Sometimes a shock or crisis arises in your life.  Then it is resolved in some way.  Things get smoothed over and you can go forward in a positive way.  There is of course a period of recovery after, depending on the strength and duration of the problem, the difficult challenge that arose.  There is first the emergent difficulty, then there is the immediate reaction as a state of crisis, then there is the decision that resolves what must be done about it, and finally there is the aftermath of self-repair, of regenerating positive living.  This is the causal cycle of learning from life, the “School of Hard Knocks”, as it is called.  The causal self is the learner, the one who is growing wiser over time through the ups and downs of destiny.  It is this causal, karmic self, the Jeevatma, the self-who-is-living-the-life, who alternately enjoys and suffers, works and is rewarded, acts out and receives results.   This self is generally the only self we know as ourself.  It is this self who is born, who lives, who dies, who has an afterlife, and who reincarnates in the causal planetary world where the causal self has been keeping involved in all these active ups and downs of situations and relationships.

  To go beyond all this causal involvement, all these karmic activities and consequences, into the higher Divine world of Godself where constant transcendental Being of Awareness and Bliss are the natural, spontaneous state of non-dual oneness, freedom, omniscience and omnipotence, and thus live as an immortal superhuman or newly self-realized God or Goddess is the Supracausal Quest that the ordinary problems and disappointments, the shocks and sufferings, awakens in us.  Then the things of self-reform, self-improvement, sadhana, yoga, meditation, samadhi, higher psychic development and so on become very interesting and increasingly employed as an attempted prison-break or liberation from the ordinary causal sphere of inadequate fulfillment and all too chronic problems, crises and sufferings coming from abusive, phony, weak and unethical other people one has been karmicly tied-to, such as sex-partners we believe we cannot live happily without or employers or employees who we believe are necessary for our work and subsistence.  The basic needs for sex, food and clean, comfortable shelter tie us to all sorts of difficult karmic lessons and extremely slow inner progress in the development of our character and understanding.  The higher path leading beyond the cycles of painful bondage to unhappy, neurotic, foolish and difficult people is not easy to find and unfold.  Sometimes premature renunciations are attempted, which can create surprisingly painful loneliness, futility and a lack of Divine experiential bliss, power and knowledge.

  If one meditates deeply on the truth of both painful ordinary relationships and the sorrows of isolation and deprivation, one discovers a fundamental existential dilemma.  How one handles this dilemma will be decisive for one’s personal and spiritual outcomes in life and in death.  It is precisely at this juncture that one must learn to take new steps about oneself and one’s life-pattern.  It is critical to identify and take the right new steps, for these are what has always been called, “Finding the Way” and “Traveling the Way”. 

  One of the most important new steps one can take is to get stronger in detachment and higher awareness without resorting to artificial external rejections or renunciations.  Detachment and higher awareness can and should be directly cultivated with and in one’s consciousness.

  As you increasingly cultivate your inner detachment, you find yourself able to accept certain kinds of familiar difficulty or challenge without reacting in your old usual way.  You become more efficient and generous with others in processing your karmas or fated turns of the Wheel of Destiny.

  As you increasingly cultivate your higher awareness, you begin to get breakthroughs in consciousness as encouraging extraordinary perceptions and the emergence of higher faculties of cognition and action.  You begin to develop, which is inevitable and encouraging within genuine higher awareness.  Things that spontaneously arise there in the realms of the unknown beyond prove very instructive.  You discover that you are becoming a cosmic shaman who is no longer conforming to the outer society of dull, unmagical mediocrity and pettiness.  At the same time, your increasing detachment frees you from wanting to show-off or impress others with your extraordinary new nature.  You learn to disguise your unusual activities and meditations.

Another new step is a deeper and more poignant, energizing relationship with both your reading and your writing which comprise the studious and creative functions of your causal being in the world.  You become extremely selective in what you read as to what is most important to develop further understanding.  You also become more deeply and powerfully focused as to what is worth transmitting for the good of fresh new seekers coming up behind you.  You realize that you have an increasingly irreplaceable task of service to the Way itself that goes beyond your own indispensable personal development.  You discover a balance of service and sadhana which has nothing whatsoever to do with attempting to attract students or helpers to your teaching or your work.  You simply realize that the Divine Power always brings the students or helpers necessary for your renewing of the Way.  You never automatically reject or accept anyone from your life or into your life.  This means your magical circle of real inner will or intent is functioning properly.  As a consequence, you find yourself drawn to operate with increasing anonymity behind the scenes.  You are no longer a potentially vainglorious idiot with a messiah complex. 

  Another important new step comes with you becoming more watchful of your state of being, which includes your state of consciousness and the level or quality of your energy and life-force.  All self-deception and unconscious drifting along with old habits must be eliminated through a Fire-Of-Awareness.  The Fire-Of-Awareness in your own Godself is the most important gift the Supreme Being, Parabrahman, has planted in your Divine Spirit, Atman or Purusha, from before time and causality began for you as a human being.  The more you recognize it and cultivate it within the core of your being as your central Yoga, the more rapidly you will free yourself from everything in your causal, subtle and physical bodies that have been debilitating you and dragging you down.  Your innate Fire-Of-Awareness is your most important spiritual ability.  Never lose sight of this!  Consume all problems with cosmic fire of light!

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