Renunciation & The Last Trip line.

[Guest guest]

Lynette & Friends,

 

Lynette, I thought you might appreciate this in the light of our

previous exchange:

 

"To love God,

excluding the world, is to give Him an intense but

imperfect adoration."

 

yours in the bonds,

eric

 

 

 

 

 

-- In , EBlackstead@c... wrote:

> Lynne & Friends,

>

> 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