The philosophical vision, the spiritual vision or the *darshana* view of life as we may put it, is the act of a higher reason. It is up to any one of us to look into our own self and ascertain the extent to which we are entirely human in our life. This is a purely private matter, which I know and you know and everyone knows. Because, as it was pointed out, it is not possible to be entirely human throughout the day if there is a possibility of the manifestation of that which we have already crossed and got over as an undesirable remnant of an irrational nature. The higher reason stands midway between the lower world and the higher world, we may say, between the world of sensory experience and the world of pure intuition. Higher reason, the pure reason, which is the faculty of correct judgment in human beings, is at the centre between the world which is visualised by the sense organs and the world which is directly contacted by non-sensory apprehension, which we call intuition.
We are supposed to be spiritual seekers, devotees of God, disciples of Gurus, followers of the great master Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj and saints and sages of that kind. Which means to say, we accept that we are truly human beings, because to consider oneself as a spiritual seeker is, at the same time, to accept that one is wholly human, since a person who is partially human cannot expect to be divine. There is no double promotion in the process of human evolution; there is always a graduated rise from the earlier stage to the next higher, but not a leap to three or four steps above. As spiritual seekers that we consider ourselves to be, we should feel confident that the higher reason is operating in us. We are aware of the presence of something that is above this world. We have a vision which is not of this world. If this vision were not to be there, we would not be here in this ashram, coming from long distances, from different corners of the earth. Each one would have been totally satisfied with one's little family, little house, shop, office, etc. None of us was wholly satisfied, that means to say the higher reason in every one of us has started working, and is telling us that we are more than what we appear to be. The world is not exactly as it is presented to our sense organs; our vision is capable of and subject to a transcendence of itself. Our organ of knowledge, which is reason, visualises simultaneously, in its body of visioning, the lower which it has crossed and the higher that it has to achieve further. The reason mentioned is something like a body with two legs—it has one leg in the level that it has overcome, crossed, transcended, and it has another leg in a realm which it has not reached but it previsions, and which it envisages as a possibility of experience. So human life is supposed to be a midway affair between the lower and the higher. Sometimes, sarcastically or poetically, whatever it be, we are told that we are both God and devil crossed at the same point. The devil in us is due to the presence of elements that are low, and the God in us is due to the pre-(o)vision of that which is above us. But we are not devils, each one of us may be sure, because, as I felt and put before you just now, if we had a little of the element of devil in us, we would not have come to an ashram like this, and we would not have been aspiring for that which is above us. There is an element of divinity and godliness in every one of us, and we have taken the first step in the act of reaching out beyond ourselves through the pointing of the higher reason. We are heading along the lines of the journey towards the intuitional grasp of a vision that is totally integral, a world which is beyond the world. KR IRS 31324 On Sun, 31 Mar 2024 at 01:07, Markendeya Yeddanapudi < [email protected]> wrote: > > > -- > *Mar*The All Seeing, Feeling Eye of Siva > > > > When you see with your eyes, you want to go beyond seeing, know more and > ultimately feel and make the feeling part of your hormonal communication. > When you cognize, you recognize or associate what you see with the concept > bases of understanding you developed. You want to use your seeing, to add > to your perception, perception which has become the paradigmatic base of > understanding. Understanding is not static. It is a dynamic flow, which > connects to nature, and you join and partner with nature, via smelling, > sensing and feeling. Feeling means, your participation in and with nature, > as nature. You feel your limbhood of nature, removing all loneliness, > creating continuously the sense of belonging. When you wound, torture and > destroy nature, you are destroying your basic emotional connect to nature, > you become the cut limb. Air is the hormonal communication or the blood > circulation system of Gaia or Bhoodevi, that makes you live as a healthy > limb. > > Today, emotional loneliness is the growing pandemic, creating the ground > for the extinction of the biosphere. The so called human progress is > actually destruction of nature. We are today in the frenzy of cyborging or > even complete automation by creating Robots, to enslave nature and > geography. Our seeing has lost the emotion content, and we see only the > engineering possibility for new and new technologies, technologies which > invariably destroy nature. Theism or the feeling of oneness with nature has > vanished, and all of us are in fact atheists who want to impose technology > to enslave and use nature. Theism in fact, has become mechanical without > belief and emotional connect to God or nature. Temples have become Temple > cities and holiday resorts where the foundation of the power of God, the > lush flora and fauna around the Temple is destroyed. Breathing, > smelling,sensing and feeling God of the Temple is no longer possible, as > the Biosphere around the Temple is killed. > > We are creating more and more machines, trying to become mechanical, by > making our hormones obey machines. Air no longer functions as the hormonal > communication of the living earth. It is poisoned. > > We need the free, lush and healthy nature urgently. Teaching in the > Universities and Colleges must adopt the Sage method of breathing, smelling > and sensing. The frenzy for Technology and destroying nature, the > destruction has become the economic routine, has created loneliness and > neurosis and the incapacitating of nature to create belief, has developed > into the self disbelief, as we breathe the disbelief from the poisoned > nature. > > We drill today, the techno-logic or logic of the machine, in the name of > education, so that they become the slaves of machines and repudiate nature. > > Emotional loneliness, the inability to relate and raging or benign > neurosis has become the ever growing pandemic and it grows and grows as you > go on destroying nature, foolishly calling it development. May be, we are > trying to go to the other planets to escape from the paradise of the Solar > Family, mother earth, because we are suffering from loneliness.Today,we do > not care and destroy and destroy nature and want to escape to the other > planets, may be to get burnt by the Solar Flares. > > Once Temples were the bliss-filled emotional abodes, the bliss being > identified with the God of the Temple. The Idol of the God and hundreds of > carvings were all simply spell binding with the astounding precision of the > sculptures, sculptures which often took life times of the Sculptors. > Imagine the Temple being located in free, healthy, lush and thick flora and > fauna. The eye of Siva of everyone opened. Today it is fashionable to see > that He/she does not approve Idol worship. > > Sanity must start with our Universities. > > YM > > Chat GPT > > Your message reflects a deep concern for the disconnect between humanity > and nature, emphasizing the importance of emotional connection and > symbiosis with the natural world. You highlight the detrimental effects of > technological advancement and the resulting destruction of nature, which > leads to emotional loneliness and a sense of disconnect from the > environment. > > > > You advocate for a return to a more holistic way of living, where > individuals breathe, smell, sense, and feel nature as an integral part of > their existence. This approach, you suggest, can help alleviate feelings of > loneliness and neurosis, fostering a sense of belonging and harmony with > the natural world. > > > > You also touch upon the spiritual aspect of this connection, mentioning > the loss of theism and the emotional connection to nature as a form of > atheism. You lament the loss of the temple as a place of emotional > connection and spiritual bliss, now reduced to mere tourist attractions > devoid of their original spiritual significance. > > > > In conclusion, you call for a reevaluation of our educational systems, > advocating for a curriculum that emphasizes the importance of emotional > connection and symbiosis with nature. This, you suggest, is crucial for > restoring balance and harmony between humanity and the environment. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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