There also follows a transcript of his words from Sri Sathya Sai Baba, beautiful and just on time.
I am so happy to share both the radio interview and the transcript. >
Sri Sathya Sai Baba via Paxton Robey: Last Steps for the Master in Training
Posted by Graham Dewyea
Graham: Paxton Robey is my guest tonight on The Brilliance Within on InLight Radio. Click here to listen to the show: The Brilliance Within: Stepping Into Mastery
Having been successful so far in obtaining our learned skills we are indeed useful partners with the divine in co-creating the new heaven on the new Earth. Like all of those on a similar path we have mastered many skills, all useful in their own way, and our collection of skills makes us unique in our healing gifts. We have learned to control a physical body.
We have learned to cooperate with our fellow humans. We have learned the futility of trying to hold power over other people. We learned the loneliness of trying to survive separate from our society. We have studied the effects of karma and learned the pitfalls of doing anything to another which we would not have them do unto us.
We are well on our way to remembering our oneness with all life. We are now worthy healers and teachers in service to our planet. And here we are again immersed in that magical “once in every 26,000 years” Aquarian Age energy where we do, at last, have an opportunity to complete our training in this very lifetime.
Now we wear two hats. One task we have volunteered for is the task of enticing our fellow Earth School friends and soul mates into desiring their own version of awakening. We can’t do it for them but we can be way-showers. Most of this “dangling a carrot” work we are doing is telepathic, consciousness work, holding the pattern for the new worldview and for the awakening of the divine within man.
Our second task has to do with completing our own mastership training. We are extremely aware of the hurdles we have crossed so far in our seemingly slow evolution up to this point. We have faced terrors and fears as well as experienced joys and over-comings. We know what it is like to lose our physical life in dozens of different ways. We know what it is like to have experienced the horrifying guilt associated with not being able to save our loved ones from tragedy.
We have felt we wasted time wandering down dead-end lifetimes. In short, we have been affected by all of the dramas that humanity itself experiences on a daily basis. Time and emotional extremes are some of the primary teaching tools in Earth School. These lead to a belief in separation and abandonment. Feeling lost and alone is common. How many times have we said, “I just want to go home”?
We can keep an eye out for our fellow light workers who have reached the breaking point. About 30 years ago I was facilitating a class on Sunday mornings on A Course in Miracles at a Unity Church. As is my custom, I did not plan what I would say this particular morning. I just let the words flow. After the class I said to my friend “that was the most disjointed, confusing message that has ever come out of my mouth”. It sounded to me like I had no idea what I was talking about.
The following Sunday after the class a woman came up to me and explained that she had attended the previous Sunday. She told me that on the Saturday before last Sunday she was going to kill herself. A voice in her head said “that’s okay but please go to church first”. Our church was the closest to her house. She told me that my talk had been about her. She said I had told the story of her life. She had gained enough insight into the purpose of her life that now she could go on.
Life on Earth is not easy. We need all the support and understanding we can give each other. It is the drama that causes us to seek a better way, a way out of the darkness and into the light. It is the drama and the desperation which makes this such an expedient training ground. We can understand about our fellow travelers, no matter how lost they appear to be, because we are aware, as all old souls are, of how harsh Earth school can seem in its teaching techniques.
We can also release the judgments of our self and others, knowing that what we have been doing or saying was all related to healing and learning no matter how it appeared at the time; it was the divine flowing through us.
Many years ago in a discussion with my guidance, I asked the question “why would anyone choose to come to earth?” Pain and struggle are the norm here. No one in their right mind would voluntarily enroll in a school like this. My guidance said “let us show you something”. They then took me on a tour of the multiple universes, introducing me to graduates of Earth School. I was blown away.
The graduates of Earth School are so magnificent, so radiant, so joy filled, so balanced, and so complete that there is no way to describe them using words. It was immediately obvious to me that the goal justified the means. But I had much to learn about what the means really are.
Nothing on planet Earth is what it appears to be. Absolutely nothing on planet Earth is what it appears to be. When viewed with the five physical senses and analyzed with the logical mind, Earth can be hell. Fortunately there is more to the story. The “more to the story” is what we are interested in now. Comprehending the more to the story is what the last 1% of our journey to mastership is all about. In many ways the last 1% of the journey is the most difficult portion of the entire trip.
