Yoga and the unity of all religions

[Yogi Nils]

Best wishes to all. I am Yogi Nils. I am a hermit since 22 years in a wood in germany near Hamburg. I am 58 years old. I work as a teacher of yoga.

[Yogi Nils]

My spiritual way is the unity of all religions.

[Yogi Nils]

My current question is whether God can be scientifically proven. 2009 I had a large internet debate with the atheists in Germany with more than 2000 postings. The essentials I wrote down in my free ebook The Science of Proving God´s Existenz. I think that a scientific evidence of God is possible. I want to discuss this with you.

[Yogi Nils]

You can watch my video on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKqm8p-7rPY and read my http://knol.google.com/k/nils-horn/the-science-of-proving-god-s-existence/d0nwq0okqs4d/28#.

http://books.google.de/books?id=HwlFmlqRu9YC&dq=Nils+Horn&lr=&as_brr=1
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[Yogi Nils]

Yoga, God and Enlightenment. The Path to Inner Happiness. What is God? Newest Findings. Near-death Research. Reincarnation Research. Amma embraces the World. Darshan with Mutter Meera. The Great Atheist Debate 2009. Reform the Church. The Unity of all Religions.

Contents of my Knol-artikel
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The Science of Proving God’s Existence

Proof of God’s Existence?
Newest Findings
Near-death Research
Reincarnation Research
Nils’ Life as a Yogi
The Great Atheist Debate 2009
Reformation of the Church
What is Scientific Proof?
The Unity of All Religions
Go your own Way

[Yogi Nils]

God’s existence can be proven through the reality of enlightenment. Those who are enlightened, can sense and even see God. These individuals live in God. One sees God as a form of light, which shines through the entire world. One feels God as energy surrounding the self and within oneself. One feels God as a form of inner bliss, inner peace, and inner power. Such enlightened individuals recognize that a higher truth exists which could also be described as complete and utter love of a deeper kind.

There are millions of people in the world who bear witness to the reality of enlightenment. A million people from every culture and from every era of history have experienced this ultimate spiritual epiphany. There were enlightened individuals in the form of Shaman, known by a variety of names in a slew of cultures. Among the Celts were the Druids, who held trees sacred and found God within the groves of trees they so revered and in nature itself. Similar were the experiences of the Native Americans, whose Medicine Men (as they came to be called by the European settlers ) divined the almighty within rocks, trees, plants, animals, and had ecstatic visions of the spiritual dimension. Similar practitioners existed (and still exist today in some cultures) among the tribes of all of the Americas, Australia, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Their experiences were too similar to be dismissed as simply coincidence, so parallel were the results of their deep commune with a higher power. They named God by many words which all referred to the same entity: Nature, Cosmos, Tao, Brahman, Nirvana, Manitu, Allah, Yahweh.

Among the most well known of the Enlightened are arguably Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Laotse, Socrates, Krishna, and Patanjali. Today, thousands of enlightened inviduals exist in one form or another. This reality has not been accepted by Western mass media, as it is contradictory to the goals of a consumer oriented lifestyle. Those who simply look to their local book sellers might stumble across some literature which does in fact exemplify a more enlightened outlook.

Modern science has even researched these aforementioned enlightened individuals and has confirmed their abilities. Everyone can look into this topic and satisfy his or her own scepticism by either following the path of the enlightened or by trusting the evidence of those who have come before and who have written or talked about their experiences.

It should be stressed that God as a term comes from the perception of those who have walked the path of enlightenment. Those who have never experienced this path cannot truly speak of God from a personal perspective. It would be like someone who has never been in love attempting to write heartfelt love poems.

Instead of discussing one’s own perception of God, one can consider modern science’s indication of the existence of God. Albert Einstein considered energy to be the basis of the cosmos. Energy is like a power line to God, but there is more to it than that. As science advances in its understanding of energy in general, more developments will lead us to even more comprehensive indications, examples, and ultimately proof of God.

There are several religions in the world. Every real religion is based on the teachings of an enlightened individual or several enlightened individuals. Judaism was based on the teachings of Moses, Christianity on the teachings of Jesus, Buddhism on the wisdom of Buddha, and Hinduism on that of many. Religions without enlightened founders are not real religions. (Scientology is one such example of a phony “religion”).The center of a religion is that of enlightenment. Religion should lead to enlightenment.
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May all people be happy. May the world be happy.

[Yogi Nils]

(Discussion in an atheist forum in June 2010)

Rafa: I believe Jesus was not enlightened, because him lacked the necessary composure. Composure is an essential feature of the Enlightenment.

