Aloka wrote:imaginos wrote:
Agreed.
Many devas will fall from grace and rebirth in our realm.
Many devas do UNmeritorous deeds because they are quite delusional regarding their life span (i.e. mortality).
Hi imaginos,
Do you have some first hand experience of devas and their delusions?
kind wishes,
Aloka
Hi Aloka.
Before I became a Buddhist, I was a practicing magician.
I started study various religions and spirituality when I was 18~19 years old (now I am 39) and that lead me to magic(k) and occult as well.
And let me tell you, some of the spritiual entities are quite delusional.
Some of them actually believe that they are super power and will not die and etc.
(Many of magical workings involved with the process of invocation and evocation of spiritual entities)
The sad part is, while a magician gaining more experience in magic(k), he or she will be more involved and bounded to that particular realm of the existence.
I became a Buddhist because I found myself do not want to get involved with any of realm of existence whatsoever.
What is the meaning of going to the realm level 'XX' and then millions years later, come back to lower realm and suffer over and over again?
That did not make any sense to me.
From we, the earthling's point of view, millions of years might sound great but in the context of endless Samsara, it is just a blink of an eye.
So I gave up magic although there are very enticing aspects to it.
Devas can't even hold a candle to the awakened one, our kind teacher.
All the maps and fancy tricks devas offer means nothing to the ultimate map (the Dhamma) that our teacher offered.
In Metta.