I am writing this new book & am posting excerpts from it as I write.

Here I am using my Indian monk name – Ganesh Giri Paramhansa.

Introduction

Light. I seek the light of Truth. This is where external circumstances are changing, I do not want to continue in darkness. Who does? We all do, & do so deliberately with determination. Also with delusion & ignorance. Who am I? What am I? When those questions are addressed fully, then the edifice of Life & the universe comes crumbling down. Not all at once, because what is current is also Divine. It’s divine with a small D though. The dream is real while you are in it but then it is not real. It still happened. Life goes on even when enlightenment is the natural state. But it is an illusionary experience. The ego fights back. Doesn’t want to die. “Oh no – there will be nothing” “I am undone – I will die”. So the struggle is apparent & yet there is no struggle because what is Truth & Real is Cosmic Consciousness, which seems to have creation as its baggage. Its baggage because its suffering. Life & death with struggle in the middle. Still the ego says that: “I can be rich & famous & enjoy all that is on offer”. Sorry, no enjoyment ultimately. It just becomes addictions, obsessions, hatreds & losses. Mixed with a unhealthy serving of “poor me”. Time to move on then & find out why humans become monastically inclined, & how it just happens to be our very natural state, when al desires fade away.

I was born Raymond Pattison & became a holy man in India aged 18. I became Ganesh Giri with a title of – Paramahamsa . I lived in India for 10 years. Then I got bored of the emptiness & wanted to enjoy life’s attractions. So the fall back down to earth. To a life of living in the ego based mode of seeking fulfillment through experience via desire fulfillment. Not a waste, just part of the learning journey, as I was not ready for monastic life. I was full of desire, & of course delusion that the world was really, & not just the illusory Maya. Nor I am back to place where nothing gives me great pleasure as far a sense enjoyment is concerned. Where also the matters of friends & family do not hold me back from seeing the truth of all earthly attachment. This is a transition time & thus can be a muddles & confused, whilst straddling two identities. This is my writing for now.

You always were Divine, how would you not be whole? If you have experienced separation, you can return to your Divine Centre and actually know what the contrast feels like.

Separation and suffering is Maya. Illusory – whatever!

(Not real in the first place, or ever. It feels real, until you wake up, from illusion. The Dream!)

Do it while you are still alive. This is what your Inner Deity wants. (Be on your spiritual pathway even whilst being unhealthy human with obsessions, attachments & desire).

Heaven on earth. The here and now. Moksha, & Nirvana, this is what life should be about if you want sanity & serenity.is what I write about. Moksha or Nirvana is the state of full release from Samsara – the round of life & death

Realistic Realisation and Practical Enlightenment. It’s simple being who you really are. Being in your own consciousness as opposed to ego identity.

Be sane in this place: Life and the Universe. It is Maya & has no ultimate reality

In our human lives we maybe spiritual or religious and pray a lot a God or Higher Power. I tended to pray from an “I want” perspective. This made it harder for good changes to happen in my life.

I always tended to think that I could make it happen, or what I do created the changes.

What I know is that, it does not work this way!

It works better if I let go. It works better if I make the big surrender. Let go of being an ego based personality, even if it means giving up-called normality.

It is not about quantity it is about quality!

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