Heavenletter #5093 How You Dance , November 4, 2014

God said:
You are the sweet holding of My heart. I carry you in My heart. We can say that you are My heartthrob. You are certainly the One I love. I love you with all My heart. This is another way of saying that you are My joy. When you are in tears or away from tears, you are My joy. On land or on sea, you are My joy. You are joy to My heart, and I thank you for the joy you give Me and that I derive from you. I know only joy from you. Would that you would know only joy from Me. Why not, beloveds? Why not?

What can possibly keep you who are so dear to Me away from the full joy of My heart? It can only come from your lack of belief in yourself and your doubt in Me. It is as if you and I are on a see-saw, and you go up and down, and your awareness of Me goes up and down as well.

We are in life, you and I, for the long haul. Our Oneness is Eternal and has always been a constant. Our Oneness is not hit or miss as you may have thought and experienced. What you may have thought is an impossibility. This idea cannot be. We are One Infallible One. That’s it.

I do not deliberate what will be between Us or what will happen with you. I do not pounce on My children one by one and give penalties or bonuses. I would not and cannot. I love all, every which One of you. We do not dance solos.

It is more like a square dance that We are moving in. Everyone is in place. I never think: “Oh, let’s trip up this child of Mine today. Let’s award him tomorrow”, and so on. It is not like that at all. I bless and bless and bless. I bless all, even as there is One.

Each of My children dances as best he or she knows. We embrace eternally. We can say that the world has its own fall-out. It’s not that it’s chance where you are and when and what occurs, nor is it all destiny unless We call your destiny how you dance.

There is the sense in which you are the caller of the square dance. You conduct the steps and the tempo and the music. And, yes, it can all change and it can all stay unchanged, sort of the way words echo in the air. They are heard, and they are heard still. We speak of a dream called life on Earth, and it is your imagination that drives the dream. Life plays out as it plays out. How it plays out may seem dire or wonderful. Take some credit. Take some responsibility and call it not blame. Perhaps you started this particular dance with your foot up. Your foot was poised in the air. Your whole body was in position, and you could only go forward from that particular position even when it might mean you fall down. Of course, when you fall down, then you get up.

Life on Earth has an ending, even as there really is no down or up to fall down to or get up from. It is all a mirage, a mighty mirage. You are enrapt in this mirage. It envelops you. It lifts you up, or it drags you down. All the while it is a little act on stage. You enter into it. You know you are an actor on the stage performing a certain role. No matter what may have transpired, you bounce back for your curtain call. Bow and enjoy the applause.

Illawarra District, Australia.
The Damascus Scribe.
Subject: “Enlightenment and the Morontia Mind.”
(Part One — The Seven Adjutant Mind-Spirits)

Received by George Barnard.

The Scribe: “We will discuss Enlightenment and the Morontia Mind between us this evening. It will constitute a suitable follow up on our talk of just a few days ago. I am the Scribe of Damascus, the now personalized Fragment of the Father that guided the Master Jesus during His short, but eventful bestowal upon this planet. I am a Teacher, still, to many friends of many spheres. We shall begin, my students, by briefly considering the Seven Adjutant Mind-Spirits.

“They are called the Seven Adjutant Mind-Spirits because they are spirits who, all seven, impact upon the human mind (at most, only five impact upon animal minds).

First to arrive and make itself available is the Spirit of Intuition, essential for the survival chances of the very young in sensing at the primitive level good from bad, differentiating safe from dangerous, right from wrong.
The Spirit of Understanding, next up, is the spirit of quick reasoning, quick judgment and decision about how to act or respond.
The Spirit of Courage can be made to dwell on the task before next engaging with its subject. It can take time before its subject decides between shyness and bravery.
The Spirit of Knowledge now brings curiosity, the urge to step out and experience. It needs the association of the Spirit of Courage and also the next Adjutant Mind-Spirit.
The Spirit of Counsel, which next awakens the need to socialize amongst one’s peers, to cooperate, to organize and to reach out.

“When these five of the seven Adjutants are fully “accepted” and functioning, it is time for the sixth and seventh of the Mind-Spirits — the Spirits of Worship and Wisdom — to arrive in that order. It defines the human as being capable of evolving beyond the level of the smartest of animals and as a potential Paradise pilgrim. I want you to clearly see the Worship and Wisdom Adjutants as “non-identical siblings.” These two Adjutants rather “belong in each other’s regular company,” more so than the others, although Wisdom is the crowning champion of the seven, of morality and much, much more.

“Here we have arrived at a balanced, positive, surviving and thriving human being. So where does he or she go from here? There are just two ways to progress from here — the potential evolution of true enlightenment or the rare degeneration of a failing human mind.”

Note: See the 11:11 discussion board or our web site for Part II of “Enlightenment and the Morontia Mind.”
© The 11:11 Progress Group.
You lit a Flame, and it will become a Raging Fire — ABC-22.

Sivananda Daily Reading

5 November
Posted: 04 Nov 2014 04:33 AM PST
Meditate on These for Wisdom
The aspirant should separate himself also from the sadurmis (six waves in the ocean of samsara (worldly life), viz., birth and death, hunger and thirst, exhilaration and grief). Birth and death belong to the physical body; hunger and thirst belong to the prana (life); exhilaration and grief are the attributes of the mind. The soul is unattached. The six waves cannot touch the Atman (Self) which is subtle like the all-pervading ether. He should also separate himself from the indriyas (senses). He should not take upon himself the functions of the indriyas. He should stand as a spectator and witness of the activities of the mind, prana and the indriyas. The indriyas and the mind are like iron pieces in contact with a magnet. They function by borrowing the light and power from the source the eternal Atman.
Meditation on the following slokas (verses) of the Gita and on the special formulae of Sri Shankara will pave a way in the development of your viveka (wisdom) and in separating yourself from the illusory vehicles, viz. indriyas prana, mind and the five sheaths.
The formulae of Sri Shankaracharya are, "Brahman (the eternal) alone is truth this world is unreal; the jiva (soul) is identical with Brahman". The Gita says, "The unreal hath no being; the real never ceaseth to be; the truth about both hath been perceived by the seers of the essence of things." (Chapter II Verse 16). Reflection on this sloka will infuse viveka.
"I do not do anything" so should the harmonised one think, who knoweth the essence of things. Seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving, sleeping, breathing, speaking, giving, grasping, opening and closing the eyes, he knows that the senses move among the objects of the senses." (Chapter V Verses 8, 9). You can separate yourself from the indriyas by meditating upon the meaning of these slokas.
"All actions are wrought by the qualities of nature only. The self, deluded by egoism, thinketh, 'I am the doer'. But he, who knoweth the essence of the divisions of the qualities and functions holding that 'the qualities' move amid the qualities, is not attached." By meditating upon these two slokas you can separate yourself from the three gunas (qualities of nature). "He who seeth that prakrti (nature) verily performeth all actions and that the Self is actionless, he seeth." (Chapter XIII Verse 2).


				*11-4-14 How You Dance*