The Power of the Human Mind

Our ability to think and imagine is a serious force to be reckoned with.  Our faith and belief of the afterlife shapes the actual circumstances and conditions we experience. This is an occult secret, and is very difficult to grasp and understand. The first phase of afterlife is a transitional phase and is called Devachan. (Devachan bDe-ba-can de-wa-chen (Tibetan) (from bde-ba happiness + can possessing)

Here we are shedding ourselves from attachments that we had in the physical life we just passed from. The purpose of this phase is to teach us the futility of attachments in the form of petty, human traits. When we are in this phase it is not an otherworldly existence, but rather a state of consciousness without a physical body.  The circumstances of this existence are shaped by our earlier mental images of an afterlife. If we imagined the thereafter with harps and angels, then we shall have them in Devachan. No matter of the surroundings, the goal is to have these experiences. Whether it is music, sex or other attachments; in Devachan you will have more of it then you’d ever wanted.

As we all know, often the cure to something permanent is to overdo it.

For example, if the person who passed on was attached to eating, he or she will spend a lot of time around food; the place will be an eatery or a kitchen. The experience of the smell and taste of the food will be real.

The importance is in understanding how the force of our beliefs and imaginations shape even the circumstances we come into in the afterlife.

Our mind is very interesting. It is capable of miracles yet it can fool the beholder into all sorts of charades. We can project something we are obsessive about and eventually that can manifest in a form of an illusion. It will not be real.  Devachan is a good example of that.

Thinking is not the same as experiencing. Too much thinking can lead to obsessing and can also be misleading. The mind can reason you into, or out of, anything. It has reasoned otherwise perfectly decent people into committing the most horrendous crimes of cruelty.

If you let go and allow the heart and mind to form a linkage then you can make better use of your mind, intelligence and intellect. At this point your heart is at the driver seat and your mind filters out what you can accept and what you cannot. Some concepts and ideas you are not ready to accept hence the mind will reject them. This means that karmically you are not ready to move forward unless you lighten the negative Karma that holds you back. Buddha said; “do not believe me or believe others who speak in my name, accept only those things that make sense to you!” The importance and reason of this quote can be better understood with the framework of the heart+mind link. When the heart mind link comes, you will start the experience. It will all fit into place. Eventually, you will gain straight knowledge. This is knowledge of things nobody ever taught you.  There are things that you never read or heard, you just wake up one morning and you will know.

Ideas

The mind will create ideas and if we use these ideas in a true altruistic way then by each step and each idea we shall get closer to God’s consciousness.

When we cling to our ideas and claim them as our own the ideas might stop. You see, the idea may not be for you to carry out but for you to see it as value and pass it onto someone else. Do not be a miser with your ideas. Once you start thinking that these ideas could benefit you materially then you are not doing well. If you remain altruistic and share your ideas, your needs will be met. You might not become rich but you will get all that you need.

Fear

The only obstacle to achieve God’s consciousness is what the occult calls the Dweller of the Threshold. This is the collection of all the negativity and fears you have experienced in your lifetime. These negative emotions conjure up a monster; during the final initiation you must conquer it by understanding its source and origin. You are the origin of this and you can easily defeat it by realizing what fear is. Fear is the negative use of our imagination. Whatever you fear, it is imagined one way or another. Even when you confront a real danger, you cannot know the ultimate outcome. Can a mugger kill you? Certainly he can take your incarnated life, if that is your karma, but you will not die. You cease to exist in this incarnation. Bad as it may be, for you and your family, your Spirit most certainly will go on. The Spirit never dies, it continues. So, you see, there is no use of fear. Most things we fear never actually happen, but this negative energy can cause all sorts of obstacles. As my teacher’s Guru used to say “fear is nothing but a bug on a sunlit wall”

Karma and Reincarnation

This ancient belief system turns up different emotions in us, either we love the idea or we hate it. This emotional dualism is based on whether we subscribe to this belief system ourselves or we are antagonists to this due to a conflicting belief system.

The fact is, western men carry the awesome burden of death on its shoulder; this deforms and alters him psychologically, leaving him without the true understanding of his purpose in life. I suspect this idea of temporariness induce us to be more materialistic, in need of instant gratification, after all we say “you got one life to live”. But is that really the case?

