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Namah Perspective

But one thing is for sure — if we sink into because, if we take waking consciousness
materialism, and forget that our true nature to be real and concrete, we can get sucked
is immortal Spirit (as happens to billions), quickly into its vortex, sacrificing ethics and
we cannot learn those subtle lessons — and compassion in order to win the pretty baubles
so we reincarnate over and over again ad of this world, and making truckloads of fresh
nauseam, until we wake up, realise we are bad karma in the process; unfortunately,
far more than our bodies, minds, emotions, deprived of or dismissive of Eastern wisdom,
track records and ‘possessions’ — and firmly billions spend lifetime after lifetime trying
decide to graduate from samsara. to perfect an inherently imperfect relative
comfort-zone. Take the pure guidance of
Amazing how numinous nuggets can stay Eastern sages if you can and never forget it —
with us for a long time, ripening quietly that cycling endlessly through the false realm
within. During a long recent illness, during of samsara is a total waste of our precious time.
which I was forced to re-investigate higher
teachings on Oneness just to keep up my Recalling my guru’s words made me think
flagging spirits, many revelations flashed. of the years in this current lifetime that I
One is that this world we exist within is as have seemingly wasted being seriously ill.
ephemeral as a dream; it is convincingly real And yet, although I could feel Yama’s cold
for two major reasons: 1) the element of time, breath on my neck at least a couple of times
which seduces us into believing the collective (Yama is the God of Death), it was these awful
delusion, and 2) the mystical truth that the times that forced me to find ways to plug
waking world is supported by the collective the remaining sink holes in my spiritual
unconscious and conscious billions. knowledge. Coward that I am — in the sense
that, no matter what its hidden benefits, I
We may honestly believe that we inhabit the would never again ask for sickness — I now
same reality as the other seven billion folk believe that some obdurate seekers need to
on our planet, but in truth we each inhabit be laid low over and over again before we
our own slice of reality. Why is this? Simply can fully digest a message.
because no two beings perceive the same
object or person or whatever in exactly the Since all a High Being wants is to see us turn
same way; this teaching (investigate SSuunyataa into the blazing light and love that is the
if you care to) is something we have to substratum of our nature, such a one employs
mull over, investigate and study deeply for every weapon in the cosmic arsenal to get us
ourselves, or it will not make the slightest bit going in the right direction. If this means we
of sense and we are likely to flounce away have to lose our assets and get terribly ill, be
in a snit. conned and betrayed by close ones — all in
order to drive in to our thick skulls the false
The powers of delusion are phenomenal; it and ephemeral nature of relative reality —
takes the honed wisdom knife of a Spiritual then so be it; there is nothing like the constant
Warrior to slice through the myriad veils of battering of the ego and looming physical
the Cosmic Enchantress. Nevertheless, it’s death to force us to dis-identify with body,
well worth accepting this challenge, if only mind, emotions and assets — for it is all of

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