White Lies
Dark Truth
by
Mony
Singh
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Dedicated to the supreme Father and divine Mother- for giving me another chance to explore this human life. My infinite thanks to my parents, for becoming a gate to this physical world. To my Guru, Shri Anil Jain, who awakened my Kundalini Shakti and with whose blessings I have come to understand the Science of Body Features. Also, my loving gratitude to Dr. E.E Lindwal and his wife Ruth for their love and support and for helping me to break the fetters of my past lives and allowing my energies to explore their full potential in this body. My hearty thanks to all my friends, who have proved to be wild cards in this game of life. Whenever I got stuck in this capitalist world they helped me move on with my passion to bring a change in mass consciousness; without them this project would have taken a few decades. Finally, my love and gratitude to my family- who have given me their love and care no matter how rough the times were.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Our Life! A White Lie
Chapter 2: Know Thyself, The Science of Body Features
Chapter 5: The Power of Spoken Words
Chapter 6: Love and Relationship
Chapter 7: Man, Woman and Marriage
Chapter 11: Health and Healing of Your Body
Chapter 12: Money and Politics: Our Future
Chapter 13: The Game of Misery
Chapter 14: Happiness to Bliss
Chapter 16: From Religion to Spirituality
Beginning—A Note from the Author
A child is born; we nurture the child to the point where he can walk and talk, then we send the innocent kid to school. At school he learns all the basic tools of survival, i.e., language, science, mathematics, politics, capitalism, etc., but do we ever teach him how to live this life? ‘What this life is all about? What his role is in society? Why he has taken birth and why he will die one day?
When you go to the Grand Canyon or any state park, at the entrance you are handed a map, a list of do’s and don’ts. The map tells you where to go, where to camp, what areas you should stay away from and what areas are the most interesting. But do we ever give a map to our kids as to what areas are interesting in life and what areas they should stay away from?
If we are traveling from one city to another, we plan our trips in advance and we have road maps, highways and signs to help us reach our destination, but do we ever plan our life path or have any maps to take us from one birthday to another?
When our children become ready to walk on this road called life, we never teach them to map their lives where they can enjoy the cities of peace, harmony, love, compassion, caring, awareness, meditation and faith, but we make sure that they do not miss the cities of capitalism, competition, egoism and jealousy, which lead them to the dark and unknown lands of pain and misery
All our lives we are focused on one issue—how to make more and more. People grow up to become good earning machines, and although the majority do not like their profession, they continue their everyday struggle in bumper-to-bumper traffic trying to reach their destination of financial security, thinking that one day they will relax and enjoy this life.
If parents and teachers are aware, they can figure out a life plan for a child based on his habits and interests at a very early age. All they have to do is keep track of the child’s interests and the areas in which he excels, and a map can be drawn about his growing years. But parents are selfish and ignorant. In order to satisfy their own wishes and desires, they make their children as their scapegoats. A kid may be good at art and love to paint all day, but his parents want him to be a doctor; although the kid might become a successful doctor, his life is wasted. He took birth to satisfy his inner self—to be a painter, to express himself through painting, but his parents kill the painter within him when they force him to become a doctor. You will be surprised to know that Hitler wanted to be an artist, and if his parents had helped him express himself through art, perhaps the world could have been saved from so many killings.
To live in harmony one must love one’s profession; otherwise, one may make money and live in a mansion, but one will never be at ease with one’s self. Just recently, psychologists have started saying, “Do what you love and the money will follow.” Yet the majority is following the same old principle of working in a field where they can capitalize.
We teach kids vocabulary but never teach them the deeper meanings and associations of the words or the emotions behind them. But kids are smart when it comes to associating words with emotions. A kid may be riding with his mom and dad in the car when someone cuts them off; the dad says, “You SOB,” and the kid sitting in the back enjoying his milk stores “You SOB” in his databank along with emotional sound waves of hate and anger. Some day he will be out in the world and will repeat the same episode with others. It is no wonder we have so much hate on our planet.
Do we have any guides in the society who can teach us how we should live our lives? No! Because it is taken for granted, just as when you own a car there is no need to know the mechanics behind it because in the case of a breakdown, there are hundreds of auto shops around. To compensate for our lack of knowledge about ourselves, we employ psychologists, doctors, counselors, and priests, and if they fail to help, we can make use of our mental institutions and jails.
God knows how many innocent people are rotting in our mental institutions and jails. This all happens because of one simple reason—we never teach our young ones how to live this life. We have not explored our own lives, so how can we expect to teach?
Governments are willing to spend billions on drug education, but will not spend a penny on going to the root of all miseries—the lack of understanding to live this life beautifully. We have the resources, the information, and the technology to make this world a place to enjoy, experience, and understand, but the statistics show that the majority have to live a life of scarcity, insecurity and poor health. Every human life is wasted just trying to survive or amass.
All humans are born with equal potential to laugh and enjoy their lives, but very few chosen ones fall in the category of the successful ones; the majority lives in misery and dies in misery; as they are always in survival mode, trying to make ends meet.
