Today’s class is very important for each one of us. Important in the sense that all of us have some weeds in our lives we want to pull out and throw out. The weeds maybe within us, the weeds maybe external situations that we want to get away from. The weeds maybe people in our lives who we don’t really wish to have in our lives anymore. It can be any kind of weed. It is important to understand that the external environment and the external weeds are really only mirrors of our own weeds. And they seem very ugly and troublesome, and generally a pain, because it’s deep within us.

So very often it’s difficult to pull out the weed from within us, and we therefore take the help of an external environment to do this. And it’s fine to take the help of an external environment. By removing a situation from your life you help yourself sometimes, to settle down to a point where you can work on the inside weed. All of us by now know that our external mirrors are now internal, and very often when an external situation or an external person is proving to be a thorn in your side, we try to move away and say "No, I know I don’t need to look at that. I need to look at the inside." Of course you need to look at the inside, that’s true. But sometimes the inside is so deep rooted that one needs external help. And it’s fine to take that external help as long as you are aware that I am working on the external in order to give myself the time, the place, the space, that I need to work on my internal weeds.

So it’s fine to work on the external, to move away from the situation, and try and pull out that situation from your life and throw it in the dustbin and say "It’s gone." And then don’t look at that situation. That is another game we play. We all know that most of the weeds that are present in our lives, for them to be truly strong influences, for them to be mirrors, they have to be people close to us, unfortunately. If it were a stranger or someone known to you on the periphery, you aren’t going to be as influenced or as affected. So the universe does work with the external mirrors that are very close to you, and often these are your weeds in your beautiful garden of life where your garden is not perfect with their presence.

And it is fine to acknowledge that it’s a weed. Don’t get yourself into a quandary of should’s and should-not’s and say "But this weed is my mom. How do I throw my mom out?" Of course you ‘throw your Mom out’, but you throw your Mom out with complete awareness, that your Mom is playing the role of a mirror. And how do you "Throw the Mom out"? Not by never meeting her again, or by ignoring her presence in your life, but as I spoke to you last time, by completing disconnecting yourself; by trying to maintain a huge emotional distance between the weed and yourself. You don’t want that weed in your garden. All of us who love gardening know that sometimes a weed looks very pretty, but its ruining the garden and we have got to take that weed out and throw it away so that the rest of the garden is healthy.

So don’t get into that ego quandary, because please remember, the weeds in our lives are going to be people close to us. They have to be, unfortunately. It would be an ideal world where the weeds would be some stranger you wouldn’t even think twice of. It wouldn’t affect you. If the weed is growing outside your garden, you aren’t even going to bother with the weed. But when it affects your garden, suddenly "No, it has to go." So don’t get into that personal conflict.

Don’t get into self deceiving game of, "This one is in this relationship and that one is in that relationship and the world tells me I should love a son and I should respect my parents and I should do 10000 million things." We are so ruled by the should’s and shouldn’t’s in our lives, we forget what we need. And the greatest need we all have today, is to identify the weeds in our lives to make space for the beautiful plants that also grow.

But when you are removing that weed, I am going to reiterate, be in conscious awareness that this weed is a mirror of me. The weed hasn’t grown there by random chance. It’s been put there to mirror something within me; the inner weed. And therefore by pulling that weed out, I am really trying to pull the weed out from within. But sometimes….let’s for moment assume that Mom is my mirror, and if she is constantly there as an ugly mirror, I may need to move away from Mom, in order to work on self. Because she is there so larger than life, as something that is a constant thorn in my side, I have to put that distance between Mom and I. And if I am caught in the should’s and the should-not’s of what the world has taught me, these will only constrict my growth, will make the inner weed stronger, because the should’s are not allowing me to pull this outer weed and say "Thank you for being the mirror that you are but I have to move away from you." And the only way you move away from your own garden, is to move the weed away from your own garden so that the weed is no more part of your garden.

