Sacrilege and the Shadow

Truth (Satya) sustains the cosmos, virtue (Dharma) protects and promotes the peace of mankind. All activities must be infused with the ideals of Satya and Dharma. Dharma never suffers decline; only its practice declines. So divine incarnations take place to restore faith in Dharma, to revitalise its practice and to demonstrate that the practice of Dharma confers peace, joy and prosperity. If Dharma is ignored, it amounts to sacrilege, for Dharma is God and God is Righteousness (Dharma). People see God in a picture, an icon, or a plaster of Paris figurine but God really is most manifest in a righteous action (Dharma). One may spend enormous sums for pilgrimages and for rituals and ceremonies but that will not take them anywhere nearer to God. What profit can one earn in the spiritual field, if they adore God and at the same time, insult and injure their fellowmen?

The headache is not yet gone, it is not yet okay again. I don't remember I ever felt that sick like yesterday, I was on the point of leaving, it was at work and I was constantly afraid it would get worse instead of better and I could faint.

Truth sustains the cosmos. What is truth?
How to tell that we feel okay if we don't, but sometimes it seems just to get worse when we tell that we don't feel well.
Virtue, Dharma, right action protects and promotes the peace of mankind. The only thing that comes in my mind is that there was no peace, but arguing, insult and that it doesn't protect and promotes the peace of mankind, it was just a bad experience.

Why thinking it over?
Reading the words of Baba is like, okay – noticed, we hear it, we listen and we think we act accordingly.
But when we begin to write about it, there is something in the mind coming up as memory and we follow it, it is related to a feeling it begins to reflect on it, things we looked at before, things in the insight, the inner view folling the thoughts, feelings, memories, it is inner view, it is in the memory of it and it also has to do with the dreams we had of Baba. It is about experiences and whatever comes up in the mind when we think it over and related it to the way Baba tells us it is and he always has another way of making us again aware of it.
We are not only listening, we also have to reflect on it in the light of our insights and experience and when it is seen it in the light of the own self-experience the feeling is coming up and we begins to think it over and it is a level of reflection, it is in the inner view, not only in my memory.

Truth (Satya) sustains the cosmos, virtue (Dharma) protects and promotes the peace of mankind. All activities must be infused with the ideals of Satya and Dharma.

How do we infuse all activities with the ideals of truth, Sathya and right action, Dharma?
What comes in the mind when listening to it? Truth is the first word mentioned, therefore, if I don't feel well and was sick yesterday, it was on a physical level and it still goes on somehow now now and if we look at the shadow, we have to follow it. That is what he said, we go towards the light and we follow the shadow.
If we walk towards the light we see the shadow forming and it is in the back, at lunch it is small because the sun is above the head, in the evening it gets long as the sun is setting. The shadow is in our back and if we go towards the light we see the light only and we can see that as the divine and truth. We have two possibilities when it is the shadow in our back, we see only the ideal state of the light, love, goodness, beauty and we try to ignore the shadow, we don't want to see it or we are aware of the shadow in our back and we follow it as he said we should.

How many are listening to Swami enough to know the difference between following the shadow and ignoring it?
How do we follow it?

Truth is light and love and beauty and if we walk towards it, we walk towards the light and what about right action, it is not only seeing the light and ignoring the shadow, that is not right action as Swami is telling us to walk towards the light and to follow the shadow.

If we don't do it right or if we understand it wrong, not Dharma suffers, but the practice declines.
Why does he tell that? It must be important for us to know that Dharma doesn't decline, but our practice declines, it is not right action.

Dharma never suffers decline; only its practice declines. So divine incarnations take place to restore faith in Dharma, to revitalise its practice and to demonstrate that the practice of Dharma confers peace, joy and prosperity.

Now he talks about divine incarnations, great masters or divine incarnations like Jesus? And they come to restore faith in right action and to revitalize its practice, but how is it revitalized?
And they are here to demonstrate that the practice of Dharma, right action, confers peace, joy and prosperity and it is again in my head that it was not present with my ex if I had to go and make peace with Swami, whatever the reason, it was not present and I tried to see the good or probably I walked towards the light ignoring the shadow instead of following the shadow, maybe because I didn't know where to go and he said that I had been let down by the family, there was a reason why I couldn't follow the shadow, I had to wait until it was possible to know right action and to change the situation and it had to come from the inside and that was present when Baba was in his dream and told him that I had to go and make peace with him.
No peace, no right action, no Dharma.
There we are again, we follow the shadow, we are back with our own experience seeing it in our own life and now we have to face what he is telling us if it is ignored.

