DIFFERENT RELIGIONS COME FROM THE TEACHINGS OF DIFFERENT MASTERS WHO CAME TO EARTH AT DIFFERENT TIMES TO SAVE AND PROTECT MANKIND FROM DARKNESS DURING TIMES WHEN MAYA WAS MISLEADING THE HUMAN BEINGS FROM THEIR DIVINE ORIGINS AND ROBBING THEM OF THEIR ENJOYMENT OF HEAVEN ON EARTH. MAYA IS A HINDU WORD TO DESCRIBE THE ILLUSION OF DARKNESS IN THE WORLD WHICH MANIFESTS IN MANY FORMS TO DISTRACT A PERSON FROM HIS GODLINESS AND REALIZATION OF HIS OWN DIVINITY. IT IS SAID THAT VISHNU, THE HINDU WORD FOR GOD, HAS COME TO EARTH DISGUISED IN MANY DIFFERENT FORMS TO SAVE HUMANS FROM GETTING LOST IN THE ILLUSION OF THIS WORLD AND TO BRING THEM BACK TO THEIR DIVINE ETERNAL ESSENCE WHILE THEY ARE IN A HUMAN BODY.
IF ONE STUDIES THE TEACHINGS OF THE DIFFERENT MASTERS WHO HAVE COME TO EARTH THROUGHOUT HISTORY ONE WILL FIND THAT THEY ALL TAUGHT THE SAME KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO ACCESS THE DIVINE SELF. EACH ONE SPOKE ABOUT THE LIGHT WITHIN AND DIVINE HARMONIES AND EXPERIENCING THE DIVINE AND BLISSFUL NECTAR OF THE BREATH OF LIFE. EVERY MASTERS TEACHINGS ARE DIVINE AND SACRED AS ARE THE MANIFESTATIONS OF THE BEINGS WHO BRING THEM TO EARTH. THEREFORE IF ONE DEVOTES HIMSELF TO THE PRACTICE OF THE DIVINE TEACHINGS OF THE MASTERS ONE MAY ATTAIN ENLIGHTENMENT.
WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER A HAIR DRESSER OF ALL PEOPLE LOANED ME A VERY IMPORTANT AND RARE BIG BOOK ABOUT THE TEACHINGS OF ALL THE KNOWN MASTERS IN HISTORY. READING JUST A SENTENCE HERE AND THERE HAD A PROFOUND LIFE CHANGING AFFECT ON ME. I COULD NOT POSSIBLY READ THE WHOLE BOOK NOR EVEN A WHOLE CHAPTER BECAUSE IT WAS SO POTENT YET I RECOGNIZED THAT ALL THE TEACHINGS WERE TALKING ABOUT THE SAME DIVINE EXPERIENCE AS I FLIPPED THROUGH THE BOOK PERIODICALLY. I ACTUALLY TOOK THE BIG BOOK TO MY DADS OFFICE TO PHOTOCOPY ALL 500 OR SO PAGES FROM FRONT TO BACK SO I COULD HAVE A COPY BECAUSE IT WAS NOT EASY TO FIND. ONE DAY I FLIPPED TO THE LAST CHAPTER AND IT TALKED ABOUT THE NECESSITY TO FIND THE LIVING MASTER OF YOUR TIME IN ORDER TO ATTAIN THE LIVING KNOWLEDGE. THAT IS WHEN I BEGAN MY SEARCH. I KNEW THE REAL MASTER WOULD HAVE CERTAIN CRITERIA LIKE THE TEACHINGS WOULD BE FOR ANY RACE, ANY AGE, ANY CLASS OF PERSON AND BE OFFERED FOR FREE TO ALL WHO HAD A SINCERE DESIRE AND THIRST FOR THE DIVINE KNOWLEDGE. THAT HELPED TO RULE OUT A LOT OF SPIRITUAL SEARCHING. I HAD EXPERIENCED THIS DIVINE STATE AT TIMES WHILE READING BOOKS AND TRYING TO DO DIFFERENT MEDIATIONS SO I KNEW WHAT TO LOOK FOR BUT I COULD NOT HOLD ONTO THE EXPERIENCE NOR ACCESS IT EASILY. AT FIRST I THOUGHT THAT OTHERS MUST BE EXPERIENCING IT AND I THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE NOT TALKING ABOUT IT BECAUSE IT WAS TOO DIVINE TO