CONVERSATIONS WITH RAJ
Volume 3, Number 3
March
1986
QUESTION: What can be said about whether or not it is important to have the
things that you want to have happen, happen, and how can we become better at
manifesting in our lives the things that we want—prosperity, increased service,
being more valid to others?
RAJ: It is really very simple. The key to the
experience of your fulfillment is your desire. Now, if your desires arise out
of the ego concepts, which you entertain, then they may or may not coordinate
with what your Being is unfolding, and so you may or may not find them bearing
fruit.
Again, you must understand that your life does not
unfold as a result of any thoughts you have. Your life unfolds on the basis of
what your Being is unfolding for the purpose of Its fulfillment. If you are
willing to be quiet enough to sense into your Being, you will know what
direction your Being is flowing in, and you will be able to cooperate with it
and desire it.
The most valuable question you can ask when you do
become centered is, “What direction do I need to be moving in?” And then, don’t
try to figure it out. Remain quiet and listen, because your Being is intent on
fulfilling Itself/You. As the answer emerges, then you know what it is
appropriate for you to desire, and so, instead of then trying to figure out how
you are going to make what your Being is unfolding come to pass, you will
continue to remain centered and abide with your desire. The desire is what
constitutes the energy necessary for its fulfillment, and if you are willing to
abide with it, you will stay with it as it proceeds to fulfill its intent.
On the way, you are likely to know it is appropriate
to do this, and it is not appropriate to do that. And you will find yourself
taking certain steps—not on the basis of your figuring out what to do and how
best to do it, but because you will have guidance, and because you are
insistent upon following that inner guidance and flowing with the current of
your Being in Its process of Self-fulfillment.
Another significant way of getting in touch with
what your Being is unfolding is to ask yourself, “What do I really want to do?
What do I really enjoy?” Not, “What should I enjoy? What do smart people
enjoy? What do the people I would like
to associate with do for enjoyment?”
But, “What does my Being enjoy?” Then listen. Be still enough and honor
your Being enough to let It respond to the desire to Know that you have, and
then be willing to flow with it.
Everything about you is geared to success because it
is the Intent of your Being to fulfill Itself perfectly, and that movement of
Fulfillment is what constitutes Existence or Life. So, stop trying to figure
out what you want to do, and be still enough long enough for it to bubble up
from deep within you. You will find out just how controlling you tend to be
when you become impatient for the answer.
Allow the answer to arise. Understand that since it
is the Intent of your Being to fulfill Itself
perfectly, then the answer will arise in its perfectly timed manner. And
if you don’t have it as quick as you want it, it only means that the ego isn’t
getting it as fast as it wants it. You will have learned something of what
needs to be set aside, and you can benefit from the whole process.
Your Being has Intent—conscious Intent. There is
nothing passive about It whatsoever. And Its Intent is to fulfill Itself. It’s
Intent arises out of what It divinely is as the direct expression of the
Life-Principle, and therefore you, at your present partial ego level really can
dare to entrust yourself to your Self and lean into It and flow with It and not
push the river.
QUESTION: I’m separated from my husband, and I would like to have some
clarification about relationships. Also, right now I am in a job that is
temporary and I don’t know where I am going with it, or what I am doing, and it
is driving me crazy. I don’t know which way to turn. I would
really like some direction.
RAJ: First of all, I encourage you to relax, even
though that seems very impractical. The pressures you are feeling do not need
to be responded to from panic. They do need to be responded to from your best
centered place. It is not necessary for you to deal with your world from
conflict and confusion. If you do not jump when the world says, “jump,” everything
will not fall apart. If you insist upon taking the time and have the intent to
become centered first, before you lift a finger, you will find the direction
that you need to move in becoming clear, without stress, and without the
tremendous waste of energy that goes into maintaining confusion.
Your tendency to be impatient is what is getting you
into trouble. You are impatient because your world seems to be saying to you
that you are not moving fast enough, that you are not effective enough, that
you must do more, do more, do more—and you are buying into it. It is a bluff!
It is requiring you to be unintelligent, and it is requiring you to be
unintelligent by causing you to feel that there is a valid reason for not
dealing with your life from your center.
Appreciate the temporary work that you are finding.
