CLING

Why do you all cling to things, to people, to everything? Do you not know the meaning of cling? What does cling spell? It spells Caution, Loss, Ignorance and ends in No Gain. Is this what you desire? The desire itself is wrong------------it is what makes you cling in the first place. When you love with fear, with CAUTION, with worry and anxiety , you hold tight and refuse to feel and breathe the healthy air of pure love. In fact, there is no real love--------the purity has been robbed and there is only a selfish want that you think is love. The loss that you have experienced in this life and past ones makes you this cautious because you know that any loss is painful, and you will do all that there is in your power not to suffer this pain. Emotional pain is so strong that its memory lives on forever . The only way you can erase this memory of loss is to be aware that nothing worthwhile is ever lost . You may not see your love again, you may not feel your missing child, you may not speak to one who is dead, but there is NO LOSS ; just a temporary waiting , but then this waiting is not what you desire or can endure. All of you wish your desires to be fulfilled NOW. My children, if only you knew that there is only NOW the period of wait would not bother you. There is no past, no present, no future; it is all NOW. So why chaff at the reins and lose, in truth, what you have always had? Your IGNORANCE is your greatest enemy . We try hard to help you to overcome this but the control of the physical mind is such that it feeds on your ignorance. What is Love? It is to have and not to own, it is to belong and not to possess. When you have a firm hold of the c, l & i , the only conclusion to this can be the n & g-----no gain. You, in fact, lose everything and feel an emptiness within. This then is what we are saying again and again and again about letting go and detaching yourself . You must detach from your desires. They are the controls of the physical self, the ego, and do not have contribution to make towards your peace and health. Detachment means to dis-attach, not to permit yourself to stick to anything and anyone and not to permit anything to stick to you. When you have strings you are not pulling them. They are pulled by your physical mind which then controls you completely, enslaves you forever. Do you wish to be a wooden, dancing puppet making jerky movements that someone else wishes it to make? Yes, someone else. Your physical mind has so completely forgotten what your higher self knows, that it is almost like living with another person.

Why do we permit this complete forgetfulness? Because with every round of forgetting and learning, you forget a little less and learn a little more. Besides, desires of the flesh can only be erased by the flesh. Do not let this fool you into believing that when the physical withers the physical desires also wither. THEY DO NOT. They live on with you when you come to our side and that is precisely why detachment must be practised when you are in the physical. Desires will keep pulling you downwards and an upward growth is completely stifled. So when you come to our side you must be willing to leave everything and everyone so that there is ‘cling’.

It is easy to let go of material things but can you let go of those you love? Can you, without pain, think of a life that does not include them? No, you cannot, because you all still cling. So try hard, try very hard to break all the bonds. Do not be attached, do not stick to anything, do not cling to anyone. Everything and everyone is transitory.

It may interest you to know that the first memory of separation of every soul is the separation from the WHOLE. Each soul wishes to experience the separation and yet when it happens there is a deep sense of emptiness. This emptiness is filled with hoarding. Not only material things ( is that not why people collect clothes, shoes, paintings, books and so many other things?), but also hoarding of LOVE. “If I have so many people loving me then I can take all their love and hoard it and keep it in a safe deposit vault behind a strong door so that it will not escape. Let me never open this door because what if I find that there is only emptiness behind that door?” Love cannot be hoarded. It must have freedom to survive. The more strings you have on it the more you stifle it till at last there are only strings, the love had fled a long time ago. Do not cling to love. Why should you cling to it when there is only love wherever you look.

The reflection of the word ‘LOVE’ in the mirror does not look like L O V E . It looks like _I O V =I but is it truly different ? Is it not LOVE? Then why the clinging, the desire to possess, to have it all, not share it with others? Many will read this and say ‘this is not me, I share openly with everyone’. To those I say the worst danger is when you refuse to see the truth about yourself because then you are not detached from your physical self, your ego. This is the most dangerous attachment as it gives you a false sense that you do not need to look within, that you do not need to break bonds, that you do not need to listen to the real truth, but only your version of it, or rather the version that your physical mind puts before you. Do not fear loneliness…..there is God all around , do not fear emptiness…….there is love more than you can handle , do not fear separation…….the light of life joins you to all and everything . Do not attach yourself to your fears. Remember there is comfort in attachment , yes, even attachment to your fears. But this is a false illusory comfort. The true peace can be found only when there is no caution, no fear of loss, no ignorance.

Then there will be CLASP……Courage, Loftiness, Aspiration and that will lead to Sustained Peace. Now the choice is yours -------cling onto the physical and let go the clasp of God or let yourself experience the true sweetness of love that is felt even when the object of your love is not close to you in physical form. In this way you will clasp the HAND that you have never really left. It is time to experience the clasp, it is time to clasp back this hand and be surrounded by what you all search for, sometimes in vain--------the love of your maker, your own love, and the love that makes this universe. Do not stifle yourself and others. Breathe freedom and when you come on to our side you will never need to look back and feel even a moment of regret. There will be no unfulfilled physical desire that will impede your growth. You will be ready to learn other lessons of more importance, not only of your physical world but laws of the spiritual world, the world to which you really belong.

You wish me to explain to you how to do this . Well, you must make use of the same medium that at present hinders you--------your physical mind. The conscious mind is very powerful but more powerful than the conscious mind is the self . This self must insist that the conscious mind obeys its commands. How? You lose a friend and you feel the grief, the anger, and all the other emotions that come out of ‘cling’. Now the self is an aware self and that is a great battle that has already been won. This aware self tells the conscious mind “I feel such and such because I am clinging and I am aware of the cling, and I am aware that my friend is here and now and has gone nowhere, so I clasp his hand and set him free from the chains of my physical strings.” At first this will be very, very, very difficult. Sometimes you will feel that you are saying the words without meaning them, sometimes you will not even be able to say the words because the strings are pulled very hard. Do not despair. These are all hurdles that the aware self knows it will face, so face them. The more the conscious mind hears the words repeatedly, again and again and again, even if it be in the smallest loss of a pen, it will then learn that this is the truth that it must present, and then the truth of the superconscious becomes the truth of the conscious. You cannot expect this to happen within a year or ten years, but if at the end of your life you have half attained this you have moved ahead to a plane where there is greater knowledge to absorb and search for.