SPIRITUAL LADDER
Who had more complete vision ? The choices are:
Mohammed, Jesus, Buddha ?
(Note: Number of followers is not the yardstick)
Fight ! Fight ! Come on Jesus ! Buddha ! Mohammed ! Who was the best among you ? Answer honestly. No cheating.
LOL !
What would they say ? All three may just smile.
But seriously, is there a way to compare the spiritual height of a person ?
There is. What is there not in this wonderful creation of the supreme intelligence ? Everything is available for those who care to know. Everything ! That means everything ! LOL !
The difference in status of spiritual people can be easily seen from Eastern philosophical point of view. There are several yardsticks (36, I understand !) to know the level of spiritual height a person reached.
36 acid tests on Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed and the likes ! Pass the test or fail! This is your last chance big boys ! Pull up your socks.
What are these yardsticks ?
Ego is one.
This is a tricky issue. These spiritual giants became so because they tried to become ego less ! The question is whether they were really ego less !
Ordinary people with a proud 100 % Ego cannot even understand what the hell is going on ! To them, anyone with 1% ego less ness is either great or crazy ! And we are comparing people with more than 99% ego less ness. What now matters is the remaining 1% ego !
Need a spiritual Microscope to analyse the miniscule traces of Ego these spiritual giants had. It is literally like searching for the needle in a haystack!
Any one like to search for this needle ? First remove the spade in one's own eyes ! LOL ! It gives a better view.
To analyse if these giants had traces of ego, each of their action is to be carefully studied. Where they discriminated, became angry, showed weakness, most comfortable etc. Piles of hay indeed. Those who have no other job may please join the search ! I have no time.
After the ego, the next important parameter is the sexual reactions. How comfortable one was with females. Not how they had sex. Whether they were able to see without sex in mind.
Watch out. Daylight pretensions and night fall misadventures will not qualify here. Mahatma Gandhi reportedly slept with naked young women when he was old to test his celibacy ! There was nothing to test. Just ask yourself. Plain and straight. Yes or No. That is it. There is no option called "May be" ! May be is also Yes !
Let me clarify here. Sex is not a crime. It is natural and normal. Required for survival and progeny. But spiritual heights are affected by desire for sex. Read desire for sex. There may be some who can provide sex as pleasure without being dragged into it as a weakness. That is different from desire. For them it is a strength not weakness.
Eyebrows raining ? Leave it. Keep your view that is comfortable to your psyche. I have no interest in making one upset unnecessarily.. Or give me a valid reason ! I will upset the most comfortable person on Earth. That is a promise.
LOL !
(No big deal ! )
How many spiritual contenders remain in the fray now ? Very few !
Quality of knowledge is another yardstick.
Inclusiveness is another. Whether the person's vision encompasses all.
Deeds are another. Say something do something else ? Not acceptable.
Apart from these basic checks, how the person reacted to situations is also closely studied to assess his spiritual status.
Number of followers is NOT a yard stick at all ! Because the weaknesses of people are not the credit of the leader ! Better luck next time !
I understand your concern. You regard someone as supreme and above everyone else. That is your understanding or bias. That may satisfy your standards. But that may not be the 'truth'. That is all.
But there are other yardsticks to assess a person's real spiritual height. Other than personal likes and achievements. These are high funda issues not available to ordinary people. Real masters know where each other master stands in the spiritual ladder to heaven. These are spiritual secrets of the magic world.
If you are curious please read the book "From Unconsciousness to Consciousness" by Osho. You will be awe struck at the level of misunderstandings you have, or rather, most have.
If you believe what Mohammed said, (or anyone said, for that matter), then you cannot go past him ! It is as simple as that. Then you cannot understand what the others said either. Because you get obsessed with the one you like, due to many personal, read selfish, reasons. That is not the way to understand spirituality. Non believers can easily understand what is wrong with believers' way of thinking. Simply because they are not 'burdened' by your belief and orientation and watch the same thing from another angle. The believer cannot even think of thinking in the ways others do ! That is their limitation.
Is it possible to become ego less and desire free ?
