Some of the characteristics that matter displays when life is present include metabolism, thermodynamically unstable composition, internal growth, a highly organized and sophisticated flow of matter, the potential for reproduction, active response to external stimulation, capability of self-induced movement, and complex molecular composition. These characteristics are displayed even by the tiniest microorganisms.
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If a loved one of an enlightened person leaves their body, the enlightened person will understand that the person he loved has departed. He will not see the corpse as the person, i.e., his beloved.
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On a practical level, it’s a lot easier to deny the existence of other selves than it is to deny your own—you have the direct, irrefutable experience of your own existence.
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Because self-awareness is a completely subjective experience, you cannot directly experience the reality of another self’s existence. Therefore, on a practical level, you cannot deny your own existence, but you find it easy to deny the existence of other selves.
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Friday, July 31, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Quotes | Clinical Death and Out-of-Body Experiences
An out-of-body experience may help a person who is immersed in bodily consciousness, who is very cynical, who is without faith in the teachings of past sages and scripture, or who is unable to understand his nonmaterial essence through various methods of analytical study and meditation. This direct experience may jolt him out of his bodily consciousness and thus out of his false identification with the body. This, in turn, can awaken in him a sincere longing for a deep, spiritual purpose in life.
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Almost everyone who has researched clinical death agrees that a significant number of individuals (about 35 percent, according to the Gallup poll) have had experiences while their bodies were clinically dead. This not only means that these people continued to exist after their bodies were dead, but also that they were aware of their existence.
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You cannot have experiences unless you exist, nor can you experience anything unless you are aware of your existence.
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Most people who have actually experienced leaving their bodies and existing outside their bodies no longer identify their bodies as themselves. They know that they can and will exist without the body. They no longer view death as the end of their existence.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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Almost everyone who has researched clinical death agrees that a significant number of individuals (about 35 percent, according to the Gallup poll) have had experiences while their bodies were clinically dead. This not only means that these people continued to exist after their bodies were dead, but also that they were aware of their existence.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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You cannot have experiences unless you exist, nor can you experience anything unless you are aware of your existence.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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Most people who have actually experienced leaving their bodies and existing outside their bodies no longer identify their bodies as themselves. They know that they can and will exist without the body. They no longer view death as the end of their existence.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
Monday, July 20, 2009
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Quotes | FALSE PRIDE
Proud people lack tolerance for people whom they consider lower.
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The false ego uses criticism of others to build itself up. It revolts when criticized. It blooms when flattered.
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One who is falsely trying to make himself the highest by keeping his false ego intact has no spiritual life.
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A fake guru wants his followers to believe that he is God Himself—that's why he tries to impress them with his mystic powers. If the disciple of a phony guru were to express doubts about his guru's lordship, the guru would surely be angered. So how did Brahma react when Narada asked the questions, “Under whose protection are you standing? And under whom are you working? What is your real position?” And how did he react when Narada asked, “Yet we are moved to wonder about the existence of someone more powerful than you when we think of your great austerities in perfect discipline”? In response, Brahmaji was not angry. In fact, he was extremely pleased.
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Narada is a perfect example of a bona fide disciple. Even though his guru, Lord Brahma, was immensely powerful, still Narada did not blindly accept him as the Supreme Lord Himself.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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The false ego uses criticism of others to build itself up. It revolts when criticized. It blooms when flattered.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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One who is falsely trying to make himself the highest by keeping his false ego intact has no spiritual life.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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A fake guru wants his followers to believe that he is God Himself—that's why he tries to impress them with his mystic powers. If the disciple of a phony guru were to express doubts about his guru's lordship, the guru would surely be angered. So how did Brahma react when Narada asked the questions, “Under whose protection are you standing? And under whom are you working? What is your real position?” And how did he react when Narada asked, “Yet we are moved to wonder about the existence of someone more powerful than you when we think of your great austerities in perfect discipline”? In response, Brahmaji was not angry. In fact, he was extremely pleased.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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Narada is a perfect example of a bona fide disciple. Even though his guru, Lord Brahma, was immensely powerful, still Narada did not blindly accept him as the Supreme Lord Himself.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Quotes | KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM
Material information gets old. Spiritual knowledge is ever fresh. The more you sincerely hear transcendental knowledge, the deeper your realizations become.
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For a person who cultivates wisdom or true knowledge, the results are inner peace, satisfaction, patience, respect for others, freedom from duplicity, compassion, joyfulness, remembrance of his spiritual identity, freedom from the fear of death, freedom from anxiety and depression, and so on.
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The second mantra of the yogic scripture Sri Ishopanishad refers to karma yoga, or devotional service:
A person may desire to live for hundreds of years if he works according to this truth because that sort of work will not bind him to the law of karma. And there is no alternative to this way for man.
