The Five Painbearing Obstructions The Root Cause of Trouble and Strife

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" The Five Painbearing Obstructions

 

The Root Cause of Trouble and Strife

The Five Kleshas Ignorance, Ego, Repulsion, Attachment, Clinging to

Life.

The entire magick structure of our fantastic Twilight Yoga

Is rooted in the Five Kleshas (Sanskrit term for obstructions).

They are the cause of all the miseries and afflictions of life.

The vast mass of mankind live and suffer through these defects,

And they must be understood before real practice can begin,

For nothing can be attained until the mind knows these obstacles.

They are impediments to Yoga, happy life and cosmic harmony.

Unless they are controlled, we will always be frustrated

From entry to the Twilight Zone between two worlds.

 

Ignorance: Non-science, untrue, bogus, illusion, delusion, lack of

Awareness of reality or the real, unenlightened, backward.

It is also the ground in which the four other Kleshas fertilize.

Thus Ignorance is when we think the unreal is actually real;

That matter is the ultimate or only important real substance;

Mistaking religion, dogmas, or superstitions for spirituality;

When we think in terms of " I, " " I am the body, " " This is me. "

Ignorance is absence of knowledge of the spirit of man.

 

Ego: The " I' or " Me Maker, " the opinion we have of ourselves

But one which is seldom shared by others.

An imagined personality.

Mistaken identification of nature, mind and spirit as the body

To identify oneself with worldly life, the body and the senses.

Arrogant conceit is often a cover to hide one's inferiority;

Real men and women have no need to advertise themselves.

Ego is a mask we wear to try and hide and veil what we are.

 

Repulsion: Aversion or repulsion to people, things or ideas.

Its counterpoise is obviously a state of Equipoise-Neutrality.

The true nature of the Spirit (Atman) is non-discriminating

Aghora (The Lord Shiva) means nothing is horrible in itself.

 

Attachment: Possessiveness, ownership, liking, attraction.

Attachment to people, things and ideas.

To join, connect or associate ourselves with something. " This is

ours. " " This is mine. "

Attachment in its negative sense to things we cannot own or keep.

Often the cause of quarrels, violent conflicts and even war.

Expressed also as race, nationality, my country, my money,

Attachment can only have free play on lower mind levels.

 

Repulsion and attraction are two sides of a single coin

Their obstacle value can be impediments and overcome by:

Contentment, Neutrality, Tranquility and Knowledge.

 

Clinging to Life: Fear of death. Desire for body continuity.

Though most of human life is pain, misery, sickness and woe

Delusion gives most people an abnormal desire to live

The other four Kleshas help to strengthen the delusion.

Every living body has a limited life-span to live on earth

And humans are no exception to what are but natural laws.

 

It is easy to see the Five Kleshas are interlinked defects

And each one reacts and relates to strengthen the others.

 

The Super Yogi of our Pagan Present has devised this analysis

Kleshas the Ob-Blocks, flourish as the main evils of our life

They belong to the plane of matter and cause endless rebirth

And not until the spirit is free of these delusive Ob-Blocks

Can we know the freedom and bliss of our Twilight Yoga.

 

Impediments of the mind are obstacles to our attainment

Yoga is the Magick Alchemy and method of the Magnum Opus.

Every cell of the brain, each zone of the mind, a quantum of Magick!

 

The Yogi-Magician has become free from Karmas, Kleshas and

Konditioning

Liberation and Enlightenment have now, at last, been attained.

Thus the Self-Realized Yogi-Magician merges into the One Supreme

And will never again be reborn into life on this earth. "

 

Shri Gurudev Mahendranath Paramahams (Dadaji) (www.clas.ufl.edu)