So cool, thank you ❤ Just a few hours ago, while working, my inner voice told me, that I soon have to pay a price for sth. that I don't know already. But what I will get is beyond Imagination 😄 Greetings from 🇩🇪
Entrust-surrender yourself just as you are, and entrust-surrender yourself just as who you are to Da and never compare yourself to anyone, and never compare anyone to you. Be yourself at all times. Be yourself; be genuine; be authentically you. Do not ever feel the need to be a carbon copy, imitation nor limitation of anyone. Be yourself as you truly are, wherever you are, while entrusting-surrendering yourself exclusively to Da. You are you, and others are others. Follow and abide by what Da imparts to you and don’t concern yourself at all with what Da imparts to others. Never desire nor want what others have received. Da gives to others what they need just as Da gives to you what you need. Forget yourself. Give up attachment, clinging and infatuation with the mind and body and all things that are associated with mind and body. Transcend your attachments by entrusting-surrendering yourself exclusively to the holy name of Da. Lose your “ego” and find your true-self by entrusting-surrendering yourself exclusively to Da. Find your SELF by losing your self by entrusting-surrendering yourself to Da. Do not attempt to trade, bargain nor negotiate with Da. Ask for nothing and ask nothing from Da. Do not set conditions, and do not demand any conditions to be met. Simply entrust-surrender yourself unconditionally and exclusively to Da. Be diligent, be dutiful, live a life of rectitude and live responsibly while simultaneously entrusting-surrendering yourself unconditionally and exclusively to Da. The holy name of Da is greater than, and will independently bestow upon you infinitely more than anything you could ever hope to ask for or expect. Da knows better than you your true need and what you need. There is no need for you to ask for anything. Allow the holy, sublime and perfect name of Da to accomplish its work in your life, situation and circumstances in its own way and manner. Create no prior expectation. Simply give yourself to and entrust-surrender yourself unconditionally and exclusively to Da. Only Da knows and understands what you have been through, endured, struggled with, and persevered through. Only Da knows and understands your life, and only Da is in a true position to help, guide and heal you. Don’t lose any sleep over the opinions, thoughts and words of others. In simplicity and in good-faith no matter what your ability or self-perceived ability is, just surrender-entrust yourself exclusively and unconditionally to Da [exclusively and unconditionally entrust-surrender yourself to God and to the workings of God’s All-Encompassing, All-Penetrating and All-Comprehending Presence, just as you now are right now]. Make no artificial nor forced changes of any kind. Do not try to make anything happen. Make no artificial nor forced changes due to peer pressure or due to comparing yourself to others or the expectations of others.
@@bealreadyhappy The paradox and mystery of faith, effort and grace. What you have been unable to attain by your efforts will, when you are blessed by Grace, be given you unexpectedly and suddenly when all desire for it has lulled. This has been my personal experience and this is the secret of my own inward and radical transformation. My effort was necessary and indispensable, but at the same time my effort was not the reason or cause of the unique, specific and personal descent of grace that has appeared within my life. My toil, struggle and effort benefited me in many ways and contributed to my character development and spiritual maturing, but all of my toil, struggle and efforts were not and are not the cause nor the reason for the unique, specific and personal descent of grace that has appeared within my own life, yet paradoxically it was my toil, struggle and effort that prepared me for the reception of the divine power of grace when it chose to manifest and descend upon my life in a unique, specific and personal way. It was my struggle, toil and effort which made it possible for me to truly value and appreciate the gift of grace when it chose to descend and appear in my life. And more importantly, it made me love even more, with more depth and greater intensity the Divine Beloved who bestowed it upon me. So I have learned and understood by personal experience that we should not assume a lazy nor indifferent attitude by saying that since all depends on grace that we will do nothing. It is true that Grace does not depend on anything; it does not depend on our toil, struggle and effort because grace is by nature causeless, but at the same time if we do not exert ourselves and put in our toil, struggle and effort then we will not be prepared to receive, appreciate and rightly apply the power of grace when it chooses to appear and manifest within our lives. We cannot do anything to force or make grace descend and appear, but we can prepare ourselves for the reception of that sublime grace that appears independently of our actions, and we can live a life that demonstrates sincerity, goodwill and the earnest desire and willingness to receive grace. Faith and effort are an indivisible and inseparable reality. It is in the combination, union and collaboration of faith [confident-enthusiasm] and effort [intelligent and rightly applied direct action] that grace is seen, grace appears, grace is experienced, grace is truly valued and appreciated, and grace is