The tragedy is that one who was born to be a Buddha is working as a bartender, and one who was born to be a Jesus has ended up being a janitor. We all come for one reason: to grow and go beyond this misery called life. But 99% end up in the same crusher of unawareness because they are never taught to center themselves so that one day they find their real selves to go beyond this “Maya,” or illusion, which is another word for misery.
We have had abundant spiritual masters and teachers and the majority talked about the body, mind, and soul connection, and many talked about God. Most of them were and are mere businessmen, just here to capitalize on man’s ignorance in the capitalistic west. Have we reached anywhere by knowing about the connections between body, mind and soul? Many have claimed to reach enlightenment but their experience cannot become ours, as all understanding must come from one’s own experience or vice versa. Have we gotten anywhere or reached enlightenment ourselves by merely listening to them or reading their words. There is a strong need to know the basics of human existence as to who we are and why we are here.
I have devoted one chapter to this 5000-year-old science from the Vedic era; it is known as “Sharir Lakshan Vigyan,” or the Science of Body Features.
Every child is born with unique physical features as a result of the DNA contributed by both parents. Genetic coding shapes one’s physical features and these physical features are the indicators of one’s thinking ability. Both these factors play a very important role in our lives because we are judged by the way we look and the way we walk, talk or act. All our actions depend on how we think and what we think as our minds respond to the millions and billions of thought waves hovering in the universal consciousness. The thoughts one receives from the universal consciousness are in perfect resonance with the quality of one’s physical features, just like the components in a radio or TV. Our physical features are the indicators of the quality of the components found within our body and the power of our biocomputer. If the quality of the parents who contributed their genetic coding is high—with respect to awareness, sharpness of the mind, their past karma, their knowledge database, the quality of the blood, etc. — and if they are in deep love with each other, their own selves, and with the world around them, a child who will take birth from the union of these two individuals will supersede the quality of his parents in all areas. This science has enough potential to revolutionize the way we think about others and ourselves.
Just look around and you will find that the majority of people are products of disharmony and the eyes of these people will never be the same size and shape since the left side of the body is an indicator of the mother, and the right side an indicator of the father. The imbalance in the shape, size and appearance of one’s eyes are clear indicators of disharmony among parents at the time of conception.
If ever you wanted to know how close your parents were at the time of your conception, just stand in front of the mirror and have a good look at yourself. If your father was in harmony with your mother from the time they started knowing to the time you were conceived, and they have both loved each other and have showered that unified love on you in your growing years, you will grow up to be a very balanced and attractive person, and the shape, size and appearance of both your eyes will be in exact proportion even if you are not born with good features.
On the other hand, if your father was not joyous about your coming to this world, you will carry that ugliness on your face even if you are born with the best quality features. The same is true of the tops of your feet, which are related to your mother’s state of being. If you have ugly feet where veins are showing on the top, then you can be assured that your mother’s circumstances were not harmonious at the time of your conception or in the period preceding it. As a result, you were deprived of your mother’s love.
Imagine the quality of the components used in a common radio compared to the components used in the probes that are sent into space to explore the universe. The quality of the components used in these probes are of the highest quality science can produce, since these probes are designed to perform specific functions and the results have to travel millions of miles in order to reach the base unit; no chance can be taken with the quality of the components used—once the probe leaves earth it cannot be brought back.
Just as some humans have the ability to be good teachers, some have the ability to be good singers, good artists, doctors, healers, mathematicians, engineers, carpenters, and so on, based on their genetic coding and the science of their body features. The creative and destructive forces lie dormant within us until we dive deep into these mysterious forces and use them according to our limited awareness.
It is such a powerful science that if someone involves himself in an inhuman act, such as killing another human out of grudge, hate, or anger, and not in self-defense, or if a woman aborts her fetus at a very late stage, or even if a person is instrumental in killing someone due to negligence, within a few days of such an act certain signs will show up on the person’s physical features. It is the way of existence to let us know that we have gone against the laws of nature. I have disclosed this secret in this book for the benefit of mankind. This little secret can help the justice system to be fair and honest, as not all homicides are preplanned crimes of hate. Some happen to protect the self.
This science can help healers and therapists as they look into the inner state of people and know where their life is being held at bay. Using this sacred science one can see how much happiness a person has, whether a person enjoys his food or not—since what we eat and how we eat today will determine the state of our being in the future—and the quality of a person’s energy system, how much sexual energy the person has, as well as the state of the immune system. There are tons of secrets one can know just by knowing the science of analyzing one’s body features.
Since this is not a book on “the science of body features,” I have only disclosed what is of importance to a common man in order to know himself and start living this life in harmony.
I have also dedicated one chapter to healing because healthy individuals are a rare find; most people suffer from chronic health problems. I have also disclosed some ancient therapies that can pull the masses out of some chronic diseases like cancer, depression and AIDS, provided their immune system has not been completely torn down and their five elements have not started to disintegrate, something which can be determined by looking at a person’s temple area (the indicator of the state of a person’s immune system).
