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><channel><title>mero soch&#187; spirituality</title> <atom:link href="http://www.merosoch.com/tag/spirituality/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.merosoch.com</link> <description>Can I : I CAN</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:27:52 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0</generator> <item><title>Thoughts inspired by the book &#8216;Bringers of the Dawn Teachings from the Pleidians&#8217; by Barbara Marciniak</title><link>http://www.merosoch.com/2010/04/15/send-love/</link> <comments>http://www.merosoch.com/2010/04/15/send-love/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:28:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Vaibhav Dugar</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chakra]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free will]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Heart]]></category> <category><![CDATA[i Read]]></category> <category><![CDATA[love]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.merosoch.com/?p=469</guid> <description><![CDATA[When you send love, you open yourself, your chakras, your heart and your windows to become receptive to the plethora of information that is available in the universe. We live in a world of free will. Due to which we are either doing what we want to do and believe in or we are doing [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>When you send love, you open yourself, your <a
class="zem_slink" title="Chakra" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra">chakras</a>, your heart and your windows to become receptive to the plethora of information that is available in the universe.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>We live in a world of free will. Due to which we are either doing what we want to do and believe in or we are doing what others want us to do, hence living their world.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>To get a control of yourself, of your life consciously command, intend, watch yourself, maintain humour at all times and maintain the idea that you are evolving.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>Your logical mind has a place, a function and a purpose, but that it is not your identity. The logical mind is over used by many people. It is over taxed and abused and when you overuse and abuse the logical mind, you create stress upon your body. You do not always need to understand logically what you are experiencing.</p></blockquote><p><strong><br
/> Thoughts inspired by the book &#8216;Bringers of the Dawn Teachings from the Pleidians&#8217; by Barbara Marciniak</strong></p><div
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.merosoch.com/?p=465</guid> <description><![CDATA[I am the light and I am my own creator. I have created myself; and I have created this world. I have created the trees, the plants, the air, the animals, I’ve created them all. I have created us, and I have created problems and its solutions. Presently, I am trying to figure out why [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a
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class="size-full wp-image-466 alignleft" title="the light" src="http://www.merosoch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/the-light.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="187" /></a>I am the light and I am my own creator. I have created myself; and I have created this world. I have created the trees, the plants, the air, the animals, I’ve created them all. I have created us, and I have created problems and its solutions.<br
/> Presently, I am trying to figure out why a certain creation of mine wants to teach me. There is a purpose and reason in everything. Two energies meet, they exchange energies, they learn and if the need be they leave after the reasons are fulfilled.</p><p>There is one certain energy that I have created.  We have shared an intense exchange of energy. The other energy seems to have learnt what it had to but it just can’t find the reason to leave. Sometimes, I feel the exchange of energy and learning is on life support system. When I get the feeling that the two energies are finally moving their own separate ways; the other energy comes back!</p><p>I am rather surprised because according to my understanding we have learnt what we had to. What remains now? How should I react? I am confused on the why’s but if it keeps returning the way it is, it only means there is more to be learnt and I am happy to learn and exchange energies.<br
/> I am the Light <img
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.merosoch.com/?p=427</guid> <description><![CDATA[I happened to read an extract on a friends page about a person called Ramtha, channeled by J Z Knight from the book &#8216;The White Book&#8221;. I was left speechless and in deep introspection. The length dissuaded me, but as I slowly progressed into the extract, I felt a deep connection to the story. There&#8217;s [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I happened to read an extract on a friends page about a person called Ramtha, channeled by J Z Knight from the book &#8216;The White Book&#8221;.<br
/> I was left speechless and in deep introspection. The length dissuaded me, but as I slowly progressed into the extract, I felt a deep connection to the story. There&#8217;s a lot that I learnt about myself while reading through it, the aggression and warrior like instincts; my love for The Sun and Nature; The feeling of the wind playing through my hair and kissing my cheeks or my transformation into the wind and sparks whilst I meditate.</p><p>I hope this extract touches you and teaches you about yourself the way it has moved me and so many others who have come across it or the book. This is an extract from Chapter 2.</p><p><strong>Chapter 2 &#8211; I Am Ramtha</strong><br
/> &#8220;I have done it all. And for that, entity, I gained<br
/> wisdom from everything I had ever done and I will<br
/> never have to do it again. I am virtuous, entity, for I<br
/> have done all things to become what I am. How do<br
/> you know what love is, entity, until you have hated?<br
/> How do you know what life is until you are at the<br
/> edge of dying, and the sun will set in spite of your<br
/> death and the fowl won &#8216;t even look at you. You don&#8217;t<br
/> know that until you have come to the point, as it were<br
/> indeed, of realization. &#8221;<br
/> - Ramtha</p><p><img
class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-428" title="Ram" src="http://www.merosoch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ramayan-3392-ad-20070809110351767_640w.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="131" /><br
/> I am Ramtha, the Ram. In the ancient language of my times<br
