Is There Life After Life?

Is there life after life? Life as I said in one of my early posts is indescribable. It also has no dimension. Life forms express motions of Life, each species after their fashion and in a corporeal sense. We see them and form our opinions, which do not fully delineate them. Who can vouch for what I think or my soul is alike?
But by the same yardstick of Truth we are all interconnected. We can relate to others at different levels. But no one may plumb the depths of another to decipher his or her soul.
Truth shall endure since life cannot be expressed in any other term than Life which is dimensionless. When we say one is dead we actually mean that the being has passed from one dimension to another. Death is a line to be crossed. Where I go past that line is not my concern. So I shall not speculate on what is unknowable.
benny

Outgrowing Is Good For The Soul

After the battle of Salamis the fame of Themistocles, who led Athens to victory, against Persia was very high. His virtues and charisma made him unassailable. In the eyes of the young he could never be wrong. So high was he in the eyes of the man on the street which made some elders uneasy. Democritus, the philosopher, even went to the extent of declaring that the hero of Salamis should be outlawed lest he became too powerful. Naturally the Athenian youths were outraged. Some of them banded together and vowed that their patriotism shall never measure, no more or less than of Themistocles.
Democritus, the philosopher, ridiculed the hotheaded youths for their misplaced patriotism. When a youth insisted that it was Themistocles who won the battle, the philosopher said: "If a battle is won merely on account of one man, he is the most dangerous one that I know of."
"Why do you say that?" asked the youth.
"Man being what he is, he could cause the downfall of a nation as easily as he gained victory."
The impressionable youth remained unconvinced till their hero went into exile. When they heard that Themistocles had sought refuge in the court of Persia they were so let down.
*Everything of the world is given to changes. Truth of action is where each person has freedom to change opinions if they are found not to be true.
benny

What Is Life?

What is Life?
What can be described is not worth living. You paint me a picture and it is only a representation. You sweated over it. Didn’t you? It is work and not Life. Perhaps you point out to yourself but that doesn’t describe life. You are only a walking embodiment of Life: you see I am also a living representation by which what you describe as Life is less than what you make it out to be.
Life similarly defies all such symbols man may employ.
All that is outside your comprehension or description in words probably fall within Life. The indescribable Life suffuses your sensations that give mind its power to comprehend or describe the finite, must be as it is outside every thing that we may grasp or clothe with our imagination.
benny

W7 D3- Who Or What Is...( 2)

A fellow was tirelessly pursued by a blackshape; much to his chagrin it also did exactly as he did. Fearing for his soul he went into a hilly region and the black shape was right behind him. “ Either I shall shake him off or I will be Satan’s prey!” he thought and turned around and shouted,” Satan get off from my back!” His shout was answered in thousand tongues. Wonder-struck he stood still. In the high noon he saw the blackshape had crawled under his feet totally in defeat.
“Hey Satan you are my shadow!” Never again it troubled him.
We make too much of Satan. Why is it? We have always something to talk about? Something to put blame on for all our failings?
Or is it some kind of a diversionary tactic?
Satan is for many as necessary as going to the pub or hanging out with the boys. Satan is an attitude that perhaps helps us to avoid facing up to God and His commandments?
Let us now look at Job’s case.
Poor Job suffered unjustly and to heap hot coals on his misery Mrs. Job had a practical solution. Just blame God and be done with it, she said (Job 2:9). His friends, all of them well meaning of course, were no better. In their eyes Job deserved what he got. More so, in the way he occupied the position of the victim. He could see nothing blameworthy in his past actions or thoughts. Yet why he had to suffer? He was right in a sense. He dealt within his time and place. He erred in excluding his connection with others. Had he seen Truth (as God who later in the book revealed himself out of a whirlwind) he would have revised his stand.
Coming back to my quote: for those who think they must be rewarded for their perceived ‘goodness’ like a handyman on completing of day’s work must be paid, such reversals as Job suffered would indeed seem unjust. Think of Satan not as a being but as a perverse attitude that makes you forget outside your own self and expectations. ‘There is a lot more going on, sir, outside your fence’.

In conclusion let me correct a popular misconception: Nowhere in the Book you find God as the cause for all the evil that visited Job. It was the bad attitude ( Satan I meant, to give it an anthropomorphic form), that stuck its poison into him. What would be that? Collateral damage of living among so many whose viewpoints are so different and often contrary must make the best laid plans of man and mice go awry.
benny