There is no law that says you have to have permanent work immediately. The fact
is that your Being is conspiring on your behalf and providing you with the
means of maintaining yourself while you get yourself straight; except that you
are not taking the time to get yourself straight because “you must get a
permanent job, and soon,” which isn’t true.
The primary necessity is to be intelligent, but the
demands seem to say that you don’t have time to be intelligent. You will find
that when you insist upon intelligence, when you insist upon acting only out
from your best centered place and its perspective, that the bluff will subside,
and your forward movement will be more sure and secure. It is just habit that causes
you to feel that you must rush at everything, and a lack of realizing that you
have an alternative, that you do not have to deal with the world on its terms.
From the separated ego standpoint it seems as though
that is the only way it will work. But on the basis of the Oneness of Being, on
the basis that every experience of your life is arising out of the process of
your Being as It is fulfilling Itself, then it will become logically apparent
to you that it is intelligent to pay attention to your Being rather than the
world’s ego sense, so that you may be in harmony with what your Being is
unfolding.
QUESTION: Do you have any techniques for that?
RAJ: Stop, listen, and act! You do not realize the
benefit of learning to hesitate before plunging forth, and inquiring deeply of
yourself, even though it is momentary, as to which way you should go, or
whether, in fact, it is appropriate for you to do anything at that moment. The
essential factor is learning to stop and listen.
If it is the Intent of your Being to fulfill Itself
perfectly, then it must be part of that Intent for you to be consciously aware
of it. Therefore, your Being is already
working toward the end of your being consciously aware. When you hesitate and
listen, you are putting yourself in proper alignment with your Being so that
the information may emerge at the level of your conscious awareness.
You tend to be very positive and very confident, but
the positiveness and confidence is arising out of your memory. It is arising
out of your conditioning so that you are simply rehearsing old
patterns—patterns which, for the most part, have worked for you. The fact that
they have worked, for the most part, does not mean that you have been
significantly connected with the Meaning of the Now, which you are in. It has gotten you through fairly well, but
it is time for you to stop depending upon mechanical responses and become alive
to the Meanings, which your Being is unfolding and which your experience is
reflecting back to you in terms of identifying your Wholeness, your Oneness.
You are the world you walk through. You do not exist
in a hostile environment that is somehow different from you, different from
your Nature, and therefore potentially negative or destructive to you. When you
learn to be still, even momentarily, and sense into the appropriateness or
inappropriateness of any particular action, and you set aside your
preprogrammed responses, you will find the orderliness of things crystallizing
for you, so that you know what next step to take, or which next step to not
take yet. You will be able to dare to trust that, because you are assuming that
there is indeed an integrated harmony of your Self and your world.
It is difficult to live with your impatience because
it communicates an edge, a ragged edge, to those around you. Indeed, you are
subject to experiencing that same ragged edge and the lack of the peace of your
Being, which is ever present for you to experience, if that is what you will
choose to do. This is not a criticism. Being aware of it helps you to know what
it is to release, what it is that you do not have to find yourself
involuntarily sucked into and controlled by.
I want to emphasize that inherent in your Being is
an incredible immovable Peace. It is the vantage point from which it is your
birthright to live your life, to experience being. And I encourage you to dare
to invalidate all the apparent demands that are coming from your world that
suggest to you that you do not have the time or the resources that will allow
you to listen, to become still. Then, take time to go within to express your
desire for clarification and listen attentively and expectantly.
Your Being is not a tease. It does not joy in
watching you dangle like a worm on a hook. It is intent upon your consciously
experiencing your fulfillment. But, at the bottom line, you are going to have
to desire your Peace more than you desire to dangle like a puppet at the end of
strings, which are attached to the fingers of circumstances and people, and
dance or jump when they say dance or jump.
I encourage you to attend to this rather than
attempting to find permanent work. Then, when you have managed to experience
some of the equilibrium of your Being, take another look at your relationship.
I am not making you the heavy here, but your inner clarity will provide you
with insight regarding the potential for this relationship, because the
potential is not absent. But, do take care of yourself first, so that you will
bring to the reevaluation of the relationship a new level of inner clarity and
peace.
