Isha Upanishad

The parts which do not make sense (with my current knowledge are in red), we can ignore these parts and read only the rest.

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ईशावास्यमिदं सर्वं यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत् ।
तेन त्यक्तेन भुञ्जीथा मा गृधः कस्यस्विद्धनम् ॥१॥

 

‘Whatever there is changeful in this ephemeral world, all that must be enveloped by the Lord. By this renunciation, support yourself. Do not covet the wealth of anyone.’॥१॥
सम्पूर्ण ब्रह्माण्ड में जो भी ये जगत हैं, सब ईशा द्वारा ही व्याप्त है । उसके द्वारा त्यागरूप जो भी तुम्हारे लिए प्रदान किया गया है उसे अनासक्त रूप से भोगो । किसी के भी धन की इच्छा मत करो ॥१॥

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कुर्वन्नेवेह कर्माणि जिजीविषेत् सतं समाः
एवं त्वयि नान्यथेतोऽस्ति न कर्म लिप्यते नरे…॥२॥

‘In the world, one should desire to live a hundred years, but only by performing actions. Thus, and in no other way, can man be free from the taint of actions.’॥२॥

Explanation –
1. this life on earth has meaning and significance.
2. we must try to live our lives to the full span
3. but that must be lived with joy and zest.

इस लोक में करने योग्य कर्मों को करते हुए ही सौ वर्ष जीने की इच्छा करनी चाहिए । तुम्हारे लिए इसके सिवा अन्य कोई मार्ग नहीं है । इस प्रकार कर्मों का लेप नहीं होता ॥२॥

 

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असुर्य नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसावृताः ।
तांस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥३॥

 

‘In to the worlds of the asuras, devils, enveloped in blinding darkness, verily do they go after death who are slayers of the Atman, the Self.’॥३॥

 

Explanation –
1. Based on Raymond Moody’s 1975 bestseller Life After Life  – it seems if we cut short our life by suicide for eg. We end up in a dark place with darkness. 

असुर्य सम्बन्धी जो लोक और योनियाँ हैं, वे अज्ञान और अन्धकार से आच्छादित हैं । जो मनुष्य आत्म का हनन करते हैं, वे मरकर उन्ही लोकों को प्राप्त होते हैं ॥३॥

 

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अनेजदेकं मनसो जवीयो नैनद्देवाप्नुवन्पूर्वमर्षत् ।
तद्धावतोऽन्यान्नत्येति तिष्ठत् तस्मिन्नापो मातरिश्वा दधाति ॥4
तदेजति तन्नैजति तद्दूरे तद्वन्तिके ।
तदन्तरस्य सर्वस्य तदु सर्वस्यास्य बाह्यतः ॥5
यस्तु सर्वानि भूतान्यात्मन्येवानुपश्यति ।
सर्वभूतेषु चात्मान ततो न विजुगुप्सते ॥6
यस्मिन्सर्वानि भूतानन्यात्मैवभुद्विजानतः ।
तत्र को मोहः कः शोक एकत्वमनुपश्यतः ॥7
स पर्यागच्छुक्रकायमव्रणस्नाविरं शुद्धमपापविद्धम् ।
कविर्मनीषि परिभूः स्वयम्भूर्यथातथ्यतोऽर्थान्
व्यदधाच्छाश्वतीभ्यः समाभ्यः ॥8

 

• 4 ‘The self is one. It is unmoving: yet faster than the mind. Thus moving faster, It is beyond the reach of the senses. Ever steady, It outstrips all that run. By its mere presence, the cosmic energy is enabled to sustain the activities of living beings.’
• 5 ‘It moves; It moves not. It is far: It is very near. It is inside all this: It is verily outside all this.’
• 6 ‘The Wise man, who realizes all beings as not distinct from his own Self, and his own Self as the Self of all beings, does not, by virtue of that perception, hate anyone.’
• 7 ‘What delusion, what sorrow can there be for that wise man who realizes the unity of all existence by perceiving all beings as his own Self?’
• 8 ‘He, the self-existent One, is everywhere-the pure one, without a (subtle) body, without blemish, without muscles (a gross body), holy and without the taint of sin; the all seeing, the all knowing, the all-encompassing One is He. He has duly assigned their respective duties to the eternal Prajapatis (cosmic powers).’
  
  वह आत्मतत्व अविचलित, एक तथा मन से भी तीव्र गति वाला है । इसे इन्द्रियाँ प्राप्त नहीं कर सकतीं क्योंकि यह उन सबसे पहले है । वह स्थिर होते हुए भी सभी गतिशीलों का अतिक्रमण किये हुए है । उसी की सत्ता में ही वायु समस्त प्राणियों के प्रवृतिरूप कर्मों का विभाग करता है ॥४॥
• वह आत्मतत्त्व चलता है और नहीं भी चलता । वह दूर है और समीप भी है । वह सबके अंतर्गत है और वही सबके बाहर भी है ॥५॥
• जो मनुष्य समस्त भूतों को आत्मा में ही देखता है और समस्त भूतों में भी आत्मा को ही देखता है, वह फिर किसी से भी घृणा कैसे कर सकता है ॥६॥
• जिस स्थिति में मनुष्य के लिए सब भूत आत्मा ही हो गए उस समय एकत्व देखने वाले उस ज्ञानी को क्या मोह और क्या शोक रह जाता है ॥७॥
• वह आत्मा परम तेजोमय, शरीरों से रहित, अक्षत, स्नायु से रहित, शुद्ध, शुभाशुभकर्म-सम्पर्कशून्य, सर्वद्रष्टा, सर्वज्ञ, सर्वोत्कृष्ट और स्वयंभू है । वही अनादि काल से सब अर्थों की रचना और विभाग करता आया है ॥८॥

