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CHAPTER 5 Before You Can Become Spiritual SRI DA AVABHASA: Be willing to straighten out your life
and handle your life-business as the basis for receiving Me.
This is what it takes. People think that the first thing they are supposed to do
when they enter into the Way of the Heart is to become
Spiritual, socalled. This is absurd. People who are full of
suffering and fundamental misunderstanding about themselves
one day, think they are "Yogis" the next. What is first
required of an individual is not to become Spiritual and
manifest Spiritual phenomena, but to become human. Your social presentation of yourself, or your manner of
participating in relationships, is to be "considered" at the
beginning of your practice because the Way of the Heart
begins not in the context of the larger Process of Wisdom
but, rather, in the ordinary context of the first three
stages of life. The beginner's practice, therefore, has very
much to do fundamentally with social relationships. The
social personality must be observed and understood and
disciplined, even from the very beginning. * * * The Spiritual process rests upon the moral foundation of
responsibility for the egoic action of un-love, or the
avoidance of relationship. Only through responsibility for
the disposition of THE INCARNATION OF LOVE "I love you" may you continue to grow in the ordinary,
evolutionary way and at the same time be God-Realizing in
your disposition. There cannot be a beginning to life in Satsang with Me
and to the Spiritual process in My Company until you are
fundamentally responsible for the strategies of your
childishness. Deal with one another openly, simply, with
humor and love, and do not dramatize any strategy at
all. What if you did not do that any more? Really, even that
would amount to nothing. It seems like a giant step for
mankind, like the first footstep on the moon, as if it were
so profound. But truly it is only a paper route! As long as you have a problem with the incarnation of the
Divine Principle in Satsang with Me, you will have problems
with sexual intimacy, problems with friendships, problems
with community, and problems with living sanely and happily
every day. You have such problems primarily because you do
not acknowledge the Divine Reality, Who I Am and Whom I
Reveal, and you do not submit yourself to Me. Secondly,
problems arise for you because you do not incarnate That
Which is Realized in Satsang with Me humanly, and you do not
allow your devotion to Me to humanize you through love. But as soon as you Realize this Principle, as soon as you
are submitted to It, as soon as you allow yourself to
incarnate your devotion to Me and allow it to humanize you,
your life gets straight. * * * In every moment you are obliged first to handle things
with your neighbor, that is, to establish stable, ordinary
conditions in this body-mind and its relations. Only then
are you prepared to go to the holy place, to enter into
sacred occasion (such as meditation or My physical
Company)-even to realize this moment in Truth. Therefore,
the natural and obligatory life-conditions of the Way of the
Heart are primary and necessary in every moment. Otherwise,
even though the moment itself is Only-God, your own face
will hide the Truth of it. I do not Call you, as My devotee, to conform to the
world. I Call you to conform to Me. The entire purpose of
Divine Enlightenment is that you conform all your parts, all
your moments, the whole display of your limitations, to the
Divine Reality. That is how I did it. Of course, I did not
take so long at it as all of you, because you are justifying
your reluctance and I did not. I was just as aware of
reluctance as you, but I did the sadhana-not just sometimes
but moment by moment. I did not refuse it. I dedicated My
entire Life to it. That is what it takes to make the course as brief as
possible. Then soon-as soon as you can manage it-your
practice of the Way of the Heart exists on a different
plane, in the domain of Spiritual life with real Spiritual
responsibility. It cannot be so without your handling your life-business.
It just cannot be so. You can get a taste of such mature
sadhana here and there, but it cannot be so steadily and
responsibly until you handle your life-business and endure
the original sadhana of being purified in the context of
ordinary life. * * * Notice what is affecting you. In one fashion or another,
through the Grace of Truth Itself, you must handle
business-even after the fact, at a later date. You must. You
cannot continue to grow, you cannot move on in the Way of
the Heart, until you handle your business, until there is
nothing left over, nothing unforgiven, nothing unspoken,
nothing unthought. You must be physically, emotionally, and
mentally purified of memory, of insult, of moments of pain
and separation. You must be. You can make great leaps in
that process, because Truth is a great Force, but
nonetheless you must endure it. You must handle your
personal business, the business in your past, the business
in your friendships, the business in your blood relations,
the business in your intimate relations, the business in
your friendly relations, your business with the world. You are suffering many concrete things in life, and
others are also suffering. By the power of Truth erase what
you and they are suffering. That is the Way of the Heart,
and nothing else, nothing less, at all. You have very real
things to do, very real things, very human things, even very
ordinary things. You must do these things. There are
conversations you must have. There are things you must say
and things that must be said to you. Energies must be
released, feelings must be exposed, thoughts must be
expressed, bodily signs must be given. New society must be
generated. The entire culture of My devotees must be changed
by this exercise. Do not tell Me I am Free to give you My
Native Sign until you do that and give Me your sign. You can see what a cave the ordinary life is, what a
wilderness it is, what tapas it is, what sannyas it is, what
self-mastery it requires, what manliness it requires, male
or female. It is in precisely those moments that you must
make the great Choice that is the measure of My devotee. Especially in the beginning of your sadhana in the Way of
the Heart there is so much gross, petty nonsense. Because
you are only at the beginning, you are dealing with all the
ordinary, first-threestages-of-life stuff. But do the real
sadhana and it becomes-I would not say "easier",
necessarily, but it becomes more straightforward, subtler,
more refined, more profound. You must endure that beginning,
the handling of life-business, and be purified of the
grossest part, which is there at the beginning. * * * Notice everything, notice every insult, be sensitive to
everything. This has always been My policy. I have suffered
everything. I have relieved My Self of nothing. This Body
will not die with unfinished business, absolutely none, for
its sake-and I am not even it. One must be sensitive and do
the work. You kill your egoic "self' with it but "you" must
die from something. Therefore, die from the sadhana, die
from Truth, die from nothing less than the Truth. Invest
yourself in the Truth absolutely. Handle all business.
Exhaust yourself in the process. It is better than nothing.
It is better than failure, and it is at least on the way to
Realization. Handle all business, and set yourself free, by the power
of Truth Itself. And let nothing be left over. This is not
only how you serve your own Realization. This is how you
will serve all beings. Fulfill the Law by handling all
business. This is love. To suffer reality is love. And to
handle business, you cannot indulge yourself. You simply
cannot. * * *
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