DOER DOER.TXT ********************************************************************** THE FOLLOWING ARE TWO STATEMENTS THAT ARE SHARED BY MASTERS [ENLIGHTENED BEINGS] WITH THEIR FOLLOWERS: 1. THERE IS NO SEPARATENESS. 2. YOU ARE NOT THE DOER. ********************************************************************** THIS "TEXT" IS A "ATTEMPT/MODEL" TO EXPLAIN THESE TWO STATEMENTS ********************************************************************** THE INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS IS WITHOUT BEGINNING AND WITHOUT END. THE INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS CREATED/CREATES THE UNIVERSE, THE UNIVERSE'S "CONTENTS", AND AN INFINITE NUMBER, AN INFINITE VARIETY OF ENERGIES, OBJECTS, EVENTS, BEINGS, THOUGHTS, EXPERIENCES, CONSTANTLY, CONTINUOUSLY, ENDLESSLY. INDIVIDUAL "SOULS" ARE CREATED BY THE INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS, OUT OF ITS OWN CONSCIOUSNESS, JUST LIKE THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL CREATES, OUT OF ITS OWN CONSCIOUSNESS, ALL THE BEINGS IN IT'S DREAM UNIVERSE, WHILE IT SLEEPS AND DREAMS. (AS IT IS ABOVE, SO IT IS BELOW) THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL IS A PART OF THE INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS, IS THE INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS, JUST AS THE BEINGS IN THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL'S DREAM UNIVERSE ARE PARTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL'S CONSCIOUSNESS, ARE THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL'S CONSCIOUSNESS. THE HIDDEN TRUTH IS: THERE IS NO SEPARATENESS, THERE ARE NO "INDIVIDUAL SOULS". THERE IS ONLY THE INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS, AND THE "PARTS" OF IT THAT "APPEAR" TO BE INDIVIDUAL SOULS. THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL HAS NO THOUGHTS, CREATES NO THOUGHTS. ALL THOUGHTS ARE CREATED BY THE INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS. THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL CREATES NO EVENTS, ALL EVENTS ARE CREATED BY THE INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS. BUT THESE "TRUTHS" ARE "VEILED" FROM THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL, SO THE SOUL IS NOT AWARE OF IT'S TRUE NATURE, JUST LIKE WHEN THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL IS DREAMING, AND THE CREATED INDIVIDUALS IN THE SOUL'S DREAM UNIVERSE ARE NOT AWARE THAT THEY ARE PARTS OF THE SOUL'S CONSCIOUSNESS, ARE THE SOUL'S CONSCIOUSNESS, NOR AWARE THAT ALL EVENTS IN THE SOUL'S DREAM UNIVERSE, ARE CREATED BY THE SOUL AS IT SLEEPS AND DREAMS. THE SOUL CAN BE LIKENED TO A RADIO RECEIVER, THAT IS "TUNABLE". THE THOUGHTS THE SOUL RECEIVES/EXPERIENCES, THAT ARISE IN THE SOUL, THE EVENTS THE SOUL IS DRAWN INTO/EXPERIENCES, AND THE REACTIONS TO THESE EVENTS, "TUNE" THE SOUL, SO THAT IT RECEIVES CERTAIN OTHER THOUGHTS, SO THAT IT IS DRAWN INTO CERTAIN OTHER EVENTS, ACCORDING TO ITS "TUNING/PROGRAMING, AS IT LIVES OUT IT'S LIFE IN A HUMAN BODY. THESE "TRUTHS",THESE ARE WHY THE MASTERS TEACH THAT LIFE, AS WE EXPERIENCE IT "HERE" IN THE PHYSICAL BODY, IS ILLUSION. THE ILLUSION IS THAT THERE IS SEPARATENESS, THAT HUMANS CREATE THEIR THOUGHTS, AND THE EVENTS THEY EXPERIENCE. THEY DO NOT. BUT THESE "TRUTHS" ARE CONTRARY TO WHAT A SOUL APPEARS TO EXPERIENCE, WHILE LIVING IN A HUMAN BODY. THESE CONCEPTS, ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE TO MOST HUMANS. THEY ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE, TO THEIR MINDS, TO THEIR BELIEFS, TO THEIR PRIDES, SO THEY CONTINUE TO LIVE IN IGNORANCE, BELIEVING THAT: THEY ARE SEPARATE INDIVIDUALS, THEY CREATE THOUGHTS, THEY CREATE EVENTS, THEY ARE THE DOERS, THEY ARE NOT PART OF THE INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS. BECAUSE OF THIS, BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT AWARE OF THEIR TRUE NATURE, THEY EXPERIENCE MUCH SUFFERING IN THEIR LIVES. THESE CONCEPTS, REMAIN UNACCEPTABLE UNTIL THEY ARE EXPERIENCED DIRECTLY. WHEN THEY ARE EXPERIENCED DIRECTLY, THESE CONCEPTS ARE NOT "KNOWLEDGE", NOT SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN READ, NOT SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN HEARD, THEY ARE "REAL KNOWING". WHEN THE SOUL LEAVES THE BODY, WHEN THE BODY DIES, THE SOUL TAKES ITS "PROGRAMING/MEMORY", ITS "TUNEDNESS" WITH IT. SO IN THE SOUL'S NEXT LIFE, MOST OF THE THOUGHTS THAT WILL BE RECEIVED, MOST OF THE EVENTS THAT WILL BE EXPERIENCED, IN THE NEXT LIFE ARE DUE TO ITS "PRESETS/PROGRAMING". THIS IS WHAT THE MASTERS NAME AS KARMA. THIS SITUATION IS NOT PERMANENT, IT CAN BE CHANGED! THE PROGRAMING/TUNING OF THE SOUL CAN BE ALTERED, ONCE THE SOUL UNDERSTANDS "HOW THINGS ARE", MAKES A CONSCIOUS DECISION TO EXPERIENCE IT'S TRUE NATURE, AND CONSISTENTLY PRACTICES "ACTIONS" WHICH MANIFEST THE ABILITY TO CHOSE THE THOUGHTS IT RECEIVES, AND THE EVENTS IT TAKES PART IN. THIS IS WHAT THE MASTERS NAME "FREE WILL". IT IS SAID, THAT WHEN BUDDHA AWOKE, FULLY ENLIGHTENED, UNDER THE BODI TREE, THE FIRST THING HE DID WAS LAUGH, THEN HE SAID TO HIMSELF, "THIS CAN NOT BE TAUGHT, NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO BELIEVE THIS". SO BUDDHA DEVELOPED METHODS AND TECHNIQUES TO SHARE WITH OTHERS, THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM TO EXPERIENCE DIRECTLY, THAT WHICH, THEY WOULD NOT BELIEVE UNTIL THEY EXPERIENCED IT. HE CALLED THESE METHODS AND TECHNIQUES "YOGA", A SANSCRIT WORD THAT MEANS "UNION" IN ENGLISH. YOGA IS AVAILABLE TO ALL WHO DECIDE THAT THEY, WANT TO EXPERIENCE THEIR TRUE NATURE, WANT TO BE ABLE TO LOVE MORE "UN-CONDITIONALLY", WANT TO BE "AT PEACE" AND "HAPPY" ALL THE TIME, AND WANT TO BECOME ALL THAT THEY CAN BECOME. EVERYTHING A SOUL WANTS TO KNOW, NEEDS TO FIND, IS INSIDE OF THE SOUL WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED. (BUDDHA SAID, "IF YOU SEEK TRUTH, MEDITATE, GO INSIDE YOURSELF".) (CHRIST SAID, "THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU".) TEXT BY: ganashyam das