Who will save you? Will a Saviour arrive and free everyone from suffering and grant eternal life? Will you be visited by aliens that will take you to their planet? Are you hoping someone will enter your life, take away all your problems and bring you lasting happiness?
The answer may surprise you to learn, but that saviour you are seeking is you. You will save you. You are the only one that can. You might not believe it, but that is the reality of the situation. Sure there are people and holy beings that are working to help you achieve this, but it is ultimately your choices and your own actions that will save you. There are people that will help teach what you need to know, but you have to experience this for yourself. I can tell you and show you what I have experienced, to try to help you gain understanding, but until you experience it first hand, you will not know that what I share is true.
If there is anyone out there telling you that they alone will save you, that they will give you salvation, that they are a special being, they are a liar. Run don't walk away from anyone like that. They are most likely caught up in their own ego and self importance and have no real interest in helping you, but are focused on what you can do for them. They will be interested in backwards things, like money, fame and control over others. They will convince you to give them your money and to do whatever they tell you to do. They are a con artist. They haven't even saved themselves or they wouldn't be acting like that. Run, run away.
Anyone that has made real spiritual progress will know better than to behave that way. They will most likely be humble and yet willing to share their spiritual wisdom. They would be worried about their egos getting blown out of proportion because they know the harm that will cause them. They won't be charging you exorbitant amounts of money to teach you, although they may have some expenses that they need help to pay. They are not out to con you and have power over you because they will have enough spiritual knowledge to know that is harmful to you and to themselves. They will know they cannot save you, but they can show you how to save yourself. Even if you are fortunate enough to meet someone like this you will still need to use caution and verify that what they teach you is true.
The best anyone can do for you is show you what they have done and try to teach you what they have learned on their path towards spiritual attainments. You need to gain understanding of those teachings and try the methods you learn towards achieving it for yourself. You need to put in the effort and work to gain those things for yourself. Sure there may be spiritual people that have learned to heal others and perform miracles, but again caution is needed with them, for they may be under the influence of trickster or negative entities. Even if they are benevolent in nature, they cannot give you ultimate spiritual freedom. You need to do that for yourself. That is the reason you are alive. The reason you have this human life is to work towards gaining spiritual advancement.
You are your own saviour. You need to believe you can do it. You need to develop the faith that you have what it takes to ascend spiritually. You need to make the choice to truly save yourself. You have the ability to free yourself. You are able to create love, happiness, peace and can do more things than you ever imagined. You just need to know how to do it. You are more amazing than you know. You have far more abilities than you have been taught. You have everything in this human life to truly find real freedom. Being human is the best existence to have to make spiritual advancements. You have the ability to learn teachings. You have the ability to understand them and to utilize the methods to gain realizations. The door to freedom is here in this human existence. Others may show you the way to that door, but you need to walk through it yourself. They cannot drag you behind them. If you rely on them to pull you through the door, you will be lost.
As for my own journey, I was not taught these things in school. I did not meet anyone as I was growing up that knew any of this. Despite that, I somehow knew there was more to life than meets the eye. I sought out the answers to life I was looking for and found them. I was astounded at the truth and I have made changes to my life. I rely on the teachings of others, but I find out for myself first hand whether or not it is true. Some things I had already experienced in life, some were found with meditation and others during my Shamanic journeys. I am still on my path to full liberation. I am still trying to experience things I have learned that I have not yet discovered for myself.
It is a process and we need to be patient with ourselves. I have been taught that to gain spiritual advancement is not so much like a train ride going from station to station on a long journey, but rather it is like the flipping of a coin. We just need to flip our way of thinking. We need to change it from the self-grasping, self cherishing mind that we were born with and have had up to this point into one of compassion and wishing others to be happy. Self-grasping is difficult to overcome. We are all very familiar with cherishing ourselves. We can do it and all of us will eventually. We just need to apply effort and give ourselves the time we need to accomplish these things.
We do this by gaining the understanding that there is no separation between any of us. That you are me and I am you. If I help you, I am helping myself, too. By giving you happiness, I create my own happiness. By caring for you, I am caring for myself. By caring for the Earth, I am caring for myself. By caring for all the creatures that live on, in and above this planet, I am caring for myself. By loving everything I encounter in life, I am loving myself. This is true for everyone. If you do these things then you will eventually reap the benefits and rewards from your positive actions.
This is how we start to save ourselves. We need to be kind to others, to all living beings. We need to be kind to humans, animals, insects, every living thing because we are all part of each other. We are not separate from each other. We are all the same in our true form. We are all equal. Once we do the work and gain experience with our true form, then we can understand fully the reasons for being kind to everyone. Until we experience this, we need to be kind to help us actually gain that experience. When we are kind to others we feel better about ourselves.
We need to find a spiritual path that we can learn to improve ourselves with. To save yourself you need to put a stop to negative actions and ways of being. You have to do positive things and become the best version of yourself that is possible. To save yourself you need to have the inspiration to be one with your higher self. You need to develop your compassion. You also need to gain the wisdom of emptiness, our true nature, the true nature of everything. Try to continually work on improving and gaining realizations beyond just an intellectual understanding of spiritual things. When you do these things you will find you are your own saviour.
It can be a struggle for some of us but it is worth it. I, personally struggle with things because of the abusive, traumatic childhood I had. I am aware that most likely my brain has not developed properly because of the things I have gone through. I don't see how it could have. I suffer from different forms of depression and chronic illnesses. It can be tough just trying to get through the day some days, but I keep trying to be a better and better person despite what I have gone through. I don't want to make things worse, by engaging in negative behaviours. Although, I am not perfect and am still trying to free myself from the cycle of abuse, I try to do good in this world, to be a good person, to be kind to others.
I can tell you that in the quest to save myself, I have had some amazing experiences and even some jaw-dropping ones. I have seen things I never thought I'd ever see. I have done things I didn't believe previously. I have interacted with beings I did not know existed. I am learning and growing on this adventure of spirituality. I want you to be able to do the same thing. I would love for you to have those types of wonderful things happen to you. I wish I could do all the work for you, but sadly it doesn't work that way. If you will allow me, I will help to guide you towards making your own spiritual progress or at least point you in the correct direction.
The podcast for this can be found here: https://youtu.be/u_Wwxkv8GyA
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