A King sent out a servant of his to a foreign land and gave him just one assignment. On reaching the foreign land, the servant did so many wonderful things, but the one mission for which he was sent out, he forgot altogether. Even when he attempted to do the assignment he did it haphazardly.
Author: Kola Oyefeso
I am discussing Karma ahead of reincarnation because without Karma there wouldn’t be anything as reincarnation. In effect, reincarnation takes its root and essentially depends on Karma. To begin with, what is this Karma that we want to talk about?
Ego could be deemed to have two meanings or functions. Primarily, it was given to the mind as a faculty that gives man the power of awareness of the self. In other words, self differentiation, the I-ness.
Three commissioners were picked each from Brass, Ekeremor, Nembe, Yenagoa, Ogbia, and Sagbama Local Government Areas while four commissioners were picked from the Southern Ijaw Local Government being the largest constituencies, and two from Diri’s Kolokuma/Opokuma to make the list of 24.
Those who have elevated their consciousness, gone within and drunk from the fountain of eternal wisdom, have come to a unified conclusion that anger that we deem as bad is not really as perceived. They are of the informed standpoint that humans’ application or deployment of anger made it so.
Like the back of our hands, we all know the characteristics of the mind. We are aware of its rabid and insatiable inclinations. It compares to a monkey that continues to hop about seeking pleasure from one object and the other, yet nothing has ever satisfied the mind or will ever satisfy it for too long
I have explained beforehand my inclination to quote the Bible and I need not repeat the sine-qua-non with the little space I am devoting to this weekly column given the time handicap of the readers. If the readers are ready, I can make this series a daily affair.
By their fruits we shall surely know them. For instance, the word Guru is an India word for Hindus Leading Light or Spiritual Teacher. Mahatma is used for a Sage, such as Mahatma Gandhi. Maharaji is a Sanskrit word, which denotes a great King. It goes without saying that any non Indian, particularly a Nigerian, laying claim to any of these names must have something up his sleeve
Primarily, we must come to terms as to the meaning of Mysticism. This will assist us understand the nitty gritty of mysticism vis-a-vis the subject being discussed – BORN AGAIN
With clear thinking, we will in retrospect know that we have caused what we are going through currently, and what will happen to us tomorrow is contingent on our current choices