/> it means &#8220;the God.&#8221; I am the great Ram of the Hindu people, for<br
/> I was the first man born of the womb of woman and the loins of<br
/> man who ever ascended from this plane. I learned how to ascend<br
/> not through the teachings of any man but through an innate<br
/> understanding of the God that lives in everything. I was also a<br
/> man who hated and despised, who slew and conquered and ruled<br
/> right into my enlightenment.<br
/> I was the first conqueror this plane knew. I began a march<br
/> that lasted sixty-three years, and I conquered three-quarters of<br
/> the known world. But my greatest conquest was of myself,<br
/> coming to terms with my own existence. When I learned to love<br
/> myself and embrace the whole of life, I ascended with the wind<br
/> into forever.<br
/> I ascended in front of my people on the northeast side<br
/> of the mount called Indus. My people, who numbered more<br
/> than two million, were a mixture of Lemurians, the people<br
/> from Ionia &#8211; later to be termed Macedonia &#8211; and the<br
/> tribespeople escaping from Atlatia, the land you call Atlantis.<br
/> It is my people&#8217;s lineage that now makes up the populace of<br
/> India, Tibet, Nepal, and Southern Mongolia.<br
/> I lived but one lifetime upon this plane, what is called in<br
/> your understanding of time 35,000 years ago. I was born in<br
/> ignorance and desperation to an unfortunate people, pilgrims from<br
/> the land called Lemuria living in the slums of Onai, the greatest<br
/> port city of Atlatia in its southern sphere. I came to Atlatia during<br
/> what is called the last hundred years, before the continent broke<br
/> up and great waters covered its land.</p><p>At that time Atlatia was a civilization of people with great<br
/> intellect, whose endowment for scientific understanding was<br
/> superb. Their science was even greater than what you have at this<br
/> time in your scientific community, for the Atlatians had begun to<br
/> understand and use the principles of light. They knew how to<br
/> transform light into pure energy through what you term lasers.<br
/> They even had aero ships that traveled on light, a science provided<br
/> to them through an intercommunication with entities from other<br
/> star systems. Though their ships were very primitive, they were<br
/> nonetheless mobile and airborne. Because of the Atlatians&#8217; great<br
/> involvement with technology, they worshiped the intellect. Thus<br
/> intellectual science became the religion of the Atlatians.<br
/> The Lemurians were quite different from the Atlatians. Their<br
/> social system was built upon communication through thought.<br
/> They had not the advancement of technology, only a great spiritual<br
/> understanding, for my forefathers were great in their knowingness<br
/> of unseen values. They worshiped and revered that which was<br
/> beyond the moon, beyond the stars. They loved an essence that<br
/> could not be identified. It was a power they called the Unknown<br
/> God. Because the Lemurians worshiped only this God, the<br
/> Atlatians despised them, for they despised anything that was not<br
/> progressive.<br
/> In the days of the Ram when I was a little boy, life was<br
/> destitute and very arduous. At that particular point in time Atlatia<br
/> had already lost its technology, for its scientific centers in the<br
/> north had been destroyed long ago. In their experiments with<br
/> traveling on light, the Atlatians had pierced the cloud cover that<br
/> completely surrounded your planet, much as it surrounds Venus<br
/> today. When they pierced the stratosphere, great waters fell and a<br
/> freeze occurred, which put most of Lemuria and the northern<br
/> parts of Atlatia under great oceans; thus the people from Lemuria<br
/> and the north of Atlatia fled to the southern regions of Atlatia.<br
/> Once technology was lost in the north, life gradually became<br
/> primitive in the south. During the hundred years before all of<br
/> Atlatia was submerged, the southernmost region was a primitive<br
/> Atlatia that had degenerated into the rule of tyrants. The tyrants<br
/> governed the people not through a republic but through irrefutable<br
/> law. In the government of irrefutable law, the Lemurians were<br
/> considered the dung of the earth, less than a dog in the street.<br
/> Contemplate for a moment being spat upon, urinated upon,<br
/> and allowed to wash it away only with your tears. Contemplate<br
/> knowing that the dogs in the streets have greater nourishment<br
/> than you who hunger for anything to kill the agony in your belly.<br
/> In the streets of Onai, it was common to see the<br
/> brutalization of children and the beating and rape of women. It<br
/> was common to see Atlatians pass a starving Lemurian on the<br
/> road and hold their noses with kerchiefs of fine linen dipped in<br
/> jasmine and rose water, for we were considered stinking, wretched<br
/> things. We were the no-things, the soulless, mindless wastes of<br
/> intellect because we were without the scientific understanding of<br
/> such things as gases and light. Because we did not possess an<br
/> intellectual bent, as it were, we were turned into slaves to work<br
/> the fields.<br
/> That was when I was born upon this plane. That was my<br
/> time. What sort of dream was I in? The advent of man into the<br
/> arrogance and stupidity of intellect.<br
/> I did not blame my mother that I did not know who my<br
/> father was. I did not blame my brother that our fathers were not<br
/> the same, nor did I blame my mother for our absolute poverty.<br
/> As a little boy I watched as my mother was taken into the streets<br
/> and had her sweetness taken from her. After my mother was taken,<br
/> I watched a child grow inside her belly and I knew whose it was.<br
/> And I watched my mother weep, for would there be another child<br
/> in the streets to suffer as we had suffered in this promised land?<br
/> Because my mother was too weak to bear the child alone, I<br
/> helped her give birth to my little sister. I scrounged in the streets<br
/> for food, killed dogs and wildfowl, and s tole grain from<br
/> proprietors late in the evening, for I was very deft on my feet. I<br
/> fed my mother, who in turn suckled my little sister.<br
/> I did not blame my little sister for the death of my beloved<br
/> mother, for the little girl suckled away all of my mother&#8217;s strength.<br
/> My sister became diarrhetic and could not hold what was going<br
/> into her body, and so she too lost all the life in her body.<br
/> I laid my mother and sister together and went to gather<br
/> timbers. I put the timbers on top of them and stole away into the<br
/> night to gather fire. I said a prayer to my mother and my sister,<br
