Eternity

• Eternity Issues
• Visitor and Waker

Eternity Issues or Greater Solutions

• "Truth often hides in an ugly pool (Chinese)" Feel free to look through the things you like at first.
• Solid forewarnings fit for the love-life suits the after-life too.
• "Other countries, other customs (German)".
• The concept 'eternity' talks of man's incapacity to understand all is Here-and-Now.
• To use concepts one hardly understands, is one of the hallmarks of a snob, by the way.
• Savoury teachings could help in non-cramped conditions.

More could be added to the teachings, and you might come back later (This is not a profession of reincarnation.)

"Is It Really the Solution We Are Talking About?"

"Unqualified divine attainment. . . . If you work hard, you will get there." [Babaji to Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, ch 13]

Many ideas are embedded in paintings, also concepts of the love life.

It is not so much a matter of working hard, as of working well. Skilfully, that is, and with sustained efforts too. That suggests "not as much as we can, but optimally". A boat that at top speed shakes and gets strained so that it gets in dire need of repair quite soon. That could be the best that can happen under straining circumstances or emergencies, but the ideal is not to get shipwrecked by yoga.

Now a boat at optimal speed (suggested to be about 3/4 of top speed, give and take, can go on a long way and perhaps reach its destination, whatever that may be. Therefore, avoid straining yourself for prolonged periods unless you surely have to. Bodies and minds are not always possible to repair, you know.

Also try to ascertain "What is he working hard with? If working hard, is he not smarter than that?" There is a risk that the hard worker is exploited by formidable-looking others too, for example as their slave or serf. A hard worker should be favoured by improving his skills and getting equipment to ease his or her way far and wide. And the essence of good education in yoga-meditation, as in other fields of endeavour or self-help, is to be enabled to get more leisure through know-how and equipment and proper methods to master, and use the hard-won time for good, whatever that is.

The optimal reach here is to work appropriately, by the best methods you could find, and not overdoing it a lot. Getting cramped is a good sign of overdoing things. And if you don't gain Nirvana-Bliss today by contemplating in a good and fit way for yourself, maybe next day, or next month, or the next leap year - you never know. The best is to "fix your eyes" on fit use of methods while diving inwards (meditating), and disregard the rest, including guru-given notions of what to gain. For these doings conform to the methods and aims of sane yoga. And now you have been warned.

❖ Violent criticism is seldom tough enough: Take care of your own working capacity and know better than being worn out by too little rewarding, hard work. Strain is seldom good.

❖ If you do not defend yourself enough, one of your aims should be rigid favours. Learn to bulwark yourself and your house better. Remember that sane "Prevention is better than cure". It costs less and has better chances to work well. That's why it is called better.

Visitor and Waker

Man is a credulous animal and must believe something. In the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. [Sir Bertrand Russel in Science and Religion)

Many believe as they are told, without taking their hats off for those who learn to inspect appropriately. Do not believe all just because they seem to agree. Adjust favorably, rather. [Kalama Sutta]. Here is an excercise of fiction, which is related to Hindu myth, which is fiction too.

Disarming Nordic seers of old were not great fools in the Viking Age that slowly ended around 1066 AD.

These best of sages were made aware of the universal forces of creation, preservation, and dissolution inside their own hearts, and later personified them in definite forms as dwarfs among Norwegians:

The sages of old named them such as:

1. Boyish, the Creator or all there is around;
2. Sagacious the Preserver;
3. Handsome, the Destroyer.
4. Waker, simple and frugal in essence.

Such sameness-rooted powers as these four were created as projections of the unmanifested giant (you can read Spirit) to unfold as creation, while the essence beyond creation happens to remain largely hidden behind extraneous, deep minds (such consciousnesses).

A rather young-looking visitor appeared in front of the dwarfs Boyish, Sagacious, Handsome and Waker. The visitor was holding in his hand a single piece of straw about the size of a toothpick. Placing it in front of the dwarf Boyish, he asked, "Can you create a piece of straw like this?"

After terrible effort, Boyish realised he could not, and that shocked and surprised him.

The lad then turned to Sagacious and asked him to save the straw, for now it began to desintegrate in the sunshine of a steady gaze. Sagacious's efforts to hold it together were wholly fruitless.

Next the little stranger produced the piece of straw again and asked Handsome to destroy it. But try as the dwarf Handsome would to annihilate it, the little straw remained intact.

Now the boy turned to the fourth dwarf, simple, frugal Waker. "You know you know these things," the sunny boy said. "You know you know me. There is no reason to try to fool you."

The little boy turned again to the dwarf Boyish: "Did you ever create me? Every human being is matter-mind, but why is not one of man's arms longer than the other?" he asked.

The dwarf Boyish thought of it so intensely that the boy simply vanished. This led the three first dwarfs to the idea that everyone and everything must have existed idea-wise.

Then the waking one (Waker) among them said it:

"First someone had to create that huge, awesome and perhaps not first idea of having one really long arm. Yet none can tell why just some thoughts turn into wood and brick and others not, and so on. It could be best that way."

Literature  

Ap: Mieder, Wolfgang (main ed.), Stewart A. Kingsbury, and Kelsie E. Harder: A Dictionary of American Proverbs. (Paperback) New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Ay: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. 1st ed. New York: Philosophical Library, 1946. Online. [oaks.nvg.org/pv6bk12.html]



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