The Singular Aim of Your Soul

Sep 29

From all angles, you see a war of opposing opinions, positions, values, and the battle of the dark and light has gone on since the beginning of time. Each person on the nightly news argues that they have the right to do as they have done, the right to say what they have said. All of us are left scratching our heads when what appears to be so obviously wrong is not seen that way by the person who committed the act. It occurs every day. There are dominant, well-known individuals who represent both sides of the fence...the light and the dark. But you have to keep in mind, they are only individuals. The problem was not that there was a Hitler or an Edi Amin or a Franco or a Pavelic...there were just individuals...just one person. The problem was then and now that there were so many individuals who supported them.

I would go so far as to say that unless you understand darkness, you can’t understand the light.

But if you go too far into the darkness, you might not make it out. You become addicted. If you go undercover too long, you become the person you’re impersonating. If you go too far into the light and separate yourself from the every day, you become self-righteous and preachy. If you throw out a crazy idea but find that your idea is supported by others, you might not think it’s such a crazy idea after all and if practiced long enough, your crazy idea seems to be normal.

The duality creates such conflict and opposition that it seems impossible to reconcile them and I guess one would say that’s what the courts are for. If, for example, you are an individual who believes that justice exists, you haven’t journeyed far enough into the darkness. If you have recoiled from life, have become hopeless, and circle the drain every day with your emotions, it’s because you haven’t gone far enough into the light. The problems created by this separation, of good and evil, of the duality, make life so difficult, nearly impossible to resolve. For every despairing atrocity that occurs, there will be an individual that argues for and justifies it. What are you supposed to do? All belief systems eventually become fossils of the truth, frozen in time and when unfrozen, find themselves in an alien world that has evolved beyond.

So, in spite of the fact that belief systems are at the root of the planetary struggle and that you don’t need them to advance as an individual or a nation, the very belief systems that at one time were meant to serve the light, become servants of the darkness. Still, the battle goes on. To save lives, a person kills. The paradoxes and hypocrisies are so easy to see right in front of you today.

unless you understand darkness, you can’t understand the light.

You see, the physical manifestation is a manifestation of the level of consciousness that creates it. And so is your life. Your life is an outcome of the level of consciousness you practice and this outcome, this physicality, this life you are leading imposes the speed, the pace of how your life moves forward, the level of progress you are making.

These problems and issues are going to have to be addressed if not solved for you to be able to escape the snares of the dilemma and opposition that often results in at worst paralysis and at best inertia. Otherwise, not to inquire, not to insist on knowing something other than what you know, not being willing to make an ascent into higher knowledge, leaves you on the couch praying for help.

In the meantime, evolution, and to be clear, let’s keep it at the individual level, at the level of your life, evolution is not letting up and in fact, if you’ve noticed, it’s speeding up. Now, truth-consciousness is insisting on moving forward whether you like it not because it has, just like you do, just like all the other people on the planet, it has its own agenda, objective, and destiny. It’s not here for you although it doesn’t mind lending a hand.

You are here for truth-consciousness and as a payoff, you get to live a pretty remarkable life that includes fulfillment and realization of who you are, which is that you are truth-consciousness.

The mind, the mental, tries at all expense, to become the truth, to become the fact by which all others should listen and adhere. Many modern attempts, religious and esoteric, have presented these mental models or frameworks in such a way that if you buy into their system, you drink the kool-aid, you’re supposed to be able to benefit materially and financially from practicing them as if spirituality is about getting your car paid for or have your disease disappear if...only if you XYZ. Figuring out how to separate the real from the unreal, figuring out how to satisfy that inner yearning lies at the heart of your suffering. It’s what everybody is trying to do whether through, love, money sex, or God.

And there are individuals who seize upon these dynamics and create followings and cults with promises of making your life better. Your true fate, the truth of who you are and what you have taken birth to experience is beyond your wildest understandings and that is the number one factor that rises above all belief systems, all phases of human evolution, all drama, and this path should become the singular focus on your mind, body, and emotions. But as long as your mind, your mental system is in control, as long as you obligate yourself to operate within other people’s belief systems, you are doomed.

