I am conscious that most will not grasp what is been said here. Worse, most will simply reject or dismiss
what is been said. So to assist the
reader, I will make one statement.
Consciousness is separate from space and time but is naturally informed
and shaped through space and time. Thus
immortality of our individual part of consciousness is a given. Lifespan is quite another matter.
Again speculations of other universes appear unnecessary and their like
as well. It is also immediately clear
that the super consciousness or God is naturally limited by his own
creation. That is a revelation. It still leaves God with immense influence to
shape the future as the only entity ably to consistently do so. Yet a stroke of lightening may take human
assistance.
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February 24, 2014
V. Susan Ferguson, Contributor
As portions of the One, we are immortal. We
have chosen to ‘play’ in space-time, the earth plane of Limitation. Caught in
temporal mortal forms, our human body, veiled in the illusion of separation and
Samsara,
the cyclical ocean of death & birth, we fear our impending inevitable
death.
While enjoying the adventure of Limitation,
human beings since ancient times have fervently sought immortality. From
the Akkadian Gilgamesh to
the alchemist Sir Isaac Newton, eternal life has
been the burning desire of many, especially the rich and powerful. Throughout
our current Kali Yuga, all of written
history, men and women have longed for immortality in the hope of prolonging
their present identity and perhaps even bodily form. Yet most remain deluded —
bound in our self-imposed sojourn.
There are now 176 billion observable galaxies.
There are trillions of stars, each of which in all probability may have at
lease one inhabitable planet awaiting life forms. There is no reason to assume
that the numerous extra terrestrial races have no part in the seeding and
colonization of planets. Indeed the idea that earth was seeded by various
off-planet beings is not in conflict with the metaphysical traditions of
consciousness and enlightenment found in the Sanskrit
texts.
[ I want to add
something more. Space mobile aliens can
occupy any mass they wish to establish artificial habitats. I am pretty comfortable that all our UFO
traffic is driven by Terran subterranean bases and habitats. Arclein ]
Ritual as Control
It appears that on occasion, the beings that
colonized planet Earth, their priests and occultists, have offered their
‘chosen’ ones elaborate rituals, tests and quests that promised immortality.
These chosen ones participated in elaborate, often costly and sacrificial
rituals only to find themselves after death in yet another temporal realm – a
slice of the myriad realms, the temporal astral
planes, which they magnetized by the ritual
practices. All these realms, every layer of 1000′s of heavens, hells and
in-between are temporal, limited by time. Thus the ‘chosen’ who thought they
were achieving immortality, found themselves eventually back in Samsara, the
endless cycles of death & birth. They had not reached true immortality, the
eternal imperishable One that pervades All — that which they were to begin
with!
The idea that man could make himself immortal
beyond time, through time-based priestcraft rituals and so-called ‘sacred’
material objects as instruments is a bit humorous. Everything is sacred. Immortality
is not about life span, years in any particular bodily form, sharira. Real immortality is reaching God
Consciousness, returning to our Source, That, the Tattva-ness we have
always been. Therefore any and all elaborate secret arcane occult ritual dramas
only got the’chosen’ ones to yet another temporal realm.
The Chandogya Upanishad III.6 explains
the Real immortality, amritam, which is beyond the hands of time. The Seer
Rishis reached immortality by ‘brooding’ on the verses in the Rig Veda, meaning they focused on the Wisdom Truth in
the Sanskrit verses which are compared to the flowers of immortal nectar, a
honey water that has the power to issue forth in its essence the
birthless-deathless Reality. The wisdom woven in the verses holds the
ineluctable power to immerse, absorb and return our consciousness into the One,
the Source eternal beyond death and birth.
Our colonizers did indeed have much longer
life spans than we earthlings. The Anunnaki were not the first of these colonizing
races, but perhaps they were the last. One year for Anu, Enlil, Enki,
Ninhursag, Inanna and the others is said to be 3600 of our human years. In
terms of their years, they have not been ‘absent’ from our planet for very
long. However they too die, even though we could not perceive their
mortality because their allotted years greatly exceeded ours.
The Bhagavad Gita states that all
manifest beings are mortal. In XVIII.40 Krishna says that no being, either
on earth or in heaven among the ‘gods’ is free of Prakriti’s gunas, meaning the
modes of material nature, the matrix that exists in time. Even the spheres of
the Vedas, their rites and rituals, are said to be confined to the three gunas
(sattva, rajas & tamas) and therefore belong to the plane of time. Krishna
[BhG.II.45] urges his friend Arjuna to Become, to move beyond duality
and liberate himself from the gunas, the power Shakti of Prakriti’s matrix.
Time Relative to the
Vital Rhythms
Alain Danielou has a very insightful take on
immortality in his book ‘While the Gods Play.’ He says that even
though the duration of the gods may appear immense to our human consciousness,
they are still “within the domain of multiplicity, the domain of Prakriti” and
thus are mortal. How could these gods give us immortality when they do not
themselves possess it?
Danielou states that the relative experience
of time by various forms in creation is due to
“the value that we attach to a given length of time…relative to our physical
body. It is determined by the vital rhythms of each species.” Each life form
has its own heartbeat and this vital rhythm dictates its duration in time.
