Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Good deeds in the world are revived in the Outward Path and devalued in the Inward Path


The gurus of the great religions tell us that the human body was given to us for the purpose of attaining God-realization, which is ironically accomplished by denying and blocking all the desires of the human body. But the gurus were referring to the Involutionary Inward Path to the Father Within only and not to the Evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood.

The gurus were not content in this way merely to devalue the material body and the material world, they defined the material world and all of creation as the domain of Satan, the negative power. Put bluntly this means that when one defends creation and the material world one is being Satanic. It certainly was a way to bring disciples to the gurus by applying the fear method, and it also was a way to elevate the master teachers of the God-realization over other actors in the fallen world.

The existence of the human body is primarily for the purpose of evolving to Godhood in the Evolutionary Outward Path. The Inward Path is secondary and points the way to the Outward Path. It is the Outward Path of material and supermaterial evolution that leads to Godhood, the Inward Path is meant to give us a hint, blissful at it is, of what Godhood is like at the zenith of evolution.

In the Inward Path it is the spiritual practice of seeking the Father Within and not good deeds in the material world that bring us to God-realization. Doing good deeds is seen only as a test of how one can be in the world but not of the world. This is seen not only in the teachings of Jesus Christ but taught in the Bhagavad Gita of the East. The Paths have been transvalued in their emphasis and they need to be rebalanced. Good deeds in the world are revived in the Outward Path and devalued in the Inward Path.

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