Try to be ego less and desire free. It is not easy. You think it is easy ? Just try yourself. Meditate in solitude without ego or desires. You will also get insights. The quality of insights will depend on the level of ego less ness and desire free ness of the mind. It is simple science. Nothing to do with God, religion and beliefs. Any one can do this anywhere in the world.
Especially women ! Because they are far more ego less and desire free than the males. Can you believe that ? That is the truth which males may not like.
Prophets have no religion. Humanity is their religion. Priests make religions after their chosen leaders and teach nonsense so that the followers end up hating those in other religions ! Do not be suckers to the priests. It would be like swallowing tape worms !
More people would follow whom they can understand. Not necessarily who said the truth. Drop your religious feelings for a while and see the humanity as a whole. Then you can see how spiritual leaders happen in every nation and why people follow them. Because there is nothing else to do than following people with lesser egos. It automatically happens. People follow those with lesser ego than themselves.
It is the religion's (read priests) agenda to spread their religion all over the world and thus live on donations without sweating ! Cool. People end up in different religions and think other religions are stupid ! Be very careful about these priests who would say things like their prophet or religion is 'better' than the rest ! Or worst, the best prophet or religion among the rest ! That simply is ego again ! The ego of the priests.
Priests are taking people for spiritual rides. Roller Coaster with crash landings !
Why waste your life for someone's faith ? Stand alone and look at the world. What do you see ?
The sun ? Say yes or no.
The sky ? Say yes or no.
The trees ? Say yes or no.
Oceans? Say yes or no.
Mountains? Say yes or no.
Rivers? Say yes or no.
Buildings ? Say yes or no.
Birds ? Say yes or no.
Animals ? Say yes or no.
Humans ? Say yes or no.
Answers to the above would be in affirmative. Right.
Now just three more questions.
Did you see yourself ?
No ? Come on !
Did you see God ?
I hope you are not a stupid.
Now the last question.
Did you see any religion ?
If you did, it was in your mind ! Not in this world.
There is no religion for humanity except humanity itself. The rest is all vested interests.
Who had more complete vision ? The choices are:
Mohammed, Jesus, Buddha ?
(Note: Number of followers is not the yardstick)
Fight ! Fight ! Come on Jesus ! Buddha ! Mohammed ! Who was the best among you ? Answer honestly. No cheating.
LOL !
What would they say ? All three may just smile.
But seriously, is there a way to compare the spiritual height of a person ?
There is. What is there not in this wonderful creation of the supreme intelligence ? Everything is available for those who care to know. Everything ! That means everything ! LOL !
The difference in status of spiritual people can be easily seen from Eastern philosophical point of view. There are several yardsticks (36, I understand !) to know the level of spiritual height a person reached.
36 acid tests on Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed and the likes ! Pass the test or fail! This is your last chance big boys ! Pull up your socks.
What are these yardsticks ?
Ego is one.
This is a tricky issue. These spiritual giants became so because they tried to become ego less ! The question is whether they were really ego less !
Ordinary people with a proud 100 % Ego cannot even understand what the hell is going on ! To them, anyone with 1% ego less ness is either great or crazy ! And we are comparing people with more than 99% ego less ness. What now matters is the remaining 1% ego !
Need a spiritual Microscope to analyse the miniscule traces of Ego these spiritual giants had. It is literally like searching for the needle in a haystack!
Any one like to search for this needle ? First remove the spade in one's own eyes ! LOL ! It gives a better view.
To analyse if these giants had traces of ego, each of their action is to be carefully studied. Where they discriminated, became angry, showed weakness, most comfortable etc. Piles of hay indeed. Those who have no other job may please join the search ! I have no time.
After the ego, the next important parameter is the sexual reactions. How comfortable one was with females. Not how they had sex. Whether they were able to see without sex in mind.
Watch out. Daylight pretensions and night fall misadventures will not qualify here. Mahatma Gandhi reportedly slept with naked young women when he was old to test his celibacy ! There was nothing to test. Just ask yourself. Plain and straight. Yes or No. That is it. There is no option called "May be" ! May be is also Yes !
