This article may only be of interest to a few readers, but it nonetheless needs to be written and put on record. We have need to know what level of enlightenment Ascension corresponds to.

I asked the Divine Mother on An Hour with an Angel on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012 whether it corresponded to Sahaja Nirvikalpa Samadhi, which brings with it liberation from the wheel of birth and death, and she confirmed that it did. That’s exceptionally good news to me.

I reproduce the exchange with Mother here:

Steve Beckow: I’m trying to understand what level of enlightenment Ascension corresponds to and I think it’s beyond the normal seventh-chakra enlightenment. I think it is what is called, and I will make this clear to readers, Sahaja Samadhi. Am I correct?

Divine Mother: Yes, it is beyond what you think of with your seven chakras. … What you are doing with the chakra system, even with the thirteen, we have emerged from the Third-Dimensional realm which is that reference point for the chakra system into the new so yes, you are correct in this question and this statement. ….

SB: [Is this experience] a permanent heart opening?

DM: Yes, it is. That is correct. (1)

She went on to coach me on how to present this material. She said:

DM: Now you understand that most people, and yes, you will do a good job of explaining, have no conception of what this really means.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

SB: Well, you know that I have a website that discusses Sahaja Samadhi at length and that’s from Sri Ramana Maharshi, more or less. If I take that material and present it to readers will that be…

DM: That will help.

SB: Can you refer us to other saints that explain this well?

DM: No, we do not want people wandering hither and yon. This will be more than adequate. (2)

Please allow me to fulfill my promise to Mother to explain Sahaja Samadhi and its significance. This treatment is not intended to be exhaustive and leaves out many of the properties of the Sahaja state. It’s intended merely to be suggestive and to introduce the notion of Sahaja as the equivalent enlightenment state to Ascension.

I’ve said on numerous occasions that there are stages of enlightenment which reach from the human realm up through the angelic realms all the way back to mergence with the One.

In the human realm, the lower experiences of enlightenment correspond with the chakra system.

• When the spiritual energy or kundalini reaches the fourth or heart chakra, we experience the first member of the Trinity – God the Child or Atman – sometimes as a discrete light, the seeing of which convinces us of our immortality and bestows a modicum of wisdom on us. This experience is known to Hindus as spiritual awakening and to Buddhists as stream-entering. (3)

• When the kundalini reaches the sixth or throat chakra, we experience the second member of the Trinity – God the Mother, Holy Spirit, or Shakti – sometimes (not always) as the light in all creation. This experience is known as Savikalpa Samadhi, samadhi with the retention of form. It bestows on us greater wisdom and bliss.

• When the kundalini reaches the seventh or crown chakra, we experience the third member of the Trinity – God the Father or Brahman – often as a light transcending creation. This experience is known as Kevalya Nirvikalpa Samadhi or Brahmajnana [God Realization], samadhi without form. It brings with it a temporary heart opening after which the heart closes again.

This experience brings with it still greater wisdom and bliss. But it does not constitute liberation and it does not see the vasanas erased. We are still halfway up the mountain.

What does constitute liberation and sees the vasanas erased is Sahaja Nirvikalpa Samadhi, which occurs when the kundalini enters the spiritual heart or hridayam and causes a permanent heart opening. At this stage we are all the way up the mountain and are released from the wheel of birth and death.

First then can we adduce evidence that Mukti or liberation happens at Sahaja Nirvikalpa Samadhi rather than Kevalya Nirvikalpa Samadhi? Yes, Sri Ramana Maharshi declares it.

Sri Ramama calls “Sahaja Samadhi, the natural, effortless state” and says that it “is Self-realization, Mukti.” (4) On another occasion he tells his questioner:

“You are probably meaning Kevala Nirvikalpa [Samadhi], which is temporary, while the Samadhi lasts. The Sahaja Nirvikalpa [Samadhi] is permanent and in it lies liberation from rebirths.” (5)

In Kevalya, the heart (the hridayam or spiritual heart, rather than the heart chakra) opens temporarily but in Sahaja the heart opens permanently, according to Sri Ramana.