Everything in your experience is working with you at
this moment toward the very clarification I am speaking of. Forget about how
you think things ought to work out. Forget about how you want them to work out. Set that all aside and do become still. Do
find your Peace. You do not have to find it for twenty-four hours a day. But
find it for at least twenty minutes a day. You are worth it
Everything else is not worth more than you and your
experience of your Integrity. With the understanding that your experience of
your Integrity makes your encounter with your world more harmonious, you will
understand why it is of value to put yourself first in this way. Then,
attend to your work, and attend to your relationship. This is your first essential
step to take at this time.
QUESTION: I want to know why I can’t see the world the way Raj sees it?
RAJ: Simply because in the process of incarnating
and gathering data about yourself entirely from the five physical senses, you
are locked into a three-dimensional-only frame of reference. Your senses inform
you that you are an object located in the middle of a vast universe, located on
the surface of a planet, located in a particular community, et cetera, among
many other “organisms” like and unlike yourself, completely separate from
everything but somehow fitting into an ecological system.
The five physical senses always tell you that you
are a miniscule part of a totality, which is not necessarily in harmony with
you. So, your self-perception, your self-definition, becomes colored by this
sense of being a small part of a greater totality. This sense of yourself, this
picture, all of the ideas and conceptual structures that you have evolved in
order to explain things to yourself, which are based upon the data of the five
physical senses, constitute a self-definition that is incomplete, and yet you
treat it as though it were total. This is what constitutes the ego.
Now, the shift in consciousness, which mankind is
entering into is a shift out of that limited, finite self-definition. It is a
shift, which I did go through long ago. The difference now is that mankind as a
whole is going to be waking up—and I do not mean just those who are incarnated
on your planet at this time.
Unfortunately, when you pass on, you are not
immediately returned to the pristine purity of Totally Awakened Conscious
Being. The release of the ego structures continues—unfortunately” because the
body experience, from within the three-dimensional frame of reference, is so
stimulating, there are those who have gotten caught in an “eddy,” as it were,
and simply continue to retrace this path of incarnating and experiencing the
“rush” of forgetfulness and do not break free of it in order to again regain
the undistorted Fourth-dimensional Conscious Experience of Being—the Christ
consciousness.
The point of critical mass, which was reached in
1845, has brought about the necessary dynamic for all of mankind to be released
from the ego dream, the ego sense. So, the process will be accelerated. This
truly is the time of the last incarnation, and this particular dream—or
nightmare—will no longer be available to be experienced.
QUESTION: Does this have any relationship to the
“Lucifer rebellion”?
RAJ: There is a correlation, yes. Both descriptions
describe the same thing. It is the ego, which has personified “human will” as
Lucifer, or the devil. The ego is no more and no less than the expression of
free will that is at odds with Reality. Therefore, that is the only definition
of “devil” or “evil” or “sin.”
There is not one personal devil, just as there is
not one personal Christ. Each one is the Christ. Each one is the Son of God, or
the direct expression of the Life-Principle. The free will that each one
employs is the only devil there is, and so the fall and the Awakening is
entirely individual, and the pivotal key is your desire.
Which do you desire to exercise? Your free will or
your divinity?
(COMMENT BY PAUL: During the 1950’s there was a
little novelty item you could buy. It was a little black box that had a switch
on it. You would turn the switch on and a lid would open up, a hand would come
out, and would turn the switch off. The whole purpose of the box was to turn
itself off. Raj has explained that, likewise, the only right use of free will
is to choose not to use it.)
QUESTION: Does that mean there is no choice? Is it
all just destiny or fate? Is it all out of our hands? If we give up our
individuality or our right or option to free will, are we surrendering to a
pattern that is already established? Is there no alteration of that by
individual contribution?
RAJ: Since Being is infinite and cannot move
anyplace, there is no direction for it to move in. Choice, in the sense that
you are using the word, is unnecessary. Likewise, however, because the Movement
of Being is arising out of the function of Fulfillment, and because that
Fulfillment is not arising out of already established patterns, which you would
call memory, then Being is a process of Fulfillment, which is always new.
QUESTION: Is that growth?
RAJ: Not in the sense that you are using that word.
Growth, as you are using it, means a movement toward something greater. There
is the infinite unfoldment of infinity. There is the infinite unfoldment of the
Life-Principle, which at the bottom line constitutes your Individuality and
therefore constitutes the conscious experience of joy, life, peace, color, and
above all Meaning, without conflict, without distortion, without duality.
