Playing Games with Time and History

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 7 years before Aug 21, 2018

MiBeloved 7 years ago

Last night I was in the astral world with a sannyasi, who is now disgraced and has lost his status as a senior in the spiritual movement he served as a leader some years ago.

This person was with another individual who was a married man in the society and who was also a senior official. Both of them held senior positions some years ago. The married one is still in the society even though there is mounting criticisms about him.

In that astral encounter, the sannyasi was trying to reorganize his life back to the glory days when he was famous and providence gave him to thumbs-up. After a time, due to some faulty actions which he mistook as perfect actions, he lost his status as a senior person. Now his only concern is to reenact what went on before in his glory days.

This sort of attitude affects just about everyone of us, where when we are dethroned from some position, we expend every effort to regain it. Instead of riding the down wave of nature like a cooperative surfer, we think that we should go up the curve and ascent to the top of the wave as before.

This occurs from a misunderstanding on our part about the role we are supposed to play in the fold out of history and time. The psychologists have alerted us to this as being the false ego or just the ego. I assume that they mean that this is because we are impulsive involved with identifying with advantage.

What should a person do instead?

That is a question that requires some consideration to answer.

During the astral encounter, the one who was married and who was senior in the society, asked me to go and do some worship ceremony procedures. I agreed. This person sees me as his junior because I joined the society after he did.

To comply with his request I had to go to a sink to get water to clean my hands. When I got to the sink, the senior monk was sitting in it. I explained to him the situation and he agreed to get out of the sink but indicated that he would have to be lifted out since his body was crippled. I told him I would lift him out and he was a bit alarmed, thinking that I did not have the physical strength to lift him out.

Anyway I did get him out easily. After this, I washed and went to the place where the ceremony was to take place.

When I got there some others arrived there whom I knew years ago. These were persons who were assistants of the senior monk who was crippled. I greeted some of these persons. Some of them began to speak of things from years ago, feeling happy to meet with friends from the past.

After sometime, everyone faded away from that place as the senior monk did not have the power to keep us there for long.

This experience shows what we do if we are unable to fulfill our desires and if we are very attached to certain desires. We keep those desires in mind and we do whatever is necessary to compel others to help us to fulfill those desires again, without considering if nature would sponsor those acts for a second or third round.

Those who are in theistic societies feel that this is okay because to their view, they are doing this for a God, god or deity. Actually they are terribly mistaken.

The way to deal with history, is to ride up a wave when history is going that way and then to ride down a wave just the same when history is going that way. Stated plainly one should enjoy the upswings and the downgrades. The advantage is not to be on the top of the crest of wave but to be riding the wave. If one can change one’s attitude to this, then the whole experience would be rewarding, every bit of it all the way. But if one focuses on just being at the crest, then one will be in a huff and puff to get to the top, only to discover that one cannot remain there and then one will experience the horror when the energy under the crest breaks apart and no longer supports it.