Student Notebook

Tantra Teachings
One of the Seven Victories in Tantric philosophy and practice is called manojavittvam.  Manojavittvam expresses the swiftness of thought and mind.  In this state of attainment, the mind visits all realms consciously.  When one sees the changes of consciousness [from the standpoint of the stable Witness], then comes the death of root ignorance.

The final victory in this system of the Seven Victories is called Sattva Purusha Nytakhyati.  Long before this the sadhaka realized he was not the five elements, but now he knows he is not even his thoughts about the five elements.  One gets the courage of one's convictions here.

From the chart:  "The Natural Unity of Vedic Religion and Philosophy"
There are three ways to view the diverse religions of humanity:
1 - Prati tantra siddhanta – wherein adherents and scholars compare and argue over various points of difference with the intent to prove the superiority of one over the others.
2 - Sarva tantra siddhanta – wherein diverse religions are all brought together with their practitioners and leaders in a congenial atmosphere to share their divergent views.
3 - Sahaja tantra siddhanta – this is the attitude of the Avatar and those with a comprehensive nondual perspective: all religions are already one.  One need not bring them together; they are facets of one diamond.  The only purpose for looking at them separately is to understand them and purify the mind.
Thus, one should choose one's philosophy and religion and practice them together.
 
In the 36 Cosmic Principles of Shaivism (Tantra), Raga is the power of attraction, adhesion, attachment, and involvement.  It is considered as a tattva, a cosmic principle.  What is it that attracts one to the lower tattvas, or attracts one to higher knowledge?  It is Raga.  Raga is part of the impure order because it can lead in two directions, either toward knowledge (higher tattvas of the pure order, or to ignorance, involvement and identification with the five elements).

Pratibijna is the power of recognition.  When one has this, then whatever is concealed by maya or ignorance can be brought out of hiding.  This is akin to smriti, retentive memory, in Vedanta.


Cosmic Principles and the Deities
The path of Knowledge, Jnana, concentrates on tattvas, cosmic principles.  The path of Devotion, Bhakti, focuses on deities.  Consciousness inhabits both tattvas and deities.  The mechanism for Pure Consciousness is awakened Intelligence.  Once this fire of Intelligence is ignited, these tattvas and deities will come out naturally.

If one follows the path of jnana, one needs to know tattvas.  If one follows the path of bhakti, one needs to know deities.  Tattvas and deities are not compartmentalized such that they will never meet.

When considering the tattvas of Mahat (cosmic mind), Buddhi (intellect), and Ahamkara ("I" sense) consider them in vyasti and samasti modes, that is, in their individual, collective, and cosmic aspects.  One should never think of these teachings without this triputi (triple teaching), otherwise one is not a whole person, perhaps not even one-third of a person.   Individual, collective, and cosmic modes are like stations – like a satellite station out in space that allows one to explore further and afar. One should never be without these three.

The ancestors, angels, gods and goddesses, want the subtle realms of name and form, so one has to propitiate them along the path to formlessness via transcendence.  Swami Aseshanandaji, my teacher, would say that in Vedanta we go to Enlightenment hand in hand.  It is a matter of all-inclusiveness, not negation.

We are all (individually and collectively) a kind of manager of the 24 Cosmic Principles.  We have to keep the different regions under control by keeping them in mind.  Then we can live in Lila (divine sport) rather than Maya, suffering.


The Universe is Mind Made Manifest
All this, what we perceive with external senses, is frozen thought, solidified intelligence.

The Indian way of learning music and scriptures is to commit it to memory at the outset.  In the West, we go to books, sheet music, learn a few facts, pass a test, and then forget about it.  But the Indian way is based upon the truism that all knowledge lies within.  All objects have therefore come out of one's mind.  They are not strange or separate from us.  What is strange is thinking they are separate or disconnected from us.  Proper thinking in this regard avoids the error of the sense of ownership and sense of separation.  The maya of all this is that we think objects are something to seek, acquire, hoard, etc.  Do not think in terms of ownership.  Then, you will not have to renounce it all later.....

A "good world" is like "hot ice."  It is a contradiction and it will never happen.  Why? Because the world begins in an imperfect mind.   Further, God has nothing to do with this.  It is acreate.

We have to avoid the sense of agency.  Why?  Because all action takes place in Nature, not in the Soul.  Further, Nature has come out of the Soul, which is unchanging and immutable.  This substratum that is unchanging is one's Soul, but we will not know this until we remove all that changes.