/> whom I loved greatly. Then I lit the timbers swiftly so that the<br
/> stench from their bodies would not disturb the Atlatians, for if it<br
/> did the Atlatians would fling their bodies into the desert where<br
/> the hyenas would prey upon them and tear them apart.<br
/> As I watched my mother and sister burn, my hatred for the<br
/> Atlatians increased within my being to where it became like venom<br
/> from a great viper. And I was only a little boy.<br
/> As the stench and smoke from the fire spread throughout<br
/> the valley, I thought about the Unknown God of my people. I<br
/> could not understand the injustice of this great God or why he<br
/> would create the monsters that hated my people so. What did my<br
/> mother and little sister ever do to deserve the wretched deaths<br
/> they experienced?<br
/> I did not blame the Unknown God for his inability to love<br
/> me. I did not blame him for not loving my people. I did not blame<br
/> him for the death of my mother and my little sister. I did not<br
/> blame him; I hated him.<br
/> I had no one left, for my brother was kidnapped by a satrap<br
/> and taken into subserviency into the land that would later be called<br
/> Persia. There he was abused for the pleasure of the satrap and<br
/> his need for what is called loin gratification.<br
/> I was a lad of fourteen with no meat upon my bones and<br
/> a great bitterness inside me. So I decided to do battle with the<br
/> Unknown God of my forefathers, the only thing I felt worthy<br
/> of dying by. I was determined to die, but as an honorable man.<br
/> And I felt that dying at the hands of man was a dishonorable<br
/> way to perish.<br
/> I saw a great mountain, a very mysterious place that loomed<br
/> on the distant horizon. I thought that if there were a God, he<br
/> would live there, above us all, just as those who governed our<br
/> land lived above us. If I could climb there, I thought, I would get<br
/> in touch with the Unknown God and proclaim my hatred for him<br
/> at his unfairness to humanity.<br
/> I left my hovel and journeyed for many days to reach this<br
/> great mountain, devouring locusts and ants and roots along the<br
/> way. When I reached the mount I climbed into the clouds, which<br
/> now veiled its whitened peak, in order to do battle with the<br
/> Unknown God. I called out to him, &#8220;I am a man. Why have I not<br
/> the dignity of one?&#8221; And I demanded that he show me his face,<br
/> but he ignored me.<br
/> <img
class="alignright size-medium wp-image-429" title="RAMA1" src="http://www.merosoch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/RAMA1-208x300.jpg" alt="" width="208" height="300" />I fell upon my haunches and wept heartily, until the<br
/> whiteness iced itself from my tears. When I looked up, I beheld<br
/> what seemed to be a wondrous woman holding a great sword<br
/> before me. She spoke to me saying, &#8220;0 Ram, 0 Ram, you who<br
/> are broken in Spirit, your prayers have been heard. Take this<br
/> sword and conquer yourself.&#8221; And in but a blink of my eye she<br
/> was gone.<br
/> Conquer myself? I could not turn the blade around and<br
/> hack off my own head; my arms would not reach the hilt of the<br
/> sword. Yet I found honor in this great sword. No longer did I<br
/> shiver against the great cold but found warmth instead. And when<br
/> I looked again where my tears had fallen, there grew a flower of<br
/> such sweet aroma and color that I knew the flower was of hope.<br
/> I came down from the mountain with the great sword in<br
/> my hand, a day which was recorded in the history of the Hindu<br
/> people as the terrible day of the Ram. A boy had gone to that<br
/> mountain, but a man returned. No longer frail or weak of bodily<br
/> movement, I was a Ram in every sense of the word. I was a young<br
/> man with a terrible light about me and a sword that was larger<br
/> than I was. Sometimes I think I was very slow to understand in<br
/> that existence, for I never fully realized why the wondrous sword<br
/> was so light that I could carry it, yet it was so large that nine<br
/> hands together could hold the hilt of it.<br
/> I returned from the mountain to the city of Onai. In the<br
/> fields outside the city I saw an old woman stand up and shade her<br
/> eyes to look at me a&#8217;coming. Soon all stopped their labors. Carts<br
/> stopped. Donkeys squealed. Everything became quiet. When the<br
/> people ran up to look upon my countenance, they must have been<br
/> persuaded because everyone of them took up his meager tool<br
/> and followed me into the city.<br
/> We destroyed Onai because the Atlatians spat in my eye<br
/> when I demanded they open the granaries to feed our people. So<br
/> unprepared were the Atlatians for this that they were easily<br
/> overtaken, for they did not know of battle.<br
/> I opened the granaries to our poor people, and then we<br
/> burned Onai to the ground. It never occurred to me that I couldn&#8217;t<br
/> do that, for I did not care if I lived or died at that point; I had<br
/> nothing left to live for.<br
/> When the slaughter and burning were finished, a great hurt<br
/> was still within my being, for my hatred had not been satisfied.<br
/> So I ran from the people to hide in the hills, but they followed<br
/> me in spite of all my cursing and throwing stones and spitting<br
/> at them.</p><p>&#8220;Ram, Ram, Ram, Ram,&#8221; they chanted, carrying their tools<br
/> of the field and grain tied in linens, and herding sheep and goats<br
/> before them. I shouted at the people to leave me alone and go<br
/> home. But still they came, for they no longer had a home. I was<br
/> their home.<br
/> Since they insisted on following after me wherever I went, I<br
/> gathered together all these soulless creatures of different<br
/> denominations, and they became my army, my people. And great<br
/> people were they indeed. But soldiers? Hardly. But from then on,<br
/> the great army of the Ram assembled itself. Its number in the<br
/> beginning was close to ten thousand.<br
/> From that time I was a driven entity, a barbarian, who<br
/> despised the tyranny of men. I hated man and fought, fully<br
/> expecting to die. I did not have the fear of dying that many of my<br
/> people did because I wanted to die honorably. I never knew fear.<br
/> I only knew hate.<br
/> When you lead a charge and you are the one in front, with<br
/> no one on either side of you, you have to be crazy. A person who<br
/> would do that is filled with a powerful drive called hate. So I was<br
/> very much a spectacle to be hewed down by the noblest of foe, if<br
/> they would only do me the honor. And I picked the worthiest<br
/> opponents to be my demise. But, you know, when there is an<br
/> absence of fear, there is a presence of conquering. Thus I became<br
