19.05.2002  


Subjects explained :

Let go of Ego and become the god self /Gift of the Universe to us – a Universal Helper assigned to each one at the meeting/Self/Realisation of Self/How to Change/Astral Travel of each Soul.

Sai Baba:

Baba first called Kaushal to him, then Diane, and then a lady visitor, and spoke privately to each of them.

Then he spoke very briefly to all.

Jub bhi boolaogay tub main aaoongaa.

Then he gave everyone his blessings and left.

Jade Fire:

Good evening children!

Good evening Sir.

What should we discuss today?

Sir, I would like to know the meaning of ‘Let go’ and ‘Let God’.

Short answer! Let go of ‘Ego’. And become the God self which you are. The answer is short, the effort is momentous. But you can try.

Today we will give you a small gift of the Universe. The more you make use of this gift the easier will it be for you to believe in your god self. It is not that you don’t let go of your Ego because you don’t wish to.  You DO WISH to.  But although the Intellect tells you that you are God, that you have within you the god self, there is no BELIEF. This little gift will help you to BELIEVE that. You are all wondering
what ‘magic spell’ Jade Fire is going to give you. No magic. Just that which you are ENTITLED to. And you ALL are entitled to help from the Universe. But only when . . . . . . . like little children, first you must be pleased and given a toy and then you are ready to start work. So first we will give you all the toys that you desire.

To the right of each one stands a ‘Universal Helper’. You may be able to perceive, you may not be able to perceive. That is not of importance. It is only important that you BELIEVE. Now what is the purpose of this ‘helper’? You can call them your ‘personal secretaries’ or your ‘assistants’. Don’t call them your ‘Guides’. They are not.
They will not guide you. They are only here to do work for you.  Now you ask ‘what work will this helper do?’  Any that you desire. But because you are all from an intellectual orientation, from material dimension conditioned, we ask you first, to let the tasks be those of a material dimension.  What would these tasks be? You have been waiting for a ‘call’ which has not come.  The helper must be told to manifest that call. You are running late for a business appointment. That helper must be asked to ENSURE that you will not be late for the appointment. You need to buy something, but you do not have the time or you do not know where to buy it. That helper must be asked to ensure that it comes to you. Does this feel like a ‘magic wand’? It is no magic wand. A ‘wand’ is as effective as the ‘holder’ of the wand. But we ask you to try. For those of you who work, you are already knowledgeable about how to leave instructions for your secretaries. Do the same. Every morning on a sheet of paper write down the instructions. You must INSTRUCT.  YOU MUST RESPECT ‘SELF’ enough to INSTRUCT the Universal Helper to manifest into your presence that which you desire.  No instruction is too trivial. In fact we ask you to first think of the most trivial instructions. As you take up these smaller instructions you will learn how to wield that wand with greater efficiency. You must be able to build up an understanding with this ‘personal assistant’ that the Universe has given to you.  And what does a ‘good personal assistant’ do? When the understanding has been built up, the assistant knows without being instructed what the assistant is required to do. Now little ones, don’t become all holy and tell the assistant “Make me more spiritual’! Show me the Light”! The assistant cannot do that. But when these tasks are fulfilled over and over and over again, there will come a belief within you that ‘I am truly god self and in this power I can command the Universe to work for me.’ This BELIEF in your god self will make it easier for the intellectual mind to release its hold upon the Ego.

Are you all ready to meet your Universal Helpers? Turn towards your right and do what you do to any Secretary who comes to you with the application. Ask the name and if you desire, qualifications. Once you have the helper in your employ, instruct the helper about the hours that the helper has to work. The helper is a good assistant and will work for as long or as short a duration that you desire. But you must instruct. If there are any other instructions you wish to give to this one who is your worker, instruct! You may not be able to think of all the instructions now but that is no matter. Every day you will instruct your helper about your work and you will give whatever instructions you have.

The FIRST NAME that enters your mind is the name you will use to call the Helper.  The Intellectual mind is being used to give you the name. Do not fight the intellectual mind. Whatever name comes FIRST, call the helper by that name and then instruct the Helper, what time tomorrow the helper must report for work. Do it now.

(There was a pause while everyone visualised this.)

