Sunday, July 8, 2012

Let Go of Shade (and wrong Friends)

Like a lighted lamp, God’s Grace spreads all round, on all who approach Him and love to be near Him. But if you interpose a shade which shuts out the light from you, if Grace does not shine, you have only yourself to blame.
Open the doors of your heart and let the sunlight of God’s grace shine through and illumine all the corners and drive out the vices. To receive the desired program on your radio set, you have to switch on and tune the receiver.
That is an inescapable effort. Believe, strive and succeed - that is the message of the sacred texts.
Baba
This feels like a wake-up call, because often we seem not to be aware when we interpose a shade which shuts the light out and sometimes we are aware of it, but cannot help that it happens anyhow.

If we could, we would open up the doors, wouldn’t we?
Who would not want to be in that light?

Focus on the Patanjali sutra lets come up the silence of meditation times in the past, it is no more cut off. And it makes come up the past which had been there before, the time I had been in Paris.
It was hidden behind the MT-time and not because TM was that great, but because it cut off from the real self by programming the mind.
The program we had learnt is like Vasanas created artificially. Vasanas (impressions and habits in the mind) are oily and sticky. If we are not aware of it, we cannot burn it because we take it wrongly for the divine name and light, first we have to get aware of the shade to be able to let it go.
But when getting aware of it, we can use the real divine name and the oil will get exhausted.
Getting to the real Patanjali and value of the sutra is like plunging down deep in the ocean and finding the reality of all the time which had been there before, it got cut off by the technique and mechanic repetition of the mantra, that is not natural. We can get out of it in focusing on the Patanjali sutra and getting to its real meaning. That is a shadow which was created by TM and it seemed nearly impossible to get rid of it, but only nearly impossible, it is possible if we do it the right way. It was not our mistake, not really, it had been established by the Yogi and a not right path and the sutra 'strength of an elephant' has a different meaning. The strength to find the path through the jungle. It is said that the elephant never gets lost in a jungle and TM leads into a jungle, because in the end all is wrong and projected on body level.  
I always wondered why I had never missed that time in Paris, which was greater than the disturbing TM-time. It was that disturbed, it was not possible to remember it. It was nothing else but make-believe that there were no problems and ignoring all problems and therefore, it was too heavy and disturbing to remember the easy times before. In reality that time was nothing but a problem, it was hell.
How can we open the heart and let in the light, if we don’t know how to get rid of the shade? We have to get aware of it.
That is an inescapable effort.
When Baba said to follow the master, to fight to the end and to finish the game, it was about ‘that’, because we cannot get rid of the shade if we don’t get aware that it is a shade. It doesn’t get away by itself. We have to be able to know how to really make it an issue of ‘no problem’ to finish the game.
Open the doors of your heart and let the sunlight of God’s grace shine through and illumine all the corners and drive out the vices. To receive the desired program on your radio set, you have to switch on and tune the receiver. That is an inescapable effort. Believe, strive and succeed - that is the message of the sacred texts.
Which sacred texts have been used wrongly?
The answer is, ‘the Patanjali sutras’. How do we get the desired program? We have to tune the receiver to the real Patanjali… and use it properly.
Are we able to do that? Yes, definitely we are! If we inhale ‘Akasha’, there is ‘space’ and relationship between Akasha and the body established. And if we exhale ‘darkness and heaviness of the body, we get aware of the sathvic state of ‘lightness of a cotton fiber’, it is establishing a body Sathva and that is the state of the divine, that is the level of Baba.
It is not important if we can move in space. Important is to realize that Sathva is real and divine. Divinity is in it and at the same time always out of it, he is the watcher. It is important to realize that this is 'he' and not different from the observer and that is the reason he said, ‘I wanted to fly’.
But if you interpose a shade which shuts out the light from you, if Grace does not shine, you have only yourself to blame.
We have to wake-up and see the shade TM has created. Getting aware of it means being able to let the light in, because it is only a shade, but if we don't get aware of it that shade cannot move away, because we still think it is light and that is wrong, the mistake has to be understood. Baba helps to realize it, but it seems much more difficult than we ever thought it would be. We have no choice, if we want to have the right receiver, we have to go for it and tune in. Only in realizing the shade we realize the obstacle and can let it go.
It means first we have to do it and go for it, after we will be able to realize it and let it go. To make it no problem, we use the sutra the proper way and then it is really no problem anymore and the shade dissolves.  

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