And you pull that weed out, knowing that once the weed is out, it is time to work on the inner weed, otherwise, another ‘Mom’ is going to come into your life, who is going to be the same mirror. You are pulling the outer weed only to give yourself time to work on the inner. And very often, the outer seems so much stronger; it just doesn’t permit us to work on the inside because all your focus is on this ugly weed. And you cannot, even though you may need to, focus on the inside weed. That’s all you are doing and that you have to be very conscious of. You have to be very, very aware, that you are pulling the weed out to give yourself the time and space, needed to do the real work.

The real work starts when the external weed is pulled out. By pulling out that external weed, you haven’t done the real work. You have given yourself breathing space because, like all weeds, they tend to suffocate the plant. And those weeds, those parasites in our lives, who are suffocating the wonderful plant that we are, sometimes have to be cut off. Without any guilt, any shame. To be completely honest with self and say "This particular weed, relationship, situation, environment, I don’t need anymore. I did need it once. Now I am aware why it was in my life. And it was in my life for that awareness. That awareness has come. I don’t need it anymore."

When you are very tired, you need a chair to sit on, and you will sit on that chair, however rickety it is, however many nails poke your behind, because you are very tired. But once you have regained the strength, you can say "This chair hurts me now. I don’t want it anymore."

I need to tell you, there is no have to. No, you don’t do it physically. You work on yourself. You were not there last time when I told you to move away in all senses, except physically. You are just sharing space and space is cheap. But it’s very difficult, because if I have to do it, let’s say, with my Mom, the first thing I have to say is, "I have no mother." Then for me, you are not my mother. I never even in a small moment acknowledge you as my mother. Because if I have to do that, then with that word "Mother" come all the expectations that I have of you, which you haven’t delivered, which has made you the weed, which has caused the disillusionment and the resentment. So you see, I have to cut myself off, from a relationship, not necessarily the person.

A relationship is always based on expectation. The bottom line of any relationship is always expectation, when you want him or her to be or behave in a certain manner. And it’s unreasonable. And it’s unforgivable on our part to impose our expectations on another and to burden that person. We become that person’s weed. We can’t do that. But you know you need to move away, and if you are saying, physical environment does not permit it, then in every other way but physical.

Let me not use the word ‘detachment’ for this because I am completely aware that, that is not a completely healthy detachment. A healthy detachment is - Even when the weed is present, I am fine. You are going to move from unhealthy detachment to healthy detachment. None of us can take that big leap towards healthy detachment. We don’t have the wings yet. So we need to work on that external, but in complete awareness of what we are doing with complete responsibility.

And today Kryon is telling us about two farmers who were given the sense and responsibility, and the external, to work on; two quite rich farmers who were living their daily lives very happily. Their farms were adjacent to each other, and they were both independent enough to look after their farms, one never needing the other’s help. But they were very friendly neighbours, always in touch with each other, and both the farmers were really nice guys. They tilled the land faithfully, they worked hard, and nature really gave them an abundant crop every year, half of which they would use to nurture and nourish themselves and their family. The other half they would sell, in order to grow in income. They were both as you would say ‘Godly’ men; not doing anything to harm another, never treading on anyone’s toes, doing the right things, going according to all the various should’s and should – not’s, good moral background…… Much like many of us.

One day, the dear Lord in heaven said, "These two have been working very hard year after year, and I want to give them a gift. They have earned this gift. It’s not something I am giving to them in charity." And he sent his messenger down, and the messenger met both the farmers, and said "I have come from God and God wants to give you a gift for all the hard work that you have put in." And the farmers were thrilled. But like all human beings, if St. Germain were to come here in human form and were to say "I am Germain." You would say "Oh yeah!" (Laughter)

So they heard, and they said "Alright, what is the gift?"

And he said "God wants to give you the gift of increasing your ability of abundance tenfold. He is not going to give you abundance tenfold. Remember the words. He is going to give you the ability to increase your abundance tenfold."

And they said "Thank you, but what do we need to do for this? Is there something we need to do?"