Nils: Jesus was enlightened. The point of composure you did not fully understood. Enlightened can also be very angry. Although composure (inner peace) is their base. On this basis also a very dynamic action is possible.

Who is enlightened, is associated with a higher dimension in the cosmos. And so with tremendously powerful energy that can be expressed as strong emotions. These energies are difficult to control by an untrained enlightened. It is therefore important to move forward slowly on the way to enlightenment and be controlled in thought and action (mindfulness practice). If you suddenly break through to Enlightenment as Eckhart Tolle, it may take you many years before you can control the powerful energies.

Enlightenment does not mean that one has to be perfect. Important only is to fully accept his imperfection.

I see enlightenment as a gradual process with many stages of enlightenment. The first stage already is peace, happiness and love in yourself and to feel in harmony with yourself self and with your world.

Rafa: What are the reasons for your assumption that Jesus was enlightened?

Nils: The enlightenment of Jesus I see mostly in his teachings. I have compared the statements of the Sermon on the Mount with my enlightenment experiences and found a match. Furthermore, Jesus got enlightenment energy from John the Baptist, so that he could meditate four weeks without food and water in the desert.

Rafa: The word "fast" in the Bible does not mean that the person has not eaten or drunk. It only means that his food intake was restricted to certain foods and smaller quantities.

Nils: Jesus went to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. When Jesus was baptized, the sky opend above him. The spirit of God came down as a dove and went into him. His inner voice then led Jesus into the desert. He sat down and meditated. "And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry." Then the devil appeared to him and tried him. Jesus said, "Man does not live by bread alone, but above all by the Word of God (Nils: the doctrine of inner happiness)." The devil tempted him twice more, then he left him. And the angels came to him and served him.

What does this mean? In Buddha's enlightenment, we find a similar statement. Buddha sat under his tree and let his thoughts and feelings pass. Mara appeared, lured him with beautiful women, and threatened him with fear thoughts. But Buddha concentrated himself on the path of inner happiness. He stretched a hand to the ground (sacrificed his ego) and Mara disappeared.

The devil is a symbol of the ego. The ego is the core of worldly desires. In spirit, there is a permanent tension that dissolve people from enlightenment, the awakening of inner happiness is hindert. Bevor strong internal tensions disappear, they fight back vigorously once again. They create strong feelings of displeasure against the spiritual path. The secular wishes flit that they are more important than a life in the light. They appear as a big tempter.

Inner tensions can be resolved through wisdom (positive thoughts) and through meditation (sitting, walking, thought rest). At some point the ego dissolves and a unity consciousness appears. One feels as one with the world and all beings. Due to the deep inner relaxation, the subtle energy of the cosmos flow into a man. He feels peace (the dove), strength, happiness (angels) and the light of God (the Holy Spirit) around him. He lives in the light. He is a saint, he has become an Enlightened One.

The angels point to the Holy Spirit. The enlightened one has God's light (enlightenment energy) within himself and can act with it. The angels (the energy of God) serve him. He dominate the enlightenment, and can help his neighbors with it. Jesus went after his enlightenment to his people and told them of the happy life in God.

Fasting usually means a reduction of food intake. Yogi Prahlad Jani has eaten and drunk nothing. He says he can continuously meditate day and night up to three months in his cave without sleeping, eating and drinking. If we assume with the Indian doctors (May 2010) that Prahlad Jani can live without food, it is likely that Jesus also could do this. Jesus was, in my opinion so strongly absorbed in his enlightenment energy that he had four weeks no need for food or drink. Then his worldly needs awoke.

Fasting in the Bible can interpretated so that people came to Jesus in the desert and gave him a little to eat and to drink. The standard evangelical commentary by Fritz Rienecker (The Gospel of Matthew) says that Jesus had a complete dining abstention. "From the fasting ordered by the cult, only the day is affected. In the night eating is allowed. The Bible mentioned days and nights, so that we have to think Jesus had a total abstinence of food."

Here we are not in focus of the fasting ability of Jesus, but his enlightenment. I note that the Bible describes the typical steps of enlightenment. First the transfer of enlightenment energy through an enlightened master, second the blissful stay in the enlightenment energy and the dissolution of the ego, and third the start to work as an enlightened teacher. Enlightened Ones feel one with all beings. They see the suffering of their fellow men and want to help them. They therefore work after their enlightenment for the enlightenment of their fellow man and the whole world.


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[Marina_J]

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[svtaylor]

Fascinating thread! Have you read "The Quantum and the Lotus"? Written from a Buddhist perspective, the book tackles many of the same questions.
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