Humanity is at a crossroads as we enter the 21st century; people are poorer than they were a few hundred years ago. The lack of revolutionaries who have the awareness and the guts to bring a change in the system are making the lives of people unfulfilling. People are confused and their lives are a mess.
The concept of marriage, our family system, the justice system, our ability to forgive, our religions, our peace of mind, our patience—all are collapsing.
Money, religion and politics have caused more damage to humans than has any other dogma. Interestingly, all three are based on creating illusions at different levels.
Money creates illusion on the material level.
Politics creates illusion on the mind level.
Religion creates illusion on the emotional level.
Mankind is losing itself in the jungle of intellect. The intellect is as vast as this cosmos. The energy of the heart is like a leash for our consciousness, and if the leash is not strong enough we will lose touch with our being.
Considering the direction in which humanity is heading, there is little time left. Man is turning into woman and woman is turning into man. Women are losing softness and men are losing strength. We must change our course or the result will be disastrous. Masses of women will choose to be lesbians and masses of men will take to homosexuality, transvestitism, or transsexualism. This emotional shift and the forced physical shift will distort the subtle balance of the mind and will result in homicides, civil wars, mass suicides and genocides. If we look at the current state of humanity; most people are unhappy, angry, impatient, selfish, rude, and judgmental. The number of people losing their balance of mind is on the rise.
Two essential elements to live this life as a normal human being are evaporating fast. These elements are love and hope. People are feeling helpless, clicking frantically on the mouse in search of something potent, something which will give peace, love and clarity; But that something is not out there—it is within you. You need to pull your eyes away from the picture tube and start looking inwards on the dark screen of your forehead; you need to click on your consciousness and tap on the keyboard of your heart, because that is where the divine music will be orchestrated. These ears will not hear what you desire to hear. The universal sound of “AUM” is within you.
What you can see with these eyes are just WHITE LIES, a mere illusion that falls apart at the moment of death. Just as you came into existence out of nowhere, you will dissolve into nowhere—it’s only a matter of time. ‘Whatever you can see, touch, feel, taste, or hear is going to dissolve one day. The clock is ticking and the day is not far when this beautiful pulsating gift of life will have to be abandoned.
The TRUTH is hidden in the darkness of your unconscious mind. Look within and you will find all. Do not be confused by the lies outside of you.
I have covered those areas of life where the maximum confusion lies. Mankind has been chained to those issues for millennia. After you have gone through the book, you will be able to break those chains that have kept you imprisoned for a long time. Once you start walking on the road of awareness things will start clearing up, and no longer will you find yourself in confusion.
Many times I have used the comparison between the east and the west, without which this book would have been incomplete. As the east has half the knowledge and the west has the other half, the east and west are like male and female. They are very opposite and complementary to one another. The east is emotional while the west is logical.
If your upbringing has been very emotional, this book will help you open your logical mind, and if your upbringing has been very logical, this book will help open up your emotional center.
This book is an honest attempt to help mankind start a new millennium, one in which we can be happy with our existence and make this planet into the heaven that was the original intention of the creators. It is an attempt to turn this planet into a school of life, a research center for the cosmos, a vast library or database of knowledge as described by Barbara Mercenick in her book, The Earth.
I have tried to make society aware of where we have been lacking, and attempted to open some hidden secrets science does not know, that the poor doctors and psychologists have not ventured into because the trend has instead been “the blind leading the blind.” No one has had the guts to look around, experiment, learn and give back experience to the world. Yes! People have passed on information, but they have not passed on knowledge or wisdom, which is lacking on the planet despite the fact that we hanker for it all our lives.
My aim in this book is to help humanity reach a stage where it becomes easier for people to know who they are and what their purpose is. After reading this book, you will have all the tools to move on in the search for truth and no longer will you have to give up your families, your property or your hard-earned money to these so-called “gurus” in the search for the knowledge that you have been seeking for ages and lifetimes. After knowing these secrets, you can start your own journey inside of you and if, along the way, you stumble across a real master or guru, it will be your good luck and you should feel blessed. I have also given secrets from the science of body features as to what you can see in a guru so that you will know if he is a real guru or just another con man who has read a few books on philosophy and is merely a good talker.
I would like to end the introduction with this wish for the future: In the coming times, society becomes so aware that money is more of a tool to play with than a power, although it presently rules the world. No longer need one pay for any sort of guidance, whether it be spiritual, physical or material. Guides and doctors are created for the benefit of society and they are supported in their needs by a group of people. They do not need to worry about their daily necessities, allowing them to spend their time gaining new insights into human life and sharing these insights with society.
My sincere wish is that after reading this book you should apply these secrets to your life to make it wholesome so that one day you may stumble upon your holiness.