Starting from tomorrow maintain an instruction book for you helper. Write upon it and LEAVE IT OPEN and then forget about it with FULL BELIEF that the Helper will take care of it.  The Helper will not be a guide. The helper will merely obey instructions. Make your instructions clear. Explicit. The helper is new and therefore initially do not burden your helper with very heavy and difficult tasks. Give tasks that are small, easy. In this way you will build up your bond with your helper.

We will now take your questions about the subject for today.

What is the difference between Ego and Self?

For this, each one must first ask themselves the question: Who am I? Are you your name? Are you your body?  Are you this physical embodiment? Are you what you think? Are you what you feel? And all answers are ‘NO’. Are you a mother? Are you a father? Are you a child? Are you a friend? Are you a foe? Are you man? Are you woman? Are you young? Are you old?  Are you what your religion makes you believe you are?  Again, all answers are ‘NO’. Is this ‘you’?  Is this you?  Is this you? (Sir pointed to different parts of the human body)  All answers are ‘NO’. Are you what you see? Are you what you hear? Are you what you speak? Are you what you touch?  All answers are ‘NO’. Then WHO ARE YOU?  When all that you have identified yourself with is now revealed to you as ONLY ILLUSION, the Intellectual Mind struggles to come to terms with this. ‘HOW CAN REALITY BE ILLUSION?’ the Mind asks. Is this reflection in the mirror not ME? And we answer ‘NO’.

The truth is you have never seen yourself because to see yourself, with your physical eyes, they would have to be able to see that which is not tangible. The truth is that you have never spoken, because in order for you to speak, you need a sound which the tongue cannot utter. The truth is that you have never acted, because for you to act, you need a ‘will’ that goes beyond the limitation of physical control. And yet you do not know who you are. The intellectual mind is giving you the answer. ‘I am light’. ‘I am a spark of the Divine’.  Now ask yourself truly:  if the intellectual mind tells you ‘you are light’, can you feel ‘light’?  Can you experience ‘light’?  The intellectual mind tells you “you are a spark of the divine” .Can you, sitting here, experience the truth of this statement?  It is only a statement.  Just as you have conditioned yourself to believe ‘I am a man’, I am a father, I am a husband, I belong to this religious denomination, I am dark, I am tall ’. You are now conditioning your Mind to say ‘I am light ’.  But this statement remains an illusion because the reality has not been experienced! So what IS this mysterious ‘I’, that I AM?  What must I experience? We can see those questions. But the answers go beyond the words that you speak and the words that you hear.  And therefore you merely repeat, what is at present an ‘empty statement’ and say that you are ‘A spark of light’.  When the statement itself is ‘empty’, how can the answer be meaningful?  What is the importance of who you are?  We will use these words and all words will be ‘empty’, because they will only be accepted by the mind, without being experienced in their reality and will only lead to a further conditioning your Mind.

For over three weeks now we have been using words that we hoped you would understand; to help you to distinguish between EGO and SOUL. And yet we know that all the words have been ‘empty’.

Child, to answer your question I would only have to invite you to ‘EXPERIENCE’ that. Each one is important in a unique, wonderful manner. This uniqueness is ‘trapped’ by the physicality of the mind and body. This wonder lies dormant waiting to be ‘released’ from the ‘self’ of the physicality and yet we have not even been able to tell you ‘who you are’.  For there are no words.  How can you define ‘Light’ when in, your mind the opposite of ‘light’ is ‘dark’?  How can you define God when God is a mythical creature living high up in the heavens, to whom you turn and beg, to whom you pray for forgiveness? How can we define ‘divine’ when all around you, you experience only human.  And so dear one, for your question today we have no answer.

I have two questions Sir. The shorter one: About the name of the Universal Helper. I was perturbed by the name that came into my mind. May I say it Sir?  It is Lucifer Sir.

And it perturbed you?

Because of the connotation that society has given it Sir.

That isn’t why it perturbed you. It perturbed you because your conditioned Mind has accepted what society has told you. Little one, let me tell you about your ‘Lucifer’. And then you can proceed with your second question. There is a Lucifer in all. And that Lucifer is ‘human’. Little one, have you not fervently asked the Universe to speed up your spiritual growth, to help you to catch up on all that you think you have lost. To help you to overcome the Mind. The Universe has given you your help.  Lucifer is your helper. Every time Lucifer helps you, you will be able to overcome your physicality a little more. Every time you talk with Lucifer, you instruct him you will experience ‘who you are’. Are you now perturbed about Lucifer?

