Torah Truth

After I started this project, I keep updating without seeing the end – the more I dive into this text, King David’s wisdom penetrates deeper and deeper into all-including guide to meditation – the intimate path, the Ruach Hakodesh / Samadhi / Nirvana / Satori / Enlightenment / Self Realization, predating by centuries all the Spiritual paths of the world, towards the human’s true nature –  the Divine.

Psalms 3:4 I send up a cry to the Lord with my voice, and he gives me an answer from his holy hill. Selah. – What comment can be added here? Sincerity at it’s best?

Psalms 3:5 I took my rest in sleep, and then again I was awake; for the Lord was my support. – If you wake up as a “norm”  thinking that it came to you from nowhere, with no reason, your consciousness is still sleeping even when you think you woke up …

Psalms 3:6 I will have no fear, though ten thousand have come round me, putting themselves against me. When you recognize His actions on your behalf, then the true feeling of security comes – the only security there is…

Psalms 4:5 Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. – Quiet your mind, no activity from the mind – no “ifs” no “buts” from mind thoughts allowed, urge to meditate must come from the heart – sincerity at it’s highest.

Psalms 4:7 Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased. – In Sanskrit culture there is a famous formula which depicts the direction of evolution of human consciousness – SAT-CHIT-ANANDA which means EXISTENCE–MIND-BLISS  : from simple existence through mind development to the Divine Bliss. King David compares here his experience of Divine Bliss as a “pure joy” versus bodily enjoyments from food and wine…

Psalms 4:8 I will take my rest on my bed in peace, because you only, Lord, keep me safe. Here is a “one pointedness” in terms of human security – all security comes from One Source – God.

Psalms 5:3 My voice will come to you in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I send my prayer to you, and keep watching (!)  – Eagerly watch for response, for it may come any time after you made a  request and it may come in many ways …

Psalms 5:5 The sons of pride have no place before you; – Watch your ego – ego keeps your mind to itself, does not allow to connect to God. This topic is a core of all the spiritual teachings – Yoga-Vedanta, Buddhism, Zen, Sikhism, New Age spirituality including Raman  Maharshi, Eckherd Tolle, and many others

Psalms 5:6 You will send destruction on those whose words are false – God hates hypocrisy. Sincerity is a key to the path of  Ruach Hakodesh

Psalms 5:11  But let all those who put their faith in you be glad with cries of joy at all times Again description of the Divine Bliss (see above 4:7)

Psalms 6:3 My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?  Psalms 6:4 Come back, O Lord, make my soul free; – this is David’s feeling when he does not have contact with God

Psalms 6:5 For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

Psalms 6:6 The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping – intense, burning love for the connection to God. Again – this is a sign of sincerity

Psalms 7:1 O Lord my God, I put my faith in you; – One Pointedness of the desire for a Divine Connection. Also a wording for deep concentration in meditation.

Psalms 9:1 I will give you praise, O Lord, with all my heart; Again – the expression “with all my heart” is Biblical expression for a deepest concentration and devotion.

Psalms 9:10 And those who have knowledge of your name will put their faith in you; because you, Lord, have ever given your help to those who were waiting for you. Same as above

Psalms 10:1 Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble? – a short description of the only reason of all the confusions of humans. This is why stupidity prevails in the world

Psalms 12:1 Send help, Lord, for mercy has come to an end; there is no more faith among the children of men.

Psalms 13:2 How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me?

Psalms 13:3 Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;

Psalms 16:2 O my soul, you have said to the Lord, You are my Lord: I have no good but you.

Psalms 16:7 I will give praise to the Lord who has been my guide; knowledge comes to me from my thoughts in the night. – The reminder for all those who don’t understand how real is the help from God, Not only David acknowledges God as his personal guide but even lets us know details of the way he gets his guidance – “knowledge” comes to him from outside of him! These thoughts are not his mind’s product! Author of this post has the same type of Divine responses and probably many people do but do not realize that some thoughts come … from “outside”… Yoga-Vedanta describes this process, how knowledge comes from beyond, in more details

Psalms 16:8 I have put the Lord before me at all times; because he is at my right hand, I will not be moved. – Full time Ruach Hakodesh – as per all times, This is versus the partial Ruach Hakodesh which is easier to achieve, when man experiences only glimpses  of Divine, but then falling back to the habitual thinking derived from the reflexes to human senses and memory.

Psalms 16:10 For you will not let my soul be imprisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death. – Souls  of those who are connected to God depart quickly from dead body releasing him/her from horror of experiencing dead body , burial, etc …

Psalms 16:11 You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever. – All religious literature translates Joy into  English as a term Bliss – higher level than Joy but possible only through revelation of consciousness at the level of Ruach Hakodesh / Samadhi / Nirvana / Satori / Enlightenment / Divine Realization

Psalms 17:1 Let my cause come to your ears, O Lord, give attention to my cry; give ear to my prayer which goes not out from false lips. Indeed – sincerity is the key to a successful response.

Psalms 19:7 The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.

Psalms 22:1 My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying? This are the words from a sincere seeker while he is still in “one way communication”…

Psalms 22:2 O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest. Same topic as above

Psalms 23:2 He makes a resting-place for me in the green fields: he is my guide by the quiet waters. Here King David describes his places of deep meditation. Same landscape was used for meditations by the great Hassidic leader of Breslav Hassidim – Rabbi Nachman

Psalms 23:3 He gives new life to my soul: Sense of rejuvenation when the response comes.

