Killing the Mushrooms of Fear

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Yes, we are walking in a strange place, we are living, and we love life,

and we love love, and everything beautiful and good, and we want to

live, and that's all good.

 

But these bodies, they are made of elements that return to elemental

states. We must share our flesh with parasites and awful diseases, which

act like it's their flesh too, and indeed, they get away with it, and

God seems fine with this.

 

The process of rising above bodily identification is excruciating

because we are programmed from birth to feel warm and cozy here, with

our mommy and families, then our spouses and jobs, whatever.

 

Rude awakenings come more and more the older we get, and there are times

when it seems like life is horrible and there is no point to go on.

 

Then there is the blazing truth, waiting for us, the amazing plane of

life above the bodily identifications, where there is no more pain, no

sorrow, no lamentation.

 

I speak not from book knowledge, but experience.

 

It is not necessary to stop life, or give anything up that is dear, to

be spiritual in these ways, but it is necessary to never forget the

truth, and to stop doing these things that protect and increase

illusion. Illusion is our enemy, and it has to be rooted out. Illusion

is a terrorist that want's to ruin our life.

 

I feel the greatest contribution Jyotish can make to our lives is to

show that we are in God, under controls, and thus it proves all these

ideas about spiritual life, surrender, and so on. I feel that Jyotish is

proof for spiritual life, the presence of it, the need for it, and thus,

at a certain point in our development, it is like a great protective

grandfather friend, who comes and says,

 

"Don't worry, God knows all about what is going on with you, in fact,

he's holding your hand through it, has a plan for you, and everything is

going to be OK, in other words, you're not alone, you're not at fault,

you HAVE done your best, but HE wants you to go through this, see here,

He planned it for you long ago, just go through it little soul, learn

the lessons. Your plan making and hopes, well, yes, that was illusion,

but after all, wouldn't you ultimately prefer to know that you are under

a greater power, than truly alone, for think of it, if freedom was truly

possible, think of what evil could get away with?"

 

It was once said to me that is trees could walk, they'd destroy the world.

 

The idea is, we are bound and chained according to our level of

ignorance and bad will. When we see entities with no freedoms, it is

because they are not ready to have freedom, they are essentially too

evil to handle it.

 

Humans are free because they are old souls, but they are not totally

free. There are finer lessons they must now face, certainly therefore

the stakes at risk in the lessons seem tremendous, like Arjuna having to

shoot Bhisma, whom he loved greatly, so very greatly. That is why he

collapsed in total depression. This is what the Gita is for, and when it

is for.

 

So like Arjuna, we have to rise up and accept God's greatness, His

supremacy over all that is, His presence in our lives. The more we

surrender and accept, the more freedom we are given. Our entrance into

happier lands increases. Just as we have more interesting lives than

trees, similarly the Demigods, Gandharvas, Sidhas, Apsaras, and so on,

they have more interesting higher lives than we do. There is more, more

more to be achieved, and it is GRANTED not GRASPED. We are kittens

(carried) not monkees (hanging on). So it's a descending process, so it

is mercy we seek, through connecting by submission.

 

>From winter comes spring. Death hurts, but only because the leaves fall

and rot, is their good top soil to support the next phase of life.

That's this world's way, God's way. To end the mental pain, first comes

acceptance, then rising above the lamentation over the inevitable, we

enter into the plane of free action.

 

dehino smin yatha dehe, kaumaran yauvanam jara, tatha dehantara praptir,

dhiras tatra na muhyati

 

As the emobodied soul continually passes in this body from childhood to

youth then old age, it continues on and passes into another body at

death, the dhira (sober person) is not bewildered/disturbed/lamenting

over these transformations, including death. (Sri Krishna speaking in

the Gita)

 

When you feel fear, yell at it:

 

You are rooted in an illusion, that I am this body, you are like a

mushroom, you have no roots, you only float on the surface of crap,

easily knocked off by the strong kick of my real knowledge! Be dead

illusion, I now kill you. HARE KRISHNA

 

 

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Das Goravani

 

 

 

 

 

 

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