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Mystics are aware that they will be misunderstood even before they speak. The last-century mystic Osho has highlighted this point emphatically.

Mystics stand on their heads; they are grounded in consciousness, thanks to matter, the "sat" part of Brahman, which keeps their body alive even when they don’t have a sense of their human system.

Since enlightenment isn’t a single-life endeavor, their intelligence, nurtured over many lifetimes, often bypasses trivial concerns, which is where the audience often misses them. They are far older in spirit than those hearing them.

Just as mathematics can leap over steps that the humanities cannot, mystics have their own shortcuts to wisdom. A moving Brahman is more energy than the body and more consciousness than the mind. Thus, even though you might feel your bodily senses expanding around a mystic, you cannot fully grasp their reality; this highlights your body's sensitivity to their energy rather than your mind’s capacity to comprehend it.

Saroj was initially reluctant to tackle existential questions, aware that Osho had already explored these topics extensively. He knew it would take a few hundred years for another world teacher to make a similar impact on the spiritual world, let alone his humble self with his modest insights. However, he soon realized that speaking on mysticism, even as a novice, is a crucial apprenticeship for new mystics before they can fully embody the divine and attain the lasting realization of a Jeevanmukta. This realization laid the foundation for Saroj Answers. Despite Osho’s extensive teachings, aimed at transforming the world on a grand scale, there are gaps: some due to his comprehensive approach, which may overlook simpler insights for those less versed in intellect or intimidated by complex ideas, and others that naturally arise with the passage of time. Only someone from the future can address these gaps.

When Gautama Buddha established his teachings, disciples like Mahakasyapa and Sariputra perpetuated his wisdom, keeping Buddha’s teachings alive. However, Saroj observed that half of Osho’s disciples were focused on establishing ritualistic meditation enterprises, while the other half were too wasted because of their over-experimentation with freedom, rather than embodying a disciplined rebellious spirit.

Saroj believes that, despite navigating the arduous mystical path alone, his preliminary spiritual journey began in Osho’s Buddhafield. He sees the rise of figures like Swami Dev Vimal on YouTube and Swami Jai Deep on Quora as hope that he could make a little impact too in a world recently left by a world teacher.

Saroj, having endured an existential crisis throughout his childhood, after wandering as a lost rebel throughout his teenage years, and emerging as a self-realized and introspective lover of life in his twenties, with a flash of remembrance from his past-life experience as an individual seeker, now in his early thirties, believes that, with the sensitivity and wisdom he has always possessed, he is uniquely blessed to connect the dots of spirituality that existence has laid out for this modern era. He has developed confidence that, if he begins writing, his entire evolutionary past will stand by his side, aiding him—much like Guru Vedavyasa dictating to the deity Ganesh as he wrote. Not to mention also the subtle disdain he has developed for contemporary mystics who conform to the free market's demands, prioritizing personal existence over preserving the profound spirituality they have inherited from the sages of the Upanishads and the sangha of the Buddha, bestowed to them by the forces of life; this conformity of some mystics seems a bit non-Brahmanical to him.

Saroj stumbled into computer science at university—an unexpected journey, randomly born out of apathy (vairagya) but driven by a deeper quest to understand the connection between hardware and software better, mirroring the relationship between body and soul on a higher, parent realm. Fortunately, he encountered someone who had some incomplete lesson for him to guide on the heart’s way - the energy aspect that connects the body and the soul. Albeit for a while, he fell in love, which he thinks, really completed his university graduation leading him to light-heartedly quote, “A university graduate who knows not love has no right to toss their hat in celebration; their education remains incomplete.”

Saroj reflects on how no mystic in humanity has yet encountered the profound convergence of Artificial Intelligence and spiritual insight. Having faced the daunting eyes of Brahman and understood the nuances of state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms, he sees himself as a cyborg human, uniquely positioned to address this new gap, which gives him an edge over past and contemporary mystics in an increasingly machine-influenced world.

