Choose Your Future: Demonic or Divine

All the traditions are in agreement that we have three ranges on the spectrum of consciousness that are available to us, and that when we’re fully charged, we are in our divine nature.

In the first Yuga of the cycle, all of us are in divine consciousness—that’s what is called being an avatar, nothing less than that. So understand that divine nature is a level of energy; once we come into the cycle and we have a certain charge of energy, that’s all we get, and that energy is going to go down; it doesn’t go up, it goes down.

And so in the second age, the Silver Age, or Treta Yuga, we’re in a semi-divine state, but we’re already falling. And then by the time we get into Dwapar Yuga, we have become humans, but a higher type of human. And then when we get into the end of Dwapar and the beginning of Kali Yuga, we’re lower kinds of humans but still human. And then, as Kali Yugaends, nearly everyone enters the demonic nature and loses the human qualities. 

And so, because of that, it requires a very radical self-transformation to escape from the demonic state which produces suffering, destruction, death, evil—all of that that we are witnessing—and chaos on a physical as well as a social and political level.

So, the human is a hybrid. The ego partakes of, subconsciously, the demonic, and super-consciously, can touch into the divine nature. But as you fall more and more into the demonic state, the divine is inaccessible, and then one comes completely under the laws of karma, because there is no grace, no salvation, because the demonic nature has no love, and is not able to receive love, divine love; and that cuts one off from being able to charge the battery. That’s what has to happen: the battery is dead—literally—at the end of Kali Yuga, and you’ve got to charge it. That’s what we’re here to do, that’s what yoga is about. But to charge the battery, we have to connect to the Source, and the demonic nature resists that connection because it’s threatened by it.

So the world is a war between gods and demons, and at the end of Kali Yuga the demons have almost won. They don’t even believe that there are any gods left who need to be defeated, because there aren’t; but what there are, are former gods. There are those who remember somewhere deep down that you used to be in a higher state in another lifetime. You have that memory, and the more that you begin to meditate, the more the remembrance of that higher consciousness and the information it contains, and the love, and the light, and the beauty, begins to dawn again from within. And as it does, one is able to then make a connection to the Source of the power that made you divine in the first place. It’s not enough to remember being once divine, you have to connect with the power again to re-divinize your consciousness. This is not about nostalgia, or trying to have a past life experience—no—this is about becoming now, again a divine being.

But a demon cannot even entertain that thought for very long, and so we are reaching a point now at the end of Kali Yuga, where everything is totally polarized, “as below so above”, right? In the same way that humanity has now been split between the vaxxed and the un-vaxxed, we are now split between those who are in the divine nature and those who are in the demonic. There’s no more hybrids. There’s no more neutrality: “OK, I’ll listen to the angel. I’ll listen to the devil. I’ll make my decision…”. It won’t work, the devil’s got you, the moment you give up your divine nature you’re in the grip of the demonic force. So unless there’s a total surrender, and a total yearning for transcending the demonized human nature with whatever margin of health, of sanity, of power, willpower, one has left, one has to use it.

So, right now everyone is torn between gnosis and psychosis. There isn’t even neurosis anymore to kind of have as a middle ground. It’s a psychotic world now; that’s the norm. And so you are going to be in psychotic state if you are not in the state of total, liberated, blissful consciousness. It really is that extreme a polarization that is now occurring on this plane. And so, the line has been drawn and you have to decide which side of the line you’re on—you can’t be on the fence, there is no fence, and if you try to be in the middle and say, “I’ll just muddle through my human existence and try to enjoy things as much as possible”, you’ll be grabbed by the demonic force.

So, there’s an urgency of making the choice: on what side are you? Do you belong to God, or do you belong to the devil? It really is that clear and complete a choice—you can’t be halfway. You can’t be partially pregnant, you can’t be partially vaccinated, you can’t be partially demonic and partially divine; it doesn’t work. That’s the decision that has to be made at the outset, to begin the journey as a Sat Yogi, if there isn’t total determination; I’m choosing God and the divine nature, you won’t have the willpower and the grace to escape from your own dark side, from those maras that we talked about, that are already in your mind and have usurped your mind, and they are causing you to commit bad karma, and to be stupid, and confused, and not in your right mind—literally.

So, you either have to totally get out—and get out now, without delay—or say, “OK, I belong to the demons, and all that goes with that choice.” So things are serious.

Now Machik was faced with the same choice, and this was, you know, back in 1100, and things were already bad enough that she had to make great efforts to defeat her own maras. And this woman was a child prodigy; she was extraordinarily intelligent, so intelligent that she was invited into the monasteries to memorize all the sacred texts, the Prajnaparamita, the sutras of thousands and thousands of lines—she memorized them better than any of the monks, and the head of the monastery would hold competitions, and all of these old monks would try to repeat it, and she would be able to do it so much faster, so much better than they would—they’d make mistakes, she’d correct them. She was like a five-year-old girl and these guys could not keep up with her.

So, because of that she was put in advanced training, and in that advanced training she had tutoring by some very powerful and advanced lamas, so she got a lot of help, but that help that came was a result of her own good karma to have that intelligence and have that ability to use it in service of spiritual development. And what happened was a relationship became developed between her and the Ishta Devi of Tibet, who is named Tara.

Tara is the great goddess who is the protectress of Tibetan spirituality. And Tara took Machik under her wing, and she began to have visions of Tara, and then at one stage there was a total encounter, Tara actually appeared and taught her tremendous amounts of very secret information, (some of it is actually in this book but you have to be very subtle to even understand what Tara is saying, but I would like to go into some of that with you), and she eventually of course realized that not only is she a protégé of the goddess Tara, but she actually is an avatar, an embodiment, but she wasn’t allowed to know that until she had gone through all the different rites of passage, all the ordeals of struggle, to conquer the maras without that knowledge.

In other words, she was emptied out; it was an act of kenosis, in the same way that Christians talk about with Jesus; he emptied himself out of all that was powerful and divine that could have destroyed the demons, and he acted as a simple human being who had to fast for forty days, and he had to go through all of the same ordeal, and be baptized by John the Baptist, he had to go through all of that. So it doesn’t matter that you have a divine nature, it’s emptied out, if you want to refill it, you have to make effort now that will attract the Ishta Devata—your own divine nature, whether it’s Tara, or it’s Vishnu, or it’s Shiva, or it’s another, but you will get the grace of that being who you are drawn to that expresses your archetypal nature, if you have totally given yourself to the quest of knowing who you really are. And by that I mean who you are before you were born. As Christ was once asked who he was, and he said, “Well, before Abraham was, I am”, right, so he wasn’t talking about Jesus the man, he was talking about Christ-Consciousness which is the same as Buddha-Consciousness, there is no difference, there is just a terminological shift.

So one of the first things that the goddess Tara teaches…

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