understood. At some point one comes to understand that even our toil, struggle and effort occurred under the guidance, auspices and impulse of divine grace which was initially hidden to us but which later was fully experienced, acknowledged and cognized within our conscious experience. We must be diligent, patient, confident and persevering. We should not succumb to impatience nor doubt. I can assure you that at some point the divine grace will not wait and will not hold itself back. It will surely and unfailingly descend and manifest at the right moment and the precise time in our life. It will surely and unfailingly descend and manifest at the right moment and the precise time in your life. In fact grace is always present and active even when we are not aware of it. Never forget that through our toil, struggle and efforts we are being prepared for the reception of grace. With joy and assurance simply do your honest best. Be patient, diligent and persevering in your spiritual practice. Grace will not fail nor disappoint you. Our privilege is to be eagerly expecting it and to be ready for it. Grace will not fail us nor disappoint us. This is the paradox and mystery of faith, effort and grace. m. casillas
@@bealreadyhappy Realization spiritualizes, uplifts, fortifies, strengthens and divinizes our lives. It makes us humble, guileless, fearless, straightforward, respectful, mature, wholesome, intelligent, efficient, disciplined, self-controlled, extraordinarily insightful and totally authentic. A realized person displays no arrogance, contemptuous attitude, condescending humor, nor a sense of superiority nor inferiority. A realized person is not reactive nor impulsive. A realized person is a person who is truly at peace with himself, is genuinely happy, cheerful and joyful; is serene and lives every moment of life with gratitude, wonder, reverence, simplicity and love. My good friend, have you really found peace? Are you truly happy, cheerful and joyful? Are you your own authentic self? Have you come to truly know the true character, nature and personality of God? Are you settled in the understanding and experience of your constitutional position in relation to God? Do you have realization of God and personal revelation from God that you can rely upon and draw upon so that you don’t have to rely nor depend on the sayings, writings, experiences, conclusions and realizations of others? Do you have first hand knowledge [direct personal experience] of God or do you have second hand information about God that may or may not be true, accurate or correct? You are not yet a settled person. Your inner life and thought [your heart and mind] is still filled with unresolved turbulence, unease and agitation; there is in you a subtle as well as a not so subtle undercurrent of turbulence, unease and agitation. You are not yet at peace with yourself. You have found much, but you are still seeking. You are not yet content. You don’t yet feel complete. I have absolutely no doubt that you have had genuine direct experiences with God and that you have gleaned and understood many things or some things but Something is still missing. Why not reach out directly to God Himself and let Him direct, illuminate, comfort and guide your mind and heart, and fill your mind and heart with Himself. A realized person does not need to draw upon the sayings, writings nor conclusions of anyone. A realized person has a sacred, deep and profound root of holiness, godliness, self-renewing and self-refreshing divine experience; and divinity in his own person; a direct, personal, divine and unbroken continuous connectivity, which sustains, guides, refreshes, renews and enlightens him. A realized person does not live from, live off, nor live by the memory or remembrance of past grace-filled moments or divine experiences. A realized person is always presently sustained by God with wave upon wave of bliss filled and loved filled knowledge, wisdom and understanding; each successive wave is more blissful and more intense than the last. Each wave of bliss and love is forever new, fresh, unique, fiercer, more intense, more beautiful and unrepeatable. Is this your experience and your actual lived spiritual reality? Adi Da had his own realizations. When will you have your own? Not Adi Da’s, but your own. This is what makes a mature devotee, one who is able to draw upon and depend upon God himself [only God; God alone] for all his needs. A CD only repeats what others have inscribed upon it because it has nothing of itself to communicate. A CD is not a living being. A CD has no spirit, no soul, no mind, no feelings, no perceptions, no insights and no life. I see that what you are communicating is not something of your own. You are simply repeating, mimicking, and parroting the sayings, experiences and conclusions of others. What have you to say of yourself of what you have received directly from God and which you have gleaned, discovered, understood and realized through the power of your own spirituality, insight, effort, toil, ordeal, ups and downs, tears and laughter, elation and despondency, longing, search and overall spiritual development? What have you to share with others from your own storehouse and goods and not from the storehouse and goods of someone else; from your own original thought, feeling, perception, insight and experience? Have you not seen nor understood that Adi Da arrived at his understandings and realizations as a result of his own searching; yes, his own authentic search and longing for truth and God. If it were not for