Many people are interested in ghosts & disembodied spirits. A true spiritual aspirant has no use for them and keeps himself aloof from such weird phenomena. But , human nature has an incurable curiosity and many people waste their precious time in ' spiritualism ' or 'spirit ism ' rather than turning to true spiritual life, by watching or searching it in moves & by so called literature,
If a man is possessed by a Ghost he is immediatly taken to a temple or an exorcist and freed from that nuiosance. But in America, I think, he becomes a ' medium ' and makes money out of it. Mediumistic phenomena may be true but it sheer waste of time to play with such things, As the Great Master of Swami Viekanand, says, " if you think of Ghosts and spooks, you will become and if you think of God, divine will be your life,"
In the life of Shri Ramkrishna the Great Master of swami Vivekanand we find that he had encountered spirits of all kinds, His teacher Totapuri , too , had an encounter with a sp0irit at Dakshineswar (Kolkota ) There was a Bhirava ( a demi-god who is a follower of siva ) at Kali temple. He was invisible to others. One day when Totapuri was meditating under the Panchwati , he saw a tall and dusky figure coming down from the branches of the tree. Totapuri was not at all perturbed. He told his mysterious visitor ; ' Very well, you and I are the same being ;you are one manofeatation and I am another, Come and sit down and meditate .' The Bhirva burst out laughing and disappeared.
Instead of wasting our time with 'spirits', we should go to the supreme spirit, Then alone can we transcend the sorrows of life. True spiritual experience comes directly from the supreme spirit.
As the Great Sufi mystic ,Al-Ghazali said :
During the solitary state , things were revealed to me which it is impossible either to describe or point out. The sight is illumined by a light which uncovers hidden things and objects which the intellect fails to reach. The transport which one attains by the method of the Suffis is like an immediate perception , as if one touched the object with one's hand .
The great Neoplatonic Plotinus said :
You ask , how can we know the infinite ? I answer ; not by reason . It is the office of reason to distinguish and define . The infinite cannot be ranked as its objects . You can only apprehend the infinite by a faculty superior to reason , by entering into a state in which you are in your finite self no longer , in which the devine essence is communicated to you .
If a man is possessed by a Ghost he is immediatly taken to a temple or an exorcist and freed from that nuiosance. But in America, I think, he becomes a ' medium ' and makes money out of it. Mediumistic phenomena may be true but it sheer waste of time to play with such things, As the Great Master of Swami Viekanand, says, " if you think of Ghosts and spooks, you will become and if you think of God, divine will be your life,"
In the life of Shri Ramkrishna the Great Master of swami Vivekanand we find that he had encountered spirits of all kinds, His teacher Totapuri , too , had an encounter with a sp0irit at Dakshineswar (Kolkota ) There was a Bhirava ( a demi-god who is a follower of siva ) at Kali temple. He was invisible to others. One day when Totapuri was meditating under the Panchwati , he saw a tall and dusky figure coming down from the branches of the tree. Totapuri was not at all perturbed. He told his mysterious visitor ; ' Very well, you and I are the same being ;you are one manofeatation and I am another, Come and sit down and meditate .' The Bhirva burst out laughing and disappeared.
Instead of wasting our time with 'spirits', we should go to the supreme spirit, Then alone can we transcend the sorrows of life. True spiritual experience comes directly from the supreme spirit.
As the Great Sufi mystic ,Al-Ghazali said :
During the solitary state , things were revealed to me which it is impossible either to describe or point out. The sight is illumined by a light which uncovers hidden things and objects which the intellect fails to reach. The transport which one attains by the method of the Suffis is like an immediate perception , as if one touched the object with one's hand .
The great Neoplatonic Plotinus said :
You ask , how can we know the infinite ? I answer ; not by reason . It is the office of reason to distinguish and define . The infinite cannot be ranked as its objects . You can only apprehend the infinite by a faculty superior to reason , by entering into a state in which you are in your finite self no longer , in which the devine essence is communicated to you .
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