Reincarnation is caused by our attachment, our zest for life that will pull us to transmigrate and come back again and again. This attachment can be anything. Even the love of God, can cause us to be pulled back again. Usually this attachment is something more mundane; sex, food, alcohol, drugs, money, power and countless other venues, some appearing benign others quite sinister.

It is said that Ramakrishna’s love for God, in reality his love for Samadhi, was his pull.

He was said to be intoxicated with his innate ability to enter Samadhi almost at will,

People told him to back off as moderation in all things is desirable. Ramakrishna said

“You are right maybe I am mad, too many men are mad for money, or fame, other are for power, but too few are mad for God”.

The life cycle of birth, death and rebirth is called the “wheel of karma”.

Note: Karma and reincarnation are the bus and the bus driver, nothing happens without one or the other. Karma is the Cosmic Law of cause and effect. You rob a bank, and then you might go to jail. This is instant karma. If you somehow escape punishment your next life you will be born into a circumstance to balance out this cosmic imbalance.

People on the spiritual path can ask the Hierarchy (The White Brotherhood) to have their karma speeded up. Why delay the inevitable?

When a person loses all his attachments, and finally loses his attachment to the self, his ego, then and only then he will gain the final bliss and he will then fall off the wheel of karma.

You can read about reincarnation a million times, and it will be just words until you can remember past lives. Then and only then it will become reality and fact of spiritual live.

There are ways to remember past lives but it is not desirable for the novice.

Incarnations alternate, one time you were a man and now perhaps you are a woman. It is likely we have been everything under the sun. Warriors, maiden, murderers and spectators to murder, we were all. This is precisely the reason we have no moral ground to look down on anyone who is perhaps in the shoe that we were in perhaps a dozen lifetimes ago.

Personal traits are carried forward from lifetime to lifetime but we always get situated into life circumstances that will allow us to learn the specific life lesson that caused us to be here the first place. For example a person who was a professional musician might come back with some skills and affinity to music but his next life he will do something different. Certain ingrained traits will remain with us but sometime quite dormant in the subconscious.

All this information is carried in our Aura and the few and very special who might be around to read ones Aura can instantly have the map of traits, and thousands of lives lived. A true Guru could do this but we have no Guru’s incarnated anymore.

Before a certain time an animal, for example a horse or a dog could perform a heroic act, like saving the life of a human by self sacrificing, (which is commonplace act among noble animals). At that point, this animal could incarnate into a human being. This went on for a long time in human history but it is no more.

Some people argued against reincarnation on the basis of total number of souls ever lived since the dawn of men would far outweigh the number of human beings on earth – currently six billion. There is an explanation to this and it is as follows;

The average length of the unaware, mundane human being not in any Teaching is about 700 years, further some people incarnate into beings on other planets and vice versa. We cannot be Earth centric to detriment of the Universe. Some of the people who millions of years ago taught early men to skills of using fire or tools, were in fact beings incarnated from Stars like Sirius. These were advanced beings and they chose to be reincarnated into the primitive milieu of early men with the full knowledge of getting killed. They did not mind as their purpose was to serve and help. Thus after being brutally slain they were promptly reincarnated back and kept on.

Note: advanced souls can reincarnate or not depending on the need of some mission to be performed, here on Earth.

There is a dualism in some Karmic events. 

When Jesus was betrayed and subsequently murdered there is an indication that this was a result of some past life deed that Jesus has done. Similarly the act of betrayal was a karmic act that Judas had done. We can say – it was a negative karmic act.   So you see, there is a dualism in karma, and free will is a paradoxical factor.  Had Judas not betray Jesus, there would have been a “plan B”, for his capture and nothing would have changed.

People often ask me, what reincarnates the spirit or the soul and what is the difference between these two, if any?

The answer is that the spirit is the “seed” of the individual soul. When reincarnation occurs, the soul moves on to Devachan and incarnates into a new individuality. There are no distinctive memories of the soul, but in the Spirit that is separate but one with it,  lifetimes of information kept.

Finally, animals have group souls only.