The five senses connect outwardly to the elements and inwardly to the mind.

Elements and senses connect back into the mind under these great principles of solidity, liquidity, visibility, tangibility, and audibility.  Everything comes out of these and goes back into them.

It is miraculous, this connection with the senses.  Make sure it remains miraculous.  There is intelligence in these mechanisms; use them purely.  Pure senses see everything purely and connect to a pure mind.

How long should people meditate?  Two hours for beginners.  Why?  Because it takes one hour just to calm the mind.  Then, when the mind is clear, one should use one's inner senses to see what is there.  This is seeing one's dreams from a conscious state.  Attaining this ability is a part of transcending the ajnana bhumikas (stages of ignorance).  And why should we care about seeing our dreams in our mind?  The point is, that we then see that everything lies in the mind.

Crystallized mind reacts to every suggestion of passion, whereas dissolved mind is aloof and impervious to such impurities.  What kind of mind one has predicates what kind of body one has.

The mind is dual by nature; all of creation partakes of this.  When one realizes this, one will start looking for the Original Mind.

Crystalized mind is dominated by the cosmic powers.


States of Consciousness
The Self is the whole of Consciousness; the lower self just does not know that yet.  When one transcends one's individuality, one will know the collective consciousness.  And when one transcends collective consciousness, one will know the Cosmic Consciousness.  From there, it is a subtle step to Brahman.

One needs to attain realization in the waking state or one's dreams will not become radiant.  Each night one experiences one's true nature in deep sleep but does not remember this upon waking.  One needs to strive to bring enlightened Consciousness into every state of consciousness.

Because the Indian Seers established a coherent philosophy for Reality, they could experience true Spirituality, which is far beyond religion.  They point to it with such words like Nirvana, Satori, Nirvikalpa Samadhi, and the like.

Sanskrit has provided words for all these subtle and transcendental experiences.  When we find words provided, how can we deny the existence of these experiences just because we do not have words for them in English?  Therefore, use the wisdom words to elicit higher consciousness.  This is the way of the Wisdom Word, the path of Sadakhya.

What is holding this dream together?  At last count there are 7 billion people holding this dream.  And that does not take into account the ancestors, the angels, the gods/goddesses, and the Trinity.  How many billions of souls are in all these realms?  The ancestors are looking up to the angels, and the angels look up to the gods and goddesses, and these are looking up to the Trinity, and they look up to AUM.  The Word is with God.  Each of these levels of being is a different akasha.  English does not have equivalents for certain Sanskrit words.  Akasha means vibratory atmospheres – from the most subtle to the most gross, until all becomes solidified.

Make the transitions between states of consciousness conscious.  Be the witness to the shift from waking to dream, and dream to deep sleep.  Soon, then, deep sleep may reveal the Light of Consciousness, ever awake.  Then you will have the insomnia of Yoga....

Realizing the gold of your true nature is best done in the waking state, in the "Bhurloka.”  Why? Because anything done in this state or plane registers in all other states.  We repeat in the dream state what we did in the waking state.  Illumine the waking state, then, and "your dreams will become radiant meditations on Reality."

AUM is for gaining mastery of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep states.  Gaining mastery of one's waking state is mastering personal karma, all based in transcending the six transformations of birth, growth, disease, old age, decay, and death.  Then one's dreams will become radiant meditations.  There will be no phantoms or fears, and other problems springing from the waking state.

Regarding the yama of ahimsa, nonviolence: fear attracts fear, and mastery of fear attracts peace.  My Ideal is to keep peace at all levels – waking, dream, and sleep, which corresponds to the realms of outer, inner, and cosmic forces.

The formless state is not alien to us, because we enter into it each night in deep sleep.  It also appears to us at death, in a deep and focused meditation, and in samadhi.

The dream state has forms; the waking state has grosser forms.


Prana
The yogis want us to control the physical prana in order to awaken the psychic prana.

There is no greater addiction in all the worlds than prana; life.  It is a huge benefit if one can get it under one's control.  Otherwise, there is constant transmigration.

The yogis do not start with controlling the senses.  That is nearly impossible.  They seek to control the power of the senses, prana.  The senses are alive with prana.  This is why they are so addictive.  We want to see everything, hear everything, and when we do not we get frustrated.  The sense of seeing is not the eyeball.  That is only the external apparatus.  Meditate, then, on the power of the eye to see, and reach deeper understanding.

