From The Edge - Spiritual Unification: A Spiritual Catalyst

By Pranav Marathe

From the Edge - Spiritual Unification is an attempt to bring in a catalyst for spiritualism. To bring it out in its true, simple, realistic yet potent form. Percolating spiritualism to all walks of our lives to transform the way we think, act, do what we do for a living and of course progress to the beyond to finally achieve sustainable happiness and fulfilment. Also, it is supposed to be a catalyst for journeys of all faiths and paths and can be referred to by absolutely anyone. This is because it touches the underlying knowledge of all true faiths under the various envelopes which make them look different.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jul 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9781716731105

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From the Edge -

Spiritual Unification

A Spiritual Catalyst

Pranav M

From the Edge -Spiritual Unification

ISBN 978-1-71673-110-5

First Edition: July 2020

No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.

Pranav M

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Pune, Maharashtra, India

The book is dedicated to all the travellers of today and tomorrow, who are the whole purpose of writing this book. I pray that it gives you something to take with you which will help you in your journey.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction…………9

Let us Start…………14

Let’s go back ..…….20

Movies, Games, The Universe, its Laws and Us– I ….25

Movies, Games, The Universe, its laws and us – II …29

Movies, Games, The Universe, its laws and us – III ...35

Are we there then? .....40

Does the nature of existence then matter? ...............43

What would it be to experience being one? ............45

Spiritualism from the Edge ..............48

What is Spiritualism?

Why Spiritualism?

Nature or Existence – Energies and Subtler Existence, Mind and Body Nature of Spiritualism

Nature of Spiritualism

The God and Gods

So, what must be happening?

A look through various lenses

Spiritual Unification

S for Spiritualism, Science and everything??

Karma ..............94

The Bad ............98

Prosperity .........101

Faith, Imagination and Distortion ..............107

Finally, The Method ..............113

Implementability ..................124

We must do what we need to do ..............127

A thought on the traditional ways .............132

Touching astronomy, a bit .............136

Touching Astrology, a bit ..............139

Possibilities .............143

A Salute to Genuine Human Efforts ...........146

A Thought on The Purpose of All ...........149

Mere Existence ...........151

Limitations ...........153

Inevitable Need ..........155

Outlook after Scientific and Technological Progress …..157

Tools and Means ..........159

Fragmentation of Energies .............162

Finesse .................165

Way of Transformation .............167

Farewell Situation ........169

Please Behave - Faith, Environment, Society, Science ….…172

Role of Saints ...............176

Role of Leaders around the World ...............178

Timing of Spiritual Practice ...........180

Let us Blur the Line A Bit, Again .....................182

Final Words .................184

Acknowledgments

I dedicate this book to my parents to nurture this thought process of in me directly and indirectly which has expressed it in this form today.

I also dedicate this book to my wife, relatives and ‘a’ friend who have first of all digested the idea of me writing a book and then gathered the patience to go through the draft and give me a suggestions and ideas. They have been wonderful.

There have been countless life forms who at various moments in my lives have given experiences, emotions and thoughts which have found their way in this book in terms of realisations, inspirations, ideas and applications.

Also, I can’t thank enough, the wonderful people who have shared resources on the unbelievable (and taken for granted) thing called internet. Without these resources the construction of my thought in the form of this book would have been very difficult.

I collectively thank all once again from the bottom of my heart.

Pranav M

Preface

It started long back as curiosity in spiritualism and existence as a whole. An observation was that spiritualism in many places and for many people, is too muddled with assumptions, fears and unreasonable beliefs.

The biggest joke and at the same time a tragedy is conflicts over spiritualism as they are as opposite as two things can be.

When various genuine beliefs around the world are based on common elements at the core, the conflicts are only because of the unnecessary envelopes that surround them. They should be eliminated so that all have a common goal and can travel freely on the different ways that exist leading to the same destination.

When existentially everything is one, which even science accepts today who are we to argue?