And he said "Yes," And he looked into both their fields and he looked at their crops and they were still green and unripe and he said "When this crop ripens and becomes a golden yellow, you have to pull it out by the roots, check the roots for any fungus or parasite, and throw those away, and the rest of the golden yellow crop you have to plough back into your field and not use even one grain of it. And once you have ploughed it back into your field, then you immediately take the new grains that you already have on hand for the new season, and sow those seeds. And God has permitted me to tell you, that he is changing all the seasons. You have earned the right to have this knowledge, when others do not. But I am permitted to tell you that soon the seasons are going to change. And God will ensure that you have the sun and the rain and the wind, just in time when you two need it for your crop. But you will have to work as hard as you do today."

They were both very excited, and months passed, and the wheat became, a beautiful golden yellow. And it had grown to a great height. And both the farmers looked at their fields and said, "Not use this? We have to pull these out and plough them back? That seems rather a waste. Would a messenger of God really tell us this? Are we being lead astray? What should we do?" And each one individually pondered over this, knowing full well that if they were to sell this crop, they would have abundance for the next twelve months.

One farmer discussed it with his family, and his dear wife said, "You know I truly believe it was a messenger of God and I don’t think God would ever lead us astray. Yes, it seems a very unlikely thing to do, but why not just do it."

And the other farmer decided "No, I don’t think, this is the right way to go at all. It doesn’t make sense to me. Why? The messenger didn’t tell me, why I should pull out this beautiful abundant crop and plough it back into my field? Why should I do that?" And he said "Ok, even if I am wrong, I’ll do it the next time round. This time, it just does not sound right."

So one farmer took the crop and sold it in the market and sowed new seeds, and the other farmer pulled it out, took out all the parasites, ploughed it back into the field and at once sowed the new seeds.

And lo and behold, very soon there was torrential unseasonal rain; rain that was required by the second farmer to grow his seeds, having as manure all the ploughed up rich crop that he had put in. The first farmer’s field was completely flooded. But his crops did grow a little bit. But they were all water logged. The second farmer’s field began to flourish.

And then there came unseasonal windstorms. And the second farmers crop had grown only a little bit, and so the wind couldn’t uproot them all. But the first farmer’s crop was so waterlogged, heavy, that it fell with the first blowing of the strong wind.

And then came the sun when the farmers did not expect the sun. And whatever little was left of the first farmer’s field dried up, scorched, but, the second farmer’s field needed the sun at this time. And his crops grew to a height they had never grown before. The first farmer realized that he had been responsible for his own barren field. The second farmer had no ego. He gave half of his crop to the first. And the first had no shame. Both had grown enough to know that this world is all about sharing and there is no shame in giving and taking, no pride and no conceit. And he took it, willingly, gladly, in full gratitude, knowing that the next time round, he would be ready to plough his golden ripe corn back into the Earth.

What does the parable teach us?

All of us lead reasonably happy lives, by the grace of God. Yes, we do have our problems and we do have our weeds in our lives, but none of us really have, really, really bad lives. We are lucky; like these farmers who were leading reasonably happy lives. And year in and year out we work hard for our money and we get it. And we seem to have a financial status which is quite comfortable. It may not always be what we want, but it is still comfortable. And then there comes a time, when we are asked to lay it all on the line; when we are asked to make a complete shift in our thinking, being, acting, speaking. And some of us are like the first farmer, who says "No, How can the universe expect such a shift from me? It’s not possible." And what excuse do we give ourselves, "We are human." And the shift the universe is expecting is, "I am divine." "And how is that possible? I know I am not God. How can I be anything but human? "And so we don’t make the shift.

