“Death said: ‘God made sense turn outward, man therefore looks outward, not onto himself. Now and again a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself. The ignorant man runs after pleasure, sinks into the entanglements of death; but the wise man, seeking the undying, does not run among things that die.’”
Katha-Upanishad
And the eternal return will be going on forever.
It’s shape is a spiral that circles in all directions.
Cause. Effect. Cause. Effect.
Birth. Life. Death. Rebirth.
Nothing is permanent except impermanence.
Truth is the eternal Law of Nature.
Whoever follows his desires in order to fulfill the void he feels inside, will forever be disappointed.
Whoever knows that desire is the cause of suffering, will be free.
Emptiness and silence are freedom, whatever fills them, only illusion.
Only when there is nothing, can everything exist.
I could go on forever with different paradoxes and contrary ideas, at least they look as such at first glance.
But that’s what life is made of.
It is made of ups and downs, happiness and sadness, birth and death, light and darkness…
He who understands the nature of all of these, knows they are not contrary, knows they are but different levels of one same thing, knows that only the permanent can give eternal joy, and the impermanent can only bring momentaneous satisfaction.
Know thyself, for only there lies the eternal soul, union with all that is, and will ever be.
Know that the acceptance of permanent impermanence will make you free.
Know that the union with your Self, will make you immortal.
Elisabeth Haich (1897-1994) was a hungarian born author and spiritual teacher. In 1941, with the help of Selvarajan Yusidan, she founded the first european Yoga school in Budapest. After World War II, they had to close it down and she fled to Switzerland where she founded another Yoga school there.
Her books are an insight to the themes of past lives and spirituality as a total, detailing events of her early life in Hungary, as well as details of past lives, including her initiation in the Pyramid by Ptahotep, in ancient Egypt.
The Truths that are found reading between lines are the eternal truths of Humanity. The Divine residing in all of us has to be awakened from the dormant state, and we must break the illusion of separateness to, once again, attain unity, or Yoga, with everything that there is, and will ever be.
Teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, ancient egyptian philosophy, mathematics, astrology, Buddhist, Tantra and Zen philosophies, as well as Judeo-Christian beliefs, are all imbeded in her texts, making it a complete compound of profound wisdom that might as well open our minds to our own truths.
Here are some quotes from her amazing book, Initiation by Elisabeth Haich. Enjoy!
“All the Sons of God have always brought and always will bring the same truth into different parts of the earth, but people will interpret it differently depending on the characteristics of their race and their degree of development. These different interpretations, as they get passed on to later generations, will give rise to different religions all springing from the same truths. One and the same Son of God will reincarnate himself at different times and in different places of the earth in order to proclaim the highest truth to humanity. And, from the same truth proclaimed by the same spirit, people in different parts of the earth will develop different religions. Because of such differences arising merely from human ignorance, people will make war upon each other, trying to send each other to hell ‘in the name of God’.”
“Because man has fallen out of his divine consciousness, he can only imagine God in accordance with his own personal power of understanding. How can he know what the real, living divinity is like in its perfection when his power of imagination only corresponds to the level he personally stands on, separated as he is from unity, and having fallen as he has from divinity? How can the finite understand the infinite, the mortal the immortal, the temporal the eternal? How can an imaginary being understand experience and become identical with the eternal, true being – God?”
“Eternity is the eternal present; infinity is the eternal future which can never be reached and never becomes present. Eternity never had a beginning and thus will never have an end. Eternity is timeless present which has no past nor future. Infinity, however, means a falling out of eternity into the future, without a present!”
“In happiness there is no time: our consciousness stands still; the concept of time disappears. Only when happiness is over do we suddenly realize that while our consciousness was hovering timelessly in the eternal present, time was rushing onward. Time begins with our fall from happiness, from paradise. But unhappiness too knows no time, for the more unhappy we feel, the slower time goes by; minutes seem hours, and in our moments of deepest despair, when sufferings and torture are unbearable, every moment becomes an infinity; time freezes! Oh, how right Satan is! The highest and the lowest are alike as two twins, just like reality and its reflection, appearance. Happiness is timeless eternity, and the opposite, unhappiness, is endless time – infinity!”
“Oh, you wonderful, wonderful sea! Beloved sea, always the same, understanding everything, experiencing everything and surviving everything! Oh, you dear friend, you who have listened so often to me tell you of my pains and joys and sorrows… listened so understandingly… and offered me the consolation of your infinity and eternity… your uplifting consolation surpasses everything human! You are here – you are here again – you are always here, unchanged, and I can look into your depths again, listen to your waves as they tell about eternity…”
There is a reason why we feel passion for certain things, people or places. When we are connected to our true desires, we are connected to the guiding voice of the Universe; we are connected to our purpose in this lifetime, in this moment. We then have two options; listen to our guiding intuition, or block it and ignore it in pursue of Ego’s wants and needs. This is true free will, it is always our choice. Each step we take is our own responsibility, no matter how hard we try to blame our circumstances, our past, others… in the end it will all fall back to ourselves.
The question is, are you willing to see and experience where your heart may take you?
When we feel peace and joy doing something that we love, isn’t it already enough to know it is correct? We don’t need the approval of others to know what we want, and to follow our dreams. No one else, ever, will understand what we are guided towards. We all have our parts to play in this big theatre of life, and each one is different. We all have a life purpose to fulfill, unique to each of us, and that’s the reason worth living for. Just being who we truly are, doing what we truly want, without fear; only the assurance that we are walking our personal paths the best way we can.
Once that connection to our heart is made, and the spark starts to burn down the walls we have built around it thinking it was for protection, then we will have a clear vision of the sky of possibilities that surrounds us. There is nowhere to go but within, where the eternal present resides.