Remember that Being isn’t something separate from
you, although at the present, from within your ego sense, It does seem to be
something outside of you for you to flow with. As you allow yourself to flow
with It, and as you experience the increasing harmony and fulfillment of being
Conscious, of living Life, you will find greater value in flowing with your
Being, and, as I said earlier, your level of trust will increase.
As the level of trust increases, it will become
easier for you to finally own your Being, and release the finite ego sense
completely. Thus, you will experience
your Self as the process of Creation. You cannot even conceive what that means
in its fullness, and you cannot conceive what it means to be that without any
ego sense of “greatness” or “accomplishment.” It constitutes pure,
unadulterated Satisfaction. It is far from dull or monotonous. It is constantly
original.
You see, it really constitutes your full conscious
experience of the Integrity of your Being. Right now you find life exciting
because you are, for the most part, constantly at the ragged edge of your Being
where the Integrity is not clear. So, life is rather like a roller coaster ride
that is at times fun and at times scary, but never satisfying, always lacking
something, and always causing you to strive for more.
The ego will not be able to conceive of what being
Totally Awakened without the use of free will means or will feel like. It will
suggest to you that it is too much of a sacrifice. But that is the way it
insures its continued existence, and it is the way you are deprived of experiencing
your Self as Fourth-dimensional Conscious Being—the Christ consciousness,
experiencing Reality in the way that the Life-Principle experiences It, without
distortion.
QUESTION: Is there something cataclysmic that is
going to occur on our planet or this solar system in the next 30 years on the
material plane?
RAJ: Each dimension is embraced in the succeeding
dimension. Therefore, the first is
embraced within the second. The first and second are embraced within the third.
The first, second, and third are embraced in the fourth. This plane of
existence does not exist independent of the Whole. It is in actuality the
visibility and tangibility of the Fourth Dimension, which is Conscious Being.
Although there is a major shift of consciousness,
which will be occurring, which, to the ego, will be cataclysmic because it will
mean the end of the ego sense, it will nevertheless constitute the clearer and
clearer vision of Reality. And this is a wholizing process rather than a
disintegrating process. It is the ego, which projects calamity—“The End of The
World.” Its purpose is to conflict you so as to keep you from being centered,
because, of course, being centered is what is going to promote the shift.
My answer to you is, no. So, you can dare to get
about the business of giving your attention to your own transformation.
QUESTION: I probably chose the wrong words on that
question. You spoke of a dramatic change in mankind. Will there also be a
change in the physical nature of our world? I’m looking for elucidation on the
transformation of mankind from the ego to the Fourth Dimension.
RAJ: As incredible as it might seem, it will involve
every single individuality, from an aborigine in Australia to your most
advanced scientists. You may understand it most easily in this way: The sun is
quite capable of arousing the most educated individual in the morning,
as it is the most uneducated.
Waking up has absolutely nothing to do with the
degree of education one has, or apparent spiritual progress, or obedience to
religious rules. It is literally a matter of opening one’s eyes, because each
one already is what he imagines he is moving toward. This is wonderful for
those who might feel uneducated. And it might come as a shock to those who have
worked so hard to develop a very marvelous superstructure of spirituality. But
it needs to be understood that you are what you Are at the essence or kernel of
your Being, and it doesn’t have anything to do with what you are understanding
with your logical thought processes.
You are Meaning in the act of fulfilling Its purpose
or Intent to be what It is. It is ultimately simple. It is totally
nonconceptual. It is totally nonintellectual. It is what you are at your
essence. This is why it is essential to relax, to become still. You must allow
that which You already Are to emerge, and the emergence will not happen when
you are so busy “thinking.”
Anyone who is actively practicing the Power of
Positive Thinking is not in a position to experience the fundamental
Orderliness of Life that is going on before a thought is thought. Yet, it is
only as one releases the sense of having to maintain order, and is quiet enough
and attentive enough to experience the Orderliness of Life, Itself, that any
sense of peace and stability can emerge at an experiential level, so that there
is confidence because of what Life is and not confidence because of the
skillful way in which you are handling life.
Part of the marvelous transition will be the
discovery that what you are calling the physical plane is only apparently a
physical plane from within the three-dimensional-only frame of reference. The
fact is that everything you call “physical” is absolutely mental. Is that
marvelous enough for you?
