please. Go play with yourself, idiot.”
Next moment there is a cracking of bones and the screams of the dying man – you.
@ Lemuel Gulliver
That elephant spares no man. Cheer up!
Space-time vs Essence-time:
When we observe a plant seed growing, it goes through stages, it changes and all change requires movement. If you move a box from one room to another, you can move it back to where it was; space-time movement can be reversed however no one has ever seen a tree “ungrow” back to a seed! When a seed grows, it goes through stages, its attributes and qualities change, this means its essence changes and as it is self-evident, change in essence which is essence-time movement is naturally irreversible. When a living being dies, you cannot mechanically keep it alive by faking or mimicking essence-time movements through space-time movements.
Potentiality and Actuality:
A seed is potentially a tree, as it grows, its essence changes and matures to other levels of its completeness. A seed of an apple tree is not potentially a fox, it is potentially a full grown apple tree! Similarly an adult fox has never been a pine seed. Nature/Life moves from Potential to Actual, gradually and not instantly and this movement does not happen in reverse.
Soul begins its journey with a fresh material body and in the beginning it is not much other than potentiality, through essence-time movement it will grow, as its essence gets to later stages of its advancement it becomes more self-subsisting and self-sufficient with relation to its body and its touch with its body naturally deteriorates and signs of age appear in its body. An infant’s body does not have the capacity to be coupled with a mature soul.
There is a whole heavy chapter on falsifying reincarnation in Sadra’s book (“Four transcendental Journeys”), he quotes from other books from Avicenna and others. But that would be beyond our time and scope here.
karma induced reincarnation to LEARN is bullshit !
THERE IS NOTHING TO LEARN AS THE SOUL
NEVER CHANGES ITS NATURE . reincarnation
its just a game of idiots which never get enough from
traps of hell.
And Lemuel? Your wannabe attempt at enlightening me via a totally out of context metaphor is somewhat hilarious! : )
Just more speculation & improvisation from ‘O’, in a vain attempt to explain the Universe beyond one’s knowledge. Whatever exiguous philosophy you believe in, is irrelevant to me, what is relevant is Aryan political power & anything that empowers the race..whether via politics or religion. Figure it out.
The Tree of Life is simply a diagram, delineating other planes of existence. It doesn’t exist int the material sense. Next, go tell all the occultists who leave their physical bodies & engage in astral projection/travel, that there’s no astral plane. They’ll just laugh at your profound ignorance in these matters. Do the research & try it yourself, that is if you have the ability.
Triesmis… Stop projecting, please. Others: among most groups and cultures, reincarnation is always into one’s own bloodline/family — not a millipede, tree sloth, or member of another genetic line. Example: recently deceased Cambodian grandma, who’s family members have already identified the young child who is their reincarnated matriarch.
As for the Saturn/Lunar thang, see 3×3 and 9×9 magic squares, as used by Taoists, Indians, and I think Aryans.
As for Gurdjieff, WTFK?
As for the rest of you, lighten up, would ya? (That last is not meant as a rayciss imprecation.) ?
And all you Quaballah Quackers, let’s ditch the Abrahamic Volcano Demon and all his alleged works. Deal? Ok then, it’s your loss.
to nico x
the blood is dirt like the rest of our body. only jews worship the
“cleanlyness” because they are the outspoken racists . the soul
as the spark of divine fire+ energy is perfect and nothing more
than the soul is important in creation, its divine. materia is shit !
@ Nico X
Tell me of YOUR knowledge of the astral plane, not Crowley’s, not Aryeh Kaplan, or whoever. You do realize,I trust, that Crowley’s final dying words were, “I am…perplexed.” Indicating that his alleged astral voyaging potentially did not prepare him in least for what was..’coming’. I am more than just ‘well acquainted’ with the Tree of Life and Kabbalah. You DO realize that it’s primary exponents are just going to laugh you out of town with your Aryan superiority trip, don’t you? Figure it out.