 

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अन्धं तमः प्रविशन्ति येऽविद्यामुपासते ।
ततो भूय इव ते तमो य उ विद्यायाँ रताः ॥ ९॥

 

अन्यदेवाहुर्विद्ययाऽन्यदाहुरविद्यया ।
इति शुश्रुम धीराणां ये नस्तद्विचचक्षिरे ॥ १०॥

 

विद्यां चाविद्यां च यस्तद् वेदोभयं सह ।
अविद्यया मृत्युं तीर्त्वा विद्ययाऽमृतमश्नुते ॥ ११॥

 

 

• ‘They enter into blinding darkness who worship avidya; into still greater darkness, as it were, do they enter who delight in vidya.’
• ‘One result they say is obtained by vidya, and another result, they say, is obtained by avidya, thus have we heard from the wise ones who explained it to us.’
• ‘He who knows both vidya and avidya together, overcomes death through avidya and experiences immortality by means of vidya.’
  
  Explanation – The study of the not-Self or the world of change is science; this study gives man knowledge of the laws that govern the world of change, and the capacity to control and manipulate it in the interest of his development, in the interest of a richer and fuller life for himself. But if this is done in isolation, if this is attempted without reference to his inner world, the world of the Self, the result will, not be life and more life, but death and more death.

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अन्धं तमः प्रविशन्ति येऽसम्भूतिमुपासते ।
ततो भूय इव ते तमो य उ सम्भूत्याँ रताः ॥ १२॥

 

अन्यदेवाहुः सम्भवादन्यदाहुरसम्भवात् ।
इति शुश्रुम धीराणां ये नस्तद्विचचक्षिरे ॥ १३॥

 

सम्भूतिं च विनाशं च यस्तद् वेदोभयँ सह ।
विनाशेन मृत्युं तीर्त्वा सम्भूत्याऽमृतमश्नुते ॥ १४॥

 

‘Into deep darkness do they enter who worship the asambhuti. (the world of Becoming as detached from Being). Into still greater darkness, as it were, do they enter who delight in sambhuti (pure Being or Brahman).’

‘One result is obtained by the path of sambhava (pure Being), and quite a different one by that of the asambhava (Becoming). Thus have we heard from the wise ones who taught it to us.’

‘He who knows sambhuti (Brahman) and vinasha (the perishable world of Becoming) both together, overcomes death through vinasha, and achieves immortality through sambhuti.’

 

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हिरण्मयेन पात्रेण सत्यस्यापिहितं मुखम् ।
तत्त्वं पूषन्नपावृणु सत्यधर्माय दृष्टये ॥ १५॥

 

पूषन्नेकर्षे यम सूर्य प्राजापत्य व्यूह रश्मीन् समूह तेजः ।
यत्ते रूपं कल्याणतमं तत्ते पश्यामि योऽसावसौ पुरुषः सोऽहमस्मि ॥ १६॥

 

वायुरनिलममृतमथेदं भस्मांत शरीरम् ।
ॐ क्रतो स्मर कृत स्मर क्रतो स्मर कृत स्मर ॥ १७॥

 

अग्ने नय सुपथा राये अस्मान् विश्वानि देव वयुनानि विद्वान् ।
युयोध्यस्मज्जुहुराणमेनो भूयिष्ठां ते नमौक्तिं विधेम ॥ १८॥

 

By the lid of the golden orb (Sun) is the face of the Truth hidden;
Please remove it, O Thou, Nourisher of the world 
So that I may see Thee — I who am devoted to Truth.

 

O, Nourisher, O lonely Courser
of the heavens, O Regulator,
O Sun, thou offspring of Prajapati,
Remove Thy rays, gather up thy effulgence,
So that I may see that which is
Thy most auspicious effulgence.
The Person that is in Thee, That am I.

 

‘The vital forces (in me are about to merge in) the immortal Prana (the cosmic energy); then this (mortal) body shall be reduced to ashes. Om! O mind! Remember; your (good) deeds, remember.’

 

O Agni, lead, us by the good path that we may (enjoy) the wealth (the fruits of the good deeds we have done). Thou knowest all our deeds. Lord, destroy the deceitful sin in us. We salute Thee with our words again and again.

How to produce work like a genius?

Geniuses are not specially born, although they are rare!

It is my desire to correct the commonly accepted misconception regarding the idea that geniuses are specially born. By genius, I mean that quality of Consciousness possessed by such outstanding geniuses as Rubens, Leonardo, Titian and Raphael; such philosophers as Socrates, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Plontinus, Laotzu and Confuscius; such mystics as Buddha, Moses, Mohammed, Baha’u’llah, and the supreme mystic of all time, Jesus the Nazarene. Also our modern geniuses such as Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Paderewski, Edison, Marconi, and their prototypes which are altogether too few in these thousands of years of world history. None is so rare among men as a genius. Out of hundreds of millions, we have but one. Go down through the pages of history and count them. You can put them all on a very small page.

Greatness in man has been associated with money and material power. Many there have been of this kind whose names are forgotten in a few generations, but few there have been of such immortals as Wagner, Beethoven, Rachmininoff, Shakespeare, Socrates, Leonardo or Michelangelo. These are the man who uplift the whole human race because they work knowingly with god, while those who work for self alone pull the standard of civilization down to lower levels.

This generation is not producing such spiritually great men as even two generations ago – such men as Longfellow, Whittier, Milton, Emerson, Scott, Dickens, Blake, Tennyson, and Poe. Even the last generation produced such musicians, poets, writers, painters and sculptors as Victor Herbert, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff, Elizabeth and Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Kipling, Markham, Masefield, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Daniel French, Frederick MacMonnies, George Gray Barnard, Burne-Jones, Keats, Whistler, Inness, John Sargent, Monet, and hosts of other geniuses in the arts, here and abroad.