Swami Vivekananda writes in the "Song of the Sannyasin," "This thirst for life forever quench."  This thirst for life is prana.  This is the source of all addictions — coffee, drugs, adventure, travel, experiences of all kinds.  And it is all centered at the manipura chakra, wherein countless nadis (subtle nerves) enter in and out, and through which transmigrating souls (ancestors) enter and exit human embodiment.  Getting over the addiction to prana, life force, means mastering the prana.  Then one can ride it like the Garuda Bird of Lord Vishnu.

Before one can fully recognize Shakti and Kundalini, one will have to recognize It in more basic things.  What is the reason for the flow of events?  Is it coincidence? Luck? Good fortune? Dharma?  Svadharma?  Svadharma, one's highest destiny, is the true intent of all things.

If one does not gain control of one's prana before death, it will be out of control during and after the dying process.  Unconscious death and a random rebirth will be the result.

When prana is sluggish, that is tamas; when out of control, it is rajas.

Whether one is in bondage or freedom, this prana is very important to control.


Right Orientation
Right View – people have it all wrong.  They go to work in ignorance; they think the world is real; they think that they are individuals, and thereby seek to satisfy their personal desires.  Due to this, karma fires back at them.

According to Lord Buddha, the five elements are our five desires.  In those rest the six transformations.  Krishna tells us that these all happen in Nature, not in the Soul/Atman.  Thus, from mind to manifestation, the ignorant are binding themselves into Nature.

The four signs that Buddha saw led him at an early age to recognize the truth of suffering.  Asceticism did not lead to the illumined state.

"Suffering is" — In Buddha's Four Noble Truths, this first truth is used in a positive rather than a pessimistic sense.  This is because pleasure puts one to sleep; pain wakes one up.

The first thing one learns in this tradition (Vedanta) is that God is real and the world is unreal.  But people whine, "Oh no, the world is not real."  Did they not hear the first part?  That God is Real?  If they heard that, then they would realize that the world is God.  Only God is real.  Only God exists.

The seers state that the Soul is birthless and deathless.  Starting with right orientation is so important.  It is no wonder people do not have a spiritual life; everything they are taught early on is a dead end.  Great souls do not celebrate births or birthdays.  Why teach souls that consciousness begins at birth?

Knowledge is like a pair of magic glasses.  Put them on and all is Brahman.  Take them off and it is all maya, the world.

There is no other reason for coming here but to realize one's divine nature.  Everything else is futile.  Haven't you noticed?  Scientists have told us that everything is made of particles vibrating at a rate of a billion times a second.  This sounds like the shifting sands, not the bedrock of the Spirit.

Association is okay, but identity is not.  One is never the objects of nature.  One is never the formulation; one is the formulator.  And one can refrain from making and taking form as well, by breaking out of form.  That bespeaks of freedom.

Everything in creation bespeaks of a lack of equilibrium – a state of being out of balance.  Thus, the world is made of ignorance; not love, not intelligence.  This is a very profound philosophy that informs the soul of its predicament in maya.  Once this information has been delivered into the mind, then one can seek the intelligent particle underlying the demiurge to create, to formulate.  Then, and then only, do love and intelligence show themselves up as the foundation of everything.  Until then, neti neti, emptiness, and renunciation are the names of the game.

Name and form have covered formlessness, and you are that formlessness.  You are the sentient Principle.

The first step of spiritual life is to see that Nature and Spirit are connected.  The second step is to want to disconnect.

"Sheath," "upadhi," and "body" are just expressions for That which is "inside."  The vehicle/container can be destroyed, but nothing happens to the contents.  Teach your children this.

One has to make a distinction between the evolving and the nonevolving soul.  Also between the individual and the collective; otherwise, one's discrimination will be awry.

What are we to renounce as householders?  First look inside your mind for all those things you tend to brood on, then renounce those.

You did not come here to bring Brahman into the world; that is not possible. You have come to realize the world in Brahman.

If one does not believe in karma and reincarnation, then one's god is luck, fortune, serendipity, mercy, grace.  It is not then based on reason, and certainly not the experience of the seers.  Freud and Jung did not work with any Hindus in their lifetime, but focused only within the limited box of European mind which was fixated on the one lifetime scenario.  But even an ignorant Hindu will accept that he or she has lived many lifetimes.  We have a long way to go in the West.....

