The Fallen Angel

Technology has advanced, but human nature is stuck in its old mold.

One day, I was listening to a talk on Vedic discoveries, which focused on the fact that whatever is happening today was already in Vedic literature. In others words, nothing is new in the thought process of man, but that which is already known. And nothing is new in the attitude of man, but that which is already there.

All modern technology was already written about and anticipated in the Vedas. Our speaker told us facts about science, mathematics, medicine and many discoveries. He also related a very interesting incident, which brought about the status of women at that time, which continues to be, at this time, as it has never changed.

He told us that one of the Mogul kings visited the famous universities of Nalanda and Txila. At these places he found many modern inventions, and one of them which fascinated him was running hot water. He ordered big tubs of water to be filled up, and into them was put incense, perfumes, rose petals and scented oils, all to make the bodies of his women attractive, sweet smelling and for arousing desire.

All the great scientists, philosophers and thoughtful men present at the universities left in disgust, at the wasteful way this discovery of plumbing and hot water was being used. None of them cared for the way a woman's body was being used, nor for the gender bias.

Today, we have the luxury of hot baths, cold baths, jacuzzis, steam baths and so on, but the gender bias continues, and the female is still a sex object. From the time the female child is born, maybe she brings in her genes the fact that her role in life is to serve men. She leaves her home, her people, to follow her husband, and has to fit in with his way of life, his needs, his family, his name, his style of living.

But with it, her body, which belongs to her, is also his. Without an attractive body, she may lose a husband! Even in this century today, though we have been to the moon, the woman is still stuck in this role.

There is a philosophy that in a country where there is no mother goddess for the people to worship, where there are no female gods, the woman's divinity at home is neither understood nor respected. She becomes a partner in man's greedy ambitions, in his lust, his desire for more. And the society loses its center and the knowledge that the people in that society are in the image of God.

In societies where the mother goddess is worshipped, the divinity is brought into the home by the female, there is less aggression and more peace, and man can realize that he may be made in the image of God and live up to it.

It is also said that a time will come when the divinity of the woman will be recognized. And when that is recognized, man's image will be recognized and lived by, as if man is really the son of God.

In both Eastern and Western societies, we do not recognize the divinity of the female, so there is gender bias. In all societies, the woman has been regaled to a role of a play thing for man, and because of that, dispensable. In Indian societies, even today, there is female foeticide, female infanticide, dowry debts, all because the woman is regarded as a useless tool or at best, a tool.

I once worked with a man, I dare not say from which country or culture, or anything, but his opinion of women, spoken loudly and clearly in a roomful of women was, "A woman is like an old shoe. She can be discarded whenever the man has no need of her." Nobody boycotted this man. Nobody pilloried this man. A lot of women still pandered to him with their false smiles, and he polluted the whole environment with his low thoughts. Did he not have a mother?

Was she an old shoe to be thrown out when there was no need for her? Does this happen to the mothers of all men or just some men?

With technology, we are proud that we are a 22nd century society, but we are still living in the darkness of Hades, I won't even say the Stone Age.

Note: these postings were inspired by the School of Ancient Wisdom.

Parenting Or Teachers as Surrogate Parents; And Schools as Mini-Societies

I continue writing from the ideas I have put down in the earlier postings. Please note let my last sentence, "you are Divine." Parents and teachers, society leaders, all those in power. please remember, that you were born in the image of God, and you are Divine. In our divinity, we should remember our responsbility to the Universe. We should remember that our thought patterns are going to create the Universe, therefore, what sort of Universe do we want?

Very often, al the leaders today come from a sense of fear and inadequacy. Very often, we parents forget that to a small child, we may be in the shape of a large god, that to a small child in a classroom, the teacher too, may be in the shape of a god and the child is more than willing to believe what the teacher and the parents' say.

The public is more than willing to listen what the leaders say, and follow in ttheir set of values and needs, for goodness in the country, environment, so on. In the home and in school and society, we are the ones (as parents, teachers etc.) who have no faith in our values, who have no faith in our pure desires, and forget we are Divine.

We teach our children in school and at home to live without values, to live without direction, because we have no faith in our capabilities to lead, direct, be examples and to contribute our purity to the Universe. Please note the word Purity or Divinity. To put all the qualities to make a better world, we sacrifice everything on the alter of greed, ambition, finishing the syllabus, worrying about the children's school marks, making laws to tie up the common man, to pay taxes, to take punishments, instead of understanding that parents, teachers, leaders all have the power to make a better world, if they do so believe in a better world. But we give it all up for more money, for greed.