No, Sir.

Your next question.

When you were speaking to us about empty words and all that, that for over three weeks you have been speaking to us, I felt that you feel that we all listen to you and go home and forget everything.

No little one. That is not why we said our words are ‘empty’. We know that if you would forget, you would not return here week after week. We know how many of you have left behind old patterns of rest, pleasure, entertainment and recreation in order to be here.  Do you think we are not aware of it? We are. Our words, little one, are empty because at present they have only been experienced only by the Intellectual Mind. The truth, the vastness of the truth, little one, is still to be overcome.

That means that we have to evolve further, then only will we understand the vastness of the truth.

And what do you think you do for these two hours every week? Little one, evolution is a spiritual process. But for those in the 3-dimensional world, it makes use of the 3 dimensional world, in order to learn that which otherwise would not be possible. Do not consider the pathway of materialism to be insignificant.

But this 3 dimensional world restricts us to intellectual only Sir.

Till you restrict yourself to three dimensions little one. Make use of Lucifer and you will be able to loosen the control of the Intellectual Mind. Very gradually little one. Do not think it will happen overnight.

Lucifer will not do anything for spirituality Sir?

Through materialism.

 Please talk to us about Self- Realisation.

You are all asking questions that we cannot answer today! It is not difficult for us, little one, but little one, how will you realise self, when at present you do not even know your Self. Self realisation is the process to remove the veils of illusion and to make Self into the reality. And then how can answers not appear? But the paradox is,  there won’t be any answers. Because when Self becomes REAL, there won’t be any questions.

The Mind asks questions. Self knows it all. So little one, we are unable to answer this question. Neither do you have words which we can speak and which you can understand, which will help you to experience the vastness of this reality, nor do you have the mind that will comprehend the vastness and magnificence of this truth. Self cannot be spoken of. It can only be realised. It can only be made into a reality. And yet, these words are wrong, for how can you make real, what is already real?

What you should all first strive for, is the realisation of ego. Let the reality of this illusion be experienced by you. Only then will you experience what is true. At present each one of you is caught completely in the grip of this illusion. For those who are quickly answering in their Minds, ‘No I am not’, here is a simple question for you.  On returning home if you find your most dear one dead, how will you feel?
Will you cry? Grieve? Look upwards at that mythical creature and scream in blame and complaint? There is your answer. And there is your ‘reality’.

 Your words are very clear, simple and easily understood. I think by and large everyone feels that even though there is a desire to CHANGE our ways, our day to day pressure of living and contact with those who doubt makes it very difficult. How do we get out of this?

That we can answer. We will take up first: HOW TO CHANGE. And then we will suggest ways in which this change can become a part of you even when it is confronted by conflict all around you. We ask you to turn your attention to a word that you use casually, but which now has great meaning. NOWHERE. That is reality. Are you here? Illusion.  You are NOWHERE.  Why are you nowhere? How can you separate yourself so much from the Divine to be in another place where there is
no divine? And so you are really ‘nowhere’. In your separation you are still one. The one-ness of every one. This ‘nowhere’ experiences the 3-dimensional meaning of this word. And the 3 dimensional meaning is ‘NOW’, ‘HERE’. But what is now when there is no time. And what is here when there is no space? And so where are you again? Nowhere! But you experience the illusion of time as ‘now’, and you experience the illusion of space as ‘here’. And in this experience of illusion lies your pathway to experiencing the reality of this illusion. Take this moment. For you it has already sped by. And yet this moment is indestructible and still is! In every moment if you can experience, the illusion of ‘now’ and ‘here’ you have found the road to change. How will you experience this illusion? The illusion is that you are sitting ‘here’ and ‘now’. The reality is that the Spirit and its extension to you as Soul is experiencing the process of growth through the illusion of ‘now’ and ‘here’. If your partner would turn around and give you a hard pinch – we ask you all to do that. Pinch your partner as hard as you can. (Everyone did that).  Did you all feel the pain? What you experienced is the illusion of ‘now’ and ‘here’. Through this illusion look ‘within’. And do it with us. Did the ‘spirit’ even ‘encounter’ your pinch?  So is the pinch real? There is a conflict now in your mind. The pain is very real but I know Jade Fire wants me to answer ‘No’. (Laughter) If every moment you can laugh as joyously as you did now, about this conflict, every moment will gently release its hold of illusion and take you on to true realisation of self.