Psalms 24:4 He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath. Sincerity of the seeker and detachment from the worldly affairs…

Psalms 24:5 He will have blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. – Above 24:4-5 show that sincerity of intention is a foundation for the concentrated mind and guaranteed to find the Divine Treasure.

Psalms 25:4 Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways. – this is were all the knowledge comes from, Yoga-Vedanta describes this process, how knowledge comes from beyond, in more details

Psalms 25:5 Be my guide and teacher in the true way; for you are the God of my salvation; I am waiting for your word all the day. – this is a state of Full Ruach Hakodesh as oppose to only scheduled  hours of meditation. The advanced seeker searches God whole day every day of his mundane life.

Psalms 27:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?Again as above – “one pointedness” in terms of security – connection to God.

Psalms 27:8 When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

Psalms 28:1 My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld. “Two way” connection to God (His response is needed) is the key to success in life.

Psalms 29:4 The voice of the Lord is full of power; the voice of the Lord has a noble sound.

Psalms 29:7 At the voice of the Lord flames of fire are seen. Intensity of the perception of Divine Response…

Psalms 30:2 O Lord my God, I sent up my cry to you, and you have made me well. Bliss comes when the “connection” is a success.

Psalms 30:3 O Lord, you have made my soul come again from the underworld: you have given me life and kept me from going down among the dead. Same as above

Psalms 31:5 Into your hands I give my spirit; you are my savior, O Lord God for ever true.

Psalms 31:12 I have gone from men’s minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel. – A technical detail of the process of meditation. A whole teaching of Buddhism in a nutshell, if you read all the Yoga and Buddhist literature on my bookshelf, you will get to realize these few words in this sentence –  this is about 500 years before birth of Buddha. Human mind and memory keep man imprisoned and separated from Divine Experience. Stopping the mind from repetitive cycle of thoughts, rejecting personal emotions as well as accumulated trash of memory, instead surrender to Divine. Or as Raja Yogis teach in Sanskrit – stopping Samskaras and surrender to the Divine. This is the main topic of the teachings of Swami Vivekananda, Yogananda and Swami Ramakrishna. Similar path was re-discovered again last century in forms of  teachings of Ramana Maharshi, and in simplified form in New Thought movement by Neville, Krishnamurti, Napoleon Hill, Norman Peale. Today the strongest teacher of modern day Self Realization – Eckhard Tolle, author of “The Power of Now” – wrote all his best-selling books just on this topic fully described in this psalm

Psalms 32:6 For this cause let every saint make his prayer to you at a time when you are near: then the overflowing of the great waters will not overtake him. Here are details of the transition of consciousness during meditation. there is a well known danger observed in all traditions in Judaism and in Vedanta and Buddhism involving negative consequences of mind hallucinations during the expansion of consciousness in meditation. This expansion of consciousness Kind David metaphorically describes as “overflowing of the great waters” and he provides simple safety solution  – steady mental attachment to the Source of Life during meditation – praying to God.

— These short two below contain everything man needs to know to find God ————

Psalms 34:4 I was searching for the Lord, and he gave ear to my voice, and made me free from all my fears. – The only path to security, is – disconnect your mind from ongoing troubles and re-connect your mind to God , search for Him continuously and … He will listen to you and respond!

Psalms 34:5 Let your eyes be turned to him and you will have light – Introspective vision – through meditative practice – light comes when we experience Him. This is the source of “light” or “knowledge”. Meditative practice keeping away from preconditioned mind, or from samskaras as it is known in Sanskrit in Yoga literature, introspectively towards His presence in you. This is the source of Divine Light.

Psalms 34:18 The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the savior of those whose spirits are crushed down. – this is a key teaching of Buddha and in our days from Eckhard Tolle. When suffering of the world crushes the man, this triggers the process of disconnection from the ruined mind and from the haunting emotions. Freed consciosness finally allows to see the Super Consciosness – the Divine, which was and is always present but was not experienced until the mind was “burned from the overload of thoughts and emotions” (using the words of Eckhard Tolle), or, in other words, until “rapture” occured. Such painful openning to Enlightenment occurs sometimes even to the people who never tried to develop themselves spiritually.  It comes as a gift from God to stop suffering and make a shortcut to the Divine Destination.

Psalms 37:5 Put your life in the hands of the Lord; have faith in him and he will do it. – The method called in other spiritual literature as a “complete surrender” – this is a complete description of the method of Bhakti Yoga, all the books of Yoga only provide details to meaning of these words, although when you come to understand what they mean, they become obvious and simple.

Psalms 37:7 Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways. – Observe the details of meditative practice: Quietly – means quieting the mind from thoughts, Do not be angry – subdue your emotions too because they stir the mind and will not allow channel with Divine to be established. Mind will become quiet when turned inwardly towards the Divine Origin, away from sensory reflexes. If controling emotions succeeds, human wickedness which dominates the world becomes irrelevant as such mind and it’s related body submitted through the channel to the Divine. Meditating man, achieving a Ruach Hakodesh / Samadhi is transformed to another dimension. His experiences and reaction to the outside events change dramatically.

Psalms 37:8 Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.

Psalms 37:11 But the gentle will have the earth for their heritage; they will take their delight in peace without measure. –  37:8-11 deal with controling emotions, controling mind. In Sanscrit it is said that Sattvic features (ballanced, quiet mind) make a yogin. As per Brahma Sutra, Bhagavat Gita, Yoga Sutras by Patanjali, Upanishads …