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..:: Liberation IV
/ The Self ::..
By
Alan Schneider
Our condition and its many apparent
inequities can best be understood by attempting to conceive of our
circumstances from the highest perspective of the Self at the
center of the human Psyche and consciousness. This
essay will attempt to do just that examine our condition through a
minimum of the Divine Vision of the Sixth Chakra, Ajna, the
All Seeing Eye of the Logos, and possibly from the perspective of
the Logos and the Self present in the Seventh Chakra, Sahasrara
as well.
Imagine, if you will, that
your finite little perspective situated in the physical senses on the
material plane has been somehow magically transported to a level of such
supernatural height that you are no longer held in any mortal constraint
whatsoever you are a free being of pure light at liberty
to roam not only the physical universe, but any other alternate state of
manifestation available. Your consciousness has become omnipresent,
omniscient, and omnipotent there is literally no other form in
manifestation but yours, and the variations that you select. In fact,
there is nothing actual but yourself, and the primordial state of
chaotic pre-manifestation from which you emerged into expression an
unknown and unknowable essence of nothing that is the universal
potential of everything.
You are pure Love, pure
Light, and pure Being in this blissful place. You express your
existence by simply radiating forth your essence as that Love, Light,
and Presence throughout the totality of manifestation, and, since you
are the totality of manifestation, you simply pulsate with your own
inner condition of bliss. All is at peace and in perfect harmony and
balance. Yet, within this condition, the possibilities of disharmony,
discord, and imperfection also exist, because all of this amounts to the
essence of the misunderstanding of the Truth that you are,
and misunderstanding embodies the further possibility of ongoing growth
and learning and your essence is, after all, dynamic and
ever-changing, ever-growing, ever-developing in subtlety and
expression. Thus, for there to be growth and increase, there must be an
immature condition an unenlightened state of being as well, one from
which endless increase in awareness is possible. This imperfect
condition cannot possibly exist in your vicinity, so you manifest it in
an entirely different dimension a different continuum of expression
that is insulated from yourself, yet accessible to your influence.
This is the universe that we human beings perceive in the physical
senses as the real one that objectively exists that is,
exists as the assemblage of dissociated objects we come to know
as life!
So it is that imperfection is
the hallmark of human effort do what we will, and trim and polish and
shine, we can never really efface the flaws of this life we
simply make them less apparent to observation. It is from this posture
of the imperfect that we manifest the infinite potential to learn and
grow in every way, thus fulfilling our place in the cosmic manifestation
of the Self. As we stumble through this existence, the experience of
our senses vibrates up through the sequence of the Lower Chakras of
perception to Anahata, the Heart Chakra, and center of
compassionate consciousness, and the Seat of the Soul, resonating there
and producing Enlightenment. This steadily increases the coefficient of
Light within the Soul, converting the Karma of physical limitation into
the Dharma of Divine Love and Grace in the process. This is what the
Self sees from the Divine Perspective the Soul, really an aspect of
Its own sacred Love, shinning ever brighter as it increases in
perfection as the vehicle of that Love spiritually adjoining the mind.
The first three Chakras only exist to support the physical vehicle (the
body) during its temporary journey through the material illusion, as the
vibrations of that illusion that Maya continuously work on
the Soul to deliver it ultimately to liberation in the Self as
the Self.
Sometimes the simplest things
in life express the most profound truths. This is most certainly the
case with the ages old observation that God Is Love. Now, It
can be very difficult at times to understand this Love from the human
vantage point. You made me mortal and vulnerable. This is
Love? You populated the Earth with all manner of dangerous and
pernicious predators (human and otherwise). This is Love? You
placed all of us in corruptible bodies that are doomed to suffer for the
duration. This is Love? You created prejudice, hatred,
loneliness, fear, and jealousy. This is Love? Well, my friends, the
Truth is Yes all of these are the negative possibilities of
living, and without them lifes positives are meaningless it is the
gift of this polarity that is Divine Love expressed on almost the
most subtle level, if one very hard to accept and understand. I say
almost the most subtle level, because the Self lies beyond
all duality at the deepest level of meaning and expression literally
the source of all outpouring of Love in the act of the Creation of the
polar duality that establishes the necessary conditions for all else
that is to follow. Thus, God really Is Love, and this life really
is the result of the Gift of that Love manifest in physical form and
function. I say Halleluiah, Praise, and Namaste be given in Thy Name!
As sentient beings, we can choose to direct that sentience
wherever we wish (or perhaps wherever our Karma will allow us to) as we
transition through this existence we can dwell on the negatives,
become materialistic (and thus be deceived and deluded), be appalled, be
confused, be amazed, be delighted, become Seekers after the Truth in all
its eternally changing forms, and strive toward the Self and Self
Realization, amid a myriad of other possibilities. This is perhaps the
greatest (and most hidden) aspect of the intrinsic liberation of the
Self even here on this physical level of apparent fragments, the
endless variety of experience available creates the utmost freedom for
the spirit dwelling within the flesh we simply need to become aware of
that possibility as we perform the most ancient rites of the daily
battle of living. Why not focus on the freedom, and the
possibility of freedom, afforded by our condition? Why not take the
bold step of envisioning existence from the Divine perspective of Ajna,
Sahasrara, and the Self? These are just as valid, indeed, much more
valid, than the fear, anger, and depression that currently plague
humanity, and so much more uplifting and hopeful. When we are
confronted with lifes negatives and travail, we can learn to understand
that these are hidden opportunities to look and reach higher, beyond our
limited sense perspectives to the Divine Grace that is always there to
be known. It is just necessary to avoid captivation with the objects
of physical existence, lest they blind us to the hidden Grace and Glory
eternally present beyond their little material manifestations.
- With Love, Alan -
(Copyright 2009, by Alan Schneider)
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