Welcome to Earth! The only planet that we know of in our solar system that has life. The land of the rising Sun and the shining Moon. Day and Night, Life and Death, Richness and Poverty, Laughter and Tears, Happiness and Sadness, Anger and Compassion, Love and Hate—welcome to the land of duality. Buddhas were born here as well as Hitlers. You are born with power to be both. Accept it or be mad, live happy or die sad; the choice is yours.
“Please,
someone, help me. All I want is something small. Nothing big. I just
want to be happy.”
(Kristin Kinkel)
These are the words of 17-year-old Kip Kinkel, an Oregon native who gunned down his parents and then opened fire in his high school cafeteria, killing two students. He was sentenced to nearly 112 years in prison in November of 1999. Shocking, isn’t it? This poor soul could have been the next Martin Luther King or Gandhi; sadly, he will spend the rest of his life behind iron bars living his life no better than an animal: caged, helpless, and hopeless, just waiting for the day when his being will leave his body in search of a better one. All he wanted was a little bit of happiness!
We are all seeking happiness in some way or other. Are we not? Our search for a better car, a better house, and a better spouse, all boils down to a search for something within us, something better than that which we know at the moment. Believe it or not, we are all searching for our inner self, our true self, not the one we know—our name, the brand name society has given us, the software we have created within our biocomputers, or the software that has been installed by the society or religion in which we were raised.
Most people are living a stereotyped life created for them by others, and all the programming one has is based on lies, half-truths, false notions, religious dogmas, and racist and judgmental emotions. Take a good look at yourself and see what belongs to you.
The truth is that you are brought up on lies and you live your life based on notions and dogmas that have been stuffed into you. Nothing is genuinely yours within your mindset. Pro-religion or anti-religion, it does not matter. Christian, Hindu, Jew, Sikh, Muslim—all carry a mindset which does not allow the other.
All our belief systems are mere thoughts borrowed and garnished with religious, political, and racist emotions. We are beggars of information, thinking that one day we will be kings. Yes! Some do end up being kings of information, but they become the kings of beggars. When death knocks on the door they have a bigger load to let go of. All the so-called religious, political, material, racial beliefs, notions, and thoughts are trashed at the time of death.
Our belief systems have created nothing but bewilderment on this planet. Our religions have created nothing but racism, and our political systems have merely created more prejudice, making people poorer on many levels. Every few years a new person pops up who condemns his predecessor, promises a new future, enjoys his perks while being the head of the country; and leaves behind a badly scarred and disillusioned society; Crime and corruption continue; some win, some lose, and the majority are left to experience anarchy, violence, and hate. The list goes on.
The other day when I got off the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) at the Berkeley Station, I saw a sign that read: “There was just one hate website on the Internet at the time of the Oklahoma City bombing; today there are more than 2100.”
We all want to be the rulers because it hurts to be ruled over. If you look deeply you will start laughing. We all live our lives based on primary and secondary thought patterns. These thought patterns have been contributed by our parents and the people who have lived around us all our lives. If someone was brought up thinking that he wants to be a painter, then he or she will be living off the collective consciousness of the best painters who have existed in the past; he might or might not have heard of Picasso, but his goal is to be the best painter. Others will have the goal of being the best singer, the best actor, or the best politician. My personal feeling is that politicians are the best actors and the best actors are those who fail the most often at real life; if you look at the lives of these so-called “stars” among us, their personal lives are a total mess. This personal mess is beautifully portrayed in movies, shows, and songs, and further contributes towards a messy and destructive society. Very few of these artists contribute towards the growth of our society using their talents.
The first goal is to be known by the masses. These are the primary thoughts that run our moment-to-moment life, and when we forget about our primary thoughts the gaps are filled with secondary thoughts. Let’s call them goblins. I just love goblin movies. Don’t you? Funny- looking illusionary characters. They have so much in common with the thoughts we get, each thought having its own personality; coming from nowhere and going into nowhere but leaving a huge imprint of its feet on the surface of our unconscious mind.
So let’s come back to the stage; the gaps which appear when we are not thinking of our primary goals are filled by these goblins of fear, insecurity, lust, anger, resentment, greed, and so on. Day-to-day simple problems, such as how you will make the next car payment, next month’s rent, your job, or thoughts of a rich spouse, winning the jackpot, your parents leaving a large estate for you, and so on—they all make it seems as though life is playing a word game with you.
Maybe you have risen above all that insecurity about money and you have reached a stage where your predicament has changed, and instead of worrying about the rent you worry about losing money in the stocks, or about someone trying to rip off your recently accumulated wealth, or about someone denting your brand new Lexus, or about your sexy partner cheating on you. Whether you are rich or poor, it does not matter—the goblins of fear, jealousy, greed and insecurity play their own games within your thoughts. For a poor man these goblins are meager and shabby looking, and for the wealthy they are rich and well dressed.
The end result: you struggle, survive, or are successful based on how you handle these goblins, and whether you fill the gaps with the goblins from the Angel group (willpower, positive thoughts, love, etc.), or goblins from the Devil group (anger, hate and resentment, etc.). But again the end result is the same: you are acting based on the primary and secondary thought patterns which are controlling your each and every moment, from the time you wake up in the morning to the time you doze off in bed at night.
