Hippies

What is celebration? 

Celebration is an expression. Much like creativity is an expression of the inner being; celebration is an expression of gratitude. Gratitude for all that life has to offer, the good & the bad, the happy and the sad. Life, much like healing, is not linear. It ain’t a straight line. Life is an experience in waves. The higher I want to reach, the lower I must be willing to fall. Celebration is being grateful for the highs and the lows. Celebrating just the joys of life, is like trying to create the peaks without the valleys. Where there are peaks, there have to be valleys. Together they make a beautiful scenery. 

Celebration is an outward expression of the inner spirit. The spirit is a ‘being’, not a doing. So the spirit cannot celebrate. Only the ‘person’, the ‘I’, the ego can. But what is the ‘person’ celebrating? It is celebrating the spirit’s manifestation of life, in all its forms, with all its waves. I cannot describe the spirit. Can you? Many say the spirit is the vibe of a being but that ain’t true. The spirit is just another name for the soul. The soul is really existence expressing through the manifested being. So it is the vibe of existence, of being.

Existence is everywhere, within everything. In other words, existence is the soul, the spirit. The spirit which manifests not just in us as humans but also in animals and trees and the ocean and the skies. In everything really. When trees sway to the tunes of the winds, they are celebrating together. When the tides of the ocean rise with the pull of the moon, they are celebrating together. Spirit is manifested everywhere and it celebrates everything. The storms and the calms.  

What is Spirituality?

What is spirituality? 

Spirituality is an adventure into the inner world of the spirit, the soul. It is a way of life, a lifestyle, that allows to live authentically through the soul. Spirituality is really a study, a practice, to understand the purpose, the meaning of life; which is life itself. If celebration is an expression of the spirit, then spirituality holds immense meaning & importance in the life of a being. 

More than ever now, we see people on journeys of self-discovery. I’m not sure what exactly they’re looking to discover. There is nothing to discover. Whatever it is that we are looking for, is already there. Yet to find it, seek we must! We keep seeking for our ‘truth’, our authenticity outside. We are willing to walk miles; only to discover more new faces of ‘I’, our ego. The truth, the authenticity is not ‘out there’, but ‘in here’. We just need to remember and a step in the opposite direction does it. A step inward. Just a step and we’ve found it, our authenticity, our truth. 

Truth doesn’t deny outward reality. The outward reality is real but it’s a manifestation of the internal reality. Outside is only one side of the coin. The other side is inside. Spirituality is a journey of accepting and transcending dualities inside. But trust me when I tell ya, they want us stuck in the dualities outside. They’ll do anything to keep us focused on the outside. To be able to look inside, we must quieten the mind chatter, that clouds it. This is only possible with inner silence, with meditation. But they’ve created so many distractions to keep us from silence, the diamond in the Lotus. I tell you, ‘spirituality without meditation, without silence is no spirituality. Celebration without spirituality is no celebration’. So, celebration without meditation is no celebration at all. 

History of spirituality 

Spirituality essentially, is as old as the spirit itself but it came into more prominence as a religious practice from the advent of society. It’s original concept can be found in all organized religion. The idea of a god separate from & outside of the self. Initially, this God was feared. The original God was scary really. He was tough, non-compassionate, judgemental. ‘God fearing’ attitude is what organized religion instilled in people to control them. Unfortunately, religion still subconsciously conditions all humans to be fearful, even if we aren’t religious. 

Then came a revolution called Jesus. He said, ‘God is Love’. He made God soft, compassionate, forgiving, non-judgemental. It changed the whole dynamic between man and God. The very relationship began to undergo a transformation. The attitude began to change from ‘God fearing’ to ‘God Loving’. But this was too threatening for the ones who had controlled people for centuries, on the idea of fearing God. Unfortunately, Jesus was crucified and Christianity was born under the burden of a cross. The largest population of the world is buried under the cross. 

The world has always been controlled by 1% of the population that holds 95% of the world’s abundance, in all its forms. This leaves the remaining 99% of us, struggling in the dark, to sustain & survive. We are constantly in a fight with their own energies, living in an illusion of a happy future dependant on factors outside of ourselves. This is exactly how people are controlled like mindless animals. 

