One reason for this satsang this evening is that, on the largest level at least of world news about geopolitical situations, it is to me very clear that the gates of hell are opening in a very real way. That was always something that people thought was a long time in the future. Not only is the U.S. now in free fall and already very close to collapse, but with the supply chains having been broken because of this trade war and panic buying as a result, store shelves in the U.S. and perhaps in other places are already becoming empty. And that situation will become extremely dire because it affects not just consumer goods but almost everything, including medicines and spare parts for machinery and too many other items that we assume we can buy that may no longer be available—and that situation might affect us here as well.
In addition to that, of course, I’m sure everyone is aware that the last piece of (let’s say) the conflict puzzle has fallen into a nasty place with the onrushing war between India and Pakistan, which could easily go nuclear very quickly. One of the things that’s interesting about the global situation is that one side of each conflict is overmatched in a conventional sense by the other side. That’s true of Pakistan, which cannot fight and certainly cannot win a conventional war with India, whose Prime Minister has officially declared that it would deal a “crushing blow” to Pakistan. So India has already cut off most of Pakistan’s drinkable water, and that’s an act of war in itself.
Now the fighting apparently is very heavy in Kashmir. And the Indian army has apparently been given carte blanche to do whatever it wishes to punish Pakistan, which may or may not be guilty of anything at all in this case; but that doesn’t matter. In any case, if the “crushing blow” is a bombing or a land invasion, Pakistan has no way to defend itself except with its nuclear-tipped missiles, so the odds of their being used in this case are very strong, and we should be realistic about the consequences. If there actually is a nuclear war, even if it’s regional, it will create global consequences and can spread very easily.
The same thing is true in the conflict between Russia and NATO, which Trump could not solve in a day or a week or a month or with any of his promises. You can’t make a deal to end the war (as he himself has said about the Ukrainian fellow) when you have no cards, and the U.S. has no cards except its nukes. It can’t even conventionally stand up against Yemen. It’s being humiliated. So the situation has reached the point where that final card will probably be played very soon.
Of course, the trade war with China is the big war for the U.S. right now. When the economy collapses, it’s not simply an economic matter; it will be a psychological and survival matter. It will create chaos, crime, violence of every kind, and desperation, which will increase the pressure to use war as a diversion from the problems in the domestic situation. And when the dollar collapses, which is quickly on its way, then that will be the moment when they would play that card.
The same is true with the situation with Iran, in which no deal can be made because the terms being offered are not acceptable. We’re in a deadlock, but a deadlock that will no doubt be broken by the final war. So we need to be very clear about the situation that the world is in and to complete our mission of service to the world. But that has to begin by completing the mission of service of our own liberation from the delusion of being separate from the Consciousness that is dreaming and manifesting all of this.
To understand this situation, I think it may be useful for us to remember the history, particularly of Buddhism, because the Buddhists were much more open and up-front about things. Already by 500 A.D. and maybe I think even much earlier, the Buddhists were saying very clearly that the Buddha dharma would not last. It would get weaker and weaker, and eventually it would lose all of its potency. In other words, in the early generations of the Buddhist dispensation, there were many sages, many beings, who attained Buddhahood. When that was no longer the case, they shifted. They turned the wheel of the dharma and said, “We don’t need to attain Buddhahood, let’s just become bodhisattvas; that’s enough.” And the Mahayana path said, “Well, Buddhahood may be a long way off, but at least you can be a bodhisattva in this life.” They did emphasize though, as they went on, that we actually are Buddha because Buddha is mind and our Buddha-nature is our Real Self. It is that.
But the ability of the ego that’s in delusion to get out of delusion is getting weaker and weaker in each generation. Eventually no one will become even a bodhisattva, and everyone will fall much more into the demonic contagion (if you remember Mara and all of those predictions by that great woman sage, Machig Labdrön, and the Chöd lineage of Buddhism that went very deeply into the decline of the Buddhadharma). But the same decline was predicted in Christianity; that’s why there’s a Book of Revelation. Of course, the Indians knew this much further back, and that’s why they declared that we’re in Kali Yuga and that the Kali Yuga situation will get ever more demonic and anti-dharmic. Of course, all of that has come to pass. The prophecies have been accurate, and now is the moment when they are actually being fulfilled.
But there is also this one lesser-known aspect of the dharma that is particularly emphasized by the yogis, which is that, at the end, there is also a secret final yuga in superposition with Kali Yuga. We call it Sangam Yuga because it’s a confluence. And that’s why the yogis would hold a kumbha mela every so often over the years, which means coming together at a confluence of rivers. But the real river was always declared to be one that was invisible. It’s the river of the power of grace, the river coming out of the head of Shiva, the Ganga Ma. It’s not just (or at all) the river with that name flowing through South Asia. But it is the river of consciousness that is destined to return to the ocean, and this is the moment when the meeting of all the rivers and the ocean of consciousness is to take place.
It will take place one way or another. For most, it will take place after their ego comes apart (and nearly every ego is now falling apart). You can see that in the U.S. government, even in the most hilarious way of the government falling apart, in the figurehead who thinks he’s king of the world and should be pope (if you’ve been reading the lines he’s been delivering), and who perhaps has already realized that no one’s buying it, that he can’t make a deal to save his life, that all of his plans are going awry, and that the collapse is happening in a way that cannot be undone.
So we’re past the point of no return for the world—not that there ever really was a return that would come after the Omega Point. There will be one, but not in this timeline. Of course, we know from the recent videos that time also is an illusion, which is important to realize. You are not actually in time because time is in you—it’s a dream—and all of time is here now (the entire mandala), which means it’s clear that time comes to an end. It’s not a linear line that has no end and that could go on for billions of years. No, it’s a circle that is, in fact, now closing. You’re not actually in Chronos time at all because that is simply a dream—a mandala, if you will, a thought in the mind of an infinite intelligence, the entirety of the universe from beginning to end—in fact, the bi-verse, because there’s an antimatter universe that’s here but in a slightly different vibrational frequency. Those, too, will be coming together; so everything will be returning soon to the Zero Point.
Now, every ego will fall apart before then because all egos are fractured, fragmented, split in too many ways. They’re fragmenting ever more every day under pressure and under the tendency of egos to dissociate when they cannot control and when they cannot bear their suffering. With every dissociation, every fragmentation, the consciousness becomes weaker and more internally chaotic and conflicted. We can see this happening, but we can’t stop it from happening. The only way to stop it, before your ego comes apart, is to voluntarily take it apart. In fact, what the great yogis recommend is to burn it immediately.
