Guest guest Posted April 21, 2005 Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 If Advaita has any validity then life is maya, an illusion. Maya is like a movie the Self, Consciousness, projects onto itself, the Movie-screen. We are dreaming, hallucinating to keep this maya “real.” But psychiatrists tell us that anyone who hallucinates to see things and hears voices is crazy. But in fact Advaita tells us that everything is a hallucination – so those who see hallucinations and hear voices are just simply getting the “spirit’s” message that everything is just an illusion. The rest of us are educated/brain-washed to take anyone who hallucinates to be crazy when in fact Reality, the spirit, Consciousness, makes us crazy for not realizing that everything is just a hallucination -- starting with our sleep-dreams and then the mortal-dream called maya, that we call life. I have never been to India but my younger brother has spent months and months over there. He tells me that there are people over there that are “deranged” – they do things that are totally unacceptable to society. What is unusual about these deranged individuals is that the local people treat them like saints because they have spiritual powers that normal people don’t -- they perform miracles. These, so called, deranged souls are in fact spiritual-giants. And so spiritual-health = mental illness. It has to be but only if you can accept that life is an illusion, maya. If you read the life story of Papaji, Sri H.W.L. Poonja, he was literally crazy for playing with Krishna on a routine basis. He did so until Ramana Maharshi told him that he, Papaji, like Ramana, was Krishna. Papaji was especially crazy when the Goddess of the Ganges River came up to him to give him the sins of the world. I mean things cannot get more crazy, deranged, than that. But Papaji was a spiritual giant if ever there was one. But according to western standards he was deranged, insane. If you read about all the ecstatic saints of old, and new, they all hallucinated and heard voices to be crazy. In western countries we just lock our spiritual giants up so they do not teach us to hallucinate and hear voices, like Papaji did and kids do, and see visions of gods and angels that make us LOVE everything – like Papaji and Ramana -- and thus take life to be a just a dream. And to make sure we stay brain-washed the drug companies have all sorts of drugs that prevent spiritual-giants from hallucinating and hearing voices and seeing gods, and performing miracles. And to help make the illusion called maya appear real society bans all those drugs that make us hear voices and see gods that would allow us to Realize that life is a dream called maya. Thus from yet another angle life, the movie called maya, is the Supreme Comedy in which we are literally Everything (the movie-screen) but only if we don’t think we are something (on the movie screen). OM Shanti Shanti Shanti gp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 21, 2005 Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 advaitajnana , Gee Pee <gpalotas> wrote: > > > > If Advaita has any validity then life is maya, an illusion. Maya is like a movie the Self, Consciousness, projects onto itself, the Movie-screen. > > We are dreaming, hallucinating to keep this maya " real. " But psychiatrists tell us that anyone who hallucinates to see things and hears voices is crazy. But in fact Advaita tells us that everything is a hallucination – so those who see hallucinations and hear voices are just simply getting the " spirit's " message that everything is just an illusion. > > The rest of us are educated/brain-washed to take anyone who hallucinates to be crazy when in fact Reality, the spirit, Consciousness, makes us crazy for not realizing that everything is just a hallucination -- starting with our sleep-dreams and then the mortal-dream called maya, that we call life. Namaste, Yes sanity is just the common denominator of a society's belief systems. Schizophrenia is just where a contradiction breaks out in the fabric of this belief system. Ego is the greatest insanity....ONS..Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 21, 2005 Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 > Yes sanity is just the common denominator of a society's belief > systems. Schizophrenia is just where a contradiction breaks out in > the fabric of this belief system. Ego is the greatest > insanity....ONS..Tony. -============================ " Ego is the greatest insanity.... " The pure and pristine words of the Self. These thoughts about insanity have been haunting me for years only to erupt when I found out that my daughter was more or less the only friend of this " schizophrenic. " All the other school friends, society, treats her as if she has leprosy, insane, when in fact she is one of the most loving people imaginable. My daughter should know. Well these thoughts just kept hounding me, and the words just followed. I suppose I just wrote it for my daughter to give to her friend – to tell her how much I love her, and how very - very special she is, even thought I have never met her. It's all just maya but maybe this maya wants these words so that when Kundalini strikes us with the mania that only a god could have we won't have to run to the doctor to get a drug for society's depression. the LOVE You Are and ALL IS geza Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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