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The New Dawn
- Maitreya Ishwara
The Implications of Unity
 Unity
is an idea whose time has come. Many
spiritual leaders are calling for unity. They point to the core
of common ground central to all religions and suggest a more
integrated approach to religion. Talk is cheap. If you ask any
spiritual leader which parts of their irrational dogma they are
willing to give up for Unity, you will quickly discover that
their ways are best for everyone.
All groups, gurus and religions feel their way is the right one.
This is normal, and a central theme of the Kali Yuga, the age
of separation. Talking about Unity is easy. Getting all religions
and groups to move into a single way of understanding is simply
impossible at this time. Nevertheless, Unity is scheduled to
happen very soon. Actual Unity can only occur by Divine Intervention.
This book contains the foundation for Unity. Naturally, every
other channel for God will have a different message. We are still
in the age of separation. What all channels for God lack is a
rational, integrated, unified, experiential, playful, silent,
loving, creative vision for the millennium.
This book is that vision. It is given
to us by God to create the blueprint for Unity. Still, even those
most close to its central theme of Zorba the Buddha would not
agree with much of it. And all other groups would reject it as
too different from their own approach.
God loves drama. The shift from separation
to Unity is accompanied by lots of drama of every conceivable
kind. Soon, when the Great Change starts, we will all be propelled
into another level of energy. Mindsets are easily changed when
God wants them to. All thoughts and feelings of all people are
easily altered by Divine intervention. This is how the Great
Change from separation to Unity will come about. As you are reading
this book, it means you are blessed. You are being informed in
advance of many things that will come to pass. The challenge
of this book is to let go of ALL your irrational beliefs and
silly ideas. Become an inner scientist with a single hypothesis
to verity with your own experience: God is all there is, I am
not separate from That.
Just Watch
These two words are the very essence
of all the wisdom of India. Shiva, Buddha, Osho and many great
masters have based their teaching on this fundamental understanding
of the alchemy of transformation. Your ego is programmed to achieve
and improve things for you. Self-improvement is an ego trip,
good for beginners, but useless for real freedom, because the
ego is always subtly involved in changing things for the better.
Even if you try to surrender, again it
is the ego that tries, and of course, survives in its involvement
in "your surrender". Just watch means conscious recognition
of your inner reality, without any subtle attempt to change it.
This passive awareness of your inner world leaves the ego unemployed.
Life happens and is witnessed. As simple as this sounds, it is
rarely fully practised, even by seekers who have heard Osho and
others recommending it for decades.
Your ego has great difficulty remaining
passively aware of your inner world. Everything is as it should
be. Finally, when the time is right, you start to apply the wisdom
of the alchemy of transformation. By sitting silently for several
hours a day, just watching your inner processes unfold, the miracle
of rapid growth happens. With the silent energetic support of
a living Buddha, this transformation is intensified and accelerated.
And he keeps reminding you every time your ego wants to change
things: Just watch.
Beloveds, when your destined time of
rapid growth comes, this message may give you the support to
face yourself as you are, without subtly trying to improve yourself.
Shiva and Advaita
Osho's work rests on Shiva's great contribution
to consciousness, the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra. These 112 methods
of meditation are the culmination of Shiva's vast experience.
They are the foundation for all meditation techniques, and the
essence of most of them is witnessing, or watching experience
and the content of mind, with equanimity. Eventually, the witness
is silently aware of itself, in pure contentless consciousness.
Osho's holistic, esoteric approach rests on the support of Shiva's
great knowledge of transformation. Advaita focuses on understanding
and often negates the value of meditation, saying: what will
be will be, no need to meditate. This is why advaita people often
remain stuck in the desert of intellectualism and enlightened
egos.
Meditators often feel they are responsible
for their growth and are unnecessarily burdened with ego effort.
Osho, Buddha and most enlightened meditators are agnostic, Osho
settles for godliness. Thus, they conclude a fully enlightened
Buddha is the highest in existence. Only through their awareness
is consciousness aware of itself. Hence the vital need for surrender
to a master, he is the ultimate authority in existence.
Advaita is more sophisticated, it understands:
Consciousness is all there is. Therefore the universe must be
made of condensed consciousness; and the source of the universe
must be consciousness of an unknowable type, that has the ability
to design, create and sustain the universe. This is the definition
of God, or Source. Now Source is revealing the truth: There is
no need to surrender to any guru, surrender can only be to the
Whole that gives you life. Your life is a gift of the Whole,
and is enough reason to trust the Whole to take care of you when
the ego lets go of control. Trust in what is, eventually flowers
into surrender and enlightenment. Part of my work is to help
bring clarity to meditators and relieve them of the burden of
spiritual responsibility. And to share the techniques of Shiva
with advaita people. Without meditation advaita can remain dry
and intellectual. Understanding and applying the wisdom of Shiva
and advaita is the foundation of spiritual maturity. They are
the two wings of the bird of Unity.
The body is Source.
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Amber began her spiritual quest as a young college
student in the late sixties. After a quarter century of meditation,
yoga, and intense seeking that took her all over the world it
became obvious that enlightenment had remained a dream, a concept
existing in the mind only. 
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