Why is genius ahead of other men?

The genius is ahead of other men because of his awareness of his divine power which he has multiplied and remultiplied a thousand fold by his life long habit of seeking aloneness with himself for the purpose of unfolding that divine power for his own creative expression.

You can also be a genius

We all inherit all that God has to give. The maximum of genius is in everyone. A spoonful is not given to one and a bowlful to another and a bushel to another. We are all born equal in the Light of God. We are His omniscient Light, and all of it centers in us. The only difference between the greatest genius in the world and the ordinary man is that the genius is aware of the Light within him and the ordinary man is not aware of that Light. The omnipotent Light is in everyone – all of it – in all of its fullness. Likewise, all knowledge is in the Light of everyone, awaiting one’s awareness of it.

“Your own genius is as great as any man’s on earth. The only reason that you do not know it is because you have never given yourself a chance to know of your divine inheritance by forgetting your body long enough to become aware of your Soul. You allow emotions and tensions of body sensing to dominate you instead of your sleeping Soul. Go into the deep forest and awaken your Soul.

“That is what meditation is for, and the moment you begin to practice it that moment you begin to express the unlimited power of the awakening genius within you. If you acquire the habit of meditation you multiply your knowledge and the power to express your knowledge. You also give your body an escape from its tensions which heals it of all ills by restoring its balance.

Knowledge is the omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient Light. That Light is within everyone and everything to its fullest extent. It is in every cell of one’s body, centering it. It is in the magnetic poles of everyone, controlling them. You may have that Light of all-knowledge for the asking. Knowledge is cosmic; it is universal. Desire what you will of it and it will unfold within you. You will suddenly become consciously aware of it by receiving a flash of inspiration. That flash is your answer.

We are what we desire to be. We can be what we wish to be. If we make a plan of our own lives and desire that plan to be fulfilled, we will become that. And all the laws of the universe will help us to become that. Each step in the unfoldment of desire leads to new unfoldment.

Our lives are our own making. If we work with the law of balance, we achieve balanced results. If we break the law, the law breaks us to an equal extent – and immediately.

The genius or mystic who has found God lives in the world of inspiration. He is always seeking the ecstasy of the Light. He lives in that wonderful ecstatic world of aloneness, and prefers to. He is never alone – for he is with God – thinking God – creating with God.

He is forever interpreting the inspiration of God’s whisperings to him, whether they be in musical rhythms, inventions, poetry or sculpture, or any product of industry. Every man who is inspired to manifest God worthily is expressing the measure of his own genius, whether he manifests it in the kitchen, in the workshop, or in running an elevator. One who is joyously and ecstatically working to the best of his ability to manifest God in him is expressing the genius in him. He is the one who is walking toward the Light – the one who is trying to be worthy of the Light.

The genius seeks the forest, the quietude of Nature; he seeks good music, good literature – uplifting things. The great creator Rachmaninoff multiplies himself by dividing himself and giving himself and those divided parts to the whole world for its uplift. The one who is walking away from God divides himself by himself. That is the seed he sows for which he reaps the harvest of mediocrity and failure to achieve eternal values.

You who sit in an audience and hear Rachmaninoff, and say, “Geniuses must be born,” or “there is no genius in me,” – or hear the music of Tschaikovsky or Beethoven – or any of the music which has the rhythms of heaven in it – the rhythms which make you forget your body as the composer forgot his body when he created it – you who feel thrills up and down your spine while you listen to it are a mirror which is reflecting that genius. His inspiration is being reflected in you. You are being re-inspired by him, and that is the evidence of your genius whether you perform it or not, or whether you have ever done anything in your life to express genius.

When you are thus inspired by another, you are multiplying your Self by knowingly becoming one with other Selves. You are unifying your Soul with the universal Soul through your increasing awareness of the universal Soul.

However, the fruit of genius does not drop into one’s lap. One cannot be a wishful thinker, sitting idly waiting for the material manifestation of one’s thought.
All the great geniuses I have known have certain traits in common, and not the least of these is a great capacity for work.

How edison used meditation to become a genius?

The Edison & Ford Winter Estates, a shared vacation spot between best friends Henry Ford and Edison in Fort Myers, Florida has a statue of Edison is located under the banyan tree given to Edison by Harvey Firestone dedicated in 2005 that shows Edison holding a shiny stainless steel ball in his left hand.

“I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night”—Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison has attributed many of his insights into his experiments and new discoveries to a state of awareness and thinking he reached when entering what is known as a hypnogogic state [1]. Hypnagogia is the a transitional state between wakefulness to sleep. The hypnagogic state of consciousness arrives at a demarcation just at the onset of sleep.

Edison would nap famously under his desk or on a work bench for up to 1 hour sometimes 3 times per day. Edison would generally hold two steel balls in both hands when he was preparing to sleep and was challenged by a daunting large problem. Some naps he would be sitting upright in a chair. Sitting up made it a bit harder for him to fully sleep allowing him to stay lightly conscious during these sessions. On the floor he placed directly below his closed hands metal saucers. The premise was simple, as he entered into the hypnogogic state, the body generally goes through a series of muscle reactions from a loosening to a sort of paralysis. In this transition Edison would drop the steel balls and the would crash to the floor, hitting the metal saucers for added effect and produce loud sound to awaken him. He would then be awakened by the sound and have a ready pad and pencil to record anything that he was thinking of just before being awakened.

Some quotes by Walter Russell

Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses. The genius can hear sounds coming out of the silence with his inner ears. He can vision non-existent forms with his inner eyes and he can feel the rhythms of God’s thinking and His knowing — which are a blank slate to the man who believes that HE is his body. When a human rises to the exalted state of genius, he becomes a co-Creator with God. The beginning of creative expression in man is the first evidence of the unfolding Light of his genius, for no man who is purely sense-controlled can create. 

“Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.”

What is consciousness, sleep and pain?

• God is consciousness. Consciousness is static.
• Consciousness is the spiritual awareness of Being, of all-knowing, all-power and all-presence.
• Man is the only unit in Creation who has conscious awareness of the Spirit within him and electrical awareness of dually conditioned light acting upon his senses.
  • All other units of creation (eg animals) have electrical awareness only.

 

• Man alone can be freed from body to think with God, to talk with God and be inspired by His centering Light.
  • All other units of Creation are limited in their actions to automatic reflexes from sensed memories built up through ages of sensing and recording such sensing as instinct.

 

UNCONSCIOUSNESS, SLEEP AND PAIN

 

• There is much confusion regarding the supposedly possible condition known as “being unconscious.” When we sleep, or are anesthetized, we say we are “unconscious.”
• We cannot be unconscious. We have always been conscious without the slightest awareness of it.
• Our confusion in this respect lies in mistaking sensation and thinking for consciousness.
• When we stop thinking, whether asleep or awake, we do not stop KNOWING (being aware of God), nor do we cease being consciously aware of our Being. We but cease to set our knowledge in motion to express idea through the pulsations of thinking.
• Conscious Mind does not sleep. Sleep is merely the negative half of the wave cycle of electrical awareness of sensation (of our body for example). Wakefulness is the positive half.
• All nature sleeps when the sunlight lessens the ability of all things to manifest life. Sleep is the death half of the life-death cycle.
• One may say, “I am unaware of this or that,” but one cannot say “I am unconscious” when one is always conscious.
• Sleep and wakefulness are positive-negative waves parts of a wave cycle, just as birth and death are opposite ends of a life cycle.
• Sleep is but an anesthetic. Sleep can be induces chemically, either to the whole body or any part of it by desensitizing its cells. When the body or parts of it are thus “put to sleep,” they have not been rendered “unconscious”; their voltage has merely been lowered.
• The dentist does not refer to a local anesthetic as having produced unconsciousness; he refers to it as a desensitizing condition, but when the surgeon desensitizes the body, it is then supposed to be “unconscious.” We assume that the brain has stopped thinking The brain does not think (it can only sense), therefore it cannot stop doing that which it never does. We assume that bodies cease to be conscious, but consciousness is never in bodies.
• A local anesthetic stops pain. Pain is a too intense electric current. The voltage is too great for the nerve wires to stand the strain. They burn out, and the over-charge of burning out causes the pain.
• When the nerves of the body FEEL an electric current running through them, the body is aware that something is happening to throw it out of balance. When the body is in balance, it has no sensation. When the body is unbalanced, sensation informs it when and where, otherwise it could not function.
• Wakefulness and sleep are merely the charging and discharging of the uncountable electric batteries of the body. If these batteries were kept constantly charged, there would be no such alternating conditions as sleep and wakefulness.

 

Conscious awareness is KNOWING. Unawareness means that one does not yet know. Knowledge is within him which he can know when he desires to know.

 

 

What is the brain and what is thinking?

What is the brain?

• The brain is but the electric recording mechanism of conscious Mind thinking
• It is also man’s storage warehouse of electric records of memories and thoughts since his beginning.
• It is the servant of Universal Intelligence. Its purpose in this respect is to keep the body electrically informed of the condition of the body, through electrical messages.
  • Such messages are not mental. They are purely electrical. They produce sensation. The brain senses and records every message. It sends counteracting messages to other parts of the body.
• What he calls his objective human mind is but the seat of electric sensations of his body.
• The brain does not think, nor does it know. It is but a storehouse of recorded sensations. The brain “remembers” these records for man’s usage as he needs them, and for fulfilling the requirements of his
  body.
• The brain is a complex state of motion expressed by waves of light pulsing in cycles. States of motion cannot KNOW anything, nor can they THINK anything.
• The brain is part of a machine, a human machine.
  • Machines can express thoughts which are electrically projected through them, but machines areincapable of thinking the thoughts thus projected.
  • Likewise machines can express knowledge but they cannot have knowledge.
  • Likewise machines can do marvelous things when patterned and controlled by knowledge, but they cannot KNOW what they do.

 

What is thinking?

• What he mistakes for thinking is but an electric awareness of things sensed and recorded within the cells of his brain for repetitive usage through what is termed “memories.” Memories have no more relation to knowledge of Universal Mind which is in man than Victorola records are related to the source of their recordings.
• We sense electrically and mistake that electrical sensing of observed effects for thinking Sensing is not thinking Sensation is but an electrical awareness of wave motion by other waves.
• We mistake the electrical records of the information which our brains have recorded as sensation, for thinking and for knowledge.
• In this body and its electric recording brain, man thinks that he thinks and lives, loves and dies. He thinks himself conscious while awake and unconscious when sleeping; unaware that in all Nature there is no such condition as unconsciousness when sensation ceases in sleep.
• His consciousness never sleeps, never changes, for consciousness in man is his immortality. It is the Light which he is unknowingly seeking but assumes that the sensation of his brain is his thinking
• The centering conscious Mind of man’s soul-will alone thinks by projecting desire for creative expression through the brain machine.

What should one do?

