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The Divinity of Human Beings
It must be you, my love I seek,
But the Love that is ever presence and all knowing
Love is the Ultimate truth,
We are the same being…T’gore
What is meta-biological evolution-Joseph Sach?
Agiriyan ni morere eerun
Asuwa ni morere Eniyan
Asuwa da Orun
Asuwa daa sile
Asekan suwada nigbati Iwa se
Asekan suwada nigbati iwa gun
Asuwa nigb iwa roo
Ire gbogbo wa d’asuwa
Irun pesusu won gbori
Irun agbo pe susu won di ojontarigi
Igi pe susu won di igbo
Eruwa pe sus won dodan
Agbon pe sus fowo tile
Ita pe susu bo ile
Alasuwada, a pe o
Ko oran iwa sus wa
Ki won ko ire gbogbo waa ba wa
The Divinity of Human Being
Asuwa ni toyin
Asuwa leeran nihu ninu oko
Asuwa ni to susu owo
Asuwa leeran nihun ninu aare
Asuwa ni ti Elegiri
Asuwa ni ti Elegiri
Asuwa laa bodan
Asuwa lesu nfiijoko
Asuwa opo suuu la ba ikan ninu ogan
Asuwa laa ba ekunkun leti omi
Asuwa laa ba oore lodo
Asuwa laa ba lamilami
Asuwa laa beja egbele lokun
Ewe adosusu kii duro loun nikan
Iri tu wili tu wili
Lari dale aye
La bu da ile
Kire susu ko wa su piripiri
Ire gbogbo d’asuwa
Nje bori kan ba sunwon
A ran igba
Ori mi to sunwon
Lo ran yin
Ori yin to sunwon
Lo ran mi
Bori kan ba sunwon
A ran igba
The anthill is a place for deliberation
Of eerun ants
Asuwa, a grouping together in harmony, is the place of deliberation of human beings
It was through the principle of grouping together, that earth was created
And it was in the form of collectivities that beings descended together
that beings descended on earth
All inclusive was the grouping together
When human beings were first created
All inclusive was the grouping together
When beings were completed
Formed into collectivities were beings
When they rained down on earth
All goodness became a grouping together in harmony
The grouping together of the strands of hair covered the head
The groupings together of hairs on the chin
Became an object of attention
The grouping together of trees became a forest
The grouping together of the eruwa grasses became a savannah
The grouping together of the beehives hold up the roof of the house
And the grouping together of the ita ants
Led to their covering the earth
Alasuwada, Great Being who creates all beings in groups, we ask you humbly
That you grant us things gathered in groups
So that they bring together all things good to us
Bee form swarms
Eeran plants grow together on the farm
Brooms are formed from bundles of twigs
Eeran grass growns in bunches on the plains
And the elegiri bird’s form flocks
It is as swarms that the locust consume the farm
It is in several colonies that we find the termites in their mounds
It is in grooves that we encounter the ekunkun trees on the water’s edge
It is in schools that we find the egbele fish in the ocean
It is in groups we encounter this dragon fly
And the adosusu leaf is never found alone
Dews pouring lightly, pouring lightly
Were used to create the world
And likewise was done to create the earth
So that goodness of togetherness could come forth at once
Indeed all goodness took the form of a
Gathering together in harmony
Now, if one ori (mind/heart) encounters good
It will spread out and touch two hundred
If my mind/heart is good
It will spread out and touch you
And if your mind/heart is good
It will spread out and touch me
For if just one mind/heart experiences good
It will spread out and touch two hundred…Osa Gunda
A wonderful thing that happened this morning, the epiphany thought that enveloped my mind, was the community of Ifa, while still comprising of ancient cultural mores’ of oral tradition, are and should be elevating spiritually but are not. What I mean by this is, that as a community of many different social backgrounds, ethnicity, genders, and of course nationalities; we are, each day, involved in the struggle of becoming human. And in that human struggle and development as individuals we sometimes forget the divine messages and mandates that have been given to us as guides for our life on this earth and what the ancient ones saw as a future problem if we failed to follow their instructions.
