And because we are now in a time of accelerated chaos in the world, as I think everyone can see, it’s certainly present at the geopolitical level, and we see chaos in governmental levels, and some disgraceful displays of inauthenticity that have depressed a lot of people about whether it’s possible even to be in the political realm and have character, or remain truthful—because those who get into positions of illusory power tend to abandon the very principled positions that made them popular enough to warrant their promotion to those levels. And then they end up becoming hypocritical toadies of the Fuhrer, or whoever is the power that runs the Deep State.
So the sense that many have of a depressing failure of the system to support peace, harmony, life—most of the governmental institutions have lost legitimacy, and then that creates ever more chaos that spreads through the entire network, not only at that level of, let’s say, political conflicts between various forces, both internal to a governmental structure and to an international system, but also the fractal equivalence that is happening at every other level of the dreamfield, including within each individual ego-complex, let’s call it.
And so because of that what we find is that even those who feel authentically called to a spiritual life, which requires of course, liberation from the ego, still want to hold on to the ego and be in control at an ego level; and until you’re willing to give up that control and that that sense of an identification with the thinking apparatus as the instrument that can manipulate reality and seemingly make decisions that can maintain comfort zones, etc.—as the chaos increases and there is an involuntary loss of that, the ego, the consciousness, is more and more induced to seek the help of a higher power, a higher intelligence, a greater wisdom that is not available within its own boundaries.
And so karma itself is grace. There’s a nonduality between suffering and grace. But of course, to the ego this is not at all clear because its two-valued logic creates an aversion to certain kinds of events and a lack of acceptance.
And as we approach the decomposition of the social order, and all of the availability of things that we took for granted as instruments of our own technological capacity of control—including such basics as food, and oil, and gas, and all of the types of various resources that we assumed would always be available—we begin to understand that a different frame of reference is required to navigate our way through this next phase of the unfoldment of the historic revelation of God at the end of time.
It’s what the Germans, like, some of the recent philosophers, they called it Heilsgeschichte. How would you translate Heilsgeschichte?
Student: History. But Heils, that’s quite difficult to translate.
It’s like the sacredness of history that reveals its divine nature, right, and ends with an ascension into the whole, into the light, so that there is a profound realization at the end of all of this wheel of suffering that people are going through, that all of it was in order to attain the ultimate grace, and bliss, and fulfillment, and revelation of God, and of God as the Self, not as other.
And that those who awaken while still in the body, the suffering itself is recognized as not pertaining to you—it pertains only to the ego program—consciousness itself has no karma, pure awareness has no suffering, and undergoes no change. It’s completely uncreated, and deathless, and that’s what we are.
But to realize that—not just to believe it—requires the release of all of the sankalpas, sanskaras, the intentions, the drives of the ego, its itinerary of enjoyments, and an acceptance of the Will of God, functioning through every form and every moment, and the recognition that only the one Self—that is the Self of every being, every apparent separate being—the one Self does not suffer, and the one Self is the true experience of our experience. The ego doesn’t actually experience anything, because it is jada, it is inert, it is simply a mental program—it’s only when your consciousness projects itself into that program, breathes life into it, that then its thoughts and its images, and energies, produce affects from the spectrum, a whole spectrum of pain and pleasure and every permutation of sensation.
And so the sensory realm is the ego’s habitat, but it is only at the cost of losing one’s infinite nature and identifying with a particular bodily form and its story, its narrative. And when it’s clear that the cost of that projection is prohibitive, because that is the cause of suffering, then at a certain moment one refuses to suffer anymore, by releasing that illusory identity.
But usually one tries first to solve its problems from within the ego, and try to improve its lot using the ego-consciousness. That, however, ultimately proves futile. And it’s at the moment when that is recognized that there will be no hesitation in releasing one’s awareness back into your true essential being, that is no longer tied to a character in this holographic cinematic masterpiece, that is the fictional creation of that Supreme Intelligence, but one’s consciousness returns to that Intelligence itself.
And so all the sadhana of yogis is basically there in order to develop devotion for that Being that transcends the ego. Because that’s the only overcoming of narcissism, and nihilism, and all of the contraction and negativity of the ego that always is filled with shadow, nigredo, anger, and frustration, and sorrow, and depression, at its lack of being able to create the world that it wants.
And it’s only when there is a surrender to the power that does have the task of destruction, creation, and sustenance, and alignment, attunement, and at-one-ment with that power, that there is freedom from the wheel of karma.
