Message #43390

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Swami Vidyadhishananda has said the karmic forces from this mini-era are so great no one can just sit on the sidelines. As much as we've tried, how often have we been swept up in Worldly news dampening our Spiritual Environment here at the Portal? We've had divine friends warn us, and we've disturbed their sense of peace and creativity as a consequence.

Can we apply forgiveness to ourselves and will our spiritual family be there when we realize we get carried away?

I think there's nothing wrong with discussing- this is a forum, we have come here to participate creatively with writing and expressing. Otherwise, we would just sit in silence.

Hazrat Inayat Khan speaks on this...

"There is One Path, the annihilation of the false ego in the real, which raises the mortal to immortality, in which resides all perfection."

The Ego prohibits us from seeing the array of life moving through the trees or hidden beneath the Sun. I believe there is more truth to this when I have, in a meditative state, seen orbs and auras moving in a way that denotes intelligible lifeforms not ordinarily perceptible to the human eye.

I believe the conundrum is when we forget we are both the form and formless. We are here, in 3D and it is entirely valid- yet we are connected to something greater. The suffering happens when we forget the totality of our true nature. This implies it's okay to be here, and it's okay to identify with these personalities and move through our Karma- and still we are more...