BILL: "Yet I tell you this: If there is nothing but God then the Ego you seem to love to decry is as much God as anything else, no less and no more."
ADI DA: "Human suffering is not due to the absence of inner visions (or of any other kinds of conditionally objectified internal or, otherwise, external perceptions). Therefore, human suffering is not eliminated by the presence (or the experiencing) of inner visions (or of any other kinds of conditionally objectified internal or, otherwise, external perceptions).
The "problem" of human suffering is never the absence of inner visions (and such), or the absence of any conditional experience of any kind. Rather, the "problem" of human suffering is always (and inherently) the presence (or presently effective activity) of the ego-"I" (or the self-contracted-or separate and separative-point of view). Indeed, the search to experience conditionally objectified inner perceptions-and, otherwise, the clinging to conditionally objectified inner perceptions-is, itself, a form of human suffering (and, altogether, of self-deluded confinement to the inherently, and negatively, empty condition of egoic separateness).
The root and essence of human suffering is egoity. That is to Say, the "problem" that is human suffering is not due to the absence of any kind of conditionally objectified experience (whether relatively external or relatively internal)-for, if human suffering were due to such absence, the attaining of conditionally objectified experiences (whether internal or external) would eliminate human suffering, human self-deludedness, and human un-Happiness. However, at most, conditionally objectified experiences (both internal and external)-or even any of the possible experiential attainments of the first five stages of life-provide only temporary distraction from the inherent mortality and misery of conditional existence. Therefore, if human suffering is to be entirely (and Perfectly) transcended (in Inherent, and Divinely Positive, Fullness), the root-cause of (or the root-factor in) human suffering must, itself, be directly and entirely (and, at last, Most Perfectly) transcended.
The "problem" of human suffering is never the absence of any kind of particular conditionally objectified experience (whether external or internal). The "problem" of human suffering is always the bondage to conditionally objectified experience itself. And the root-cause of (or the root-factor in) bondage to conditionally objectified experience is the separate and separative ego-"I", or the total psycho-physical act of self-contraction (which is identical to attention itself, or the conditionally apparent point of view itself, and which always coincides with the feeling of "difference", or of separateness and relatedness).
The experiencing of inner visions does not eliminate egoity (or the separate and separative ego-"I" of psycho-physical self-contraction). Likewise, the experiencing of inner visions does not indicate or suggest or mean that egoity is (or has been) transcended. True Spiritual life (or the true Great Process of Siddha Yoga) is not a search for inner visions (and such)-nor is true Spiritual life (or the true Great Process of Siddha Yoga) Fulfilled, Completed, and Perfected by the experiencing of inner visions (and such). Indeed, because inner visions, or conditionally objectified experiences of any kind-whether inner or outer-are objects, attention is always coincident with them. Therefore, in both the search for conditionally objectified experiences and the grasping of conditionally objectified experiences, egoity (or separative, and total psycho-physical, self-contraction of the presumed separate point of view) is merely reinforced.
True Spiritual life (or the true Great Process of Siddha Yoga) is never a matter of seeking for outer or inner conditionally objectified experiences-nor is true Spiritual life (or the true Great Process of Siddha Yoga) a matter of clinging to any conditionally objectified outer or inner experiences (as if such experiences were, themselves, Reality, Truth, or Real God). Rather, true Spiritual life (or the true Great Process of Siddha Yoga) is always a matter of transcending attention (and the total psycho-physical-or gross, subtle, and causal-point of view, or ego-"I") in its Perfectly Subjective Source (or Inherently Perfect Self-Condition). That is to Say, true Spiritual life (or the true Great Process of Siddha Yoga) is always (from Its beginning) a matter of transcending that which is merely apparently (or conditionally, and temporarily) the case-by transcending it in That Which Is Always Already The (One and Only, Indivisible and Irreducible) Case. And, for This Reason, true Spiritual life, or the true Great Process of Siddha Yoga, cannot be Fulfilled, Completed, and Perfected in the conditionally objectified context of any of the first five stages of life-nor even in the conditionally object-excluding context of the sixth stage of life-but true Spiritual life (in particular, in the form of the true Great Process of Ruchira Avatara Hridaya-Siddha Yoga) Is Fulfilled, Completed, and Perfected only in the Perfectly Subjective, and Inherently egoless (or Inherently point-of-view-Transcending and Most Perfectly self-contraction-Transcending) and Un-conditionally Realized, and, altogether, Self-Evidently Divine Context of the only-by-Me Revealed and Given seventh stage of life.
This is My Firm Conclusion relative to all possible human experience-and It is, therefore, the Essence of My Instruction to all of humankind."
FROM: The Only Complete Way to Realize the Unbroken Light
of Real God.
So yes, of course Bill, the ego is within the Divine, but it has a very special action as described in the preceding
piece.
Of course you might be more inclined to celebrate the ego and look to its "perfection", and in this point of view you would have lots of company (almost all of humanity, for example).
Namaste!
Jim |