He reasons that, for the first time in human history, a realizer can illustrate how everything on the internet—colors, sounds, and visuals—is fundamentally electricity, which is essentially an idea poured from the human mind into silicon chips. This mirrors the Upanishadic notion that existence is Prakriti in action, imbued with the sentience of Brahman. What was once a profound insight accessible only to the wise can now be embraced by the wider public. This offers a fresh analogy as a perspective on mysticism, making the concept of Brahman, the father consciousness, more relatable, one that even Osho could not fully articulate in his time although he foresaw a profound transformation in the world over the next decades.

Here’s a collection of modern answers to the timeless questions that seekers often burn their hearts with. These answers incorporate insights from the last three decades of human advancement too. Most are crafted from a perspective that blends the subtle realities of the Buddha's teachings with the complexities of modern human institutionalization, the free economy, and recent developments in Artificial Intelligence. Saroj presents everything as intelligent, bite-sized pieces that are simple and rhyming, yet may be elusive if you don’t evolve with them. Read them once, read and meditate on them the second time, and read, meditate, and contemplate them a third time if you feel they merit such effort. Saroj believes he has assured their worthiness for this depth of engagement.

Interestingly, what might surprise you is his gauge for authenticity regarding these answers. He says, "If Gautam Buddha, Jesus Christ, Mahavira, Osho, or the Upanishadic sages were to read them, they would smile at what a gentle and stubborn kid they’ve nurtured in the barren lands of Kalyug." That’s his yardstick, and little else matters to him, for he believes the world should be measured against the ideal realm mystics have dreamt of privately and sages have envisioned in spiritual literature leaving the algorithms of evolution to take care of survival and the trivial.

Saroj invites you to read, celebrate, question, develop, and challenge these answers with your evolving insights. You may lay aside the old tales and let the journey begin.

Why is there something rather than nothing?

A piece of painting cannot be created without a canvas. Since you have assumed there is something, consider where that something can exist – on what canvas? Even if it's something spherical, it still has its inner canvas, doesn't it?

Absolute something-ness can only exist on the canvas of absolute nothingness. Think of peeling an onion layer by layer; at its center, there is absolutely nothing. Can you see its canvas? The onion exists on onion-less-ness. Consider where air exists – in a vacuum. Where mountains stand – on the land. Where land stands – in the sky. Now, the fact is, existence essentially manifests itself in the sky. The sky, in turn, is woven on the canvas of sky-less-ness, which is just a fanciful term for nothingness. Even the Big Bang played backwards suggests that it began as a dimensionless state.

So, on the inside or on the canvas, it's always nothingness. On the outside, things exist.

When you die, will you ask, "Why is there nothing rather than something?" You won’t because death silences the questioner. But why something? Because we exist, you exist, and your question exists. Therefore, something rather than nothing. You are the ultimate something rather than nothing. In samadhi, you become nothing, absolutely nothing.

2. Is our universe real?

Are days and nights real? Are the mountains and the oceans real? Yes, they are! Are your dreams real? Yes, they are! So, yes, the universe is real. The land and the sky are as real as you are. However, when you wake up from a dream, that dream becomes an illusion, doesn't it? Sometimes, you have such lovely dreams that you think they are better than your reality itself. If you could somehow wake up from this world to a better reality, everything would become maya, an illusion. That is the truth about dreams, yes!

Buddhas have something profound to convey when they assert that this world is an illusion, and it's true. Therefore, contemplating spiritual awakening might be a worthwhile pursuit which might fortunately debunk this truth. Otherwise, it has always been real.

What your senses can perceive is real to your body. If you can develop some sixth sense, you will perceive things differently. For example, some reptiles have other senses like infrared or ultraviolet vision, which we humans don't have. Some humans even lack eyes and ears; ask them.

Yes, everything that exists is real, even in your wildest imagination. Things can be real on different layers, and it's somewhat subjective. You exist, and you are real, which means you have every right to speak a sentence or two about the reality of this whole existence too.

3. How vast is the existence?

The word "vast" is far too diminutive to even begin to fathom the true dimensions of existence. Imagine this: if you were to travel in any direction from your current location at the speed of light for your entire lifetime, you would never reach the end of it. It's a scale beyond mental estimation, vaster than your life, vaster than a million other lives like yours. Existence generously extends a fraction of its infinite span to us, to the oceans, to the stars, to illusions, to ghosts, to Buddhas, and to everything in between. The primary challenges modern science faces are not only the newest suggestions that the tangible universe may constitute only about few percent of the whole presence, which in turn diminishes with the growth in our understanding but rather the multiformity of existence itself.

