Universal Acceptance

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March 3, 2007 at 15:15:55

by MSI Ishaya Page 2 of 2 page(s)

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This concept may seem quite startling upon first contact. We normally think that we are thrust, all unwilling, into a Universe that we most certainly did not create. We feel our parents owe us a living for making us. After all, we didnÂ’t ask to be born, did we?

From this initially hostile world, we are supposed to make something out of our lives -- we are supposed to succeed, progress, prosper, be responsible adults and citizens. Impersonal fate (or a wrathful God) may have dealt us a hard hand -- we may have damaged bodies or our external circumstances may have been extremely hard from birth. We may have been born addicted or diseased; we may have been born with a weak heart or liver. In these cases, we are supposed to make the best of our lives and world -- to persevere and succeed in spite of our hardships. We believe in so many "shoulds" and "should nots" here on Earth!

I do not mean to imply that it is wrong to strive for greatness. I do mean to imply that it is wrong to blame others for our physical, mental, emotional or environmental reality. This is not wrong in the sense of being damaging, it is wrong in the sense of being a waste of time in that it supports a faulty and limiting belief system that does not serve us.

If people from former ages could be magically transported to the present, they would doubtless consider many of our modern conveniences which we take for granted -- TVs, cars, lights, telephones, airplanes -- to be miraculous, either divine or satanic. It is a common human response to the unknown to throw up our hands and invoke some sort of mysterious supernatural agency. When we donÂ’t understand something, we say, "It must be GodÂ’s will," or "ItÂ’s just fate," or "ItÂ’s all luck," or "Satan did it." We have a convenient label for what we donÂ’t understand so that we donÂ’t have to think about it. Why did my best friend have to be killed in his private plane when he was so happy and brilliant and successful? Why did my father have to die in my arms when I was fourteen? Why was my son born blind? Why is my boss so mean? Why did my wife have terminal cancer? Why is life so meaningless? Why is God so cruel? Why, God, why?

Why Is The Universe Like It Is?
It is true that none of us is ever likely to know everything that there is to know. Who would want to? I personally donÂ’t care how many grains of sand there are in the Sahara. Do you? But it is quite possible to know anything at all. If our philosophy of life or our belief system is consistently running into a brick wall where there is no recourse but to leave a vast amount of experience unexplained or explained only by invoking GodÂ’s will or impersonal fate -- then we would be wise to ask ourselves if perhaps our system of thought is substituting belief for direct understanding. If we are told to "accept on faith" because "certain things are not open to human understanding" -- watch out! We can spend our entire lifetime in that intellectual cul-de-sac, and when it is over, we will be right back where we were in the beginning -- trying to understand why the Universe is as it is.

Please donÂ’t accept anything the Ishayas teach on faith! Blindly accepting anotherÂ’s philosophy is the surest path to remaining solidly in Victim Consciousness. Make your own experiment with life: study your mind and experience, take nothing for granted, from the most ordinary to the most miraculous. There only lies progress.

This is why Ascension is based on direct experience. There is no necessity for believing anything about it. Try it for yourself. As your beliefs and habits begin to shift with your changing experience of life, inquire more and more deeply exactly what is true and what is not, more and more deeply what is Real and what is not. Thus only freedom comes.

A Huge Step Forward Toward Your Immediate Liberation
A large part of assuming the mastery of our own lives consists in ceasing to put anyone else on a pedestal of authority. It is also difficult or impossible to assume mastery over our own lives if we blame others or circumstances "beyond our control" for the way our lives are going. It is impossible to be free if we maintain the mental chains of past or present condemnation or slavish devotion.

Realize this now, and you have made a huge step forward toward your immediate liberation. Realize this now and you have discovered one of the fundamental secrets of human life -- there is no one to blame, no one to thank, no one but ourselves.

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The life of every person is sacred. The revelation of that sacredness is often revealed by a person's contribution to humanity. In many cases, that contribution is only revealed after death. Maharishi Sadashiva Isham (MSI) was such an individual. MSI's life was punctuated by the desire to know. His search was not for knowledge but for Truth. Truth was most important to him and he shared that Truth in total commitment to healing the world. The message of his life -- that perfection on Earth is not only possible but imminent -- is gathering momentum and manifesting in the rapid growth of consciousness seen in all who practice the simple techniques of the Ishayas.

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