his search and the efforts, toil and work that he applied towards his own spiritual progress and realization he would not later be able to speak upon the futility of the searching and seeking disposition! Not that he was refuting the searching and seeking in itself. What he refuted was the false basis, hypocrisy, selfishness, lust for power and influence, and the insincerity that fuels and motivates the search and seeking of many. How did he learn this and understand this? By the experience gained as a result of his own search and legitimate inquiry. By analyzing and confronting his own motivations and intentions. Adi Da can share with you his insights but he cannot give you the power or faculty of insight. This you have to develop and attain for yourself. Adi Da can share with you his understandings, but understanding itself he cannot give you, this you must develop in yourself. This is the maturing process. Adi Da can share his goodwill and love for you but he cannot magically install goodwill and love in you; this you must do and develop by yourself. Adi Da cannot make you be a loving, caring and considerate person as if by magic. You have to want to be a loving, caring and considerate person and develop those qualities in your own life; Adi Da cannot do it for you or in your stead. Adi Da cannot magically make you a mature, secure, intelligent, confident and understanding person. This we have to develop and attain in our own life through practice of true spirituality, divine morality, godly values and authentic religion. Everyone must undergo the same process of learning, discovery and maturing otherwise they will forever remain immature, childish, unsatisfied and undiscerning, or as you quite often put it, they will be in a “cultic disposition and attitude” of sheer silliness, foolishness, nonsense, pettiness, superficiality, pretense, artificiality, ungodliness and unspirituality or non-spirituality. Not only must everyone acquire true learning which develops them in all the aspects of their being so that they can have and enjoy an integral, harmonious and balanced development; they must also unlearn many things. Enlightenment and Transformation is not static; it is something eternally dynamic, unfolding, expanding, deepening and free flowing. I thank God for his blessings, illumination and guidance upon my life. What sustains me is not second hand knowledge or information. What sustains, nourishes and continuously builds me up is what I am receiving directly from God. Daily Fresh, Warm, Soft and Tasty bread is the order of the day; no stale bread here borrowed from someone else’s old stores.
So cool, thank you ❤
Just a few hours ago, while working, my inner voice told me, that I soon have to pay a price for sth. that I don't know already. But what I will get is beyond Imagination 😄 Greetings from 🇩🇪
Ah! Thanks. Yes, it is a cool practise at times, when not being Tapas! 😊
Entrust-surrender yourself just as you are, and entrust-surrender yourself just as who you are to Da and never compare yourself to anyone, and never compare anyone to you. Be yourself at all times. Be yourself; be genuine; be authentically you. Do not ever feel the need to be a carbon copy, imitation nor limitation of anyone. Be yourself as you truly are, wherever you are, while entrusting-surrendering yourself exclusively to Da.
You are you, and others are others. Follow and abide by what Da imparts to you and don’t concern yourself at all with what Da imparts to others.
Never desire nor want what others have received. Da gives to others what they need just as Da gives to you what you need.
Forget yourself. Give up attachment, clinging and infatuation with the mind and body and all things that are associated with mind and body. Transcend your attachments by entrusting-surrendering yourself exclusively to the holy name of Da. Lose your “ego” and find your true-self by entrusting-surrendering yourself exclusively to Da. Find your SELF by losing your self by entrusting-surrendering yourself to Da.
Do not attempt to trade, bargain nor negotiate with Da. Ask for nothing and ask nothing from Da. Do not set conditions, and do not demand any conditions to be met. Simply entrust-surrender yourself unconditionally and exclusively to Da. Be diligent, be dutiful, live a life of rectitude and live responsibly while simultaneously entrusting-surrendering yourself unconditionally and exclusively to Da.
The holy name of Da is greater than, and will independently bestow upon you infinitely more than anything you could ever hope to ask for or expect. Da knows better than you your true need and what you need. There is no need for you to ask for anything. Allow the holy, sublime and perfect name of Da to accomplish its work in your life, situation and circumstances in its own way and manner.
Create no prior expectation. Simply give yourself to and entrust-surrender yourself unconditionally and exclusively to Da.
Only Da knows and understands what you have been through, endured, struggled with, and persevered through. Only Da knows and understands your life, and only Da is in a true position to help, guide and heal you. Don’t lose any sleep over the opinions, thoughts and words of others.
In simplicity and in good-faith no matter what your ability or self-perceived ability is, just surrender-entrust yourself exclusively and unconditionally to Da [exclusively and unconditionally entrust-surrender yourself to God and to the workings of God’s All-Encompassing, All-Penetrating and All-Comprehending Presence, just as you now are right now].
