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Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Define "Judgment"


This is a post from my tribes friend Viveka.

Om jai Kindred Spirit… jai onto all

It is only by entering the darkness that one becomes fully enlightened; realizing we are the light we seek, and remembering that we really never left our humble abode beloved of Eternal Truth and Perfect Love behind.

Eternal Truth & Perfect Love is who we really are without the clothing of Maya.

If defining and judging the reality we see around us, helps us to remember Spirit, and moves us closer to the goal of Truth one seeks… We can say we are in Truth, we abide in the light, and it is good karma… If defining and judging the reality we see around us, moves away from the goal of Truth one seeks and, causes us to forget our divinity… We are not in Truth; we abide in darkness, and this is bad karma.

Bad karma leads to pain and suffering, and good karma leads to the eternal bliss of wellbeing. There is a time and a moment for everything within Maya. Maya is the seeming wondrous illusion of separation in beautiful yin/yang balance that helps us remember what we have forgotten. While we are clothed in Maya, with our costumes of name and form; we must explore both good and bad karma to fully understand the nature Eternal Truth & Perfect Love. We need both good & bad, light & darkness, hot & cold, so as to compare one with another to understand the nature both. Good and bad are two sides of the same coin. What gives value to a coin is the metal between the two sides, and so it is with the pair of opposites in yin & yang balance… The nature of Eternal Truth is found in that eternal moment between tick & tock, and the balance of yin & yang.

When we enter the darkness we forget.
We forget in order to sing God’s glory in the remembering.
We forget in order to honor the source of our being, through the cosmic karmic journey of awakening we are all on, transforming the darkness back into light.

When we move away from our center of truth, it is best to abide in seeming dark silence not judging the world around us, so that we find our center of truth, and better see where we are going with the singular vision of wisdom found in our heart… When we are centered in Truth within our heart, then it is time to open our eyes and express our divinity in all we do, as we explore and define the reality of Maya through the filter of viveka, honoring the source of our being.

We are the light; we are the seeming fragmented light that has entered the darkness to bring light to where light seems not to be; we come as an act of the highest devotion in motion honoring the source of our being.

It is most wonderful and beautiful how we are all expressing the same Eternal Truth from different points of view and in a different light, but the essence of the Eternal Truth we speak of, remains the same, unchanged and eternal.

JAI TO ALL YOU BEAUTIFUL LIGHTS, EXPRESSING ETERNAL TRUTH & PERFECT LOVE IN YOUR OWN UNIQUE WAYS!!! Thank you, for the wonderful contrast and beautiful colors that your individual and unique journeys of transformation add to our costume of Maya; which moves the heart to live life to the fullest.

Om shanti shanti shanti…

The Vedanta Society of Southern California

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