I know that story too Subramaniam Shankar.
Even scared myself once by my own shaddow.
However I do not think it was a meer illusion...something on my mind and catching up with me..anyway I do believe we do really need to heed the signs and look deeply inside to see what is the root of the matter. It could even be that we need to eat more green vegetables or make sure we are getting enough fresh air. I believe when the body is at peace can we move on to the next level.

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An important Upanishath has been simplified.It is all about illusion caused by the mind.Like mistaking a piece of rotting old rope for a live snake and then realizing that we were fooled by the mind created illusion.The rope is still a rope but a snake came alive and got killed and meanwhile the rope disappeared or replaced itself with a non-existant snake.There are so many such events we encounter and never ponder over the idea of self being fooled by the mind which the self can enslave.

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Is it like....this is the life I have created for myself.....if I was to move to California or Bejing and build up a new life ...whereever I am it is part of the same universe. And that what I see and do around me is what I manifest.

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The answer is neither and both? And in fact so much more than that. The universe itself is at "fault" but the universe is entirely contained in you. Even any of this is not completely true.

However, in a practical sense, this person had been conditioned like that from their childhood likely without their knowing it. When this sort of unconscious conditioning happens it's up to that person to notice it and build something new out of its ashes. Otherwise they live in misery.

In other words, it's silly to point the blame finger because it's not going to help the person stop being bitten by dogs and having very bad people in their environment. It's ultimately under that person's control whether they chose to seize the reigns or not.

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what if you live in a really horrible terrible enviroment with very bad ppl in it and are constantly abused and can't seem to get out. whose fault is that? when you walk down the street and a big dog comes and bites you. whose fault is it? your fault. or the dogs?

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The one thing that concerns me though, is problems that might exist when something is created, and only the creator knows about it and acts upon it. I can remember this guy who stopped in the middle of the street, had traffic backed up and refused to move because he saw snakes wrapped up and stretched out across the street in front of his car. The traffic policemen
came, the guy refused to move. As a result, the guy landed up in jail. This actually happened. His creation really got him into some stuff!

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apologies... a typing error...Tarequl I.

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Thanks both to Deepak and Taqurel for todays post. Great minds think alike :-)

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Powerfull stuff!

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There is no difference between what is happening in your inner world and what is happening in your outer world. The outer world is just a reflection of your inner world. The world is a mirror of your mind, and your mind is a mirror of the world. But you are neither your mind nor the world; you are the creator of both. Even that idea is only a partial truth because there are no inner and outer worlds. There is only the self-interaction of the one being, infinite consciousness.

If you could really understand this, then you would realize that you are not a solid body that exists in space and time. The essence of your being is the source of space and time. Your soul co-creates with the source of all creation. As you wake up to this awareness, you realize there is nothing you cannot create.

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