It Will Lead You Into Forever


Eighteen years ago, Ishvara had an experience of absolute awakening, and since that time the awakening has steadily deepened and evolved. His experience has made some people uncomfortable. He speaks with an authority and clarity which some find presumptuous, or even egoic. Some have been disturbed by the claims he makes, and have tried to persuade him not to be who he feels he is.

In my view, such objections would have merit were it not for the fact that Ishvara consistently lives what he teaches. In the more than ten years that I have known him (including seven years living in close community with him), I have found that he has no shadow, no neuroses or secret hang-ups, no dark side that emerges when he is criticized or when times are tough. Psychologists might say that such a state is humanly impossible. Yet I find Ishvara to be that way: consistently present, allowing, and accepting of what-is, with an openness to unexpected possibility that defies convention. In my opinion, someone who lives with that sort of consistency deserves serious consideration in what he says.

Below is the conclusion of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on May 15, 2005. - TG.

Ishvara:

When I first became aware of the Natural State, I was in a place of utter surrender. There was nothing that I could depend on; I knew there was nothing I could do, that the human had exhausted its possibilities, had gone as far as it could. The "human" was humanity. Humanity had gone as far as it could, and so humanity took the next step, and I woke up. I became aware. Life said: "You are not this, you are not that, you are not that, you are not that, and I am not going to tell you what you actually are. You will figure it out as you go along." Many people tried to tell me what was happening to me. It all sounded interesting, but my cells knew "No, that's not it."

My feeling-knowing is that I am Life at the next level, and I offer to those who hear, those who understand, those who allow for the possibility, a new Life, a Life that is held within an unlimited possible arena of Love at the highest degree, literally loving the cells as they are. Love is the greatest healer. Love is the transformer. Love is Life itself. It is not the human concept of love. This Love is absolute, unconditional acceptance of what-is, which is surrender.

In order to move to the next level, ultimate surrender is required. That means letting go of expectations, letting go of beliefs, letting go of concepts, and most of all, letting go of the past. My cells cannot transform unless they let go of the past. If my hand is hurting from overwork, it cannot become better unless it lets go of what happened to it when I overworked it. Those memories linger. The cell keeps playing that record over and over and over, and it is the same for any disease, any lingering effects of injury: the cells are replaying a scenario: a belief, an expectation, a fear, a survival worry. And the cells are made of better stuff. The cells have more to them than the intellect can realize. After all, the intellect is just a bunch of cells too, even as it does its job to hold on to everything.

So the enigma is revealed. The path is clear and concise. The path is not that of an individual. The path is that of a collective. The cells that comprise your body are a collective.

Consensus belief looks at things a certain way, has fixed ideas about how Life works, and these beliefs often run contrary to what one's Authentic Life is already revealing. Thus it is important that you surrender to the Authentic Life, even though it may seem fantastical and impossible and dangerous and fearful and mysterious. You surrender.

The way is clear; the path is clear. The path is: love, accept, and disobey. Disobey consensus reality, disobey beliefs, disobey superstitious nonsense, disobey the "other," disobey the outside, and listen to the Authentic Self, the true Self that you are. In that, there is only one: It is intelligence. Intelligence is the many. It is not something separate. It pervades all of creation. Intelligence is constantly evolving itself, becoming more, through each unique expression of each cell. It is the cells that are important: the knowing that resides within the cell, the Authentic Life, the hidden existence, the knowing that waits to be activated, to be awakened.

Periodically, humanity sounds the alarm, and wakes itself up. This is done through an individual. An individual is stimulated into a cellular existence, where the cells activate and the hidden essence emerges, reforming and reshaping, unlearning the past, creating a new moment, a greater possibility, not adhering to what was, but knowing what is possible, and implementing that. The cells do it.

It doesn't matter what you call me. It doesn't matter who you think I am, because you don't know anything about it. You don't know your own cells. If you knew your own cells, you would know who I am, as I know who I am and also know who you are. Yet this knowing is contagious.

Your cells have agreed to be you, and your cells would really like you to agree to be them. You are cells; you are intelligent cells, cells of information. You have one cell that recognizes Bill Clinton, and another cell that recognizes somebody else, and another that recognizes still somebody else. You have one cell that recognizes me. Listen to it; it won't lead you astray. It will lead you into forever. That is why I am here. I am nobody, but I am everybody; an enigma, a presence, an instigator, an inspirer.

Allow for the possibility; surrender to the moment, and recognize that you have heard the Authentic Self, the non-dual existence of Is-ness that is intelligence itself, that awakens at a cellular level to perform transformation in an arena of acceptance and allowing. Embrace it; allow for it; look for it, and you will see, you will experience, and you will transform, moment by moment.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

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