Every single thing, which you see, whether it looks
like redwood or birch or plaster or thread or cloth, is absolutely mental. It
is a conscious experience. You say, “Yes, but I can feel it. It has
weight. It has density. It has color.
It refracts light in such and such a way.”
But, the feel of it is also a conscious experience! Density is a mental
experience. Texture is absent if there is no consciousness to experience it.
Now, the substance of every single idea or Meaning
is Love. So, you will have the opportunity not only to experience the absolute
mental nature—as opposed to purely physical nature—of forms, but the fact that
it is Love expressed in form. Therefore, as well as expressing line and form
and color, it is also expressing Love. It is illumined with Love. It is expressing Love—love that you can
feel. Every single thing you see is a communication of Love at this instant,
and in times of illumination it is possible to experience them that way, and it
is just a glimpse of the incredible nature of this shift of consciousness.
You will have the added joy of not feeling separate
from it in any way. You will be loved
by a Love that is not different from You. There will be no sense of
separateness from It, even though the apparent structure, the space-time
continuum, will still be perceived. But, you will be able to own it all as You,
as some aspect of the infinitude of your Being. As this happens increasingly,
everything that you see will become less and less subject to dysfunctions of
any kind. Ideas do not die, because they have arisen from the infinite Mind, the
Life-Principle, and are as eternal as that Life-Principle.
So, yes, there will, indeed, be great
transformation, a great leveling of the inequities, both in terms of
relationships of all kinds as well as in terms of the imbalance, which is
increasing at a “physical level” on your planet—the pollution, et cetera.
I will share with you also that there will be a
shift of the poles, a shift of the axis of the earth. But, it will happen
gradually, harmoniously, as the evidence of the clarification going on in individual
consciousness in mankind as a whole.
The ego, in Biblical terms, is spoken of as the
devil, and is described as “a liar, and the father of it”—meaning the father of
the lie. The ego bluffs through suggestion. Because the substance of Being is
Love, then the clarification of consciousness is loving. Therefore, you need
not waste your time fearing the wholizing process of Awakening. Those who
insist upon continuing to identify themselves as ego will find the shift
uncomfortable because their Being will constantly be breaking down the ego
structures, and they will thereby feel as though they are being destroyed. It
is, however, an illusion. And when the illusion loses its strength, there will
be clarification. The idea that there will be those who will be eternally lost
to their divinity is another concoction of the ego.
For those who are curious about Atlantis, it will
rise. But, it will be gentle, not cataclysmic, and it will contribute, by
virtue of the artifacts there, to the shift in consciousness. This will not
happen soon, but definitely within the next thirty years about which you asked,
and the shift will be well on its way. It will serve primarily for those who
are holding out, who are particularly reluctant to acknowledge and experience
their divinity. That is enough for now.
QUESTION: With your assurance of this major
transition over the next thirty years, would that suggest that we should just
sit back and smell the roses and not get on associations like prevention of
nuclear war, and world government, and things like that?
RAJ: The simple fact is that as you attend to the
business of your own process of Awakening, you put yourself in the position of
experiencing your capacity to love. Your capacity to love is not really there
for you to choose not to extend, and therefore by the very nature of your love,
you will extend it. You will not be passive.
Now, if Love is Harmony, and Harmony is Order in
motion, then what you do will uncover order where disorder has been. It will
not be the passive acceptance of disorder, and so there will be nothing laid
back about it at all. On the other hand, what will motivate your actions will
be love and it will come out of a non-ego place, and therefore it will not
engage the egos of those you will deal with, and so what you do will be
transformational.
The previous question was asked in the context of
the next thirty years. The likelihood
is that it will be far less. This is not a threat, but why dilly dally? Why
wait to wake up? It is a joyful process. Don’t delay.
QUESTION: How much sooner?
RAJ: The middle 1990’s. However, great impetus
towards that point of focus in the middle 1990’s will be apparent within three
years. The less you dilly daily the more comfortable you will be approximately
three years from now, and the more ready you will be to aid helpfully,
contributively, at that point.
QUESTION: On the subject of the ego, are there
techniques or things that we can do to outwit the “ego monster”?
RAJ: Literally, your ability to recognize it when it
is operating is the first step in disengaging yourself from it. The ego is a
highly developed defense mechanism. Therefore, you will not succeed by
attacking it. The only way you can successfully deal with it is to learn to
recognize it and not validate it.