Let me clarify here. Sex is not a crime. It is natural and normal. Required for survival and progeny. But spiritual heights are affected by desire for sex. Read desire for sex. There may be some who can provide sex as pleasure without being dragged into it as a weakness. That is different from desire. For them it is a strength not weakness.
Eyebrows raining ? Leave it. Keep your view that is comfortable to your psyche. I have no interest in making one upset unnecessarily.. Or give me a valid reason ! I will upset the most comfortable person on Earth. That is a promise.
LOL !
(No big deal ! )
How many spiritual contenders remain in the fray now ? Very few !
Quality of knowledge is another yardstick.
Inclusiveness is another. Whether the person's vision encompasses all.
Deeds are another. Say something do something else ? Not acceptable.
Apart from these basic checks, how the person reacted to situations is also closely studied to assess his spiritual status.
Number of followers is NOT a yard stick at all ! Because the weaknesses of people are not the credit of the leader ! Better luck next time !
I understand your concern. You regard someone as supreme and above everyone else. That is your understanding or bias. That may satisfy your standards. But that may not be the 'truth'. That is all.
But there are other yardsticks to assess a person's real spiritual height. Other than personal likes and achievements. These are high funda issues not available to ordinary people. Real masters know where each other master stands in the spiritual ladder to heaven. These are spiritual secrets of the magic world.
If you are curious please read the book "From Unconsciousness to Consciousness" by Osho. You will be awe struck at the level of misunderstandings you have, or rather, most have.
If you believe what Mohammed said, (or anyone said, for that matter), then you cannot go past him ! It is as simple as that. Then you cannot understand what the others said either. Because you get obsessed with the one you like, due to many personal, read selfish, reasons. That is not the way to understand spirituality. Non believers can easily understand what is wrong with believers' way of thinking. Simply because they are not 'burdened' by your belief and orientation and watch the same thing from another angle. The believer cannot even think of thinking in the ways others do ! That is their limitation.
Is it possible to become ego less and desire free ?
Try to be ego less and desire free. It is not easy. You think it is easy ? Just try yourself. Meditate in solitude without ego or desires. You will also get insights. The quality of insights will depend on the level of ego less ness and desire free ness of the mind. It is simple science. Nothing to do with God, religion and beliefs. Any one can do this anywhere in the world.
Especially women ! Because they are far more ego less and desire free than the males. Can you believe that ? That is the truth which males may not like.
Prophets have no religion. Humanity is their religion. Priests make religions after their chosen leaders and teach nonsense so that the followers end up hating those in other religions ! Do not be suckers to the priests. It would be like swallowing tape worms !
More people would follow whom they can understand. Not necessarily who said the truth. Drop your religious feelings for a while and see the humanity as a whole. Then you can see how spiritual leaders happen in every nation and why people follow them. Because there is nothing else to do than following people with lesser egos. It automatically happens. People follow those with lesser ego than themselves.
It is the religion's (read priests) agenda to spread their religion all over the world and thus live on donations without sweating ! Cool. People end up in different religions and think other religions are stupid ! Be very careful about these priests who would say things like their prophet or religion is 'better' than the rest ! Or worst, the best prophet or religion among the rest ! That simply is ego again ! The ego of the priests.
Priests are taking people for spiritual rides. Roller Coaster with crash landings !
Why waste your life for someone's faith ? Stand alone and look at the world. What do you see ?
The sun ? Say yes or no.
The sky ? Say yes or no.
The trees ? Say yes or no.
Oceans? Say yes or no.
Mountains? Say yes or no.
Rivers? Say yes or no.
Buildings ? Say yes or no.
Birds ? Say yes or no.
Animals ? Say yes or no.
Humans ? Say yes or no.
Answers to the above would be in affirmative. Right.
Now just three more questions.
Did you see yourself ?
No ? Come on !
Did you see God ?
I hope you are not a stupid.
Now the last question.
Did you see any religion ?
If you did, it was in your mind ! Not in this world.
There is no religion for humanity except humanity itself. The rest is all vested interests.
very nice article...thanks for sharing it with us!!
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