What is a Sangha? Only when all the members of a community are attuned to the Presence of the Supreme Intelligence will the superorganismic unity and harmony fully manifest and a true Sangha Buddha light up the planetary morphogenic field—so that every sentient being gets connected to our ultimate Source. This is the purpose of a Sat Sangha.

Ultimate reality is closer than the present moment and never becomes past or future. To perceive this Truth is already to be liberated and forever free. But the timebound mind, which veils the Real, must be dropped so that all is revealed and transcended.

All the thoughts of the ego mind are based in dualistic misunderstanding. Therefore, the ego becomes habitually prone to producing thoughts of self-judgment and judgments of others. One puts oneself into the bondage of enmeshment with the unreal world. With one stroke of the Sword of Truth, we can be free of all such delusions, which are the primary cause of suffering.

On the day of this teaching, the Hindu holiday of the destruction of Hell was being celebrated. The metaphysical logic of how the Hell realm was originally constructed and how it is now being destroyed is explained in this seminar lecture.

Karma can best be understood as a teleological operation of the Infinite Mind to assure the ultimate attainment of Self-realization by every individual finite consciousness. Suffering is projected into the physical vehicle because keeping it in the mind is unbearable. Once somatized, the pain can be treated by medical experts. Thus, the underlying meaning of the symptom can remain repressed. But the repressed always returns, and sooner or later, the inner journey to Truth must be made.

The Buddha Mind loves paradox. Once you are energized by the recognition that the world is Nirvana, and that Nirvana is not other than the apparent world, all the predispositions of the linear mind that produce the bondage of reification drop away spontaneously. In the revelation of the Self as naked Presence, all is perceived as miraculous and awesomely beautiful. Attainment of Liberation is the result of dropping all fear and desire, all thought constructs, and all judgments.

The ego fabricates an imaginary world of good guys and bad guys, a paranoid narrative that can only perceive its own fear-based projections. But at a higher level of consciousness, beyond the subject-object dualistic frame of reference, once one is free of identification with thoughts and emotions, the true nature of reality reveals itself—accompanied by joy, love, and luminous clarity.

Today, many people are functioning as hungry ghosts. And many are paralyzed spiritually by feelings of disgust and shame about their self-images, histories, and modes of self-presentation. In this context, Shunyamurti retells a story originally told by Acharya Sthaneshwar Timalsina about his meeting with an Aghori guru—and explores the implications of the extreme lifestyles and practices of those pariah yogis with amazing powers. Through this analysis, we learn how to raise our consciousness to new symbolic heights and then pass beyond the mind to the Supreme Real. This enables the liberated Self to emerge.

Aghoris are fierce, sinister, sometimes superhuman yogis who reject all civilized values, live in cremation grounds and treat the funeral pyres as private barbecues. They are so dead to desire that they are fearless and can endure levels of pain and horror that would break other men. They are radically free and beyond inhibition or moral constraints. Now that the territory of Gaza is being bombed relentlessly on a daily basis the zone is becoming a vast cremation ground. A new kind of Aghori army may emerge from this hideous crucible that will make even zombies flee in terror. For those of us who seek the other end of the spectrum of consciousness, we can reach the state of fearlessness through being absorbed into the bliss of divine love and adoration. But it will require the same achievement of the death of appetite for ease and sensory enjoyment.

Many secrets of maximizing intelligence and non-ordinary power are offered in these brief answers to urgent spiritual questions. Such insights as—how to gain a passport to the next Golden Age; the quickest way to de-potentiate the shadow forces; the pragmatic effectiveness of love; and the simplest way to eliminate self-limiting narratives—are among the topics covered.