The Fragrance of The Spirit May 11, 2009

The fragrance of the Spirit April 3, 2009

The fragrance of the Spirit

You smell it.          It comes from one’s Heart.          He or She, or It loves.          One’s Heart speaks.          Your Heart listens to It.          What kind of Joy!

Some similar words from Guru Nanak

‘We must first subdue our ego,    Sing praises of the Lord    And then our hearts too will be fragrant.’

‘As the honey-bee seeks honey in flowers   My soul which is ever athirst   Seeks Thy lotus feet   To slake its thirst for nectar.’

In the Movie “Stigmata” they describe the same experience.

SHRI DEVI GITA June 28, 2008

SHRI DEVI GITA by Shri Giridhar Madras Introduction: Devi gita constitutes the last ten chapters of the seventh Skandha of the Devi Bhagavatam. In the puranas, one will find several gitas and many mahatmyas. The differences are that in the mahatmya, the glorification of the deity is by recounting the various deeds of the God and offering praise to the divinity. A gita, on the other hand, is a direct revelation of the truth from the disciple, which often includes the manifestation of the cosmic form. While mahatymas emphasize bhakti, gita stresses a balance of bhakti and jnana. Specifically, we are interested in discussing the Devi gita. To avoid any confusion and also be aware, there are two other devi gitas. The first of which is found in the Kurma purana. This is a conversation with Parvati and Himavan, introduced by Lord Vishnu as Kurma. Goddess Parvati is praised here by 1008 names and She grants him two cosmic visions and instructs him. The other devi gita is found in the Mahabhagavata purana, which actually refers to the conversation of Parvati and Himavan as Parvati Gita. The narrator of this section of the Mahabhagavata Purana is Lord Shiva. However, by Devi gita, we refer only to the gita found in the Devi Bhagavatam. Setting: The setting of the Devi gita is introduced by Janamejaya’s query to Vyasa regarding the supreme light who became manifest on top of the Himalaya mountain. Vyasa talks about the demon Taraka, who has obtained a boon that he can be killed only by the son of Lord Shiva, knowing fully well that Sati has immolated herself. Therefore, the gods became scared and went to Himalayas and worshipped Her asking to born and marry Lord Shiva. Shakti then appears before them and grants them a boon that her manifestation will be born as Gauri as the daughter of Himavan. Himalaya becomes choked with emotion when he hears that She, whose belly contains millions of universes, is about to become his daughter. He requests as follows, “Proclaim to me your nature, and declare that yoga conjoined with bhakti and that jnana in accord shruti whereby you and I become one.” This sets the scene for Devi Gita and the teachings. Brief summary: In the Devi gita, following Himalayas request, the Devi proceeds to describe her essential forms. The Devi declares that prior to creation, She is the only existent entity, the one supreme Brahman and is pure consciousness. Then She outlines the basic evolution of the causal, subtle and gross bodies of the supreme Self when enjoined with maya. The treatment here is very similar to that of Vedantasara and Panchadasi, but in much more simpler terms than the latter. Then She reveals Her forms (both the frightful and pleasing) to the gods and Himalaya. Then follows a detailed summary of the yoga, the stages of bhakti and the ways to attain Her. Simplicity and Profoundness: Devi gita is both simple and profound. It is different from other gitas in the respect that statements are clear and can not be reinterpreted according to one’s taste. For example, several commentaries have been written on the Bhagavad Gita of Krishna, wherein each commentator feels differently regarding bhakti and jnana. For example, it required Madhusudana Saraswati to explain krama mukti in clear terms (though Shankara mentions it also) of bhakti. But Devi Gita is clear: “Even when a person performs bhakti, knowledge need not arise. He will go to the Devi’s Island (similar to Brahmaloka). Till the complete knowledge in the form of my consciousness arises, there is no liberation.” Similarly, the word of ‘coming’, ‘going’, ‘becoming’ cause confusion since one can not become Brahman, if one is already one. The Devi Gita provides a clear explanation that all these terms are applicable only as long as one in maya. It is the clarity of these terms and the simple explanation of complex vedantic and philosophical questions that makes Devi Gita unique. Start of chapter 33: The Devi said: “O Giriraja ! This whole universe, moving and unmoving is created by My maya shakti. This maya is conceived in Me. It is not, in reality, different or separate from Me. So I am the only Chit, Intelligence. There is no other Intelligence other than Me. Viewed practically, it is known variously as Maya, avidya; but viewed from the point of Brahman, there is no such thing as Maya. Only one Brahman exists, I am that Brahman, of the nature of Intelligence. I create this whole world on this Unchangeable eternal Brahman and enter first as Prana within it in the form of chidabhasa. O Mountain ! Unless I enter as Breath, how can this birth and death and leaving and retaking bodies after bodies be accounted for! As one akasa is denominated variouslty as Ghatakas, patakas, so too I appear variously by acknowledging this prana in various places due to avidya and various antahkaranas. As the sun rays are never defiled when they illumine various objects on earth, so too, I am not defiled in entering thus into various high and low antahkaranas. The ignorant people attach buddhi and other things of activity on Me and say that the Atman is the doer. The intelligent people do not say that. I remain as the Witness in the hearts of all men, not as the Doer.” SHRI DEVI GITA Shri Giridhar Madras 1) Sri Mata — Sacred Mother (feminine); the Seer, the Seen and the Seeing. — The Knower; the Measurer (masculine) — “For Whom all creatures are born.” Taittiriya Upanishad 3. 