The ultimate solution MUST mean that the answers that you seek, the answers you need, the belief systems you need, are contained in your true self, the self that some part of you knows is real and true, was never missing, but was contained in the seed of your birth and once this is acknowledged, the realization of those potentials that were hidden within that seed becomes your next adventure. This must be the next solution because it must be obvious to you by now that the answers are not found in the mental system as practiced by anyone, not in politics, in therapy, on your favorite news channels, in listening to me, but will be found in consciousness.

Now, to be specific, in another message I wrote titled, “If You Only Ever Read One Book in Your Life,” I discuss the greatest resource I have ever found to assist you on this journey and I simultaneously know that my opinion means nothing. But if you want answers, I will give them to you. What you do with my recommendation is up to you. As your consciousness is, so will your strength be. Consciousness is destiny. As your consciousness is, so will your love be. As your consciousness is, so will your being be. As long as this knowledge lies buried inside of you and you insist that there can only be one way and that the way that you’ve always practiced, always argued for, then so will the suffering be...addictively, mechanically, repeating the same old patterns, circling the same old tracks of your mind without ever having a clue as to what’s going on and why.

But that’s OK. That’s your process.

The creation of the physical is essentially the denial of the metaphysical. This IS the separation incarnate...but not for the reason you were taught. The “flesh” is not the barrier between you and the truth of who you are. It should be honored and not avoided. But the purpose of the physical is to house the metaphysical that seeks to experience itself in physical form.

Like I said, all belief systems practiced long enough find themselves in time periods where they no longer belong. This is the greatest barrier that not only all religions face but all individuals.

The truth of your yesterday is not the truth of your today.

The past is the worst reference point you can possibly use. But being rigid and unbending, it insists on templating what is not true on top of what is true and now, we’re back to the beginning of the conversation.

So, the belief systems based on stuff that doesn’t exist anymore, that are based only on surface reaction and mentality, create an unreal life based only on the surface. In these situations, most people will only adjust or modify their system temporarily in order to benefit in some way from it. The flashes and glimpses of anything greater, of a glimmer of inspiration are not enough to guide you through tough times and periods of decline or change as when you go through a process of contraction in your life.

But make no mistake, what you do not understand, you cannot master. So, even though the seed and truth of your birth and life lie inside, it cannot serve you as long as you insist on hanging onto the old system.

You simply cannot SEE anything different.

I read this story that took place after WWII that was an everyday occurrence at this border crossing. The guards knew that this individual was a smuggler but they could never catch him. The smuggler would ride his bicycle to the crossing where he would be frisked, all of his belongings searched. But they could never catch him. The reason they couldn’t catch him was that he was stealing and selling bicycles.

Here’s another great story. The Bristol Zoo is located in Bristol England, in the southwest part of England. There is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 coaches, or buses. It was manned by a very pleasant attendant carrying a ticket machine charging cars about $1.40 and coaches about $7. This parking attendant worked there solid for all of 25 years. Then, one day, he just didn’t turn up for work.

“Oh well”, said Bristol Zoo Management.“We’d better call City Council and get them to send a new parking attendant.”

“Uh ...no”, said the Council, “That parking lot is your responsibility.”

“Uh ...no”, said Bristol Zoo Management, “The attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn’t he?”

“Uh...no!” insisted the Council.

In his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain is a guy who had been taking the parking lot fees, estimated at about $560 per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounted to about 4,704,000. The funny part? No one even knew his name.

So, you can see that the difficulties in your life stem from this position of consciousness or lack thereof. You live in a box in which the directions for getting out of the box are written on the outside of the box.

Your problem, my problem, the world’s problem is the inability which is the same thing as unwillingness, it’s the inability to see. As I have shared, I have pursued this path of what started first as self-awareness for a very long time.

In my work with my first teacher, I was moving through a catastrophic time in my life and I had lost the first custody suit for my children. It was unbearable. When I went to see Dr. Tony Speed, my first teacher, it didn’t take long before I moved into the gut-wrenching experience I was having about what had happened. I was sobbing and as I was speaking, I realized that he had covered his mouth with his hand and he was almost smiling. I became almost angry and questioned him about his reaction. He looked at me and said, “You haven’t lost anything but you don’t know that.” He wasn’t letting me off the hook and held me accountable for the self-imposed misery and powerlessness I was once again displaying. I simply could not SEE what was taking place. Where I thought I was in the process of dying, I was actually in the process of being born but I didn’t know that and I could not see that.