For the majority of people, life is missed out on and messed up by these primary and secondary thought patterns. Even before you realize what life is all about, you have joined the list of people who have departed.
Has the following ever crossed your mind? How old are you now? Where were you before taking this birth? Do you remember when you were a six-month-old baby or a one-year-old toddler feeding on your mother’s breasts? Where have all these years gone? Do you realize that time is flying by and every single day you are getting a bit closer to the day when life will ‘end for you? Every breath you take brings you a step closer to death.
But don’t feel pessimistic, as that is not my purpose here. You will die when the time comes for you to die. The clock is ticking and the truth of the matter is that you were nonexistent at one time and you will be nonexistent again. Even before you realize it, seventy-plus years will have flown by and death will be knocking at your door; the way you have missed life in a hurry you are bound to miss death too. All your power, control, ego and possessions will drop like a dead leaf along with this body.
Have the following ever crossed your mind? Who are you? Why are you here?
If you are bored with what this material and physical life has to offer, I will still give you seven out of ten marks because you have realized that life is nothing more than a ho-hum repetition. I suggest that you watch the movie “Groundhog Day.” But if you are not bored and instead find that you do not have enough time to meet your goals, then you are in a hurry and chances are you will end up being a loser no matter how much material worth you may have accumulated. No matter how successful you become, you will realize in the end that you have gained what has no value and lost what was of value.
Have you ever noticed that by age five or six years kids are already in a hurry to grow? Why? Their egos have developed and they have realized that bigger is better and that power is the key and control is the fuel that nourishes the ego.
Sadly, one day they will realize that childhood was more precious, worry free, and fun; life is no longer the bed of roses they had thought it to be, and they must struggle in order to survive. Very soon they realize that the struggle they have endured and the torture they have imposed on their minds and bodies have been futile. This is the story of every human whether they be rich and famous or poor and unknown. I would say only 1% of humanity realizes at an early age what this life is all about and from there on has a purpose and lives by this purpose; these 1% leave a mark on the society. The other 99% live in constant struggle to find their way in this maze called life, always looking for happiness and never realizing that as soon as they touch happiness, they have chosen unhappiness, which is nothing but the other side of the coin. Excitement ends in boredom. Attachment turns into hate. One ends up being a yo-yo.
The majority live by primary and secondary thought patterns that have already been set by society or by the TV channels they watch. Your whole life is planned by society; your mind is controlled by the mass media, and if you rebel against society; you will be terminated or dumped into an iron cage where you will no more be a threat to the politicians. You will end up being no better than an animal in the zoo.
Are you free? You might say yes! I have a house, a secure job, a good family; I have the resources to go anywhere I wish. But stop and look deeply: Where is your freedom? What if you lost all of the above—could you be in the same state of mind as you were with all the perks this material life had to offer? Your whole life would become an endless misery without the physical comforts. You are not just a slave to this outer materialism—each and every moment of your existence is dependent, a slave, to the five elements: air, fire, water, earth, and ether, and their combinations. You are not even free in your thoughts because they are caged in your bio-computer and that computer is caged in your body. Your body and your mind are both slaves to many elements, both subtle and obvious.
As we start a new millennium, life seems so unclear and foggy: health, relationships, emotional and mental stability, even divine grace. STOP; close your eyes and think for a moment: What is your life all about? You will find nothing but darkness; the only light we have at the moment seems to be coming from the picture tube of our television. TV has become our guru, our role model. We follow what this techno guru tells us. “Drink more milk, it’s good for you,” one research says; we run to the refrigerator and gulp a glass of milk. The next day the same TV tells us milk is the number one cause of allergies and heart attacks. We stop drinking milk. It seems we have created an inner highway of thoughts and are living a life of stop-and-go, moving towards our destinations in a hurry, changing lanes in frustration.
Every day we wake up unwillingly and drag ourselves to work. The majority of people do not like to do this, but they have no option and must force themselves each morning to work in order to survive. For most, the pattern continues until: they are 65. By this time their life energies have started packing up and they end up in elderly communities at the mercy of their families or government, just waiting in fear for death to come and pull the plug of life.
We do not seem to have any definite purpose—from birth to death, the same drama has been repeated over and over again for millennia, and it is still being repeated. Our life is no more than a juggle between opposites. One moment we are happy and the next moment we are full of anger and rage. One day we feel good about ourselves and the next day we hate our own existence. Your happiness, love, affection, compassion are no more than passing clouds in the sky of your limited awareness, as are your sadness, hate and anger. The tragedy is that none of these passing clouds get a chance to soak you with the rain, and your being, or consciousness, stays barren and desert-like. Your laughter and crying are just thunders—if these clouds of happiness or sadness could rain, you would get a chance to taste the divine nectar. Your love, hate, anger, compassion are experienced by others but never by you because the “you” has never existed within you and the “you” that you have always experienced is nothing but a video made by others but watched by you. If you could ever experience love within yourself, you would never hanker for love again; if you could ever experience anger and hate within you, there would never again be space left for anger and hate within you; if people could experience hate and anger within themselves, then there would be no need left for jails because the killer and the killed are both victims. The killer is a victim of anger and rage and the killed is a victim of the killer, and when society gives the death penalty to the killer, he becomes the victim of society’s vengeful nature. ‘What a beautiful cycle we have created, where we create victims every day. If the trend continues, very soon we will be jailing nice people because we will run out of space for the criminals.
