Beyond Samsara Is Not...

'Nirvana.' 

Nirvana is a rock band.

The word simply does not exist in the Vedas nor even in the Upanishads. It is a word coming from Buddhism.

Vyasa is the patron of all Upanishads, by the way. 'Upanishad' is a place (as well as the act of doing something) where people draw up and listen or read.

This post is for one particular person.

'Do what makes you happy, Gordon.'
Was cut from the final edit of the film.

But of course, everyone may make use of it as they can, and as they will or might.

The human consciousness is like someone seated in the gondola or 'secured seat' in the circumference of a Ferris Wheel.

In the middle of the bright day, you are looking out with all of your physical senses, receiving maximum sensory input and processing it all through your frontal lobes and especially, your midbrain.

You are fully awake and aware, and ready to respond and react to stimuli - you are alert to predators and can escape rapidly.

If you maintain this 'status' into the night too many times though, you will get adrenal burnout and eventually, you will get prematurely old and eventually die from it.

Ferris Wheels are operated in the nighttime too, and they are quite dramatic then, when the sounds, the fair-ground music, and the hot lights illuminate the dark of the night.

As you rise up, in the nighttime, you are heading for the stars though only in a childish way.

If you are susceptible, and the Wheel is very big, you can feel your heart in your mouth...

If you are with a romantic companion, their heart is also in their mouth. It is a shared dramatic experience.

In those moments, their thoughts, fears, history, personal sadness, tragedies, past joys, experience-of-life up till then, are reduced to a single burning flame within, concentrated, nervously held, timorous, flickering against the wind, glowing but only a little against the vast vault of darkness of the sky above.

They do not lose their personality however, simply because things are focused just now.

You turn to them and inquire: 'Is it the same for you?'

...The Vedas teach that just above and beyond Mount Meru, is a hidden place, invisible to human eyes, where reside the souls of the dead, who are imagining that they are in heaven, for in all respects, it is like heaven to them; it is heaven, for them.

And then, by-and-by, the Great Wheel brings them down once more to the Eternal Return; this is called 'Samsara.' In the most ancient Sanskrit, this means 'the Wisdom of the Sun.'

But it is not actual 'Wisdom.' But only the wisdom of the Sun.

One day, the Wheel halts in its progress, for you, right up at the top of its rotating, that is, when your gondola is at the pinnacle.

Grand Bal de Jardin

And suddenly your safety restraints are removed, and you are bidden to step out, out into the plain air, with the ground way down beneath you. 

Now your heart is more than simply 'in your mouth.' This is very frightening. Have you lost your mind? Will you simply fall to the ground through gravity and be killed?

This is very unsafe.

But it is nighttime, and your daylight senses are lost to the dark, and your fully conscious awareness, is materially reduced... ...as your inner life is concentrated, into the tiny single flame.

There are two roads here. One that leads to the place above Mount Meru. And the other, to a place very very far away. And if you proceed along that one, you cannot ever come back. And forever must reside somewhere along the path of the stars or even beyond it. As for the rest of people, they are the 'inhabiters' (a strange word, to be used in the KJV) of the earth.

Revelation 12:12

You cannot see what is behind a mask.

You cannot go, beyond where there is a locked door.

You cannot know, what is behind closed doors.

The human race is walking forwards into the past. It does not look backwards to see its own future.

Step to the side of this broad path, for the way is narrow, the road difficult -, that leads to the stars. And few are there who walk along this narrow path.

And sad, too, for they must say farewell, to this world.