THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE SOUL #3

MORE ABOUT THE SENSES

The senses are there for us to enjoy - but responsibly.

The soul’s essence should lodge comfortably in the body.

 

From the sound of my sighing,

 has my essence (soul) cleaved onto my flesh (body).

 

The “sound of sighing" is when we achieve equanimity and we feel at one with both our Self (Soul) and our body. This is why the Ancestors stress the power of sensory, active meditations.

 

The soul yearns to do the Creator’s will and clings to the body when all is well.
A body caught up in cravings and attached to sentient pleasures distances the soul.
The soul withdraws causing illness.
The body’s attachment needs to be broken so the soul (essence,) can return to the body. 

High vibrational sound is a powerful way to bring the soul back into the body.

 

Soul sickness or even loss occurs when the soul, which is pure, separates from the body due to one reveling irresponsibly in sensual pleasures (sex, drugs and rock and roll ...) This can also occur from guilt, shame and humiliation as a result of severe abuse early or late in life. Other factors include severe grief from loss of health, work or a loved one, a lack of meaning in one's human existence, isolation, addiction, burnout, illness, trauma, as well as spiritual diseases such as intrusive spirits, energetic pollution and sorcery.

The soul - made in the image of the Divine - is pure and whole. When faced with these toxic challenges the soul may separate from the body. Soul sickness or worse, soul loss is sickness in a body deprived of its soul's purpose. 

 

“The soul by reason of lust, had become an accomplice in her own captivity.” Plato

 

Plato is mistaken according to the Ancestors. The ego, monkey mind and the shadow can alienate the Soul. The soul is not an accomplice, She is pure and does not lust, She just checks out.

The soul is unified – it does not become split itself - but can split or detach from the body.  

Some spiritual thinkers describe the soul as being broken (or even split.) It is the Ego, Monkey Mind and the Evil Inclination or Shadow that are responsible for overwhelming Big or Spacious Mind and our inclination to do good, 

hence subordinating - resulting in Soul Sickness

or more rarely totally discarding the Higher Self or soul 

 - Soul Loss (e.g. Mexican cartels, radical Islam etc.)

“To know the real Self to be one’s own is the greatest attainment. To know wrongly the non-self, such as the ego to be the Self is no attainment at all. One therefore should renounce this perception of taking the non-self for the Self.”
     Sri Sankara Charya

THE HEART AND LOVE

An open, loving heart is the gateway to the soul. Of all the chakras, the heart chakra, is the most challenging one to open.

 

“To awaken the heart is to awaken the dormant soul.” M. Gandhi

 

When the heart is muffled the soul shrinks.

 

Guarded heart or gracious heart? Protective self (ego) or expansive Self? Dutifully committed or passionately empty?

 

The soul’s language is learned by listening with the heart. It has many sounds including that of silence. Its eloquence is universal.

 

The rational mind often gets in the way of what the heart must embrace in order to coax the soul to open.

 

Our soul is made for joy and the more we truly love the more we will experience it and become its very essence.

 

Among all who possess great wisdom only those, act wisely who act from love. If study and prayer do not serve justice and compassion they are but a conceit and a hollow sound.

 

You will come from doubt to belief,

from belief to understanding,

from understanding to knowing,

from knowing to feeling (being heart-felt)

This is the way.

 

If one studies the "fallen gurus," priests or others claiming spiritual purity and knowledge we can see that they usually had profound knowledge, understanding and wisdom of spiritual principles but little heart. Possibly they began with a heart that was pure but then became corrupted by power, position, persona, and greed. 

Many of these gurus abused their students financially, mentally, physically and sexually (their female devotees) using autocratic techniques and dogma as in; "I only can lead you to the truth!" They abandoned the heart chakra and lost  "feeling." This has dire karmic consequences for these spiritual perpetrators  - more will be expected from them when they reconcile on the other side of the veil between worlds.

The heart chakra is one of the most challenging of the chakras to open and an easy one to close. Once they became reattached to the third power chakra, ego and shadow, temptation and power made them lose the way. Many probably knew what they were doing but the enticements were overwhelming.

 

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men...” Sir John Dalberg-Acton

 

We are also now seeing this all around us. There are more autocratic governments in the world today than democratic ones. Power is compelling and alluring whether political, financial or even spiritual.

It is astonishing and tragic that more and more leaders in the world today are power hungry and abandon their sacred mission of service to their people. Some of the less diabolical ones, when they do a measure of good, delude their followers by saying the means justifies the end. This will never hold on "judgment day." Sadly, the world suffers in the interim, the innocent suffer and the powerful prosper.

 

Given full power, greed becomes an enslaver of the greedy - fear becomes first a bully, then a torturer and then a killer.

 

Osho Rajneesh  the fallen guru who took us residence in central Oregon did not fall short of even trying to murder his opponents outside the ashram.