Discourse on Devotion and Enlightenment

by | Saturday, May 19, 2012 | Mount Soma | 7 comments

plantsIf you are enjoying my blogs, please make it a point to read the comments.  I often add my own comments in response to them.  It is sometimes a lively interchange with those who choose to participate.  I welcome you to join in or just monitor the interactions.

Recently, I added this response in comments to the Devotion blog:

My devotion along the path was to knowledge… to truth. I was not the least bit biased or vested in what I found… how it looked… or where I had to go to find it. My pursuit was for understanding… not over-standing. “I” was completely secondary to “Truth.” What I found left me in total awe. In that moment “I” ceased to exist, though it took time rest with it. That is to say it required a period of time for me to adjust. In fact, it is fair to say that there are not really levels of enlightenment… there are just levels of getting accustomed to it once it is gained.

When it first happened, I had to reconstruct everything I thought I knew. Everything changed. My “spiritual knowledge” was turned upside down and inside out. And that was after much study of spiritual books and the teachings of masters.

In a talk I gave yesterday at a meditation retreat here at Mount Soma, I went further into the discussion.  I will ask the Mount Soma staff to make that recording available and post here in comments how you can receive it.

Tomorrow (Sunday, May 20, 2012) I will be going to Carey, NC, to address a group at an international conference on Vedic studies and culture.  If possible, we will make a recording available.

Also, I am thinking to make live video of my lectures available on the internet.  We will look into the practical aspects of making that happen.

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Update

by | Tuesday, February 7, 2012 | Mount Soma | 6 comments

Ratha SapthamiI have been quite busy lately.  Though I spend a great deal of time at Mount Soma addressing county, subcontractor, and logistical concerns, those matters are secondary.  My primary activity is going to the temple in the morning to meditate, do my mantras, etc.  There I reflect and seek communion with God.  If the inner is right, the outer will be right.  I live in dedication to that.

I find great comfort and support in Pandit Prasad.  He and his wife, Lakshmi, have become my dear friends….  pure, simple, and innocent.  I rely upon them.  Through them I have an additional supportive conduit to the Almighty.  For too many years I have traveled this path feeling that, though loved, too few could understand me.  Abandoning their world in India to join me here stands as a solid testament to their commitment to our purpose.  We can bring peace to this world.  All that is required is commitment.

The blossoming of the Guru Shala (Enlightened City) also involves communication with Harsha, my dear friend in Mumbai. We are establishing our foundation in India, which requires my attention of course.  Needless to say, also of great significance is the MMWPP (Michael Mamas World Peace Project). Also, the Pandit Boys School in India is going well.

All these things require a great deal of time and energy.  My commitment to my students also requires my time and energy.  I am most grateful to all of you that are so respectful and careful in how, when, and why you communicate with me.  At the same time, I feel sad when my time is so limited.  Even today, people came to the temple and the demands upon me did not allow time to sit and be with them.  This happens all too often.

And that is an update on my life at this time. In the future I hope to have time to write more books, chat with more people, and have more time for my beloved family.

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Proclaiming 2012 The Year of Positivity

by | Saturday, December 17, 2011 | Mount Soma, Personal Growth, Spirituality | 12 comments

shoreWe have done well.  Through many years of dedication, the light of life is shining forth.

When you clean your home, dust is naturally stirred.  Similarly, the purification of heart and mind stirs the dust, which can be experienced as negative thoughts and emotions.  That is why negativity is sometimes experienced through the purification process.  As the Unified Field Generator of Mount Soma continues to manifest, purification rises.  It is as if we are riding a bigger and bigger bull as time goes by. This process will carry our world to an Enlightened Age.

When you first put you toe in a bathtub of warm water, it can feel too hot.  After a time in the tub however, it is soothing and warm. As you purify a deeper level of your being, there may be a period of roughness or negativity.  Know the negativity that comes up to be purification.  At times it may even feel extreme.  Knowing it for what it is will greatly help you navigate the waters of your evolution.

Fortunately, we have now broken through the surface!  It is like a spaceship piercing the atmosphere during re-entry. We are now entering a stage of great positivity for the world.  By keeping your attention there, it will come more quickly. We can all offer our gratitude to those pioneers who ‘broke the ice’ of re-entry.  The dust will clear away now.  Any negative thoughts or feelings are a waste of time.  Do not suppress them.  If you do, they will stay with you longer.  But it is very important that you do not dwell on them.  Just brush them out of your mind as you would a piece of lint floating around your head.

