Every situation is God Sent.
With this supreme wisdom of life any situation can be used to our advantage and regarded as a blessing of Mother Nature.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes
There is no good or bad, no sacred or evil, at the level of absolute being and pure consciousness in the moment point of here and now. Good and bad only come into existence when we assign those meanings, based on our beliefs, to phenomena as they become experienced in the state of relative, corporeal reality. This teaching cuts across Buddhism, Taoism, Jane Roberts/Seth and Vedic literature. If anything, all phenomena and experiences are fundamentally good, true and sacred in their source.
And yet, it seems that this is the hardest truth to understand and communicate to those who seem to only know a corporeal/physical reality formed by mass beliefs that are reinforced through all forms of officially accepted institutions and media. Ram Dass has a photo of Donald Trump on his alter, next to a statue of Hanuman and photos of his guru, Maharajji, to demonstrate and try and teach this idea to others. While I am not willing to go that far, I do find that President Trump offers an opportunity for deep reflection on the nature of reality, even though the few people I have mentioned this to tend think I am crazy.
More difficult still, is understanding how pain, suffering and death also have origins that are beyond goodness and badness, and which can be a "blessing of Mother Nature." Buddhist stories talk of enlightened monks who have reaches such a state of consciousness, and the other traditions listed above also seek to guide their students toward that state of being. I felt that the simple quote from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is one of the better reminders of this deep truth, which is so easy to forget.
One of my favorite quotes from Seth (Jane Roberts) that is related to this is: "Creativity often parades under the guise of disruption." This, of course, also contains the idea that every situation that we are presented with is a blessing, if we approach it with the right attitude. Maharishi says that as long we keep the goal in sight (for him the goal is enlightenment), then even when we seem to be facing obstacles or going in the opposite direction, we should understand these as temporary deviations, and we will succeed.
Another related, but longer, Seth (Jane Roberts) quote is: "There is nothing in your exterior experience that you did not originate within yourself. Interactions with others do occur, yet none occur what you do not attract or draw to you by your thoughts, feelings, attitudes or emotions. In your terms this applies both before, during and after physical life. In a most miraculous fashion you are given the gift of creating your own experiences."
This quote represents a fundamental teaching of Seth that is only a little different from Maharishi -- for Seth we are all expressions or appendages of "all that is" (what Maharishi calls "god"), and he has even said that we are "gods in training". For Seth, every situation is created by our inner self (or inner ego) which expresses the beliefs of our outer ego (or conscious self). In this way, every situation is an opportunity to understand our selves (our beliefs). In doing this, we can then change our beliefs and the situations (realities) that we encounter (or create). Our inner and outer egos, our conscious and subconscious selves, our past, present and future selves, are all, in total, our god in a state of becoming. When our outer ego (one small, but important part of this totality) realizes or experiences this, then all situations are a blessing of existence.
And yet, it seems that this is the hardest truth to understand and communicate to those who seem to only know a corporeal/physical reality formed by mass beliefs that are reinforced through all forms of officially accepted institutions and media. Ram Dass has a photo of Donald Trump on his alter, next to a statue of Hanuman and photos of his guru, Maharajji, to demonstrate and try and teach this idea to others. While I am not willing to go that far, I do find that President Trump offers an opportunity for deep reflection on the nature of reality, even though the few people I have mentioned this to tend think I am crazy.
More difficult still, is understanding how pain, suffering and death also have origins that are beyond goodness and badness, and which can be a "blessing of Mother Nature." Buddhist stories talk of enlightened monks who have reaches such a state of consciousness, and the other traditions listed above also seek to guide their students toward that state of being. I felt that the simple quote from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is one of the better reminders of this deep truth, which is so easy to forget.
One of my favorite quotes from Seth (Jane Roberts) that is related to this is: "Creativity often parades under the guise of disruption." This, of course, also contains the idea that every situation that we are presented with is a blessing, if we approach it with the right attitude. Maharishi says that as long we keep the goal in sight (for him the goal is enlightenment), then even when we seem to be facing obstacles or going in the opposite direction, we should understand these as temporary deviations, and we will succeed.
Another related, but longer, Seth (Jane Roberts) quote is: "There is nothing in your exterior experience that you did not originate within yourself. Interactions with others do occur, yet none occur what you do not attract or draw to you by your thoughts, feelings, attitudes or emotions. In your terms this applies both before, during and after physical life. In a most miraculous fashion you are given the gift of creating your own experiences."
This quote represents a fundamental teaching of Seth that is only a little different from Maharishi -- for Seth we are all expressions or appendages of "all that is" (what Maharishi calls "god"), and he has even said that we are "gods in training". For Seth, every situation is created by our inner self (or inner ego) which expresses the beliefs of our outer ego (or conscious self). In this way, every situation is an opportunity to understand our selves (our beliefs). In doing this, we can then change our beliefs and the situations (realities) that we encounter (or create). Our inner and outer egos, our conscious and subconscious selves, our past, present and future selves, are all, in total, our god in a state of becoming. When our outer ego (one small, but important part of this totality) realizes or experiences this, then all situations are a blessing of existence.
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| Bali from Lombok, Indonesia, at sunset |
Note: From what I have been told, Maharishi talked about "god" more in the early years when he originally formed the Spiritual Regeneration Movement (SRM) in the late 1950s. As he spent more time in the west, however, he talked less about god and more about "science". The quote above is the only one in the book of quotes that it comes from that has the word "god" in it.