At the same time, leading a fulfilled life full of sustainable happiness is a need for all and should be available for all. Spiritualism should aid this by becoming a way of life. To bring in our best in what we do for a living and at the same time push us ahead on its own path. There is no need for any compromise. Acceptance and submission to misery is no way spiritual.

Spiritualism should percolate to the way we think, how focussed we are, how aware and conscious we are, how efficient we are, how connected and receptive we are and how we go about doing the simplest to the most complex things in life. It should make us fantastic human beings on all planes of existence.

Hence a thought came about on spiritual unification, of all faiths, with all aspects of life, with the deepest level of our body, mind and beyond.

From the edge suggests that it is start of a journey for me as well, but within the while I have been experimenting, I have sensed a difference in my thought process, perception, receptivity and various another subtle forms in practical and spiritual dimensions as well.

The book is about joint exploration and I hope that it would appeal to the readers with applications at various planes of their lives.

However, I pray and hope for a bigger effect it will bring about, which is Spiritual Unification which as I see it, the world needs badly for survival, sustainability, transformation, prosperity and happiness.

Pranav M

Introduction:

Part A – Purpose of the Book

Before I even touch the topic of this book, I would like to make its purpose clear, so that the expectations from it and reactions about the document (and me) are moulded accordingly (good or bad).

The intention of the book is to explore and present a perspective, my perspective of existential and spiritual realms which is raised up from scratch, untainted by any existing thought process or faith. It is thus intended to touch any human being no matter what he carries with him as whatever is being presented here is all inclusive. It has to be, to unify all unnecessary fragments with a common thread and still not challenging their individuality, faiths, concepts. This can only happen when what is being said is at the core of everything.

The world of today, needs to see things as they are and for that they need unification of all ideologies and faiths at the base to understand that they are all one at that level.

Thus, this book has a further has an ambitious target (no harm in doing so) of functioning as a spark to instigate further thought process in readers and create a spiritual revolution across all faiths with a final result of spiritual unification in terms of its goal.

According to me, this is the only solution to sustainable happiness both here and beyond.

The book is intended to appeal to fellow spiritual travellers (past, present and future), provoke thoughts and instigate firm actions in the direction of truth and absolute happiness. At the same time, it is my intention to give tangible takeaways from this book for people to apply without compromising on any existing (good) faith of theirs.

Another important aim of the book would be to show that spiritualism need not be separate from anything in life and it can be seen as a part of everything, not as an imagination, but as a reality. Within that I would also like to stress that science is also not excluded and needs to converge with spiritualism.

In this journey, we will touch the topics of the origins of everything, purpose of creation, space, worldly and the beyond, relative and absolute and of course God.

I would like to make it clear that as the title suggests, this book is a perspective of an eager from the edge, desperate to start his journey, to find solutions, to motivate fellow travellers  and wanting to reach a destination of ultimate knowledge and happiness.

Though it sounds as an unattainable, enormous, impossible task (and unnecessary to some), by understanding the base principle of spiritualism, sticking to it, following the process defined by it, and strong determination, I believe that it can be achieved with greater ease than we think, with much lesser sacrifices than we think and can make it a way of life in which spiritualism would actually strongly help us in successfully managing our all aspects of life, enjoying them to the fullest, including what we do to earn a living.

This is so because, as stated earlier, it actually cannot be separated from our life at all as everything we are, our thoughts, feelings, actions etc. are ultimately spiritual, even scientifically. So, what is only to be understood is our true nature and spiritualism will be an inseparable part of our life automatically.

Since this book is intended to invoke thought and encourage experimentation and practice, it is an initiation and should evolve into more developed forms along the way.

This book is about thinking together in a logical, non-emotional manner, get answers, apply them, evolve, repeat the cycles tirelessly and achieve the final goal.

Why do all this? Well, for millions of years, living beings including humans have come into this world and the ordinary ones have performed all the functions which come with the perceived reality of life and have died. Main tasks accomplished – eating, sleeping, propagating, work for a living, most feed their useless egos (to various extent) and other emotions and finally die. Now unless you want to follow the same path, most beings would want to evolve into something greater than they are, want everlasting happiness, superior knowledge and reach your