THE PATH OF BLISS
I still remember, when she stole you, my Soul, before I was enveloped in this empty hole. She came to me in the dead of night, Was there any way I could put up a fight? There she was, cunning, that old scratch. How could I have known? I was no match. But paradise wasn't lost all in one day. It seems further and further away, Every time that I will myself into ignorance, And submit myself to illusion's dominance. With you gone, My Soul, I think, not know; look, not see, Hear, not listen, touch, not feel, I am I, but am not me. To distract myself, I drown in an ocean of fantasy, talk, pleasure, and false commotion. Trapped in this tainted fortress of bone, I think, what on earth could I do to atone? I think, will there ever be a return to golden days? Which, as I reminiscence, are fading into a haze? So I fell into the dark nights of the soul! Centuries of delusion have paid their toll. But on one fated day, I heard the call. Deep inside I felt, this can't be all. I wandered through the labyrinth of lies, But in the light of truth all unknowing dies. I do not know who sought first, I or Thou, But nonetheless to your wisdom do I bow. My mind was trapped in a dark cage. Now I kneel in gratitude to this Sage, What greater gift is there than this? Initiated into the path of bliss. A path that is sharp like a razor, narrow and long, A path that is seldom walked upon by the throng. A bliss that never turns sour, only sweeter. A bliss that makes all other blisses seem greater. A bliss that never ceases, that never fails, A bliss that I have found, so I can never ail. AUM - AMEN - AUM
I dedicate this poem to one of my favourite Spiritual Teachers, whose writings were a major turning point in my life: Paramhansa Yogananda. I am grateful to him for blessing me spiritually, hearing my prayers and for instructing me through his words. I have been greatly blessed by his presence in my life.
OM GURU!
Thank you for reading this poem I wrote, my fellow spiritual quester.
There is one spiritual path and one ultimate goal for all human beings to attain: Spiritual Enlightenment. This path and the goal it concludes in are called by many names in many cultures. But just as there are many words for water and yet they all refer to the same basic substance, similarly there are many words for the spiritual path, its methods and steps, and the goal it seeks, and yet in substance they are the same.
The ultimate aim of a human life is not to make a perfect social, political or economic system, because such a thing is not possible for imperfect and ignorant beings. Rather the aim of a human life is an inward transformation, an evolution into Higher Consciousness. Whether or not one can attain this is a matter that is ultimately left into the hands of the individual. It cannot happen on a societal wide scale. However, those individuals who do reach Higher Consciousness, even just a small grade of Higher Consciousness, exert a tremendous positive effect on the society around them. So the best thing you can do to fight against the darkness of our age is to become a beacon of light in our time by becoming One with God - Spiritually Enlightened.
The best thing a social, political, economic system can do is to protect the causes and conditions that make an individual being able to walk this path possible and to make the path as widely available to as many people as possible. This is what most Traditional societies did. Vedic, Buddhist, Christian and Islamic societies walked the path.
No one can force you to walk the path, and in fact if you are forced to walk the path you are not walking it. Every step of the path must be freely taken. The best way to restore a traditional society in our time is to walk the path of Enlightenment ourselves to completion, since the only point of a traditional society was to facilitate the transformation of consciousness to begin with, those who have this transformation happen within themselves will be the ones who are best suited to restore Traditional societies for the benefit of all mankind.
Do not think that just because your soul was thrown into Modernity that you can never attain Sainthood or Buddahood, the state of a real Siddha or Sufi. When Mankind suffers like this, God in his goodness and the Spiritual Teachers who watch over us from the Higher Worlds extend the most unique and abundant graces so that those who seek Enlightenment sincerely can still attain it.
In our time, there are powerful forces at work, humans empowered by demonic beings, who seek to drag humanity into Hell in this world and in the next. This is the natural outcome of a society oriented towards Man and his desires instead of oriented towards submission to God and the insights of higher consciousness. They are behind the madnesses of Nihilism, Materialism, Secular Humanism, Atheism, Pornography, LGBT+, the twin extremes of Communism and Capitalism, Feminism, the exaltation of the lower man over the higher in all stations of life under the guise of so-called “EQUALITY”, the relentless pursuit of egotism under the guise of so-called “FREEDOM”, the accumulation of power into a small cadre of globalist elites under the guise of so-called “PROGRESS!” In our days, all the different races of Man are being degraded by these and other lies. But these demons and their willing or unwilling human servants know they can never shut the door to enlightenment completely, so they mostly win by trying to make humans not even want to walk it. Thus they propagate idea that with enough money we can have the peace and happiness we seek. Or, they instill the idea that the right political system (which should be implemented no matter what the amount of violence it requires) will grant us happiness and peace. These false ideas are promoted by the Dark Powers to distract us from our true goal. Every sincere spiritual aspirant is an enemy of the Dark Powers. But if you humbly submit to God you will triumph over them and even send them back to the Hells from whence they came. If you are reading this at all it means you are destined to be a spiritual warrior who will put the demons completely to rout for the Glory of God and attain the highest levels of realization.
We are fortunate to have been born in this dark age. Never lament your fate of being born in the Kali-Yuga / Dark Age, if you are a sincere spiritual aspirant you were born here for a reason. Your good deeds in this world, in this age, will help to plant the seeds of the coming Satya Yuga / Golden Age which succeeds this Kali Yuga. But that future Golden Age too must pass, to make way for future Kali Yugas, which is why the wise strive to leave behind this world of cyclicality, Samsara, behind for good, and to help others do it too. God will spoil you with graces like no other for daring to turn away from the hypnotic illusions of our age and seeking Him above all other things when This World has never been worldly, man never more enslaved to The Flesh, never more deceived by The Devil. All the Buddhas, Siddhas, and Saints of all times and lands will help you and ensure that you reach The Goal. Though the path is hard, I would be lying if I said it was not, it couldn’t be more worth it… you will behold the Uncreated Light which always was, always is, and always will be, and this will elevate you to higher levels of Being, Consciousness, and Bliss such as you have never imagined because you will be one with their Source. This Eternal Transcendental Light is the Source of all Goodness, Truth, and Beauty, and in fact in this world any manifestation of those three is but an emanation of their Source which yet far exceeds them, even in their sum, in Goodness, Truth, and Beauty. The Creator is superior to the Creation.
There is no political change in our time without spiritual change, since our political problems are actually just a reflection of our inner corrupt spiritual state. Even if he is never engaged in politics to any extent whatsoever the energy of light that the Enlightened Man radiates even unwillingly will purify this world of the darkness that manifests itself as radical political / social / economic systems that sunder Man from his own true nature and from God. But by discovering our true Self, adhering to eternal moral principles, and uniting ourselves with God, our very existence becomes an act of rebellion against the forces of subversion in our world and the demons behind them.
You want to cease the destruction of the beautiful world God made? Solve the ecological crisis by uniting to the one who made Nature. You want to save your particular race from extinction and degradation? You must then become one with God that He might have mercy on your kind for your sake and you can intercede for them with your prayers. You want to restore true harmony between the genders, the races, and the natural castes of Man by putting all these in proper order and their proper place? Then become one with the source of all Harmony and Order: God.
The solution to every political problem is, ultimately, a spiritual solution. We cannot solve a problem created by low levels of consciousness unless we rise to the higher levels of consciousness. If we have the same levels of consciousness as the ones who created these problems then we will just create more problems. Only the one who has reformed himself can reform his race, his religion, his society, and this world. Indeed, the one who has transformed himself for the better transforms the world for the better without even trying.
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AUM - AMEN