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What is not here is nowhere at all. This world is subject to manifold uncertainties. Making the human body secure is difficult or impossible. If it is not fed regularly, it starves. If it is not protected from the elements, it becomes ill or dies. It is subject to accidents: it can easily be crushed, broken, burned. There appears to be little or no possibility of living much beyond the century mark. Financial security is a chimera, shaky in the best of times. At any moment, the meaning and structure of our lives can be shaken to the core by death or illness of a loved one. This life is fundamentally uncertain. Even the most expensive defensive armaments can be surmounted, subverted, destroyed. Given these obvious facts, what choice is there other than impotent frustration or despair? We shake our fist in rage at the cruel, judgmental God who created this horribly painful world. Joy is fleeting at best -- a stolen kiss, then the darkness and isolation of permanent loneliness or the dullness of blind, mindless fog. How many of us have chosen to eclipse our subtle perceptions to avoid seeing the ugly reality of Earth? How many of us dull our outraged senses with movies, television, videos, work, drugs, alcohol, or a countless series of other anodynes to still our pained and outraged sensibilities? How many of us have ever dared question why? And for the rare seeker of Ultimate Knowledge, has not the result more often than not been the discovery that life is essentially meaningless? Is it a pointless drama created by a mad God? Or is it perhaps a random result of biochemical processes, inevitable somewhere, sometime in a nearly Infinite Universe? How often does the seeker despair of independent discovery and adopt belief systems of others, be they religious, philosophical or scientific? Where is one who has succeeded in knowing the True Self, the Inner Controller, the Divine Mind? Our senses lie to us. Our thought systems structured by sensory experience, logic or belief are necessarily flawed if we take as premise anything we perceive as ultimately real. Life is not the result of a consensus of opinion. It is not dependent on our sensory experience, our rational thought or on our beliefs. Our senses lie to us. Every day we see the Sun rising in the East, setting in the West. This was incontrovertible fact for countless millennia to the vast majority of humanity. The Sun circled the flat Earth. Everybody knew that. But the perception was false; the logical and scientific systems based on the observations were flawed; the religious and philosophical systems based on this common daily experience were in error. Our senses lie to us. For centuries, the indivisible nature of matter was accepted as gospel. But what rational mind today doubts that matter is only congealed energy? Most of that which we consider solid is 99.9999% empty space! Take an atom and expand it to the size of the Louisiana Super Dome and where is the matter? A tiny beebee sized lump in the center is the nucleus, containing the protons and neutrons; a few infinitesimal ghosts flitter around the outer bleachers, these are the electrons; all the rest is empty space. Where is the solid matter? Our senses lie to us. What we have come to believe, based on our experiences, may not necessarily be true. Our knowledge of the world is changing at an ever-accelerating rate. That which was certain fact yesterday is today questioned and may be refuted tomorrow. The sum total of human knowledge is doubling every two years. Who is abreast of its discoveries? Who, indeed even can be abreast of its discoveries? It is common today to view our scientific achievements with pride; some of us therefore feel contempt for the woefully ignorant philosophical and religious systems of previous generations. This is human nature. But it is just another level of ignorance. For one brief moment, imagine that everything you now believe about the human condition and the world around you is wrong. Imagine every conclusion you have ever made is false, that you have been and are dreaming. Imagine no one you know has ever died, that it was all a magical drama created just for you. Imagine no one has even ever been ill, that no one has suffered in any way. Imagine the memories you have of your own pain are false, that you have never and never can suffer in any way, that you have simply been asleep and dreaming strange fantasies. A peculiar thought? Astounding in the extreme? You strongly maintain you know many who have suffered intensely and died? You yourself may have certain chronic ailments or several self-destructive habits; you yourself have experienced losses, disappointments, injuries -- these are the irrefutable facts of your life. So how can I ask you even to imagine such a flawless world? A world without pain, suffering, loss of any kind? Perhaps such a place was possible in the far distant past or will be in some obscure future, but it is certainly not here and now. Or perhaps in a distant star system, a highly fortunate race has developed such a state of perfection, through intense scientific or spiritual development. Perhaps technology may one day eliminate all human suffering. Or maybe it will never happen on the Earth, maybe such a state will forever be reserved for the blessed ones in Heaven who, after death, have been judged worthy of Eternal Life. Perhaps then the Omnipotent Healing Strength of the Divine Hands will lovingly brush away all our tears and we will be reborn in the perfection and dazzling radiance of our own released Ascendant beauty. But surely not here. Surely not now. It is impossible, illogical, and refuted by every scrap of evidence that our belief systems and memories and perceptions provide.
www.awakeningpath.com The life of every person is sacred. The revelation of that sacredness is often revealed by a person's contribution to humanity. In many cases, that contribution is only revealed after death. Maharishi Sadashiva Isham (MSI) was such an individual. MSI's life was punctuated by the desire to know. His search was not for knowledge but for Truth. Truth was most important to him and he shared that Truth in total commitment to healing the world. The message of his life -- that perfection on Earth is not only possible but imminent -- is gathering momentum and manifesting in the rapid growth of consciousness seen in all who practice the simple techniques of the Ishayas.
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