11.04.03

Entheogens

Posted in Kapilji's Skull Chatter at 2:36 am by Shri Kapilnath

Spiritual Yoga, or Divine Union is not an accomplishment, experience or pursuit which is confined to any particular land or time. It is something that anyone, who might imagine the potential, or be introduced to it in a serious way, may find worthwhile. It is the graded reunion of a limited individual ego or self, with the Cosmic Lord.

In the vocabulary or parlance of the INO, this Cosmic Lord or unified singularity was referred to or called Nath. Upon initiation into the Nath Order, an individual is given a “Nath” or “Devi” name which now casts and identifies them as a ray or emanation of the Cosmic Spirit or Lord.

Of course, one doesn’t have to take initiation for this to be the case. It is always the case for each and every human being. We are all manifestations of the Cosmic Spirit. In the case of the INO, it is the situation that we look at the aspect of the Yoga or reunion of the individual with the Cosmic Spirit as a primary goal.

How do we achieve this? Meditation, contemplation, relaxation. Chanting, mantras and puja. The company and influence of advanced souls. Mindful attention to our intentions in thought words and deeds. Correctly applied Think, which precipitates into values and understanding which can lead to a more harmonious life and progress.

All of the things mentioned above are positive, safe and wholesome. They can be embraced without fear, or only minimal fear of negative result.

What then of the “real” Tantrik path? The Sex, the Drugs, Mind Expansion, Do what you Willy, whoooo hu! etc… Well, what of it?

I believe we need to examine these things one at a time. The “drug” issue has come up. As stated, the INO is neutral on these things. The INO doesn’t encourage people to experiment with potentialy dangerous and illegal substances. It doesn’t discourage people outside the boundaries of common sense. It seeks to promote the THINK process so that intelligent decisions can be made which are fitting to each individual and their karmas and life situation. Such decisions are best rendered by the individuals concerned. They and they alone must reap the fruits of their actions.

I would be too coy to suggest that Tantrika was not riddled with various plants and powders. At the same time, let me inform that Shri Mahendranath often ridiculed Mr. A. Crowley for his heroin habit. He also lamented the “death” of the hippy or “freak scene” as he watched it go down in hashish smoke, or worse, in broken dreams. Hard to “stay high” on these things when the money runs out. At the same time, those that use these things may find, that they often lead to the same place. Going in circles is not an ideal way of life.

About the only potential here is the intentional use of “entheogens” inside a specific sacred context. This has been about the only relative and sane approach. It remains an open path and one not without considerable dangers on mental and physical levels.

Kapilnath

Shri Mahendranath on Religion

Posted in Gems from Mahendranath at 12:17 am by Adityanath

To make this document of value to a wider section of readers, it might be necessary to state and repeat things that are taken for granted in a brief survey of Adi-Nath tradition. One of these is the popular delusion, but more often a deliberate lie, that all religions are one and the same and all teach the same goal. If such were really so, it would be pointless for different religions to exist as separate religions if they all taught the same thing. In practice, nowhere in the world would we find people willing to be Christian one week, Muslims the next, Buddhists the next, and so on. All too often the sop of imagined unity and sameness is preached by the holy pickpockets and pious cut-purses. Religions may fall into many classifications, but unity is not one of them.

Most religions are established forms of brainwashing, and none are without their organizational systems to rob the rich and take from the poor. They tell you what you must believe and make you pay to maintain it. There has never been a poor religion in history, or any which folded up for lack of funds. Because a religion reaches the status of being a world religion, it does not imply that it has done so because its teachings are true, but rather that there are more idiots in the world than was at first anticipated. Some religions have spread on the cut-throat method: “join us or else…'’

Islam uses this pious technique, and history records how it spread and conquered the other religions wherever it invaded. Only one place in the world is a unique exception. India never became a Muslim nation, although it lived for years under Muslim oppression. Some religions, such as the Black Dharmas—Hebrew, Christian, and Islam—have lived and flourished in the atmosphere of blood and violence. They claim their teaching will take a man to heaven, so killing people might have been only to help them on their way. These Black Dharmas all assign an inferior place to women. They rely on the sacred word of scriptures from which none may deviate. Where they rule have always been the most miserable and impoverished places of the world.

Within the religions themselves are differences which cannot be reconciled with other religions, and even in the same religion, there are many conflicting different sects. None of them claim their God is the same as the God of others, and they differ much in their concepts of heaven and in numerous other aspects. All assert that unless you belong or worship or believe in just their own particular pattern, then salvation is impossible. For any individual to change from one of these religions to another has the same relative value as a jackal trying to change into a fox.

—Shri Gurudev Mahendranath, The Yoga Vidya of Immortality