/> a great conqueror. Before my time there was no such thing as a<br
/> conqueror, only tyrants.<br
/> I created war. I was the first conqueror this plane ever knew.<br
/> Until my time there was no warring faction against the arrogance<br
/> of the Atlatians. None. I created it. In my anger and hostility and<br
/> my desire to be noble and honorable to what I felt, I became<br
/> what you would term a great entity. Know you what a hero is?<br
/> Well, I was one indeed. The hero salvages life and puts an end to<br
/> the wrongs of life, not realizing that in doing so, he is also creating<br
/> a wrong. I desired to do away with all forms of tyranny and I did,<br
/> only to become the very thing I despised.<br
/> Thereafter I was driven to slay tyranny and to make the<br
/> color of my skin more respectable. And from all the sieges and<br
/> battles we put forth &#8211; the lands that we crossed and all the people<br
/> we freed along the way &#8211; one by one my army grew, and great<br
/> became the legend of the Ram and his army.<br
/> <a
href="http://www.merosoch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ramayan-3392-ad-20070809110409314_640w.jpg"><img
class="alignright size-medium wp-image-430" title="Ramtha" src="http://www.merosoch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ramayan-3392-ad-20070809110409314_640w-300x299.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="299" /></a>I was an imbecile, a barbarian, a buffoon, an ignorant entity<br
/> of savage acclaim. And for ten years into my march, I warred<br
/> upon innocents and hacked and burned my way across many<br
/> lands until I was run through with a great sword. Had they left<br
/> it in me, I might have been all right, but they pulled it out to<br
/> make sure that I would bleed to death. I saw the river of life<br
/> ebbing from my being onto a snowy, marble floor that seemingly<br
/> was perfect, only to see that the river of scarlet had found a<br
/> crack in it.</p><p>As I lay there on the cold, marble floor, watching the blood<br
/> issue forth from my being, there came a voice. It spoke to me and<br
/> it said, &#8220;Stand up.&#8221; It said, &#8220;Stand up.&#8221;<br
/> I pulled up my head and put forth my palms. Then I began<br
/> to pull under me the knees of my being. As I raised my<br
/> countenance so that my head was erect and even, I pulled up<br
/> my left foot and stabilized it. Then gathering all of my strength,<br
/> I put my hand upon my knee, my fist into my wound, and I<br
/> stood up.<br
/> As I stood there &#8211; with blood issuing from my mouth,<br
/> flowing through my fingers, and running down my legs &#8211; my<br
/> assailants, who were now certain that I was immortal, fled from<br
/> me. My soldiers laid siege to the city and burned it to the ground.<br
/> I would never forget the voice that made me stand up, that<br
/> kept me from dying. In the years to come I would seek to find the<br
/> face of that voice.<br
/> I was given to the court of women in my march to be cared<br
/> for. And I had to endure the stinking poultices of vulture grease<br
/> that were put upon my chest. I had to be bossed by the women<br
/> and undressed before their eyes. I could not even urinate or spill<br
/> dung from my anus in private but had to do it in front of them, a<br
/> most humiliating experience. I have acclaimed even to this day<br
/> that the vulture grease was not to heal me but was so wretched<br
/> that when I breathed it, it kept life in me. During my healing,<br
/> much of my pride and hate had to give way to survival.<br
/> While I was recovering from my ghastly wound and couldn&#8217;t<br
/> do anything else, I began to contemplate everything around me.<br
/> One day I watched an old woman pass from this plane, clutching<br
/> heartily the crudely woven linen she had made for her son who<br
/> had perished long ago. I saw the woman pass in the light of the<br
/> noonday sun, life ebbing from her body in choking strokes of<br
/> weeping. As I watched the old woman shrivel in the light, her<br
/> mouth opened to an aghast expression and her eyes became glazed,<br
/> unaffected by the light. Nothing moved, save the breeze and her<br
/> old hair.</p><p>I thought about the woman and her son who had perished,<br
/> and I thought about their great intelligence. Then I looked back<br
/> at the sun, which never perished. It was the very same sun the old<br
/> woman had seen through a crack in the roof of her hovel when<br
/> she first opened her eyes as a babe, and it was the last thing she<br
/> saw when she died.<br
/> I looked again at the sun. You know, it was oblivious that<br
/> she had died. I watched it as we buried the old woman under a<br
/> tall poplar tree by the river.<br
/> As the sun set that evening, I cursed it. I watched it set upon<br
/> the mantle of the mountains like a great fiery jewel, scarlet-eyed. I<br
/> looked upon the purpled mountains and the valley, already shrouded<br
/> in mist, and saw rods of the sun&#8217;s light gild all things and make<br
/> them illusionarily beautiful. I saw clouds, once the pallor of blue,<br
/> become vividly alive in hues of scariet, fire-rose, and pink.<br
/> I continued to watch the great light as it retired behind the<br
/> mountains, now looming like piercing teeth on the horizon, until<br
/> the last rods of its beauty had descended behind the last mount.<br
/> I heard a night bird cry above me, and I looked into the heavens<br
/> to see the pale moon waxing against a darkening sky. A breeze<br
/> came up and as it blew my hair and dried my tears it made me sick<br
/> in my being.</p><p>You know, I was a great warrior. With a sword I could<br
/> cleave a man in half in a moment. I had beheaded, hacked, and<br
/> butchered. I had smelled blood and burned people. But why did<br
/> I do all of that? The sun set in its magnificence anyway. The<br
/> bird cried in the night anyway. And the moon came up in spite<br
/> of it all.<br
/> That is when I began to ponder the Unknown God. The<br
/> only thing I truly wanted was to understand that which seemed<br
/> so awesome, so mysterious, and so very far away. And what was<br
/> man? What was he? Why was he not greater than the sun? Why<br
/> couldn&#8217;t the old woman live? Why was man &#8211; though the<br
/> teeming multitude upon the plane, the creating force, the unifying<br
/> force &#8211; the most vulnerable of all creation? If man was so<br
/> important, as my people told me, why wasn&#8217;t he important<br
/> enough that when he died, the sun stood still to mourn his<br
/> passing, or the moon turned purple, or the fowl ceased to fly?<br
/> Man was very unimportant, it seemed, for all these things<br
/> continued in spite of his peril.<br
/> All I wanted was to know.<br
/> I did not have a teacher to teach me of the Unknown God,<br