2 Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Ass. Advertisers and Printers, 1989. “The Saktas worship the Universal Energy as Mother; it is the sweetest name they know. The mother is the highest ideal of womanhood in India. [...] Mother is the first manifestation of power and is considered a higher idea than father. The name of mother brings the idea of Shakti, Divine energy and omnipotence. The baby believes its mother to be all-powerful, able to do anything. The Divine Mother is the Kundalini sleeping in us; without worshipping Her, we can never know ourselves. All merciful, all-powerful, omnipresent – these are attributes of the Divine Mother. She is the sum total of the energy in the Universe. Every manifestation of power in the universe is Mother. She is Life, She is Intelligence, She is Love. She is in the universe, yet separate from it. She is a person, and can be seen and known – as Sri Ramakrishna saw and knew Her. Established in the idea of Mother, we can do anything. She quickly answers prayers. She can show Herself to us in any form at any moment. The Divine Mother can have form (rupa) and name (nama), or name without form; and as we worship Her in these various aspects, we can rise to Pure Being, having neither form nor name. The sum-total of all the cells in an organism is one person. Each soul is like one cell, and the sum of them is God. And beyond that is the Absolute. The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is the Divine Mother. She is time, space and causation. Mother is the same as Brahman and has two natures; the conditioned and the unconditioned. As the former, She is God, nature and soul. As the latter, she is unknown and unknowable. Out of the Unconditioned came the trinity, God, nature and soul – the triangle of existence. A bit of Mother, a drop, was Krishna; another was Buddha. The worship of even one spark of Mother in our earthly mother leads to greatness. Worship Her if you want love and wisdom.” Swami Vivekananda, “Inspired Talks, My Master and Other Writings”, Wed. July 2,1895, Ramakrishna- Vivekananda Center, NY, pp. 48-49. “The Goddess is the great Sakti. She is Maya, for of her the maya which produces the samsara is. As Lord of Maya she is Mahamaya. Devi is avidya because she binds, and vidya because she liberates and destroys the samsara. She is praktri and as existing before creation is the Adya Sakti. Devi is the Vacaka Sakti, the manifestation of Cit in Praktri, and the Vicya Sakti or Cit itself. The Atma should be contemplated as Devi. Sakti or Devi is thus the Brahman revealed in the mother aspect (Srimata) as creatrix and nourisher of the worlds. Kali say of herself in Yogini Tantra: “I am the bodily form of Saccidananda and I am the brahman that has emanated from brahman.” K. K. Klostermaier, Hinduism: A Short History, Oneworld Pub., 2000, p. 211. THE PRIMEVAL ENERGY One of the unique features of Hinduism is the fact that it conceives Divinity also as Mother Goddess. When Divinity has no name or form – which is the most important declaration of the Upanishads, the next logical step is to recognize that the Supreme has no specifity in terms of gender. The Upanishads transcend the gender-specific connotation and invent the unique Sanskrit word tat, meaning ‘that’ for that Supreme Reality. And therefore they argue, whatever reason or rhyme we have in referring to God by a masculine pronoun, the same right there is for us to call God by a feminine pronoun. The energy of every Cosmic Divinity is taken to be feminine and thus arises the interesting concept of primordial power or the [[Parâshakti] ], which means ‘Power Supreme’. BRAHMAN TO BE KNOWN, SHAKTI TO BE WORSHIPPED The primordial Parâshakti is therefore the ultimate dynamic energy of the transcendental Brahman, than which there is no other existence. In fact it is technically wrong to say that She (Parâshakti) is the Energy of Brahman, because the nature of Brahman does not allow any attributes or predicates.The moment we attribute anything to Brahman we have already delimited and circumscribed it. When we talk of the Energy of the Ultimate Reality we have already descended one step from the supreme pedestal of the Unmanifested Attributeless Ultimate. But the beauty of the concept of Parâshakti is that She is transcendent beyond anything that is finite and immanent in everything there is. So while we predicate it and relate it to other things, it is still the Ultimate Supreme that can be talked about. While Brahman has only to be cognized, Parâshakti can be worshipped with a name and form. She is the Divine Will personified. She is the Conscious Power beyond everything. She is the Presence, invisible and constant, that sustains the world, linking form and name, holding them in interdependence. There is nothing impossible for Her. She is the Universal Goddess. She is all knowledge, all strength, all triumph and all victory. She is the Goddess Supreme (Maheshvari) who brings to us the total state of illumination. Devi Mahatmyam

