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Life After Life by Dr Raymond Moody Dr Moody reveals his ground-breaking study of people who experienced 'clinical death' https://www.amazon.in/Life-After-Dr-Raymond-Moody/dp/0712602739

Mooji is a spiritual teacher originally from Jamaica. Most of the Jamaicans are African descent. . Mooji has travelled to Spain, Italy, Germany, Sweden, North America, Argentina, Brasil, UK, Ireland, Portugal, Ukraine, Poland, Russia, and India, conducting Satsang meetings, Intensives and Retreats. Jamaicans are descendents from Africa but Mooji and his organization has not done much work in Africa.

I have not defined pure religion. I tried to say something about it. Can you define pure religion ?

The Classic Age of Ancient India roughly corresponded, in the chronology of world history, to that of Ancient Greece. The Classical Age saw the rebirth of urban civilization (Before it urbanization happened in Indus Valley civilization 3300-1300 BCE) in ancient India, and with it, a literate culture. It was an age of amazing religious creativity. A growing number of merchants, officials and other urban-base people began looking for a more personal religious experience, one which would speak to their individual need for salvation. Moreover, by the 6th century BCE the Hindu religion had become characterized by a high degree of ceremonial. This gave a dominant place to the priests of the Brahmin caste. India at the time of the Buddha was very spiritually open. Every major philosophical view was present in society. At the time when Gautama started his spiritual journey, there was a great intellectual ferment in the country. Besides the Brahmanic Philosophy there were as many as sixty-two different schools of philosophy, all opposed to the Brahmanic Philosophy. India had the world's largest economy from 1 CE to 1000 CE. In 1500, China was the largest economy in the world, followed closely by India. Buddha's Attitude to His Contemporaries 1. The Buddha did not accept the teachings of the new philosophers. 2. His rejection of their teaching was not without reasons. He said that: 3. If the doctrines of Purana Kassyappa or Pakudha Kacchyana were true, then one can do any evil or any harm; one may even go to the length of killing another without involving any social responsibility or social consequences. 4. If the doctrine of Makhali Ghosal is true, then man becomes the slave of destiny. He cannot liberate himself. 5. If the doctrine of Ajit Kesakambal is true, then all that man has to do is to eat, drink and make merry. 6. If the doctrine of Sanjaya Belaputta was true, then man must float about, and live without a positive philosophy of life. 7. If the doctrine of Nigantha Nathaputta was true, then man's life must be subjected to Asceticism and Tapascharya, a complete subjugation and uprooting of man's instincts and desires. 8. Thus, none of the paths of life suggested by the philosophers appealed to the Buddha. He thought they were the thoughts of men who had become hopeless, helpless, and reckless. He therefore decided to seek light elsewhere.

Pure religiousness cannot be said, cannot be written, cannot be indicated in any way.

Mahatma Gandhi was not a sage. He was a lawyer turned politician. Mahatma Gandhi is praised because he made nonviolence into a weapon, made it into a method of fighting. Many Indians consider him as a jerk and he was never known as a spiritually enlightened person.

Most of the spiritual teachers (including many Indian masters) spread their message in Europe and America because a spiritual movement is possible in these countries. Spirituality is a luxury , other nations are not ready for it. In the days of Buddha , India was spiritual, when India was affluent.

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born to a Caucasian-Greek father and Armenian mother. Gurdjieff was an influential spiritual teacher who taught that most humans live their lives in a state of hypnotic ‘waking sleep’, but that it is possible to transcend to a higher state of consciousness and achieve full human potential. He accepted P. D. Ouspensky as a pupil. Ouspensky already had a reputation as a writer on mystical subjects and had conducted his own, ultimately disappointing, search for wisdom in the East. Ouspensky separated from Gurdjieff, settling in England and teaching the Fourth Way in his own right. The two men were to have a very ambivalent relationship for decades to come. Gurdjieff has a system of his own which is not of the routine, traditional religions. He was one of the most misunderstood men in the world, for the simple reason that everybody was judging according to his prejudiced mind, and here was a man who was trying to bring a secret doctrine into the open for the first time; but he could not succeed. He failed utterly, not because of himself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) is acknowledged the world over as one of the most outstanding religious teachers of the modern age. Watch full length video on Krishnamurti’s life J. Krishnamurti was prepared by a great theosophical movement in every possible way to become a vehicle of Gautam Buddha. Certainly a few of the theosophical movement were aware of the wandering soul of the Buddha, and the time was ripe. Their understanding was: if Krishnamurti is perfectly ready intellectually and surrenders, the soul of Gautam Buddha will enter in him. He refused to surrender, and he told the gathering, "I am not going to be the vehicle of Maitreya Buddha."

@MarkusSweden Tommy Robinson has been permanently banned from Twitter. I don't know why he is moved to another prison without any reason or warning !

Sadhguru: More Than A Life by Arundhathi Subramaniam https://www.amazon.in/Sadhguru-More-than-Arundhathi-Subramaniam/dp/0143421123 An account of a living realized being, a Yogi, a mystic, from the perception of a logical and contemporary mind with which we can very well relate.

