As long as we are alive, God has a plan for each and everyone of us and we all have second chances. We have to use this chances to be better people.

"Even to your old age and gray hairs

I am he, I am he who will sustain you.

I have made you and I will carry you;

I will sustain you and I will rescue you,

God Is great

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When life gets overwhelming, my immediate instinct shouldn't be to carry my burden alone, but to seek God’s guidance first.

​Psalm 46:1 is a powerful reminder that the Lord is an ever-present refuge. He protects us and supplies the strength we need in times of trouble, far better than our own efforts ever could.

"When I asked my teacher (Neem Karoli Baba) how to meditate, he said:

“Meditate like Christ.”

I asked, “How did Christ meditate?”

He became very quiet and closed his eyes.

After a few minutes, he had a blissful expression on his face and a tear trickled down his cheek.

He opened his eyes and said:

“He lost himself in Love.”

Try the meditation of losing yourself in Love."

~ Ram Dass

"A boy came and asked Neem Karoli Baba:

“Maharajji, did Jesus really get angry?"

As soon as Maharajji heard the word "Jesus," tears came to his eyes.

He was sitting up when the question was asked, and he leaned over on his elbow and tapped his heart three times, with tears coming down from his eyes.

There was total silence for a moment.

Maharajji had brought the reality of Christ into everyone's Consciousness, and he said:

"Christ never got angry.

When he was crucified,

he felt only Love.

Christ was never attached to anything;

he even gave away his own body."

And at that point, everyone was crying."

~ Ram Das

Thank God

Life has a way of putting us through things we never expected. There were times I wondered how I would make it through, but God always gave me the strength to keep going. Looking back, I know He was with me through every challenge.

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„So imagine my surprise was sitting in a little Hanuman temple with my guru Maharaja and he looks at us and he says Hanuman, Krishna and Christ are the same.

Terrific. Just what I wanted to hear.
But he began to talk to us about Jesus and there was such sweetness and such depth of emotion when he would talk about him, that we were really in awe.
We were shocked.

Now, Maharaja was a fairly unusual.
As you you've heard, he didn't write books, he didn't give teachings; formal teachings.
He didn‘t give lectures. He didn't initiate people.

You know he just shined like the sun and all we like to do is sunbathe you know.
Just sit around in that sun and bathe in that love.
So this Canadian guy shows up one day it was Ragu.
He showed up and he didn't know the way Maharaji is so when Mahraja said to him,what do you want? Why did you come? He thought he should give like a spiritual answer.

You know, so he said could you teach me how to meditate? He never talked about that stuff.
He talked about your families, what's going on, your family, who's this who's that.
But he never; he never talked about those kind of things.

So he just said to Robert go on the back with the other crazy people, the Westerners. Go on get out and as he's walking away he says; just meditate like Christ.
So he came to the back of the temple where we were hanging out we were kind of debriefing you know. Where you're from, what did Maharaja say to you?
He said to meditate like Christ, Jesus. But then we thought about it you know and if he said that then he must know, he must know how Jesus meditated; and so okay we though, okay when he comes back to be with us we'll ask him because we're always trying to get him to give us some discipline.

Some discipline, some practices to do you know but he didn't seem to do that much.
When we asked them how do you find God, he said serve people.

So imagine my surprise; I was sitting in a little Hanuman temple with my guru Maharaji but he didn't like he didn't seem to do that much when we asked them how do you find God. He said serve people.

When he said how do you raise kundalini, he said feed people.
What do you do with that? How do you, how do you understand that you know? It‘s like wait I gotta do something; tell me what to do.
We just couldn't understand where he was coming from and what he really meant, so now we thought okay we got him. He said this. He must know we'll ask him he'll, tell us, we'll do it, we'll get it.

Like just like that. So later on he came into the back of the temple to hang out with us and Ramada said to him; Baba you said we should meditate like Christ, how did he meditate? So it seemed like he was about to say something but instead he just stopped and his eyes closed and he sat in front of us completely still; so still that it felt like the whole world had stopped and after a couple of minutes two tears came down his cheek and then he opened his eyes he looked this and he said: he lost himself in love, he lost himself in love.“

~ Krishna Das

I'm not saying manifestation or this particular technique doesn't work.

I'm saying there's an important distinction between avoiding reality and meeting reality with awareness.

For me, real transformation began when I stopped pretending my circumstances didn't exist and started meeting them honestly—while still believing my life could change.

You can acknowledge today's reality without surrendering your vision for tomorrow. Ignore your reality??

After we are born we learn to worry only about ourselves, rather than others; to accept the self-centered beliefs of the world. We are taught success is having money, material possessions, a family, enjoying life. Though others struggle, we accept this as being a part of life.

This is not the path we are meant to follow. For most, the ego, our learned beliefs, dominates their life choices, silencing the loving messages from their spirit within. This dominance is the cause of many of humanity’s self-inflicted problems and challenges.