These 1% also control the narratives of all organized religion. Man doesn’t find solace in the world or in religion. So the 60s & 70s saw a significant growth in drug culture, giving birth to the Hippie culture. In many ways, It’s still prevalent, as communities expressed in communities, essentially as a search for freedom together. 

Freedom is always crucified

With more and more people, mostly in the west, searching for freedom in drugs & parties of togetherness, not only were the 1% now controlling the people but also supplying them with another illusion of freedom – drugs & a periphery vision of spirituality. Hippies,  still moved in groups and looked for peace, joy, love & freedom outside of the self. That is when the western world was introduced to the mystics and gurus of the east. Most of these mystics & gurus were enlightened beings, healing others to find true freedom from the controlled herd, and from societal conditionings through meditation.  

The east had always known them but the west now needed them. These mystics and gurus were making people fearless individuals, helping them find the real God. Not outside but inside of the self. They were helping these lost souls to find themselves. They were holding hands and taking them in the opposite direction, a step inward. Mystics revealed, for the first time to the western world, that freedom is in individuality and not in a herd. They were turning people’s pain into power. Amongst the most popular names of such mystics and gurus are, Srila Prabhupada, founder of the ISKCON movement & of course the most dangerous man since Jesus, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, founder of the Osho movement. 

These were the Jesus of the new age and became very threatening for the 1%, the Vatican, the structures of the world. Almost all spiritual mystics, gurus and leaders have ‘mysteriously left their bodies’. Actually they’ve all been murdered, sadly by their own disciples. These particular disciples, when looked at closely, will always be the infiltrators, not the meditators. ‘They’ don’t want you to be free so they let you have an illusion of it. Freedom is always crucified, be it in the form of Jesus, Srila Prabhupada or Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. 

Science of spirituality  

Spirituality is really the scientific & artistic study of the spirit in relation to the body. To me art and science are the duality of life. The design and the expression. Creativity in one word. But We are conscious to only one body, the physical body. Beyond the physical is the emotional body & beyond that the etheric body and so on, up to 7 layers. The etheric body holds our energy circles, which correspond to spots on the physical body. We call these, chakras. There is also a main energy centre of all chakras, which pulls in energy from everywhere and distributes it to the rest of the etheric body. Much like the heart pumping blood to the rest of the body. 

During the Golden ages, this energy centre was located in its rightful place, 2 inches below the navel. The Japanese call this spot, ‘Hara’. When the energy centre is at the Hara, we feel grounded, balanced & strong on the inside, which manifests outwardly as a grounded, balanced & solid life. The individual cannot be uprooted by anything outside of him. 

During the Middle Ages, this energy centre  moved upward to the heart chakra. Then even war was fought with love. It was all about love. When the energy centre is at the heart, we feel loving & compassionate on the inside, which manifests outwardly as a loving & compassionate life. A life of sharing. We are closest to our soul. Our true nature. 

Currently in the Dark ages, this energy centre has further moved upwards to the mind. This is the danger. The mind pulling energy from everywhere without us even having to do anything. When the energy centre is at the mind, our life is chaotic, confusing, just an illusion because mind is the illusions, the ego, the false. A borrowed idea. This is what the 1% wanted from the start. Feed the illusion, control man. 

Only meditation pushes the energy centre down to the Hara. Takes us from Mind to No-mind. Once we are there, it is forever bliss! 

Surrender ain’t stupid, the ego is

The ego cannot accept anything or anyone higher than itself. It holds the crown at the top and never wants to fall. What is the ego really? It is an identity, a personality, a false face, an illusion created by all of the conditioning we have been subject to since childhood. Parents, family, friends, communities, religion, governments, society etc etc. in simple words it is a borrowed idea of the self. This ‘idea’ of the self is so strong that even the slightest trigger to it, makes us defensive, ready to fight for it. For its survival.  We become conscious of everything around us but ourselves. we don’t watch ourselves.

We keep fighting our own energies, our true nature, our inner being; only to feed an ‘idea’. We keep suppressing our, wants, needs to feed the desires arising from conditioning. Naturally, we are in a major conflict with ourselves. Now that’s stupid, very stupid! Suppression is suicide. The ego is not loving, even to the self. It not pro self. It is only pro ego. The bigger the ego, the harder it is to surrender. The ego cannot even surrender to a higher consciousness who has broken through his own ego, let alone surrendering to God. 

