That each of us is doing in every moment. Of contraction away from the Divine Reality - an activity (hugging our family and friends, eating food, etc.)īut Avatar Adi Da shows that, in Truth, "I" is not We try to get rid of the sense of separationīy trying to "union" with other beings and things "I" has to do something to get Freedom, and FullnessĪnd Happiness back. This sense of separation makes us feel unhappy, and we seek We feel as though we are a separateīeing living in an objective world of separate objects and beings. Separate from the Divine, we also start feeling separate from To be in relationship, or perfectly coincident, with the Divine.Īs the ego-fist, each of us believes ourselves to be separateįrom the Indivisible Divine. Like how it feels to be separate from the Divine Reality. That it was simultaneously the most receptive and the mostĪdi Da reveals that there is only One, Indivisible, Divine Reality,Ĭlench your fist as tightly as you can. When Adi Da first gave us the gesture of open hands, He commented To make Adi Da's point linking relationship with open palms: there And we "shake hands" in a gesture of friendshipĪnd good will by pressing open hands against each other. Gesture a friendly "hello" to somebody with one raised We threaten (and sometimes punch) each other with our fists. Of course these gestures - the fist and the open hand -Īre not unfamiliar to us: we use them in many conventional circumstances. That sensation becomes the center of concentration. That sensation in the hand is differentiated from every possible thing outside the hand. If you curl your hand in upon itself, a sensation is generated at the center of the hand that concentrates attention. I often make a fist out of My hand to represent this activity of avoidance, because it shows very clearly what happens when there is self-contraction. And this began a period of Enquiry into the "self"-contraction (which appears, in action, as the avoidance of relationship). In that moment, there was a quiet revolution in the body-mind. Therefore, when this sign convicted the heart,the "subjective" commitment to "self"-contraction was spontaneously released. The natural sign of the human body is relatedness, not separateness and independence! One such (and early) Incident of Heart-Awakening occurred quite gently (but most profoundly), in a moment when I was mindlessly regarding My right hand, observing the (apparent and, suddenly, revealing) contrast between the natural (or open and functionally relational) attitude of the hand and the unnatural (or contracted and functionally dissociated) attitude of the clenched fist. Punctuated by sudden Great Moments of Awakening and sudden Great Leaps of Understanding. Nevertheless, even all of My "Years of Testing-by-experience" were founded on The same basic Insight (or Heart-Awakening), and all those Years were I spontaneously Developed the total process of the understanding (and the transcending) of the ego. Therefore, by always turning to Me, always choose and be theĭuring The Years of My Own Ordeal of Transcendental Spiritual Re-Awakening. To be the closed fist, or else to be the open hand? - that is the moment to moment Will you turn to Me - or will you protect "self"? What I am Saying is a simplicity - and, also, a necessity. When Love is altogether true, when Its Radiance Shines so hard it opens up the hand, then there is only Real God - and Real God Is Love. Where contraction ceases, there is no ego to survive, no reactions to dramatize into separation, no fear, no sorrow, no anger, no thought, no other. Mind in all of its realms, high or low, is only contraction. Love is the action in which ego and all reactions are dissolved, since all such things are only contraction.
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