“People are willing to do puja, to perform little rituals, little formal games inside or outside themselves, and they want to call that ‘Spiritual life’. The true puja in My Divine Avataric Company is the sacrifice of the whole body. It is the life of love. It is the Transcendental Spiritual process in its ‘radical’ form, as I have Described it. It is a whole lifetime of constantly mature participation in the Transcendental Spiritual process. Such participation requires constancy, commitment, intelligence, clarity, love, feeling-attention, energy. "‘Subjective’ commitment is the withdrawing of energy, the withholding of feeling-attention, the failure to love. It is just as much a failure as all the outward, wild, gross activities that people tend to engage. "But generally people do not consider ‘sin’ to be the failure to love. They think that ‘sin’ is the indulgence of the senses. They think their ‘subjective’ orientation is in the God-ward direction. But that is absolutely untrue. ‘Subjectivity’ is just the ‘other’ side of the body. “You are free of these two tendencies--‘self’-indulgence and ‘subjectivity’--when you have inspected them to the point that you can maintain your commitment to real life with some stability. Then you can live the true discipline, the whole bodily discipline, the true puja, or sacrifice, of the whole body, which is what has been demanded by Spiritual Teachers in the past, and which I also Demand. "Such sacrifice is the end to all of the rituals of the ‘left side’ and the ‘right side’, the external sacrifices, the sacrifices of ‘things’ that you are not, whether goats or the body. The sacrifice must be what you are. You are the sacrifice, not ‘Jesus’, not a goat, and not the body that you separate from. "The whole body is the sacrifice--gross, subtle, and causal, physical, mental, egoic--not through a process of withdrawal, but through a living process of existing as the whole body yielded to Infinity.” His Divine Presence, Parama-Sapta-Na Adi Da, September 11th , 1977, The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary, Northern California
Posted on: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:04:05 +0000
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