Just open your eyes and look around you. Look at the way the whole life functions. One is born, one suffers, and finally one dies. Your contribution to the system is negligible unless you are born with a strong destiny, in which case you will make a change in the system for bad or for good.
Precious lives are wasted amassing wealth or struggling to survive, and the little bit of time left is wasted in watching TV or in idle gossiping. All we do is talk and talk. We talk about love but practice hate, we teach compassion in our schools but serve them meat at lunchtime, which is nothing but practicing cruelty. We are not only cruel to others but to ourselves. With the advancement of technology, humans have started living the lives of machines; in today’s “technologically advanced” world, machines are better cared for than humans. If our car is running sluggishly, we run to the mechanic; on the other hand, if we have a headache, we do not leave work and relax so that the inner mechanic can fix the problem; rather, we throw in a couple of pain-reducing tablets that intoxicate our inner mechanic and continue with our work.
We have lost our basic instincts: we cannot laugh unless we hear a good joke, we cannot cry unless we are in deep pain. We cannot love unless we have a vested interest in the person.
Humans are accumulating the social garbage within their bodies and minds, which is coming out in the form of dangerous diseases like cancer, leukemia, AIDS. There is no limit to the number of diseases on this planet.
We have tons of resources available to us on the planet, yet mankind has been unsuccessful in providing food and shelter to all living beings on this planet—every day millions go hungry, while leftover food, rots in the garbage dumps of the affluent. Rich or poor, each one of us is wanting in some way or another. The poor beg for food and the rich beg for power, and people who have gone beyond poverty and riches beg for mercy from the Lord.
Despite all the spiritual masters who have existed on this planet and despite all the religions we have and the holy books available to us, humanity is still in chaos. Society has crippled humanity to its core. We talk about compassion, love and sharing, but when it comes to our interests the vulture of greed within us takes over and influences our decisions.
If you have never thought beyond the phrase “survival of the fittest” in the jungle of capitalism, in my opinion there is no difference between you and a fox in the animal kingdom who is looking to feed itself from the “lion’s share,” because one day you are going to end up being someone’s dinner.
Dishonesty has become a way of life. The problem is, there is no instrument for measuring one’s honesty. We have instincts but sadly we have become immune to our inner voice and we are constantly falling prey to con artists, until we pay for the lies to find the truth. Our legal system is in a mess. The legal system was created to save the innocent but then we lost the legal system to dictators and criminals; attorneys came into existence to save the innocent from the clutches of the justice system, and after a while they turned dishonest too; when it comes to helping a murderer, profits overlap ethics. The present-day court system is nothing but a mockery of the judicial system—judges are paid by the government to serve the interests of the wealthy who run these governments behind the curtains of capitalism. The social structure has decayed to the point where it is hard to draw a line between ethics and survival. This whole mumbo jumbo is robbing mankind of a very powerful asset called “faith.” We are not just losing faith in others but in ourselves, too.
What is AIDS? Weakening of the immune system! What is the immune system? Collective Faith of the body! That it is protected from negativities and the failure of the immune system clearly signifies in one direction that man is losing faith in his own existence. ‘When we are physically weak we fall prey to the medical system, which is at its height of corruption as the insurance companies, the pharmaceutical companies and the medical profession have become friends in this fleshy business. Hopeless and helpless from all directions, we end up at the hands of false gurus, incompetent astrologers, con psychics, and fake healers who are ripping off innocent people of millions of dollars. How these crooks trap people is very simple. Ads run like this: ‘All your problems solved!” or “One question answered for free or talk to a psychic for free on this toll- free number.” This one question is nothing but the bait. The battered end up becoming the bait.
From womb to tomb our life remains illusionary and futile, yet every year we celebrate our birthday by blowing out the candles; in reality; we have blown another year off our lives. We can blame it on society, our past karma or our parents, but the end result is that most have no plan to live this life successfully. We do not teach people how to live on this planet. Most suffer until the last breath leaves their bodies and they die, and all they leave behind are memories that rot in the minds of their kith and kin or gather dust in the attic in the form of writings and pictures.
Continuing on this course, humanity will not survive for more than another 50 years. If within the next few decades we do not straighten out our acts, and instead we continue the way we have been living our lives, we will have nothing but disaster on all levels—emotional, physical, spiritual, and ecological—because the planet Earth is as alive as we are. The earth eats, breathes, discards, cries, and celebrates just as we do. If we have no respect for the ecological system, our bodies, or our minds, in a few years people will lose ground and so will the weather system, as we are all linked together. We will have a series of natural and manmade disasters that will eliminate our life form from this planet, as our survival
Most people are lost in the fantasies of their minds and have become disconnected and removed from the outside world. We have lost touch with our inner selves and have thrown ourselves at the mercy of logic. We are living in a world of comparison where logic has become our master.
