Descending grace!

Tara Goddess

We have discussed a lot of issues which may be still seem to be going round and round in circles!

I do not practice a wide range of spiritual path ways, even though I am multi faith and have had quite strong connections with a variety of religions and spiritual groups.

I am a follower of the Goddess and I practice kundalini yoga.

I repeat mantras which represent the centers of the body, and also represent certain Goddess forms, (which are not separate from the whole Shakti form).

I repeat mantras both to engage in the spiritual path. Also because of my own personal sense of desperation!

They give me something indescribable, but help me clearly to thrive despite a history of monastic reclusiveness, chronic depression, and a somewhat obsessive and addictive type personality.

The bottom line is that I need both my prayer to my Goddess and repetition of mantras for my own sanity.

The Goddess takes various forms but it is the same Divinity that is also the Cosmic Consciousness. There is no real separation.

Chakras enable the Goddess Shakti, (power), to flow up and down as the Kundalini through each center from the crown of the head to the base of the spine. I have written considerably about this area in my other books.

My inner spirit guide was, I think, a reflection of me in my monastic type personality. It seemed to sit on my shoulder in a position and presence such that I have some form of “conversation”, as and when needed. It seemed a both male & female energy, as a “reflection” of myself, and didn’t intervene so much. More being the voice of wise counsel. This is an energy seemingly separate in some way, and it was something I value strongly.

Whether it’s real or not, who knows?

For some reason this spirit energy took a bit of a “back seat” as a new energy came to me. This new female energy presented a before my brow area, as the Goddess energy.

I asked her name and it is Tam.

I did not understand until I researched this name.

As well as my described previous devotional practice, because of my engagement in Buddhist type meditation with a group, I am aware of Buddhist Goddesses including Tara, the mother Goddess of all the Buddha’s.

I did not previously know that her sound representation is Tam.

This sounded to me like a chakra seed mantra, as all the chakras have seed mantras associated with each center. Those seed mantras are ascending: Lam, Vam, Ram, Yam, Ham, Aum.

I don’t use a these mantras for my kundalini or chakra meditation, as I use other seed mantas as described in Om Divine Grace. (Relating to specific Goddess forms).

Tam although sounding like it another seed sound, is a Divine sound that emanates from the heart of the Goddess Tara.

This is not associated with a chakra center, although after a few days I find that Tara seed sound is Triim. This I experience as emanating from my heart area. (Slightly to the right and slightly outside the body, but attached)

Tara is another form of the Hindu Goddesses with which I am very familiar, but is much more popular in Tibetan Buddhism. So Tara is a Goddess form, which some Tibetan gurus say is to be visualized as standing level with the eyebrows, or the third eye.

The Tam sound is to be visualized emanating from to Goddess, who is seated on a Lotus, and takes a beautiful young girl form, colored green. (There are also White, Blue and Red Taras).

 I am inspired by this Shakti power, whatever form she takes, and hence continue to say, (as in the previous book), my writings are: Goddess inspired………..

Now I incorporate some of the seed mantras of Tara into my daily practice, but have not written about them in depth yet.

I put myself into the stream of the Divine Grace through my spiritual practices, but I try not to expect any specific outcomes. This is an outcome of a lifetime!

My practices over the years since 1966 are in fruition.

Hence I write! (Under Inspiration).

Goddess inspired.

It would be nice to live a life that is easy without pain and without fear. Maybe possible for some to some degree. If we read the news, look around us, and possibly look at our own lives, we will see that this is not the case for the vast majority of people for the vast majority of the time.

From a spiritual perspective: Life and Universe is a learning experience for every moment or every breath.

Fear is a natural part of life since caveman times, when the fight or flight response was essential for survival. Now fear seems like a substratum, the foundation of our daily lives, and something that’s happening all the time, including and up to, the fear of death. We do a lot of things both for our survival and because we are fearful about what might happen to us if we don’t do certain things.

The spiritual teachers or Guides tell us that we are Divine beings, and in our Divine consciousness we are naturally free from fear. This does not translate into reality and probably never will if we are honest! Alright, reality itself may be seen as an illusion without permanence, it’s a philosophy idea that for most of us, still does not translate into something spiritually meaningful or lived experience.

It will be helpful to be centered and focused within one’s heart with solidarity with the level where you find a light that shines and inspires. This is where fear does not exist, and this translates or rather transforms the negative or dark energy in our lives. It will not just go away! It needs to be transmuted as in an alchemical process, and this may not happen in a “flash of light”. (As in “I have seen the light”). Anything towards helping us to deal with fears, anxieties and depressions, will also help alleviate our core fear. However with significant clinical levels of depression/anxiety, medication may have benefits!