The second farmer is as hesitant as all of us, but he says, "There is a power greater than I. And if that power is guiding me to make this shift which seems so radical, which in my conscious thinking, doesn’t even seem possible, will it really lead me astray? Should I give it a shot? Should I allow all my should’s and should –not’s, all my beliefs, to go?" And some farmers say "Yes", knowing full well that there is a huge risk involved. All that you believed in, thought, has to be ploughed into the earth; deep in, so deep that it will not come up again. It has to become part of the Earth’s energy. All the parasites in your life have to be removed, however hard a process it is. If you are going to allow parasites to live in your life because you think it’s the ‘right’ thing to do, the parasites will keep growing in your field. The weeds have to be removed. And then, new seeds of divinity have to be sown immediately, so that new energy at once has the place to flourish. And then you’ve got to let it go. Every farmer knows that. His job ends when he has tilled the land and sowed the seeds. He can’t make the crop grow. It is a power greater than our own conscious thinking mind that makes the crop grow. And the conscious thinking mind has to let it go and say " I have done what I need to do, and I am sure that, that power which right now I cannot access with my conscious thinking mind, will do the thinking for me, will do the right thing at the right time….. unseasonal rain, unseasonal wind and unseasonal sun.

We are used to living in seasons that are predictable cycles to our lives. We have got to let those seasons go. The sun did not shine on the second farmer. In fact, as soon as he had sowed his seeds, there came a huge deluge. But that deluge helped the new crop to grow. If that farmer had blamed the messenger of God, he would have tried, with the limitations of his conscious thinking mind, to take action to protect his crop against the rain. But he didn’t. He sat back and he said "Rain…. so it is. Flood… so it is. There is a power looking after it. I don’t understand it. But I am willing to sit back." And the rain was what exactly what the crop needed. Not the sun.

Sometimes we don’t require sunshine in our lives. We require the rain. We require the storm. That is the most difficult time to sit back and say "It’s what I need. I have to let it rain as hard as it needs to. I have to let the floods come. I have to let the wind knock me down, because that power knows that at this time the sun if it shone on me, would not make me healthy; it would scorch me." It’s so difficult to do that.

And this brings us to our next parable of Angela.

She was an angel and she and her two angelic friends were great buddies. And one day, they were called for this very important meeting, where all the Angels and Guides and Masters were all going to assemble, and they felt very thrilled that even they had been called, because they were not very high angels. They were thrilled "Wow, we have been called to this important meeting." And they went all agog with enthusiasm.

And the highest Masters of their realm addressed them and said "There is a brand new planet, coming into existence, very unique." And they all looked "Unique, different? What different?" And the Masters said "There is going to be a planet of free-will." And all the little angels looked around "Free-will? What’s free-will? We don’t know what free-will is." And so it was explained. But first was explained the process of embodiment, because the angels didn’t know what that meant either. "So those who come in embodiment will then be left alone." And all the angels gasped and went backwards. "Left alone?"

"Yes, left alone."

"But to do what?"

"To change the vibration of the planet all by themselves."

"All by themselves? No help from this realm?"

"No help from this realm."

"And what is this planet going to be called?" they asked a little in trepidation now.

‘It’s going to be called Earth."

And then the high Master spoke and said "Who is so courageous to wish to live in the way we have explained on this planet?" And there was pin-drop-silence. Free-will, left alone, no help, change the vibrations all by yourself… Was that possible? But if the high Master has spoken, it must be possible. So plucky little Angela put up her hand with a few others and said "I will go to earth."

And as soon as this decision was made, they were taken into this cave of creation in order to set out a course of their lives. But they were all angels. And they said "You see in order to to take physical birth you have to have a burden."

"No one told us this before. Now we have to carry burdens too?"

"Yes, you have to carry burdens too."

"And what is this burden?"

"Ah, you have to create your own karmic burden."

"Karmic burden. Now that’s new. No one told us that when we put up our hands!"

"All right, we will help you to create karmic burdens."

"And we have to carry these with us?"

"You have to carry these with you."

"And what d we do with them?"

"Ah, simple. You have got to make it lighter."

"We have got to make them heavier, in order to make them lighter? This planet seems to be rather strange."

But Angela was never one to go back on her word and so she sat with all her little friends who were going to help her out. Her two best buddies had said. "We are not coming there. But we want to be with you, we have always been together. We will be your earth angels. So we will be with you all the time."