“[The] Heart is the seat of Jnanam [wisdom] as well as of the granthi (knot of ignorance). It is represented in the physical body by a hole smaller than the smallest pin-point, which is always shut. When the mind drops down in Kevalya Nirvikalpa [Samadhi], it opens but shuts again after it. When Sahaja [Nirvikalpa Samadhi] is attained it opens for good.” (6)

“[The hole called the Heart as a small as a pinpoint] is always shut, being the knot of ignorance which ties the body to consciousness. When the mind drops in the temporary Kevala Nirvikalpa it opens but shuts again. In Sahaja it remains always open.” (7)

Moreover, one does not free oneself from the vasanas or latent tendencies in Kevalya; only in Sahaja. “Only one who is free from all the latent tendencies (vasanas) is a Sage,” Sri Ramana tells us. (8) He continues:

“In kevala Nirvikalpa Samadhi one is not free from vasanas and does not, therefore, attain Mukti.

“Only after the samskaras have been destroyed can one attain salvation. … Even though one practices kevala Nirvikalpa Samadhi for years together, if one has not rooted out the vasanas, he will not attain salvation.” (9)

Some vasanas remain even after Sahaja and Mukti, but these are vasanas of enjoyment rather than of bondage. The sage having attained Sahaja enjoys these without attachment and so is not bound by them, Sri Ramana says.

“Vasanas which do not obstruct Self-Realization remain [after Self-Realization]. In Yoga Vasistha two classes of vasanas are distinguished: those of enjoyment and those of bondage. The former remain even after Mukti is attained, but the latter are destroyed by it. Attachment is the cause of binding vasanas, but enjoyment without attachment does not bind and continues even in Sahaja.” (10)

The general problem we spiritual seekers face is that “all the age long vasanas (impressions) carry the mind outwards and turn it to external objects,” Sri Ramana says. (11) But “he alone is ‘liberated while alive’ (jivan mukta) whose wisdom is firm.” (12) “The state in which awareness is firm and one-pointed, even when objects are sensed,” the Maharshi informs us, “is called Sahaja sthiti” or Sahaja Samadhi. (13)

Kevalya can be compared to a glimpse of the Self, whereas Sahaja is a permanent and natural state of Self-Realization, the Maharshi tells us.

“By repeated practice one can become accustomed to turning inwards and finding the Self. One must always and constantly make an effort, until one has permanently realized. Once the effort ceases, the state becomes natural and the Supreme takes possession of the person with an unbroken current. Until it has become permanently natural and your habitual state, know that you have not realized the Self, only glimpsed it.” (14)

When the Self is glimpsed in Kevalya, it “is a prelude to [Self-Realization]: when it becomes permanent (Sahaja), it is Self-Realization, Liberation.” (15)

It is the state of enlightenment – Sahaja Nirvikalpa Samadhi – that the Divine Mother says we attain upon Ascension. We shall therefore have reached the exalted state of sages like Sri Ramana Maharshi, which is a state that few people alive or dead on the Earth have attained over the centuries – and here it is offered to us at the end of the cycle more freely than it ever has been. I am definitely very much encouraged by this revelation from the Divine Mother.

Finally can we find any precedent upon which to ground the Mother’s statement that Ascension “is beyond what you think of with your seven chakras. … What you are doing with the chakra system, even with the thirteen, we have emerged from the Third-Dimensional realm which is that reference point for the chakra system into the new”?

Yes, we can. Da Free John, later known as Adi Da, had an experience of the chakra system falling away, showing him that Reality transcended the chakra system. Let’s look at that experience and what it showed him:

“For several nights I was awakened again and again with sharp lateral pains in my head. They felt like deep incisions in my skull and brain, as if I were undergoing an operation. During the day following the last of these experiences I realized a marvellous relief. I saw that what appeared as the sahasrar, the terminal chakra and primary lotus in the head, had been severed. The sahasrar had fallen off like a blossom.

“The Shakti, [energy, kundalini] which previously had appeared as a polarized energy that moved up and down through the various chakras or centers producing various effects, now was released through the chakra form. There was no more polarized force. Indeed, there was no form whatsoever, no up or down, no chakras. The chakra system had been revealed as unnecessary, an arbitrary rule or setting for the play of energy. The form beneath all of the bodies, gross or subtle, had revealed itself to be as unnecessary and conditional as the bodies themselves.

“Previously, all the universes seemed built and dependent upon that prior structure of ascending and descending energy, so that values were determined by the level of chakra on which consciousness functioned, and planetary bodies as well as space itself were fixed in a spherical or curved form. But now I saw that reality or real consciousness was not in the least determined by any kind of form apart from itself.