One problem with hatha yoga is that the practitioner sits and runs a hundred poses through his mind.  But thoughts of God? How many times do they come up in one session?  Probably not even once.  But it is meditation, union with God, that is the purpose of all Yoga.


Rehearsing for Death
Shakti comes out of the Ultimate Reality of Parasiva and Parashakti (like Brahman and Shakti in Vedanta).  One is to use the power of Shakti to dissolve everything into Siva and bring it all out anew, in consciousness.  We do this every night when we dissolve the waking state into the dream state, and the dream state into the deep sleep state.  Practicing this consciously, one "rehearses" for death and lives a conscious life.  May all beings pass the "audition"….

The lowest hell in Yogic Life is fear of death.  Go around the neighborhoods and ask everyone if they are afraid to die – the truthful ones will say "yes."  So, isn't everyone living in hell?

The breadcrumb trail of cosmology and philosophy leading us back to our Source has been pecked away at by the two little birds of forgetfulness and complacency.  However, by engaging in svadhyaya and aparigraha (study of scripture and nonindulgence) one can retrace them via the akashic record they leave behind.  The clay cup may be destroyed, but the akasha it occupied has not been destroyed.  One can "see" this imprint on subtle space via subtle sight.  This is stated from the context of separating the senses from their objects.  Therefore, in meditation, we are to separate these sets of fives – the five elements connected to the five senses, connected to the five subtle elements, and to the five pranas, etc.  Those who do not separate them develop a habitual and unconscious connection that routes them right back into embodiment after the bardo of death.

Human beings get in and out of the body through the mind.

Non-origination
This is the first principle of Vedanta – the birthlessness and deathlessness of not just God or you, but of Nature too.

[During this discussion, Babaji talked about the four states of consciousness described in Vedanta: waking, dream, and dreamless sleep, and the fourth state, which is the unaffected and eternal Witness of the first three at their individual, collective, and cosmic levels.  He related these to the "kingdoms of heaven within" and also connected them to Dalai Lama's example of the different "realities" associated with what we recognize as a tree.]  There is the illusion tree that we see with our external senses.  Then there is the real tree that science has discovered as a mass of swirling atomic particles.  Finally there is the Buddha Nature tree, its unchanging Essence/Existence.  The illusion tree is seen in our waking state. The real tree is seen in our dream state and disappears into its cause in our deep sleep state.  The Buddha Nature tree is "seen" in the state of Turiya.  What this proves to us is that nothing is "created"; every-thing is unoriginated, but rises and falls according to the differing states of our awareness.

Suffering from the sense of separation, one thinks: I am separate from you; this race is separate from other races; man is separate from God; Nature is separate from God, etc….  All these are misconceptions.  Did Christ talk about sin and damnation?  No.  That was foisted on us later.  Christ built His teachings on "I and my Father are one," and "Be thee perfect as God in heaven is perfect."  But the Church Fathers latched onto "In the beginning was the Word."  That refers to origins.  But He knew that all was originless, unoriginated, eternal.

Nature of Disease and Health
One's "I" is disease-less.  The true "I", if it can be called that, does not get born and does not die.  So how can it have a disease?  Disease is in the mind* and it shows up later in the body.  It has nothing to do with "I."  *[at individual, collective, and cosmic levels, which is another reason why Samadhi must be practiced, because it purifies the mind at all three levels.]

Patanjali wants us to have a healthy body, mind and Spirit.  Of course, the Spirit is ever healthy, but one has to locate It first before one realizes this.

Our Prayers are Already Answered
"Let us pray to God for things."  This thought is completely alien to my Tradition.  The prayer already happened before you took the body, and this world was the result of that prayer.  One prayed for liquid to drink, a solid earth to walk on, light to see, (the five elements) etc.  Now, here is your prayer, answered.  What are you going to do with it is the question.

Here is a bit of dialogue not included in most scriptures.  When we prayed to God for the five elements, God said, "Here you are, but the truth is, is that they are all in your mind to begin with.  If you want a world, go ahead and manifest one.   Here are 7 billion souls; get together with them and manifest the earth.  You don't have to stop there, either, get together with the ancestors and project some heaven realms as well.  But please leave Me out of that mess."