Bible and alcohol – Luke 12:45 – Christ warned against drunkenness June 8, 2008

1) Genesis 9:20-26 – Noah became drunk; the result was immorality and family trouble. 2) Genesis 19:30-38 – Lot was so drunk he did not know what he was doing; this led to immorality 3) Leviticus 10:9-11 – God commanded priests not to drink so that they could tell the difference between the holy and the unholy. 4) Numbers 6:3 – The Nazarites were told to eat or drink nothing from the grape vine. 5) Deuteronomy 21:20 – A drunken son was stubborn and rebellious. 6) Deuteronomy 29:5-6 – God gave no grape juice to Israel nor did they have intoxicating drink in the wilderness. 7) Deuteronomy 32:33 – Intoxicating wine is like the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps. Judges 13:4, 7, 14 – Samson was to be a Nazarite for life. His mother was told not to drink wine or strong drink. 9) 1 Samuel 1:14-15 – Accused, Hannah said she drank no wine. 10) 1 Samuel 25:32-38 – Nabal died after a drunken spree. 11) 2 Samuel 11:13 – By getting Uriah drunk, David hoped to cover his sin. 12) 2 Samuel 13:28-29 – Amnon was drunk when he was killed. 13) 1 Kings 16:8-10 – The king was drinking himself into drunkenness when he was assassinated 14) 1 Kings 20:12-21 – Ben-Hadad and 32 other kings were drinking when they were attacked and defeated by the Israelites. 15) Esther 1:5-12 – The king gave each one all the drink he wanted. The king was intoxicated when he commanded the queen to come. 16) Psalm 75:8 – The Lord’s anger is pictured as mixed wine poured out and drunk by the wicked. 17) Proverbs 4:17 – Alcoholic drink is called the wine of violence. 18) Proverbs 20:1 – Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging. 19) Proverbs 23:19-20 – A wise person will not be among the drinkers of alcoholic beverages. 20) Proverbs 23:21 – Drunkenness causes poverty. 21) Proverbs 23:29-30 – Drinking causes woe, sorrow, fighting, babbling, wounds without cause and red eyes. 22) Proverbs 23:31 – God instructs not to look at intoxicating drinks. 23) Proverbs 23:32 – Alcoholic drinks bite like a serpent, sting like an adder. 24) Proverbs 23:33 – Alcohol causes the drinker to have strange and adulterous thoughts, produces willfulness, and prevents reformation. 25) Proverbs 23:34 – Alcohol makes the drinker unstable 26) Proverbs 23:35 – Alcohol makes the drinker insensitive to pain so he does not perceive it as a warning. Alcohol is habit forming. 27) Proverb 31:4-5 – Kings, Princes, and others who rule and judge must not drink alcohol. Alcohol perverts good judgment. 28) Proverbs 31:6-7 – Strong drink could be given to those about to perish or those in pain. Better anesthetics are available today. 29) Ecclesiastes 2:3 – The king tried everything, including intoxicating drink, to see if it satisfied. It did not. (Ecclesiastes 12:8) 30) Ecclesiastes 10:17 – A land is blessed when its leaders do not drink. 31) Isaiah 5:11-12 – Woe to those who get up early to drink and stay up late at night to get drunk. 32) Isaiah 5:22 – Woe to “champion” drinkers and “experts” at mixing drinks. 33) Isaiah 19:14 – Drunken men stagger in their vomit. 34) Isaiah 22:12-13 – The Israelites choose to drink; their future looks hopeless to them. 35) Isaiah 24:9 – Drinkers cannot escape the consequences when God judges. 