It is not difficult in terms of physical exertion or overcoming traumas or battling disease and hardship. It is difficult in terms of training the mind to accept its holiness. It is difficult in terms of coming to believe, in spite of appearances, God is good. For the mind to accept its holiness it must give up all of its grievances against the universe, including other humans. These are our culminating lessons of trust and faith. We must learn to perceive the universe as wholly loving, benign, and benevolent.
The last 1% of the journey is usually perceived as frightening and challenging. We learn in this part of the trip that nearly all of the things that we thought were real are unreal and most of what we thought was too good to be true, or at least unattainable, is the natural state of being. For example, we now learn that in spite of appearances, a benevolent loving universe would never allow harm to occur. We learn that in spite of appearances, there are no damaged goods. We learn that awakening is much less of an uphill climb and requires much less discipline and study then we have been told. We learn that awakening is simply a process of relaxing our grasp on the visible universe and remembering our true transcendent nature.
Learning to become a healer has always been a strong desire of mine. But I found it to be too heartbreaking with too much tugging at my heartstrings for me to stick with established healing techniques long enough for “practice to make perfect”. I asked my guides at one point how the Master Teachers, the great healers of all time, could have not been completely overwhelmed by the horrific conditions they saw in those who sought their help. I always thought it was my job to rescue those who were in pain. I thought rescuing was the definition of compassion.
I was informed by my guides that the Master Teachers and great healers of all time were never overwhelmed by the conditions they saw in those who came to them for help. In fact they never saw a problem in those who came to them for help. This was an incomprehensible concept to me. However, as I learned what creates the manifestation of the apparent reality in the physical realm, I came to understand that thoughts and emotions combine to out-picture the images we see as reality.
I came to learn that feeling sorry for someone, that is, having the thoughts and emotions of pity, creates another opportunity to see the need for pity. I also learned that if I thought for a moment that I was responsible for doing the healing I was off in the ego. It is always Source that heals through us. And, in fact, there is nothing to heal except perception.
As we have matured and progressed through the first 99% of our path, using the physical senses and the logical mind, we ultimately developed a strong sense of compassion, very closely related to our need to rescue. This sense of compassion became a large part of our humanitarian self-worth, and no one wants to lose his/her self worth. Now we find it useful to redefine compassion and to discover how closely we are related to those we would help. We are the same actually. Healing another and healing the self are the same thing. We have been looking in a mirror.
Is it possible that the divine has never allowed harm to be done? Is it possible that the inhumanity to man expressed by the majority of our fellow inhabitants is nothing more than an audio visual training program, with the camera focused solely on our self, which will dissolve the moment the house lights come on? Is it possible that the terrifying experiences which seemed so real in the nightmare we had in our sleep last night never occurred? Is it possible we will awaken from the dream we call reality?
Is it possible that all that is required to free ourselves from tragedy and difficulty is to release our belief in tragedy and difficulty? Could releasing our belief in tragedy and difficulty actually change the way other people physically and emotionally treat each other? Can changes in the physical domain be caused by changes in my mind? Could it be that the problem does not exist “out there”, rather only in my mind? Is all of this reality in my mind? Can we see life on Earth from God’s point of view? Would God create a reality which needed rescuing?
We absolutely must believe, for a time at least, that what we are experiencing is real if it is to have any value to us as a teaching tool. But we must also eventually come to understand that while God does allow us to experience dreams, nightmares even, in the true reality only love exists.
It is we who wrote the outline for each life, not another. It is we who, in our desire to become Masters in the most expedient manner possible, created all the challenges we have faced in order to keep our minds focused on the goal. Being forced to say “Why me God?” expedites our journey down the path. We chose wisely when we said “If I can attain mastery in one lifetime instead of taking another 100 lifetimes, then bring it on”.
Each of us can look back at the most horrendous experiences of our life and, in retrospect, see how it left us a changed, wiser, more diligent seeker of peace and love. While it is true we appropriately scripted those experiences for the insights we would gain, we now have learned that it is not necessary to experience even one more painful situation to reach the goal. It is only the understanding that we want to gain from the experience. It is not the experience itself which we need. If we can learn to obtain the understanding without the need to be backed in a corner first, then the rest of the trip is a pure joy, we are home free.
How do we gain understanding without going through challenging experiences? By using our minds! In every moment pay attention and the understanding comes. We can try to avoid pain, fear and struggle by running away from them, but it won’t work. When we sense a challenge is approaching that is the time we go into meditation and sit with our guides while they gift us the understanding.