Monitor your thinking.  It creates your world.  Choose the positive.  If you have through the years taken on a negative viewpoint of the world, take a deeper look within.  Evolve your thinking.  This is not to be oblivious.  It is only to put all things in the proper context.  We have arrived at a time where this can be done.  You only need to decide to do so. Divinity is the essence of all things.  That is simply the truth of how life is.  Know the dust for what it is.  Do not lose yourself to dust.  You are one with God.

Remember: When a great Master was asked what keeps a person from knowing God, he responded, “Negative thoughts.”

We have arrived at The Shore of the Age of Enlightenment.  Time to take leave of the old tattered vessel that has carried you here.

2012 is The Year of Positivity.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

Cultural Integrity

by | Sunday, December 4, 2011 | Mount Soma, Personal Growth, Spirituality, World View | 8 comments

cultural integrityI understand that with the appearance of the temple some may wonder if I am a Hindu.  I have spoken of cultural integrity so, so many times.  But here it goes one more time.

I am a westerner.  I have no intention of trying to become Indian or Hindu.  I am what I am.  A big part of my teaching is cultural integrity.  Cultures should not blur together any more than colors in a painter’s arsenal should all be mixed into one heap.  They must each keep their own integrity, yet they must learn to live in harmony with one and other.  I know that if misunderstood, this sounds like segregation with all its prejudicial baggage, but it is not.  There is a huge difference between cultural integrity and prejudice.  Are the inclinations you feel within yourself those of cultural integrity or prejudice?  This arena merits exploration.

I have a deep respect for the culture out of which Vedic knowledge was birthed and has been upheld.  It is the portal through which we have been given access to the Knowledge of Natural Law (the Veda).  The temple then is approached through that portal.  It honors the integrity of that culture.  That culture has provided the pipeline to, the conduit to, the technology of the Unified Field.  Like physics or any other science, the Knowledge is universal.  The Veda is universal.  Sanskrit is not Indian, it is universal.  However, our access to all that knowledge is via the Indian culture. That is not to say that everything Indian is Vedic.  But our access to Vedic knowledge is certainly through that culture.

Can you uphold your own integrity while honoring another’s or not?  In a nutshell, that is what cultural integrity is all about.  It is what the world must learn to do.  It is what we are creating a model of (for the world) at Mount Soma.  As I have said, it will take about 3 years to put it all together here at Mount Soma.  We must provide a space for each culture to rest comfortably within its own nature.  This will take some time. It will require some patience. Completion of the Student Union next month will help a great deal. At that time, the Mountain View room in the Learning Center will become a cultural center for the temple.

Over the next few years, let’s take care to keep our eye on that ball and not get confused regarding our purpose, who we/you are, and cultural integrity.

Do you want peace on earth?  Do you really?  Then let’s start here and now and create it for the entire world.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

Email Troubles

by | Sunday, October 30, 2011 | Announcements, Mount Soma

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Our server for both mountsoma.org and srisomesvara.org is having troubles, which is affecting our email.

If you are trying to get in touch with anyone with an @mountsoma.org address or an @srisomesvara.org address, please send your email to michaelmamasoffice@me.com.  Your email will then be conveyed to the appropriate person.

Thank you for your understanding in this beautiful, yet sometimes challenging, technological age!

Tanja

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Enlightened Community

by | Monday, September 19, 2011 | Mount Soma | 1 comment

flowerCreating an enlightened community will stand as a model for all of society.

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Just as the sun radiates its influence to permeate our entire globe, so the influence of such a community will radiate a new way of being that will permeate humanity. It will free the individuals to rest into their own true divine nature—a place inside that lies beyond the grasp of notions and philosophies, a place inside that resolves the conflicts of the limitless contradictions and paradoxes that have confounded humanity throughout the ages.

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It must not be a place that indoctrinates people into an attitude or philosophy. Too many such communities have already come and gone throughout history.

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The art of creating such a community is profoundly subtle. Our habit is to cling to notions and adhere to philosophies as the thing that will enlighten us.

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The finesse required to move humanity beyond that mindset cannot be overstated. However, this is our purpose: to move humanity to that whole new level of evolution.

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Read the entire article.

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