DREAM SPEAKS OF UNDERSTANDING YOGA VS WESTERN TERMS ON SPIRITUALITY

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1-31-20-the LIVING THING CREEPS ME OUT BUT BECOMES GOOD

My brother is in bed with me on my left, my sister is ‘in the air’ hovering in a corner watching over everything.

He’s holding in bed close to both of us something ‘living’ like a piece of the body of a person but it is alive as if it was a being.  It gives me ‘the creeps’ so I ask him to take it away from me out of the bed, it was even touching me.

(THIS HAS TO DO WITH THE NONDUALITY TEACHER WHO REPRESENTS RAMANA MAHARSHI—  THE ‘LIVING THING’ IS RAMANA & HIS MESSAGE, WHICH DID CREEP ME OUT WHEN THE TEACHER CONVEYED HE SAID WE MUST ‘DESTROY OUR MIND.’

                              

          CERTAINLY THIS CREEPED ME OUT.  I FELT SUCH A TEACHING WAS MISLEADING, MISGUIDED, & COULD HURT SEEKERS.  DESTROYING THE MIND WOULD LEAD TO INSANITY.)

But later I have the thing in my hands.  It turns into a large piece of paper at first, then becomes a book actually, & there’s something supernatural about this.

(LATER ON I WORK OUT THE TRANSLATIONS, UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THESE TEACHINGS MIGHT MEAN & THEN THEY MAKE SENSE.  IT PROBABLY MEANS TO STOP THE CONSCIOUS MIND, THEN STOP THINKING ENTIRELY & LET THE ‘HIGHER SELF’ WHICH THEY CALL ‘CONSCIOUSNESS’ TAKE OVER.

THERE ARE MORE THAN ONE WAY TO DEFINE WHAT IS INSIDE US – OUR CONSCIOUS MIND, OUR UNCONSCIOUS, THE LOWER SELF, THE HIGHER SELF & THE GOD SELF MIGHT BE THE PRINCIPLE ‘SELVES.’

WHAT IS LACKING IS THE EXPLANATION OF TERMS FOR THE WESTERN SEEKERS, I SUGGESTED TO THIS TEACHER WE CLARIFY THESE.)

I’m holding the page on a high-up table close to me, with a pen in hand telling my brother I’m not creeped out any more, I am good with this thing, & blessings unfold.  I no longer fear it, I have more than accepted it, I marvel at it.

As I hold the book it changes before my eyes, by itself.  On each page appears a BORDER to the present, exquisitely printed, & the corner right top-- out of it come down what looks just like the trunk of an elephant & the trunk & border are all in a green decoration, well printed like money or something that is unique – like money is hard to duplicate. This border appears by itself on all the pages OF THE PRESENT, what is happening TODAY.

(THE TRUNK OF THE ELEPHANT SOUNDS LIKE A SIGN OF THE HINDU / YOGA PRESENCE, IT COULD BE GANESH.  AND WHAT DOES GANESH STAND FOR?  PROSPERITY, MONEY –GANESH BRINGS GOOD LUCK, SUCCESS, HE REMOVES OBSTACLES {perhaps because of the strength of an elephant, in India they use them to move logs & things no one else can move.}

THIS BOOK REPRESENTS THE TEACHINGS OF THE EAST, WITH THE TRUNK, ON TOP OF THE TEACHINGS OF THE WEST OR WESTERNS MYSTICAL UNION—{SEEN AS THE ANCIENT FLOWER DESIGN}—BOTH FORMING A BOOK OR BEING UNIFIED, LIKE I PROPOSED.

          IT SEEMS THAT GOD WITHIN ME, ‘SUPERNATURALLY’ GAVE ME TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR TERMS MEAN, THEN IT ALL MADE SENSE & WE COULD UNIFY BOTH DISCIPLINES INTO A ‘BOOK’.)

I flip the pages back to earlier & the borders are different but also exquisite, same thickness, 1”, & the design is all flowers, nicely done--& it also appeared supernaturally.

          I feel the LIFE that my brother had in the bed with me was transposed into the book.

          Now I believe this has to do with my proposal doing a book together on Hindu Advaita Vs Christian Union with God, the terms that are used with both, clarification for Western readers.

(THEY SPEAK IN ‘MYSTERIOUS’ WAYS TO US BECAUSE THE TERMS ARE NOT UNDERSTOOD—NOT TRANSLATED PROPERLY INTO OUR TERMS.  WE HAVE OUR OWN MYSTICAL THEOLOGY, BEST EXPLAINED BY EVELYN UNDERHILL IN HER BOOK CALLED ‘MYSTICISM.’

WE SPEAK OF ‘UNION WITH GOD,’ THE BETROTHAL, THE MYSTICAL MARRIAGE, MYSTICAL UNION, DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL, SAINTS MENTION RINGS GIVEN THEM BY CHRIST OR GOD.  THEN WHEN ALL IS SAID & DONE, A CHRISTIAN FINDS NONDUALITY IN THE TERM, ‘NO LONGER I LIVE BUT CHRIST IN ME.’

THIS IS BECOMING GOD, AS CHRIST IS GOD TO A CHRISTIAN, & BEING CHRIST MEANS BEING GOD.

YOGIS CALL THIS GOD AS ‘THE SELF.’  WE CALL THE ‘SELF’ THE EGO OR THE FLESH—BIG CONFUSION.

THEY SPEAK OF ‘MEDITATION’ & CONSCIOUSNESS.  WE SPEAK OF MEDITATION & CONTEMPLATION – CONTEMPLATION MEANS NOT THINKING BUT RECEIVING FROM GOD, IT MEANS THE SAME AS ‘CONSCIOUSNESS’ TAKING OVER.  CONFUSION OF TERMS.

THERE ARE MANY OTHER TERMS I WISHED TO DISCUSS WITH THIS TEACHER BUT HE DIDN’T WANT TO.  I WILL HAVE TO FIGURE OUT BY MYSELF ALL THEIR IMPORTANT TERMS & HOW THEY PARRALLEL WITH OURS.)