If I wrote this in 6 months time, it may not be what it is today.
We can have remembrance without performing any ritual whatsoever. The spiritual training I/we have received is designed to be part of our every moment. Sitting down to meditate at all is ritual, something which the path is designed to do away with.
The direction has always been that we ARE it naturally and must learn to meditate on the wing. We can ignore all time/ritual demands or notions and catch little Yoga snacks throughout the day. I say this mainly as a balancing weight to the ritualistic anything which can develop individually or collectively. Routine can be helpful for some it has to be said, or all at some point or other. One second of true remembrance is worth one thousand Baba-Babas.
And if I may speak for Andrey who has been sending carrier pigeons, (
Hi Andrey. What are you doing hiding behind the curtains with a rifle? Peace man, watch those commies don't get you, or their capitalist puppet masters ...). He also says that Shiva is pure. And also that Shiva is the truth and not "I"/ "we". Oh yes, puppet masters, I trust Shiva, and Brahma. They can pull my strings if they wish.
REMEMBRANCE :
• While active
• Ritual-meditation
• Ritual- offering/ ceremonial (remember, offering food to God now could become offering children if it ever reaches its extreme and negative form.)
• Crisis- there are no atheists on a sinking ship
No matter how loving our parents in life, they cannot give the experience that the spiritual parent/ child relationship offers. If the abused become abusers, then it works the other way and souls who have tasted Supreme love can pass that on to their offspring, be they bodily children or spiritual offspring, without putting pressure on our offspring to be the same as us at the same time. Just because the spiritual teacher withdraws the help which brings us wonderful experiences does not mean that God has changed any, it may just mean that we are being asked to carry our own rucksack for a bit, among other things, to show us what we can do, and what we cannot in terms of experiencing.
If I take my most elevated experience. It is unlikely that I can experience this if I am not it. We are now being asked to be it. What is more, the puppet master is asking us to reverse roles and be the puppet master, or, to use the power of the source, when we can be trusted. Child (or is it SON?) shows Father. Do you have the bottle? Can you tap into the national grid without freaking out?
If you are not ready for such responsibility, it may be better to hold back until we understand more and not produce too much wind power just yet. Because God does not remember me, does not mean that I should not remember God. Shiva may be the type of soul that could be elbowed out of the game by unscrupulous dealers, who will meet with destiny at some point. Only remember Shiva. Brahma will take birth at some point and so is passing the sell by date. The aim is that we all become Brahmas. Like the Father.
The aim and object is to bring spirituality into the self and therefore the world. Into our lives and the lives of those we interact with without this need that they also need to see what we are seeing. It is not easy to keep it all to ourselves. Then there is the coaxing from Murlis. Some souls out in the world may feel like giving me a doing for not being more forceful when they find out the true gravity of what is transpiring around them. Actors getting lost in the parts, identifying with the parts. Good remembrance should pull us out of the role playing and into the real playing, which has its own role playing within it.
We can remember while living normal lives, we don' t all have to be institutionalised in our living, and of course there is the unspoken subject of bringing souls into this world. Sorry if that embarrasses you, I know how sinful it is, and how ashamed one should no doubt feel about having children. I can also understand that this has nothing to do with switching off sexually, and also in a "family" way in order to be with the spiritual parent. They are not stupid, they know about these things and have decided to sit it out. Fair enough. Why eat onions and garlic if you are celibate? Why entertain anything to do with pro creation if you are not at all interested?
Is there room For God if I also have children? To what degree has The Knowledge closed us off from areas of the self that we really need to be in total control of and not cast to the wilderness in hope? Parts of the personality which cannot be foisted off with the 'work your fingers to the bone' approach. I can develop spiritually without self abuse and denial. I can develop spiritually by considering "the centre" to be the centre of my forehead, or, in the centre of my head. You are the head.
Will I be judged if I remember God? NO, you may judge yourself though, something which is not part of the teachings, something which is against Gods wishes. Why do we fear and avoid that which is good for us? Is it because my head has been filled with dodgy crap from this world and I need to discriminate better as to what is and is not? Why am I giving myself such a hard time? Do I think that God does not know what is in my heart? The one who only ever see's my true natural pure and only self?
It is I who puts me down. I have only ever known God to try and lift me up. No one else has ever done this, ever.
Peace.