Let me give you Example One, which is teachers won't teach in the classroom, but will take on a lot of private tuitions, start their own coaching classes and in the classroom do indifferent and quick work, in the name of completing the syllabus.

Parents at home are too busy having a good time because they work hard and relax for fun, earning riches to satisfy the greed of their children, to compete with their neighbors and to fulfill their own unfulfilled ambitions. Many parents who have not achieved academically push and push their children to be toppers, not remembering the happiness of the child. Society leaders and state leaders again forget their Divine power, and sacrifice it in mundane projects, giving the public enough loopholes to lie and cheat and evade the law. The Divinity that has been given to them is lost and reduced to something that is mundane and ordinary.

I think the biggest loss is to the parents today, and I say this especially of parents in India, where the lure of the west and the greed for foreign earnings has pushed them to send their children abroad for higher studies. The Western cities and the Western society are so alien to a lot of the Indian Boys and Girls who go from small towns, protected homes and societies, to live in this vast, cold, alien, uncaring environment. The child is an environment of loneliness, and the old parent who has lost the caring of a son or daughter is also in the lost environment of loneliness.

Where I live, I see many homes which are huge villas, but in them, lives an old man, a mangy dog and a dim light. In the next villa, lives an old woman, a mangy dog and a dim light, and so on.
The men and women in these areas, sit at home, guarding their property, and hoping for a day when their children will use this inheritance.
But the children are already using this inheritance of lack of values.
One day, the villas will be pulled down and from the naked soil maybe the phoneix shall rise!
And, from the valueless mind, too, there will be a burn out of negative values, because nature pushes you onto the right path. And with this natural burnout, the phoenix shall rise.

Dearest Shirin, A Reply to Your Query On My Blog, "I Am Eternal"

All around us, in us, outside us, in our minds, in rocks and stones and everywhere, there is this Universal Consciousness, the spirit, the light. What is this Consciousness made up of, except human thoughts?
Whatever thought you've had, negative or positive, is merged with Existence. If you believe in God, this world is His manifestation. If you believe in no God, and only a Consciousness, again, this Consciousness is full of these thoughts.

I experience what I am writing, and may not be very clear on the theology of various religions. From my feelings and the query of my friend, I asked myself, "Do I want to be Eternal because of my ego?" and I felt "Yes," because what I feel and think is all part of the Universal Consciousness, and this is with or without the ego.

This thought makes me conscious of the fact that whatever I do in my life contributes to shaping the Universe. This shaping of the Universe, lives through my children, my environment and is absorbed by the Universal Consciousness. In the same way, dear friend, whether you have children or no children, your thoughts will always be a part of the Universe, and whether you desire it or not, you will be eternal. Or, you may choose non-eternity and darkness in space. Both are the same, from nothing to something and from something to nothing.

I want to plant this thought in the Universe, because human beings do not feel any responsibility for their thought patterns and they spew out negative-positive, kind-unkind thoughts, to float around in space, resulting in destruction, annihilation and of course, a lot of beauty and purity.

In all of this, we forget our Divinity. Please remember, you are Divine.

A Secret of Untruth Revealed

When I was born, I was more soul and divinity and less body and thought. I did not have to play games to please people, I did not have to develop a personality according to other people's choices, I could gurgle and play and laungh and be a joy for everyone. All those around me felt unconditional love, which brought me great peace and joy.

The three Magis came to me, adored me and laid at my feet the three gifts as they did with the baby Jesus: my three gifts were love, peace and joy. I had a parallel love in the life of Jesus and all the other great masters, gods and goddesses, but I felt nothing in my heart, till my awakening.

Time went on and that unconditional love changed to accomodate the demands of parents, home, family and society. The unconditional love disappeared and maybe somebody will say that there was conditional love, which is 'liking', when you like a person, you have expectations of them. Unconditional love has none.

I became smart, like the rest of the world, I hid my secret, my great desire for love, for that divine exchange of energy at the soul level. I developed a charming, charismatic personality, and hid my need from the world and from myself and lived in dishonest, false words, saying, "I love, I love, I love." I didn't. I never knew the meaning.

Like went on, I lost my love. I lost my joy. I lost my peace. I looked for it in rock and stone, in the clouds, in water, in liquour, in lust, in greed, in friendships, in children, in husband and wife, in society. No luck, no joy, no peace...all was lost.