A higher angel popped in and said "You will be there all the time, but she won’t know it." And Angela looked and thought "Higher angel and all, but he doesn’t know my friendship with them. Of course I will know them." But she didn’t say anything. You don’t talk back to the higher angels. You keep wisdom to yourself.

So they took birth. And Angela lived the way she had decided; with an abusive father who beat her every night. Every night, at the stroke of seven, Angela would look for a place to hide herself. And every night he would come home drunk and he would seek her out, seek out her mother, and lash them. And Angela had forgotten everything. She had forgotten the high Master, the higher angels. She had forgotten her two friends, and she was lonely, and sad.

And then, as she had decided on her 13^th birthday, her mother died, leaving Angela alone with this monster. Seeing the dead body of her mother Angela ran out of the house, into the forest, fell onto a stump of a tree and cried. She didn’t feel her hands being held by her friends. She didn’t realize that more tears than her own were flowing.

And Angela grew up, and again as she had decided, she married a man, much like her own father, who abused her day in and day out and then finally felt her.

Angela had been abandoned by her father, emotional abandonment. Abandoned by her mother, physical abandonment. Abandoned by the man she loved. And she lived her life all alone. But you see, although Angela had created her karmic burden, she was really an angel. And true angels never give up. And she said "There has to be something more." She didn’t remember being an angel. But she knew that life couldn’t be just this.

And so she sought her answer inside. And more she sought her answers inside, the more she was able to forgive her father and her husband. At the age of 83 Angela died, happy with her life. And when she died, she remembered instantly, because she turned into an angel. She remembered everything and she was joyous at first meeting her two dearest friends, who were so honored to guide Angela in to the Hall of Honor.

Angela didn’t know that this was going to happen, and she looked around and the High Master was sitting and the higher angels and all of them looking at her as she walked a red carpet towards a high podium. And the High Master for the first time, climbed down from his throne, not waiting for Angela to come up. He climbed down to reach Angela, and placed upon her shoulders, the most beautiful colours of the universe. For evermore Angela’s energies would be recognized by those colours.

How do the Masters see you? They don’t see Ernie. They don’t see Piloo. They don’t see Nandinie. They don’t see Syrus. They see the colours of honour that you have received, lifetime after lifetime. And then when this ceremony was over, Angela ‘s friends all crowded around her and said" Do you remember when your father beat you up, did you feel me holding your hand?"

And Angela said excited "Yes, now I remember, you held my hand, when my father beat me up. But where is he? I want to thank him. How wonderfully he played this game with me. And where is my husband? I need to go and embrace him. He was such a super caricature of an abusive husband."

"And do you remember, you fell in the forest and we cried along with you?"

"Yes, I do remember, you cried along with me.

What fun! Let’s go back to Earth." (Laughter)

This angel is you and me. I was telling Divyaa the other day. "Never again. Never." (Laughter) I was talking about something in particular, but I said "Never again." And today I read this and I said "My God, am I going to say, lets do it all over again? Am I really going to be that foolish?" (Laughter) But it is true. We are all beautiful, beautiful, angels, Masters, Gods. Like the farmer, we have to take a choice. Shift to the divine that we are, or stay on with the human that we are just pretending to be.

That’s our choice.

But how did Angela’s karmic burden lighten? Because at the age of 83 she had forgiven everyone. She went with an empty bag of karma. She didn’t remember that she was an angel but she knew that she was more than what is just seen. She knew that; deep within herself she knew. She didn’t know what it was, but she knew that it was bigger than the reflection in the mirror. And, that is what it is. You may see the ugliest reflection of yourself in the person closest to you, but you are bigger than that reflection. That reflection is not all that you are. You are far bigger than that reflection.

Like Angela, you need to believe that you are, and if you believe that you are, you will leave aside all your should’s and should –not’s, all your moralizing, all the high moral ground that we take such pleasure in standing upon. And you will do all that you need to do to experience how big you are. You will understand the illusion of a relationship, be it a mother, a son, a husband, a wife, a daughter, or a sister. You will understand its illusion and you will cast it out of your life if you know it is not for your growth.

