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F.: Next, Abhiram, in regards to your query regarding how to share in a “simple way,” that approach is sound as long as it adheres to the exact order in which the pointers must be presented when guiding a seeker from identification with the false “I” to abiding as the Absolute.
There are seven clear-cut steps on the “path,” but few today know those exact steps and the exact order. To guide a seeker on his/her “journey” effectively, the steps must be offered in an exact sequence, each level of understanding providing the basis on which the next can be understood.
Maharaj made clear that the order in which the steps are to be taken during the “going back” process are exactly the opposite of the order that the steps were taken during the “coming in” process. Of that he said, “…You should go back, reverse, to the source.”
Dennis Waite said, “As ever, in the philosophy of Advaita, the teaching is graded to suit the level of understanding of the student - and it is no use trying to 'jump levels' if we have not yet grasped the lower level principles.”
For You to guide the seeker along the “path” as required, it is also required that You understand all of the steps involved in the process by which the consciousness manifested and then came to identify itself erroneously with the “I”—with the body and the mind and the personality. Only then can you guide a seeker along the “reverse path” without trying to “jump levels.”
As for the peace You have found and would spread, move forward but understand how few will ever seek that peace. Few will ever seek a means by which they can put out that “fire in the head” that you experienced. Why? Because most persons are plagued by dissociation.
Most persons have that same fire, but most do not even know it. For example, many of the depressed do not know they are depressed, having been depressed for so long that their condition is now familiar and has been “normalized” because their ability to perceive accurately has been lost.
Others will have no desire for peace because of acculturation, the general population of many countries still very much attached to that ancient Aryan penchant for fighting and invading and punishing and retaliating and controlling and dominating. Peace, they would avow, is for “the weak,” not for “the strong.”
(For examples of such, review the actions of Anglo-Saxon nations such as Germany, the U.K., and the U.S., or note the preference that many had for a recent presidential candidate in the U.S. mainly because he was a warrior…a self-proclaimed “fighter” who was proud of his history—and his family’s history—of being professional combatants for generations. A blind predisposition for aggression will always prevent any search for peace.)
Another obstacle that is faced by those that would spread the teachings of a philosophy of peace is this: pain is easily noted via the body among the non-Realized, but mental misery and emotional suffering have been accepted as standard by those among the anesthetized masses.
[You may search the archives for “Obstacles” for a complete discussion of the factors that block an understanding of the teachings and that block Realization.]
Finally, since you asked how to go about sharing the teachings, if it happens that the peace you have found is extended to other specks of consciousness that are seeking peace, so it is, but it is suggested that you not share the teachings with even the slightest regard to outcome.
Many who believe that they have found the total understanding and total peace often find that they lose what proves to be their transitory serenity as soon as they try to share what they think they have found—only to be soundly rejected or criticized or condemned and thereby left with resentments that their offerings were not snatched up enthusiastically by their audience.
If an ego-state is talking, discontent is guaranteed to follow; if the consciousness speaks, there is no one to be attached to outcome. May the consciousness speak. Regards. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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