When uncountable things are complexes and variants of uncountable molecules, the cross product becomes exponentially high. And if we see them from the basic three particles, they have evolved too much in all sort of direction forming an unfathomable ecosystem.

Despite dedicating the efforts of our brightest minds to unraveling its mysteries over several millennia, we’ve merely scratched the surface and are still at the foothills of understanding.

Outside, Existence is just ridiculously big; it operates under a myriad of laws, including those governing attraction, relativity, polarity, and countless others. Despite millennia of exploration, we've yet to fathom the true workings of even a fundamental force like gravity, let alone the intricacies of others. There may be countless other laws at play that remain undiscovered. Imagine these laws behaving differently in varying states of matter, mirroring the bizarre discoveries of modern particle physics.

So, there's no point contemplating at all, other than for fun. A fish cannot fathom how big an ocean is, not even a blue whale. Just as a fish cannot grasp the vastness of the ocean, we cannot really objectively grasp it. Subjectively, can you think of a human mind, meditating and without throughts, jus the power to think as big as this existence?

Brahman is that big.

what must be a human mind without any restriction? Only pure knowing without any human construct, not even the evolutionary mechanics of it.

Is that even possible? It is.

Its pure knowing without any boundary. Like in the classic minesweeper game, outside its numbers and inside it’s a plane dark canvas that opens up opening up further and further. Only when something is knitted on that understanding, something like a mind is born. Existence is an entire nervous system too on which the body of Brahman is knitted upon.

On the inside, it’s just nothingness, as a conscious canvas where things can happen.

Chemical reactions and developments are more of a play between two fundamental things, the quality to know and thing other than itself that can be known.

Its not just a thousand and one elements or molecules but just the multiformity of matter and the wholesomeness of consciousness.

Visualize consciousness as the ultimate presence on which all atoms are knitted upon.

Like we knit a sweater on space and cannot do without space. Space is knitted on the canvas of consciousness.

Mystics claiming, I have become the whole existence is because they have created fire on the canvas-ethanol.

Its like the mind claiming I have become the whole body.

Existences vastness is for sure of the space. The space though should be understood as like a human body.

It’s a magical canvas on which things can happen. Dark holes can consume entire galaxies at a single event, right?

Space is not just space. Its an opening where things can happen. That “things can happen” is backed up by possibility.

Describing existence as vast is a monumental understatement – it implies an unimaginable scale. It is as boundless as Brahman itself, encompassing the ever-expanding universe. In fact, the term “Brahman” means the ever-expanding universe. The one without ends.

And importantly this answer sprouts from my own experience and experience of the mystics – the reason it looks biased towards consciousness than towards indifference.

During samadhi, you become one with this mind-bogglingly vast existence. Although you may not comprehend all its laws and phenomena, you can consciously become one with the boundless expanse. It’s just because of the potentiality, the familiarity human mind dares to raise this question.

Human minds are just the focal points of the conscious existence. Like ocean depth defies the size of waves,

This vastness defies mental comprehension. It is as vast as the highest potential of your mind, and you have the capacity to expand to that magnitude. An unrestrained mind possesses such power. An Atman carries this boundless potential. It's as though Brahman itself is peeking into the material realm through the lens of a human system.

4. What is Consciousness?

Consciousness is sentience- the quality to know, the quality to attach itself with something else.

What we normally have in our life is awareness. Being aware of things around us. It derives from the pure canvas of sentience on which the existence is woven - that’s pure consciousness.

Let’s elaborate using examples and analogies, take for example, a calculator which can calculate 1+1=2, a wooden log cannot. A computer can compare things in addition to calculators’ mere arithmetic operations. An animal can see and perceive; a stone cannot. That’s consciousness already. But don’t misunderstand. Consciousness has its own different states, different variations.

What are we doing when we are using calculator to add things and using computer to compare things?