Surrendering is the art of giving a part or all of ourselves to a higher force to show us the way for our highest good and the highest good of all, even if that’s against the ego. Surrender is not giving up. It is the secret behind manifestation, behind co-creating our life with the divine. But the ego sees surrender as giving up. The ego believes it knows best because it is the highest. Even if ego wants freedom, it must find it on its own. It must ‘achieve’. It cannot ask for help. The ego cannot ‘look’ helpless even if the being needs healing. 

The ego is only outward focused. It can only experience with the 5 senses. The sixth sense belongs to the soul, the spirit and therefore can only be accessed through spirituality. True spirituality, I must say. It is ‘Third eye’. So the ones who control, will give you a million different illusions of freedom, of spirituality, of success, of abundance; to keep your sixth sense asleep. They will feed your ego, the false but never the real, the true.

Better is not New 

The world is controlled and influenced by the west. Rather I should say America. And the American way is all about making everything better. Better roads, better homes, better systems, better health, better education, better opportunities; even the better man. The American way is not about the new. It cannot birth ‘The New man’. The new requires the death of the old. The better requires building on the old. And the old is built on a faulty foundation of conditionings. So the better is always ‘bettering’ the faulty. The new requires a demolition of the entire foundation but that will break the illusion no? So they must better the illusion to suit the evolving human consciousness. Communities certainly support in that way. Celebration is one side of the coin, silent meditation is the other. 

Let’s take this into the context of spirituality. The freedom seeking ones, wanting to ‘find’ themselves; over the years have created communities that move together & celebrate  together. Back in the day, they called themselves Hippies and now there are many names. A community of people that meet to celebrate ‘Love & light & life & music & all the good things that sound lovely’. It’s really just a party of Hippies, maybe without the Booze and/or the drugs. But it is celebration. Which is essential. 

They call them spiritual and the world let’s them be. Why? Because they are not a threat. True spirituality is always a threat. If they were spiritual, they’d be done. My commune in Nepal is under constant threats of shut down by the osho international foundation itself; which Swamiji has been fighting for over 30 years. The only reason it’s still alive, is because it’s situated in a spiritually advanced country like Nepal. 

Most of the other communities may find temporary joy in celebration outside of the self. The state of bliss, of being unaffected by peak or valley; but it doesn’t last. That is potential, unrealized. 

Be unique, be irresistible – be an individual

From my heart, I really sympathize with them. They are so lost 😢. Their egos are too big to surrender. Not them. They are trying to find a way. We all are. Some have just always been more awake to it. But they have no one to show them the way. Someone without an ego. The ego must arrive itself! And all they arrive at is another face of the false ‘I’. Spirituality kills the ‘I’ and births the ‘I am not’. These methods are just a temporary relief & worse, another way to suppress that which must be faced. I repeat, suppression is suicide. Freewill is not freedom. Freewill is the freedom to choose. Freedom to choose is not freedom. It is an illusion of freedom. True freedom is the freedom to be choice less. 

True spiritual beings are truly unique. They stand out of the crowd. They’ve found their individuality by walking an inward path alone. They remember, they came alone, they’ll go alone. They are grateful for companionship, for a friend, for company, for a community; but they are more grateful for aloneness. Not lonely, just alone. They cherish their aloneness. celebrate their aloneness. They exude a different kind of energy. One that is totally unapologetic & charismatic; which makes them irresistible to most unawakened and many awakened too. This is a gift, to awaken others by awakening the self. It’s almost impossible to find others like true spiritual beings. 

Spirituality is an individual path with Individual experiences, which are then celebrated together within a communion, not community. Celebration, it is always a celebration of individuals, celebrating their own unique path, with immense gratitude for all that life has to offer. They celebrate the peaks and the valleys with equal enthusiasm, with the same kind of gratitude. In fact you’ll find them more grateful for the lows than the highs. Do you know why? Because they see from higher consciousness, which they’ve arrived at through meditation. They see the 5D plan & the 3D play.  