• How often you have heard the expression “Be still and know.” To be still for the purpose of knowing is to think your information back into the Light of your inner Self until you have stopped thinking. Silent meditation fixes that information into your Consciousness as knowledge. Very few people do that. They are quite content with storing vast quantities of information upon their brains.Very few know that they can talk it over with God by thinking it back into His still Light which they also are. Those who do know that acquire great knowledge and power to co-create with God.
• Thinking is not easy. If you study music for the first time, you will find that out. You will be lucky if in half an hour your brain is not too tired to remember any more. You have only learned a few  notes and made a few sounds which are not music.
• For this reason, everyone should bend every effort to make the transition from sensing to knowing so that his creations can be powerful and masterly interpretations of the Light of ALL-KNOWING instead of being parrot-like repetitions of memories stored in one’s brain as information is stored in an encyclopedia
• It is only through thus adding to our knowledge that we become transformed to a greater awareness of our immortality. Like the little parts of the complex machine that serve their purpose only when they become one whole, so do we know our purpose on this journey only when we are enabled to forget our separateness by knowing the whole.
• A brook comes from the sea by way of the heavens. It seems to be a unit which is separated from everything else, but it is forever connected with the heavens and the sea. Likewise man cannot see his connection with his source in the universal sea of Light, but he can know it.

 

 

 

 

 

How do we gain knowledge?

• Knowledge cannot be acquired by the brain from without; it must be “recollected” from within the consciousness of self. Gradually dawning conscious awareness is but gradual recollection of the all- knowing which has always been within man.
• The advance of man since the first messengers of God appeared on earth to kindle an awakening spark in him, has been based upon information gained by his senses and stored in his electric brain as memory records of sensed observations. These observations he has reasoned into sensed conclusions by an electrically sensitized brain.

What is the function of the brain?

• Electric awareness of observed effects of matter in motion is registered in the brain.
• The brain does not think, nor does it know. It is but a storehouse of recorded sensations. The brain “remembers” these records for man’s usage as he needs them, and for fulfilling the requirements of his body.
• The brain is part of a machine, a human machine. The body is a vast and complex mechanism. The brain is an electrical recorder, distributor, broadcaster and receiver for all operational parts of that multi-celled machine, but its actions have no relation to intelligence.
• The brain records sensations of experiences and observations which the senses convey to it. Such sensations are mistaken for thinking and knowing. Sensation arising from electrical motion is purely automatic.
• The mistake in assuming that the brain thinks and knows is due to the fact that man believes himself to be thinking when he is only sensing. Man also believes that he is acquiring knowledge through sensed observation of sensed EFFECT, when he is but recording electrical sensations which inform him as to the nature of things observed by his senses.
• when the surgeon desensitizes the body, it is then supposed to be “unconscious.” We assume that the brain has stopped thinking The brain does not think, therefore it cannot stop doing that which it never does.
  • The misconception of the so-called state of unconsciousness is based on the premise that the brain is the Mind, instead of being only a “switchboard” through which the Mind can think, or the senses can operate when it is sufficiently charged.
• Man’s confusion concerning this differentiation lies in his long assumption of the reality of matter. His assumption that his body is his Self, that his knowledge is in his brain, and that he lives and dies because his body integrates and disintegrates, has been so fundamental a part of his thinking that it is difficult for him to reverse his thinking to the fact that matter is but motion and has no reality beyond simulating reality.

How does the human brain evolve and where then is the seat of consciousness?

• As the body extends in complexity and mass (evolution from a single cell into more complex life forms), its centering seat of sensation, which we call the brain, also enlarges its two growing electric battery cells which act as “self-starters” for body activities. This two-lobe electric storage battery, which the brain is, has no knowledge whatsoever. It is no more related to Intelligence than one’s fingernail.
• The seat of Intelligence, or Mind, or Soul, is located in the pituitary gland.
• When Mind thinks, it expresses its desires electrically through the brain when the body batteries are sufficiently charged to motivate the brain (this only happens when we are alive).
  • Very few people think with their Mind, however. They sense with their brain by releasing its stored-up records which we call memories.
• The entire office of the brain is to receive, transmit and record sensations when it has sufficient electrical charge (ie we are alive) to operate the body machine.

What should one do?

• How often you have heard the expression “Be still and know.” To be still for the purpose of knowing is to think your information back into the Light of your inner Self until you have stopped thinking. Silent meditation fixes that information into your Consciousness as knowledge. Very few people do that. They are quite content with storing vast quantities of information upon their brains.Very few know that they can talk it over with God by thinking it back into His still Light which they also are. Those who do know that acquire great knowledge and power to co-create with God.
• Thinking is not easy. If you study music for the first time, you will find that out. You will be lucky if in half an hour your brain is not too tired to remember any more. You have only learned a few  notes and made a few sounds which are not music.
• For this reason, everyone should bend every effort to make the transition from sensing to knowing so that his creations can be powerful and masterly interpretations of the Light of ALL-KNOWING instead of being parrot-like repetitions of memories stored in one’s brain as information is stored in an encyclopedia
• It is only through thus adding to our knowledge that we become transformed to a greater awareness of our immortality. Like the little parts of the complex machine that serve their purpose only when they become one whole, so do we know our purpose on this journey only when we are enabled to forget our separateness by knowing the whole.
• A brook comes from the sea by way of the heavens. It seems to be a unit which is separated from everything else, but it is forever connected with the heavens and the sea. Likewise man cannot see his connection with his source in the universal sea of Light, but he can know it.

 

 

 

 

 

Problem with Science

Science works on so called “empirical knowledge,” which is gained through the senses by research and observation of effects of matter-in-motion \

It does not come to man through the Consciousness of inspired Mind in meditation.

This is the way that mystics and geniuses acquire their knowledge.

Because of this, science can only tell  HOW to do marvelous things with electricity and the elements of matter, but cannot   tell the WHY–or the CAUSE–of these.

If asked what electricity, light, magnetism, matter or energy is, he frankly answers: “I do not know”.

If science does not know the WHY–or WHAT–or CAUSE–of these essentials, it necessarily follows that it is,, without knowledge. It is merely informed

and God’s Message to Women

and God’s Message to Women

The whole journey of life is for the sole purpose of knowing God. Every moment of it, from your very beginning, God is working with you to inspire you with His ever Presence, which centers you in your Soul.