We are pouring some mathematical and logical thoughts to computer chips that gets hardwired and automates itself for further operations; it’s repeating human thoughts in a wide scale.

Well, what are thoughts other than the waves on Atman – instant materialization of pure consciousness.

And what is body, the gradual materialization of human consciousness. Which one is subtle, which one is gross? Body is gross.

Well, in the deepest sense, everything that exists on this existence is somewhat conscious. Its’ just that they have varying degree or intensity of consciousness – consciousness with inertia of grossness is matter. Matter imbued with subtlety and sentience undergoes evolution. They are the true two sides of the same coin or two ends of the same serpent.

One another perspective is, Matter have become introverted to the point that they look lifeless from outside. A stone shows its most closed side to us.

Consciousness is an opening. We talked about stone and silicon chips which somehow animated human intellect as computers and AI. Water is a little more open towards the whole, so is fire. A flower opens in one direction, an animal opens in many. Even the most primitive singular cellular organisms are somewhat conscious.

But in man’s realm, we have a little different distinction. Firstly, human body is the most matter-like aspect of the human system. It involves blood and chemicals which are fluid, breathe and gases, spaces inside the body which we could call sky.

Also, where human body exists from outside is on the sky, the space. Energy is involved that connects the inner with the outer. And of-course a mind which behaves quite anomalously. Mind behaves as if it is a matter and sometimes if it were consciousness, something nonmaterial.

The reality is mind can exist in all three states, matter as the physical brain, pure consciousness as something absolutely non-matter and mind itself, which is a in between state of the two.

So, everything is conscious in one way or the other. The matter body is conscious because it is made up of the same consciousness entering inside various fundamental elements making it a compound, a complex. Breathe is Brahman entering the air. Blood is Brahman entering the fluid. Space is Brahman entering the sky. And human mind, those neurones are absolutely ready to receive pure consciousness. Human mind is the most conscious matter that could be found in the whole existence. Brahman entered everything but couldn’t succeed in animating them to an extend it did on human brain.

Human brain being a compound made up of matter itself can welcome the pure Brahman. So, Samadhi, where mind and Brahman become one is like matter-Brahman meeting the pure Brahman. That is, the most conscious matter meeting pure consciousness. So, if scientists are too inquisitive to understand God’s particle they must research on the particles that comprises the human mind. It’s the most subtle, most conscious particle available on existence right now. Mind is a living junction between Consciousness and Matter

Take this analogy, A diamond is a matter. Cut it in a specific shape it can receive light and through total internal reflection, it behaves as if, it is illuminating light. Mind is a diamond that can receive pure consciousness and reflect itself giving us the illusion that mind is the ultimate source of consciousness. Ancient people were right when they said, mind is the moon reflected on the pond, not the real moon. And when modern people try to make a artificial intelligence – the artificial human mind. They are just trying to create another Brahman, where a new world of intelligent technology can be knitted upon.

Yet sadly, Scientific minds pretend not to believe in anything more than the mind. They have theories for light to tell it was just a total internal reflection, but they don’t have theories of consciousness. Consciousness is way subtler than light. Plus, they don’t want to believe the ones who experimented on human body and consciousness for generations made more phenomenal sense than themselves who want to find the nature of things by an objective study. It can be called as an evolutionary shyness.

However, the reality is, that very way human body is there, there is mind. The existence we see is just the body, it has its own mind and the potentiality of its pure consciousness too. Pure consciousness is Brahman.

Thus, there is a parallelism. Human body, human mind, and Atman parallel to manifested universe, collective consciousness/unconsciousness, its mind, and Brahman. When Atman realises Brahman, that’s samadhi, that’s awakening.

The calculator consciousness can be ignored, its feeble, the computers consciousness can be ignored too, its linear and feeble again. But the consciousness human body holds, the consciousness human mind holds are important. Mind has consciousness that is tangled with its neurones. The human brain is an anomalous, meeting point state.

Atman is the detangled state of mind’s consciousness, the wholesome one.

And Brahma, the pure consciousness. From where everything else borrow a little consciousness is the Atman of the existence.