Make no artificial nor forced changes of any kind. Do not try to make anything happen. Make no artificial nor forced changes due to peer pressure or due to comparing yourself to others or the expectations of others.
Gosh! A cd, is a cd, is a cd, no matter what has been recorded upon it! 🌻
Dear wisdom-peace. Are you a formal devotee? And where do you reside?
@@bealreadyhappy The paradox and mystery of faith, effort and grace.
What you have been unable to attain by your efforts will, when you are blessed by Grace, be given you unexpectedly and suddenly when all desire for it has lulled. This has been my personal experience and this is the secret of my own inward and radical transformation.
My effort was necessary and indispensable, but at the same time my effort was not the reason or cause of the unique, specific and personal descent of grace that has appeared within my life. My toil, struggle and effort benefited me in many ways and contributed to my character development and spiritual maturing, but all of my toil, struggle and efforts were not and are not the cause nor the reason for the unique, specific and personal descent of grace that has appeared within my own life, yet paradoxically it was my toil, struggle and effort that prepared me for the reception of the divine power of grace when it chose to manifest and descend upon my life in a unique, specific and personal way.
It was my struggle, toil and effort which made it possible for me to truly value and appreciate the gift of grace when it chose to descend and appear in my life. And more importantly, it made me love even more, with more depth and greater intensity the Divine Beloved who bestowed it upon me.
So I have learned and understood by personal experience that we should not assume a lazy nor indifferent attitude by saying that since all depends on grace that we will do nothing. It is true that Grace does not depend on anything; it does not depend on our toil, struggle and effort because grace is by nature causeless, but at the same time if we do not exert ourselves and put in our toil, struggle and effort then we will not be prepared to receive, appreciate and rightly apply the power of grace when it chooses to appear and manifest within our lives.
We cannot do anything to force or make grace descend and appear, but we can prepare ourselves for the reception of that sublime grace that appears independently of our actions, and we can live a life that demonstrates sincerity, goodwill and the earnest desire and willingness to receive grace.
Faith and effort are an indivisible and inseparable reality. It is in the combination, union and collaboration of faith [confident-enthusiasm] and effort [intelligent and rightly applied direct action] that grace is seen, grace appears, grace is experienced, grace is truly valued and appreciated, and grace is understood.
At some point one comes to understand that even our toil, struggle and effort occurred under the guidance, auspices and impulse of divine grace which was initially hidden to us but which later was fully experienced, acknowledged and cognized within our conscious experience.
We must be diligent, patient, confident and persevering. We should not succumb to impatience nor doubt. I can assure you that at some point the divine grace will not wait and will not hold itself back. It will surely and unfailingly descend and manifest at the right moment and the precise time in our life. It will surely and unfailingly descend and manifest at the right moment and the precise time in your life.
In fact grace is always present and active even when we are not aware of it. Never forget that through our toil, struggle and efforts we are being prepared for the reception of grace. With joy and assurance simply do your honest best. Be patient, diligent and persevering in your spiritual practice. Grace will not fail nor disappoint you.
Our privilege is to be eagerly expecting it and to be ready for it. Grace will not fail us nor disappoint us.
This is the paradox and mystery of faith, effort and grace.
m. casillas
@@bealreadyhappy Realization spiritualizes, uplifts, fortifies, strengthens and divinizes our lives. It makes us humble, guileless, fearless, straightforward, respectful, mature, wholesome, intelligent, efficient, disciplined, self-controlled, extraordinarily insightful and totally authentic.
A realized person displays no arrogance, contemptuous attitude, condescending humor, nor a sense of superiority nor inferiority. A realized person is not reactive nor impulsive. A realized person is a person who is truly at peace with himself, is genuinely happy, cheerful and joyful; is serene and lives every moment of life with gratitude, wonder, reverence, simplicity and love.
My good friend, have you really found peace? Are you truly happy, cheerful and joyful? Are you your own authentic self?
Have you come to truly know the true character, nature and personality of God?
Are you settled in the understanding and experience of your constitutional position in relation to God?
Do you have realization of God and personal revelation from God that you can rely upon and draw upon so that you don’t have to rely nor depend on the sayings, writings, experiences, conclusions and realizations of others?
Do you have first hand knowledge [direct personal experience] of God or do you have second hand information about God that may or may not be true, accurate or correct?