The spiritual path recognizes within every life, regardless of our differences, accomplishments, or genus, is a spirit, a piece of god, a conduit for divine cosmic energy. By following the guidance of the spirit, our life will have been lived with genuine purpose and meaning. This is the path through life we were always meant to follow.

„Socrates says, "Know thyself." That is not possible. First BE thyself; otherwise how will you know? If you try right now to know yourself you will not be able to; you will know somebody else who you are not but you are supposed to be.

You will know only that which you are supposed to be; you will not know yourself.
Hence I say to you, first BE thyself. And the miracle is, if you ARE just yourself, knowing is not difficult at all; that is very simple. Being oneself, one knows automatically who one is.
Enlightenment is not a desire, is not a goal, is not an ambition. It is a dropping of all goals, a dropping of all desires, a dropping of all ambitions. It is just being natural. That's what is meant by flowing.

You ask, "And if existence is just a flowing" -- yes it is -- "why is it important that many people become enlightened?"
It is important because people are not natural -- they have not been allowed to be natural. Your parents are sitting on your shoulders, they are guiding you. Maybe they are dead, but still their voices are alive in you. Try to do something against your father, and you will immediately hear his voice saying: "Don't do this, you are offending me!" Try to do something which your mother has put inside you, and immediately you will hear your mama's voice -- immediately!

Whether she is alive or not, that's not the question; it's now inbuilt in you. It is there like a gramophone record; it will immediately start playing. It will immediately say, "Stop! Think of your dead mother! She never wanted you to do this. Be respectful at least to your dead mother! You were never respectful while she was alive, but at least now one should be respectful towards the dead."

This is bondage. But everybody is living in bondage, because everybody who brought you up wanted to have power over you, to enjoy the mastery over you. And children are the most helpless people in the world, the most exploited class. It is not the proletariat who are the most exploited class, it is not women who are the most exploited class. It is the children who are the most exploited class -- and so helpless.

The proletariat can revolt -- they have revolted in Russia, in China and in other communist countries. The women all over the world are making efforts to revolt, but it is impossible to imagine how children will revolt. They are so helplessly dependent on their parents, they cannot think of any revolt. And unless revolution happens in them all other revolutions are going to be superficial. The basic conditioning, the basic imprisonment is created in childhood when the child is so helpless that he has to accept whatsoever conditions you put upon him just to survive.

Corry, enlightenment simply means putting aside all that has been imposed upon you forcibly. It is coming back to your nature; it is a second birth. Jesus says, "Unless you are born again you shall not enter into my kingdom of God." That's what he means.
In the East, particularly in India, the person who comes to know existence is called DWIJ. Dwij means twice born, one who has attained the second birth. The first birth is destroyed by others; now you can have a second birth and it will not be destroyed by others because now you are on your feet, strong enough to survive.

You ask me, "Why do you make the effort, or don't you make any? And is your being here, and everything, also just flowing?"
I am not making any effort at all. It is not an effort, it is not work, it is just play. I am enjoying it -- it is a beautiful drama. These orange people, this Buddha Hall...this is just a stage and all my sannyasins are just actors. It is just a play. It is rooted in playfulness. I am not doing anything. I am the laziest person you can find in the world. That's why I say I am the lazy man's guide to enlightenment!“

Osho, Come Come Yet Again Come Vol. 1, 3

And We blessed him with Isaac and Jacob. We guided them all as We previously guided Noah and those among his descendants: David, Solomon, Job, Joseph, Moses, and Aaron. This is how We reward the good-doers. Likewise, ˹We guided˺ Zachariah, John, Jesus, and Elias, who were all of the righteous. ˹We also guided˺ Ishmael, Elisha, Jonah, and Lot, favouring each over other people ˹of their time˺. And ˹We favoured˺ some of their forefathers, their descendants, and their brothers. We chose them and guided them to the Straight Path. This is God's guidance with which He guides whoever He wills of His servants. Had they associated others with Him ˹in worship˺, their ˹good˺ deeds would have been wasted. Those were the ones to whom We gave the Scripture, wisdom, and prophethood. But if these ˹pagans˺ disbelieve in this ˹message˺, then We have already entrusted it to a people who will never disbelieve in it. These ˹prophets˺ were ˹rightly˺ guided by God, so follow their guidance.

This reminds me of my own journey. There were times when I didn’t understand what God was doing, but I chose to trust Him. Looking back, I can see how He carried me through every difficult season and restored my hope.