Sadhana – Spiritual Practice
Mundane human convention means: "I'm not a practicing Jew, Sufi, Christian, Hindu," etc.  Why not?  Practice is what keeps us on the cutting edge of realization.  Without it one feels dull, becomes worldly.  Something is missing.  Krishna states, "What is like poison at first and becomes nectar in the end – this is sattvic; this is what we want.  So accomplish what is hard now and be blissful later.

The desire for Freedom leads one to sadhana.  This is not perfect, no doubt.  One is already perfect, yet one is doing sadhana to get perfect; it is a sort of contradiction.  So think, therefore, that the Self is perfect but one has to purify the mental mechanism in order to realize It.  In other words, sadhana is for the mind, not the Soul.

Right orientation is essential for sadhana.  Some people meditate at retreats for eight hours for thirty days.  But they are not enlightened thereby.  Most just get blown out of the water.  On the other hand, if they meditated in the proper spirit on the mantra and Ishtam for fifteen minutes, they would soon realize God.  Further, do they come out of meditation and serve others?  Most just put it on their resumes.  God exists with eyes closed and with eyes open.  Meditate in the manner of service.

Children learning to swim stay on the surface of the water.  They do not yet swim under water.  Then they get a mask and snorkel but still do not go under water, yet they can now see the depths.  Next, they learn to shallow dive in a tiny arch.  Finally, they get a teacher who teaches them to tuck and dive straight down.  Similar to this, beginning spiritual aspirants remain on the surface of realization.  Soon, they can see the depths, but not go there yet.  After some strong practice, they can tuck and "dive deep into the ocean of God's beauty, coming forth with the gems of love and wisdom."

It is very important to meditate on the chitta.  Called the "stuff of the mind," chitta means one's thoughts.  But thoughts, left unmined and unrefined, only result in coagulation, density.  Then one is "stuffed" with errant thoughts or, "full of it," as the saying goes.  Rumination, contemplation, lucubration, meditation – these processes assay the gold of the mind while purifying the dross in thought.  Pure thoughts rise, like hot air balloons.  Negative thoughts sink, like rainwater, to the lowest level, and stagnate there.  As the great teaching of Lord Buddha puts it, "Errant thoughts are liberated in the dharmakaya."  The dharmakaya is the body of wisdom teachings that inform and purify the mind and its thoughts.  Therefore, a great formula for life among those who are fit and ready for spiritual practice is that you need two things: All is Brahman, and the wisdom teachings.  Leave all else aside for now, and immerse mind and its thoughts into these two.....

What is knowledge if it is not for bliss?  Whether one is a beginner or an adept, bhakti (devotion) is to be cultivated.

Be about delimiting your mind so you do not limit Reality/Soul, which is unlimited.

Truth will not attract worldly people because, to paraphrase Sri Ramakrishna, they have the rust of ignorance on the magnet of their mind.  Only a salt solution will take rust off.  So cry tears of yearning for God and purify the mind.

Seek the wisdom teachings and you will avoid false and conventional religion.

There are four appropriate topics for satsang: Brahman, Ishvara, Sadhana, and if you have to bring it up, Maya (the world and its suffering, evil, and misery).

The revealed scriptures talk about:
Brahman – as Brahman
Ishvara – God coming into the human tabernacle
Sadhana – there must be a way to realize That
Maya – what stands in our way

The real yogic masters come to earth and see that the people of our culture have no time to practice Yoga, so they give mantra and Ishtam to meditate upon.  These are swift and efficient of practice.

At first, when I practiced my mantra, I found it to be a protective coating.  Then it became a bubbling spring of ambrosia.  Now I cannot stop repeating it.

The Three Alluring Offerings are bhajan (devotional singing), arati (devotions at the altar), and puja (ceremonial worship).  This means that God takes up residence in the human body.  As Sri Ramakrishna has stated, "God is with form, formless, and beyond both form and formlessness."

Qualification is King
If one has not qualified oneself, then spiritual life does not go well.  People fail their path and then try another and fail that one too.  They develop a habit around failing the spiritual goal and this becomes a samskara around failure and backsliding.  It is difficult to overcome this.  So get qualified.

If one does not accept "suffering is," then one has not set foot on the path in Buddhism.  If one thinks the world is one's oyster – that one can be fulfilled here – then one has not even started to qualify oneself for Buddhism.  Christ said, "Birds have nests, and foxes have holes, but the son of Man has no place to lay his head."  He also instructed us to store up riches in heaven, not on earth.  Accepting the truth of suffering is equal to spiritual awakening.