Obviously, your ability to observe it means that you
cannot possibly be it. You are observing it from a vantage point other than its
own. In not identifying with what it is projecting on you as your own, you are
withdrawing energy from it.
Your desire is the most powerful tool you have for
disengaging yourself from the ego. And, if your desire is to experience
undistorted vision, if your desire is to experience the inherent Wisdom of your
Being, it is your desire to experience Life from the level of your Being, then
that is what will be energized in your experience.
The only way to deal with the ego is not to deal
with it, and insist upon leaning into and beginning to depend upon your divine
Being. You will find that when the ego finds that you are not responding to its
bluffs, the particular jig it might be doing at any given moment will subside,
and you will be confronted from another angle. But, again, you will learn to
recognize that the ego is never original, and no matter how subtle it gets, it
will still be recognizable
It is a matter of where you are going to give your
attention, because where your attention is is what will be energized. Once it
becomes clear to you that you and your ego are two separate things, you will be
able to tolerate the babbling of the ego until it quits. The more insistent you
become on drawing your understanding of what to do from your deepest inner
guidance, the less you will be able to be hooked by the ego, and that is the
most effective means of dealing with it.
QUESTION: This morning when I was driving here, I
realized I had overslept. I had a map that had a staple right over Carmel, and
I didn’t know how to get here. Right outside of San Jose I asked for some help
to make it on time. And I got some kind of message that told me exactly the
minute I would get here and how many minutes early that would be, even though
it looked like I had about an hour and a half to make the entire journey.
I observed about myself that I didn’t have any doubt
that that would come true. So, I accepted it and I was very calm with it, and
just drove madly to get here. I’m interested in that dynamic, because I’ve had
that kind of experience before where I just know something. I wonder if you
can tell me what is in play when that occurs, and who gave me the message?
RAJ: What was in play was a willingness to listen,
and an expectation of an answer, and an investment of trust. It is that simple.
The reason it doesn’t happen often is because people, yourself included, tend
to try to figure things out for themselves.
The help came from your own Wisdom, your deepest
levels of Knowing. It did not come from me, or even your Guide. It was a direct
accessing of your greater capacity to be aware. Remember that your greater
capacity to be aware does not mean your greater capacity to “figure out.” It is
your capacity to Know what is embraced within the infinity of your Being at
this moment. And, there is nothing that exists outside of your conscious
experience of Being, even though you do not avail yourself of that Knowing
regularly.
The element of trust is what increases the
visibility of your Good. You exercised that trust. As a result, you were able
to experience the way in which your world cooperates with you in manifesting
the orderliness and the harmony of that which constitutes fulfillment. Being
here this
morning constituted fulfillment. Being here on time constituted fulfillment.
There is a oneness “between” you and your world.
Once you realize this, traffic will melt, stoplights will be green, parking places
will be available in front of the place you are going, and the car will have a
flat tire when you are insisting on going someplace and it’s not appropriate.
There is a oneness, and all of it serves to identify
the individual and universal fulfillment of your Being. All it takes is
listening, desire, and trust—uncomplicated simplicity, itself. But, then, that
is the Nature of Being. Simplicity.
I am going to address another comment that was made
during the break regarding literature which suggests that the closer one comes
to perceiving absolute Reality, the more complex things become. This is the
ego, again. The process of Awakening is a process of simplification.
Although the Life-Principle is infinitely expressed, that infinite expression
is occurring on the basis of Love, which constitutes pure Harmony—effortless,
inescapable Harmony. It is simple because all there is to it is Love.
The ego would describe heaven in very complex terms,
overwhelming terms to your little ego, causing you to feel incapable of
comprehending it. Be willing to honor
literature, which turns you within and promotes your leaning into and depending
upon your essential divinity. Understand that your process of Self-awakening is
a process of understanding the greater
and greater experience of the simplicity of your Being.
Answers are always resolving. That which resolves is
what simplifies what you thought was greatly complex. When you are listening
for guidance, assume that the guidance will be simpler than you are expecting.
This will not only help you relax; it will make it easier for you to hear. You
are going to be inclined to assume that because the problem is so complex, that
the answer is going to have to be equally complex, and that is false. If there
are ten thousand ways to accomplish something, there is only one that is most
efficient, and the one will be provided. Simplicity, itself.
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