/> for I did not trust any man. I had seen and lost so much through<br
/> the wickedness of man and his altered thinking. I had seen man<br
/> despise man and think him to be soulless. I had seen innocents<br
/> gutted and burned out of fear. I had seen children, naked on<br
/> slave blocks, examined by perverted souls who plucked from them<br
/> their hairs of adolescence so they would still have the image of<br
/> young children as they were raped. I had seen priests and prophets<br
/> invent, through their hatred for mankind, creatures of great<br
/> torment and ugliness so they could govern and enslave people<br
/> through the rule of religious forms.<br
/> There was no man living that I would have as my teacher,<br
/> for any man living had altered thinking, had taken that which was<br
/> really pure and innocent and altered it through his own limited<br
/> understanding. So I wanted nothing to do with a God created<br
/> through man&#8217;s understanding, for if man created the God, the<br
/> God was fallible.</p><p>It was life&#8217;s elements, the truest teachers of all, that taught<br
/> me of the Unknown God. I learned from days. I learned from<br
/> nights. I learned from tender, insignificant life that abounded even<br
/> in the face of destruction and war.<br
/> I contemplated the sun in its advent of glory upon the<br
/> horizon. I watched its journey through the heavens, ending up in<br
/> the western sphere and passing into its sleep. I learned that the<br
/> sun, though mute, subtly controlled life, for all who were brave<br
/> and gallant and warring with one another ceased their warring<br
/> when the sun went down.<br
/> I watched the beauty of the moon in her pale light as she<br
/> danced across the heavens, illuminating the darkness in mysterious<br
/> and wonderful ways. I saw the fires from our encampment and<br
/> how they lit up the evening sky. I listened to the wildfowl landing<br
/> on the water, birds rustling in their night nest, and children and<br
/> their laughter. I observed falling stars, nightingales, the frost on<br
/> the reeds, and the lake silvered with ice to create the illusion of<br
/> another world. I saw the leaves of olive trees turn from emerald<br
/> to silver as the wind blew through them.<br
/> I observed women standing in the river as they gathered<br
/> water in their urns, their clothing tied up in knots to reveal their<br
/> alabaster knees. I listened to the clatter of the women&#8217;s gossip<br
/> and the teasing in their laughter. I smelled the smoke from distant<br
/> fires and the garlic and wine on the breath of my men.<br
/> It was not until I observed and pondered life and its<br
/> ongoingness that I discovered who the Unknown God truly was.<br
/> I reasoned that the Unknown God was not the Gods created<br
/> through the altered thinking of man. I realized that the Gods in<br
/> men&#8217;s minds are only the personalities of the things they fear and<br
/> respect the most; that the true God is the ongoing essence that<br
/> permits man to create and play out his illusions, however he<br
/> chooses, and that will still be there when man returns yet again<br
/> another spring, another life. I realized that it is in the power and the<br
/> ongoingness of the life force where the Unknown God truly lies.<br
/> Who was the Unknown God? It was me, and the birds in<br
/> their night nest, the frost on the reeds, the morning dawn, and<br
/> evening sky. It was the sun and the moon, children and their<br
/> laughter, alabaster knees and running water, and the smell of<br
/> garlic and leather and brass. This understanding took a long<br
/> time for me to grasp, though it had been right in front of me all<br
/> the time. The Unknown God wasn&#8217;t beyond the moon or the<br
/> sun. It was all around me. And with this new birth of reasoning,<br
/> I began to embrace life, to hold that dear to me, and to find a<br
/> reason to live. There was more than blood and death and the<br
/> stench of war. There was life, far greater than we had ever<br
/> perceived it to be.<br
/> lt was through this realization that I would understand in<br
/> the years to come that man is the greatest of all things; that the<br
/> only reason the sun is ongoing, while man dies, is the sun never<br
/> even contemplates death. All it knows is to be.<br
/> When I realized through contemplative thought who the<br
/> Unknown God was and what it was, I did not wish to wither and<br
/> die, as the old woman had died. There must be a way, I thought,<br
/> to be as ongoing as the sun.</p><p>Once I had healed from the dire wound to my body, I had<br
/> little to do but to sit upon a plateau and watch my army grow fat<br
/> and lazy. One day as I looked to the horizon to see the vague<br
/> outline of ghostly mountains and valleys yet uncharted, I<br
/> wondered what would it be like to be the Unknown God, the life<br
/> element. How could I be part of this essence that is ongoing?<br
/> That is when the wind played a jest upon me and insulted<br
/> me beyond my means. It blew up my cloak, which was long and<br
/> regal, and dumped it on top of my head, a most embarrassing<br
/> thing. Not a very noble position for a conqueror. Then the wind<br
/> caused a wonderful pillar of saffron-colored dust to form a<br
/> column beside me all the way up into the heavens. Then when I<br
/> was not paying enough attention, the wind ceased, allowing all<br
/> the dust to fall upon me.<br
/> Then the wind went whistling down the canyon, down to<br
/> where the river flowed, and on through the wonderful olive<br
/> orchards, turning the leaves from emerald to silver. And it blew a<br
/> beautiful maiden&#8217;s skirt up around her waist, with all the giggling<br
/> that went on from that. And then it blew the hat from a little<br
/> child&#8217;s head and the child went racing after it, laughing gleefully.<br
/> I demanded that the wind come back to me, but it only<br
/> laughed in its gales in the canyon. Then when I was blue in the<br
/> face from shouting orders, I sat back down upon my haunches<br
/> and it came and blew in my face softly. That is freedom.<br
/> While there was no man I would have as my ideal, the wind<br
/> performed itself to be very much an ideal for me. You cannot see<br
/> the wind, yet when it comes upon you in a fury, you are assailed.<br
/> And no matter how grand and powerful you are, you cannot<br
/> declare war upon the wind. What can you do to it? Cleave it with<br
/> your broadsword? Hack it with your ax? Spit upon it? It will only<br
/> throw it back in your face.<br
/> What else could man be, I thought, that would give him<br
/> such free movement, such power; that could never be captivated<br
/> by the limited nature of man; that would permit him to be in all<br