In Vedanta and Yoga, one is going to contemplate the alambanas (cosmic principles) and get mastery over them.  These will then be incapable of causing fear anymore, and one can renounce them.

Mastery conquers fear and leads to enlightenment.

In order to enter Samadhi, one will have to get a divorce from Nature.  This cosmic document, form "K-108" in the akashic registry, is called Kaivalya – isolation from all forms.  When one realizes the interconnectedness of all things, one will separate oneself from Nature.

Most peoples' lack of progress is due to not making a conclusion, a siddhanta.  They live in a state of indeterminacy.

Before sitting in ekasana, one should have acquainted oneself with the yamas and niyamas.


Yoga, Vedanta, Karma, and more
Regarding the yama of asteya, non-coveting: why does one brood on objects? The tendency starts in one's mind.  It is there first, and then it manifests outwardly.  Curb it in the mind.

When you have the thorn of knowledge and the thorn of ignorance together, removed from your flesh, then toss them both away – that's Bliss, (the realization of nondual Reality).
Vedanta wants you to renounce everything.  Tantra wants you to purify everything.

Vedanta starts at the level of the mind when it teaches people, as opposed to starting with the body or the prana.

The fourfold mind (antahkarana) divides everything into twos.  The wisdom teachings of our tradition places them into threes (triputis).  The foundation for understanding this is to take stock of everything by fives (pancha, or quintuplication processes).

The brain is not the seat of Intelligence, mind is.  Mind is the Kingdoms of Heaven within us.  Brain is a mere noodle that decays with the body.

Neutralizing karma – it is not enough to shift a weight from one shoulder to the other; that shoulder will just get sore in turn.  You need to distribute the weight evenly.  In other words, do not try to carry karma, neutralize it.

If we are indivisible, why do we break up into separate units?  This is where some philosophical systems talk about the desire for sport, or lila.

Live in truth – God's, Nature's, or Maya's.  God's Truth is transcendence.  Nature's truth is birth, growth, disease, and death.  Maya's truth is covering and distorting.  There is nothing evil there, only a lot of limitations.  So why not live as a yogi in the world if you can?  It is only by transcending the level of problems and limits that one gets free.

Find a favorite perspective – tattvas, akashas, worlds – this will help you shed dense baggage in the mind.  Knowledge gives you this immediately, whether spiritual or secular.  So, one says, "I just want secular knowledge and I am not interested in God.  I am not going to go 'there.'"  Even so, one will get concentration and give up dense baggage.  What is this dense baggage?  Brooding, worry, etc. But see here, the book you are concentrating on came out of you, both its form and its knowledge.  And now you are studying it like both are separate from you.

Enlightenment destroys the karma of wealth, power, and pleasure by destroying the desire to seek after them.

It is Mother who bestows the "cloth" of a Teacher, but the teacher is ready to hand it back when She wishes so.  She may put us out to pasture, but we will not "moo" like the cows.  We'll turn it around and "Om" like the seers.


Pithy Points to Ponder
There is a reason why we cannot find God in the world.  God is not a form.  And when one realizes this, then one knows that the awareness in human beings is the only God here, "walking around on two legs."

Aum is the greatest lullaby of all time.  It puts sleep to sleep forever.

There are many people who have Light, but that does not mean they are enlightened.

If one says there is a void, there has to be a witness of the void.  In its purest form this Witness is indivisible Consciousness.

Use your Savior as a doorway, not a doormat.  Do not worship the personality to the extent that it becomes a barrier.  Principles are more important than personalities.

Vedantists do not believe in going to heaven, they believe in gaining Enlightenment.

If we could see the light of Brahman, we would go to It like a moth to flame.  It is irresistible, yet we do not see It.  Why? Because we have these outer senses to deal with.

Why get bored?  Get peaceful instead.

If the heart is infused with the power of Kundalini, it reflects off of the mind as equanimity.

What does "time out of mind mean?"  It means that time is an illusion.

Man and woman should worship each other.  One is God, and the other is Goddess.  Let Siva and Shakti return to life on earth.

As we grow up, no one tells us how to live for others.  The ego develops in selfishness.  Therefore, one becomes deluded.