Enjoy life, why do you bother about meaning?

@Light Lover Some labor is very essential for the agility of the body, complete alertness of the mind. Just as one can make a mistake with one’s diet : either one eats too little or one eats too much, so a mistake can happen here also. Either one does not do labour at all or one does too much. Bodybuilders do too much labor. A bodybuilder is putting too much of a burden on the body. Raping the body can swell the muscles and make the body worth looking at, worth exhibiting, but there is a great difference between living, being healthy and being an exhibitionist. Each person should find out according to himself, according to his body, how much labor he should do to live more healthily and more freshly.

Greeks have completely ignored Pythagoras as a mystic. Pythagoras risked all and everything. He traveled all around the world that was known in those days, studied under all kinds of masters, entered into all kinds of mystery schools. Pythagoras studied with the ” great teachers of Egypt” and it is he who brought the knowledge and wisdom from Egypt to Greece. How to open third eye by an ancient Egyptian method was also used by Pythagoras. Pythagoras was the first bridge between east and the west. The day Pythagoras died, thousands of his disciples were massacred and burnt. A disciple escaped the school, his name was Lysis. And he escaped, not to save his life , he escaped just to save something of the Master’s teachings. The Golden Verses of Pythagoras were written by Lysis. The whole school was burnt, and thousands of disciples were simply murdered and butchered. And all that Pythagoras had accumulated on his journeys , great treasures, great scriptures from China, India, Tibet, Egypt, years and years of work , all was burnt.

Avoid confrontation with society/ family, otherwise much of your energy will be wasted. The outer world should become a drama for you and you start acting in it. An intelligent person will inevitably live in society only as an actor acting, and in no other way. His relationship with society is only that of being an actor in a play.

@Eudaimonia When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

It is a cosmic play. It is not even a game. because even in a game, victory is to be attained. It is like a child plays, without any purpose. There is nothing serious about this play, there no goal, no purpose.

When love is impure, it is driven by ego. The jealousies, possessiveness, attachment, needs, expectations, desires make love impure.

You can start reading the Bible, you can see Jesus as role model, but it is not easy to follow Jesus. Jesus said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me." ◄ Luke 9:23 ► "Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple." ◄ Luke 14:27 ► Surrender is suffering, your whole ego will suffer.

Desiring stops slowly slowly and through much pain, but the sooner it comes, the better.

Pythagoras was an ancient Greek philosopher. He was famous throughout Greece as the leader of a religious community (the Pythagoreans), for his belief that the soul is immortal and in the possibility of reincarnation. Pythagoras’s belief in the immortality of the soul and the possibility of reincarnation was a huge break from tradition. Because of his belief in reincarnation, Pythagoras also maintained that what you do in this life will determine what happens to you after you die. As such, he created a way of life for himself and his followers that would allow the soul to be purified so that it could have the best reincarnation, and ideally would be able to break from the cycle of reincarnation altogether by uniting with the divine. This way of life brought about another important break from tradition. Instead of honoring the Gods with prayers and gifts, now the focus was on purifying oneself in order to influence what will happen to you when you die. Once when Pythagoras was present at the beating of a puppy, he pitied it and said ‘stop, don't keep hitting him, since it is the soul of a man who is dear to me, which I recognized, when I heard it yelping. He was the first philosopher in the West to create a lasting vegetarian legacy.

@Salvijus Journey towards meditation is lot more easier when you are rich. If you are not possessed by money and you can use it. It is very difficult to grow spiritually in poverty, when your children are hungry.

Jesus said “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple." ◄ Luke 14:26 ► Unless you drop all the conditionings that your family have put inside you, unless the family disappear from your inner world totally, you will not be able to grow, to become mature.

Aristotle is considered the "Father of Western Philosophy". The western mind is basically logical, it can't accept anything beyond Aristotelian logic. Great civilization in Greece couldn't understand Heraclitus, Socrates, Pythagoras, Plotinus , Diogenes as spiritually enlightened persons and declined. Heraclitus in Greece not known as an enlightened person but as Heraclitus the Obscure. Plato called Diogenes "a Socrates gone mad". Socrates was poisoned. Pythagoras was killed by a mob.

For centuries Jews had been hoping and waiting, when will the messiah come? And then suddenly Jesus declared, "I am the messiah for whom you have been waiting." Jews were disturbed, because the mind can wait, it is very easy to postpone. Whenever the messiah comes, we immediately deny him. This has to be understood. Mind can live in the future, but cannot live in the present. Now we are waiting for Christ to come back; he has promised, “I will be coming back.” Now if anybody says, “I am Jesus Christ,” Christians will do the same. This time Christians will crucify him. @zoey101 If you are waiting for Christ's coming, Christ has always been coming. We are not available. When Jesus was here , only twelve illiterate people were available. What happened to the Jews? They were waiting for messiah for centuries! So, don't wait, become available, Christ is always here.