Greg, a few posts back (replying to Bill) you said:
"there is also a sense where we are in relationship with God"
and:
This relationship is blocked by our sin and can only be re established by God Himself
and if I understand those comments correctly, the essence
is:
-- we desirably are in a RELATIONSHIP with God
-- we are somehow separate from God
-- we are BLOCKED from that relationship by our sin
in response to that may I repeat a post I made several
weeks ago:
<<<ADI DA: Have you all heard about the Dreaded Gom-Boo? Or the impossible Three-Day Thumb and Finger Problem? Aha! You see? Nobody tells you about these things except Me.
A myth has been circulating for many centures now that humanity is diseased, that all beings are suffering from what I call "The Dreaded Gom-Boo", also called "sin", "maya", "ego", "suffering", "separated individuality", "illusion", "delusion", "confusion", and "indifference". You are supposed to accept this diagnosis, realize how diseased you are, and submit yourself to the local religious hospital, where a father or mother doctor will confirm your disease and require you to submit for the rest of your life to various regimes for your own healing and ultimate cure. Such is the basic proposition of traditional religion, and it begins with the diagnosis of the dreaded disease.
Tradition has it that by birth, by virtue of their very existence, human beings are all, even now diseased, sinful, separated from the Great One. What a horror! Yes! What an obscenity has been laid upon people through the traditions of society, which, merely because of the impulse to survive as the body-mind, have for centuries required human beings to invest themselves with the belief in this disease and to suppress their own life-motion, which comes only from the Great One, in order to fulfill the presumed needs of this chaotic society.
I come to tell you tell you, as I stand in the midst of the priests of this horror, that not even one of you is suffering from this disease. It is an imaginary disease, a terrible disease, but altogether imaginary. No one has ever actually had this disease. Not one single being has ever had the Dreaded Gom-Boo, or the impossible Three-Day Thumb and Finger Problem. It has never happened! It does not exist!
What is the Truth? You are Happy. You live in God. The Great One is your Very Being. You inhere in the Love-Blissful, Forceful Being of the Starry God, the Mystery, the Person of Love. This is your Situation and your Destiny. And this is my Message to you: There is no disease. There is nothing to cure. You are not a patient and you are not parented. You are not a child. No dreadful destiny lies before you. There is nothing whatsoever to cure.
However, in spite of these truths, you act like a patient or a diseased person, and you seem to deny or doubt the Very Condition of your existence. Therefore I must remind you of It. I must Call you to observe yourself and to see how the conception of this disease arises. Where does it come from? How do you contract this imaginary disease and become involved in seeking its imaginary cure? I Call you to observe yourself and you will see--well, you're grabbing your ass! You're pinching your belly, you're ripping your hairs out. You're biting your tongue. You're pulling out your teeth. You're sticking your fingers in your eyes. You're causing yourself great pain, because of your motive to be independent.
You will NEVER be independent. There is not even a molecule of wood in this wall that is independent. Nothing and no one is independent. Everyone inheres in the Great One, the Magnificent Lord, the Marvelous Starry Person, the Delight of Being Itself. Everyone lives in That. That is your Situation now. This moment is the moment of Happiness, as is every future moment, every moment after death, beyond this world and other worlds, lower worlds, higher worlds, after-worlds, no worlds. It is all the moment of Infinite Delight, unless you become egoically self-conscious, and withdraw from your relations and contract upon Your Happiness and forget It.
This is my Message to you, then. There is no disease except the one you fabricate and reinforce through all the propagandas of this horrible world of egos. Understand this and instantly be free of it in every moment. Be free of this imaginary concoction of suffering. There is no such thing! The Great One has magnified Itself in the form of sexual beings, human beings, sexless beings, earth-world, form and fruit and wood and wall and space and star and sky and cloud and tree and life and death. The same Great One takes all these forms, completely Indifferent, completely Free, completely Happy in all these excesses. This is all the Great One. The Great One creates nothing. The Great One IS everything. What a Paradox! What a Mystery! What a Magnificent God!
This is My Message to you. How Magnificent is this obscene, absurd, ridiculous, paradoxical Being that Is everyone. This is what I tell you, and it relieves you of the conceit of your suffering and disease, the belief in your un-Happiness. It relieves you of your willingness to submit yourself to being a patient for the rest of your days. You are not a patient. None of you requires a cure, no of you has parents anymore except perhaps as your friends. Everyone stands free in the Great One, the Living One, the Living God, the One Who has Inspired all the great Adepts for centuries, the same Delicious, Glorious, Divine One Who is your own form, your own process, even your own body.............>>>
(this is about a third of the total talk)
and here are two further paragraphs from it which speak of
"the business of life"
ADI DA: <<< There is no separation. Therefore, you should
magnify the Glory of God in your own form and also beyond your own form. To be in God--to understand your separate and separative self, which is to believe in disease, and to be free of it in every moment and therefore to be magnified and purified in the Happpiness of the Glorious Starry God--is the business of life.
That is my Wisdom-Teaching. That is the Absolute Truth,into which I My Self am Born from Eternity, appearing to be human and being unacceptable to the shouting crowd of this life, seeming to be an absolute fool, Communicating to you the glorious Happiness of your fundamemtal Being. To do so requires no righteousness whatsoever. None. There is no righteouseness. There is only this Happiness. Go and make morality out of that. Go and make society, community, life and death out of that. That is My Wisdom-Teaching>>>
Namaste!
Jim |