“Consciousness had shown its radical freedom and priority in terms of the chakra form. It had shown itself to be senior to that whole structure, dissociated from every kind of separate energy or Shakti. There was simply consciousness itself, prior to all forms, all dilemmas, every kind of seeking and necessity.” (16)

Up till now I had never been able to fit Da Free John’s experience into a context, but the Divine Mother has now provided that context: Third Dimensionality. The chakra system is associated with the Third Dimension.

Thus the Divine Mother has shown us that the state of enlightenment we’ll achieve upon Ascension is Sahaja Nirvakalpa Samadhi and that it will bring with it freedom from the wheel of birth and death. Put another way, entry into the Fifth Dimension, also known as the Mental Plane, while physically embodied, carries with it freedom from the reincarnational cycle.

We’ve been told that it does, that when we wish to change our bodies in the Fifth Dimension we can do that at will without needing to pass through death and birth, but now we have a much fuller picture of the context for that assertion.

Footnotes

(1) An Hour with an Angel with the Divine Mother, Oct. 15, 2012, athttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/inlight_radio/2012/10/16/an-hour-with-an-angel

(2) Loc. cit.

(3) Descriptions of the levels of enlightenment are taken fromhttp://www.angelfire.com/space2/light11/fdl/e1.html

(4) Ramana Maharshi in S.S. Cohen, Guru Ramana. Memories and Notes. 6th edition. Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanasramam, 1993 82-3. [Hereafter GR.]

(5) Ibid., 88.

(6) Ibid., 96.

(7) Ibid., 81.

(8) Sri Ramana Maharshi, Spiritual Instruction of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. Eighth Edition. Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanasramam, 1974, Chapter 2, Question 26.

(9) Sri Ramana Maharshi in Ramananda Swarnagiri, Crumbs from His Table.http://www.ramana-maharshi.org . Downloaded 10 September 2005, n.p.

(10) Ramana Maharshi, GR, 89.

(11) Sri Ramana Maharshi, Gems from Bhagavan. Comp. A. Devaraja Mudaliar. Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanasramam, 1985, chapter 8.

(12) Sri Ramana Maharshi, Jewel Garland of Enquiry (Vichara Mani Malai). Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanasramam, 1996; c1977, 20.

(13) Ramana Maharshi in Vasistha Ganapathi, ed., Sri Ramana Gita. Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanashramam, 1977, 27.

(14) Ramana Maharshi in Paul Brunton and Munagala Venkataramaiah. Conscious Immortality. Conversations with Sri Ramana Maharshi. Rev. ed. 1996, n.p.

(15) Ramana Maharshi, GR, 83.

(16) Da Free John, The Knee of Listening. Original Edition. Clearlake, CA; Dawn Horse Press, 1984; c1973, Original Edition, 116-9

The Adam Kadmon template

Reposted from Jan;. 26, 2012

I understand so little of life and there is so much to learn. But then I have eternity in which to learn and no one is rushing me.

For instance, I think that most of us little suspect that we’re part machine and part God. We’re a creation, or a creature if you prefer, designed by the Master Builder according to a plan, with a purpose in mind.

The Master Builder Himself (Herself, Itself – God has no gender) then stepped inside the machine He (She, It) built and plays all the parts. He does so for the purpose of having God meet God in a moment of enlightenment. (More on that later.)

The plan for human beings in the cosmos is called the Adam/Eve Kadmon template. (1) Leonardo best exemplified it in his man in a circle. People reach the human form, as David Wilcock noted, by many routes:

“The human body shows up in the galaxy on every planet where life can form. It’s a natural evolution. Some might get there by an insect; some might get there by a lizard; some might get there by mammals like we do; some might get there by cetaceans; some might get there even by vegetation, apparently.” (2)

When the P-52 [Present plus 52,000 years] extraterrestrial being named Chi’e’lah was kept in Area 51, Dan Burisch was summoned because he was a biologist and Chi’e’lah’s constitution was plant-based and yet Chi’e’lah was still a human. (3)

Depiction of Reptilian human

Apparently, the plan is that life forms leave God as unconsciously-aware bits of light and enter one material encasement after another, growing in consciousness, until finally reaching a mature stage of knowing their true identity as nothing else but God, a stage of conscious awareness, after which they return to Him.

The purpose is so that the Creator can enjoy meeting itself, which He does in a moment of self-realization or enlightenment. God meets God. (4) The Formless has no way of knowing itself except by this process of creating forms and inhabiting them, of creating finger-puppets as it were, which then realize Him and voila! The game of life is fulfilled. The purpose of life is accomplished. The round of life is traversed.