Your patterns will persist as long as they are your major attachments and needs. When those attachments and needs are replaced, you will create a new reality. The knowledge that can cause you to transform your belief systems and your life is obtained through the pursuit, not of self-awareness but consciousness. If the redemption of the individual, if individual transformation is a reality that is experienced not after you die but while in a physical body, then there must be a mechanism that can accomplish that task and it’s obvious even at an elementary level that what you have attempted in the past does not work or it would have already taken place. That mechanism is consciousness.

Now, I want to introduce to you an important concept that can be really helpful.

Only what is can become.

Only what it can become.

Said differently, only what is real can become reality. What does this mean? It means that only the real you can become, only the real you can realize its potential, can realize its purpose. Everything else is essentially an illusion, is the unconscious play of the mind, wasting precious time and energy. Aurobindo uses the term “supermind” as the force, the integrating power that can deliver the human mind into joy.

Now, it’s easy to consider what “supermind” could be once you know about that which is “superficial.” Supermind” is to superficial as vertical is to horizontal, as self-realization is to ignorance. The journey from superficial to supermind which I will discuss in another message is literally the true story of your life and what you’re doing here. This is the journey of evolution which again, is not just physical but spiritual. The transcendence of which all sacred texts speak is the mechanism by which self-realization takes place...it’s the vehicle so to speak. It is this that is unthreatenable, indestructible, unalarmed by daily events and struggles. It is the vehicle that moves you from ignorance and sleep to awakening.

You and supermind are one and the same. The reason I haven’t spoken about this before in any of the messages is that you’ve got some work to do before that can be considered. There’s no need in talking about playing the Superbowl until you get some basics down. I have difficulty engaging in shallow, spiritual ethics and because of that, I have a tendency to remain closer to the ground than to the sky.

You can meditate all you want to but it may not change a thing. The change in your outer life comes to a change in your inner life. Knowledge is a function of being and that is not dependent upon your outer world. So, you and I have work to do.

As we say, there is truth to live and work to do. So, let’s look at a few of those truths.

Everything you see is a reflection of you.
If you see something as negative, it’s the negative you that you see.
If you let go of the negativity, the negativity lets go of you.
Having faith is not hoping for the thing that you want to show up but knowing that which is perfect is going to show up...even if it’s painful.
If you think you need something in order to be ok, you’ll notice you’ll do about anything to get it and in getting it, in time, you’ll regret it.
Truth is not something that is written or decreed...it is something you are.

The second difficulty is that man is separated in his mind, his life, his body from the universal and therefore, even as he does not know himself, is equally and even more incapable of knowing his fellow-creatures. He can form inferences, theories, observations, and a certain imperfect capacity of sympathy which is nothing more than a rough mental construction about; but this is not knowledge. Your soul is the hidden consciousness, is the secret, hidden“you” seeking its own self-realization, and this effort, this engrained journey always exceeds anything you’re able to envision or muster.

As you become more and more conscious of the discord and the lack of meaning that lies behind most of your mind’s efforts, you will eventually realize that your mind, your body, and your emotions cannot provide you with what is missing in your life. As you become more and more intolerant of this suffering, you will begin the ascent to greater spaces and greater knowledge. It is not within your mind but outside of your mind, not below but above, transcendent of your mind, that you will find the key. Where in this physical world can you find the answers you need? If they were there, they would have already been found!

Now, yes, it is true, that the answers you seek are beyond your mind but that knowledge will direct you back to you for the light is within you, not outside of you, and to this end, you must aspire and begin the process of founding your life upon the principles of greater knowledge, mental clarity, and unified perception of yourself and the world, for this is not just the individual journey but the journey of mankind....that is achieved through individual transformation. It begins with you.

Self-imposed, self-directed, you are the author of your pain and suffering and you can change when you choose.

That you is there but hidden beneath the lower mind, below the ignorance of mental, physical, and emotional patterns. Self-imposed, self-directed, you are the author of your pain and suffering and you can change when you choose.

As I said earlier in my message titled “If You Only Ever Read One Book in Your Life,” I will share with you the greatest resources of awakening to which I was introduced to about 10 years ago, a book that changed my life the day I opened it. Serving as a guide, it is still a book and the answers you seek and need don’t lie outside of you but inside of you. The inner journey begins with the realization that there is a greater truth about your life and your purpose and that can only take place through a change in consciousness which is the pure and singular aim of your soul: to realize its divine nature in the physical world