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Since the human experience began some million plus years ago, mankind has had a God Urge. Searching through the Earth soup as the various other inhabitants of this blue orb there has been a knowledge buried deep within the old brain that all of us are connected together in some wonderful way. The first path to understanding this intrinsically knowing connection was Santana Dharma, literally translated as the Eternal Way . Without a central organizing corporate type religious right and wrong way to worship and who exactly to worship, it developed a pantheon of Gods, Goddesses, Demons, and Angles that continues to grow to an estimated 8,500,000 celestial beings that are not separate as in pantheism but ONE as in panentheism. There is nothing that is not GOD….a seamless, holographic monism, saying that you are not only part of the divine, but all of the divine. It is like the facets of a diamond that appear different, but are the whole indivisible diamond. Another metaphor is that of a wave and its relationship to the ocean. At no time does the wave cease to be the entire ocean; it just appears to be different as it crests and enters into that non-separate reality that is the ocean. We are all on a quest to awaken back to the reality that there is nothing that is not us; that we and everything that exists is not separate. There are no parts, just a whole; an un-beginning and unending ONE that has developed the illusion of separateness. Many Eastern and Western traditions call this Enlightenment…but you don’t get anything…the ONE truth has always existed and will always exist. No birth, no death, but an eternal appearance of transformation is all that there is and ever will be. With great joy, love and respect, I welcome you with all my heart; for you and I are truly ONE. Mahamandaleshwar Paramahamsa Swarupananda Swami