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Can the Guru Awaken - part II It is a paradoxical event. The lessons of the Guru do not necessarily illuminate. They have possibilities for those who are available, but there's not wholesale salvation. There is no grand transforming event. People can come into contact with me and have the Divine Vision, have all sorts of transforming experiences and gain nothing from it. People can live intimately day after day with me and gain nothing other than combination of their own karmic life with another personality who is perhaps uncommon, but in itself the whole mixture does not produce Divine Illumination. So the event of the Guru or the event of Franklin Jones is a paradoxical event. It implies Divine Realization but does not guarantee it, and in itself is not more hopeful for awakening of it than anything else; a rain storm. Franklin Jones is an incident. It was my way of allowing this vehicle to serve as a lesson, and allowing it to go through all the transforming events, which on a certain level are necessary, because I entered this plane of existence...took hold of a psycho-physical form which is not more illuminating than any other physical form. It needed to be transformed. Franklin Jones as a fictional character does not mean I pretended to be him, it's not that kind of fiction. It was generated in the face of circumstances, and was workable, was useful for the sake of others. The Guru's work is very much that kind, the Guru's himself must manifest that persona of that kind, he must create changes, he must create qualities in relationship. But he does all those things consciously for the sake of devotees. Franklin Jones is not the point, it is not all that useful anymore than it would be useful to take down in detail all the things that I say and do around the ashram everyday. It is not really the point, it doesn't really tell the whole story. The story to be told is the spiritual process itself, that is what is Real. The Guru is already liberated and has Liberating Intelligence. He is a tool and instrument of the Divine and his function is to undermine the ego, Narcissus. He is a lesson for his devotees and ultimately the world. The fundamental meditation of the Guru is one who meditates others. Once you put your attention on the Guru the principal of Satsang is active. And the responsibility of sacrifice is activated. Until the fullness of His Meditation is Your Condition what is generated is a quality of being 'ripped off'. For anyone in whom this spiritual process is alive, the process moment to moment is a active process of transcending possibilities. Conditions are being created for you which create crises, a sense of loss (or love), awareness of your games and all that. So there's a purifying effect (heat) generated in relationship to the Guru. The sense of crisis is only the sense of irresponsibility, you have something happening to you. Whereas when this process is alive in you, this sacrificial process is truly active, it is no longer happening to you. The fact is that one's suffering (or enjoyment) is not happening to you at all. It is something that you are doing and for which you must become responsible for, and then surrender it to the divine. This responsibility begins when there is a little self observation and insight. Only then can the true spiritual process begin. Until then it's philosophy and the talking school. To dwell in the process that is without change, without a beginning or an end, is to dwell in an absolute intensity without any qualities whatsoever. When you have fallen into the Heart perfectly, then the realm of change which is all of this stuff, this vast functional dimension of outer gross and inner and subtle changes, assumes a kind of Illuminated Quality that is without subject and object. This world is all about duality and will always be. It is always turning on itself, falling in on itself. Making everyone of its forms obsolete. Everything that arises is being cut-down. The world will never become single, it will always be double. It is movement, a cycle. it can certainly be made more harmonious than it is, but from the divine point of view, it will always be two edged. That is what enable it to evolve on itself, that is how is produces form. When it becomes single, then it is already obsolete, then it disappears. The tendency of this world is of experience. Always seeking to maintain the security of our apparent birth, and to create a hedge around ourselves with experience and conditions so that we will not be penetrated and suffer the death that is implied in our birth. And so we go through life accumulating experiences, conditions, thoughts, memories, inclinations of all kinds. All of which act as a hedge, a force of security around ourselves. But the spiritual process of another event entirely in which every individual is turned out of that principal of security, and asked to perform a sacrifice in which he or she is always liberating himself from entanglements with the Goddess, from a false relationship with the Goddess, experience. He is always asked to sacrifice it, not sacrifice it by ripping it away in some unconscious way, but by turning into the divine, The Heart. By doing so he or she is able to to sacrifice all the forms that he's accumulated and that are arising in him from hour to hour. His freedom is of an entirely different order. Everyday everything is fresh, he can participate in an ongoing world event without declining, without becoming solid, because that sacrifice if being performed in him moment to moment. So all beings then remain fresh for him or her, the world remains new, always being created, moment to moment. He is not merely throwing away things, but being involved in a holy practice of sacrifice, without a bottom, without securities, without a floor to stand on. That floor or security is what ego needs, requires, searches for. The principle of the Heart must be generated in order for this process to begin and be sustained. For all, those who are awakened or awakening, or asleep, there are only the conditions of this world that are available, the ordinary pleasures and events. Even the extraordinary is available but they to are subject to the cycles of birth and death. |
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