Man has heard God’s Silent Voice within him for millions of years, but he did not know what it was. He called it instinct. He did not even know that instinct was not only God’s Voice within his Soul, but it was also an electric beam which guided and controlled the unfolding of all God’s creations.

Consciousness dawned in man and he began to think with God’s Mind. God’s Mind talks to man through his Soul, but in his early beginnings he did not know that he thought with God’s Mind. For millions of years he had but sensed with his body. He sought sensations for his body. He sought survival for his body. Then, later, he sought possessions for his body. His entire sense of existence was through his body. He even sought happiness through his body, not knowing that the Soul alone could know happiness and that it could never be found through sensations of the body alone.

Genius dawned in man. He then knew the Mind of man and Mind of God were One. When God then talked to man, he knew that God talked to him, and he then talked with God. When God talked to early man through instinct, He but commanded him. When God and cosmic genius-man talked together through inspiration, God then communed with him. When man thus knew God and communed with Him, God sent messages through him to other men, who did not know Him.

That has been God’s way since man’s beginning. Through those who know God, He sends inspired messages to those who do not know Him, to inspire them to know Him. He first sends messages of His love in the rhythms of His love. Through His cosmic geniuses, who know Him, He slowly attunes the heartbeat of man’s thinking to His mighty rhythms to draw men closer unto Him. Beauty comes into the world through the heart of man thus inspired with those mighty rhythms of God’s universal thinking. The poets give God’s messages to man. The builders of temples, and the inspired man of God who chisels the symmetry and balance of beauty into white marble, these also give God’s messages to man to bring him ever closer to knowing God within his own Soul.

The prophets who knew God told men of His love. God spoke to messengers, like Buddha, Zoroaster and Mohammed, who knew His Voice, and the meaning of it. He gave messages to them for His people. God gave the same messages to all their peoples, but they did not know that God spoke to them. God speaks to all creatures of His Creation, but they do not know that He speaks to them.

Birds do not know how to build nests, or to fly south, or why. God shows them how and directs their flight by polarity control. Spiders do not know how to build webs, nor to calculate their necessary stresses and strains. God works with them and tells them how. His Presence centers the spider and ant to manifest His love with the same care that He gives to man. That is what is meant by God’s Omnipresence.

God is everywhere, for Mind is everywhere. Every particle of creating matter, and every forming body, are centered by the Soul-Mind, from within, to control it, and two so-called magnetic poles are extended from that center to guide, and balance it. Just as the center of gravity and the two poles of this earth balance and control its every movement and relationship to other planets, so is man centered and controlled. Man can defy that control if he desires to do so, but his defiance is costly to him in many ways. In animals and the elements of matter, which living bodies are created from, there is no defiance of that law, hence Nature is always in balance.

We have heard much about revelations having been given to prophets and saints of olden days. God’s revelations are just as much a part of today’s communion between man and God, as they ever were. God reveals Himself to you, and to all of us, every moment of our lives. You suddenly know something which you did not know one minute before. It comes to you in a timeless flash. That is God telling you what you have desired to know. That desire to know is a wordless prayer which you do not even know that you have uttered, but God knows of your desire and extends the answer to you through His thinking. That is what revelations are. You are constantly being enriched by revelations from God. You may not know it yet. That is the slow process of your unfolding from your dark to His Light. Aeons pass before men become aware of it. There are those, however, who have become aware of it and they give their knowing of God’s messages to man.

When God “revealed Himself” to Moses, and told him to lead his people out of Egypt, He also revealed Himself to all of Moses’ people. They did not know it, however, but Moses did, for Moses knew God’s Silent Voice and fully comprehended its meaning. He, therefore, told those who did not know God’s Voice what God had commanded them to do. That is what is meant by being a mes- senger to man from God.

There have been many messengers who have brought beauty and love to their fellowmen but as yet all too few have become aware of the mighty rhythms and whisperings of God’s Silent Voice speaking to them from His kingdom of heaven within their Soul.

If you do not talk to God as you work with Him it is because you do not know that you can. That is the only reason. You can talk to God this moment if you will but believe you can and deeply desire to. He talks to you through your Soul as He works with you to gradually awaken you to the Light of His glorious Presence. Why not desire to know God now as He works with you, and you work with Him, to unfold your destiny? Some day you will become aware of that wonderful fact that you can talk to God as He has forever talked with you while He has been working with you. You will then work more intelligently with Him when you know that you are working with Him, instead of not knowing it. That day must someday come to you. Why not begin now, knowing that He is awaiting that day when you will know the joy and ecstasy of His Presence within you. That is what the words in The Divine Iliad Message mean, which say:

“All men will come to Me in due time, but theirs is the agony of awaiting”. Such men as Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Leonardo or Whitman knew that they could talk to God as He worked with them, and they brought rhythmic messages of Beauty from God to man in a language which all men can comprehend within their very Soul. The whole world of men can talk to God directly, if they but know that they can. They do not need Brahms or Beethoven to act as inter- preter for them when they know that all of God’s Omniscient thinking is theirs when they will but “tune in with it”, as Brahms and Beethoven did. Omniscience is universal. Each man can know all things when he desires to know all things.

Deep within my Consciousness I have known my destiny since childhood. I cannot remember a time that I did not talk to God for He was the first one I told my thoughts to and later took my human problems to. God has always been more real to me than any human being could possibly be. Seeing such unhappiness in the world gave birth within me to a deep desire to share the knowledge of God’s great love and direction with others. And so it was that God commanded me to give this message to you.