/> places at all times and, unlike man, never dies?<br
/> To me the wind was an ultimate essence, for it is ongoing,<br
/> free-moving, all-consuming. It has no boundaries and no form.<br
/> It is magical, exploratory, and adventurous, and that indeed is<br
/> the closest resemblance there is to the God essence of life. And<br
/> the wind never judges man. The wind never forsakes man. The<br
/> wind, if you call it, will come to you through love. Ideals should<br
/> be like that.<br
/> So I desired to become the wind. And I contemplated on it<br
/> for years and years. That became my ideal. That was what I wanted<br
/> to be. That was what all my thoughts were bent on becoming. I<br
/> contemplated the wind and aligned myself with its elusiveness<br
/> and lightness and contours that are indefinable. And as I<br
/> contemplated the wind, it was the wind that I became in my search<br
/> for becoming.<br
/> The first occurrence was not until six years after I had been<br
/> run through. Every evening I would go and sit upon my solitary<br
/> plateau, gaze into the moon with her soft pallor, and contemplate<br
/> the wind. And there came a time, much to my surprise, when I<br
/> found myself aloft in the heavens and did not know who I was<br
/> when I turned to look down.<br
/> In but a moment I realized that I was far away from my<br
/> simple speck of a body down on the plateau. When I looked down<br
/> upon my embodiment, I felt fear for the first time since I was run<br
/> through. It was fear that brought me back to the body.<br
/> I opened my eyes to a cold/hot sweat over the realization<br
/> that I had been elsewhere, outside of the prison of my<br
/> embodiment. I was in paradise because I was sure that I had<br
/> become the wind. I flung myself to the ground and praised God:<br
/> the Source, the Power, the Cause, the Wind. I would never forget<br
/> that splendid moment when I became the grace and beauty and<br
/> bountiful life of the wind. And I reasoned that what allowed me<br
/> to become that was my complete determination to become my<br
/> ideal, always holding clear in thought the vision of what I wanted<br
/> to become.<br
/> The next eve I went to my place of solitary movement,<br
/> contemplated the wind with exuberant joy, and I became nothing.<br
/> I tried again and again and again. I knew that my experience was<br
/> not simply my imagination. I had seen a different perspective. I<br
/> had been in the air as a dove or a hawk and had seen my pitiful<br
/> self below me.<br
/> Nothing did I want, nothing did I desire &#8211; nothing &#8211; except<br
/> the one thought of becoming that freedom. But no matter how<br
/> hard I struggled and how much sweat broke out upon my body<br
/> and how much cursing followed thereafter, I didn&#8217;t go anywhere.<br
/> I stayed &#8211; and much heavier than before &#8211; because I had become<br
/> more aware, mind you, of how heavy I was. But I never lost sight<br
/> of my ideal, nor did I ever forget that moment of feeling when I<br
/> first looked down upon my pitiful body.<br
/> It was a long time before I became the wind again, two<br
/> years in your time, reckoning from the first event. This time it<br
/> happened not upon contemplating the wind but upon going into<br
/> a restful sleep. I had praised the Source, the sun, life, saffron<br
/> dust, the moon, the stars, the sweet smells of jasmine. I praised<br
/> them all. And ere I closed my lids, I was in the heavens again as<br
/> the wind.</p><p>Once I had perfected my ability to leave my body, it took<br
/> me a long time to reckon how to go places. Then it happened one<br
/> day that one of my men came into a most perilous position. He<br
/> had fallen from his horse with his foot still lodged in a stirrup.<br
/> The moment I put my thought with him, I was with him, and I<br
/> released his heel. I stood over him and wished him well, but he<br
/> thought I was a dream.<br
/> <a
href="http://www.merosoch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ramayan5.jpg"><img
class="alignright size-medium wp-image-431" title="Ram" src="http://www.merosoch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ramayan5-271x300.jpg" alt="" width="271" height="300" /></a>For many years I traveled in thought into other kingdoms<br
/> and to other entities. I visited civilizations in the birth of their<br
/> future and lives yet unseen. I learned to travel in moments, for I<br
/> learned that wherever the thought is, so is the entity. And how<br
/> did I conquer thereafter? I was an awesome foe, for I knew my<br
/> enemies&#8217; thinking; thus I outwitted them all. No longer did I<br
/> besiege kingdoms; I let them besiege themselves.<br
/> Slowly over many years &#8211; as the thought of becoming<br
/> my ideal became the very life force in the cells of my<br
/> embodiment &#8211; my soul gradually changed the programming in<br
/> every cellular structure to increase the vibratory rate within them,<br
/> my desire was that strong. The more peaceful I became with<br
/> life, the more that emotion carried through my entire physical<br
/> arrangement until I became lighter and lighter and lighter. People<br
/> would look at me and say, &#8220;Alas, there is a glow about the master.&#8221;<br
/> There was, for my body was vibrating at a faster rate of speed,<br
/> going from the speed of matter into the speed of light. That is<br
/> what emanated a glow from my being.<br
/> In time my body became fainter and fainter by the light of<br
/> the moon. Then one night I became where the moon was. No<br
/> longer did I simply travel in thought. I had raised my bodily<br
/> vibrations into light and had taken my entire embodiment with<br
/> me. I was gleeful and mirthful, for that which I had done was<br
/> unheard of. Yet I came back, but only to see if I could do it again.<br
/> And I did, again and again and again, sixty-three times before my<br
/> final ascension. It became an expectancy, as breathing is to you.<br
/> When I became the wind, I realized how truly limited I had<br
/> been and how free the elements were. When I became the wind, I<br
/> became an unseen power that has no form, that is pulsating light,<br
/> indivisible. In that, I could move with freedom through valleys<br
/> and dales and glens, through mountains and oceans and stratums,<br
/> and none could see me. And, like the wind, I had the power to<br
/> turn leaves from emerald to silver, to move trees that are<br
/> unshakable, to go into the lungs of a babe, into the mouth of a<br
/> lover, and back into the clouds to push them away. When I became<br
/> the wind, I became the height of a moving power that can never<br
/> be tamed, a wild movement that is free: free of weight, free of<br
/> measure, free of time.<br
/> When I became the wind, I realized how small and<br