You go to one friend’s house; his wife is nasty, unsociable and a bad cook. You immediately start admiring your wife because the comparison has come in. Next week you go to another friend’s house; his wife resembles the current Miss Universe, is very sociable and cooks like a chef. In an instant you become miserable and start thinking about that unlucky day when you married your wife. It seems you have disconnected your wires with divine cable and have bought a dish where the channels have increased and so has your confusion as to what channel is good for you.
We have created our self-worth based upon what others feel about us and those others are following the same course. We have been blessed with the power of thought, action, and words, but we have forgotten the art of thinking, and based on our erroneous thinking, our actions are random acts born out of our impulsiveness and talk about words; all we speak are White Lies because we do not want to end up being another Jesus or Socrates speaking the truth and the truth is dark: our life starts with suffering and ends at suffering, we fear the darkness and the death. Pain and fear is the first lesson a child learns when he slips out of the womb and his umbilical cord is chopped off in an instant. This pain continues until the ax of death falls on the flow of breath and relieves the individual from misery;
From Krishna to Buddha to Jesus to Socrates to the sages of the 1900s, all said that life is nothing but “Dukkha,” or misery. Our liberation from this suffering lies in our awareness, which is fogged by our desires and wishes.
Even though we are blessed with the power of intellect, we are never taught to use this intellect; on the contrary; we are always taught to fight back. Our history of thousands of years is clear evidence of our rebellion; we have fought hundreds of wars—how can we not rebel? For ages mankind has thought that the problem lies somewhere outside of us— man against the world. We never use our intellect to look within to see where this rebellion is coming from because we cannot rebel against ourselves. To do so would be to run the risk of losing ourselves, and so we must rebel against the outside world.
There is a very interesting story. Once upon a time a donkey challenged a lion. Now why would a donkey challenge a lion? The simple reason is that donkeys are always frustrated with lions, and they have every reason to be angry as everyone treats them with disrespect. So this donkey blasted at the lion: What do you think of yourself, do you think you are the king of the animal kingdom? Let’s prove who the real king is! Let’s have a fight to prove- who’s the best. The lion thought for a moment and then quietly disappeared in the jungle. A fox was watching the scenario; she became speechless. Without losing a single moment she ran towards the lion and exclaimed in sheer amazement: “What’s the matter, my king?” The lion replied calmly: “The donkey has nothing to lose!”
All our lives, from the time our mother taught us to speak we are gathering information; very few transform that information into knowledge. Information is nothing but filling the bio-computer with data so that one day one is able to contest on the Jeopardy show. Information can only create parrots, and parrots are always interested in associations. Just split the word “ass-ociations.” The word speaks for itself. They want to be in the front, where people can admire them. The majority of politicians as well as actors are full of information. If ever actors could have intellect, they would refuse movies and shows that have a negative impact on society. If politicians had intellect they would disguise themselves and move among the masses to know what is happening in the life of a common man, but they do not have any time left from enjoying the perks that come with their position.
There is a vast difference between information and knowledge. From information we get knowledge and from knowledge we experience and get wisdom and from wisdom we move on towards awareness, which is our key to the beyond.
When they are young, we force feed our kids with information to make them productive just like machines. We always teach our kids to struggle to be number one but never teach them to relax and enjoy this gift of life.
Our obsession with being number one has transformed this planet into a living hell. If you take statistics you will be shocked that the number of people who have to appear in a court of law every day or wait for the doctor to check them have exceeded the number of people going to the churches or temples to meditate. The majority of people are mentally, morally, emotionally, and physically sick.
A family takes a wrong exit in Los Angeles and loses their child to gunshots; a man is beaten mercilessly on the streets of Los Angeles, not by gangsters, but by two dozen cops who are supposed to protect the public. While someone loses his life trying to steal a pack of beer in Arizona, the other is beaten to death for being a gay in Wyoming. Bomb blasts have become very common now as there is no fun left in killing a few, so criminals have progressed, too. Genocides, homicides and mass suicides are what humanity is left to. Kids and teenagers have also joined the adults in the game of death. Schools are transforming into assassination camps. Seven-year-old children have started killing six-year-old children. The day is not far when we will be teaching four- and five-year-old children about using guns. It all begins at a very young age.
Is this our purpose? Have we taken birth to defend ourselves in this cruel world? What has brought us here? What is this duality all about? Have you ever tried to explore the mysteries of this duality? Man and woman, male and female, positive and negative, life and death. Are we done with this jumping from one pole to another or we are waiting for the day when we cripple ourselves to the point where we succumb to the darkness without being able to reach the inner light?
