Well, thanks for having heard and recalled something I said, but if you observe and sense the divinity of someone like Anandamayima, That to which she refers ( God) is not 'another entity' or anything to which one can become "attached" ( as if glued or stuck. Last night I was kept awake a while with thoughts, and the potent question I had was " Is God independent?" If I speak of a personal hypothetical independence, I may think I am speaking of a free condition- and of course there is no such thing as a free condition- the words are mutually exclusive and in contradistinction. If one could " surrender to God" and not something (else) it would only be Good- if indeed God wanted my submission. But God is not independent anyway, but It is All. And thus there is nothing that is real but God. I had a brief experience of eternality in 1971- a special and ominous life-altering experience- and it may well have been an Atman experience (depending on one's idea of Atman. The Self that God is, is Inclusive and "I" am That: the true and real 'I' is just that- It is the thing Gurus and Knowers want learners to Awaken to. It is the Ultimate, non-separate Truth of each of us. And folks like Anandamayima, Ramama Maharshi and Da speak variant dispositions geared towards listeners hoping to move them away from their illusions, egoity and help them move towards Bliss-Life that exists and is inherent. Personally I do not let go. I am not 'there' consciously where I very briefly was in 1971. The entirety of my being was focussed (briefly) by grace and observed literally the formless truth of forever ecstatic being. Of course we don't want to live in co-dependence with someone. "Ma" heard a voice said " To whom would you make obeisance? You are everything." (Which reminds me inevitably of a voice that I heard which , having said my name, also said, " Who is your boss?" To which I had no answer, since I thought for sure it surely did not mean Jim Andrews, my employer. Via that voice I determined something larger and more essential was at play, and I got myself fired, since I did not know how to quit. I maintain the separateness that blocks me from my true Heaven which is simply the no-more-separatedness. I know its true. Any of this seems so far removed from a bookload of Baha'i teachings ( as I have recently read them- so much compliance and beseeching of God's tolerance and grandness.) They are always insisting that God is unknowable- and even "Ma" says this, as re: the normal human mind. One little human mind cannot conceive nor recognize God, but released from my mind "I" can awaken.
I think it was rude to shoot down the Russian jet.
I think it was rude to shoot down the Russian jet.
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Date: 2015-11-29 06:17 am (UTC)civil unrest...
LOL LOL LOL
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Date: 2015-11-28 05:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-11-29 06:31 am (UTC); P
LOL
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Date: 2015-11-28 11:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-11-29 06:27 am (UTC)isn's rundgren brilliant !!? the lyrics are brilliant !! thanks maestro!
As the sun rises in the east
As the wind blows the fog across the sea
As the hand of Man creeps across the face of the world
Caught in a web of glamour
Persian perfume and oriental eyes
Yogi in knots and Sufi wise
Master sublime and swami high
Throw in some Voodoo on the side
And a dash of the old Kung Fu
Lord you got me strung out on eastern intrigue
Chapter six and verse eleven
If you wanna get to heaven
You've got to ask the Man who owns the Property
Ya gotta dance your dance
And do your act
And get His Big Attention that's a natural born fact
I'm on my knees, one question please
Will the real God please stand up?
Jesus and Moses, Mohammed, and Sri Krishna
Steiner, Gurdjief, Blavatsky, and Bhudda
Guru Maharaji, Reverend Sun Myung Moon
On the banks of the Holy Nile
As the palm tree sways at the base of the sphinx
'Neath a crescent desert moon many thousands
younger than ours
In fact, forget about time completely
Think of it in the abstract please
Think of the swaying tropic trees
One of your many destinies
Like having a hot peyote tea
In the palace of Fu Manchu
Lord you got me strung out on eastern intrigue
Sell your wife and pawn your heater
Buy the new Bhagavad Gita
Do the pranayama 'til your spine gets sore
I'll tell you for free
'Cause God told me
We checked it with the Pope and so we all agree
I'm on my knees, one question please
Will the real God please sit down?
Initiation is the sixth solo album by Todd Rundgren, released in the summer of 1975.
thanks yes_justice..
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Date: 2015-11-30 02:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-01 04:26 am (UTC)LOL
wtf?
cool...
yep, that explains it, in a nutshell
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Date: 2015-11-29 12:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-11-29 06:16 am (UTC)these get funnier by the moment!!
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Date: 2015-11-29 01:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-11-29 06:15 am (UTC)now you're talkin'!
romans and christians, i mean muslems...
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Date: 2015-11-29 01:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-11-29 06:12 am (UTC)make it so, number one...
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Date: 2015-11-29 06:13 am (UTC); ))
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Date: 2015-11-30 02:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-01 04:29 am (UTC)check this out!
http://www.philosophersguild.com
; )
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Date: 2015-11-30 04:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-01 04:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-01 04:26 pm (UTC)1) WTF am I reading here?
2) Why would you choose to post..whatever this is...sans image/cartoon in a "political cartoons" group?
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Date: 2015-12-02 04:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-02 07:08 am (UTC)OMG!!
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Date: 2015-12-03 02:17 am (UTC)