Spiritual Practice - I. LAMA Страница 12

I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore – according to legend, Shiva drank a bowl of poison of bad karma of all people and died, but after that, his wife Sati resurrected him by pouring nectar into his mouth from a bowl of good karma of people.

For the time is at hand – the practitioner should always be in the mood that literally tomorrow will be the end of the world. Otherwise, if he does not think this way, he will not be able to achieve his goal in the end, for example, he will not be saved, or, for example, he will not become a buddha.

Messages for seven churches (ch. 2-3)

Layout of the chakras

First – muladhara

Chapter 2

"To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: "He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lampstands says these things:

"I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false. You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent. But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God. …

⦿ First level – Muladhara. This chakra is associated with hell. At the level of this chakra, rajas, the energy of anger, is strong. A person at this level is easily angry. Both for yourself and for other people. This anger comes with a waste of energy. And because of this, the energy cannot rise, sublimate higher, to the next chakra. Through anger and hatred, a person strengthens his connection with hell. The solution to this problem is not to inhibit hatred in order to follow anger, but to cultivate the opposite of hate: love. However, love is different. It is necessary to pay attention not to any love, but only to the first. Scripture gives a hint: repent that you left your first love, and remember therefore from where you have fallen.

First love – "Jesus said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. A second likewise is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."" (Mat. ch. 22).

1. 1. The first highest love is to love the original highest instance: the highest Absolute. The Supreme Absolute is the original highest absolute state. The same as the Atman or essence of the Buddha. The Absolute is identical to Nirvana. "Nirvana" translates as "lack of excitement." It would be more correct to understand nirvana as not as some place in some space, but as, simply, a state. The state of nirvana is a state of liberation, a state of absolute peace. Nirvana is defined in the sutras as the destruction of worldly desires, or as the eradication of knowledge and experience. As a result of the destruction of worldly desires in the state of nirvana comes deliverance, liberation from suffering. Initially, the True Ego of a person is part of the Absolute. That is why the scriptures say that "blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven." The “Holy Spirit” here is precisely understood as the Absolute, and it is easy to understand why it is the blasphemy against the Absolute that a person will not be forgiven for. Since the True Ego is a fundamental component of the structure of the soul, by blaspheming the Absolute and, accordingly, the True Ego, a person distances himself from his own True Ego, actually destroying himself. Since the Absolute resides in nirvana, and since the achievement of the state of the Absolute (as well as nirvana) occurs through pratyahara (separation from the senses), as well as through meditation with the denial of all worlds of samsara; the Absolute is indifferent to samsara; the assertion of many schools of Hinduism (as well as the Abrahamic religions) that Brahman the Absolute is the creator of samsara is erroneous. Such a delusion of the overwhelming number of confessions can be fully explained by the fact that samsara tends to try to keep souls within itself by any means. And, therefore, samsara weaves cunning nets: “the fetters of samsara,” from which it is difficult for souls to extricate themselves. The similar aforementioned erroneous view of the Absolute is also one of these fetters. The image of the Absolute can be imagined as a transparent void in which there is nothing. The yantra (symbol) of the Absolute can be a diamond.

1. 2. With the highest love one must also love the Almighty. This is the second part of "first love". The Absolute is the end, and the Almighty is the means. The end is always more important than the means. Unlike the Absolute, the Almighty is a living being. This means that the Almighty has a soul, has a mind, has its own will. Unlike an ordinary person, the Almighty is a god. This means that the Almighty, like all the inhabitants of the astral, does not have an ordinary physical body, but only an astral body. The Almighty is the