Previously I might have said that this was my deduction after studying the literature of the sages during a period of time after I saw this entire life cycle of an individual in a vision in 1987. (5)

But more recently I’ve asked Archangel Michael to verify that my interpretation is accurate, which he has on, I believe, a number of occasions. Providing you believe I’m talking to Archangel Michael of course, and many don’t, which is fine. Since I do, I also believe I have confirmation of the accuracy of this interpretation.

Grey or Zeta Reticulan human

Of course it’s only provisionally accurate. More enlightenment, finer distinctions. But this is my working model for now.

If you buy any of it, then certain corollaries emerge. One is that the Master Builder wrote certain design elements into the script. (6) There isn’t choice around these matters. They’re design features of all classes of life within certain categories and dimensions. They come with the suit of clothes, so to speak. We don’t get to vote on them.

They include such features of life as reincarnation, gender, procreation, hunger, thirst, fatigue (depending on dimension), senses, motor skills, etc. But I don’t want to talk about those particular design elements here. I want to talk about another – the element that guarantees that we’ll be spiritually hungry, forever.

What else do we do forever? Anything we do that I can think of tires, pales or fails to satisfy after a while. I used to be addicted to coffee milkshakes when I was a kid. But one day I drank my last coffee milkshake and that was it on that. I had this car, that friend, this favorite holiday spot, but one day all of these stopped appealing to me. Life is so designed that everything material in life eventually fails to satisfy.

Except one thing.

God.

The longing for God remains after all else falls away

And that alone is not material. Yes, we think of things in higher dimensions as spiritual but actually everything within the phenomenal realm of the Divine Mother, Shakti, Aum/Amen, the Holy Spirit is in fact material. Only the formless, transcendent God is not.

You could say that we are seeking ourselves. You could say that the God that we are cannot abide being separated from the God that we were. You could talk about it in a hundred ways but the fact of the matter is, from my point of view anyways, that God built into us a subsensible, tidal thirst that can only be satisfied by God Himself.

The sages have called this “the longing for Liberation,” “the impulse to be free,” and “the urge to evolve.” Here are statements of it:

Shankara: “[The] longing for liberation is the will to be free from the fetters forged by ignorance — beginning with the ego-sense and so on, down to the physical body itself — through the realization of one’s true nature.” (7)

Pseudo-Dionysius: “All things long for God. … It is a strong and sure desire for the clear and impassible contemplation of the transcendent. It is a hunger for an unending, conceptual, and true communion with the spotless and sublime light, of clear and splendid beauty. Intemperance then will be an unfailing and unturning power, seen in the pure and unchanging yearning for divine beauty and in the total commitment to the real object of all desire.” (8)

Adyashanti: “The impulse to be free is an evolutionary spark within consciousness which originates beyond the ego. It is an impulse toward the divine, unity, and wholeness. It is an impulse originating from the Truth itself.” (9)

SaLuSa: “The urge to evolve drives you ever onwards and with it comes the greater understanding of your relationship to God.” (10)

Saul: “Buried deep within each human is a knowing that that is the destination toward which they are traveling. For ages, it has appeared to be a state of being that is to all intents unattainable. And yet a desire, a deep longing to return there remains, providing the unquenchable hope that drives the search to find that heavenly state.” (11)

The fact that we long for liberation through lifetime after lifetime and that that longing survives all other longings is why I’ve said on occasion that the game of life (an eternal game of hide and seek) is rigged (12) and that it all works out in the final reel. (13) God rigged the game by making our thirst for him insatiable.

Yes, we fill that gaping, aching void with yachts and trips and food, but none of that ever stops the longing for God for very long. Then back it comes. The game is rigged. We are driven like leaves in the wind in a Godward direction. There is no escaping.

It all works out in the final reel because the longing draws us on, pushes us forward, prods us, annoys us, attracts us Godward and only the meeting of God and God and their mergence in the final reel satisfies and ends the longing.

So why are we spiritually hungry? And why does that spiritual hunger never leave us? Why does it drive us forward, madden us, make all experiences pale and push us onward like a thirsty man in the desert? Because God planned it that way.

Because He or She built into us that design feature called “the longing for liberation,” a beacon, a magnet, a perennial itch we cannot scratch that will not leave us alone until the prodigal child, his material patrimony wasted, gives up and returns home to Father/Mother God.