Our outer world will be made with the essence of our inner world, it will only reflect what we carry within us. We are co-creators of our own destiny, of our own reality.
One who understands the power of thought, will understand the power of the Universe. Like the seed that carries within itself the whole tree of life, our thoughts are the manifesting force of all that there is, and will ever be.
Are you willing to go where your heart may take you?
I’ve always been quite proud of myself because I always thought I was adaptable; adaptable to life changes, different lifestyles, different countries and cultures, different circumstances…
Only quite recently I have begun to doubt if adaptation is really a good quality or not. We all know that adaptability is, in essence, a key for survival. And it’s exactly for this reason that my thoughts started to ponder other options. Survival? I don’t want to “survive”, I want to live. I want to experience fully the whole range of possibilities that life can place in my path. If I am always striving for adaptation to the scene that surrounds me, how is it possible that I follow MY own path? MY own dharma? MY own heart?
Life can’t be only about “fitting in”, can it? It is true that we always have to respect other people’s choices about how to live their lives, but I don’t think we should adapt to their lifestyle if it doesn’t connect with us, in the most profound meaning of the word. If something, someone or somewhere doesn’t resonate with the true desires of our beings, we should never adapt to them just because we think we can’t survive otherwise. That is just an imaginary fear that can tear our dreams apart; that can drain our confidence in the Universe and our self-esteem and self-acceptance.
We are enough the way we are, we are love and light in our most profound essence. We don’t need to adapt to other people’s paths or choices, only to the natural environment and our Mother Earth, who is generous enough to keep on providing resources for the human kind even though we make her bleed and suffer.
Life is not about adapting, it’s about getting out there and being vulnerable, being humble and having faith that we are strong enough as to resist any obstacles placed in our way. We can only grow, and learn and break the wheel of Karma and Samsara by experiencing different aspects of our personalities, by living in the dark until we are able to see the light, by breaking our hearts into a million pieces so that the light can penetrate us and heal us. It’s a wonderful thing to have the opportunity of living a human experience, where we can at the same time savour earthly pleasures and connect with our divinity.
Life is not something to be afraid of. It takes courage to scream with our whole beings that we are here, that we are ready to accept whatever comes. But once we learn the laws of life and nature, and the eternal dance of the Universe, then, only then, there is no turning back; there is no adaptation, there is only flow of miraculous existence; there is no judgement of others or ourselves. In the end we will truly grasp the meaning of life, by living. That’s how it’s meant to be. That’s why we are here.
Once the picture is clear, the path Home is open for us to follow. Once we let our fear aside and trust our inner guide and intuition, everything else will fall into place. The puzzle of existence will then be completed, and the real and eternal lasting joy and happiness that everyone longs for will flourish in our hearts and shine through us. We will again feel complete in ourselves, as we have always been in reality.
There was once a little island in the middle of the ocean, the big, blue ocean of existence. It was surrounded by water and marvelous creatures. The sun used to caress its sandy body and fill it with life, with trees and flowers and birds. It was an easy life, just being what it was, just existing as a creation of the most beautiful kind. But the island suddenly felt lonely. It all started when messages from faraway lands arrived to its shores through the singing of the birds and through lost letters in empty glass bottles. The island suddenly realized the world it had known for such a long time was just a small part of a huge Universe, so it started to feel curious, and started to pray that somehow it could see all that, or at least, have the company of people who have been to other places so they could tell stories of faraway lands and different cultures.
One day a ship arrived to its shore. In it there was an explorer who was traveling the world, and that after a huge storm, the waves had washed the remains of the ship and herself to one of the beaches of the island. The island was so grateful that its wish was becoming true, all the trees and plants flowered as a welcome and nurturing gift for the mysterious explorer.
The island could only communicate through the universal language of Nature, and the explorer, after being in so many places, could understand perfectly every single sound of the wind and the rain, and the animals, and the waves, and the stars.
Their souls became attached quickly, as it was meant to be for them to find each other. Days, months, years went by, and the explorer became part of the island and its story. She had finally found her home.
One day, another ship arrived to the island. This time, the people in it were not in search of lasting peace, but in search of land and gold. They brought with them all the selfishness and cruelty that sometimes mankind, human beings, can bear in their hearts after losing the connection to the infinite source of life; love.
They started destroying the island, first by cutting the beautiful palm trees and building their homes, then by killing the animals of the earth, and the fish in the water. All they wanted was material possessions. The island slowly started to regret having felt lonely in the past and attracting people to itself. The island was losing against mankind, and the poor explorer couldn’t do anything to stop the situation from getting worse and worse. They both saw how these men had lost all connection to Nature, and to themselves; they couldn’t even hear the island crying and suffering, while bleeding its life away.
The explorer was also slowly dying, as her soul was forever attached to the little island, and their union could never be broken.
Everything started sinking slowly, and storms would hit the island almost every day. Trees and animals couldn’t provide food or shelter anymore and the men and women started fleeing the island full of fear that it would disappear underwater. Everyone slowly started leaving the island, after having taken with them all they could.
The island looked deserted, without life, a piece of broken heart in the middle of the deep, blue, ocean. Only the explorer remained on its deserted body. Nothing was left except sand and soul. But they were once again happy and grateful, and more full of hope than ever. They trusted the Universe would provide them sunlight and rain, and the trees would grow again slowly, and the animals and fish would return. And life would be easy again, just being, just existing. But the explorer, after many days without anything to survive with, left her body and died, leaving it behind in the sand, and uniting forever her soul to the little island. As one soul, they were eternally content in their loneliness, without anything else, as it was the completeness of themselves, and within themselves, what they had always longed for.
Now they knew the true meaning of life and existence. There was no need to find anything outside themselves, as the whole Universe was, and had always been, contained within their souls.
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