Are we asking you not to react and not to feel? That would be very naïve of us. But in every reaction and in every feeling stop the moment. There is no Time. You can make that moment as long as your desire.  Stop the moment. Experience the full illusion of all feeling. And do not let that moment continue and move on, till the eye has turned inwards and searched for Self and been able to live as Self even briefly. Then let the moment go.  In course of daily living can you do this instantaneously every time a situation arises? No you cannot. But you can make yourself aware by maintaining a small diary. Initially only the big situations and only the big reactions will go down in your diary. Become more aware of every moment and write down those situations briefly, so that at the end of the day, look at the illusion of all the situations. And then turn inwards. This diary will help you to be aware of the illusion as you live in it. Soon the awareness will become a ‘soul habit’ and the diary will become redundant. How will you live when all around you others are caught in this illusion? And we ask ‘why does your Ego wish to be validated’? Why must another accept your truth for it to be accepted by you?

So if you can, at every opportunity enlighten another and if you can’t, without passing judgement on another, take the responsibility of this great task only for your Self. You are Self.

 I am talking about my personal Helper, if the helper helps in material manifestation, doesn’t it create an imbalance in the other part of our life?

Little one, that is why we cautioned you. The helper will not guide, he will follow your instructions. In order to instruct, you must have the faith and belief in yourself that what you instruct is not going to result in imbalance.

How will I know this?

Trial and error! That is why we asked you, start with small tasks which you and the Helper will be able to manifest together. As the manifestations take place, little one, Ego will reduce its hold, experience of Self becomes stronger and this conflict will be no more.

 I am still confused about ‘need’ and ‘greed’.

The confusion is ‘here’(pointing to the Head).  There is no confusion within. Look within and now answer honestly whether what you demand is greed.

I would like to know what ‘karma’ one creates by indulging in astral travel. Would astral travel be beneficial to me in any way spiritually besides just satisfying one’s curiosity?

There is no karma involved in astral travel otherwise all of you would be building heaps of karma every day. Astral travel is only for the soul that needs to experience periods of freedom away from the ‘entrapment’. It can be done consciously if one trains one’s mind to remove its hold, but it is done without conscious will and without conscious physical memory by every single one every single day. Astral travel is done not out of curiosity. As your body rests, physical rest, it now gives permission to the Mind to let go of the reins completely. This is what the Soul is looking for. This letting go of the reins opens up the ‘prison doors’. Every prisoner also needs to go out for a breath of fresh air. That is what your Soul is doing. But where does the Soul go? The Soul goes to its right plane of evolution in the Spirit realms. And when it goes there, what does it do? It energises itself anew with the purity of the Light that is denied to it in ‘entrapment’. You need food and water for the physical to continue its work and the soul requires its Light Energy to continue its work. During your period of travelling into the Spirit realms, you meet up with others who are also doing the same. Haven’t some of you had an experience of receiving a message that a dear one, far away from you has passed on and you are not surprised? Within you, you tell yourself, ‘I knew this’. How did I know this?’   On an astral journey you were told by the released Spirit of the one who passed on, that ‘I have left my body’. There is no grief or pain. There is acceptance at the natural course of events. And that is why you say ‘I knew this’.  Because your Soul did know this. Do you have to be asleep in order to travel astrally? Not at all. You can be sitting here, listening and a part of you can move away when a ‘call’ comes. How many mothers have experienced this ‘call’? Somehow out of the blue you are certain that your child needs you. The Soul of the child called out to the Soul of the mother and a part of that mother’s soul flew there.
 

Jade Fire gave everyone his blessings and the meeting ended.

(The medium became very upset at something she was made to see from her past life, in the course of her trance, which in her physical ‘here’, she found very traumatic.)