Guest guest Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 The Illusion of 'enlightenment' The word “enlightenment” is used very loosely today to apply to a lot of different spiritual practices and mental states. Most of these 'ideas' are illusions based on sensory perceptions and deceptions !! In today’s societies it is fashionable to be in pursuit of enlightenment, but only with half-hearted devotion. People say, "I’d like to be enlightened, and I am on a path of enlightenment, but I'd love that new sports car, and that chateau in the mountains, and more sex and love, and more travel, and I want a lot of other things too numerous to list here." This creates a conflict and confusion on how to integrate the two, or even what enlightenment is. De facto ... our energies are actually "clothed" in the vestige of this flesh and bones. This garment is our personality which is composed of physical, emotional, mental, and etheric bodies. What happens in the process of life experiences is that our soul becomes caught in the personality, which, in turn, gets caught in the pain and other illusions that are characteristic of the physical dimension. The experiences in this plane which were supposed to be of love, beauty, and fulfillment have become distorted into deep experiences of limitations and the deepest limitations are : pain, suffering and disease. Every time someone throws their emotions at you .... it is a test ... for you to see if you can maintain the love within you ... that is the core essence of your being, in spite of what the other person’s emotional upset. If your lover or boss comes in screaming at you, can you hold the love? God does! BABA holds us in love in our darkest moments, and if we want to match the love quality of God, we must do the same for others. If you get hooked by the other person’s emotions, you loose your center and your love, and become entangled with like emotions. This further encases you in the illusions of the lower emotions. Ask yourself why you fell into this trap? Why did you forget? Why did you loose yourself? Go inside yourself and purify that place so you don’t forget the next time it happens. Then you will find that All is ONE ...WE R ONE ....and all are already enlightened. But hv just forgotten their true essence. There is no need to search. There ain't gonna nay need to seek ! And then u will find ...that there ain't actually no grief, no pain whatsoever... All are bathed in Swami's fragrant ,compassionate,PURE LOVE ---Allways --in all ways ( sometime imperceptible, but nevertheless palpable!) Ram RAM RAM Thank you & God bless. Om Sri Sai Ram Sarvathah paanipaadam Tat sarvatokshi siromukham Sarvathah sruthimalloke Sarvamavritya thishthathi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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