Guest guest Posted August 19, 2000 Report Share Posted August 19, 2000 HARI OM RAMAKRISHNAYA NAMO NAMAH! ================================== THE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AND GODNESS ********************RELATIONSHIPS********************** ~~~THE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD~~~ The profound simplicity of Oneness and At-Oneness is, at once, everything of grandeur and joy within our non-attached spiritual natures, and all the terror, darkness of mind and pain that describes the fear/material-based experience of incarnation. The profound paradox within this duality of our corporeal/ego natures focused upon them leads us to a conclusion of separation, injustice, punishment and unworthiness. The ego mind, the intellect, can only grasp facts - raw data drawn from the past of the total experience within this singular civilization. Our total incarnated history began in the "big bang" of thought for the creation of this experience. Where we are now is merely one small part of this universal moment/thought in a totality of so many unfolding possibilities, the complete historical creation of this planet and ourselves as its co-creators/keepers. What are the things we can know right here, right now? We can extrapolate from all experiences everywhere in this universe and in our personal universes and see a Highest Good working mightily in all our lives. This Highest Good is pulling is along - is the ultimate hope, desire, fulfillment - the magnificent expectation and realization - that unconditional love does, indeed, exist and yanks us out of our reveries and stuckness towards itself. In form, we see unconditional love as light - sunlight, energy, movement, being and energetic emanations. On closer inspection into the nature of form, meditating upon its component parts, we at first are aware of the interplay of positives and negatives - energies pulling and pushing each other from one state into another. Then we become aware of the spaces between those forms, which is the real "universal glue" - the milieu in which this polarization of attraction/rejection interplay. This "universal glue" has essence. In the very place between one state of being and another - between time and timelessness, male and female, birth and death - in that place where zero can be seen in which there is neither and both of each pair of dichotomies - in that place - is that burst of awareness, that immediacy of consciousness, that presence of unconditional love as the driving force and reality of all that leaps forth from it in this outpouring of thought becoming thought-form and experience. We are that sum total of energies coming into Oneness. We are, at once, both the forgetfulness of estranged experiences through fear and the magnificent unified creators of the thought for those experiences in forgetfulness. Only within any given moment, in the absolute present where time cannot exist except as a fallacy do we have the power and presence and can know our own Godness. We are everywhere this Godness. It is the energy that gives us movement, awareness, "life" as we can know it in incarnation. It is the light of our energy systems that surround and are one with our physical bodies, and it is the light within each and every one of our cells - the aura of our DNA. We are Godness in our core centers/Godness centers that strive to move upward along then "ladder of light" of our chakras in a progressive learning to be this perfection. We are even Godness as we perceive and love our own imperfection as we are in incarnation, for we have the ability to bring the compassion of the heart and Soul and the unconditionality of our Spirits to bear upon and bring understanding to these limitations that define our egos while within our physical forms. The question, then, is not whether we are Who We Are. It is, rather, do we bring Who We Are into an unconditional, objective witnessing of ourselves as we move through our issues/unhealed states/life lessons, healing these, our inner children, into that unconditional love that is our true state of being? Do we continue to forsake ourselves to the depths of forgetfulness and powerlessness over the experiences of our lives or do we choose to remember ourselves and accept ourselves as Children of God? Whatever our choices, life will continue to dance, whirling on toward its ultimate state of perfection. We can choose to believe that each experience must take us into a maelstrom of chaos, confusion, difficulty and mental, physical and emotional pain and it will be so. Or we can opt to shift this polarizing belief and replace it with that which says life can be joyful if we are willing to give up all expectations and live in each moment, seeing ourselves flow towards an infinite Highest Good. Our interrelationship and interdependency with God is all about receiving even as we are willing to be giving. Bliss, that state of being in which all is positive emotion, harmony and resonance of the universe is our reality and birthright. This is the ultimate state of our most profound beings, a song of songs diverse and One within that overall unconditional Consciousness we can point to as God/All That Is. We are free to create ourselves to be a part of that outpouring of total joy. We can grasp the fullness of joy to our beings as we increase our wisdom, knowledge and understanding of Highest Good and Godness and no punishment will ever occur. We are free to experience every nuance of an unfoldment through fear; living out self-destruction and a sorrow so profound it breaks us upon its uncaring wheel of "fate." Whose life is it anyway? Each of us has the innate power and absolute, individual, unique right to the entirety of this possible experience. Yet - and because - in the end - we are meant to be a gleaming star of love in the universe, and a center of our own personal universes where we are consciously God creating unconditionally - why would we opt to prolong the agony when the ecstasy of reality is within and without in every moment of our existence? *************************************************************************** ***************** FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: We have been working together for nearly three years now. Consider what your beliefs and thoughts were when we began this little time together. What has shifted within you? What are you now willing to let go so that you can be in states of love, peace, calm and joy? What was important to you those years ago that you have let go, and what is important to you now that are your expectations which may yet lead you into more disappointment, disillusionment and betrayal? What do you yet need to heal within to become emotionally competent, spiritually At One and incarnatedly receiving Highest Good in a most conscious way? FOR YOUR JOURNALS: Make a list of some of the sub-personalities you assumed in the past and how these have shifted or disappeared in the present. Think about and write down whether these sub-personalities have become more loving and if so, how this is. Have you assumed any new sub-personalities, or have you been working diligently to release and not take any more on? FOR YOUR MEDITATIONS: Go out to your Soul Meadow and ask your guides and your Soul to join you as you climb to the head of your Path of Love/Joy/Heart/Soul/Spirit. Allow this to be a real experience for you, filling yourself with these higher, finer vibrations as you do this meditative journey. When you are within your own highest, most adult, most spiritual Self, ask to be shown the panorama of your own creativity in incarnation, from beginning to end. Bask in this light and in this knowing. Make it as detailed, as colorful and as large as you can, reminding yourself to bring the fullness of this knowing back with you into everyday awareness. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Shanti! Peace to all! Naren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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