/> helpless man is in his ignorance about himself and how great<br
/> he becomes when he extends himself into knowledge. I learned<br
/> that whatever man contemplates long enough, merely by desire<br
/> he will become. If man tells himself long enough that he is<br
/> wretched, soulless, powerless, he will believe it and become it.<br
/> If he calls himself lord of the wind, he will be lord of the<br
/> wind, as I became lord of the wind. And if he calls himself<br
/> God, he is going to become God.<br
/> Once I had learned these things, I began to teach my beloved<br
/> brothers about the Unknown God, the Source of all life. There<br
/> came a day when I was an old man, when all I had set out to<br
/> accomplish in my being had been accomplished. I made a journey<br
/> across the River Indus and there, on the side of the mountain<br
/> called Indus, I communed with all of my people for one hundred<br
/> and twenty days. I urged them to know that these understandings<br
/> were a truth, that the source of their divine guidance was not<br
/> through me or any other man but through the God that had<br
/> created us all. For their belief &#8211; and to their surprise &#8211; I elevated<br
/> myself quite nicely above them. Women screamed and became<br
/> aghast. Soldiers dropped their broadswords in wonderment. I<br
/> saluted them all farewell and urged them to learn as I had learned,<br
/> to become as I had become in their own way.<br
/> Through learning how to comprehend life elements that I<br
/> found more forceful than man &#8211; elements that I found more<br
/> intelligent than man, that live in a peaceful coexistence beside<br
/> and in spite of man &#8211; did I discover the Unknown God.<br
/> If you ask man, &#8220;How should I look? What should I believe<br
/> in? How should I live?&#8221; &#8211; if you do that, you will die. That is a<br
/> truth. Go and ask the wind: &#8220;Give me knowledge, wind. Open<br
/> me up and let me know,&#8221; and it will turn you from olive to silver<br
/> and take you into the hollows of the canyons and laugh with you<br
/> blatantly free.</p><p>I was most fortunate in being taught by life&#8217;s elements. The<br
/> sun never cursed me and the moon never said I must be a certain<br
/> way. And the elements never reflected failure to me. The frost<br
/> and the dew, the smell of grass, the insects going to and fro, the<br
/> cry of the nighthawk, they are all unfailing things whose essence<br
/> is simple. And a wonderful thing about them in their simplicity<br
/> and steadfastness, they asked nothing of me. The sun did not<br
/> look down and say, &#8220;Ramtha, you must worship me in order to<br
/> know me.&#8221; The moon did not look down and say, &#8220;Ramtha, wake<br
/> up. It is time to look upon my beauty.&#8221; They were there whenever<br
/> I looked to see them.<br
/> I learned from something that is constant, without<br
/> judgment, and easily understood if a man puts his mind to it.<br
/> Because of that, I was not at the hands of the altered thinking<br
/> of man with his hypocrisy, dogma, superstitious beliefs, and<br
/> multifaceted Gods that you must try to appease. That is why it<br
/> was easy for me to learn in one existence on this plane what<br
/> most have yet to understand because they look for God in<br
/> another man&#8217;s understanding. They look for God in<br
/> governmental rule, in church rule, in a history which they have<br
/> yet to question who wrote it or why it was written. Man has<br
/> based his beliefs, his understandings, his thought processes, his<br
/> lives on something that life after life after life has proven itself<br
/> a failure. Yet man, stumbling over his own altered thinking,<br
/> imprisoned by his own arrogance, continues the steadfast<br
/> hypocrisy that only leads to death.<br
/> After I ascended is when I knew everything I wanted to<br
/> know because I went out of the density of flesh and into the<br
/> fluidness of thought and, in so doing, I was not inhibited by<br
/> anything. Then I knew that man truly was, in his essence, God.<br
/> Before I ascended I did not know there was such a thing as a<br
/> soul, nor did I understand the mechanics of ascending the<br
/> embodiment. I only knew that I was at peace with what I had<br
/> done and I was at peace with life. I was no longer an ignorant<br
/> barbarian anxious for battle. I was no longer overwrought and<br
/> overworked. I embraced life and the wonderfulness that I saw in<br
/> the heavens day after day and night after night. That was my life.<br
/> I learned to love myself when I compared myself with<br
/> something great and majestic. My life became fulfilled when I<br
/> took hold of all my understanding and focused it on myself. That<br
/> is when peace came. That is when I began to know more. That is<br
/> when I became one with the Unknown God.</p><p>It was not the wind that I became but the ideal that the<br
/> wind represented to me. I am now the lord over it, for I became<br
/> the unseen principle that is free and omnipresent and one with<br
/> all life. It was when I became that principle that I understood the<br
/> Unknown God and all that it is &#8211; and all that it isn&#8217;t &#8211; because<br
/> that is what I wanted to understand. I found the answers within<br
/> me that allowed me to expand into a grander understanding.<br
/> I was Ram the Conqueror. I am now Ram the God. I was a<br
/> barbarian who became God through the simplest and yet the most<br
/> profound of things. What I teach you is what I learned.</p><div
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.merosoch.com/?p=393</guid> <description><![CDATA[OM is the highest and most abstract mantra of all. Om is the Shabdabraham or the sound by which the universe was created, the ancient name for the “bing bang” theory of modern Scientist. OM, although indivisible consist of 3 letters and represents 4 states of consciousness: A, U, M and the aftersound &#8211; anagata, [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img
class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-408" title="OM Aum" src="http://www.merosoch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/om12iii-300x225.jpg" alt="OM Aum" width="300" height="225" />OM is the highest and most abstract <a
class="zem_slink" title="Mantra" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantra">mantra</a> of all. <a
class="zem_slink" title="Aum" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum">Om</a> is the <em>Shabdabraham</em> or the sound by which the universe was created, the ancient name for the “bing bang” theory of modern Scientist.</p><p>OM, although indivisible consist of 3 letters and represents 4 states of consciousness:</p><p>A, U, M and the aftersound &#8211; <em>anagata</em>, represented by the dot placed above the letter M in <a
