I will give it a good try, with my limited knowledge of Esoteric and Bible subjects, to respond (not necessarily answer) few queries that were raised. Pardon the length of the post.
misery came with the same free gift
There is no misery (in receiving or giving knowledge of the path of truth) that is what I wanted to convey. For someone who is committed to God’s path of truth and divine knowledge, God will somehow make it happen for you. God will place the right people, whom you can ask all the right questions, in front of you. But it is your duty to let go your ego and present the humble inquisitiveness to the learnt ones. Like Bible say, they got it free and they are equally willing to share it with the right people. You have to find these divine souls yourself.
If you live in a western culture or the other side of the ‘practical’ part of the world, that is no excuse. If you search you will find them in the most unexpected parts of the world, I have experienced this myself in few Western countries.
Is this Kingdom to be found in a book? There are so many books, each with different directions,
The board on the road says where a road leads to but to reach that destination you need to travel in that direction. Bible gives all what is required for that journey. It tells you even what to do to reach there. Things that you must do. If you want to use Bible for this purpose, then the first thing is to believe that Bible can help you, even after you have reached that destination.
Too many spirits, or too many interpretations?
Can we start with one, the one that matters, the easiest one - Jesus? Could you kindly consider him as the divine one who emptied himself of the God? Emptied to remain human, emptied to bless the fallen, emptied to remain a servant. Most merciful who loves the most sinned ones with the same love as the most noble one? He is readily available to anyone (with no knowledge of yoga, meditation, or any special skill or secret teachings). His omnipresent divine self is ever present to approach. Approach him with nothing, you don’t even need to have a good heart, you can be as cruel, as cunning, as bad as you want to be, but still the merciful Jesus is available to you. He wants to help the fallen one’s the most, they are the ones who need help. Those who are blessed to receive a better education, better family, better life will find it difficult to understand this rather bizarre kindness. In their world for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. That is science, which ends in the realm of Jesus who’s love and kindness is unconditional. You don’t have to be born Christian, nor a regular church goer, nor a nun or saint to get his proximity and guidance. Open up yourself and surrender, remain a servant and he will be there when you need him.
Why does it have to be so complicated?
There are too much complications and confusions in the path to God in Eastern Philosophy. But, primarily for Westerners, Jesus made it simple and straight. How lucky of you guys! The Yogi of Yogi’s is available to you any moment you think about him. Jesus Yogi is ready to take all your sins and give you blessings in return. He who is most powerful, enough to accept all the sinners and return pure love, with no conditions is available for anyone. You can go back and lead your regular sinful life, and get back to him when you are tired, fallen and feels like need to recharge. Bible says it will only take you 6 days for that
Does God *select* the most righteous, perhaps in the manner of *natural selection*?
He does not make any selection. It is your mind and deeds which perceive that decision. If you have elevated yourself through righteous deeds and practices (like Yoga) that leads to better understanding of yourself, you will find yourself close to him naturally. Jesus like all divine yogis is available with no conditions attached. Your readiness to reach matters. In all senses Jesus is a pure Aghori. Aghora, in Sanskrit, means something which is in its most simple, clean, uncomplicated, reassuring, soothing condition. Aghori is the state of a Yogi when he becomes pure light itself.
Don’t Google Aghoris, you will be presented with human flesh eating, ash cladded, naked, ruthless human beings claiming to be Aghoris sect from North India.
I have met many who claim to talk to the spirit.
Talking to spirits, aren’t we all blessed with that right? If you haven’t done that till date, start that today. You can talk to any spirit, but what you expect is the spirit to talk back to you. See, you are already off the topic of talking to spirit, what you really want is to listen to a spirit.
Spirits as per Eastern Philosophy are the ones who are in a single state of ‘Bhootha’ or a combination of less than five elements. Pancha Bhootha five great elements, also five physical elements, is a group of five basic elements - Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Aether. It will be quite challenging to interact with an energy that is in its own pure elemental state.
There is a method, derived and practiced in old Kashmir, to read and understand fire. Similarly, you can find natural element reading practices in Hawaiian (water) and Red Indian (air) cultures. I stand ready to be corrected on these claims.
Unless you are trained in any of these absolutely rare practices, it will be a mere claim that someone is having a 2-way communication with an element. I am sure we are not taking about getting burned by fire accidentally as an interaction.
If you are still keen to talk to spirits the easiest way to start that would be to first expand your consciousness (your prana) beyond your body limits and then capture even the slightest difference in that prana in a physical proximity. This way you can start to use your 5 senses more effectively or efficiently.
all change happens in the direction of greatest satisfaction, both in reality and in the abstract
Entropy of the universe is increasing, in that sense chaos and confusion is the one that is on rise. As per Eastern Philosophy also that is true, the only good expectation is that Satya Yuga (time of truth) is the one that is next.
Shiva who was advaita (not two) in the beginning wanted to be dvaita (two) but that thought of two created the knowledge of two which is in sense one. The longing of the soul to be one with the universe is the cause of all greatest dissatisfaction
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Aether is the material that fills the region of the universe above the terrestrial sphere (science is not yet advanced to consider its presence in terrestrial sphere) if that is so and we can use our mind to reach (assume in our own mind) any part of the universe in a second I would say these two have some strong connection or even say they both know (experience) Aether. If so does our mind miss its freedom of expression of being one with the rest of the aether that fills the universe? Can that cause a bit if dissatisfaction?
Can you?
Indestructible friend of the universe, don’t be evil Can you see him now