36) Isaiah 28:1 – God pronounces woe on the drunkards of Ephraim. 37) Isaiah 28:3 – Proud drunkards shall be trodden down. 38) Isaiah 28:7 – Priests and prophets stagger and reel from beer and wine, err in vision, and stumble in judgment. 39) Isaiah 28:8 – Drinkers’ tables are covered with vomit and filth. 40) Isaiah 56:9-12 – Drinkers seek their own gain and expect tomorrow to be just like today. 41) Jeremiah 35:2-14 – The Rechabites drank no grape juice or intoxicating wine and were blessed. 42) Ezekiel 44:21 – Again God instructed the priests not to drink wine. 43) Daniel 1:5-17 – Daniel refused the king’s intoxicating wine and was blessed for it along with his abstaining friends. 44) Daniel 5:1 – Belshazzar, ruler of Babylon; led his people in drinking. 45) Daniel 5:2-3 – The king, along with his nobles, wives, and concubines, drank from the goblets which had been taken from God’s temple. 46) Daniel 5:4 – Drinking wine was combined with praising false gods. 47) Daniel 5:23 – God sent word to Belshazzar that punishment would be swift for the evil he had committed. 48) Hosea 4:11 – Intoxicating wine takes away intelligence. 49) Hosea 7:5 – God reproves princes for drinking. 50) Joel 1:5 – Drunkards awake to see God’s judgment. 51) Joel 3:3 – The enemy is judged for selling girls for wine. 52) Amos 2:8 – Unrighteous acts of Israel included the drinking of wine which had been taken for the payment of fines. 53) Amos 2:12 – Israel is condemned for forcing Nazarites to drink wine. 54) Micah 2:11 – Israelites are eager to follow false teachers who prophesy plenty of intoxicating drinks. 55) Nahum 1:10 – The drunkards of Nineveh will be destroyed by God. 56) Habakkuk 2:5 – A man is betrayed by wine. 57) Habakkuk 2:15 – Woe to him that gives his neighbor drink. 58) Habakkuk 2:16 – Drinking leads to shame. 59) Matthew 24:48-51 – A drinking servant is unprepared for his Lord’s return. 60) Luke 1:15 – John the Baptist drank neither grape juice nor wine. 61) Luke 12:45 – Christ warned against drunkenness. 62) Luke 21:34 – Drunkenness will cause a person not to be ready for the Lord’s return. 63) Romans 13:13 – Do not walk in drunkenness or immorality. 64) Romans 14:21 – Do not do anything that will hurt your testimony as a believer. 65) 1 Corinthians 5:11 – If a Christian brother is a drinker, do not associate with him. 66) 1 Corinthians 6:10 – Drunkards will not inherit the kingdom of God 67) Galatians 5:21 – Acts of the sinful nature, such as drunkenness, will prohibit a person from inheriting the kingdom of God. 68) Ephesians 5:18 – In contrast to being drunk with wine, the believer is to be filled with the Spirit. 69) 1 Thessalonians 5:6-7 – Christians are to be alert and self-controlled, belonging to the day. Drunkards belong to the night and darkness. 70) 1 Timothy 3:2-3 – Bishops (elders) are to be temperate, sober, and not near any wine. 71) 1 Timothy 3:8 – Deacons are to be worthy of respect and not drinkers. 72) 1 Timothy 3:11 – Deacons’ wives are to be temperate and sober. 73) Titus 1:7-8 – An overseer is to be disciplined. 74) Titus 2:2-3 – The older men and older women of the church are to be temperate and not addicted to wine. 75) 1 Peter 4:3-4 – The past life of drunkenness and carousing has no place in the Christian’s life.

