6/28/2019 It’s Unwise to Give Your Power Away

It’s Unwise to Give Your Power Away

May 31, 2019 By Simona 7 Comments (Edit)

My above video is different from this article because I was recording what was on my mind, but
in content both are very similar.

The video below is a perfect illustration of what happens in major spiritual cults of today, be it in
India or the West.

I have no experience with this particular religious following, but I use this video as an example
only (I also like the video insights of the author which shows his spiritual growth).

(I understand that it’s not the major guru that is doing the trick in the video (obviously); but just
the fact that the organization allows such false materialization shows to take place, and even
films them and posts them to recruit new followers, shows something.)

The strange need to project one’s power onto others

People blindly want to believe in someone else’s power, and they end up giving their money and
personal energy away to someone who is only a show-man, a sales-person who sees a demand
and thus provides a supply.

No self-styled guru worshiped by millions and living a luxury lifestyle is real. Masses have only
their eyes and ears to judge about any phenomena, as their spiritual senses aren’t awakened. So
they go for those people who have the “look” of a guru, whose speech is flowery and pleasing,
and who has a large following.

Such gurus are either intelligent sales-people, highly ambitious leaders, or sometimes pure
magicians. If they are magicians, they know that if they strongly hold an idea in their minds and
promote it to others, weaker souls will be attracted to that power.

This will strengthen the initial force of an idea making it increasingly more magnetic, until a
very large following of weak souls is be built, making the organization look powerful and of
substance.

True liberated people are unrecognized

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People who are truly spiritual remain unrecognized because they don’t fit into the preconceived
notions of the masses about spirituality. They may not look a guru archetype at all, though be
truly liberated.

It’s not that if you become liberated you automatically start wearing flowing white or orange
robes, amass a large following and teach others daily. Yet that’s the idea the masses seem to hold
in their heads, judging from the kind of gurus that they follow.

I know some totally ungrounded and lost people absolutely believing in their enlightenment.
They follow a preconceived notion of what a guru should do, because they are not awakened.
Their surface minds tell them to dress in a way that gurus do as now they are “enlightened”. This
is very funny yet at the same time sad to see.

So they start dressing copying the style of other gurus and convincingly spread their teachings,
and lo and behold, some people believe in them and join in; then others, seeing that he has some
followers, join in too, and the movement grows.

Dangerous gurus
Yet mostly this field is run not be self-deluded individuals but clever sales-persons, especially
those with psychopathic traits. Like chameleons, they adjust to what’s expected of a guru
archetype and thus accumulate large followings and wealth.

Eventually their greed for power, wealth and other worldly pleasures such as sex comes out in
the open, because a wolf in sheep’s clothing must sooner or later show his true nature.

So eventually some devotee comes out in the open to tell that a guru has raped him or her, then
others encouraged by the bravery of the previous one come out.

Media messages of gun or drug smuggling or offshore accounts with millions start reaching the
ears of devotees. News of murders of people speaking against powerful gurus also start being
circulated.

Investment more important than truth

However, because devotees have invested so much of themselves into the cult, they refuse to
look at the court cases and witness reports of the wrong-doing of their beloved god-man.

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Some have been the followers of fake gurus for years, and they are afraid to acknowledge that
they made a huge mistake and that they have been fooled for such a long time. They are afraid to
start their search from the very beginning.

For some individuals it’s just more comfortable to just keep believing a lie, because waking up to
the facts is too painful. But what kind of life then is lived? It’s as though one is already dead.

If one denies listening to his conscience because of the investment into the lie, one’s life then is
truly miserable. For me, dying is better than living a daily lie.

Where there is demand, there will always be supply

As long as people want to divorce themselves from their spiritual power and look for spiritual
guides, clever people seeing the demand will become the sought-after gurus.

Or if not people, then some disembodied entity seeking power for one reason or another will
come in the name of Jesus, Buddha, or the archangel Michael, to control one’s life.

So in a way the masses who follow such con-men or spirits claiming to be this or that personage
are rightly punished. They will be robbed by such self-styled gurus or disembodied entities until
they stop viewing others as all-powerful and spiritual and look for spirituality within.

This unpleasant lesson can be gold in worth, because if a person values truth more than personal
investment, he may, after leaving the cult or any other following, stop looking for the outside
divine source and focus on finding it within.

How to know if advice is for your own good

I’m not saying there aren’t people today with true spiritual powers or the ones who are
awakened, though those are very unlikely to be on our TV screens with large followings! The
only exception to this I know of is Eckhart Tolle, but I haven’t listened to him for years.

But even if you listen to truly enlightened individuals, you will gain nothing if you don’t act on
what they say.

Truly awakened ones do not want to make you dependent. They give you the tools to work with
for the rest of your life in one lesson. Some understand it, take the tools,, use them and liberate

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themselves. Others keep listening to the enlightened being all their lives without any positive
result.

You need to do spiritual practices to liberate yourself rather than expecting some self-proclaimed
guru, however pleasant and convincing, to do the job for you.

You are your own refuge

There are gurus today who say that they are the refuge and that you can give them all your
worries and so forth; but these people know that it’s a message unhappy and burdened people
pleasantly hear, and that’s why they say such things. Again, they are simply clever sales-people.

They do this for money and for the increase of their fans, and not for your personal good. People
with such messages care nothing about your spiritual destiny. They know fully well they are
human, like you and I are, but they prey on the ignorance and blindness of the masses who would
rather hear a sweet lie than a hard truth.

You are your own refuge. You really cannot get rid of your burdens. You need to solve all the
problems yourself. This is good for you. Every problem that you solve makes you wiser, stronger
more perfected. We indeed only get the burdens that we are able to carry and the problems that
we are able to solve.

Problems are there for our self-improvement and development. It’s best to avoid listening to
gurus who just say what is pleasant, because often truth is bitter and even insulting. It cares
nothing of our culture or religious beliefs, and therefore remains unwelcome into the minds of
many.

Finally…
Don’t give your power away. You need all of it for your personal progress. Don’t invest your
power into the adoration of any self-proclaimed god-man because this only separates you from
your divine essence and energetically feeds a human being who is just like me and you.

All of us are divine, so our limited time should be spent in uncovering this true nature of ours
rather than on externalizing our divine nature and projecting it onto some other human being.

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