It is proposed you here to know
the truth about the devil ! Incredible, not ? By reading it you will
have a clear point of view and without religious dogmas concerning
the malignant, the evil, the that-which-separates. Then? Does the
hideous horned one exist ? Read the text for knowing !
The good like the evil exist, the day like the night, the cold and the heat, the yin and the yang. Of course, to each his own : what is well, for some, will be badly for others but in Truth the good and the evil exist! Consciences will recognize them, others not, taken in confusion, the concepts and the a priori, the atavism and other reasons, like the silly thing, vanity…anyway: confusion.
But it is not a question, here,
of leaning on the good and the evil, that was already made elsewhere,
the matter of this text is the devil.
It is impossible to describe, to define God in such a way that everyone understands. The specialists in God, adherents of the religions, will be most inclined to believe to be able to do it easily: they have turnkey concepts, learned definitions that they can repeat by heart and who do not suffer from any discussion. They have evidence of the veracity of these definitions: indisputable books, written for a long time ago.
But in Truth all about God is
wrong. He is out of reach for the human brain. One will never insert
the ocean in a gourd. All what is possible for us to do is to feel
his Grace and to benefit from it with humility and recognition.
The
word devil
The devil is hardly less difficult to say, to explain than God. Did you wonder that this word meant, devil (diable in french)? Here the explanation of wikipedia, recut by all the dictionaries:
'' Le Diable (the devil), in Latin: diabolus, of the Greek
diàbolos, resulting from the verb diabàllô, meaning
that-which-divides or which-separates or which-destroys is a general
proper name personifying the evil spirit, also called Lucifer or
Satan in the Bible ''.
Is it extraordinary, not ? The
devil is the one which divides! Perhaps you know that the word yoga
means the Unit, the Union since the samnyàsin monk ; Adi Shankara,
around the eighth century before our era. Before him this word meant
freedom or release. I speak, here again, about the true mystical
yoga, not about a homonym intended for the psychic and physical
wellness. When it is spoken about the mystical yoga, it is about a
spiritual way.
The yoga, of which it is question here, is as deep as a religion, except that unlike a religion it has a living word. Yoga existed well before the first religion. Anyway, it is not about yoga here, but the fact that devil means that-which-separates, which divides speaks extremely to the practitioners of the original-yoga !
By the Observance of Agya, the disciples seek to centre themselves to know the Unit, or yoga. The deepest moment of this possible unit is in one of the three feet of the Agya, the Meditation and in the Meditation, if we come close to the Unit, we know also its opposite, the duality, the confusion. We know also what prevented from unite ourselves, which divides: the thoughts distilled by the false-ego. We will see further that the evil spirit, for a long time ago, was named Ahriman.
This concept of false-ego is unknown from the majority of people. All the negative attributes of the false-ego are usually allotted to the ego. But the ego does not have anything negative, it is on the contrary a God's Grace who gives to the immaterial soul its identity, its Conscience, making it able, by the incarnation, to say I .
Except on the original-yoga, in the Bhaktimàrga, where it is the most spoken about the false-ego is in the Bhagavad-Gîtà. This book is one of the two great epic poems of India, founder of the Hinduism with the Ramayana. It is in this book that it is question of Krishna. It is spoken there about the false-ego by giving to it the same meaning as on the original-yoga. An extract of this book on this subject:
“If you become conscious of Me, all the obstacles of the
conditioned existence,
by My grace you will cross them.
If however, you acted not animated by such a conscience,
but by the false-ego, closing me your ear, you will be lost.”
by My grace you will cross them.
If however, you acted not animated by such a conscience,
but by the false-ego, closing me your ear, you will be lost.”
“The false-ego is attached to the
ground and the sense forgetting the essence ''
[Bhaktimàrga 1-2-29]
'' False-ego [n.m] or Mâra or Ahamkara: The Bhagavad-Gîtà speaks much about it. It is what certain name the evil. It is the other face of the ego. The false-ego is this inertial force which, mechanically, attaches our Conscience at the surface levels and does all to keep it attached there.
The worldly pleasures, for
unique interest, the primary instincts as only references, the
obsessed pleasure, the abuses, the hatred, the confusion, the
duality, the war, the concepts, the madness, the unconsciousness, the
inconsistency are its creations and it hates the peace, the Love and
the Holy-Name. It is able to disguise itself in lamb for better
misleading the seeker or the devotee. It builds all the possible
traps to prevent the soul from arriving at its ultimate goal. Only
the Grace can thwart the false-ego.
The false-ego disguises
itself
when its “host” likes the spiritual and religious things.
It wears, then, the clothes of the monk, the priest
for better distilling its concepts, its confusion.
It is named then the spiritual-ego.”
when its “host” likes the spiritual and religious things.
It wears, then, the clothes of the monk, the priest
for better distilling its concepts, its confusion.
It is named then the spiritual-ego.”
