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The Ascetic Problem and the Freedom of True DevoteesWhole
Body of Enlightenment The world renouncing ascetic considers his born existence to he a problem. He feels himself always confronted by two great alternatives: Sex and God. He feels obliged so choose one or the other. He struggles to choose God But the God he chooses is only an aspects of his own experience, a modification of his own body/mind. It is the God who is the opposite of sex, , at the opposite terminal of the body. The ascetic suffers himself as a problem. He considers his own body so be structured like a problem. There is sex. or the experience of the world, at one end. And there is God, the inner and higher mind, or the brain itself, at the other end. He chooses what is within and above, and he abandons what is below and without. He is as war with himself, and even what chooses as God is only a part of himself. But the self-transcending devotee of the living God is Awake to the Truth that precedes all problems, all solutions, and all experiential choices. He enjoys insight into his own dilemma, his own motivations, his own strategic efforts. He is free of the alternatives that troubled ascetics see mapped in the body mind. He has realized that the truly Great Alternatives are not two forms of experience or two aspects of the body mind. The Great Alternatives that truly confront him are not Sex and God, but self and God. And the consideration of these Alternatives does not produce a dilemma or division in him. The two Alternatives are not with himself. Rather, they are the two possible orientations of himself. He may turn upon himself by exploiting his relations, for the sake of the pleasures of such experience. (Such is the choice of the libertine). Or he may turn upon himself by strategically renouncing his relations, for the sake of the pleasures of inwardness. (Such is the choice of the ascetic.) But the ultimate Alternative to both of these choices is self-transcending Love Communion with the All-Pervading Transcendental Divine. And such is the free choice of the true devotee. The true devotee is free of the double-bind of problematic choices. He is not obliged to renounce the world, nor is he bound to exploit the world. Rather, he may surrender himself into God Communion via all of his true relations. Thus, the true devotee need not choose between Sex and God. Sex is ordinary to those who love God. The true devotee lives his sexual possibility as a form of Spiritual Worship, or self transcending Love Communion with the Living God. Likewise, all of his functional possibilities, high or low in the structure of the body mind, are engaged or lived as forms of that same Love Communion. The true devotee does not choose among his own parts. He does not suffer doubt of the world, or the body mind, or experience. Rather, he is liberated by insight into his participation in the world, or the body mind, or experience. Therefore, he neither chooses nor abandons the world, or the body mind , or experience. He simple surrenders as the body mind in the world, and via every kind of fundamental and right experience, to the Living God. He surrenders as himself. He does not renounce himself or any part of himself. He transcends himself through surrender, or Love Communion with the Living God, via every function, through all his relations, under all conditions. Therefore, he is always already free...neither bound by the choices of the libertine nor deluded by the choices of the ascetic. This Way of the true devotee is the Way of Divine Ignorance. And when that Love is Perfect in the seventh stage of life, then where is God and where am "I"? Where is a place? Where does experience happen? When all arising is Realized to be only an unnecessary and temporary modification of Radiant Consciousness, then even the motive is understood as That. Such is the Free Disposition in which even the body Shines with a mindless Shout and Dissolves in Happiness. |
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