Likewise, as all women desire to give love, I know there have been many down through the ages who have faintly heard God’s whispering command to them to take their place as the World- Mother. This book is God’s Message to you. God has told you what you should do to save this civilization and cause it to endure. I can but do as I am commanded, for which every moment of my life is dedicated. I cannot execute the command alone. The mothers of the world can bring order out of chaos, unity out of disunity, and LOVE out of FEAR, if they will but take the empty seat beside the Father of the world-home to give it a Mother’s Love.

I will close this message, as I opened it, to tell you that the eleventh hour is here. You cannot wait, lest the world perish. You must unite now by multiplying the power of your voice by millions before the next election. Chapter XII has outlined the plan. Further details will follow at the end of this chapter.

I will say to you, however, that when God plainly tells His children what to do to work with Him to unfold His children’s destiny, He will work with them to unfold it.

Mankind desires Peace–and Love–and Romance–and Beauty. And all peoples of the whole world desire joy in their hearts and the singing of Hosannas in their homes. The world can have its desire fulfilled when it works with God, but not while it works against Him. God made fathers and mothers in equally divided pairs in order that they could unite as equal pairs. God intended that male aggressive and progressive qualities, which construct the world-home, should be balanced by the female qualities which give cohesiveness of love to the world-home. Man has forever been taking life. Woman has forever been giving life. The world-family-home can endure only by balancing the male-female qualities.

God’s Silent Voice has forever been telling the fathers and mothers of the world that Peace, Happiness, Romance and Beauty can come only through their unity. There has never been unity between the fathers and mothers of the world. However, the world’s desire for happiness can never be fulfilled until balance between the two equally divided mate-pairs makes the desired unity possible.

If the Mothers of the world will but obey God’s Voice, and if the Fathers of the world will but open their hearts to the balance of Unity in World-Father-Motherhood, “the peace which passeth all understanding” WILL COME TO PASS.

5/5 Man Idea – Christ Consciousness

Christ Consciousness

The fifth and final stage of spiritual unfoldment is Christ Consciousness. It is the highest stage of human attainment which all mankind will eventually reach.

Jesus of Nazareth is the only man in all recorded history who has ever reached that stage of complete God-awareness. He was so fully illumined with the Light, and the Love which God is, and the omniscience and omnipotence which God is, that he could knowingly say: “I and My Father are ONE”.

The birth and life of Jesus was the supreme event of all history. The life of God’s Messenger of Love has been a Light which will illumine the world forever, and His death by man’s hands plunged man’s world into the dark for twelve long cruel centuries.

He who has finally attained the Cosmic Light in full awareness has passed beyond fear of death, for he knows there is no death in eternal life.

He who has reached that Source of eternal Good knows there can be no evil in God’s balanced universe.

He whose thinking has been as one unit of Creation has now become the universal Thinker with the One Mind Source of all that has ever been or ever will be.

He who has been subject to effect in matter becomes Cause. He has learned to command matter by ages of learning to obey its commands He can dissolve and void the illnesses of man by projecting His balance into the unbalanced condition which caused them.

Having become universal in His thinking He is aware of any thoughts anywhere. All man’s thoughts are known to Him through the universality of the One Mind whom He is.

Jesus was the greatest Intelligence the world has ever known. He gave to the world the greatest teachings it has ever known. Extrasensory perception, which is just beginning to manifest in the telepathic and clairvoyant stage of man, was full and complete in Jesus.

That inconceivably wonderful illumination into Christ Consciousness exalted Jesus to the God state of Universal Oneness. It was thenceforth impossible for Him to see any man as being separate and apart from Himself and from other men. Jesus knew of the electrical unity of everything in all the universe. He not only knew it with His Mind but could see it with his extrasensory vision. The aura which connects every object in the universe with every other object was perfectly visible to Him. Because of His unlimited knowledge and power He was enabled to do many things which were so far beyond the comprehension of man that they were explainable only to man as being supernatural or miraculous.

The time will come when you will be able to command matter to obey you as He was enabled to do. When that time comes in your knowing the world will then know the naturalness of that which now seems so supernatural. As man unfolds into full mental growth it is beyond his powers to either see or comprehend any state of Mind which he, himself, has not yet experienced.

When we observe that people of today do not even understand the much lower stage of genius, how very much more difficult it is, and has been, for man to comprehend the divine state when they find it in flesh and blood like their own. How often we hear people say that geniuses are especially born and that they can never be like them because of that fact. People do not deny the existence of geniuses, however, for their extraordinary mental power is too evident in their works for denial.

Neither can Jesus be denied, for He too is known by His works, but He cannot be comprehended because Christ Consciousness is too far beyond the present stage of Mind-unfolding for comprehension to be possible. It is more upon the order of man’s thinking to place Him in the realms of the supernatural.

 

It is sufficient for everyone in the world to know that Christ Consciousness is the ultimate goal for every man. It should be a glorious thought and the strongest possible incentive for right thinking and acting in this life in order to be a little farther ahead in each repetition of our unfolding.

The only purpose of man on earth is to manifest God. Long aeons pass during which time man manifests his physical self instead of his spiritual divinity, but the aeons pass, and man learns his lesson eventually.

Your journey is for the purpose of making that transition from the physical dark to the spiritual Light of Illumined Mind. That is what Creation is for. God is Love. You are given your life by your Creator to learn how to express Love until you become Love.

The world of man has hardly unfolded far enough to even know what Love means. The aeons will tell it to him. His own joys and agonies will tell it to him, until some day he will know.

Peace will then come to him, with all the happiness, beauty and romance that Love is as he passes through one uplifting stage after another to become the genius, the Cosmic Knower and the supremely exalted Christ Conscious Being. The journey of the individual will then end in the ultimate Oneness of God and man.

Q.3 of 3 Why am I here?

Question. Why am I here?