Cancer and other physical illnesses also will not just go away, just because we think we will, or may, take them out of existence. Again there are those who have been “miraculously” cured, and those who have received great medical benefits.

But it is fantasy thinking to start putting any kind of outcomes in place, as the guaranteed benefit of any spiritual practice, positive thinking, or therapeutic healing etc. This is all ego territory, and the earnest spiritual practitioner should stay focused on what the real outcome of practice is. (Hopefully better self-surrender, better service of others, and a natural “high” based on love towards all life).

So when we say, according to the Gnostic type philosophies, that I am the Cosmic Consciousness, or at least a Divine being, we are in psychological terms creating positivity and outlines or sketches for our individual souls to “feel into” the Cosmic Soul. (Who is free from all blemishes, including fear, disease and pain). That is if we don’t muddy the waters with our ego expectations.

The purpose or the agenda of the Truth is self-realization, not freedom from being human, or experiencing what it is to be human. Human experience still goes on even for the so-called realized person, because of the cumulative effects of past karma. This experience of remaining in the body and experiencing spiritual resonance with Truth while still having work, family, physical elements, fear and anxiety, is part and parcel of this thing called: Realistic Realization or Practical Enlightenment.

Accumulated affects and continuing friction from past actions are transmuted by the self-realized soul, who is unafraid, and doesn’t worry about anything, because of Being in Truth. (Also nothing is seen as “real” from a permanency perspective, including the body and mind).

To get to this position requires usually some additional activities on the spiritual journey, (other than a pure philosophical stance). This is the case to even just enhance the pace of the spiritual journey, or even to ensure the spiritual journey actually has some practical traction. This is where additional support from one’s personal Deity comes into play. Religion has benefits for some!

I my case it’s the Goddess who is available to smooth this process, and I dedicate this section to Tara the Tibetan Goddess.

This journey can be expedited in a very physical sense. That is to say ones anxieties and fears, can be addressed very front on, very much in the moment, by having oneness with the power and the Grace of the Goddess. (Through prayer and meditation).

Of course he or she may do it through the Christ, Krishna, Buddha, or other. Your choice!

The point is there is a need for a personal God to assist in the understanding of a Cosmic Divine energy which is beyond all thought and speech. Therefore it becomes necessary to be really practical, and except the Divine in whatever form or through whatever process that works to free oneself. There can be no space for judgement of anyone, for as you damn others, so that damnation returns to you.

Do unto others as you would do to yourself.

(So simple, but to really do this seems elusive).

We have first to get into a place of seeing, and feeling the essential unity of the universe, and have the tools to be able to do this sort of thing.  As simple human beings we may be lost in our addictions, depressions and anxieties. We may need a whole raft of support type activities around us. Along with our “highest point” philosophy and claim of Self Divinity we may even need some medication for whatever ails us!

From of a non-dual perspective the world is an idea, just a result of thought activity, just an illusion with transient nature. You make things how they are by how you think. The human desires then acts, then then achieves, (or fails). In Divinity one does not act and if any actions take place, it is only the qualities of nature moving. These qualities of nature (the Gunas), I have already written about. They range from the pure to the filthy, the dark and deprived, to the place of light and selflessness.

So the spiritual journey requires that we don’t give away our agenda of humanity, but we do give away the small individual soul. Especially the agenda that is based on darkness. An ego based darkness which is full of, not just fear and anxiety, but also hatred, self-serving and the historical mankind starting point for: “divide and conquer”. (Historically also: “loot, rape and pillage”)!

Although the qualities of nature remain in control of the universe, we retain our self-responsibility for self-determination and choice. A choice to be at the highest level of Being, is claimed by the highest level of practicing spiritually. Focused with rigor and honesty, meditating in that state in the form of the form of God “as you understand Him/Her”.

Without operating from one’s own perceived or actual state of depression, anxiety, fear etc., the spiritual journey becomes truly focused on the attainment of the highest. It’s not where you will worry about the mortgage, what the kids are doing, or whether your hair is falling out, (or losing its color). More importantly it’s not where you are going to be angry all the time, because things don’t work out the way they should.

You become able to accept what is happening with serenity, without losing your ability to change things, and this is where the fearlessness comes in, because you’re not frightened of outcomes or what people think of you.

You really get the prayer. (Purpose).

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change”.

Along with the wisdom to change the things you can.

So here is not just a fake wishy-washy think stance. This can be a powerful, possibly very assertive stance when needed, which is delivered without any internal anger, and is driven by courage.

“And the wisdom to know the difference”.

We are based in and around the Divine Reality and not in our illusion driven ignorance.