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3 paths to divinity
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in my copy to the bagavad ghita, (i probably spelled that wrong) there is a quotation that basically says there are 3 ways to god.

the first way is I AM. this is the realization that you ultimatly are god and then following the path of reclaiming/experiencing that godhead. becoming god in flesh.

the second way is Thou art. this is the realization that all is god and their is nothing that is not god. Thus you surrender yourself utterly to god and basically give up your ego and identity, thus experiencing the truth of god.

the third way is i am and thou art. this i guess is the idea that their is a god, and you are NOT him, and then devoting your life to serving and worshiping that god.

according to the author, any one of these three ways, if perfected, leads to the same divine destination.

just wanted to share that because i thought it was interesting and to me it makes some sense. personally i am leaning to the first and second paths, and away from the third, but as the author says, they can all
work.

i think of it like this: take a piece of paper and draw a large circle with a small circle inside of it. say that your ego/identity is the small circle, limitation, and the large circle is unlimited god (pretend the larger circle is unlimitedly large)

so the first way, I AM, would be to constantly expand the borders of your ego circle through self perfection and raising personal power, to the ultimate goal of making your little circle as big as the big circle and thus basically become the big circle, GOD.

the second way , thou art, is like erasing your little circle and thus all that is left is the big circle, god.

and the third way is like the little circle worshiping and pleasing the big circle until the big circle deems the little circle worthy of being accepted and absorbed into it.

i dunno if that made any sense to any body but hey, i try.

food for thought.

peace


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Re: 3 paths to divinity [Re: Moonshoe]
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wouldn't shrinking your circle to nothing also work?

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Re: 3 paths to divinity [Re: TameMe]
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I really like your circle analogy.

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Re: 3 paths to divinity [Re: Moonshoe]
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Haven't you jumped around and found that the third way leads to the second way which leads to the first way?

Quicker just to start at the first one you posted. However, there is no rush. Maybe it is a natural process to start from the one and then move into the next and then the next, like what yo said about erasing the circles. In other words, in my experience, it wasn't a matter of choosing from one. I started out with one, that moved into the next one, that moved into the next one all on its own.

I think I have more to share here. Hope to get back to it soon.

Tameme, from my understanding, the whole point of all of this is the self realization part. IT started at nothing. Through this experience, IT can make itself real and experience self realization.

That why some say, its not about the destination, but the journey.

I don't think there is any end to what the IT can realize about itself either. It's just a creative force that keeps creating and recreating the self and what it can make real from out of the self dreamed and imagined in the nothing state.

That's all we are doing here is realizing IT through our creations and ITs creations and the creations of other ITs in form and other ITs reflecting ourselves back at us.

One way to look at it anyway. That one seems to stick with me the most, though I entertain many thoughts and views on it.


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Ahuwale ka nane huna.

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Re: 3 paths to divinity [Re: gettinjiggywithit]
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well i agree with the first two, which seem to be one and the same for me, but the third way, "their is a god, and you are NOT him, and then devoting your life to serving and worshiping that god" seems to be in contradiction with the others.

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