So give up. You cannot win against the House in this game. The outcome is pre-arranged, decided. If that outcome did not promise us everything we seek and everything we ever wished for, I’d have sympathy for our complaints. But once we see that everything good lies at the end of the journey instigated by that built-in longing, we stop complaining and get with the plan. As Krishnamurti said:

Jacob dreamed and saw the ladder of evolving consciousness

“The really important thing is … the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution. When once a man has seen that and really knows it, he cannot help working for it and making himself one with it, because it is so glorious, so beautiful, so, because he knows, he is on God’s side, standing for good and resisting evil, working for evolution and not for selfishness.” (14)

I know. I’ve seen that plan and look at me. I can’t stop working for it. Years and years have passed since I saw the vision of a soul journeying from God to God and still I write about it. I never tire of it. You have to ask yourself why? Because it fans my longing and I know the proper object of that longing so I allow God to seek God.

I would sacrifice all to bring myself to the point it’s guiding me towards. I kick against the thorns no longer. I get that knowing God is the purpose of life, that God has me locked in His tractor beam and that I’m being drawn back to Him willy nilly or by the direct route – it’s up to me.

And equally, it’s up to you. A long time or a good time. Cosmic years of rebelliousness and suffering or cosmic days of surrender and bliss. What’s happening for us this year is just an instalment. What awaits us, even after this shift, would dazzle the mind capable of conceiving it.

Footnotes

(1) “We Gaians,” at http://goldenageofgaia.com/world-disclosure-day/exoanthropology/we-gaians-2/

(2) Project Camelot Interviews David Wilcock, Part 2 of 4, athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bz9YPriDLo&feature=channel

(3) “Dan Burisch on Dark Forces and ETs,” athttp://www.angelfire.com/space2/light11/fc/corrob1.html#burisch1

(4) I owe this felicitous phrase to my wife, D’Arcy.

(5) “The Purpose of Life – Chapter 13, Epilogue,” at http://goldenageofgaia.com/16244-2/the-purpose-of-life-is-enlightenment/ch-13-epilogue/

(6) “The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment – Ch 2/12 – Is There a Plan to Life?” athttp://goldenageofgaia.com/2011/08/the-purpose-of-life-is-enlightenment-ch-212-is-there-a-plan-to-life/

(7) Shankara in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher lsherwood, Shankara’s Crest-Jewel of Discrimination. Hollywood: Vedanta Press, 1975; c1947, 36

(8) Pseudo-Dionysius in Luibheid, Cohn, trans., Pseudo-Dionysus, His Complete Works. New York and Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1989, 54 and 151.

(9) Adyashanti, The Impact of Awkenening. Los Gatos: Open Gate Publishing, 2000, 3.

(10) SaLuSa, June 22, at 2009.http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/Channeled_Messages_by_Mike_Quinsey.htm

(11) Saul, June 17, 2009, at http://johnsmallman.wordpress.com

(12) “The Game is Rigged,” May 8, 2009, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/spiritual-essays/800-2/

(13) “The Purpose of Life – Chapter 13, Epilogue,” ibid.

(14) J. Krishnamurti, At the Feet of the Master. Adyar: Theosophical Publishing House, 1974; c1910, 17.

Jean this seems appropriate… and needed by myself and many others. So I offer it here that you might wish to post it in another venue. It is off topic… and thus I hesitate to place it in a topic discussion.

Your gift of yourself and your light… is truly humbling.

Sincerely, Edwin
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While Edwin says that this is off topic, I think this is absolutely the single most important topic we should be discussing here. For years, I have asked every minister I have come across to preach a sermon on loving ourselves, and it has never happened. Yet, it is part of what to me is the most profound of all the teachings of Jesus: Love your neighbor as yourself. I have asked them what it means to love myself – because then I can truly love my neighbor, and they do not seem to know! At any rate, they never speak to it, and they most certainly never preach on it. Yet, we are taught that unless and until we can love ourselves, we cannot truly love another. Unless we understand the effort it takes to love ourselves, we will never understand the effort it takes for another to do the same for him/herself, and we very likely will not respect it.

For example, when two people truly love one another, and one of them shares, filled with pain, that our paths must now go separate ways, we will not understand the great effort it likely takes for them to say those words in order to follow their own life’s calling. We will not be able to let them go freely with our blessing. We will not be willing to experience the pain of such loss.