DESCRIBE. IT TOOK ME A FEW YEARS OF SEARCHING AND ASKING THE PRIESTS, NUNS AND SPIRITUAL TEACHERS WHILE TRYING DIFFERENT MANTRAS, MEDITATIONS, ETC. YET TO MY SURPRISE AND DISAPPOINTMENT NO ONE COULD CONFIRM THAT THEY KNEW OF THE DIVINE EXPERIENCE I HAD FELT. I UNDERSTOOD THAT IT WAS BETWEEN ME AND MY CREATOR SO I WAITED IMPATIENTLY AS I CONTINUED MY LIFE WITH MY HEART AND EYES WIDE OPEN AND SEARCHING TO FIND THE ANSWER TO MY QUEST. I WENT TO COLLEGE AND STUDIED THE ARTS LIKE DANCE, MIME, DRAWING, PSYCHOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION AND CAMPING MY FIRST YEAR TO NAME A FEW. I ALSO TOOK EXTRACURRICULAR COURSES OF STUDY LIKE MACROBIOTICS AND REFLEXOLOGY FOR HEALTH. MY SECOND YEAR I WENT TO A BUDDHIST SCHOOL TO STUDY DANCE AND BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY. ONE DAY A FRIEND IN MY DANCE CLASS SHOWED UP IN INE OF MY DANCE CLASSES LOOKING TOTALLY BLISSED OUT AFTER MISSING CLASS FOR A WEEK. I ASKED WHERE SHE HAD BEEN AND SAID “WHEREVER YOU HAVE BEEN I WANT TO GO THERE NOW”. SHE SAID THAT SHE WENT TO HEAR A MASTER SPEAK ABOUT KNOWLEDGE OF THE SELF. I IMMEDIATELY SAID LETS GO, I WANT TO HEAR IT TOO. THE EVENT WAS IN ANOTHER STATE AND HAD ENDED WHICH DISAPPOINTED ME AT FIRST YET SHE INVITED ME TO A LOCAL MEETING TO HEAR OTHERS SHARE SATSANG, WHICH IS A HINDU WORD MEANING “THE COMPANY OF TRUTH.” MY MOUTH DROPPED OPEN THE FIRST TIME I WENT TO LISTEN BECAUSE THE PEOPLE THERE WERE THE FIRST ONES THAT I HAD EVER FOUND WHO WERE DESCRIBING AND SPEAKING ABOUT THE SAME EXPERIENCE WHICH I HAD FELT BUT COULD NOT RETAIN. THEY SAID THEY COULD ACCESS IT IT ALL THE TIME. I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT AND OF COURSE I WANTED TO RECEIVE THE KNOWLEDGE RIGHT AWAY BUT I HAD TO GO THROUGH A PROCESS OF LISTENING TO SATSANG AT THESE MEETINGS REGULARLY AND FOUND MYSELF CANCELLING OTHER SOCIAL AND EVEN BUSINESS ENGAGEMENTS TO GO EACH TIME. IT WAS SUCH A DELIGHT AND ALWAYS MADE ME FEEL SO HAPPY DURING AND AFTERWARDS. MY THIRST GREW DEEPER FOR THE EXPERIENCE THAT SATSANG GAVE ME AND IT BECAME MY PRIORITY TO EXPERIENCE IT DAILY. ABOUT 6 MONTHS LATER I WAS SHOWN THE TECHNIQUES TO PRACTICE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SELF AND THAT IS WHEN THE REAL JOURNEY OF MY LIFE BEGAN. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME IN WHICH I UNDERSTOOD THE TRUE MEANING OF GRACE IN MY LIFE.
- Anna M Smith
Photos of Vishnu, depicting the Hindu God of all Creation.
Vishnu is the preserver and protector of the universe. His role is to return to the earth in troubled times and restore the balance of good and evil. … Vishnu’s worshippers, usually called Vaishnava, consider him the greatest god. They regard the other gods as lesser or demi gods. – Google