Consciousness has two intrinsic properties.

a. Existence, it exists.

b. Opening, knowing, knowing anything it gets attached to.

I must bring forth and validate the scriptures that have been saying consciousness is “Sat, Chitt”. They mean, Truth and Sentience. This Universe is Brahman – the absolute truth, knowing everything else.

5. What lies here and now?

The term “here-now” is a sutra rather than a mystical phrase. It, in its deepest implies Brahman – the real ghost, gazing through the disguise of this presence at this instance in space.

Even People who cannot believe the presence of God or any other underlying conscious entity can at least and have to believe in the presence itself, the presence of something including us.

It’s for that reason people have always suspected there must be some all-encompassing reality beyond or beneath this. Once in a rare while when someone discovered for himself, It’s the heart and engine of that presence he preached as divine for ages.

Those who have known, have known for themselves only. This group of people also have their own problem, that they cannot accept the unacceptance of that fact that has been realized and repeatedly validated by the realizers long before and long after them. On the other hand, scientists, who try to validate everything in terms of matter can never validate it because the foundation for matter, consciousness, cannot be validated in terms of matter. The concept of object validating the validator is strange to their science.

Can the presence of software be validated by the presence of a hardware chip? Isn’t software an old concept imagined long before they were tried to be implemented on hardware chips. Isn’t software a conscious pool poured from a bigger pool of human mind?

I personally have nothing to prove and just am trying to shade light on the deep holes. Though "Here" implies space, and "Now" implies time. "now" cannot be used in the same way as words like "yesterday" or "tomorrow." It’s a living hole, a living canvas where life is. "Now" is a window to life, to everything that exists and can be sensed with a body, and with a soul with or/and without a body. It also means, the human body is perpetually rooted in the present moment; its always here and now; it cannot be otherwise.

Anything in the present is the only life we have that we can live. When someone in your family dies, he dies at that very moment. Neither his past, nor his future keeps him alive.

Similarly, when "here" comes into the picture, all other instances of space cease to be. The term “here” is enough. “Nowhere” as a phenomenon is true. “Nowhere” as a concept as opposed to “then” and “there” is a mental construct. It’d be safe to say that Space is the soul of time.

So, to leave, mental construct in terms of time and space means to face your own soul. Without mind, there is nothing other than direct perception of the presence around you, by your senses, by your unguarded mental perception. It would also mean, you don’t even have a past and a future, your aging is on the void of space. Sadly, enough even to understand this straight and blunt reality, you have to experience the experience of removal of yourself from space and time at least for a split second; most people won’t do that in a lifetime.

It’s for that reason Sadhguru’s have been saying for ages that being in the present is a form of meditation. Being in now simply means being in the depth of space and not on its stretch over a temporal domain, living on the naked space phenomenologically and not on a mental construct of space over a stretch of memories and imaginations. Who does that? Perhaps the lowest evolved plants and animals without memories.

Who really does that? Meditators in the exact few states of Samadhi.

Thus, when a Buddha states, there is no time, he isn’t against the presence of time in “everyday life,” he knows time is utilitarian and one of the greatest human inventions; he is just vocalizing a naked truth that reverberates on a magnanimously large universe.

So, what really lies here?

You, as your nothingness-self. Nothing lies in absolute samadhi. In relative samadhi however, you as a Brahman – the cosmic witness lies. Is it matter, is it consciousness, is it something dreamy? It’s a hole, just emptiness, a 3d emptiness. Yet a bit delusional, in a typical human system, you know what lies here and now.

6. What is life? Is there a bigger life?

Life is a window of space and time for the soul to open to this material realm. Two things are involved: spirit and matter. The soul cannot open to this realm without a body. So, it first finds something that could understand it a little. The mind comes into play. But when it enters the mind, it exhibits slightly different characteristics. And when it enters the body, it displays yet different characteristics. You are the spirit, but you become so entwined with the mind and the body, indirectly connecting with numerous things outside the body, that you get confused.

In the same way that life has entered your being, the spirit has entered everything else in the universe. It's just that not everything in existence is as receptive as the human mind or the human body. Nonetheless, they are lives too, just not as instant. This is how the human body has a different kind of spirit as well. It's the interplay of spirits through various material and non-material things.

