Trusting Your Own Being

[Guest guest]

Why have the religions been life-negative in the past? In the name of religion

man has been exploited -- exploited by the priest and by the politician. And the

priest and the politician have been in deep conspiracy against man. The only way

to exploit man is to make him afraid. Once a man is full of fear he is ready to

submit. Once a man is trembling inside, he loses trust in himself. Then he is

ready to believe in any stupid nonsense. You cannot make a man believe in

nonsense if he has self trust.

 

Remember, that's how man has been exploited down the ages. This is the very

trade secret of the so-called religions: make man afraid, make man feel

unworthy, make man feel guilty, make man feel that he is just on the verge of

hell.

 

How to make man so afraid? The only way is: condemn life, condemn whatsoever is

natural. Condemn sex because it is the fundamental of life; condemn food because

that is the second fundamental of life; condemn relationship, family,

friendship, because that is the third fundamental of life -- and go on

condemning. Whatsoever is natural to man, condemn it, say it is wrong: "If you

do it you will suffer for it. If you don't do it you will be rewarded. Hell is

going to descend on you if you go on living naturally" -- that is the message of

the whole past -- "and heaven will be given to you if you go against life."

 

That means if you are suicidal, only then will God accept you. If you slowly,

slowly commit suicide in the senses, in the body, in the mind, in the heart, and

you go on destroying yourself, the more you succeed in destroying yourself, the

more you will become beloved to God. This has been the whole teaching of the

religions in the past. This has contaminated man's being, poisoned man. These

poisoners have exploited man tremendously out of it. These religions of the past

were death-oriented, not life-oriented.

 

What I am heralding is a life-oriented vision: love life in its

multidimensionality because that is the only way to reach closer and closer to

the ultimate truth. The ultimate truth is not far away; it is hidden in the

immediate. The immediate is the ultimate, the immanent is the transcendent. God

is not there but here. God is not that but this. And you are not unworthy, and

you are not a sinner.

 

I am here to help you unburden all your guilt feelings. I am here to help you to

start trusting yourself again. Once you start trusting your own being, no

politician, no priest can exploit you. Man is always exploited through fear.

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Its the obvious that we miss. The Creator, after

finishing her work decided to find herself an abode.

She wanted one which will be undisturbed even when in

the midst of activity. She could not find a place

better than the one offered by Her own creation -- Man

and,to the politically correct, Woman. Ever since, we

have been trying to search for the Divine outside even

as it rests in a state of stupor after the work of

Creation. I reckon we only need to activate it. But

thats the Million $ question. Sorry, the Million Euro

question.

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

OM Anand Supraath

 

You wrote, "What I am heralding is a life-oriented vision: love life

in its multidimensionality because that is the only way to reach

closer and closer to the ultimate truth. The ultimate truth is not far

away; it is hidden in the immediate. The immediate is the

ultimate, the immanent is the transcendent. God is not there but

here. God is not that but this. And you are not unworthy, and

you are not a sinner."

 

I agree with you that there is no such thing as original sin

(unless you think of accumulated karma or the tendency of the

ego to waste time in chasing the delights of the senses as

possible explanations of the concept of original sin), I also agree

with you that "God is not there but here. God is not that but this".

But I do not agree with what I believe your alternate to be, i.e.

wholesale, undisciplined abandonment to human wants - food,

sex, relationships and even life itself . Patanjali claims the five

obstacles to spiritual enlightenment are ego, attraction to that

which we like, aversion or avoidance of that which we don't like,

attraction to life itself, and ignorance of Maya, of Brahman, of our

True Nature.

 

Restraint is not fear. Restraint is recognition of the trap of the

senses and how unrestrained behaviour leads to the continual

cycle of death and rebirth as one leads a life ignorant of the

karmic consequences of giving into the senses.

 

Yes, we need food to live but what sort of food? An ayurvedic

vegetarian diet does not cause stress and desire and does not

interfer with the flow of prana up the sushumna. Yes, sex can be

an eloquent expression of love between partners and it

necessary for the propagation of the species, but even without a

human species, souls will simply reincarnate as higher life

forms on a distant planet.

 

So, I don't quite see what your point is. Sure some theologians

might misunderstand karma and kundalini but that does not

mean that doing the opposite of what they preach is any more

valid. Please clarify your theory for us.

 

Om Namah Sivaya

 

Omprem

 

 

 

, anand supraath

<supraath> wrote:

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> Why have the religions been life-negative in the past? In the

name of religion man has been exploited -- exploited by the

priest and by the politician. And the priest and the politician have

been in deep conspiracy against man. The only way to exploit

man is to make him afraid. Once a man is full of fear he is ready

to submit. Once a man is trembling inside, he loses trust in

himself. Then he is ready to believe in any stupid nonsense. You

cannot make a man believe in nonsense if he has self trust.

>

> Remember, that's how man has been exploited down the

ages. This is the very trade secret of the so-called religions:

make man afraid, make man feel unworthy, make man feel

guilty, make man feel that he is just on the verge of hell.

>

> How to make man so afraid? The only way is: condemn life,

condemn whatsoever is natural. Condemn sex because it is the

fundamental of life; condemn food because that is the second

fundamental of life; condemn relationship, family, friendship,

because that is the third fundamental of life -- and go on

condemning. Whatsoever is natural to man, condemn it, say it is

wrong: "If you do it you will suffer for it. If you don't do it you will be

rewarded. Hell is going to descend on you if you go on living

naturally" -- that is the message of the whole past -- "and heaven

will be given to you if you go against life."

>

> That means if you are suicidal, only then will God accept you. If

you slowly, slowly commit suicide in the senses, in the body, in

the mind, in the heart, and you go on destroying yourself, the

more you succeed in destroying yourself, the more you will

become beloved to God. This has been the whole teaching of

the religions in the past. This has contaminated man's being,

poisoned man. These poisoners have exploited man

tremendously out of it. These religions of the past were

death-oriented, not life-oriented.

>

> What I am heralding is a life-oriented vision: love life in its

multidimensionality because that is the only way to reach closer

and closer to the ultimate truth. The ultimate truth is not far away;

it is hidden in the immediate. The immediate is the ultimate, the

immanent is the transcendent. God is not there but here. God is

not that but this. And you are not unworthy, and you are not a

sinner.

>

> I am here to help you unburden all your guilt feelings. I am here

to help you to start trusting yourself again. Once you start trusting

your own being, no politician, no priest can exploit you. Man is

always exploited through fear.

>

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>

> Send Flowers for Valentine's Day

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