Complementarity
In the Manicheism, [the
Manicheism is a religion founded by the Persian Mani at the 3rd
century. It is a syncretism of the Zoroastrianism, Buddhism and
Christianism] the evil is even with the good, one and the other
corresponding to God. God would thus be made of these two poles: the
good and the evil, as a rotor has two poles, positive and negative,
to create electricity while turning.
It would be this bipolarity of
the good and the evil which would create the life. Among the
hindouists this creation of the life, by a bipolar demiurge, is
personified by Brahma, the creator and Shiva, the destructor. One
will leave aside Vishnou, the guard, for the moment and an
arithmetical cause.
However Shiva is also the good which carries happiness and the “saint
patron” of the yogis. The shivaïst tradition of the Hinduism
considers it in five great functions: he is the creator, the
preservative one, the transformer, the dissimulator and the revealing
one. The asian spiritualities are not miserly of these apparent
paradoxes.
For the Judeo-Christians, the
evil and the good are not equal. One speaks there about fallen
angels, their chief etc There are here, for us, some myths but we are
in agreement with them on the point of inequality between God and the
devil, the good and the evil. On the original-yoga it is a habit to
consider the good as infinite and to say that the evil is at an
epsilon of the good. If the evil had been a little bit more powerful
it would have been equal to the good.
A
part is not the whole
Obviously, the false-ego is not
the evil, even more the devil. As the human being does not have God
in him, it does not have either the devil in him. The human being,
like everyone, has some of god inside him, part of Him, and he has
also some evil in him. The divine part, the human has got, is
indicated by the word Holy-Name… it is the “matter” of the
soul, among other things.
Any thing has, in it, its opposite.
If the
man has good, inside him, it has also evil.
What is the good ?
It is what brings the soul closer to the Unit…
the evil is what
draws aside it,
like the centrifugal and centripetal forces.
When the
heart is at the direction of the mind,
the conscience of the
individual is high.
When it is not the case,
its conscience is
plugged by the nescience,
or absence of revealed Knowledge (Shruti).
It is this absence of the Knowledge
which creates the
false-ego.
The false-ego is the absence of Knowledge.
The conscience brings the soul
closer to the center, the door of the Kingdom or Satçitananda and
the absence of conscience moves away from there. The good is what
links, the evil what separates. Did you see? We come back to the
etymology of the word devil!
It seems that the concept of good and evil, like two separated things, is recent. In the old worships, more than 5000 years, the good and the evil were both resulting from the same deity, since this one was regarded as containing all what exists. The same deity was thus at the same time able of good and evil.
We are, on this point, fully in agreement: God contains all, therefore the evil too. God does not have a Christian morals and he considers the spiders with the same glance as the kittens. For God the physical death of creature, animal or human, has not the same nature of gravity as for those which remain! And the existence of you and me are not capital.
To return to our Pantheon of
the good and the evil, it is not uninteresting, from a purely
aesthetic point of view, knowing that Zarathoustra (or Zoroastre,
more or less 700 years before our era) reformed the Persian Mazda
religion by replacing the existing gods by two entities, one
beneficial, Ahura Mazda, god of the light bringing the order, the
other Ahriman or Angra Mainyu, chief of the destroying forces.
Ahriman was under the orders of Ahura Mazda.
This interpretation gives to
the benevolent god, Ahura Mazda, the role of ultimate judge who lets
the demons tempt the humanity and intervenes only as a last resort to
prevent the victory of the evil.
The name of this God of the
evil, Angra Mainyu, or Ahriman means the distressed thought or
the impure thoughts. Oh… that does not make you think of something?
Who distils the distressed thoughts, the impure thoughts to the mind
? The False-ego!
Initially Ahura Mazda, supreme
God [equivalent with Brahman], creates two spirits which will be
opposed, Spenta Mainyu [the spirit of the Good, the Holy Ghost] and
Angra Mainyu [the evil spirit]. For us the Holy-Name is this spirit
of the good and the False-ego is that of the evil. Both are useful so
that the movement, the life is generated.
Like the Holy-Name, the Te of
the word Tao-Te-King, is in the man and outside, the false-ego is in
the man and outside [“… If they tell you: here, the Kingdom is
in the sky, then the birds of the sky will precede you; if they tell
you that it is in the sea, then the fishes will precede you. But the
Kingdom is inside you, and it is outside you…” Gospel
according to Thomas loggion 3].
It is caused by the absence of conscience.
When the conscience of the
man is placed at the bad place,
in the duality, the multiple of
appearances,
the forces of the false-ego appear.
When it is placed at the good place, in this center where reign the vacuity full with God, thanks to the adapted techniques, the good, the harmony, the Holy-Name appears. It is the guidance.
It is the teaching of the path. If this teaching attracts you, ask here and you will be able to ask all the questions which will come you. It will be answered there with the answers caused by this teaching.
