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Page 2 of 2 It is Universal Law that any disharmony gives rise to a greater disharmony, shaking everything up, providing the opportunity for the original problem to be resolved. You were not ready to open to the greater truth about yourself, and so your life became more intense. You blamed yourself for failing and then probably blamed God for not being there for you. In all likelihood, you died with your feelings unresolved. Your painful and disharmonious energies do not dissipate when you die. They are carried with you from one lifetime to the next (this is called karma). When you returned for the next life, the unresolved feelings and the deeper drive for resolution that originally created them were still with you. Although you were an innocent child and not aware of their existence, those energies shaped and determined your life experiences, so that once again, you were presented with an opportunity to release the false beliefs you held about yourself and move to the God Space. You were not in a position to make that transition, and so you added to the force for change building within you. There can only be one truth, and thus it is assured that you will eventually see your ego-driven fears for what they are. And since you will come to these realizations yourself, you will hold this truth more deeply than would otherwise be possible. And since your God consciousness cannot possibly be harmed and you cannot loose your connection to the Creator, there is no risk, although it certainly does not feel that way. Have you ever watched a hamster run in its cage? The hamster can run like the wind and expend a great deal of energy, but it’s not going to get very far. Why? Because the cage is designed to prevent the hamster from going anywhere. To get someplace, the hamster must break out of its confinement. You are in a cage also, a cage of your own creation. Where the hamster’s cage is designed to keep it in, your cage is designed to keep the world out, so that you can feel safe. Never mind that it really doesn’t work, and that the world can still get at you, you have the illusion of separation, and you can cling to it like a drowning rat. The Emperor has no clothes, but you are so deeply ingrained in the illusion that it does not matter. Just as the hamster will need to leave its cage, you will have to leave your false beliefs if you are to come to enlightenment, and that is the rub. You created the cage because you felt that you needed protection. Part of you is certain that if you step outside, not only will you get hurt, it is also very likely (according to your beliefs and your “experience”) that God will abandon you as well - again. So the cage is “The only rock you’ve got.” And even though it is pulling you under, you feel as though you have no choice but to cling to it. This is the essence of what holds us back from enlightenment. Nisargadatta Maharaj taught that, “The search for reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings for it destroys the world in which you live.” This is fundamentally why we shy so strongly away from enlightenment. It is not a failure. It is a carefully regulated system that will bring you (force you?) into realization by bringing the various aspects of yourself into alignment. The false beliefs of unworthiness that you are invested in must eventually be broached and released for the untruths that they are. Can you resist the process? Yes. Most people do. Can you hasten things along? Yes you can. And as an added bonus, daily life becomes a great deal more fulfilling when you do. Waiting for circumstances to force the inevitable only makes things more difficult. If you could step back from your pain, you would realize that there is no need for protection. Although the body can be hurt, who you are cannot be harmed. And although you have felt abandoned by God in the past, He has been there with you all along – you cannot lose your connection to The Creator, no matter what you do. Actually, you have turned away from God by becoming attached to your ego. When you come to that realization, you simply drop your protection because it has become irrelevant. And besides, it takes a great deal of energy to hold the whole show together anyway. However, until you come to that realization, you need to protect yourself. You must hold part of yourself away from life. Please understand, this is not a conscious choice, and it is not a personal failing. No one gets up in the morning and says, “I want to suffer today!” It is something forced upon you both by circumstance and the process. But it leads to considerable frustration. You are doing the best you can, and things are not working as you had hoped. That is probably where you are today. The hamster’s cage provides exercise but not enlightenment. Many of your spiritual efforts are like that too. They exercise spiritual muscles but do not go deeply enough to challenge your core beliefs. It is very good to meditate (although most people don’t), pray, set intentions, do mantras, chant and dance, etc., but you do not allow these practices to go further than improving your spiritual and emotional well-being. Until you make a total commitment to your spiritual development, until you are willing to let every attachment go, you are like the hamster. You can work like crazy, but you aren’t going to get where you desire.
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