The One and Only Assignment, Lifetime after Lifetime

Rumi

Perhaps I can squeeze off one more note before D’Arcy and I leave on our trip, on the significance of the rise of interest in spirituality as a result of this “process” that many of us seem to be going through.
God is a Spirit and can only be known in spirit, Jesus said two millennia ago. And knowing God is the assignment we all have in common and the reason why we’re here lifetime after lifetime, as my vision from 1987 showed. Rumi phrased the matter this way:

“There is one thing in this world which must never be forgotten. If you were to forget everything else, but did not forget that, then there would be no cause for worry; whereas if you performed and remembered and did not forget every single thing, but forgot that one thing, then you would have done nothing whatsoever.

“It is just as if a king had sent you to the country to carry out a specified task. You go and perform a hundred other tasks; but if you have not performed that particular task on account of which you had gone to the country, it is as if you have performed nothing at all. So man has come into this world for a particular task, and that is his purpose; if he does not perform it, then he will have done nothing.” (1)

No matter what else we do, no matter how noble or consequential it is, if we don’t know ourselves as God, we haven’t accomplished our assignment; we have done nothing.
As our knowledge of our own true nature expands, we move from stage to stage in our spiritual evolution, by what you could think of as Ascension after Ascension. And Rumi describes that as well.

“I died as mineral and became a plant.
I died as plant and rose to animal.
I died as animal and I was man. …
Yet once more I shall die as man, to soar
With angels blest; but even from angelhood
I must pass on: all except God doth perish.
When I have sacrificed my angel soul,
I shall become what no mind e’er conceived.
Oh, let me not exist! For Non-existence
Proclaims in organ tones, ‘To Him we shall return.’” (2)

The way I understand this Ladder of Ascension is that each kingdom – mineral, plant, etc. – has twelve planes or dimensions and within each plane are twelve subplanes. When we jump a plane (not a subplane), that constitutes an Ascension. We ascend from dimension to dimension, not from gradations within any one dimension.
We are constantly ascending, progressing, or evolving subplane after subplane, plane after plane, and kingdom after kingdom on our return journey to God. And we ascend as the result of increases in our spiritual knowledge – not our material knowledge necessarily, but our knowledge of ourselves as spirits and Spirit.
So to experience, as I do, an increase in my desire for spirituality, an expansion of the thirst for spiritual knowledge, is something whose value I understand and whose onset I welcome. It can always and only be a promising and beneficial thing. As I said yesterday, and I feel it bears repeating:  Place spirituality first and everything else will find its natural place.
No matter how interesting, rewarding, and revolutionary NESARA, Disclosure and accountability are, remove “spiritual evolution” from them and they become merely matters of passing interest. For me anyways, it’s only their promise in assisting our knowledge of our true nature to unfold that makes them ultimately valuable.
Otherwise they’re simply the king’s official having been sent into a country to do something he did not do.
Having said that, it’s equally true to say that I have grown comfortable in representing NESARA, Disclosure and accountability as being important of and in  themselves and will now face a personal minor shift in seeing them through this new lens that’s being offered as a result of this post-transition transition.
One transition is no sooner finished than the next begins and all of them opening us wider or opening newer doors than we anticipated beforehand.
That’s all I wanted to say for the moment. I just needed to put a bookmark in and say that this fueling of an interest in the spiritual is not a trivial development but might ordinarily go unmemorialized, so unremarkable is it on the surface. But it isn’t unremarkable in reality. It’s highly significant in its portent.
And with that, I’m simply going to open to it like the uninvited but most welcome guest who forever dropped into Rumi’s humble home

I understand gossip hurts others but tell me, how does gossip hurt us?

I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the feedback and dialogue that ensues from your emails. And to answer the question…

Aside from the obvious hurtful nature of gossip, that which harms the person(s) being gossiped about, we cause irreversible harm to ourselves, in two ways:

When we do gossip about another, all of the spiritual Light ~ the energy that we derive from our kind actions, positive influence, generosity, connecting to the Creator and so on ~ is transferred immediately to the person we are speaking about.

In other words, we can talk about whomever we want, but the price we pay is the returns for our diligent spiritual work. Almost like a bonus to the person being spoken about. Ironic, isn’t it?

So, if you find yourself working hard on a spiritual level, but feeling short-changed on the results, you might want to check your gossip meter. I’m not saying that’s the only explanation for not feeling invigorated on this path, but it’s a serious factor.

The second is a more subtle danger. If you’re gossiping about another person, you’re judging them. And all of the judgment we put out there comes back to us. There’s no way around that. No judgment can come to us that we didn’t first give out ourselves.

So likewise, if you find yourself feeling unnecessarily judged, ask yourself who and how much you’ve been judging. The bottom line is, we tend to underestimate the power of our words. What we put out there comes back to us, and not with a return address.

So keep your tongue in check. Think twice before you speak.

“If only we were as careful about what comes out of our mouths as we are about what goes in.”

All the best,

Yehuda

What is under?

n the olden days, if you had a question, you wrote it down and gave it to your local spiritual leader. He answered the question and the paper was returned to you — with your 'prescription'; sometimes a spiritual solution, sometimes a physical assignment to transform the situation.

The great masters never looked at a piece of paper. He could look at a paper and tell you everything about the person who wrote it down. He saw into their soul, into the root of their problem, and didn't diagnose and treat that problem. He treated the person.

In the medical world, symptoms present themselves, are diagnosed and treated. In homeopathy, there's often a deeper investigation, but the concept is similar.

In our own lives, and in the lives of those around us, we cannot treat people like pieces of paper and we cannot simply address questions.

We cannot treat the question. We must treat the person.

When a person comes to you with a problem, you cannot help them if you are coming from your perspective. You have to erase yourself — put yourself completely in their shoes and feel where they are coming from, regardless of where you are coming from.

If someone calls you and tells you what they are going through, you cannot listen to the issue. You must listen to the person. If someone says, "I'm angry", the simplest thing is to tell them to meditate or pray on it and let it go. But the question we must ask is, "Why are you angry, and who at?" The line of questions continues and we get to the real problem.

Unfortunately, the way that the world is right now, where there's a problem we look for a bandage. As long as we can stop the bleeding for now, we're good with that.

We need to realize the nature of the problem and make sure the solutions work long term.

If a person has a kidney problem and you give them Vicodin without knowing that they have addictive tendencies, you aren't solving any problems — you're adding to them.

We have to look at the big picture and make the effort to go at the solutions. That's what we are here to do — for ourselves and the world. think about — perhaps even face — the people you're treating as problems, the problems you're not dealing with, and the solutions you know might take more effort, but will create a lasting change.

All the best,

Yehuda