~Sri Ishopanishad, Mantra Two
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However, neither the Sri Ishopanishad nor any other Vedic literature recommends that we neglect bodily needs. Bhagavad-gita states:
There is no possibility of one's becoming a yogi, O Arjuna, if one eats too much, or eats too little, sleeps too much or does not sleep enough.
~Bhagavad-gita 6:16
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The search for perfect wisdom and the attempt to live by such wisdom is an ongoing eternal challenge – and it is real. Only the most courageous people will accept this challenge. The ignorant, the fearful, and the lazy will remain as they are.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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For a person who cultivates wisdom or true knowledge, the results are inner peace, satisfaction, patience, respect for others, freedom from duplicity, compassion, joyfulness, remembrance of his spiritual identity, freedom from the fear of death, freedom from anxiety and depression, and so on.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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The second mantra of the yogic scripture Sri Ishopanishad refers to karma yoga, or devotional service:
A person may desire to live for hundreds of years if he works according to this truth because that sort of work will not bind him to the law of karma. And there is no alternative to this way for man.
~Sri Ishopanishad, Mantra Two
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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However, neither the Sri Ishopanishad nor any other Vedic literature recommends that we neglect bodily needs. Bhagavad-gita states:
There is no possibility of one's becoming a yogi, O Arjuna, if one eats too much, or eats too little, sleeps too much or does not sleep enough.
~Bhagavad-gita 6:16
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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The search for perfect wisdom and the attempt to live by such wisdom is an ongoing eternal challenge – and it is real. Only the most courageous people will accept this challenge. The ignorant, the fearful, and the lazy will remain as they are.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
Friday, July 10, 2009
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Quotes | Beauty/Crime
It is unfortunate that people are attracted to the beauty of this world that is not real – it shrivels and dies.
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The most ironic thing about a life of crime is that it is based on a lie—the lie of materialism. The reason kids in poor neighborhoods idolize the local hoods is because they think that such hoods are happy. They see that by material standards the crooks are “successful”—they’ve got nice clothes, jewelry, flashy cars, the respect of others, pretty girls, lots of cash, and so on. But if such kids knew that material wealth and false lordship were not synonymous with happiness, then they wouldn’t see crooks as successful. So it is this big lie—the materialistic concept of success—that causes many youngsters to follow in the footsteps of hoods.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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Children obviously would not be so eager to emulate these hoods if they knew that crooks are not really happy. So whether you are an educator; a producer of movies, television shows, or popular music; or just a plain old mother, father, elder brother, elder sister, aunt, uncle, etc., you will really help the children if you try to teach them that material wealth and power are not synonymous with success.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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When beauty is reflected through things in this world, it is but a reminder that there is real beauty of a lasting nature.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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The most ironic thing about a life of crime is that it is based on a lie—the lie of materialism. The reason kids in poor neighborhoods idolize the local hoods is because they think that such hoods are happy. They see that by material standards the crooks are “successful”—they’ve got nice clothes, jewelry, flashy cars, the respect of others, pretty girls, lots of cash, and so on. But if such kids knew that material wealth and false lordship were not synonymous with happiness, then they wouldn’t see crooks as successful. So it is this big lie—the materialistic concept of success—that causes many youngsters to follow in the footsteps of hoods.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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Children obviously would not be so eager to emulate these hoods if they knew that crooks are not really happy. So whether you are an educator; a producer of movies, television shows, or popular music; or just a plain old mother, father, elder brother, elder sister, aunt, uncle, etc., you will really help the children if you try to teach them that material wealth and power are not synonymous with success.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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When beauty is reflected through things in this world, it is but a reminder that there is real beauty of a lasting nature.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Quotes | REALITY OF LIFE
Perfection means being in tune with reality. The first thing we must understand is reality – the reality of my identity ie my essence, position and function. Who am I?
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I exist … I will always exist
I am the eternal spark of life
Only temporarily in this mortal frame
The body will die
But I will never die
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If you erroneously identify yourself with your body, you will conclude that your existence will end with the destruction of your body. But if you know that you are the eternal self within the body, you know that your existence will not end when your body dies.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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Your body has a beginning and an end; your body is subject to birth and death; but you, the spark of life within the body, are eternal.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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You have no beginning, nor will you have an end. The material body will cease existing, but you will never cease existing.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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I exist … I will always exist
I am the eternal spark of life
Only temporarily in this mortal frame
The body will die
But I will never die
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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If you erroneously identify yourself with your body, you will conclude that your existence will end with the destruction of your body. But if you know that you are the eternal self within the body, you know that your existence will not end when your body dies.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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Your body has a beginning and an end; your body is subject to birth and death; but you, the spark of life within the body, are eternal.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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You have no beginning, nor will you have an end. The material body will cease existing, but you will never cease existing.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation
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