Re: Christ: He's Back. Matraiya. Ram Bomjan Palden Dorje
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Originally posted by Sortilegio
That is what most of the messiahs have been teaching us.
On a personal note, I really haven't heard much from this, I will certainly look for more info, but it is hard to find the right information. I practice alot of meditation and I've been wanting for years to take a trip over to India and Nepal, maybe in a couple of years I'll go there and see how things are advancing for him.
I've been in alot of spiritual thought lately about a messiah, and, although alot of people here don't belive much, it is very prominent, strong, the feeling of a new source. I always thought though, that if a messiah is to come, that it would arrive here at the occidental (sp? western?) cultures, because if there really is a need for spiritual enlightment this days, it would of be here. What's your take Leo?
Well, yes, it would have really been nice if the Messiah Matraiya been very well connected. And maybe Jesus would not have been crucified so ready had he been born of the House of Herod instead of the fallen House of David.
But the things of the Spirit and the things of Heaven are not the things of the World.
And yet this Young Man has just started out and already there is not a single Orientalist or studier of Cults who is not already somewhat informed concerning him and all of the claims and promises swirling about him.
Yes, there are some historical reasons for concern. For instance, Saints can be quite genuine without either being very intelligent or very well informed. Whatever their Spiritual Realization may be, what they are intellectually likely to say may be confined to the same set of ignorant concepts and models they had before their Realization as after it. Indeed, we have instances in Catholic History where two indisputable Saints would actually have their mundane differences of opinion -- the Greatest Saint in History, Vincent Ferrer was a supporter of the Avignon Papacy (as were the majority of Dominicans), while Catherine of Siena was a diehard for the corrupt and decadent Roman faction, the female Saints being just as lead by their sentimentality as any ordinary women, apparently.
And yet history gives us hope in that some of the Greatest and Highest of Magnitude Saints have also been some of the best thinkers and administrators. Along with their Spiritual Realizations they are perhaps given a share of enough Wisdom to qualify as passable Common Sense.
We should hope for somebody of the caliber of a Saint Patrick, who in 50 years completely restructured Ireland from a bulwork of Druidism to the most stalwert center of Catholicism in the West. Or Bernard or Benedict who were also splendid administrators.
Regarding the Young Man, though, it is hopeful that so far he has made all of the right moves. Even with the concern of doing his 6 years of meditation, he has been proactive enough to protect appearances and distance himself from empty show and a carnival atmosphere. Such thoughtful assertion at this early age bodes well for him being sensible.
And then, it will not be required of him to do everything. We can see how well Vivekaanda was able to speak for Ramakrishna. Perhaps the Quality of any Messiah or Matraiya comes in large part from the People they surround themselves by. Indeed, Christianity would have been a better Religion today had Christ not been killed before he had assembled more than just a pack of manual laborers and roadies about him. What we know of Christ is what a bunch of stupid uneducated fisherman were able to remember. But with Bomjan Ram Palden Dorge, we already have the interest of a very well educated elite taking cognizance of him. We are thus more likely to see much more coherency in this Messianic Administration then in any that have come before.