The mystics do not want us to have blind faith in particular religious creeds, but rather to set out on a personal exploration of consciousness

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Chapter 1

Mysticism and Religion

 

Enlightenment is real, and each of us, whoever we are, can in the

right circumstances and with the right training realise the nature of

the mind and so know in us what is deathless and eternally pure. This

is the promise of all the mystical traditions of the world, and it

has been fulfilled and is being fulfilled in countless thousands of

human lives. There are enlightened masters still on the earth. When

you actually meet one, you will be shaken and moved in the depths of

your heart and you will realize that all the words such as

'illumination' and 'wisdom', which you thought were only ideas,

are in fact true.

 

Sogyal Rinpoche, Modern Tibetan Lama

 

Mysticism is not religion. It is not concerned with beliefs and

doctrines, but with a natural state of consciousness which has been

experienced by people of all cultures, at all times in history, by

followers of every religion and no religion. This mystical awareness

is available to everyone, regardless of race, creed or culture. It is

the spontaneous experience of a wider reality, beyond the limited

horizon of ordinary existence. It does not invalidate the lives we

are living, but rather deepens them, filling them with joy and

meaning. Mystics discover a richer reality than they could have

dreamed of. They are immersed in a blissful love that they know to be

the very foundation of life. They are enveloped in a supreme oneness

that can embrace all of life's contradictions. Their lives become a

journey of spiritual awakening, to rediscover and live within the

truth they have glimpsed.

 

Mysticism is the contemplation of the essential mysteries of life. It

confronts the questions that all children ask, but most adults prefer

to push away: 'Who am I?', 'What is the purpose of life?' - questions

that cannot be solved by the rational adult mind, but only

'dissolved' into the child-like experience of mystic wonder. The

mystics do not want us to have blind faith in particular religious

creeds, but rather to set out on a personal exploration of

consciousness....

 

Religious authorities may say that God is this way or God is that

way, and that this is right or that another way is wrong, but when

the donkey brays, the mystics believe the donkey. They dare to trust

their own personal experience, rather than an external authority.

They question the prevailing beliefs of their culture or religious

tradition. They are open to new possibilities, willing to be

surprised, to have their world turned upside down, to let go of the

safety of mass consciousness and embark on their won spiritual

journey to find their own intuitive sense of meaning. This is why

they have so often been heretics and non-conformists.

 

Jesus was a Jewish heretic. Buddha was a Hindu heretic. The ancient

Greek state executed the great philosopher Socrates for his heretical

beliefs. Pythagoras was burnt to death along with most of his

fellows. Al-Hallaj, the tenth-century Sufi mystic, was crucified by

the Muslim authorities. The thirteen-century German mystic Meister

Eckhart was prohibited from writing by the Catholic Church and

eventually excommunicated a few days after his death. The

sixth/seventeenth century mystic Jacob Boehem, known as `the inspired

shoemaker', was chased out of his home town of Gorlitz in Silesia by

the Protestant authorities, who even desecrated his grave after his

death. The Church of Rome tortured the Italian mystic philosopher

Giordano Bruno over a period of eight years before he was burnt at

the stake.

 

Ironically, it is by losing themselves in God that mystics find the

rugged individualism courageously to follow their visions wherever

they may lead, in a world usually hostile to their penetrating

insight and spiritual values. The figure of the mystic appears

eccentric and challenging to those who want to remain secure in the

commonly accepted view of the world that happens to be prevalent at

the time. That is why so many mystics have been forced to live

precarious lives on the edges of social acceptability.

 

While some managed to maintain an uneasy alliance with the religious

authorities of the day, most mystics were vilified and horribly

persecuted for claiming direct personal knowledge of a God whom the

religious establishment wished to make accessible only via their

hierarchy of priests and theologians. Yet the natural experience of

spiritual awakening that lies in the heart of mysticism is the

birthplace of all religions, and they find their common ground in

this common source. Mystical experiences inspired the founders and

reformers of religion as well as its greatest heretics indeed, they

have often been the same people. The history of mysticism is the

history of their revelations. "

 

The Complete Guide to World Mysticism (Paperback)

by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, page 13-16

Paperback: 160 pages

Publisher: Piatkus Books; New Ed edition (October 1998)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0749917768

ISBN-13: 978-0749917760

 

 

 

" It was out of unrestrained Joy and Bliss brought by the knowledge of

their identities and the priceless boons of the Great Spiritual

Mother that this news was poured out. There was just innocence in the

hearts of Kash's parents for only fools would be proud of such divine

blessings. It was thought that all humankind could share and rejoice

in these Celestial Gifts and be filled with Hope, Vision and Joy.

