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Opening the heart and perfecting its goodness have always been associated with belief. The way of the heart is the way to the core.
And faith and belief have existed since consciousness exists.
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In Hinduism, an Indian religion dating back to the 15th century BC (and thus the oldest preserved), the Sun has been worshiped. In some parts of India even today there are groups to which religion is the Sun.
In Sanskrit, the Sun is called Ha or Surya, the Moon is Chandra (Hatha Yoga is among other things the union of light and darkness) and in India there is still today a belief in the power of the Sun and the Moon.
The Sun is the source of light, the source of oxygen and the source of every life. Not only in Indian mythology and beliefs but in all forms of beliefs and all religions on earth, light exists as something higher, more sublime and something to be valued and to be believed. Throughout history, light has been called god, higher consciousness, higher transformation. All the transformation of the human spirit is nothing but the transformation of human heart.
In Indian mythology, there is the demon Rahu who is represented as the head (the body is known as Ketu) which devours both the Sun and the Moon (the Moon is night light, the reflection of the Sun, without darkness there would be no light). In India there are still rituals today that are used in order to purify and protect both humans and plants, animals and the Earth from the negative energy of that demon.
Just as in India the absence of Sun (light) as the creator of all life destroys the existence of animals, humans and plants (without which neither man would be able to survive, which is not true of animals – man does not have to eat animals in order to survive. This is directly related to the human heart), the same absence of light brings discomfort to human souls wherever these souls on our beautiful planet live.
Rituals of the Sun worship or rituals against solar eclipse are held in the Ganges in India (indeed one of the most polluted rivers on the planet) still today.
What is, however, the Ganges in the West and for Western civilization?
Where and how does the Western world hold its rituals to welcome the light that is prayed and worshiped?
How and by what means does a Western man maintain his own life or destroy another’s life in the name of that holy serene light?
What does the Western man fear and to whom does he obey?
At this moment as I write this text and you, dear reader, are reading the same, as you and I sit comfortably in our warm corners, thousands of human lives disappear in the name of the light that life means. In the name of this or that god. So, it seems nothing has changed since we were so called primitive civilizations.
Some kill others because they believe that one creator created the same light and the same people, others are slaughtered because they think the opposite. That divisiveness and that war don’t have to happen physically. It is enough to take place in the mind and man has already returned to the level of his ancestor.
To it, there would be no mind without light. There are minds on the planet racking their own and other’s heads because they can’t agree on who created the light.
Doesn’t it matter that we’re here, alive just because of the light?
Everybody sees the sun, the sun doesn’t punish anyone, we wouldn’t be here without sun. Humans do not kill each other for the sun but for stories about different names of the same light that they did not accept with their heart but with their tiny, limited mind.
Unlike the first religions and beliefs that linked the Sun, the Moon and the planets to the human mind and superhuman powers, the religions that emerged thousands of years after these so-called primitive, include human morality. That is to say, today’s religions.
They are.
And so often that one thinks that another life does not exist.
We are all “victims” of the so-called religious persons. I say victims, because when someone acts inhumanly on us, they usually consider us their prey.
Humans, like animals, are innate to belong somewhere, to be members of one group or community.
And every human being on earth is given the right to choose the object of his belief or to group himself as he feels or thinks.
Nevertheless, someone who kills the animal if the girl leaves him or kicks the dog who tried to cross the street by himself, someone who uses you to solve his immature and unreleased depths in his soul mentally abusing you and after all baptizing and kissing his, from kissing worn out icon, is neither a spiritual nor a moral man. There is no love at all.
To the greatest tragedy of our human existence, instead that the old age brings wisdom and serenity to the human, old people very often continue to manipulate other souls. Unfortunately for our tragedy, these are often immature parents.
Man, just like an animal, is aggressive out of fear and ignorance. From the smallness of his heart.
Where there is fear, there is no love. Where there is love there is no fear.
Where there is love, there is no duplicity.
Where there is selfishness, there is no spirituality.
Here I feel to share with you one story about morality and belief from my personal life.
One night long ago a friend texted me saying he needed money urgently. He promised to return as soon as possible. The next morning, I took the money from the rent collected for the next month and was the first at the counter where one can send money abroad because my comrades’ word was my command.
That part of my rent I sent didn’t arrive in a while.
It didn’t even arrive when my brother almost got sepsis because we couldn’t raise enough money for surgery.
When I asked for the money I needed to bury my father, a friend told me that he will send me chocolate from Switzerland.
How it always happens, and how just right pictures and messages for the transformation of our heart and spirit reach all of us (but not everyone knows how to recognize and read them), came to me pictures of a merciful friend proudly standing in the first row as a member of the Serbian Orthodox Church believers.
As it always goes with these lost unhappy hearts, spirits and souls, they are eliminating you at once from the lists of acquaintances that is once called camaraderie or even good friendship.
There are countless examples of such and similar examples in mine as in the life of each of you. From people, to people.