Recently, during one of my periods of study of philosophies of the world I choose to re-visit the works of Deepak Chopra and found another understanding of meta-biological evolution in which the scientist Joseph Sach wrote of how mankind in their beginning development in pre-historic times were faced with the enormous challenge which cause either the ability to flee a dangerous circumstance or stand and fight. Mankind was faced with great dangerous in the beginning of animals that found human beings to be a delectable and tasty morsel, so human beings learned that they could either stand and fight or flee to fight another day. This syndrome of flight or fight however, over the centuries created in man the physiological and metabolic change in the human body. Within the brain, in the areas of the Peripheral Nervous system, Autonomic Nervous system, and Somatic Nervous system are changed as well as in the brain Sensory Thalamus to cortex and to amygdale, genetically over the centuries to compensate for the consistent force of action that this challenge brought on the mind/body for it to significantly change the human structure. We are now physiologically predisposed to levels of violence brought on by fear and challenges. It is this physical phenomenon that keeps us in war, want, illness, violence and spiritual pain. Ultimately, we bred within ourselves that syndrome that has kept us in distress for millenniums.
Ifa, in the Ese Ifa of Osa Gunda is telling us just as in recent times and with other world philosophers centuries ago the same thing. We were not created for the violence, the hatred, and all the “isms”, which represent illogical human and spiritual responses to fear, where we also use our religious belief to justify our reason for committing acts of violence in all forms now in the name of Olodumare. We have according to Ifa an opportunity and window to change this syndrome for the next generation by stopping the madness in our lifetime.
In this verse what Ifa spoke to us of was, in the beginning of time we human beings were in harmony with each other just as the all life was in synchronization with each other. We were in collectives designed to provide protections and unity amongst the specie. All embracing community of harmony was the way of Olodumare and the forces of the universe. Our evolution changed when we found the entity of FEAR. We then became the unconditioned spirit trapped in the conditioned body. We sleep, dream and wake in the triad of consciousness always seeking to find the missing something that is within our grasp but never quiet touching. We created the Ego as another form of protector but lost control over its force thus giving us the sense that it is a reality when in fact it is truly an illusion of our own human creation. However, it is our Ori-heart and mind outside of ourselves and within ourselves simultaneously that is ever seeking to escape the boundaries we created. We believe that it is our understanding of the 7 levels of freedom that will bring what we want in life.
What is it that I want-freedom
Success
Escaping the prison of the known
The ability to make spontaneous correct choices
To become free of time
Removing the traps of the conditioned form
Become the timeless consciousness and away from the trappings of the world
Now again this is not hocus pocus, we are spiritually predisposed to live in the miraculous because we are direct descendant of Olodumare. This is our birthright and heritage but we had a clause in the will so to speak. We had to work for our greater good and in harmony with each other and all living things. Yep! Partners we can change even our physical being and more by thinking and doing the good and live in goodness. It is science! We keep ourselves loaded in the drug of fear, pain, illness, hatred, lust, greed, avarice and for what- so our ego can have its own life and power as an illusion-phantom of power working off of your energy and effort. A nothingness that keeps us forever locked in the cycle of human flaw and capriciousness.
Read Osa Gunda carefully, line for line and then compare it with the beginning lines. I realize that I put a lot of information on the page but I truly pray that someone hears the divine spirit of Ifa in what is being said and inspired. Disassociate from ego and the physical form by while listening to music or someone speaking, stop listening to the outside form and listen to you listening. There is a silence that comes that is you spirit and Ori. In the verse of Osa Gunda is tells you that you are never alone, we are the genius of the Creator Alasuwada, Eleda, Olorun, Olodumare, and more names. We are created both with the core of good and evil within us always at our choosing. We are the ones who can become or already became Orisa those who in the human arena transitioned to this form.
Ori, our great connection to the creative forces of the universe shows us that in every blade of grass in divinity, every bird is divinity; every piece of dirt that is on the earth is another human being who has passed into the dust. Whose spiritual essence has transcended back into the ocean of being-ness.
If you are a drop of water, what are you when pour back into the ocean. This is why as Ifa/Orisa practitioners, we used the nature and the elements of the universe to work our medicines, for the ancient ones were great observers of the universe and knew how to use the works of life itself. To dream is only another aspect of life to be used as a mechanism of travel from one realm of existence to another, to sleep in yet another vehicle to unravel the universe. Our waking is just as real as the state of dreams ready to explore all possibilities and connect the dots of fragile ego giving it a funeral for it keeps us from our understanding of our divinity.
Fayomi Falade Aworeni, Iyanifa
Ile Iwosan Orunmila Mimo Temple
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