When the spirit enters everything, it's akin to light trying to permeate everywhere and water seeking to penetrate everything possible. This is how existence unfolds. There is layer upon layer of life on which the pedestal of human life stands. It's a vibrantly living universe. We are not strangers but, in a way, siblings. Anything that can become one with the spirit is called awakened. The world is essentially Brahman in disguise.

7. What makes us human? So, What makes us Human?

Imagine cutting off parts from a man's body. Remove both his legs, and unless we can control the blood loss, he won't die. Take away both his hands, and he still won't die. Make him blind, deaf, and mute, and he will remain alive. Shave his head, chop off his ears and nose, and he will survive.

So fundamentally, a basic body encompasses the area from head to tail. In the animal kingdom, the body starts at the head and ends at the tail; limbs are simply for movement. Thus, the human body is at least comprised of a mind and the major parts in his torso. The mind is fed by the heart through various arteries and veins. And the body is fed by the mind in terms of electrical and chemical signals.

When we strip man off his limbs and organs, he becomes incomplete already, at least in the aesthetic sense. But he won't die yet. However, if we cut off a heart or a mind from a body, the body completely dies. A brain-dead body lives to an extent though. A brainless body seems to live because the human body has its own consciousness too. The human body is a memory of evolution. It’s a whole archetype. And it has memories. Memories are consciousness consolidated on a living body, like memories recorded on a hard drive.

So, it seems the body doesn't die. But pure consciousness, what makes us alive, is continuously sprouting upon the mind. Though when it manifests on the mind, it doesn’t act like pure consciousness. It doesn’t act like Atman in a busy mind. Thus fundamentally, we are conscious because when we lose consciousness, we subjectively do not exist at all. But to be a whole human, whatever we are given at birth, everything is required. The soul, mind, body combination makes us human. The analogy of a perfectly cut diamond can fit here. A diamond that can hold light. Break the diamond and try to find the light, there is none. The human system is the trapping of consciousness at various levels through various layers.

Outwardly, in the ecosystem, we stand as a bridge between the animal and the divine—too conscious to be called mere animals, yet not enlightened enough to be deemed divine.

We have other animals, plants, insects and microscopic beings before use. We are aware we are somehow similar to the rest and somehow different. Unlike them, we are always pulled by the sky, by the unknown.

It is also what makes us restless, full of conflict, so often at the crossroads of selfishness and generosity, of love and hate, frailty and strength, hope and despair.
The Journey of Being Human looks into how we might embrace and accept these apparent contradictions, rather than trying to choose between them, as the key to transforming each twist and turn of life’s journey into a new discovery of who we are meant to be.

8. Do we have free will?

Yes but no!

God has free will, we can be one with it, but personally, not quite really.

The human body is made up of a compromise between several realms of this existence. Earth and sky are the basic ones. The body represents the earth and the sky's consciousness. Consciousness is in fact the sky of the sky. The breath of the breath. The heartbeat of the heartbeat.

The human body is hollow. A fully solid being doesn’t exist at all. For something to live, there must be space inside it, such is the human body. Have you ever noticed when you sow a seed on soil, you first create a little space, a little air inside it? Have you ever noticed you create a space inside earth, collect water there and call it a well. Have you ever noticed, the ocean is a space filled with water, a sky filled with water. Similarly, the sky is consciousness filled with air. The inner knitting of everything is consciousness. It’s intangible, yes! Even its first body, its immediate manifestation, the air, the sky, is intangible what to talk of itself.

Land works within its own set of rules. Sky has its own laws. Unmanifested consciousness still works differently. For an arithmetic to be done, there should be a computer, a calculator or at least a human brain. Consciousness needs something to manifest that very way sky needs land to manifest already.

Consciousness manifests in the human brain. And the human body has its own opening to consciousness as well. Thus, consciousness manifested in the human mind rules the body. That consciousness is you, that consciousness is me. And desires creep in when consciousness is conscious of something other than itself. If you can somehow exist as consciousness, without even the body, of course with desires. That is only consciousness and will, not even air or something, only then could there be a free will. But since it doesn’t manifest on its own and consciousness is just a canvas. A canvas for wills, desires, and thoughts. A canvas for something that can receive and accept consciousness like a human mind, a human body. There could be freedom, freedom from will too, freer than free will, ultimate freedom, Atman. But probably not free will.