Even though the immortality of the flesh is
unobtainable, what was given to us is the sacred Wisdom-Knowledge to reach our
own God-Consciousness that dwells within each of us. This knowledge was
revealed and concealed in the Rig Veda. The Upanishads were written many years
later and sought to illuminate the Rig Veda. “The Upanishads form a natural
continuity of the glorious spiritual visions and realizations reached by the
Rishis of the [Rig Veda] Samhitas… [T.V. Kapali Sastry].” The consciousness of
mankind was continually ineluctably sinking into the solidification of matter
through an increasing differentiated five-sense perception, as the Kali
Yuga inexorably rolled on into ever-deeper
density.
The colonizers of planet Earth were taken to
be gods because they possessed advanced technology and seemed immortal to us.
The term ‘gods’ in Sanskrit devas comes from the root √div and simply means
shinning, luminescence, effulgence. The devas are the invisible (to the five
senses) forces which play their part in the subtle body to generate the
creative give-and-take relationship with the manifest external, the temporal
illusory holographic universe. “The gods of the Vedic pantheon – Agni, Vayu,
Indra, Surya – are frequently mentioned as having a double function as nature
powers in the universe, (adhidaivatam), and as lords of the sense, life, mind
and other instruments of the soul within us, (adhyatmam). [T.V. Kapali Sastry]”
Dead Ritual
The ‘gods’ have been personified throughout
written history and tyrants have used this tool of the personification of
‘gods’ and the mythopoeisation of history [Malati J. Shendge] to control us through fear. Tyrants benefit
from fear and endless destructive wars, many of which have been religious.
Ritual has played its role and I quite like this description of the birth of
ritual by the Sanskrit scholar, Malati J. Shendge — any ritual, yours and mine:
“When the events became symbolic and were ascribed magical powers to attain
certain aims, the process of mythopoeisation was complete. History was
forgotten and dead ritual became the end in itself.”
Many of the Upanishads reject ritual. Swami Muni Narayana
Prasad says that the Mundaka Upanishad “highlights
the defects and weak points of Vedism and its ritual, and advises the seeker
to become indifferent to them.” In the Bhagavad Gita II.45-6 Krishna says
that Vedic rituals belong to the domain of Prakriti’s three gunas and tells
Arjuna to ‘Become!’ without them; and further, he says that the Vedas are of no
more use to the Self-Realized person than a well, when the entire land is
flooded. Priest craft rituals will not deliver immortality or Moksha,
Liberation.
Sanskrit is a very difficult language to
learn, and is said to take eighteen years to master all the subtleties of
Sanskrit grammar. Naturally this arduous task left Sanskrit and therefore
knowledge in the sacred Sanskrit texts, under the control of an elite. In India
a guru was the only means to access the knowledge of the Vedas, Upanishads,
etc. because unless you were born into the priest caste, you could not read the
texts. Thanks to the many translations of these jewels of wisdom, people all
over the world can now read the ancient sacred Sanskrit texts. Some of the
translations are surely superior to others, just as there are good gurus and
better ones. A translation made by an enlightened master is going to carry the
power of that consciousness, and therefore be a more direct revelation.
With a sincere heart and dedicated purpose, I
believe that we don’t necessarily require a guru. Certainly an enlightened
teacher would be a wonderful experience, but even the Kashmir Shaivite saint
and scholar, Swami Lakshmanjoo has
said, “Don’t pin this on me!” In the last moments, it is up to us. As Krishna
says [BhG.VI.5], we must lift ourselves up by the Self, Atmana. Swami Muni
Narayana Prasad has also said that some do reach enlightenment by their own
efforts, alone and without a guru.
Wisdom from Altair
In my book ‘Inanna Returns’ based on
my visions of the Anunnaki colonization of our planet Earth, Inanna told me
that when the geneticists Enki and Ninhursag created us, the lulus, they intentionally unplugged some of the
genes. These genes in the human body were connected to our ability to
realize that we are the One. The colonizing family did not want a worker
race that refused to take orders or might rebel. Our ignorance of our origins
served their purpose and kept us in the bow-down-and-worship phase of our
evolution. I assumed that this was natural because the radiation wars seemed to
coincide with the advent of the Kali Yuga — and thus the exposure to radiation
pushed the human race into deeper ignorance and limitation.
Inanna said that when she was given the Indus
Valley, she was already quite fed up with the increasingly chauvinistic
attitudes of the males in her family and thus she resolved to attempt to
activate the unplugged DNA.
If you think of how many metaphysical systems there are in India, just imagine
that throughout the universe there must be countless versions of
primordial metaphysics, Truth, Satya, Rita
(from the root meaning to rise, tend upward), the Eternal Right, Sanatana
Dharma. Inanna called the system Samkhya, and because I did not want to add
more to ET confusion, I said it originated in the Pleiades; but Inanna told me
that what she taught was from Altair. Ninhursag’s mother came from the
Altairian system and Ninhursag in turn, taught Inanna. Setting up what amounted
to Tantric temples that practiced tantric rituals with trained priestesses and
priests, Inanna determined to give the humans, the lulus, an advantage in
consciousness.
