Alien Abduction or The Wings of Garuda?

[bija]

Alien Abduction or The Wings of Garuda?

 

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!

Here is my encounter as an 8 year old (through his eyes):

 

(1977 - the year of the release of the movie - Close Encounters of the Third Kind.)

 

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Around the same week or there abouts, I recall vividly one night, waking. I was in a room lying on a type of platform/bed. Four entities, two on each side of the platform, where standing silent watching me. I was aware of their conscious presence, but they did not speak. They were taller than average men...and thinner faced. Their face was covered by some type of covering. The room was dimmed somewhat with a presence of a type of red hew/light. I felt no fear.

 

I became aware of a probe machine behind me, as I lay on the platform...and a probe from the machine coming toward my third eye. I was also aware of a presence behind me...but could not see behind me. As the probe was about to enter my forehead...the experience ended. That is all I remember.

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Here is my definition as a 38 year old (which may change in due course), of the above encounter. Basically all we see in this world is mind or extension of the mind (physical). There is collective mind on an unconscious level.

 

The idea that the original soul is impersonal is a fallacy. The only impersonal thing is the vritti. Vritti is the mind stuff of passing thoughts. This is a chemical process of the brain (grey matter). The conditioned soul speaks and acts from vritti to expereince personal life in the material world. The subtle body or mind is different than brain. As humans we have what is called the unconscious aspect of mind. There is also a collective unconscious. Within that realm of mind are many impressions (that drive a conditioned person). The conditioned person identifies (when in deep ignorance) as the vritti. And the vritti then manifests into some form of action...beginning the wheel of karma (action and reaction).

 

The space craft was a part of that collective mind. The vrittis of humans also manifest within the collective unconscious; thus it evolves. Deepening the wheel of action and reaction.

 

The soul (whose symptom is consciousness) is never at anytime impersonal. But is a person and persons....parts and parcels of the Supreme Person. We are not this body we are not this mind. The realized soul has potential to live in a realm of pure consciousness, which is full of diversity, personality and love. This is called in the Gaudiya Vaisnava tradition - Vaikuntha (free of anxiety).

 

If the soul desires liberation in an impersonal realm it may achieve this. But in due course, because there is no rasa (flavor), due to negation/denial of personality...the soul again enters the material world...to experience flavor. The impersonal liberation or void is attempt at self suicide. Which is never possible as the soul is eternally a person.

 

As the realized soul cultivates bhakti yoga (devotional service) to the Supreme Person...she gradually becomes liberated, being gradually freed of anarthas (uneccesary things such as offences). This is the gift of the Holy Name which is non-different to God. Naam is fully conscious. And when the body dies...the soul leaves behind the subtle and gross bodies...entering the spiritual world. The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">kingdom</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">God</st1:placename></st1:place> - a realm full of diverse spiritual planets (back to home - back to Godhead).

 

<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:place></st1:city> has become a potential money making sham. Full of cinematic violence etc...manifested from the vritti of those bound by sense-gratification. The mind both collective and individual becomes further bound...in the wheel of birth and death (to use <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">hollywood</st1:place></st1:city> as an example of the ghastliness of material life). And I am of the opinion...we as a collective organism of spirit...need to awaken, before earth degrades further. The motivation being compassion.

 

To live consciously, responsibly, with a life based on love is humane. Ever moving forward to discover our own personalities (spirit/soul), and the Supreme Personality (supreme spirit/soul). Fully conscious in service to the whole.

 

The enlightened spirit souls...live in this world....full of joy. The compassionate teachers of spiritual truth, are few. Teachers of truth must teach that consciousness points to personality. And as we are finally liberated we may then enter the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">kingdom</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">God</st1:placename></st1:place>. Teachers of impersonalism, and morality (alone)...unfortunately either misguide the general public...or, the general public misses out on the goal of life. Love of God. God is a person...our experience in this earth can be one of spiritual preparation for entry into God's Kingdom.

 

Jaya Srila Prabhupada!

Jaya Gurudeva!

Aspiring service…bija.

[bija]

SRI BHAJAN RAHASYA by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura

2 / DVITIYA-YAAMA-SAADHANA Text 14 (anartha nivrtti in sadhu sangha)

 

The characteristics of bhakti-yoga are described in Shrimad-

Bhaagavatam (1.2.12 and 1.2.7):

 

tac chraddadhaanaa munayo

jnaana-vairaagya-yuktayaa

pashyanty aatmani caatmaanam

bhaktyaa shruta-grihitayaa

vaasudeve bhagavati

bhakti-yogah prayojitah

janayaty aashu vairaagyam

jnaanam ca yad ahaitukam

 

A faithful person, after hearing Shrimad-Bhaagavatam, automatically

acquires bhakti endowed with knowledge and renunciation.

By such bhakti he realises Bhagavaan’s svarupa in his heart

and he realises his relationship with Him. Thus he obtains service

to the Lord.

When the relationship between the Lord and the living entity is

established, bhakti-yoga for Bhagavaan Vaasudeva appears.

 

shraddhaa kari’ naama bhaje saadhu-kripaa paanaa

itare viraaga nitya-svarupa bujhiyaa

ihaakei bali bhakti-yoga anuttama

bhakti-yoge sarva-siddhi yadi dhare krama

 

Bhajana-rahasya-vritti (BVNM)

Saadhana of the non-dual Absolute Truth (advaya-jnaana-paratattva)

is of three kinds: jnaana, yoga and bhakti. The jnaanis

realise Bhagavaan as Brahman on the strength of their cultivation

of knowledge. They see tat-padaartha, Bhagavaan, within their

souls (aatmaas), they see their own souls in Ishvara and they also

see tam-padaartha, all living entities, in Him. The yogis realise the

non-dual object as Paramaatmaa. All attempts made by the jivas to

attain renunciation through the cultivation of dry knowledge are

useless. Renunciation (vairaagya) is an inherent result of bhakti

and is easily attained through the practice of bhakti-yoga. The

bhakti-saadhaka relishes the direct sweetness of the non-dual

object on the strength of his devotion. The process of bhakti is to

hear krishna-kathaa from the lotus mouth of the spiritual master.

Knowledge endowed with a sense of one’s relationship with

Krishna appears through the process of bhakti by the means of

hearing and chanting. The aacaaryas have ascertained that the

mood of service appears by hearing from authorities. The impersonalists

do not follow this path of hearing, which is the

descending path. Rather, they endeavour to take shelter of the

doctrine of the ascending path. Their attempts are compared to

trying to reach the sky by climbing on falling raindrops. When

the living entity is absorbed in service to the object of bhajana

and not in any other object, pure bhakti and proper renunciation

(yukta-vairaagya) will arise.

[bija]

thx for the edit admin. typing is not one of my skills...Hari Hari!