THE WORLD IS LIKE A DANCE… April 18, 2008

The world as we view it, is much like a dance, you can take what is coming and live it by chance… Or seek answers to questions and live it by choice, just follow your heart and answer its voice.

Chance brings that karmic phenomenon, manifested reactions from what you have done. Look for a place that’s hidden within, search for the message, that’s where to begin.

Talk to yourself, have conversation inside, it’s a matter of choice, create from the mind. Picture yourself in a world all your own, then bring it to life from the seed to the sown.

Search & discover the source of white light, don’t settle for anything, reach for the heights. Your goals are the answer to what you achieve, and it’s almost like magic when you start to believe.

Truth & intuition …bring gifts to rejoice, go it by chance or live it by choice!

THE STATE OF STHITAPRAJNA – INTEGRATION STATE April 16, 2008

As you know yoga is union, connection or integration between individual and the collective consciousness. This state was beautifully described in Gita, chapter 2.

54. What, O Krishna, is the description of him who has steady wisdom and is merged in the state of Sthitaprajna? How does one of steady wisdom speak? How does he sit? How does he walk? 55. When a man completely casts off, O Arjuna, all the desires of the mind and is satisfied in the Self by the Self, then is he said to be one of steady wisdom! 56. He whose mind is not shaken by adversity, who does not hanker after pleasures, and who is free from attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage of steady wisdom. 57. He who is everywhere without attachment, on meeting with anything good or bad, who neither rejoices nor hates, his wisdom is fixed. 58. When, like the tortoise which withdraws its limbs on all sides, he withdraws his senses from the sense-objects, then his wisdom becomes steady. 59. The objects of the senses turn away from the abstinent man, leaving the longing (behind); but his longing also turns away on seeing the Supreme. 60. The turbulent senses, O Arjuna, do violently carry away the mind of a wise man though he be striving (to control them)! 61. Having restrained them all he should sit steadfast, intent on Me; his wisdom is steady whose senses are under control. 62. When a man thinks of the objects, attachment to them arises; from attachment desire is born; from desire anger arises.

This description is in compliance with Patanjali’s “Yogas citta vrtti nirodhah”

EVIL DOES NOT EXIST April 14, 2008

This has a thought provoking message no matter how you believe. Does evil exist?

The university professor challenged his students with this question. Did God create everything that exists? A student bravely replied yes, he did!” “God created everything?” The professor asked. “Yes, sir,” the student replied.

The professor answered, “If God created everything, then God created evil since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are then God is evil.” The student became quiet before such an answer.

The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said, “Can I ask you a question professor?” “Of course”, replied the professor. The student stood up and asked, “Professor, does cold exist?”

“What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?” The students snickered at the young man’s question.

The young man replied, “In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Everybody and every object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (- 460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have too little heat.

The student continued. “Professor, does darkness exist?”

The professor responded, “Of course it does”.

The student replied, “Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton’s prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn’t this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.”

