TheOne
31 March 2011, 04:58 PM
This is somewhat a soliloquy of sorts but I would appreciate feedback.
The asuras of the worldly realm are a lot more dangerous than the ones in the astral realm.
Their names are greed, hatred, lust, and jealousy. We can call them tamasic qualities, hormones, "deadly sins", "the inner struggle", or whatever else you fancy to call them. For those who wage war against these asuras are good people. Those who invoke the help of devas against these asuras are noble people. Those who conquer the asuras they are called masters of themselves. Those who truly realize there is nothing to conquer that there is only light and darkness and who realize their relationship is coterminous and part of the same divine self those are free of samsara and behave the same when good fortune comes upon them and when bad luck is had.
The asuras cannot be conquered in the normal way because when you strike one out too more reappear to take its place. Only through complete surrender to the Divine Master(Krishna, Shiva, Buddha, etc.) can one attain peace. People call it by different names but never see past the dirty window of the ego to see that these different names are just different parts of an infinitely large God. Not a God that's seperate from the world(otherwise it wouldn't be infinite) but a God that is the very consciousness itself from which yogi's and scientists have said is the very base of reality itself. Consciousness. That's all everything is. Even the devas and asuras are different parts of the same whole. To truely "conquer" the asuras one must change their outlook on life. Seeing all as Brahman and Brahman as all.
But no one said this is easy. This manifestation of Brahman which is commonly referred to as "I" is on a very low rung of the astral ladder to God-Realization. Even the most smallest amount of Bhakti(devotion) will be magnified a thousand times if it is done with the right intention regardless of the persons karmic situation in life. That gives me solace. I have climbed, and I have fallen but I realize that if one continuous to climb. Determination itself will lead to God-realization.
Namaste
The asuras of the worldly realm are a lot more dangerous than the ones in the astral realm.
Their names are greed, hatred, lust, and jealousy. We can call them tamasic qualities, hormones, "deadly sins", "the inner struggle", or whatever else you fancy to call them. For those who wage war against these asuras are good people. Those who invoke the help of devas against these asuras are noble people. Those who conquer the asuras they are called masters of themselves. Those who truly realize there is nothing to conquer that there is only light and darkness and who realize their relationship is coterminous and part of the same divine self those are free of samsara and behave the same when good fortune comes upon them and when bad luck is had.
The asuras cannot be conquered in the normal way because when you strike one out too more reappear to take its place. Only through complete surrender to the Divine Master(Krishna, Shiva, Buddha, etc.) can one attain peace. People call it by different names but never see past the dirty window of the ego to see that these different names are just different parts of an infinitely large God. Not a God that's seperate from the world(otherwise it wouldn't be infinite) but a God that is the very consciousness itself from which yogi's and scientists have said is the very base of reality itself. Consciousness. That's all everything is. Even the devas and asuras are different parts of the same whole. To truely "conquer" the asuras one must change their outlook on life. Seeing all as Brahman and Brahman as all.
But no one said this is easy. This manifestation of Brahman which is commonly referred to as "I" is on a very low rung of the astral ladder to God-Realization. Even the most smallest amount of Bhakti(devotion) will be magnified a thousand times if it is done with the right intention regardless of the persons karmic situation in life. That gives me solace. I have climbed, and I have fallen but I realize that if one continuous to climb. Determination itself will lead to God-realization.
Namaste