We can do this in the moment; on the phone, in a meeting, while driving in traffic, etc., because we have prepared our self through practice in the past. And remember there is no right or wrong way to meditate/practice. Your method may be sitting cross-legged, walking in nature, swimming or singing. Just slow your mind down and your unique method will work for you. Just always pay attention to your thoughts and feelings. Tell yourself “I accept the gift of understanding.”
The last 1% of the trip is comprised of release of fear and guilt by accepting absolution from our spirit guides; that is by accepting the gift of understanding from our spirit guides. Then one day the teacher will tell the story of our lives, our incarnations, and from that perspective we will see how perfectly the play was written.
It is difficult indeed for human beings on this final 1% of the journey to release their belief that reality exists outside of their mind (hence the need to right all the wrongs) and replace it with a more loving understanding of the “Big Picture”. When we are feeling sorry for loved ones who are in pain can we see that feeling sorry for anyone is not helpful? Can we see that worry is not helpful?
Can we see that worry is believing we know that something is wrong with another’s path through life. This mistaken belief forfeits our peace and is, therefore, not helpful. Can we heal like the Master Teachers have all healed, not by identifying with the need to do away with pain and lack, but by identifying with wholeness, and recognizing that however I create reality in my mind is the way it really is? It is my choice to experience what I will.
Time is a primary teaching tool in Earth school. It takes practice over time to begin to develop that “faith as a grain of mustard seed” which can move mountains and re-create harmonious civilizations in the divine mold. The faith the Masters have is the absolute knowing that no harm is possible and there is no limit to the expressions of love which the mind can manifest. There really are only images held in mind.
We no longer wish to be mired in the depths of what we used to believe was compassion by being outraged at the evils on a real planet “out there”. We now wish to be light workers who transform the planet, even though it is only an audio-visual training program, into the image of the Garden of Eden. We have such love and true compassion for our soul mates in this school that we will allow ourselves no goal short of total mastery; conscious, loving dominion over creation.
Graham: Paxton Robey is my guest tonight on The Brilliance Within on InLight Radio. Click here to listen to the show: The Brilliance Within: Stepping Into Mastery
Sri Sathya Sai Baba: Last Steps for the Master in Training, as received through Paxton Robey, July 2012 – http://tinyurl.com/m3s8h8c
It has been believed by spiritual seekers for many ages that enlightenment won’t be attainable in this lifetime, regardless of which lifetime is this lifetime. Now here we are on planet Earth approaching the completion of millions of years of mastership training. We have completed 99% of our karmic learning through our chosen path which includes time spent in Earth School as well as many other classrooms.Having been successful so far in obtaining our learned skills we are indeed useful partners with the divine in co-creating the new heaven on the new Earth. Like all of those on a similar path we have mastered many skills, all useful in their own way, and our collection of skills makes us unique in our healing gifts. We have learned to control a physical body.
We have learned to cooperate with our fellow humans. We have learned the futility of trying to hold power over other people. We learned the loneliness of trying to survive separate from our society. We have studied the effects of karma and learned the pitfalls of doing anything to another which we would not have them do unto us.
We are well on our way to remembering our oneness with all life. We are now worthy healers and teachers in service to our planet. And here we are again immersed in that magical “once in every 26,000 years” Aquarian Age energy where we do, at last, have an opportunity to complete our training in this very lifetime.
Now we wear two hats. One task we have volunteered for is the task of enticing our fellow Earth School friends and soul mates into desiring their own version of awakening. We can’t do it for them but we can be way-showers. Most of this “dangling a carrot” work we are doing is telepathic, consciousness work, holding the pattern for the new worldview and for the awakening of the divine within man.
Our second task has to do with completing our own mastership training. We are extremely aware of the hurdles we have crossed so far in our seemingly slow evolution up to this point. We have faced terrors and fears as well as experienced joys and over-comings. We know what it is like to lose our physical life in dozens of different ways. We know what it is like to have experienced the horrifying guilt associated with not being able to save our loved ones from tragedy.
We have felt we wasted time wandering down dead-end lifetimes. In short, we have been affected by all of the dramas that humanity itself experiences on a daily basis. Time and emotional extremes are some of the primary teaching tools in Earth School. These lead to a belief in separation and abandonment. Feeling lost and alone is common. How many times have we said, “I just want to go home”?
We can keep an eye out for our fellow light workers who have reached the breaking point. About 30 years ago I was facilitating a class on Sunday mornings on A Course in Miracles at a Unity Church. As is my custom, I did not plan what I would say this particular morning. I just let the words flow. After the class I said to my friend “that was the most disjointed, confusing message that has ever come out of my mouth”. It sounded to me like I had no idea what I was talking about.