9. What is the whole point of Scriptures?

Let me first clarify that not all scriptures are worth calling scriptures. Even before any dictionary meaning, Scriptures are supposed to be the collection of relative words given by absolute reality. They thus gain the dictionary meaning - the sacred writings of a religion. In cultures that have delved deep into these concepts, “dharma” is the word used instead of religion. “Dharma” means the nature of the absolute reality.

A Buddha is the absolute contained within the relative human system. Even when they say Jesus is the son of God they are simply saying, that he is the earthly or the relative form of the unearthly and the absolute existence – let’s not use Brahman here just out of difference in cultural understanding. God being the absolute reality in Christianity, Jesus is God's Son. Allah being the absolute reality in Islam, and Mohammad is Allah’s Messenger. Muslims considering Quaran to be the absolute word of Allah is a vouchable concept.

The common understanding is every religion has an absolute and a relative quintessence.

When the absolute finds a way to express himself in terms of something expressible, it becomes the words of the absolute, of the Brahman, there is no denying it. Even when a Gautama Buddha speaks about his absolute, nothingness, he is making use of his human system, gestures, and languages and relating the essence of that absolute nothingness with the wisdom and analogies he gained in the relative world. If we make a Venn diagram for fun, more than half of what he expresses falls within the relative realm.

So, on being pragmatic, Scriptures are the sacred teachings given by enlightened ones or Buddhas. And them being the absolute truth is as much dictated by relativity as much as what a Gautam Buddhas Venn diagram falls within the relative.

The foundation of that knowledge is always on the absolute, the words and sentences and analogies always come from time and space and thus can be biased right and left. This variation arises from the divergent ways in which two cultures interpret identical concepts, the narratives and allegories they employ, and, to some extent, the preferred teaching methods of those in the immediate social milieu.

Only someone who has an eagle view of both the absolute and the relative can simplify mystical terms for other ordinary humans.

Given that Buddhas are wise enough to be as absolute as possible in their teaching. Also considering that a Buddha uses his all sort of language, logical and scientific skills to deliver his point. Not to mention, he is being asked the same question by all sort of audience and he wants to keep answers interesting every time let me say a Scripture by a full-fledged Buddha is 70% absolute and 30% relative – just for fun. The percentage goes down if the collections are big and wide.

The essence of what Buddha intended to convey as part of his enlightenment is often overshadowed by extraneous knowledge, constituting approximately 30%. Charlatans capitalize on this 30%, supplementing it with an additional 10% of abstract concepts from the absolute, creating spurious religious literature.

The whole point of scriptures is a Buddha, a son or a messenger of God, trying to give a part of his self-realization to some other audience of humanity. The scripture going onto detail of metaphysics, of mind and matter, of body and everyday life depending upon how developed the culture is in terms of both time and space. It’s like science, the truth is found out by some scientist, and some other energetic and experiential ones experiment on those to develop technological wonders. The foundational knowledge of Buddhas or scriptures are always further developed by the geniuses of the relative world. This is further developed and explained by pundits and priests with their limited experience of inner dimensions plus limited wisdom of the relative too. This is where the life in the scriptures dies.

Nothing new though, when Brahman is received and perpetuated by derivative pools of consciousness, it's in the same way they get perpetuated and thus form different milestones and saturations in human evolution; experimenters and those charlatans are natural part of the evolution.

Contrasting it with science, however, there is no guarantee that the experiments and experiences of mystics are backed up by scientific evidence.

It’s not because real spirituality is scared of more modern concepts and laboratory apparatuses; charlatan literature can be. The insights and wisdom gained by the wholesomeness of the mind, the soul, and the very subject even inside the scientist have no reason to be scared to be overthrown by the rules and regulations devised to measure different forms of matter, energy, and their laws; even Albert Einstein isn’t enough stupid to mess with the inner.

