Pinch Me Adam, Can This Be True? Posted in: God On Our Side, The Self Divine

In Abrahamic religions, forbidden fruit is a name given to the fruit growing in the Garden of Eden that God commands mankind not to eat. In the Biblical story of Genesis, Adam and Eve disobey God and commit the original sin, eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and are exiled from Eden:

And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

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Worthy & Perfect? Posted in: Freedom From Judgement, Seeing the Divine, The Self Divine

If one sees that everyone is pursuing fascination with some aspect/facet or another of God, albeit sometimes via a mind and senses flavoured with denial of God’s very existence, then it becomes possible to not only be genuinely non-judgemental but able to celebrate the life of everyone as both worthy and perfect regardless of their current objectives. After all, by dint of our simultaneous oneness and difference, everyone is contributing their fascination to an ever expanding completeness of God’s own experiential self knowing. …

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As A Divine Being Posted in: The Self Divine

I propose that as a divine being your goal of life is to explore and express divinity in whatever way you choose. In so doing you automatically, by dint of your simultaneous oneness and difference with/from God, perfectly serve both the reason for your very existence and the greater purpose of God. The question for you is therefore simply how you wish to do this? …

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You Have The Power Posted in: The Self Divine

The popular understanding of karma, especially if one wants to think in terms of good karma and bad karma outcome absolutes, to me requires an established/predefined something to measure action and thought against … for example pre-determined moral codes, laws of acceptable behaviour, and logically therefore also ultimately a prescription of the goal of life by God.

Whereas Christianity has the idea of God’s 10 commandments, and designation of soul as sinner for those who transgress, and the notion that the goal of life is to seek redemption, I wonder if these ideas are present within the Dharmic Tradition? …

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Sin Is Not An Actual Thing Posted in: Divine Expression, The Self Divine

The word sin normally refers to transgression of absolute (non-contextual) laws of acceptable behaviour decreed by God. A sinner is defined as one to transgresses such laws in much the same way that a criminal is one who transgresses the law of the land.

But in my opinion sin is not an actual thing … it’s a construct that helps one who needs fear of punishment to motivate them to avoid activities that aren’t helpful to spiritual realisation. …

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No such thing as sin Posted in: Freedom From Judgement, The Self Divine

In the dharmic tradition there is no such thing as sin*. Or at least no such thing as non-contextual sin. Why? Because that would require absolute laws, pre-established by God, as to what is acceptable action, word, thought, etc. Step outside such laws and one becomes sinful. Simple. It’s a very Christian idea. But not at all a dharmic tradition idea. …

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The Main Problem With Denying Ones Divinity … Posted in: The Self Divine

The main problem with denying ones divinity is that one tends to think of their suffering in terms of ‘why me?’, or ‘I’m being punished from transgression of some pre-defined code of acceptable conduct’, whereas ‘how does this serve me?’ becomes more the mindset when self-divinity is accepted. Perhaps that is why Bhagavad-gita 2.15 states

yaṁ hi na vyathayanty ete
puruṣaṁ puruṣarṣabha
sama-duḥkha-sukhaṁ dhīraṁ
so ’mṛtatvāya kalpate

O best among men [Arjuna], the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation.

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Self = Soul With A Body ≠ Body With Soul Posted in: The Self Divine

You are a soul with a body. Immediately I heard this idea, it made perfect sense, resonated as truth, and changed everything for me. But when I shared this – what was for me a profound revelation – I was surprised that most people rejected it out of hand. 40+ years later I still find this to be the case. Why does this explanation of self not appeal to so many? …

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God With Blinkers On Posted in: One And Different, The Self Divine

PET THEORY: Notwithstanding our difference, by dint of our simultaneous oneness we are God/Krishna (albeit with a small g/k) exploring/experiencing/expressing self with blinkers on. In so doing we all contribute our focused fascinations to the ever expanding completeness of God’s self-knowing. Consciously or unconsciously, believer or atheist, no matter. Being conscious, however, opens the door for love. In the Bhagavad-gita (9:27) Krishna encourages ‘everything you do, do as an offering to me’ as the means to awaken ones deeper self-awareness. …

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In Defence of Nitya-baddha Souls Posted in: Freedom From Judgement, Seeing the Divine, The Self Divine

For a westerner embracing the dharmic tradition, the concept of nitya-baddha (sanskrit) – often translated as ever-conditioned or eternally conditioned soul – is routinely confused with the idea of fallen soul prominent in Abrahamic religions. A fallen soul, in simple terms, being one who has rebelled against God, and has thus been cast out of / banished from the kingdom of God. …

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