People are making the sing of the cross when passing by each church, though before and after they have lied, deceived or taken what is not theirs. Their way of the heart is the surest dead end.
Living the life I lived and still live, I had the opportunity to meet very different people.
I also visited various places in Europe, India and Thailand so I met and lived with people of different beliefs.
I felt that it was mostly believed out of fear, out of fear of the unknown, of what is foreign to the mind, which it never experienced, what it does not know, or when it finds itself at some major life intersection that life means. Belief can save a life, that’s right.
But, once one experiences some higher unification, some brighter light and cognition, one no longer distinguishes between people or between the light that all people seek because there are no different lights. There is only one light. Light.
Whatever a man in his life does, whatever gesture he makes, if he does not make it with full heart and lungs, he has erected a wall for himself and kept himself out of serenity.
Do not, dear people, confuse begging and prayers. Do not, dear people, call yourself a believer unless you have purified your heart.
Do not use those who have given you a lot with their heart and didn’t give up on you.
Likewise, make a difference, open your heart but don’t let others bring you down. Don’t allow yourself to be a trash can for someone else’s mental garbage, whether you are the fallen angels of those closest to you or those more distant.
How many times have you truly thanked those who truly helped you, or at least directed you to a path that took (and led) you into a greater light?
How many times have people thanked you for sharing what you shared with them when you did not need to?
So many spiritual people you know.
You should always say thank you, especially to those who have hurt you because neither the cosmos, nor light, nor your heart forget how much darkness and suffering the heart has gone through in order to come to serenity. Every word and every deed comes back as an unmistakable boomerang. Even your own evil intent punishes you sooner or later.
A man whose heart is pure and serene and whose mind is stable and peaceful is a spiritual man.
How many spiritual people do you really know?
The true spiritual man has no thought of envy and hatred, malice and cynicism, no act of greed and self-love, or the need to manipulate people. He is not assaulted and does not write clueless letters and messages in which he talks only about himself and how god is everything to him. I have met so-called religious people, true cynics full of hatred and intolerance for anything that is not their “faith”. Their path of the heart is a surely path into the cold darkness below ground.
The true spiritual person, though presenting himself in the world as the great “master” of meditation or yoga (Yoga means unity or unification) does not address people with exclamation marks, capital letters, red when possible, or underlined words. Behind these ways of treating and subjugating others with imperative modes of communication lies not the power of the heart and love, but the personal powerlessness and never satisfied hunger to control others.
There are people who, at one point in their lives, become true religious fanatics. Such people usually talk a lot but say nothing, and do even less good deeds. In contrary.
One does not have to believe in one god or the other or Buddha to be a spiritual man.
Just as one does not have to be aggressive and loud to be religious.
Every man believes in something and every man prays for something. And that is his right.
People who have experienced and seen inner light (it is seen and experienced always inside because darkness requires light) do not talk but act. Light can be experienced through meditation, poverty, unconditional honest giving and renunciation, unconditional love, or simply it is given.
A mature heart is able to make a difference between such people and the double-faced, pseudo-meditators or self-proclaimed new age enlighteners. Our modern world is unfortunately full of such humans.
Ganga Aarti Puja, a Ceremony in Varanasi, India
One of the Yogas is called Bhakti Yoga.
A true bhakti yogi has a pure heart, no doubt, no need to compare and compete with other people. He knows to recognize the true values, in silence.
There are hundreds of pseudo-martyrs and false followers posing as big yogis in the West, yoga has become a true fashion unfortunately often decorated with crumby brooches. These are mostly people who still have parents (meaning some kind of protection, more or less), who have well-padded bank accounts but who make huge money using the insecurity and depression of others. Often these Western sellers of spirituality are themselves people with a great lack of true love and genuine attention. (in this post you can read more words about that sad side of our human intelligence).
It is easy to “go spiritual” with well-padded bank accounts.
So-called Bhakti congregations, whether Hindu or Buddhist (in the language of yoga they are called Satsang), have been around in the West a long time ago. Although there are still many people with an open heart and mind, such congregations are largely the result of the loneliness and alienation of man in modern rich civilizations.
In such congregations unfortunately there is no spontaneity and spontaneity is a product of pureness. Behavior of many seems forced. It seems that many people in the West who are taking part in such Satsangs are taking home as much loneliness as they brought. If, sadly, not even bigger sadness.
The path of the heart of these people is indeed a sad whirl, though the sound seems to spread hope for relief from fear.
It is important to feel the difference.
If one gets rid of the chains, out there at liberty there are many offers that life offers for opening and purifying the eyes, the heart, the head and the spirit. One such purification and opening of the heart is self-enquiry, in silence.
About the other offers that is easy to pick you can on this page, as well as on all attached pages. Further, you can read about where to start, and how to become a noble human being who does not necessarily have to take himself to a dark earth ahead of time.
Take a challenge of change.
There is aways a path to love. Just start simply that wonderful path of love. Do not wait too long, life is short. Give, and you will get.
Leh, India