The Tyranny of the Majority

http://joomla.esotericteaching.org/joomla/audio/your-perfect-body/49-the-tyra... the Western materialistic ontology, events are supposed to be objective: that is, all observers present witness the same thing. If only one person witnesses an event or phenomenon, this is considered subjective. Subjective events are ridiculed as imagination, dreams, or even hallucinations, if they cannot be confirmed by another observer.

But what if an event occurs that is subjective by nature. Is it real? For example, I can observe that I am conscious, but you cannot observe that I am conscious, except indirectly. For all you know, I may be a clever automaton and only you are conscious. Thus according to Western materialistic ontology, consciousness is ephemeral because it is intrinsically subjective.

In the Vedic transcendental ontology of consciousness, however, subjective events are considered as real, if not more real, than so-called objective events. Let us say, for example, that a certain person has a vision of God. Others present nearby do not notice anything unusual. Yet the person who has had the vision is deeply affected by it; it changes his whole life.

According to the Western materialistic ontology, the person with the vision has had an hallucination, or even a temporary episode of psychosis. But the Vedic ontology accepts the subjective experience as real. Depending upon the subsequent effects and symptoms displayed by the person, it may even be more real than material so-called reality.

What is so real about material reality anyway? When we wake up from sleep, we remember dreaming but we say, That was only a dream; it wasnt real. It seemed real while we were dreaming; so why do we say it isnt real after we awake? Because the dream is temporary; it does not persist across the boundary from sleeping consciousness to waking consciousness.

Similarly, this so-called waking life is also like a dream. What happened to the body we had when we were a child? Where did it go? It did not persist across the boundary of time. And this current body will also disappear in the current of time, to be replaced by another, older body. At the boundary of death, this body will disappear altogether; it will not persist into the after-death state. So this life is also like a dream.

However, the subjective existence of consciousness is eternal, at least as far as we are concerned. Can you remember a time when you were not conscious? Of course not. Therefore, as far as our subjective awareness is concerned—and there isnt any other kind of awareness, really—we have been conscious eternally.

The Vedic literature says there are four kinds or states of consciousness: deep sleep, dreaming, waking and transcendental consciousness. Although the spiritual living entity passes through these four states of consciousness in different experiences, consciousness and the living being himself itself always remain the same. Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself states in the Esoteric Teaching: The spirit soul is eternally the same despite his material condition of life. We have practical experience of this. When we are absorbed in deep sleep without dreaming, the material senses become inactive, and even the mind and false ego are merged into a dormant condition. But although the senses, mind and false ego are inactive, one remembers upon waking that he, the soul, was peacefully sleeping. [Srimad-Bhagavatam 11.3.39]

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[greenearthnazi20204u]

8 If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,”[a] you are doing right. 9 But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. 12 Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, 13 because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

[ConorRyan22]

@greenearthnazi20204u God says give up all types of religion and just surrender unto Him. Bhagavad-gītā 18.66 if you surrender your life will immediately become spiritual. Thing is we don't know how to surrender, that takes training. Enough of the rules and laws greenearth. Just Learn to Love God and you will be on the path back home.

[greenearthnazi20204u]

@ConorRyan22 ok i do understand i am off the point that you were making my friend . you know. i hope , you have to cut out all dogma and beliefs to get to the soul or the real person , i am trying to cutting out dogma and beliefs for him , he play a belief game. i have no religion or law just love and truth . all you say in your video , i do understand. thank you

[greenearthnazi20204u]

@roxfoot ONLY ENLIGHTENED CHOICES ,THAT HAS A BASE AND RULES . IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND ,UNTIL YOU HAVE ALL CHOICES AND UNDERSTAND THEM FULLY IT IS NOT FREE WILL IT JUST A GUESS AT BEST . THE BASE OF ENLIGHTENED CHOICES IS NECESSITY, LOVE , GOOD HUMOR AND TRUTH .VS EVERYTHING ELSA YOU MAY WANT TO BRING THIS UP TO GOD AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND IT BEFORE HAND . DO YOU KNOW WHAT SIN IS ?NOT NAMING ,THEM BUT WHAT MAKE THEM A SINS. THE BIBLE MISS AT LEAST 6 SINS WHY ? I DO KNOW ANSWERS

[roxfoot]

@greenearthnazi20204u if you think you are powering the world ,i really feel sorry for you ,GOD created this world and he gave his son ,as foretold by the jews ,that all who recognise by the laws of the old testament that they are never able to obtain a higher state by themselves and require the blood of CHRIST as payment for their sins ,as CHRIST said ,

John 14-6"Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me"

[greenearthnazi20204u]

@roxfoot GIVE ME 2 DAY I HAVE GOT TO GET BACK TO FREE ENERGY FEEDING AND POWERING THE WORLD VERY SOON HAVE A NICE DAY .

[roxfoot]

@greenearthnazi20204u "YES NOT THE TEACHING OF JESUS MOST OF NEW TESTAMENT "

so you are going to pick which bits you like then ,you are not going to help ,influence ,guide ,lie or decieve me with that kind of mentality ,without the Bible you would not know anything about CHRIST ,again your a hypocrit ,you believe in something unprovable ,but call my belief in the written word of GOD satanic ,you are so lost brother ,i will pray that you find your sense's ,goodbye GOD bless

[greenearthnazi20204u]

@roxfoot then assert the Bible is of the devil YES NOT THE TEACHING OF JESUS MOST OF NEW TESTAMENT NO OLD YES TESTAMENT BY COMBINING THE 66 BOOK IN ONE BOOK WORKS OF THE SATAN COMBINING 33 TRUTHS AND 33LIES IS IT STILL THE TRUTH [ HELL NO] YOU HAVE CONFUSION . DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND HALF TRUTH IS ?spiritual superiority NO I AM TRYING TO HELP YOU I DO NOT GIVE A DAMM ABOUT BEING RIGHT, I AM EQUAL TO YOU AND ALL PEOPLE I NEED NO WORSHIP OR PRAISE I AM DEAD TO THE WORLD EGO IS GONE

[roxfoot]

@greenearthnazi20204u ignoring jewish scripture in the old testament is like starting a book in the middle ,