The following Sunday after the class a woman came up to me and explained that she had attended the previous Sunday. She told me that on the Saturday before last Sunday she was going to kill herself. A voice in her head said “that’s okay but please go to church first”. Our church was the closest to her house. She told me that my talk had been about her. She said I had told the story of her life. She had gained enough insight into the purpose of her life that now she could go on.
Life on Earth is not easy. We need all the support and understanding we can give each other. It is the drama that causes us to seek a better way, a way out of the darkness and into the light. It is the drama and the desperation which makes this such an expedient training ground. We can understand about our fellow travelers, no matter how lost they appear to be, because we are aware, as all old souls are, of how harsh Earth school can seem in its teaching techniques.
We can also release the judgments of our self and others, knowing that what we have been doing or saying was all related to healing and learning no matter how it appeared at the time; it was the divine flowing through us.
Many years ago in a discussion with my guidance, I asked the question “why would anyone choose to come to earth?” Pain and struggle are the norm here. No one in their right mind would voluntarily enroll in a school like this. My guidance said “let us show you something”. They then took me on a tour of the multiple universes, introducing me to graduates of Earth School. I was blown away.
The graduates of Earth School are so magnificent, so radiant, so joy filled, so balanced, and so complete that there is no way to describe them using words. It was immediately obvious to me that the goal justified the means. But I had much to learn about what the means really are.
Nothing on planet Earth is what it appears to be. Absolutely nothing on planet Earth is what it appears to be. When viewed with the five physical senses and analyzed with the logical mind, Earth can be hell. Fortunately there is more to the story. The “more to the story” is what we are interested in now. Comprehending the more to the story is what the last 1% of our journey to mastership is all about. In many ways the last 1% of the journey is the most difficult portion of the entire trip.
It is not difficult in terms of physical exertion or overcoming traumas or battling disease and hardship. It is difficult in terms of training the mind to accept its holiness. It is difficult in terms of coming to believe, in spite of appearances, God is good. For the mind to accept its holiness it must give up all of its grievances against the universe, including other humans. These are our culminating lessons of trust and faith. We must learn to perceive the universe as wholly loving, benign, and benevolent.
The last 1% of the journey is usually perceived as frightening and challenging. We learn in this part of the trip that nearly all of the things that we thought were real are unreal and most of what we thought was too good to be true, or at least unattainable, is the natural state of being. For example, we now learn that in spite of appearances, a benevolent loving universe would never allow harm to occur. We learn that in spite of appearances, there are no damaged goods. We learn that awakening is much less of an uphill climb and requires much less discipline and study then we have been told. We learn that awakening is simply a process of relaxing our grasp on the visible universe and remembering our true transcendent nature.
Learning to become a healer has always been a strong desire of mine. But I found it to be too heartbreaking with too much tugging at my heartstrings for me to stick with established healing techniques long enough for “practice to make perfect”. I asked my guides at one point how the Master Teachers, the great healers of all time, could have not been completely overwhelmed by the horrific conditions they saw in those who sought their help. I always thought it was my job to rescue those who were in pain. I thought rescuing was the definition of compassion.
I was informed by my guides that the Master Teachers and great healers of all time were never overwhelmed by the conditions they saw in those who came to them for help. In fact they never saw a problem in those who came to them for help. This was an incomprehensible concept to me. However, as I learned what creates the manifestation of the apparent reality in the physical realm, I came to understand that thoughts and emotions combine to out-picture the images we see as reality.
I came to learn that feeling sorry for someone, that is, having the thoughts and emotions of pity, creates another opportunity to see the need for pity. I also learned that if I thought for a moment that I was responsible for doing the healing I was off in the ego. It is always Source that heals through us. And, in fact, there is nothing to heal except perception.
As we have matured and progressed through the first 99% of our path, using the physical senses and the logical mind, we ultimately developed a strong sense of compassion, very closely related to our need to rescue. This sense of compassion became a large part of our humanitarian self-worth, and no one wants to lose his/her self worth. Now we find it useful to redefine compassion and to discover how closely we are related to those we would help. We are the same actually. Healing another and healing the self are the same thing. We have been looking in a mirror.
