A Full-Flowering

Since, I wrote The Little Book of Silence, all confusions have dissolved. There is a knowing what life is. Dare I say that understanding is in full-flowering, and the truth of what is happening and all that is ever happening, is being seen.

The paradoxes are resolving themselves and what the Masters have eluded to is being understood. Surprisingly, what was discovered is utterly simple. Nothing can take you all the way except dissolution of this idea that we were ever separated from God, or that there ever was an ego.

It has become clear that all we've ever been invited to drop is ignorance. As it turns out, knowledge, and this includes all that I learned in seminary, is ignorance. I always suspected it, but never had the courage to be free.

Now, I am. Now, I know the truth, and it is setting everything free. To this end, and for the purpose of sharing what I've seen, I have attached an article, entitled The Vocation of the Individual. It came as an answer to my one and only prayer, my one and only question. What is life, really?

As it turns out, life is not a riddle to be solved or a mystery to be lived. Life is God and God alone. God is the Mystery. The Mystery is God. There is no need to decrease, to get out of our own way, dissolve or empty ourselves, because we never were. Separate existence is only an idea. As one put it. "The unreal never lived, and the real never dies."

How wonderful of God to manifest as This!

Always,

Prakash

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The Vocation of the Individual


There is no detachment. Freedom from I and my is Self-realization, just as Self-realization is freedom from I and my. To discover you are That and That is all there is frees you from I and my, because it is seen and understood that there is no separate I at all. There is just the movement of Life separating from Itself and returning. This is what is meant by John of the Cross, who says, "O Life not living where you live." He is simply saying that all, being Oneness, has not returned to Oneness. Thus, there is no need to do anything about thoughts and feelings that are unredeemed, except to allow them their freedom, not freedom of expression, primarily, but their final freedom of re-inclusion and rest.

All is moving toward redemption and final freedom. As St. Paul says, All of creation groans inwardly awaiting our Self-realization. What this means is that the ego, which has been excluded, which isn't actually an ego, is returning home. This is the movement of birth and death, or creation. It is Life separating from Itself and returning. It is Oneness separating from Itself and returning. It is the Divine separating from Itself and returning. This is what life is.

By truly waking up, you end "ego involvement," which only deepened the delusion of separation. The truth, "I am That, and That is all there is," is the truth, which sets you and everything else free. Through Self-realization everything is set free from its limitations and confinements and is returned to it's natural state of Oneness, or union with God. This is what is happening. Deluding ourselves by saying "I am so and so." is what continues the Divine hypnosis. To continue in this state of hypnosis is to suffer. It is being a sheep without a shepherd. It is the blind leading the blind, and it is the cause of what is commonly referred to as "the problem of evil."

There is nothing here but God. That's the truth. But God forgetting God, acts foolish. The ego, or God believing to be separate, is folly, and, from it, much pain results. The image of the lion lying down with the lamb is an image of the harmony, or rest, brought about by de-hypnosis and re-inclusion. This is the purpose of Self-realization, of meditation, of yoga etc. It is not to collect so-called spiritual achievements. “Practice” strengthens the spiritual ego. Yoga is union. It is not staying entrenched in the belief, "I am me." The purpose of yoga is to re-include what has previously excluded itself from Oneness. A yoga or practice which strengthens the sense of I, me and mine is not yoga any more than spacing out or being aware of thoughts is meditation. Meditation is far more and far less. It is the active-passive process of allowing all that has been rejected to come home.

The belief, I am me or I am set apart is what prevents coming home, or liberation. Liberation is liberation from this belief in I. It is the flip-side of faith. Liberation is freedom from ignorance. Faith is holding to the truth of God. It is the same thing. The only difference is that the ego, owing to a perceived separate identity, can do nothing but objectify. As a result, Truth, God, Love, Reality etc. become separate objects or concepts, setting the Infinite apart from Itself. This is the delusion. The main point is that without this belief, "I am me," Without this belief "I am finite," without excluding anything from Wholeness, when you have lost your life in order to save it, the truth of Oneness is no longer overshadowed. What is hidden since the foundation of the world, what is hidden from the knowledgeable is finally revealed.

Everything is God, not knowing it. There are no separate individuals. "The One became two. Two became three, and three became ten thousand things." Since this apparent separation has resulted, the shining Truth has been overshadowed by ignorance. What is called salvation consists in undoing this basic error. It is leading the ego out of bondage into the promised land, leading the soul from being lost to being saved.

Being lost is the very opposite of being saved. Whereas being saved is being saved from separation and ignorance, being lost is to continue in it. Continuing in ignorance is what creates enemies. There are no enemies. "Whatsoever you do to the least of these, you do to me." In other words, the mystical body of Christ is Christ, and Christ is God. How you treat "others" is how you treat God, because God is all there is, including what you call “you.” All that is happening is that God is making the journey home. Another way of saying this is everything is being redeemed or saved from separation.

In truth, nothing is actually separate. Holiness is anything but being “set apart.” That’s "the dream." The ego actually has it's being in God. Put another way, the ego is God. The ego isn't an ego at all. Nothing here is apart from anything else: not the body, not the mind, not the self, not others, not the world, nothing. There are no borders or boundaries, no inside or outside, no difference or distinction and no others. There is just one eternal reality. The relative is only the absolute in time.

The invitation is to recognize this through direct experience and re-include all that has been excluded. This is the vocation to which we are called. It is the vocation to Love. "To love your enemies, to do good to those who hate you, to bless those who curse you," because what is excluded is bound to distort. It is bound to become a problem. The invitation is one of re-inclusion. Ultimately, Love is not a verb, or a feeling, or a euphemism for sex. Love is a euphemism for God, and God is all there is.

As the Vedas say, “You are That.” There is no becoming That, and yet there is the continuous process of re-inclusion. There is realization and re-inclusion. The movement is toward re-inclusion. Whatever arises, pretending to be "unrealized," is meant to come home, so that there is peace throughout the system. "This is That" is the Truth, which underlies this process of everything returning to Oneness. Everything is Oneness, not knowing it. This is the final understanding.

Separating off, autonomy instead of Oneness has had drastic results. What isn't re-included, redeemed or reclaimed by Oneness is still “fallen." The mind, the content of the mind, actions, which flow from "fallen nature" are distorted and far from what is possible. The vocation of the individual is to wake up, realize who he or she is and re-include what has fallen from grace, by allowing what arises to come home.