 Sacrilege, that doesn't sound good. What is a sacrilege when it is about personal experience? Dharma, right action is God and God is righteousness and if it is not there, sacrilege, that sounds like a crime, doesn't it?
He doesn't tell us that it is only bad, he tells us it is a sacrilege and that is not good. And it even gets worse, he is telling us no matter how much money we spend for pilgrimage and for rituals and ceremonies, it will not take us nearer to God.

Everything depends on right action, doesn't it. And he is going on explaining it, what profit can be earned in the spiritual field if we adore God and at the same time insult and injure our fellowmen and again I am back with my ex as example of the sacrilege, hitting me with the pot on the head and at night in the dream he said to Swam, 'I love you Swami' and Swami answered, 'you are really not in love'.
He took only advantage of the situation when I talked about the interview and Swami had asked, to whom I belonged and it was there that question because I had been let down by the family, the reason I still had to find,  I didn't know why I felt the way I felt, because of that reason. That is also why I spoke about it and he notice I didn't know so he could take advantage of it and he used it for his own purposes. And when it didn't work and he didn't just find someone he cold go on for good taking advantage of it and we just took care of him, whoever was able to do that in his mind, me or my parents, my family or even his daughter, he had it in mind, she was only four years old he already told her that she should take care of him when she gets older and he gets old, as all that didn't work out, he never cared about it anymore, but he went back to his sister and took advantage of her and he goes out of habit and because it is comfortable every year about five weeks to the ashram and the incredible thing is, he doesn't learn, but nothing.

If Dharma is ignored, it amounts to sacrilege, for Dharma is God and God is Righteousness (Dharma).  One may spend enormous sums for pilgrimages and for rituals and ceremonies but that will not take them anywhere nearer to God. What profit can one earn in the spiritual field, if they adore God and at the same time, insult and injure their fellowmen?

 How can we tell that we love God if we don't see divinity in everybody and in our fellowmen?
That is what Swami tells here about Dharma.

I walked into that trap with Charles because he had mentioned that me meditated and when I noticed the truth, it was too late or already that complicated that it didn't make any sense anymore, why in God's name should anybody pretend to meditate if he doesn't do it, I didn't see his boss in the background, that is why.
When we know him, we also know why he pretended to meditate and pretended to be a good boy and pretended to know that Swami gives this and that and he can just take advantage of it. You see that is the hard part about inner view and reflection, Swami calls it sacrilege and by that he makes it all come up and it is not good, that is the shadow.
The light is the direction we take we go towards it and it is truth, and the shadow we have to follow is what is not good and if we go towards the light and ignore the shadow, it will not result in right action. He calls it sacrilege, it makes all come up what is in the light, but it is present as the shadow.

It has no reality, it is illusion, but it is nevertheless present as not right action and here Swami calls it sacrilege.

How do we benefit from thinking it over?
We get aware of it, we don't just call it 'witnessing' and we don't really know what it means, we are actually witnessing and by following Baba's words and listening to him we grow in that inner view and we get aware of the watcher and what is right and what is wrong and why here he calls it sacrilege, it is again another was of thinking it over and seeing it, but it is definitely not about the light, it is about the shadow. We could tell we have to knowledge about the higher self and the light and divinity and we have the knowledge about the cap, everything what is in between and in the mind and we have to knowledge about the body and health.

As Swami said in his precious words, he explained that divinity or omniscience is a merged state between waking stage and dream stage and the still changing sleep stage has turned into a permanent state of self-awareness. If we think listening in our mind only, we read it and think it is done, only it is not done. We talk here about the divine words and the correspond to the scriptures, they are on all three levels, therefore, if we have to listen if we understand it right, it is not only listening, but we also have to think it over, that is part of the dream stage and inner view and we have to be able to absorb, that is the sleep stage and the level of oneness.

We don't listen if we just read it, that is the mind only, we only listen if we also think it over and absorb and only if we do it on all three levels the divine reality will be felt and will be present in our own experience and it can and has to be shared with others.