Learning to love myself, to see myself as having value, to take care of myself even when my actions to do so may offend others about whom I care has been one of the most difficult parts of the path I have chosen to walk. I was forced at my late age to move from a community of people, a community I still deeply love, because its inability to love itself was destroying me. I watched as it labored without Joy to do what they had been taught: serve others in all manner of good, fine ways. (I’m sure were they to read this, they would not see themselves as I do.)

Sadly, I observed they thought they had the answers and were treating others kindly and trying to provide services people desperately needed, but for myself I knew they were missing something, a deep connection to God, which would not have permitted them to see themselves as separate and different from those they try valiantly to serve. They did not see what was missing for them on their own personal journey, and they were so locked into their teachings they weren’t about to listen to a revolutionary like me. It broke my heart, but I could do nothing. They made a collective choice, and they chose their path.

Thank God I came to the realization that sooner or later we are all going to make the return journey to God, and so I could walk away freely. It was all I had to cling to as I left them— and even members of my personal family behind. In order to survive and live in Joy, I had to leave and start all over again. They did not understand then, and I do not expect them to understand now.

To my mind, learning to love ourselves is what this great journey we are on is all about. When we come to the place where we have learned the tough lessons associated with loving ourselves, then and only then do I believe we can truly love others – just as Jesus and many of the other great Masters taught us.

Even though over the years I asked, I could not find one single preacher who could talk from personal experience about what that means. Not one! I’m not a preacher, but if you were to ask me about the tough experiences I have been through as I have learned this lesson, I could probably talk for hours. If I just spoke about the situations and people I walked away from about which and whom I really cared, filled with loneliness and a great desire to belong, because I saw that in the end they would shut me down, shut me up, and shut me out, how I retired within myself more and more deeply, finding solace on the internet with minds and people like me, I could speak almost endlessly.

Learning to love ourselves is to my mind the single most important aspect of Jesus’ teachings, and our churches are of absolutely no help in teaching these lessons! They seem to see that God is outside of us, something/someone we pray to, and they demonstrate almost no understanding that God is an energy that when we connect with it inwardly and learn to listen guides our steps every single day, bringing us to a place of great Joy!

In closing, I’m reminded of the joke in which Columbus (or some other similar figure) holds up the Bible to the ignorant savages, the Native Americans, as we now call them, and tells them pontifically, “This is the word of God!’, to which which the good Chief responds, “What! You mean you can’t talk to your God?”

We need desperately to understand, like the indigenous people do, how to talk to God in a personal way, because God is always speaking to each one of us. We just haven’t yet gotten our ears unplugged!

Hugs,
~Jean

One of the most profound sutras of Gautama the Buddha: “Love yourself ”

Love Yourself

We begin with one of the most profound sutras of Gautama the Buddha: “Love yourself ”

Just the opposite has been taught to you by all the traditions of the world,
all the civilizations, all the cultures, all the churches.

They say: “Love others, don’t love yourself.”
And there is a certain cunning strategy behind their teaching.

“Love is the nourishment for the soul. Just as food is to the body, so love is to the soul.

Without food the body is weak, without love the soul is weak.

And no state, no church, no vested interest, has ever wanted people to have strong souls,
because a person with spiritual energy is bound to be rebellious.

“Love makes you rebellious, revolutionary. Love gives you wings to soar high.
Love gives you insight into things, so that nobody can deceive you, exploit you, oppress you.

And the priests and the politicians survive only on your blood – they survive only on exploitation.

The priests and the politicians are mostly parasites.

“To make you spiritually weak they have found a sure method, one hundred percent guaranteed, and that is to teach you not to love yourself.

If a man cannot love himself he cannot love anybody else either.

The teaching is very tricky.

They say “Love others,” because they know if you cannot love yourself you cannot love at all.

But they go on saying, “Love others, love humanity, love God, love nature,
love your wife, your husband, your children, your parents,
but don’t love yourself” – because to love oneself is selfish according to them.

They condemn self-love as they condemn nothing else –
and they have made their teaching look very logical.

They say: “If you love yourself you will become an egoist,
if you love yourself you will become narcissistic.”

It is not true. A man who loves himself finds that there is no ego in him.

It is by loving others without loving yourself, trying to love others, that the ego arises.

“The missionaries, the social reformers, the social servants, have the greatest egos in the world – naturally, because they think themselves to be superior human beings.

They are not ordinary: ordinary people love themselves;
they love others, they love great ideals, they love God.

And all their love is false, because all their love is without any roots.

A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.”

Christianity and Hinduism are One