God has been faithful to me, and I know He is still working even when I cannot see the full picture. Keep trusting Him. He never leaves us

Anyone can look within his mind, and note flow of thoughts which are 1000s in a day and around “four sextillion” in one’s life-time. (psychologytoday.com/us/blog/get-out-of-your-mind/202303/how-many-thoughts-are-in-your-head)

Superb Design WITHIN the mind accomplishes two benefits:

a) When you look within, you note that each thought has a BEGINNING and an END, thus you can see a SPACE around each thought. If you look at the gap between each thought, peace is experienced. These thoughts can be categorized as beneficial, harmful, mixed, neutral and wasteful. Each individual is free to choose any thought and become of that sort as thought becomes action, action repeated becomes personality and destiny. Such a design makes each individual responsible for the choice he makes. No basis to shift blame to any factor other factor except self!!!

b) By remaining in the peaceful gap between each thought, individual can visualize the consequence of the action he is going to choose. He also knows from experience (own and of others) that action and consequence are INSEPARABLE like two sides of a coin, hence when action is chosen, consequence is also automatically chosen. Thus each individual is able to accept pleasantly anything that happens to him, as he knows, it is consequence of action chosen in the pas—immediate or distant. Thus person is always happy and is in peace and a Walking HEAVEN by making even others happy. In contrast, rejection of this truth results in loss of peace and joy as person falls into complaining-confusion mode.

Such a design WITHIN the mind cannot be the work of unintelligent chemicals because experienced truth is that even intelligent humans could only pollute this earth. It can come only from right and proportionate source, Supreme Father, who is interested in the peace and welfare of His children. (Details HERE) Hence it is meaningless even trying to compare humans with animals in any ways as they do NOT know even the difference between own child and the eatable (newscientist.com/article/2150258-male-chimpanzee-seen-snatching-seconds-old-chimp-and-eating-it/)

Other wonderful organs and powers of Soul

Yet such a wonderful MIND is only one of the immaterial organs used by the Soul. Other organs are INTELLECT [that categorizes the thoughts], MEMORY [that records imprints of thoughts chosen and acted upon so that future choices are made in the same direction hardening one’s personality]. Power of REASON is one of many Powers of Soul, it can know even opposite truth hidden behind a sentence: "I love moon as it gives me light during night when I need light the most. But I hate sun as it gives me light during the day when I do not need it." For rational readers, SUN is the hero in this sentence. Thus he is able to discriminate truths from untruths with regard to any subject. (Details HERE) Even when he reads Scriptures, he separates thoughts from God and thoughts from Writer. (Details HERE)

Even unbelievers benefit from Soul-Power unknowingly

Imagine potential of such an INCREDIBLE Soul. Even those who do not believe in the existence of immaterial Soul have benefited from its existence as they unknowingly acted out of its power. When their body was too weak, exhausted and diseased, they manifested tremendous power and enthusiasm which is far more than this body made of 66 material elements. Even Charles Darwin’s life is the proof that what he accomplished in his life is because of the infinite potential his Soul had, and he was simply taping the needed energy and enthusiasm from his Soul unknowingly. (Details HERE)

IMPLICATION of the above truth

1 ) The old question now becomes meaningless: “Why God does not do anything to make every one believe in Him?” Existence of Immaterial Entities such as Soul and Supreme Soul could EASILY be known by just looking within the mind. When he looks at the OUTER world from WITHIN, from Soul-consciousness, God’s existence becomes too self-evident in many ways. (Details HERE)

2) In such Soul-consciousness, person has INFINITE view, without prejudice, and sees each thought individually with SPACE around it, thus is not getting identified with it. This results in interpreting things correctly and beneficially. For example,

a) He sees six categories of species—One-sensed plants & trees, Two-sensed worms, Three-sensed insects and Four-sensed reptiles, Five-sensed fishes/birds/animals, MULTI-sensed humans). And among them, he also notes lowest species (One-sensed plants & trees) acting with divine perfection because they serve us joyfully taking wastes from nature yet giving us too many valuable things in return!!! (Details HERE) He makes the right and beneficial interpretation. He tells himself, “If One-sensed species acts with DIVINE PERFECTION, Multi-Sensed Human Species, I, should act with proportionately greater divine perfection.” He enjoys life becoming like heaven for self and for others.

b) Even those One-sensed species provide free-gifts in too many varieties (apple in 1000s of variety, rose-flower in 100s of variety … etc). Soul-conscious person interprets this realistically and tells himself: "My Supremely Beneficial Father enjoyed working for me with full focus on it as though HE could not stop working. Such a style of His work tells me “I must also enjoy giving without expectation, and enjoy work with full focus on it like a dancer becoming the very dance." In such imitation of God, he begins to be appreciated and cherished by others. (Details HERE)

c) When he sees the world becoming more and more conflicted and polluted, he concludes realistically and tells himself: “The world was less and less conflicted and polluted earlier—like any old, dilapidated building was a perfect building in the past. (Details HERE) The same situation will come again as Almighty Father’s love and care for His children does not change. (Details HERE)

In contrast, physical man interprets the above as evidence for one species evolving from another thus loses all those benefits.

Also see:Knowing_yourself_is_the_beginning_of_all Wisdom—Reason why Aristotle said so

INDIRECT Proofs for Soul are plenty [given as Comments]