There is an Archangel who will help you, and that Archangel is Chamuel. He is the Archangel of love. His female counterpart is Charity. We have a wonderful saying "Charity begins at home." Where is ‘home’? Its not charity begins with mother, father, children, husband, brother, sister. Be chartable to yourself. The others don’t exist. They only exist as illusions that you have created.

Charity begins at home (pointing to self). And your home will be as big, as you know it to be. Or as small, or as constricting or as suffocating as you make it. Chamuel brings true love into your life. That’s wonderful, he brings love for self. So if I have a problem in loving someone, Chamuel won’t help me in that. He will help me to love ME, so that the more I love MYSELF the greater I grow, and in that expanse, I embrace the other.

Chamuel and Charity are here so that you can work on ‘shift’; the biggest shift that you will ever need to make. And you are here today, because each one in this room has dedicated yourself to making a shift from human to divine. That is why you are here today. Otherwise you wouldn’t be; this lesson would not be for you. You would be like the rest, who would only read it like the lesson and say "Wow" You are here today, with Chamuel and with Charity working on you along with Kryon and his energies, already shifting you from human to divine. But only you will put your brakes on it. Every time Chamuel, Charity and Kryon work for this shift and there is a rain you will say "No, I don’t think this is a messenger of God. Couldn’t have been. Would a higher power bring rain into my life? What kind of higher power would make me suffer?" That doubt will again tumble you back into humanness.

You have the power in your hand to do what you need to do in your life. You are not obliged to anyone. No one has done you any favors. Get rid of that. That is what holds us back more than anything else. My Mom has done so much for me. Oh! My Dad is always there for me. My sister has done so much for me. My husband has been so good and my children have looked after me. Everyone has done what they needed to do. They haven’t done you a favour, just as you don’t do anyone a favor. If today, I am looking after my parents, I am doing it for me. Let’s be honest. Let’s be honest. It’s time to cut the crap. I am looking my parents, so that I don’t have to live in self inflicted shame and guilt. You can very easily not look after your parents. And if you do it out of the fullness of who you are, there will not be any shame, not be any guilt, ever, because you are doing it out of the power that you are….. Not out of the small ego that you are.

So no one has done you any favours. You don’t do anyone any favours. Remember what the Masters have said. Nothing comes free. Nothing. It’s an energy exchange all the time. The only karma you accumulate is the one you wish to accumulate. So as soon as I feel that Silla has done something for me and I have to do something for her in return, I have dropped one more heavy stone into my karmic bag.

But if like the farmers, I can look at Silla and say "Of course, she is here to share herself with me, just as I am here to share myself with everyone", there is no karma, because I have understood the truth of divine bonds. And when relationships begin to be a burden for you, as so many of you come to me and tell me, you keep putting heavy stones into your karmic bag everyday. "I can’t let go off Sohrab, because Sohrab has done this for me. One stone. Oh! Sohrab has done this for me. I can’t let him go. Another stone. Even now my God, Sohrab has done another thing for me, even now I can’t let him go. Third stone. Oh! Sohrab in the past looked after me." Heavier and heavier burden. Never do you question yourself "What have I done?" Nothing comes free. So somewhere there has been an energy exchange in all this imbalance. The universe is perfect the way it is. Nothing can exist in imbalance. Nothing. The imbalance is what you create, what you use in your own mind, to create your karma. When there is balance, there can’t be karma.

Use Chamuel and Charity to love yourself. To love yourself so much that you are able to sit back in a deluge and say "Let’s enjoy the cold rain and wind. That’s an unusual feeling. The sun sometimes gets a little too hot. Ah! It’s coming up to my waist. That’s how water feels when it is too high. Now, it’s up to my throat. Wow, this is what people feel when the water comes up so much. Maybe I should swim now; it seems to be high enough. Why can’t I swim? What a wonderful feeling to swim in this flood."

I can’t drown, till I allow myself to drown. Survival is a basic instinct. Can you die? Of course, if you wish to, you can. But then that’s your free- will.

Thank you