Liberation is Letting Go of All Ordeals
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Summary: Shunyamurti advises not to turn the metaphors of Liberation into obstacles along the path; choose the rational approach to Self-realization and see the Real as it is–the only ordeal is letting go all ordeals!
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Veerle Verstraete
10 Aug 2022For the yogi there is no ordeal! 🙂 <3
bonnie Nack
10 Aug 2022So much gratitude for confirmation of the journey to nothing and nowhere. Love.
I found one little mental experiment very helpful. I imagined being a bird flying in the air; I imagined being a tree; I imagined being a snake; I imagined being a person I disagreed with — And then in retrospect I discovered the Self of everything. Try it. I still find my body to be my home. Darn.
Jennifer Abram
11 Aug 2022Thank you. Why do ‘ordeals’ persist? Why do they seem to keep coming after 70 years? Is it the Universe testing? Why is it that the kinder, sweeter I am, the lying projections and attacks from others keep coming as if i am attracting them? Is this the making of an ordeal or interpreting it as an ordeal or ‘ reacting’ to something I should not be reacting to? In other words, let it go, let the hateful attacks continue without holding anyone accountable? Or, leave them be, don’t react, go on your way,even if they are family and you would like to have a relationship with them, but if you do, as soon as the ordeal settles, another one comes up and you’re in the same painful situation.
How do you stop the attacks from others? It’s turned me into a recluse.
Immense gratitude for your insight full teachings. Thank you.
Vajra Sat Yoga
19 Aug 2022Shunyamurti’s reply: I appreciate how astutely you have considered
the question that you are asking. Indeed, we are always being tested, or
at least so long as an identity exists that is embedded in the world of
duality. But the test is one of discernment, not of right action. Thus, as
you have clearly noted, you need not interpret your situation as an
ordeal. And if you change the interpretation, based on knowledge of
the Real, no emotional reaction will occur.
Ordeals can only happen to a split consciousness that has externalized
its unresolved internal conflicts. Once the consciousness has been
emptied of ego, the Self does not suffer. You suffer only if you still want
something from the Other. As one who has received many false and
hateful attacks, I can testify that they are no ordeal at all. In fact, they
are good karma. If you do not react, the energy of the attacks will, as
the Buddha famously taught, return to the sender.
The key shift in consciousness that will bring an end to these tests is the
attainment of vairagya, complete detachment and dispassion. One
must cease seeking relationships with others. Those who resonate with
you will be attracted into your life and those who do not will disappear.
The fact that you have become a recluse shows that you are well on the
way to learning the correct lesson. But solitude is not merely a choice
to live apart from others, nor is that always necessary. Spiritual solitude
is the elimination of thoughts about others from the mind. This requires
the cessation of desire, which in turn requires the annihilation of the
ego complex and the absorption of consciousness into the Absolute
Self.
In this ultimate unification with the Supreme Reality, the heart is
fulfilled. There is no residue of longing, no grief, and no further ordeals.
This complete liberation from the matrix is the teleological reason for
why the situation is now appearing in your life. What is now being
interpreted as irritating and aversive is actually the wondrous power of
divine grace. May you perceive the dream-field accurately and choose
the joy of realization of unalloyed nonduality.
Om Shanti,
Shunyamurti