WE DWELL UPON THIS MATERIAL PLANE BUT NOT ON HOW TO COME OUT OF IT.
WE ARE THINKING: HOW TO COME OUT OF MY WORRIES, ANXIETY, HEAVINESS,
FEAR AND SO ON, BUT STILL DWELLING UPON THE SAME DIMENSION.
We have to first reorient our minds to see this, and our brain cells have
that capacity. But we want to tread on in the same lethargic way, slide on
the same rails, and that will remain boring. That bored one does not want to
change. “X is wrong . . . Y is wrong . . . Z is wrong . . . My father did
this to me . . . my mother did this to me . . . my brother did this to me .
. . I could have done this . . . I went to school but I wish I had gone to a
different school.” Or: “The honeymoon was very bright but as the days pass
by I don’t think I made a right choice.” |
VEN
WITHIN MATERIALISM, don’t we choose these values? We wish for peace,
joy, happiness, satisfaction and freedom. So these are higher values rather
than material values in themselves, simply reflections of our own desires on
the material plane, but we get stuck there wanting peace, joy and liberation
on that dimension. Unfortunately we are missing the whole game. God, the
Spirit, and the spiritual values for which we acquire materialism—we miss
them in the same process. This is called ignorance or self-deception. And
this ignorance eventually becomes thick and heavy, so much so that we are
totally at a loss how to come out of it. We think intellectually,
rationally: “I don’t want heaviness, I don’t want confusion, I don’t want
worries.” We dwell upon this material plane but not on how to
come out of it. We are thinking: how to come out of my worries, anxiety,
heaviness, fear and so on, but still dwelling upon the same dimension. |