Spirituality without meditation is no spirituality. Celebration without spirituality is no celebration. So, celebration without meditation is no celebration at all! Are you spiritual? What exactly are you celebrating? 

Original vs 1st copy 

Knowledge without experience,
Is no knowledge at all. 

Creation without vision, 
Is no creation at all.

Prayer without gratitude, 
Is no prayer at all. 

Seeking without devotion, 
Is no seeking at all. 

Surrender without Faith, 
Is no surrender at all. 

Connection without synchronicity, 
Is no connection at all. 

Friendship without purity, 
Is no friendship at all. 

Self love without selflessness, 
Is no self love at all. 

Love without intensity, 
Is no Love at all. 

Celebration without meditation, 
Is no celebration at all. 

Transformation without spirituality. 
Is no transformation at all. 

Evolution without the ego death, 
Is no evolution at all. 

Meditation without silent practice, 
Is no meditation at all. 

And …. 

A Life without knowledge & creation, 
prayer, seeking, surrender & connection, 
Friendship, self love, Love & celebration, 
Transformation, evolution & meditation;
Is no life at all. 

It is not original, meant for eternity; it is only a 1st Copy, not meant to last. 

Original vs 1st copy – Inspiration 

This poem, came as a channeling to me, about a month ago, back at the commune. It was after an hour of Vipasna, at Bhagwan’s samadhi. I read it then and I didn’t fully understand it myself. So I put it away. This morning, I woke up with a clear idea of this post sharing. I knew it was inspiration. So on the first flight I started writing it. I was up early to catch a flight home. And had to meditate an hour before leaving. At the end of the first flight, a damage on one of my suitcases, by the airline, inspired the purpose of this post. It’s meaning. 

Then on the second flight of over 4 hours, I wrote the rest of this post, except this chapter. Which is specifically inspired by what I had learnt of the ego, through my own response to the suitcase situation. When the ego ‘sees’ and it knows that it is the original, it will protect it more. So the ego can surrender but only to the original, the true, the authentic. But ego must see to know and … who will show it. We are all the ego. Only one who has the real, can show the real. 

Community is 1st copy, communion is original. 

In a community there is celebration, in a commune celebration is also a meditation. In a community there is Freewill, in a commune there is a freedom. and a master to prune the ego for freedom 🙄. In a community, it is about ‘us’, in a commune, it about the ‘I’. Actually, not ‘I’, it’s about my ‘eye’, not the ‘I’. A community is together, a commune is together in aloneness. A community seeks together. A commune is ‘being’ together. A community without a master, is built to be temporary. A commune with a master, is the way to eternity. 

The one who has experienced the original, don’t really care about the 1st copy. But the original is very expensive. You gotta pay for it with yourself, your whole ‘I’ and be nothing. Only a few can afford it. The 1% are amongst them. They don’t control for themselves. The 1% too have surrendered their ‘I’ to the ‘eye’. They too control for the one they see as ‘God’. Whatever the face, whoever your God, your true God, is who you are. Because you are ‘it’ – you ‘God’. Regardless of what the original looks like, it is original.  It is the ‘eye’. Shiva’s third eye. 

A community is a 1st copy of the original celebration of life, so they let us have it. A commune is the original celebration of Life, so it threatens them. And with this chapter, which I wrote after my evening meditation, connected the poem which I had written a month ago, at the commune. Now I understand it fully.

Back in the early days of my Sanyas, I had asked my master a question, ’how can a commune ensure that there wont be infiltrators and only meditators. I ’see’ ‘He’ has answered it today. It seems we can’t but under a master, they may also be transformed. A commune is not a community of people with the same interest or love for the same. A commune is a communion of very different people, with no similarities, common ground, no point of merging; being alone together, for the common Love of the Divine.
I understand the purpose of this post on the Lunar eclipse – ‘the original life is the most expensive, one must loose it all, to have it all. that is why very few live it. very few can afford it.’

I understand, an Original Life of authentic celebration is dangerous to say the least, it is a complete jump into the unknown, because it is rare. It is about dropping the entire past. It is not for the faint of heart. Never getting too comfortable in one place. Living on the edge of life, ready to celebrate whatever it brings! Ready to fall, ready to rise. ready to live!

Are we living it? What exactly are we celebrating?