Compared to woman, man is more foolish by nature, very childish and ignorant. Man is born out of a woman he calls mother and one day he rapes that very mother. Sounds like a very strong statement but truth is always dark—only lies are white. Were you not born out of your mother’s womb? Didn’t she nurture you every day until you were able to stand on your feet? Did she not teach you how to talk and walk? Did you not feed on her breasts? This is the small picture, but let’s take the big picture. From where comes the food, water and air that we must have every moment of every day in order to survive? From the earth! So what is earth to us? She is the mother, too; are we not raping our mother every day by destroying the rainforests, dumping all those toxic wastes, and creating destructive weapons? The gloomy picture is that our biological mothers have started losing touch with Mother Earth, too. Woman is the only connection for man to ground himself with the earth, so that he can grow and grow, so that one day he is able to touch the sky and remove the veil of illusion in order to reach the supreme father.
Who is this supreme father? We know our biological mother and we know the supreme mother, which is earth, and we know our biological fathers. But where is this supreme father that all the sages, saints, and gurus have always talked about?
It seems God has gone on a long vacation, leaving fate in our own bands. Our future seems to be doomed unless we take charge, as no longer are holy prayers being answered.
There is an interesting story. When God created humanity He wanted feedback from people. Every day people would come to Him with their suggestions and complaints and ask Him to make changes. Finally He got sick of their complaints. He wanted to run away from humanity. He wanted to hide where man would not look for Him easily. So He asked for an emergency meeting with His advisors. The big question was, where should He hide? Some said go to the forest, go live on the moon, hide in the ocean, but God said man would find Him some day. Finally, one very old advisor suggested to God that He hide in the man himself, as man would never look there. He was right—we never look within.
For ages the spiritual masters have been repeating over and over again about the self, inner being, our oneness, but how many have the guts to leave their families and run to the jungle as did Buddha and many others in search of the ultimate truth?
For a common man the truth is not the search for God but the search for his hunger and his survival. Once these are taken care of he enters the realm of the desires hovering around him. Only when there is food in the stomach and a satisfaction in the heart does he get a chance to think what this life is all about.
It seems we are determined to uproot ourselves, not realizing that the vultures of anger, greed, attachment, lust and egotism are feasting on our bodies and mind at every moment and the day is not far when this body will lose its battle and the life form will leave this body in search of another body, in the hope that it will be able to find the supreme father.
Humanity is not lacking in any way; the only drawback is that most people think like sheep in a herd. My point can be proven very easily. Just gather 50 people in a hall and close all doors. Have a door with a sign that says “Not an Exit”; all you have to do is yell “the building is on fire” and run towards the door that clearly displays the “Not an Exit” sign and I can bet that the majority of the people will run towards that door following you, overlooking that sign; very few will have the awareness to think for a moment and look for the exit door.
A person who has not mastered his mind will always look for masters outside of him; as a result, most people are always ready to be followers. It all starts within us and then we practice it in the outside world. We are slaves of our imagination, taste buds, thoughts, desires, and emotions. As our focus changes from the screen of our imagination, it focuses on the world outside of us.
Again, I will give better rating to women compared to men because men are childish by nature; the reason being that men are seldom concerned with their bodies and are happy with their toy called “mind.” They live in their minds and the mind never gets old; on the contrary, women are connected with their bodies and live in totality most of the time and their minds age with their bodies. Even though the trend among women has changed for the worse, still most women carry more sense than men, although where we stand today the majority of men are lost in their toys of technology and women are lost in the fascination of fashion.
Men and women do not know about their basic purpose anymore; as a result the gay population is on the rise. Man has started following the woman and women have started following the men. Women are no longer interested in sitting at home, taking care of the kids. They want to go out and make money, have power, and be free from the bondage of taking care of the home front. Giving birth to a new life form no longer amazes a woman. The day is not far when movies like “Junior” will become a reality of life. A woman will no longer be interested in carrying a baby in her stomach for nine months. Man is no longer interested in his male strength. Since World War II, his mind has been fueled by so much of the beauty created around women that all his focus has shifted and he has started imitating women. Man is still fighting because that is his nature, but he has now started fighting his masculinity.
While more and more women have taken seats in front of computers, more and more men have made themselves comfortable in front of mirrors. Do you realize which way we are heading?
Humans are not only losing touch with the outside world but also losing touch with themselves, where the potential to unmask this illusion lies. We have created all the escape routes to run away from ourselves so that we should not run into ourselves as Jesus, Buddha, and many others did. All we do is talk about our faiths, trying to market our beliefs because we do not even believe in our beliefs and we are constantly looking for others to support our belief system. If you are a Christian, have you ever found yourself looking for that Son of God in another human not belonging to your faith, or if you are a follower of Islam have you tried looking for Mohammed in a Christian, Jew, or a Hindu? No! Because within your heart, you have not allowed Jesus, Mohammed, or Krishna to be a guest and all your search is focused on looking for someone who can support your belief; what you are doing is no more than hero-worshipping.