Time And Gravity Not Fully Understood But Certainly Real
Unseen forces control our lives at every moment. Time and gravity come to mind as potent yet unseen realities. Although we don't know the origin of time, we do know "Time and tide wait for no man."
Gravity is also mysterious as to it's origin, thought to be generated from visible mass/matter. Yet the sun, earth and the rest of our entire solar-system is being pulled through the universe, apparently by a gravitational force created by invisible, "dark matter" - or alternatively by some other invisible unknown energy. No one is clear on the energy source, but the reality that the solar system as a unit is being dragged through space by a powerful energy source, is observably clear.
Gravity is also mysterious as to it's origin, thought to be generated from visible mass/matter. Yet the sun, earth and the rest of our entire solar-system is being pulled through the universe, apparently by a gravitational force created by invisible, "dark matter" - or alternatively by some other invisible unknown energy. No one is clear on the energy source, but the reality that the solar system as a unit is being dragged through space by a powerful energy source, is observably clear.
An honest scientist will admit that modern science has more questions than answers regarding the universe we inhabit, as well as the microcosmic mysteries of even the human body we inhabit.
What can be said with certainty - proven by history, is that each individual is stuck on earth for some time, and then ceases to be from the perspective of mundane vision.
As described in the Bhagavad Gita Ch 2.27 "For one who is born, death is certain, and for one who is dead, birth is certain.... ."
Some after death are reborn into a material body, and some are re-born into eternal spiritual bodies, depending on the quality of desires cultivated in one's life; either of material or spiritual grades.
The body one leaves behind may be burnt or buried, but one's personal energy in the form of unseen consciousness is said to transmigrate or continue on in another form of energy. This conclusion may be a matter of faith for some, or common sense for others, depending on one's paradigm of reality.
As described in the Bhagavad Gita Ch 2.27 "For one who is born, death is certain, and for one who is dead, birth is certain.... ."
Some after death are reborn into a material body, and some are re-born into eternal spiritual bodies, depending on the quality of desires cultivated in one's life; either of material or spiritual grades.
The body one leaves behind may be burnt or buried, but one's personal energy in the form of unseen consciousness is said to transmigrate or continue on in another form of energy. This conclusion may be a matter of faith for some, or common sense for others, depending on one's paradigm of reality.
Some people only have faith or belief in what they can see with their own eyes. To those with no understanding of the unseen worlds and energies, when the body stops exhibiting living symptoms triggered by the invisible exit of the life force, that's the end of the story of life - "when you're dead, you're dead" is the conclusion of some.
Believing life to be a movie which starts with birth and ends with death, with unforeseeable ups and downs before a declining end, is "a hard way to go" as sung by the late great poet/singer/songwriter John Prine. He wrote the song below in 1971 with the refrain "Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery" which some say is prison slang, for requesting a pardon from the Governor with commutation of one's sentence in lock down - liberation from mundane incarceration of body / mind.
Certainly the individual spirit can also petition through song, prayer, meditation, asking the Supreme Spirit for something even more sublime - to be released from the cycle of repeated birth and death and regain one's eternal form of knowledge and bliss; thus gaining a body of pure consciousness capable of serving the Supreme Lord in a reciprocal loving mood which deepens throughout eternity.
Certainly the individual spirit can also petition through song, prayer, meditation, asking the Supreme Spirit for something even more sublime - to be released from the cycle of repeated birth and death and regain one's eternal form of knowledge and bliss; thus gaining a body of pure consciousness capable of serving the Supreme Lord in a reciprocal loving mood which deepens throughout eternity.
Angel From Montgomery
| "I am an old woman Named after my mother My old man is another Child that's grown old If dreams were thunder And lightnin' was desire This old house would've burnt down At a long time ago.. | Make me an angel That flies from Montgomery Make me a poster Of an old rodeo Just give me one thing That I can hold on to To believe in this livin' Is just a hard way to go" |
Being stuck in the viewpoint that this one life is the all and all, proposes a dilemma; even if one's plans are successful, one has to leave all that so-called success behind at the time of death.
Consciousness as the symptom of the spirit, is energy that is never destroyed, it simply changes form. Knowing this to be true, one loses the fear of death, and engages in eternal acts of service.
Sri Krishna mentions in the Bhagavad-Gita:2.13,20,22,29 4.9,10,11 18.56
Consciousness as the symptom of the spirit, is energy that is never destroyed, it simply changes form. Knowing this to be true, one loses the fear of death, and engages in eternal acts of service.
Sri Krishna mentions in the Bhagavad-Gita:2.13,20,22,29 4.9,10,11 18.56
As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change.
For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.
As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, similarly, the soul accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.
Some look on the soul as amazing, some describe him as amazing, and some hear of him as amazing, while others, even after hearing about him, cannot understand him at all.
Being freed from attachment, fear and anger, being fully absorbed in Me and taking refuge in Me, many, many persons in the past became purified by knowledge of Me—and thus they all attained transcendental love for Me.
One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.
Though engaged in all kinds of activities, My devotee, under My protection, reaches the eternal and imperishable abode by My grace.
For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.
As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, similarly, the soul accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.
Some look on the soul as amazing, some describe him as amazing, and some hear of him as amazing, while others, even after hearing about him, cannot understand him at all.
Being freed from attachment, fear and anger, being fully absorbed in Me and taking refuge in Me, many, many persons in the past became purified by knowledge of Me—and thus they all attained transcendental love for Me.
One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.
Though engaged in all kinds of activities, My devotee, under My protection, reaches the eternal and imperishable abode by My grace.
Chant And Be Happy
One recommended way to experience gradually growing deeper levels of consciousness is by prayer/meditating/chanting of sacred hymns and sound. This can be done internally and silently, or softly spoken so only the chanter can hear the sound (japa meditation) or by singing (choir/kirtan).
Spiritual expressions from the heart is recognized in many religious traditions, and is explained nicely by Jahnavi Harrison, who was born into the Bhakti Yoga tradition and has practiced sacred sound meditation throughout her life. With intro by Jay Shetty, this session was in London in 2015.
Spiritual expressions from the heart is recognized in many religious traditions, and is explained nicely by Jahnavi Harrison, who was born into the Bhakti Yoga tradition and has practiced sacred sound meditation throughout her life. With intro by Jay Shetty, this session was in London in 2015.
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