The Last Trip Line

[Guest guest]

Lynne, and you a poet. For shame! You don't know "exactly" what I mean

by the Last Trip Line? Ok, I'm refering those who have made a final

and irrevocable decision to achieve God in this life and are

determined not to come back (unaccompagnied).

Its not about giving up on life, and the mundane, but living life to

the fullest without worrying about "ideas" yours or mine.

Well, if you are determined to worry about "ideas", I hope you won't

worry about mine. A life of extreme renunciation is not exactly

"giving up on life", but I won't launch into that particular

trajectory just now. The notion "Fais que vous voudriez", 'do what

you want' was made famous by Voltaire as the inscription above the

Abbey Theleme, a holy site of his own invention. In it's naked

licence it's just a provocation, but Voltaire can only take credit

for popularizing the notion, not inventing it. It's illustrious

forbearers can be found sprinkled through the occult literature of

the ages as well as in whispered "secret teachings" delivered "at the

knee" of great gurus of every persuasion. It refers to a stage of

development where the aspirant has nothing more to do, or more

correctly: nothing that he/she will do can speed things up even a by

a jot. They "understand". Their only remaining requirement is to live

out the rest of their outstanding karmic debt. They are already in the

"witness position", so they won't build up any more karma because they

are "completely surrendered", so any impulse to act is already "karma

free" and sanctioned by the Shakti, however the subject conceives the

Shakti: ie., Krishna, Christ, Dattatreya, Allah etc..

By now I'm confident that you understand that it doesn't mean exactly "do

what you want" as if you don't have "duties", which in Karma Yoga, as

you well know, are alway called "duties".

Dutifully yours,

eric