Enlightenment/The Distance between Sudden and Gradual

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In a message dated 11/10/2000 12:40:51 AM Eastern Standard Time,

aurasphere writes:

 

<< The Light did not

become Matter. That is the law on earth we have to turn light into matter,

we have to materialize it, manifest it, realize light in time and space.

(Now, when you read that last part carefully there is an AHA in it.)

 

Hi Wim, YES!!! It's not just for playing. I keep thinking i'm going to sleep

and read yet one more and now reading no more, sleep, slaap leker,

okay i can't write it just speak it <g>, so, my Dutch writing will be

how it sounds? love a sleepy me

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Dear Harsha,

 

You wrote (to satsangh):

> Some say that Enlightenment is "sudden", as if struck by lightening, and

one

> is never the same. Some say that Realization takes place "gradually" and

> just as the clouds evaporate and dissipate with the wind and the rain, Sun

> eventually shines brightly. Both views are meaningful and may be helpful.

 

I found that for me the two, enlightenment and realization, came one after

the other... first enlightenment then realization. Just wait, I will

explain.

I had to discover that enlightenment is not the same as realization. The

western imprecise use of the word realization indicates something 'mental',

as in, "O, I realize that." but the original meaning of the word realization

is 'to make something real', realize it, make it tangible, factual, actual

in action and function, living love, light and truth second by second.

Whereas enlightenment flips the switch, realization is the shining through

process.

I am looking for a better metaphor....???? Hmmm?! OK!.

It is like irrigating an area of land, you open the water-gate once, it only

takes a second ...(Enlightenment !), but then the water has to cover the

land to be irrigated slowly. It has to reach each and every plant with just

the right amount of water, not the full blast, lest the tender plants get

flushed away. Each plant has to be given what it can handle, gradually, a

bit more every time over time (Realization). With irrigation one may open

the water-gate once a week, the plants though experience that they get

watered more or less continuously.

When I got struck: "Aha, Eureka, Big Laughter". I knew that THIS was IT, I

was over the hump, I had it made. But boy-o-boy did I get messed up, too

much light at once. I was even rushing into it. It was like I flew into an

halogen lamp. (Dutch: "Liep ik even tegen de lamp"). I did not 'realize'

that I had to realize that light.... make it real. Oh, I got IT straight,

and all of it, the full blast... the full Light of Truth, Knowledge and

Love. But that Knowledge did not become Power (Don Juan). The Light did not

become Matter. That is the law on earth we have to turn light into matter,

we have to materialize it, manifest it, realize light in time and space.

(Now, when you read that last part carefully there is an AHA in it.)

 

Love, Wim

Give me all

but not all at once.