I read books. I cried out to my teachers, "Tell me what is love?" But all I got back was, "to be a committed person, to be a good daughter, a good son, to play the role in the family that society has assigned you." I did all that, but at the end of the day, all I had was the emptiness in my heart and hands.

Can you help me? Can you answer my question? Have you found love? Unconditional love, without demands, without expections, without role playing?

The Great Awakening

One day at satsang, we were discussing relationships and in the relationship, unconditional love leading to interconnectedness with all things in the Universe. During this talk, my heart was crying out, "What do I know about love? will I get my answer today?"

We were told to sit in silence and feel the interconnectedness with all the other people in the room. I felt nothing. The question hour began.

"Did all of you feel interconnectedness with each other?"

A hand shot up, and a cocky voice answered, "Of course I did!" My heart sank. If I am asked this question, will I be dishonest? And then it struck me, so often, when I say, "I love," I don't love. I come from untruth and dishonesty. I waited with baited breath and the person who answered next spoke the words which I would have used if I had had the courage to do so.

The person answered, "I feel no connection with anybody in this room." Shock, disbelief and dead silence. The teacher asked us all, if we could feel interconnected with one person and connection and the flow of energy from one to the other? She told us the flow of energy from one person to another is concentric and all benefit by it.

I realized having lived in the dishonesty and the untruth of no connection harms his or herself and the others, because there is a break in the flow. This break in flow results in disease, unhappiness, stress.

Then we were asked to meditate and bring in front of us some relationship which was not working and to see how it had happened. I picked on someone who is very dear to me, and discovered that instead of being in a loving relationship, I was in a personality exchange to impress my friend, and the love was hidden under the personality.

The secret was revealed to me that this relationship and others were not satisfying, were at times unsuccessful, because there was no exchange of love, only pretense, performing and play acting.

I've realized that in today's world we are all working at the thought level, and a lot of us believe that your thoughts can make things happen or not happen. This led me to feel that my secret of nonloving was causing no love to happen.

Personality exchange without love occurs because we believe we are the body. But all mankind is soul and spirit, and love is an exchange of energy from soul and spirit to soul and spirit. Love is. God is love. And Man is Divine. And Divine exchange can only be at the energy level, the spirit level, and the soul level. And this is the secret the Magi revealed to me.

I am Divine, Therefore I am Eternal

One day, I was taking a lesson in biology and going through the water cycle, the food cycle, the nitrogen cycle, etc., all about matter being used for rebirth, all about God’s recycling habit, without wasting anything.
As my students got busy with some written work, some pictures in the textbook caught my eye, and my imagination took flight.
I saw a picture of a bird, a flower and a gazelle. Suddenly, I felt my body had made the bird, and there was I, flying high, soaring into infinity. I looked at the flower and found such beauty, which was me and suddenly, a thought came, “But you’re ugly. Are flowers ugly or only beautiful?”
And I was so proud that God had recycled me into a flower. The gazelle leaping and bounding gave me so much pride that my old body had been transformed into a gazelle running with the wind.
Dear God, you have used all of me for rebirth. You have shown me, because of this recycling there is rebirth and this rebirth makes me eternal. However, why did I ever doubt it, because I am in your Divine image, and Divinity means that which never changes. Divinity is eternal. I am eternal.
I came back down to earth and continued teaching the lesson, but with a new insight, a spiritual one.
One day, I was going through pictures of my family in the family album, and once again, my imagination took flight. I got a message which I am sharing with all of you: that we never die, through our children we are eternal. How?
Through our genes, through our thought processes, at the time of pregnancy, at the time of birth, with living together, we send signals to our children, to fulfil our wishes for the sake of continuity and wish fulfilment of the parent. I know I’ve subconsciously fulfilled so many of my parents’ wishes, by picking up where they had left in their growth. I can see the same with my children.
Each child of mine has completed a wish of mine, communicated through my thought process. I can see it---a wish for wealth, a wish for beauty, a wish to be able to sing well, a wish to be an intellectual, a wish to be a career woman, a wish for all my children to travel on the spiritual path. Whatever are their unfulfilled wishes will be carried on by their children, and so on and so forth. And the consciousness that is in all of us shall carry on through me, my children and their children. Life is eternal. Not only that, O Lord, I am using all of this as a proof, to prove to me, that I am eternal. But all I have to do is to believe in my Divinity and bask in the gift of eternity.
Dear God, in my rebirth, may I be a flower, a bird or a gazelle....or am I already that?