class="zem_slink" title="Sanskrit" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a>.</p><ul><li>A sounded “Ah” is the beginning of every language, sounded from the throat.</li></ul><p><em> Vaiswanara</em>, the Self as the universal person in his physical being.  Whosoever knows <em>Vaiswanara</em> obtains what he desires, and becomes the first among men.</p><ul><li>U sounded “Oo” from the palate.  It corresponds to <em>Taijasa</em>, the Self as the universal person in his mental being. <em>Taijasa</em> and the letter U both stand in dream, between waking and sleeping.  Whosoever knows <em>Taijasa</em> grows in wisdom, and is highly honoured.</li><li>M sounded “Mng” sounded through closed lips and teeth.  The third letter M corresponds to <em>Prajna</em>, the Self as the universal person in dreamless sleep.  He is the origin and the end of all.  Whosoever knows <em>Prajna</em> knows all things.</li><li>After the audible sound ends there is still a vibration.  It is the unspoken <em>anagata</em> that is always there before the beginning and after the end.   The Self is OM, the indivisible syllable.  This syllable is unutterable, and beyond mind.  In it the manifold universe disappears.  It is the supreme good – One without a second.  Whosoever knows OM, the Self, becomes the Self.</li></ul><p>The three letters as described above can also be compared to all aspects of the Trinities found in different philosophy or religions, for example:</p><ul><li>The 3 aspects existence: birth, life and death</li><li>The 3 aspects of time: past, present, future</li><li>The 3 gunas: <em>tamas </em>(inertia, darkness and ignorance), <em>rajas</em> (activity and passion) and <em>sattva</em> (light and love)</li><li>The 3 state of consciousness: conscious, subconscious and unconscious or dreamless sleep.</li></ul><p><strong>The symbol</strong> of OM contains three curves, one semicircle and a dot. The large lower curve symbolizes the waking state; the upper curve denotes deep sleep (or the unconscious) state, and the lower curve (which lies between deep sleep and the waking state) signifies the dream state. These three states of an individual’s consciousness, and therefore the entire physical phenomenon, are represented by the three curves. The dot signifies the Absolute (fourth or <a
class="zem_slink" title="Turiya" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turiya"><em>Turiya</em></a> state of consciousness), which illuminates the other three states. The semicircle symbolizes maya and separates the dot from the other three curves. The semicircle is open on the top, which means that the absolute is infinite and is not affected by maya. Maya only affects the manifested phenomenon. In this way the form of Om symbolizes the infinite <a
class="zem_slink" title="Brahman" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman">Brahman</a> and the entire Universe.</p><p><strong>A quote from the </strong><a
class="zem_slink" title="Upanishads" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upanishads"><strong>Upanishads</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p><p><strong><span
style="font-weight: normal;">The essence of all beings is earth,<br
/> the essence of earth is water,<br
/> the essence of water are plants,<br
/> the essence of plants is man,<br
/> the essence of man is speech,<br
/> the essence of speech is sacred knowledge,<br
/> the essence of sacred knowledge is word and sound,<br
/> The essence of word and sound is Om.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span
style="font-weight: normal;"><strong><span
style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>The Power of Chanting Om</strong></span></strong></span></strong></p><ol><li>The chanting of Om drives away all worldly thoughts and removes distraction and infuses new vigour in the body.</li><li>When you feel depressed, chant Om fifty times and you will be filled with new vigour and strength. The chanting of Om is a powerful tonic. When you chant Om, you feel you are the pure, all pervading light and consciousness.</li><li>Those who chant Om will have a powerful, sweet voice. Whenever you take a stroll, you can chant Om. You can also sing Om in a beautiful way. The rythmic pronunciation of Om makes the mind serene and pointed, and infuses the spiritual qualifications which ensure self-realization.</li><li>Those who do meditation of Om daily will get tremendous power. They will have lustre in their eyes and faces.</li></ol><p><strong>Meditation on Om<br
/> <span
style="font-weight: normal;">Retire to a quite place, sit down, close your eyes and completely relax your muscles and nerves. Concentrate on the space between your eyebrows and quieten and silence the conscious mind. Begin to repeat &#8220;Om&#8221; mentally while associating the ideas of infinity, eternity, immortality, etc. You must repeat Om with the feeling that you are the infinite and all-pervading. Mere repetition of Om will not bring the desired result. Keep the meaning of Om always at heart. Feal Om. Feel that you are the pure, perfect, all-knowing, eternal, free, Brahman. Feel that you are absolute consciousness and the infinite, unchanging existance. Every part of your body should powerfully vibrate with these ideas. This feeling should be kept up all day long. Practice regularly and steadily with sincerity, faith, perseverance and enthusiasm in the morning, midday and evening.</span></strong></p><p><strong>source:</strong></p><ol><li><a
href="http://www.happyoga.com/downloads/OM_its_significance.pdf" target="_blank">happyoga.com</a></li><li><a
href="http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Aum_-_The_Significance_of_the_Symbol_Om/id/4727947" target="_blank">experiencefestival.com</a></li><li><a
href="http://www.omsakthi.org/worship/mantra.html" target="_blank">omsakthi.org</a></li></ol><div
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class="wp-caption-dt"><a
href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mohenjo-daro_Priesterk%C3%B6nig.jpeg"><img
title="&quot;The Priest King&quot; Wearing Sindhi Ajruk, ca. 2500 BC." src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Mohenjo-daro_Priesterk%C3%B6nig.jpeg/202px-Mohenjo-daro_Priesterk%C3%B6nig.jpeg" alt="&quot;The Priest King&quot; Wearing Sindhi Ajruk, ca. 2500 BC." width="202" height="261" /></a></dt></dl></div></div><p>The way we behave is either affected by our logical thoughts or spiritual thoughts. Spiritual thoughts comprise of wisdom and love. Itâ€™s the giving and receiving of love and wisdom. Reasoning and questioning is what the logical thoughts comprise of.</p><p>The world that we have created is the effect of our logical thoughts and the world that we have read about as History, i.e., the great <a
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