Showing posts with label meher baba. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Hitler Rants about Sufism



Downfall is a 2004 German film set during the Battle of Berlin in World War II, when Nazi Germany is on the verge of defeat, and depicts the final days of Adolf Hitler (portrayed by Bruno Ganz).

Parodied clips from the Downfall have proliferated internationally via YouTube and other video sites. The parodies replace the subtitles from the original movie with incorrect subtitles. They are subtitled with references to Hitler becoming angry over various facets of modern pop culture such as politics, online gaming, movies, television, music, sports and many other local or international events. (Wikipedia)

This Hitler parody about the Northern California Baba groups is by the Australian Baba satirist Dom Rice. Parodies of Hitler and the Holocaust are not new. Meher baba saw The Great Dictator in Delhi in 1940 and said he would have liked to have seen it seven times. In 1998 the Italian comedy film Life is Beautiful about a father and son in a concentration camp won three Academy Awards, as well as the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Religions in Harmony

Russia is 1000 years old. It is traditionally Orthodox Christian, though it has indigenous Muslims, Jews, and Buddhists from ancient times across its vast territory. When the religiously repressive regime of the Soviet Union fell in 1991, freedom of religion was restored. Today, the four ancient religions of the modern Russian Federation co-exist in happy harmony with mutual respect.

Above is the beautiful Russian city of Kazan as it looks today, where Muslim mosques and Orthodox Christian cathedrals light up the skyline. Atheists make up only 13% of the Russian population today.    PHOTO SOURCE

Baba once said that if the spiritual revival he ancticipated did not happen in America, due to continued use of drugs, it would occur in Russia.

Edgar Cayce once said in trance:

Reading 3976-10, given on Feb. 8, 1932, the suggestion to the sleeping Cayce included a request for a "plan for establishing peace on earth and good will among men."
(Q) What should be the attitude of so-called capitalist nations toward Russia?
(A) On Russia's religious development will come the greater hope of the world. Then that one, or group, that is the closer in its relationships, may fare the better in the gradual changes and final settlement of conditions as to the rule of the world.
Then in reading 3976-29 on June 22, 1944 he said:
What then of nations? In Russia there comes the hope of the world, not as that sometimes termed of the Communistic, of the Bolshevistic; no. But freedom, freedom! that each man will live for his fellow man! The principle has been born. It will take years for it to be crystallized, but out of Russia comes again the hope of the world.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Baba on Channeling

Here is what Meher Baba had to say about what he called "so-called messages" people from time to time say they receive from him.
". . . do not seek various messages through various mediums or channels, nor be deceived into thinking that Baba is sending his messages through any of you. This seeking of so-called messages leads a sincere aspirant astray, and grossly endangers his spiritual progress.." (Meher Baba, in a letter to the Miami Baba group in 1962, also in How a Master Works, p. 372)
Ten States of God chart by Meher Baba
Baba gave a unique teaching. It is nothing like the "ascended master" teachings popularized in the last 125 years. Baba taught that while God is the real indweller in every being and thing, He is conscious of Himself as God and at the same time conscious of the universe only when He is in the form of an embodied living Perfect Master. To be more exact, Baba taught that there are Ten States of God, and among these Ten States in which God continuously resides the only one that experiences both the 7th plane (Godhood) and duality (the world of phenomena, people, plurality, the universe) is in the form of a living embodied Perfect Master on Earth. This unique state where God is simultaneously conscious of His own Self and the universe is called State X (God Speaks, 1997 ed. p. 167). This is the reason that Meher taught it was so important to find a living Perfect Master. After a Perect Master (or the Avatar) drops his external form (gross and subtle), He enters a state of samadhi, in which He experiences only Himself without any awareness of, or relationship to of any kind, the universe with its duality and separate souls seeking his counsel. Baba obviously cannot then communicate with what he does not experience from his state of samadhi after he drops his body.

Baba describes two types of people who could communicate with people by sending them audible voice, who would ever deceive them into thinking they were Him. Neither of them are advanced souls. Below they are listed and described in full.

Ghosts

Channeling an "ascended master"
from the book "The Law of One"
The first is of course lower spirits ("ghosts"), which Baba says are suicides who wander about in the lower astral because they are unable to exhaust the gross sanskaras they had to work out in their lives. Baba said these can be a source of harassment to living people.
To hold seances or to talk with the dead is no great thing, because such spirits are always among us on this living plane. (Meher Baba, Lord Meher, p. 724)
Besides these ghosts Baba did refer to "higher spirits" that he said do work for the spiritual hierarchy. However, these are in a body and are not disincarnate. But such advanced souls would of course never deceive Baba's lovers to believe they were Baba talking to them.
Higher spirits are actually agents of God – with powers and certain duties. They have physical forms in order to work in the world according to the directives issued by the Perfect Masters. (Meher Baba, ibid)
People with 100% mind and 0% heart

Now the only other form that could deceive one, the only other possible source Baba mentions (as he said there are no real demons) are people he described in some detail, who incarnate to Earth during particularly strong Avataric advents such as the one we are in from planets where there is less heart development, but enormous intellect. Some of these souls with the least heart and love, Baba says, have the unique ability to send their thoughts without gross means. However, he said that these souls have 0% love, though high intellect, and from a spiritual point of view are not advanced.
[People from certain of these planets] are extremely intelligent — far more intelligent than the human beings of our Earth; so much so that they are capable of expressing their thoughts without Gross means. (Silent Teachings of Meher Baba, by Ramjoo Abdulla, pp. 21-23).
Such people would have the ability to appear to be ascended or hidden teachers sending messages, and be capable of appearing to be Baba to one who was seeking to hear Him. This would account for Baba's special use of the word above, so-called messages when warning his lovers in 1962 not to be "deceived" or "lead astray." He said this could happen even to a "sincere aspirant" who sought to hear him in this way.

Is it possible that any of these souls with highest mind but low spiritual development are now harassing us here on Earth?

Absolutely Yes!
Hence the present influx of population on earth is but the natural outcome of the rush of migration from other worlds, and the ones migrating from the worlds of highest intelligence are responsible for carrying science to the peak it has reached today. (Much Love, by T.K. Ramanujam, p. 529)

For a post just on this subject of planets see Other Planets.