Answer. You are here to manifest God, your Creator, as one unit of the idea of man. You are here to become an actor in the Cosmic Drama of Cause and Effect which the Master Playwright has conceived to express the idea of Love, upon which basis the universe is founded. That means that you are to take the very long journey of life which begins in a single cell of protoplasm. That single cell is centered by your Soul, which is your Mind-control during the long ages of building your body under the guidance and constant co-operation of your centering Soul. That journey takes millions of years of gradual transformation from physical awareness of body to spiritual awareness of Mind. The journey ends in complete universality, or Oneness with God.

 

The journey of the unfoldment of the man idea, which we call the human race, is divided into five stages. They are as follows:

1. The first stage was the primate, unmoral, instinctively controlled period of mere body building and fighting for survival. Man, the fighter and procurer of food, was supreme.

   The man idea begins with the slow building of a body when the planet spirals far enough away from the sun to have prepared the conditions which are necessary for the unfoldment of human life.

   Woman was only considered man’s chattel and slave. This stage ended at the dawn of Consciousness.

2. The second stage is the present pagan, or barbarian sense-dominated stage. It is the beginning of awareness between right and wrong, and the elevation of woman to an ever-increasing importance, but never of sufficient importance to create a balanced civilization. Even today it is still a man’s world. Instinctive control lessens as man recognizes the unfolding of Mind and exercises free will. This barbarian stage is characterized by greed for material possessions and power over others, which it acquired by might-over-right practices. This barbarian stage will continue as long as man kills man, believes in evil and suppresses woman to less than full equality with man.
3. The third stage is the Mind-dominated first stage of Consciousness, or the genius period. It is the second moral period of higher ideals and greater God-awareness. It is also the first stage where man knowingly becomes co-creator with God by being able to transfer invisible Mind idea into visible body forms. The genius fully comprehends the rhythms of God’s language and interprets those rhythms for other men. The barbarian and the genius stages overlap, for there have already been several hundred geniuses among the billions of barbarians. During the genius stage the idea of evil almost entirely disappears.
4. The fourth stage is the Cosmic Conscious period of unfolding. It is the higher moral and spiritual stage of complete God-awareness. This period is distinctly marked by the disappearance of instinctive control, sense of evil and forgetfulness of body. It is the stage of the mystic who is almost fully omniscient and omnipotent. Twenty or thirty humans have already reached this high stage.
5. The fifth stage is Christ Consciousness, or complete awareness of unity with God. This is the final stage of universality, omniscience and omnipotence in man. In the Christ Conscious being Love has been fully manifested on earth and evil has fully disappeared. One man only has ever reached this final stage of all men.

Mystics

Beyond the genius is the mystic.
The mystic is one who has attained cosmic consciousness by a complete severance of the seats of consciousness and sensation. He is then almost totally unaware of his body and is totally aware of the Light of God centering him. Omniscience comes to him in that timeless blinding flash of light which is characteristic of a complete severance. This experience was described in the illumination of St. Paul. Every timeless flash of intense inspiration which comes to any man is a partial illumination, for inspiration is the manner in which new knowledge comes to man from the cosmos.
Of all mystics, Jesus was the outstanding example of all time. He was the only One in all history to have known complete cosmic-conscious unity with God.
The Bible refers to cosmic-conscious experience as the illumination or being in the Light or in the Spirit.
In all history less than forty cases of partial cosmic consciousness are known, and probably not more that three of these anywhere nearly approached the complete state of illumination experienced by the Nazarene.
Cosmic Consciousness is the ultimate goal of all mankind. All will know it before the long journey of man is finished, but there are many in this new age just dawning who are ready for it in part, if not fully.
Many desire it fully, but it is best that it come bit by bit for the complete severance is very dangerous. The ecstasy of this supreme experience is so great that one does not wish to come back. The power of severance of soul from body is within easy accomplishment, but to step back into the body is very difficult.

(Walter Russell, The Secret of Light, pp 27-28)

The Evil

• The first and most conspicuous effect of Illumination into full Cosmic Consciousness is ones awareness of the utter absence of evil, sin, or shame. There is no thought of such an unbalanced condition while in the one ecstatic condition of perfect balance, which the Light of love is.
• That which Man calls evil, sin, or shame or any of its attributes, such as anger, jealousy, worry, fear, cruelty, lust, or the greeds which lead to murders and wars are unbalanced conditions created by Man who has not yet learned the law love, which demands equal interchange between all opposite conditions in all human relations.
• Man, himself, has manufactured evil, sin, and shame because of the impossibility of keeping himself in balance due to his greeds, which impel him to take what he wants without giving in order to be regiven. There is no such thing in Nature as evil, sin, or shame.
• Nature is never unbalanced. The heavens give light and rains to earth and earth regives equally of her forests, crops, and vapors that replenish the heavens.
• That is Natures manifestation of the law of love, which keeps Nature ever in balance.

(Walter und Lao Russell, Home Study Course in Cosmic Consciousnes, Unit 2, Lesson 7)

How to free man from his belief in EVIL, which seemingly enslaved him.

• in his SOUL there is GOOD naught but GOOD
• in his SENSES, there is EVIL – due to fear and greed. Senses of man lead him to do evil things because of his BELIEF in EVIL, which his senses made into his own image to become that which he believes himself to be.
• “Man is not bad”, “He is not evil. There is no sin anywhere. There is naught but GOOD.
• Man is still in his early dawn and does not yet know how to live, or how to love. He does not yet know WHO he is, or WHY he is here. Too few among men have yet awakened to their divinity. Therefore, while man is still so new he must be forgiven, for as Jesus said: ‘They know not what they do’ “.

SENSES

• Illusions of matter of motion deceive the senses that look upon transciency as real
• There are realities that senses can never reach