Where Is Here, How Did I Get Here, And Should I Stay?
This is true on the conscious/energetic/soul level as well.
Consciousness as energy thrives at different levels and is never destroyed; it simply changes forms.
In order to get to any new place, physically or mentally, we have to know who we are, along with where we are, in order to get "there", when seeking how to get out of one situation, into a another one. Action over time plays out as karma, with mixed results automatically produced; choice of action and direction are something that we sometimes fail to consider, believing the future is mostly random and unpredictable, not fully owning up to how we may be contributing to it.
The Way Out, Is In - is wisdom which guides one towards the balance of mind, and heart.
By introspection, intuition, and considering knowledge revealed by accomplished sages and mystics, one can "know thyself" as well as the Source of self, along with the source of freedom and love.
As always, change is upon us, but the year past and year ahead portend more pronounced changes than many of the years that have come before.
Many of us will seek to "get away" in a very different way as well - through conscious growth and establishing a spiritually guided trajectory which will reveal a safe and light-filled here-and- now, as well as time spent contributing to a brighter future ahead.
We face increasing strife from all sides nowadays it seems.... is it a message, a sign of the times, or perhaps both?
Welcome to the final show,
Hope you're wearing your best clothes..
You can't bribe to door on your way to the sky,
But you look pretty good down here - but you ain't really good.
We never learn, we been here before
Why are we always stuck and running from
The bullets?
The bullets..
The information revealed describes who we are, and how we got here, noted here in some key texts:
"The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind."
"The total material substance, called Brahman, is the source of birth, and it is that Brahman that I impregnate, making possible the births of all living beings, O son of Bharata.
"It should be understood that all species of life, O son of Kuntī, are made possible by birth in this material nature, and that I am the seed-giving father."
"The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life from one body to another as the air carries aromas."
"The living entity, thus taking another gross body, obtains a certain type of ear, tongue, and nose and sense of touch, which are grouped about the mind. He thus enjoys a particular set of sense objects."
"The foolish cannot understand how a living entity can quit his body, nor can they understand what sort of body he enjoys under the spell of the modes of nature. But one whose eyes are trained in knowledge can see all this."
"Yet there is another nature, which is eternal and is transcendental to this manifested and unmanifested matter. It is supreme and is never annihilated. When all in this world is annihilated, that part remains as it is."
"That supreme abode is called unmanifested and infallible, and it is the supreme destination. When one goes there, he never comes back. That is My supreme abode."
"After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogīs in devotion, never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection."
"Before giving up this present body, if one is able to tolerate the urges of the material senses and check the force of desire and anger, he is a yogī and is happy in this world."
"One whose happiness is within, who is active within, who rejoices within and is illumined within, is actually the perfect mystic. He is liberated in the Supreme, and ultimately he attains the Supreme."
"After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare."
",,, In that joyous state, one is situated in boundless transcendental happiness and enjoys himself through transcendental senses. Established thus, one never departs from the truth, and upon gaining this he thinks there is no greater gain. Being situated in such a position, one is never shaken, even in the midst of greatest difficulty. This indeed is actual freedom from all miseries arising from material contact."
"One who is thus transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman. He never laments nor desires to have anything; he is equally disposed to every living entity. In that state he attains pure devotional service unto Me."
"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear."
Bhagavad Gita Texts 2.12, 15.7, 14.3, 14.4, 15.8, 15.9, 15.10 8.20, 8.21, 8.15, 5.23, 5.24,7.19, 6.20-24 18.54 18.66