‘God’ Genes
The immediate offspring of the Anunnaki
already had better DNA, meaning they had abilities to access other dimensional
realms that most of the worker race did not possess. When Enlil found out that
Inanna was doing this, he was horrified, angry, and gave Marduk permission to
destroy the Indus Valley civilization.
I don’t ask the reader to believe what I say
here about the Indus Valley Civilization, but look at India – how amazing is it
that the ancient Sanskrit texts were preserved. How incredible is it that the
British thought that India’s ancient religious beliefs were not worth
destroying. Remember that the Romans burned the ancient books in the Library of
Alexander. I know — I died in that fire. Sometimes when I am copying a Sanskrit
verse, I see the letters through the eyes of that lonely old man in the library
at Alexandria, slowly methodically copying old Sanskrit written on dried palm
leaves.
It is a miracle that we do have the Rig Veda,
the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita, the essence of them all, to guide us
Home.
Think of how often tyrannical dark forces have
destroyed great civilizations, devastating the earth again and again, leaving
the vast majority of mankind in poverty, fear, hunger, and ignorance. Wouldn’t
our acceptance of wisdom teachings allow more to become enlightened? Who
doesn’t want us to remember that we are portions of the One? Surely if everyone
is God, then it can only be that there are designated beings whose ‘job’
description is playing the Darth Vader roles. In the Mahabharata, the character Duryodhana, who has played a
primary part in starting the war, in fact is upon his death greeted with cheers
and showers of flower petals by the ‘gods’ in the heavens. He is said to enjoy
a heaven for those who have played their role, meaning he has lived out his own
dharma and contributed to the adventure of limitation, the human drama.
I know this may sound a bit crazy at first,
but consider this — if we all became enlightened at once, would the universe
collapse? Who would there be to ‘play’ and mirror the myriad aspects of the One
into the temporal illusory hologram? Yes, the bad guys do have a role, and this
included the Anunnaki. Some of the family are in fact now trying to help us and
many have incarnated in human flesh-and-blood bodies to activate the dormant
genome. The hope is to re-establish the Satya Yuga, the era of Truth, and our
collective memory of primordial metaphysics, without which there can be no
harmony with the Creator, but only further delusion and dissolution.
Fear Propaganda as Control
The cacophony of a threat-matrix around the
Anunnaki coming is just one more in a long line of ritual-rackets from the Fear
Inc. tyrants who seek to keep mankind bewildered, confused, in fear and safely
away from the Wisdom-Knowledge of our true Being, the One. Instead of
rapid-fire running around the Internet, chasing mendacity and demons, and
messing up the synaptic patterns in our brain that are conducive to
contemplation, let us focus on our own consciousness within. There we will find
Peace, lasting Love, integrity, truly useful power, and even our own
Immortality.
For thousands of years the Sanskrit texts have
held the secret key to our freedom and enlightenment, the recognition of our
innate God-Consciousness within. That is the only immortality we have ever
needed. The rest is mere delusion and deception. Just as the only real Free
Will we possess is latent within us, so it is that true immortality awaits us
within, in the Heart.
I often say to myself and I hope you have a
sense of humour, because I mean this in the highest most sacred loving sense —
I often say that God is crazy! God is crazy in Love for Its Creation. There is
only one Soul, forever dancing in crazy Love, Its mad blissful Joy across
thousands of universes.
We meet in the Heart,
V. Susan Ferguson
“The gods of the Vedic pantheon – Agni, Vayu, Indra, Surya – are
frequently mentioned as having a double function as nature powers in the
universe, (adhidaivatam), and as lords of the sense, life, mind and other
instruments of the soul within us, (adhyatmam). [T.V. Kapali Sastry]”
About the Author
V. Susan Ferguson is the author of Inanna Returns, Inanna Hyper-Luminal; her
own commentary on the Bhagavad Gita and the Shiva Sutras; and Colony Earth
& the Rig Veda. Her website is Metaphysical Musing.
“The gods of the Vedic pantheon – Agni, Vayu,
Indra, Surya – are frequently mentioned as having a double function as nature
powers in the universe, (adhidaivatam), and as lords of the sense, life, mind
and other instruments of the soul within us, (adhyatmam). [T.V. Kapali Sastry]”
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, I.iv.10:
“And to this day, [those] who…know the Self as
I am Brahman [the One], become all this universe.
Even the gods [any other dimensional beings] cannot prevent his becoming this, for he has become their Self. …if a man worships another deity thinking: He is one and I am another, he does not know.
Even the gods [any other dimensional beings] cannot prevent his becoming this, for he has become their Self. …if a man worships another deity thinking: He is one and I am another, he does not know.
He [who does not know] is like a sacrificial animal to the gods. As many animals serve a man, so does each man serve the gods. Even if one animal is taken away, it causes anguish to the owner; how much more so when many are taken away!
Therefore it is not pleasing to the gods that men should know this [that they are the One].”
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