You Are The Universe Discovering Itself

Weekly Message, December 16, 2006
Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

The following is the continuation of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on November 19, 2006. - TG.

Ishvara:

There is so much that you seek in this world. You seek because you believe you do not have. You try to find something you believe is missing from your existence. When you fully come into realization that you ARE the universe, that you are intelligence, existence, Life itself, you cannot be lacking anything. That realization may cause you to imagine that you do not need anything. However, the more intelligence you attain and the more awareness you gain, the more you recognize that need is a natural, connecting link to all of Life. Plants need, animals need, and you need.

Without this web of Life, without the interdependency that underlies all of existence, connections would never be formed. You would go around oblivious to existence, and if you are oblivious to existence you are unconscious to experience, to learning, to gaining information, to creating a base of knowledge, and knowing. Without knowing, you do not understand the flow of Life. Without knowing, you do not understand existence itself. You remain in the dark.

Life is about establishing connections. You are interdependent with all of existence, but the body-mind system often fails to recognize that, because you seem to be skin-bound. You have apparent boundaries: "This is mine, and that's yours. I live here, you live there. I have this, you have that."

There is so much in human language that indicates mass superstition, mass separation, beliefs and concepts "about"; there is so much that really has nothing to do with your life. You believe things that have been handed to you from the human past. You believe the concepts, the conditioning, the programming, and the teachings, which have seeming importance to your survival. You think you need to know the conditional hand-me-downs in order to survive.

Yet in this human arena you begin to believe far too much. For what is believed is outside, conditional, and "about." It is void of direct experience, void of an actualization of what is possible. So many humans live in that kind of vacuum. You can walk around pretending, making believe, hoping, but never coming to actualization of the uniqueness that you are, never realizing that you are on purpose, that within you is a distinctive aspect of the universe, a uniqueness that wants to express, wants to experience, wants to connect. YOU are the universe discovering itself.

If you remain closed, if your heart is shut, if you are afraid, if you are trying to stay safe, erecting barriers around you, fearing that someone might see you as you really are, you are depriving the universe--Life itself--of a very rich, rewarding experience.

So much for spiritual agendas, beliefs and concepts that say, "We don't need anything because we are sufficient within ourselves." The truth is there is no "ourself." There is no self, there is no separate identity, there is no isolated, cut-off, bounded, bordered individual. The interdependency of Life assures that that is impossible.

You have to get over your beliefs about the outside. This means changing your perspective, looking at the world differently, understanding how you are participating in an unfolding evolution, realizing that you are designed to experience Life not by a designer but by Life, by existence itself. Existence learns from experience. It is like a feedback loop: what you experience contributes to the experience of the universe, what others experience contributes to your experience. It is interconnected.

If you are persistent in living in isolation and separation, bounded by consensus reality, conditions, beliefs and concepts, you are a participant in creating pain and suffering, and ultimately death. You actually die to get out of the experience of separation. You die to escape it.

So what about living? You live to connect. You can look out upon this world and see how much need there is for connection. You can look around you and see the core of the individual that knows this interdependency of the whole web of Life, of all existence, the core that longs to have the actualization, longs to be able to experience the connection, to experience Life firsthand.

The obstacles to this realization include fear: fear of being seen, fear of being recognized, countless fears that keep the human being enslaved. There is a certain apprehensiveness, or even outright fear, of being real. What if you are not liked? What if you are too different and are not accepted? What if . . . ?

Yet so what? A healthy dose of "so what" is vitally important to your existence. When you can respond with "so what" to an obstacle, it is diminished, it loses its power.

(To be continued next week).

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