Finally the young man asked the professor. “Sir, does evil exist?”

Now uncertain, the professor responded, “Of course as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man’s inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. “These manifestations are nothing else but evil.”

To this the student replied, “Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love, that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God’s love present in his heart. It’s like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.”

The professor sat down.

Some people claim that young man’s name was Albert Einstein

 

SELF – CONFIDENCE April 11, 2008

The word ‘Self – Confidence’ has got a great meaning. When we say lack of ‘Self – Confidence’, it means lack of understanding one’s own Self. And why do we fail to do that is because we don’t know how much power each individual has within himself.

Following is an attempt to understand our real inner -self and how understanding of that helps us build up the Self – Confidence and thus become a Fearless person.

The lack of Self – Confidence within a person implies some obstruction on the 4th Centre ( Anahata / Heart Chakra ). After Self – Realization, when this Heart chakra is enlightened, divine vibrations start flowing through this chakra.

These divine vibrations make you feel strong and make you confident of taking the right decisions. You can take the right decisions because of the wisdom that developes within you with the enlightenment of the 1st Centre ( Mooladhara Chakra ).

Related topics:

MIND or HEART?

GOD CAN BE KNOWN April 10, 2008

 

You don’t have to believe in God in order to experience God. — Deepak Chopra – Ageless Body, Timeless Mind and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

According to Chopra, the brain is hardwired to know God. The human nervous system has seven biological responses that correspond to seven levels of divine experience. These are shaped not by any one religion (they are shared by all faiths), but by the brain’s need to take an infinite, chaotic universe and find meaning in it.

How to Know God describes the quest each of us is on, whether we realize it or not. For, as Chopra puts it, “God is our highest instinct to know ourselves.” This book makes a dramatic and enduring contribution to that knowledge.

Quote from Chapter One

“One bald fact stands at the beginning of any search for God. He leaves no footprints in the material world. From the very beginning of religion in the West, it was obvious that God had some kind of presence, known in Hebrew as Shekhinah. Sometimes this word is simply translated as “light” or radiance. Shekhinah formed the halos around angels and the luminous joy in the face of a saint.

It was feminine, even though God, as interpreted in the Judeo-Christian tradition, is masculine. The significant fact about Shekhinah was not its gender, however. Since God is infinite, calling the deity He or She is just a human convention.( *) Much more important was the notion that if God has a presence, that means he can be experienced.

He can be known. This is a huge point, because in every other way God is understood to be invisible and untouchable. And unless some small part of God touches the material world, he will remain inaccessible forever.”

* A note on gender: Finding a pronoun for God is not easy. In keeping with common tradition, this book uses he. But surely God transcends all gender. I could have rotated three different pronouns–he, she, and it–but that would not have gotten any nearer to the truth, and it would have made for very clumsy reading.

Related topics:

WHERE IS GOD?

PATANGALI’S YOGA SUTRAS END GITA ABOUT KUNDALINI

HOW I FEEL AFTER THE KUNDALINI IS RAISED?

HOW KUNDALINI WORKS?

Knowledge of our roots

KUNDALINI

Why we need to purify our chakras?

Mother Kundalini

ADAM, EVE AND TREE OF LIFE April 7, 2008

The traditional interpretation of the story of Adam and Eve is that they disobeyed God by eating the forbidden apple, which is the origin of Original Sin.

We need to remember that there were two trees in the Garden:

“In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”…

And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;  but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”

Again the big question is why Adam and Eve choose the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. I would choose the tree of life.

Adam and Eve ate the apple, and when God realized this, He said:

“The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

It is obvious that after eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil Adam and Eve realize that they are naked. This is definitely one step forward in their evolution. Acquiring the knowledge of good and evil means evolving from animals to human beings. Becoming human was both a blessing and a curse. There was much to be gained from it–as the Serpent said, “your eyes shall be opened”.

How does the story of Adam and Eve ends? Are we still evolving? What is the next step?

Remember what GOD said: “He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

Can we try to taste THE TREE OF LIFE and live forever as promised by Christ?