You Become Life Happening


Ishvara:

When you are completely in the Natural State, there is an infallibility. There is a seeing, a knowing, that transcends every belief, every concept, everything past, even past individuals who have come into the Natural State. Each time one awakens into the Natural State, the awakening is up another level from the previous one. Each one who awakens into the Natural State is riding on the shoulders of all who have gone before. The intellect's reaction to such authority is to call it "ego." It is absolute power, and the human intellect can't deal with it.

That is why humans have created "God." You never actually see God, you never hear God; God doesn't come down and mess with your life. So it is safe to make "God" all-powerful, because God is not going to interfere with your life. You may believe that God interferes with your life, but it is the belief that interferes, not "God."

The belief in "God" puts the absolute power "out there," so that you don't really have to deal with it. Then, if you behave yourself, if you do good things, "God" will take care of you. Coming into the Natural State, you realize that there is no one who will take care of you. You take care of yourself. You make the decisions. You decide how it is going to be, and you do it, and that's it. There is no outside power dictating what you should do. You have to rely on the ability to see the big picture, and to make the choices to move in that direction.

In seeing the bigger picture, you have no time for beliefs or concepts. It is a matter of getting on with Life, being Life, doing it. The intellect says, "How?" There is no how. You have to make it up.

I have no beliefs, but I am dealing with people's beliefs all the time. I see beyond beliefs, beyond concepts, beyond a "way." That makes it difficult. It is hard to see people suffer because of their beliefs. There is no easy answer. You need to exemplify what is beyond their beliefs, and maybe they will get it, but maybe they won't.

With the Natural State comes a tremendous responsibility, because you no longer have the luxury of selfishness or ego. You don't have the luxury of taking a position. You have to always look at what is the highest good, what is the best for the whole. It becomes hard to carry on a personal relationship with anyone, because the good of the whole overrides the good of the one. Even for me, if the good of the whole was for me to depart, I would depart. But also, there is great joy and a lot of serenity in knowing the bigger picture, because ultimately you know it is going to be all right; you just don't know how to get to that "all right." You have the abiding sense that you don't need to worry about it, and so you simply work at what needs to be done next.

Life is experimenting: "Will this work?" Every experience is a part of that. Every experience is always a preparation for something more. If you can embrace the experience without judgment or resistance or attachment, you keep moving. You become Life happening, moment by moment.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

This is the conclusion of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on August 31, 2004. - TG.

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