Always remember that we come into this world only with consciousness and that we leave this world only with consciousness. Everything else between birth and death is but modelling clay in our hands. The Master continues his dialogue...
Your Qualities of Life
In your brief physical lives you are constantly faced with the choice of having to decide just what it is in life that is important to you, just what really matters to you. Is it the size of your house and the quality of the furnishings in it, how much money you have in the bank, the make and year of your car, the good opinion of your friends, the recognition of your intellectual prowess by your peers, the achievements of your children and so on?? Are these the aspects of physical life that are important to you?? Are these the qualities of life to which you have become attached?? Or is a deeper understanding of life beginning to make its presence felt?? Is the feeling beginning to emerge that behind all these physical attachments there exists an eternal being that has quite a different set of values??
On many occasions in the past I have said that you come into this world only with consciousness and that you leave this world only with consciousness. Everything else between birth and death is but modelling clay in your hands, the physical aspects of matter with which you play and learn your lessons in this school of life called Earth. Now whilst, of course, you must respect every aspect of physical matter that is placed in your guardianship, for you are divine beings and have been given dominion over the three Kingdoms of Matter, nevertheless, you should also realise the temporality, the mortality, of those Kingdoms. You should understand the nature of their divine purpose.
One Quest Alone
Above all, you should realise that you, as human beings, are here on one quest, on one quest alone, and that is the quest for consciousness. For as you die, so you will be born again. Everything and everybody that you have not released in this life will be with you in your next life. All the karma that you have not transmuted in this life will have to be faced again in future lives, whereas all the karma you have transmuted, released and learned from in this life will be gone forever.
Know, therefore, that the nature of the consciousness that you take with you at your moment of death is of supreme importance, and that if the remembrance that you take with you is of your physical possessions, your physical achievements, your relationships with those you have loved and hated, the world in which you have lived, then you will surely return to those attachments in your next life.
Non-Attachment
The mark of and evolved soul, therefore, is that they are beginning to grow into an understanding of the necessity for not becoming attached to the material or physical aspects of life. They have reached that point of consciousness when they can begin to see that there is no such thing as perfection in this World and that even the greatest Master, on incarnating into this World, will, to a degree, become tainted by the World and will, to a degree, reflect some imperfection. So it is essential, at this most testing time, that you understand the nature of what is actually manifesting on the Earth, recognise the nature of its imperfection, and so not become attached to the results of that imperfection. You must recognise the immortality of your own being, the eternity of your own nature and the quest upon which you are now set.
Temptations
In truth, what is this Earth but a questing place for consciousness and anything which distracts you from that quest should be regarded as a temptation. Of course an evolved soul can incarnate onto the physical plane of life and can choose, if it so wishes, to lead a life of wealth and luxury, a life of spiritual isolation. It can draw to itself everything that it needs on the physical plane. That, surely, was one of the great temptatons or tests that the Master Jesus had to face. For with the cosmic powers at his command he could have had a vast temporal kingdom, together with all the temporal power, the wealth, the palaces and the servants, that he could have desired, coupled with the blind adoration and obedience of those who served him. Nonetheless, he chose to reject all of that, to give up that temporal path and to follow a path of sacrifice and service, in order that he could ground the Christ Consciousness on the plane of Earth.
Mortal And Illusory
Each of you is called to handle the physical matter of this Earth which is given to you by your Creator, according to your karmic needs. You should therefore respect every aspect of matter that comes into your aura, but at the same time do not forget that it is only modelling clay! It has simply been placed in your karmic pattern for your karmic needs. Remember that all matter is mortal and, therefore, is illusory. So if you become attached to that which is mortal and illusory, then you are doomed to a life of unhappiness, for you are continually questing for something that is not real. Your life becomes a process of desire after desire. It is a wise person who sees clearly that on the physical, material level they can never be satisfied, that they can never have what they want because, by its inherent nature, it is illusory.
The Sacrifices
You may spend a lot of time and money in order to buy the latest model car which has become the apple of your eye. But once you have acquired it, does not the pleasure that the car gives you begin to decline with the passing of time until, when the next model is produced a year later, along comes another desire and the first car is discarded even though there is no need for a change. But have you thought about the sacrifices of the Mineral and Vegetable Kingdoms that were needed in order to make that car?? Have you thought about what you yourself sacrificed to earn the money to buy that car??
Have you every considered how much of your immortal life you sacrifice for a mortal desire?? Do you ever think about your fellow human beings all over the world, of their right to health and happiness, to the essential elements of life, and of how your lifestyle affects them?? Do you ever think of the sacrifices that have to be made by other people so that you can achieve your short term desire?? How much does the Western World today, with its vast financial and industrial empires, take from the rest of Humanity in order to satisfy its short term desires?? Just think about it!
Part Three follows....
This article is from "The Fantastic Teachings of Ramala".
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