Darshan

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John Troy Prelude What is Truth? Consider the kind of Truth that is often mentioned in spiritual literature and discourse, the Truth of who you really are. Not a relative “Truth”, as between belief systems, or which is the real messiah, (if there is one). This Truth has to do with the false notion that you are a mortal body and mind, harboring the notion that you were actually born as a mortal body and that you will die; that’s the cruel lie. Truth is you’re not! It is a spiritual Truth. Not necessarily a religious Truth. Spiritual Truth is non-physical and ever-present pure existence. It is not a word, form, idea or concept. It is pure spirit and singular. The “I-thought” arises from it and returns in it. One may awaken from the day-dream drama of mortality. It doesn’t seem possible, but it is. Renounce doership of the character you think you are in the dream. It is relinquishment, acceptance, and non gender love. It is a paradigm shift or re-cognition, a conversion of perception, death and resurrection, Darshan. You and everyone are truly pure unadulterated spirit and have always been and will always be. That’s the good news! That’s the true Gospel. “Love one another as I have loved you” is the commandment from Jesus. That is Darshan. Darshan is divine sighting. God sees God. Darshan reflects and affirms the Truth. It is true unconditional love. All that is required for you to experience Darshan of Truth is the relinquishment of the phantom ego. The ego “I” that assumes and usurps doer-ship, then takes on form to accomplish the desired objective. One gets attached to the idea that one is a carnal form, thereby obstructing the native spiritual vision of oneness. "Darshan" is a selection of a few awakened beings whose identification as existence is with pure spirit and not exclusively with the mortal body and mind. These known messengers have a transcendent countenance when recognized and are referred to as Saints, Sages, Seers, Gurus, Mystics, Masters, Jnanis, Siddhas, Messiahs, Wizards and Shamans, etc. Some are hidden in our midst under different disguises. They all reflect our true formless Self while appearing as form. A doer (ego-I) seeks material things like food, money, sex and accomplishments. Then this “I am the body” notion starts seeking God or Truth when faced with mortality or from some other rude shock or reason. The same techniques and desires that worked before, don’t work anymore. The “I” seeking for what one already is, is a futile search. Still, the “I” tends to seek until the seeking for remedies is completely exhausted. Then, surrender. Darshan is available. The “I-thought” disappears upon inspection. Darshan and Truth dawn by Grace. A “Higher Power” assumes the burdensome doership. Many words and symbols point to the same supreme, natural nameless Truth of immortality. No name being closer than an apparent another. It is just different masks; no one mask closer than any other. Darshan is removing the mask of form to be and share the One. This “Higher Power” affirms that Darshan by gracefully placing you in the company of others who share an enlightened perception. Call it synchronicity, fellowship, church, love or satsang. It is all the same Darshan. It is a shared and mutual vision of divinity. It is a revelation; a blooming God fl ower in your midst. You notice every action is perfect. The doctrine of sin is gone; conclusions abandoned. The pages of life affi rm your conversion and facilitate acclimation to non physical spiritual existence. That is spiritual practice, free of religious ownership and death of forms. Practice is not “looking” for enlightenment. See God in and as One another. That is practice. Practice is practicing Darshan. Practice Darshan. Sages, seers, and saints, since antiquity, have practiced the benefi cial spiritual endeavor of Yatra - “pilgrimage”. Worldly-wise, it often takes one to a location charged with the

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