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TRUTH, HUMANITY AND EGO  Truth can be likened to a pyramid - its pinnacle gives the highest expression of truth, while its broad base gives strength and stability. An amazing number of people in India say that they donot believe in God, and then go on to demonstrate that they do. They can’t get away from it - it’s part of their upbringing. They don’t necessarily define God in terms of somebody who is blue and plays the flute or removes snake venom. The thought, however, of an infinite consciousness is so ingrained in them that it is impossible for them to reject it. The highest expression of spiritual teachings has, throughout the ages, usually been found only at the pinnacle and the result is that only a very few people seem to reach it. Spiritual teachings were often very esoteric, and those few people who received them would go into the mountains or monasteries, or go into silence and solitude to the extent of becoming reclusive. Paramhansa Yogananda gave people a simple, practical way to magnetise the inner spiritual spine so that they can bring their consciousness into alignment with a higher reality. In ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’, Yogananda gave a lovely description of God. He said, “The divine vision is centre everywhere, circumference nowhere.” You are the centre of the universe. The universe is not some big thing imposing itself on some little thing. It is created from within each little centre radiating outward. Essence is that God is an idea within ourselves which is authenticated by the variety of phenomena that we witness every day. Deep inside, each of us wants love, joy, and understanding. We belive we will get these by having more money, more possessions and more exciting experiences. At a deeper level of our awareness, however, we are always dissatisfied with a kind of restlessness. The more we live at the surface, the less we can comprehend. Ego is uni-directional - to contract inward and think first of self. But this course makes us more and more a prisoner of littleness and limitation. There’s another direction we can go - that of the expansive ego. This expression of ego feels other people’s sorrows and happiness; it doesn’t think in terms of happiness for itself alone, but delights in enjoying things through others. The expanded ego finds that in helping and giving to others, it becomes free. But as we follow this line of direction, we realise that there is a limit to how far even this little can go. The more sensitively attuned we are to our inner Self, the more we can understand other people and perceive solutions to their difficulties. What we have to do is simply look at life in a new way—from our own centre outward. Once we become centred within, from that centre, everything we do will be better, because it proceeds from our centre in attunement with the divine consciousness which is “centre everywhere, circumference nowhere.” This promotes humanity. - Swami Kriyanand At Speaking Tree "To fight the darkness do not draw your sword, light a candle" - Zarathustra |
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8/4/2013 9:55 am |
Interesting. Goes with a book I am reading,"A Personal Gnosis in Pagan Religion". Although it does not refer to it in the same terms it offers methods for climbing the pyramid. Spiritwoman ^i^
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I am glad you liked this post and the essence of it. Each one of us is essentially in pursuit of 'our own kind of' contentment and happiness. Have a wonderful day, MrsJoe.  "To fight the darkness do not draw your sword, light a candle" - Zarathustra
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Interesting. Goes with a book I am reading,"A Personal Gnosis in Pagan Religion". Although it does not refer to it in the same terms it offers methods for climbing the pyramid. Have a wonderful day.  "To fight the darkness do not draw your sword, light a candle" - Zarathustra
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Yes, indeed, and there is an attempt at establishing the correct balance between ego, truth (its acceptance or otherwise) and innate humanity that each one of us has within. In us humans and much of the animal world, humanity and fellow feeling occupy a significant place though not the paramount one. Have a wonderful day, GrandBluff. "To fight the darkness do not draw your sword, light a candle" - Zarathustra
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Oh yes, Poet_dancer !! There is a plethora of those. Not only do they say they believe in God but also mistreat little children in the places of worship that they preside over. There is so enlarged that harbour that they misread a simple query and seek stoning to death of the seeker - because they harbour an ego far greater than their comprehension of things around them, leave alone understanding of higher beings like God. The standards they seek to apply to their congregation are not applied to themselves. We have a Godman called Sudhanshu Maharaj in India aged 62 years who married a young lady of some 17 years reportedly by coercion in order to 'save her' and give her a home. Point to ponder, indeed.  Have a good sleep with happy dreams and a beautiful day tomorrow. & KsOCs"To fight the darkness do not draw your sword, light a candle" - Zarathustra
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