And talking on derivative matter, it’s about time scriptures should relax a bit and refrain itself leaving all those God particles to be defined and dissected by science. It won’t be wrong to conclude that Buddhas are always more authentic than sensory experiments when it comes to the absolute; science is most of the time more authentic when it comes to the relative or the material world. Scripture in the absolute sense is nothing but something that can be a guru when the guru is not available, a living gate to the divine, to Brahman. Even long after a mystic is gone, his words and sutras work for him just for the simple reason that their root is on Brahman despite the time and space.

In the relative sense, Scripture, although its first circle is based on the absolute truth, should be a bit more elaborated to address the biases of modern human minds as well. A mystic should update them with time and with better knowledge of the material world science has been leading. Even the mystical experiences of mystics are changing, other than the absolute experience of course, every other depends on evolution and the present state of the world. God in the modern educated world, leaves his words and sutras when he is not available.

10. How do I know if I’m on the right path?

If you are an adult and not meditating, you are on the wrong path. Children are fresh arrivals from Brahman, and it's their time to explore Samsara; they don't yet require meditation. An avatar can commence their journey even as a child; they are extraordinarily unique, and they won't heed your advice, so let them be.

Had life been a natural and harmonious journey where everyone relished it and engaged in growth, moving in sync with the overall flow would have been a spiritual experience on its own. This is because the original flow, from which life emanates, is rooted in Brahman. Although it may be heading toward Samsara, it possesses a divine essence.

This flow, lets imagine it as a serpent, over time, accumulates a significant number of impurities, necessitating periodic cleaning for life to be joyful. It's akin to mountaineers climbing a mountain and descending partway to rest overnight. In our journey from Brahman, the farther we progress, the more essential it becomes to retreat and spend time cleansing; that's the essence of meditation.

Just as you squeeze a toothpaste tube from the bottom because most toothpaste is located there; the human body should be activated from bottom to top. The lower body represents physicality, while the upper body represents the mental realm. To reiterate, what’s Brahman in Brahman, what’s consciousness in the head is energy in the body.

Therefore, it's essential to engage in physical exercise before meditation for optimal results. It's akin to priming the body physically and mentally before delving into instant consciousness.

Regular meditation aligns your life and paves the way for miracles to occur effortlessly. You become more relaxed, open-hearted, and compassionate. Letting go becomes second nature. Life's synchronicities start favoring you, and symbolism becomes a guiding force as you progress toward self-improvement.

Self-awareness reveals your true life's purpose, the path that truly resonates with you. A calling, pursuit, or hobby acts as a conduit to access your innermost self. Hobbies, interests, and, most importantly, passions are the external manifestations of your inner Brahman calling.

A person who finds joy in their journey without causing harm to others or themselves is on the right path. They become attuned to the beauty of life. You'll notice birds' songs in unexpected places – birds sing everywhere, but only a meditator truly hears them. You begin to encounter animals in your dreams – horses, elephants, and even smiling serpents. The path to Brahman may not be a direct one, but life becomes more harmonious overall. Your intelligence, courage, and patience, as well as all your virtues, begin to flourish. As your serpent relaxes, you might appear unconventional in the external world because your focus is on inner development. These transformations manifest in your body, making it feel lighter; in your mind, making it more serene; in your actions, attracting more luck; and in your soul, making you feel more soul than body.

Overall, coarseness diminishes while subtlety flourishes, making you more a being of consciousness and less a being of matter. Your life begins to acquire meaning and coherence, and that's when you know you're on the right path. At the ultimate level, ecstasy intensifies. If you are progressing toward ecstasy, divinity, or truth, you will unmistakably sense it. Do you recall falling in love? Well, meditation is even more profoundly authentic than love.

Meditation will provide its own set of confirmations that you are on the correct path. A brief reminder: the voyage back to the source is a journey marked by eccentricity. If your meditation practice is unorthodox, your path becomes unique to you, and you must guide yourself back to Brahman. This is both a personal and impersonal return to the ultimate source.

When you hold a kid in your arms, do you know when they doze off? yes, their head drops a bit. You know when your ego will drop.

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