I have always had a problem glorifying God or any divine beings, for that matter.
A part of me cannot put anyone on a pedastal. Yes, I love them, honor them, respect them, can also worship them, but I cannot over glorify them.
Precisely why, I run from places and people where a cult gets formed.
Wherever there is a cult, there is no Self. Every one follows someone rather than one’s own sovereignty and Self.
I hate to put myself on a pedastal too.
When I talk about dieties or guides or gods or goddesses, I feel a ONENESS with them.
They can be my mother, father, brother, sister, guide and yet my pal, my buddy and yet a little girl (like my Kali) and a little boy.
I feel a resonant oneness with them. I don’t put them UP. I don’t put myself DOWN.
There is a presence which I acknowledge and honor.
My presence is not below it either.
There is a unity. There is oneness.
I have often questioned myself whether this is me denying the god/ creator.. whether it is my ego.
I have felt like this for years. Yes, I am a rebel. I question all stereotypical things.
I question my own thoughts and muse.
And yet, I am finding this radical courage to put it out in the open for the first time, I am not less than God.
I am not merely his / her / Divinity’s spark.
I AM THE DIVINE.
We often worship or glorify that which we think or feel we are not.
One of the reasons, many spiritual practices were given to us, like chanting 108 /1008 names of a particular diety, it was simply to glorify and embody THAT vibration within and Remember it and Re-member it.
In this journey of Becoming some thing, seeking something, how did we forget who we ARE??
Many spiritual teachings talk about, “Remember you ARE God”. How much do we really understand its meaning and true essence?
Jung said, people we admire are a part of our golden shadow. It means we have that part within us, but, we have hidden it, suppressed it or masked it.
Even if we think purely from a psychological perspective, if we glorify a particular person or a master or diety, doesn’t it also imply it is our golden shadow, waiting for us to own it, embody it and integrate it?
The more I deepen within my own journey of grief and loss, of death and re birth, all teachings, all truths point in one singular direction.
Unbecoming.ReclamationRemembering. Re-membering.
The disconnection from this sovereignty of who we truly ARE IS the root cause of so called contrast or evil, including illness.
Aham Brahmasmi. I AM. SHIVOHAM. True Self love.