Millions of spiritual seekers were waiting in eager anticipation,

convinced that the Conscious Universe is on the brink of bestowing

supreme enlightenment on the human species. They had the right to

know what had transpired and judge the Truth of SHRI ADI SHAKTI: THE

KINGDOM OF GOD with their own heart, mind and soul.

 

This Good News of the birth of angels and the existence of His

Kingdom was told to some Sahaja Yogis, and there were great

expectations of collective bliss. After all it was the Great Adi

Shakti Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Herself, who had made such miracles

possible and presented irrefutable evidence to the human race that

the Creator, His Kingdom and angels does exist.

 

However, that was not to be. The initial attempts in 1994, undertaken

with only a genuine desire to advance the Truth, met with adverse

reaction even from childhood friends. To all of them it was an

outrageous assertion and the work of evil spirits. The strongest

opposition came from the 'senior' Sahaja Yogis who denounced it

outright. The chorus of negativity kept on swelling like mighty tidal

waves, cresting, and crashing down relentlessly to subdue and silence

the Truth. In the end the whole family became spiritual outcasts for

daring to utter a Truth so radical that even the most enlightened

Sahaja Yogi rejected it. They were the first heretics of the New

Millennium, ridiculed by each and every soul to whom the father spoke.

 

Kash's mother was the most affected and just wanted no one be told of

her son¡¦s experiences anymore. She began to insist that whatever the

Great Divine Feminine was revealing were solely for the family to

realize and attain liberation. It was not to be told to anyone else,

not even the devotees of the Great Adi Shakti. However, his father

felt otherwise. Such priceless Knowledge could never be just for his

selfish use but the benefit of the Human Family.

 

Unknown to all, the very Truth that Kash witnessed is so explosive

that the Qur'an prophesied 1,400 years ago it will rock the whole

world during the Resurrection! That was precisely what was happening:

Even Sahaja Yogis who knew that the Resurrection was taking place

refused to believe what they were hearing. This eruption of Truth was

too astounding and far-fetched, even for the very messengers of

Resurrection!

 

But then:

 

- How was it possible for him, just meditating in Montreal,

Canada, to identify that Shri Antarmukha-samaradhya Shri Nirmala

Devi is the One in his Thousand Petal Lotus; not as the plus 70-year-

old corporeal form that all humans were seeing on Earth, but as the

internal, eternal, extremely beautiful 30-35 year-old Shri Lalita?

- How was it possible for him to irrefutably confirm that

whatever Shri Nitya-yauvana Shri Nirmala Devi was telling humans was

the Truth, though he never talked to Her physical form as Shri Mataji

Nirmala Devi even once?

- How was it possible for him to describe in great detail and

accuracy of the Kingdom of God and their Heavenly Hosts, something

absolutely beyond even the most enlightened dalai lama, pope or

ayatollah?

 

The good man seeks not to retain truth for himself but rather

attempts to bestow these riches upon his fellows,

For that is the realization of truth.

The will of the Absolute God always benefits, never destroys;

The purpose of the true believer is always to act, but never to

coerce. - Lao-tze

 

" Now you have entered into the Kingdom of God. And once you are there

then automatically, as the citizens of God¡¦s Kingdom, you are

blessed and as you become the Lotuses. Then you start spreading your

fragrance all around. Now you do not keep this Joy to yourself but

you become generous about it, and you go all out to give it to

others. Generosity at another level, at a lower level, is transformed

into this Universal Love. Whatever you gain, whatever Joy,

satisfaction, vibrations, Knowledge all that, you want to give it to

others. You want to spread it because now you got the Reality and you

don't want to keep it to yourself. You think it is very important

that everyone in the world should know about Reality. "

 

Shri Udyad-bhanu-sahasrabha Shri Nirmala Devi

Shri Laxshmi, Diwali Puja, Romania, October 25, 1992

 

Shri Adi Shakti: The Kingdom of God, page 97

 

Antarmukha-samaradhya (870th): Can be worshipped only by those with

inner vision or introspection.

Nitya-yauvana (430th): Ever young, untouched by time as it is Her

creation.