You are not yet a settled person. Your inner life and thought [your heart and mind] is still filled with unresolved turbulence, unease and agitation; there is in you a subtle as well as a not so subtle undercurrent of turbulence, unease and agitation. You are not yet at peace with yourself. You have found much, but you are still seeking. You are not yet content. You don’t yet feel complete. I have absolutely no doubt that you have had genuine direct experiences with God and that you have gleaned and understood many things or some things but Something is still missing.
Why not reach out directly to God Himself and let Him direct, illuminate, comfort and guide your mind and heart, and fill your mind and heart with Himself.
A realized person does not need to draw upon the sayings, writings nor conclusions of anyone. A realized person has a sacred, deep and profound root of holiness, godliness, self-renewing and self-refreshing divine experience; and divinity in his own person; a direct, personal, divine and unbroken continuous connectivity, which sustains, guides, refreshes, renews and enlightens him. A realized person does not live from, live off, nor live by the memory or remembrance of past grace-filled moments or divine experiences. A realized person is always presently sustained by God with wave upon wave of bliss filled and loved filled knowledge, wisdom and understanding; each successive wave is more blissful and more intense than the last. Each wave of bliss and love is forever new, fresh, unique, fiercer, more intense, more beautiful and unrepeatable. Is this your experience and your actual lived spiritual reality?
Adi Da had his own realizations. When will you have your own? Not Adi Da’s, but your own. This is what makes a mature devotee, one who is able to draw upon and depend upon God himself [only God; God alone] for all his needs.
A CD only repeats what others have inscribed upon it because it has nothing of itself to communicate. A CD is not a living being. A CD has no spirit, no soul, no mind, no feelings, no perceptions, no insights and no life. I see that what you are communicating is not something of your own. You are simply repeating, mimicking, and parroting the sayings, experiences and conclusions of others.
What have you to say of yourself of what you have received directly from God and which you have gleaned, discovered, understood and realized through the power of your own spirituality, insight, effort, toil, ordeal, ups and downs, tears and laughter, elation and despondency, longing, search and overall spiritual development? What have you to share with others from your own storehouse and goods and not from the storehouse and goods of someone else; from your own original thought, feeling, perception, insight and experience?
Have you not seen nor understood that Adi Da arrived at his understandings and realizations as a result of his own searching; yes, his own authentic search and longing for truth and God. If it were not for his search and the efforts, toil and work that he applied towards his own spiritual progress and realization he would not later be able to speak upon the futility of the searching and seeking disposition! Not that he was refuting the searching and seeking in itself. What he refuted was the false basis, hypocrisy, selfishness, lust for power and influence, and the insincerity that fuels and motivates the search and seeking of many.
How did he learn this and understand this? By the experience gained as a result of his own search and legitimate inquiry. By analyzing and confronting his own motivations and intentions.
Adi Da can share with you his insights but he cannot give you the power or faculty of insight. This you have to develop and attain for yourself. Adi Da can share with you his understandings, but understanding itself he cannot give you, this you must develop in yourself. This is the maturing process. Adi Da can share his goodwill and love for you but he cannot magically install goodwill and love in you; this you must do and develop by yourself. Adi Da cannot make you be a loving, caring and considerate person as if by magic. You have to want to be a loving, caring and considerate person and develop those qualities in your own life; Adi Da cannot do it for you or in your stead. Adi Da cannot magically make you a mature, secure, intelligent, confident and understanding person. This we have to develop and attain in our own life through practice of true spirituality, divine morality, godly values and authentic religion.
Everyone must undergo the same process of learning, discovery and maturing otherwise they will forever remain immature, childish, unsatisfied and undiscerning, or as you quite often put it, they will be in a “cultic disposition and attitude” of sheer silliness, foolishness, nonsense, pettiness, superficiality, pretense, artificiality, ungodliness and unspirituality or non-spirituality.
Not only must everyone acquire true learning which develops them in all the aspects of their being so that they can have and enjoy an integral, harmonious and balanced development; they must also unlearn many things.
Enlightenment and Transformation is not static; it is something eternally dynamic, unfolding, expanding, deepening and free flowing.
I thank God for his blessings, illumination and guidance upon my life. What sustains me is not second hand knowledge or information. What sustains, nourishes and continuously builds me up is what I am receiving directly from God. Daily Fresh, Warm, Soft and Tasty bread is the order of the day; no stale bread here borrowed from someone else’s old stores.