Ascending

There's been a lot of talk lately of ascending, and that this time now, give or take a few years, is the time it is happening, for reasons seemingly known to some; but for most it is a time of questions, with ascension being the most high-lighted. It is possible that with all the angel messages going around, the words ascension and angels having mostly Christian/religious undertones this whole ascension business could just be a western Christian religious conspiracy that has been picked up on and promoted and grown out of proportion to its original message. Nevertheless, man's search for God takes many forms, ascension being one.

The dictionary meaning of the word ascending is: the act of ascending, to move upwards, rise, as when Jesus bodily ascended to heaven; but heaven is a place inside and not up in the heavens/stars.
The best use of the word ascend/to rise, would be when our consciousness, placed in that heaven, inside us, rises from the Maya and becomes aware of the divinity residing in our hearts, so much so, that bliss would be the natural state; Maya being anything not of the divine that takes you away: ego, lust, desire, anger, greed, to name a few; and to get to heaven with these hanging about your soul would be a hard job indeed.

Karma and ego being the things that would draw you away from that state of being. Karma is: how much you have allowed yourself to slip into the Maya, and then the time and effort it takes to work your way back up out of that. And ego being the awareness of other than that divinity.

When you are trying to become aware totally of that divinity then ego becomes a monster; but when you are cleansed enough of karma by silent meditation and allowing the heavy weights to fall away, and quieting ego enough so you're able to rise beyond that, then ascension is possible. There are other words for ascension: enlightenment, bliss, joy, fulfilment. But the boundaries of separation are the concepts that keep us separate from the divine, and so through a distorted reality we view the world.

The whole ascension process can be complicated by our own minds.
Where would you even begin to find your way out of such a maze?
What path would you take? Which guru/wise one would you follow to guide you there? Maybe you would try them all until you found the one. Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, etc, etc, etc, all could have taken you there and shown you where to look, but they are all gone now of course. But maybe there is one alive now that could do the job. It starts with you, and ends with you; and when you ask the right question; when you call out with honesty, you will be answered, and surely you can begin to find your way home.

It is a clue to your life to stand by the ocean and look in, to realize the hugeness, and the smallness are in you, and that there is no distance between the two, where even the monkeys of thought can hardly come; a sailboat of love in the peaceful swell of bliss sailing there beyond the thoughts.
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