Is it possible that the divine has never allowed harm to be done? Is it possible that the inhumanity to man expressed by the majority of our fellow inhabitants is nothing more than an audio visual training program, with the camera focused solely on our self, which will dissolve the moment the house lights come on? Is it possible that the terrifying experiences which seemed so real in the nightmare we had in our sleep last night never occurred? Is it possible we will awaken from the dream we call reality?
Is it possible that all that is required to free ourselves from tragedy and difficulty is to release our belief in tragedy and difficulty? Could releasing our belief in tragedy and difficulty actually change the way other people physically and emotionally treat each other? Can changes in the physical domain be caused by changes in my mind? Could it be that the problem does not exist “out there”, rather only in my mind? Is all of this reality in my mind? Can we see life on Earth from God’s point of view? Would God create a reality which needed rescuing?
We absolutely must believe, for a time at least, that what we are experiencing is real if it is to have any value to us as a teaching tool. But we must also eventually come to understand that while God does allow us to experience dreams, nightmares even, in the true reality only love exists.
It is we who wrote the outline for each life, not another. It is we who, in our desire to become Masters in the most expedient manner possible, created all the challenges we have faced in order to keep our minds focused on the goal. Being forced to say “Why me God?” expedites our journey down the path. We chose wisely when we said “If I can attain mastery in one lifetime instead of taking another 100 lifetimes, then bring it on”.
Each of us can look back at the most horrendous experiences of our life and, in retrospect, see how it left us a changed, wiser, more diligent seeker of peace and love. While it is true we appropriately scripted those experiences for the insights we would gain, we now have learned that it is not necessary to experience even one more painful situation to reach the goal. It is only the understanding that we want to gain from the experience. It is not the experience itself which we need. If we can learn to obtain the understanding without the need to be backed in a corner first, then the rest of the trip is a pure joy, we are home free.
How do we gain understanding without going through challenging experiences? By using our minds! In every moment pay attention and the understanding comes. We can try to avoid pain, fear and struggle by running away from them, but it won’t work. When we sense a challenge is approaching that is the time we go into meditation and sit with our guides while they gift us the understanding.
We can do this in the moment; on the phone, in a meeting, while driving in traffic, etc., because we have prepared our self through practice in the past. And remember there is no right or wrong way to meditate/practice. Your method may be sitting cross-legged, walking in nature, swimming or singing. Just slow your mind down and your unique method will work for you. Just always pay attention to your thoughts and feelings. Tell yourself “I accept the gift of understanding.”
The last 1% of the trip is comprised of release of fear and guilt by accepting absolution from our spirit guides; that is by accepting the gift of understanding from our spirit guides. Then one day the teacher will tell the story of our lives, our incarnations, and from that perspective we will see how perfectly the play was written.
It is difficult indeed for human beings on this final 1% of the journey to release their belief that reality exists outside of their mind (hence the need to right all the wrongs) and replace it with a more loving understanding of the “Big Picture”. When we are feeling sorry for loved ones who are in pain can we see that feeling sorry for anyone is not helpful? Can we see that worry is not helpful?
Can we see that worry is believing we know that something is wrong with another’s path through life. This mistaken belief forfeits our peace and is, therefore, not helpful. Can we heal like the Master Teachers have all healed, not by identifying with the need to do away with pain and lack, but by identifying with wholeness, and recognizing that however I create reality in my mind is the way it really is? It is my choice to experience what I will.
Time is a primary teaching tool in Earth school. It takes practice over time to begin to develop that “faith as a grain of mustard seed” which can move mountains and re-create harmonious civilizations in the divine mold. The faith the Masters have is the absolute knowing that no harm is possible and there is no limit to the expressions of love which the mind can manifest. There really are only images held in mind.
We no longer wish to be mired in the depths of what we used to believe was compassion by being outraged at the evils on a real planet “out there”. We now wish to be light workers who transform the planet, even though it is only an audio-visual training program, into the image of the Garden of Eden. We have such love and true compassion for our soul mates in this school that we will allow ourselves no goal short of total mastery; conscious, loving dominion over creation.
We came to Earth at this time on a divine mission to set all people free, including ourselves, and to remind them of their innate divinity, and support them as they become those magnificent, radiant, beautiful beyond description, graduates of planet Earth.
Eventually, far down the road of time from now, as this class of billions of souls completes its group graduation from the need for tools like duality, time, limitation and mind created illusions, what we know as physical three dimensional reality and its associated timelines will fade, becoming transparent, and itself ascend to the next blissful level of the infinite realm of unending experience. This will happen because you held the vision.
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