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Gathering with Raj
Gold Coast, Australia 1993 (Part A) RAJ: Good morning. Here we are in an institution of higher learning, but you are not here this weekend to learn. You are here to remember what you knew before you learned anything. That is all I wanted to say. QUESTION: Hello Raj, this is Kallana, I would like to know why I�m handicapped by... QUESTIONER�S MOTHER: May I speak for Kallana? ANSWER: You certainly may. QUESTION: Hello Raj. I speak for my daughter Kallana. We would like to know why she is intellectually disabled? And how can we improve the situation? That is all. ANSWER: Have you ever spoken with someone who does not speak your language or speaks just a little bit of it? And when you are speaking with them, you find yourself expressing yourself in the simplest of terms, with simple words. And in doing this you begin to have a feeling that they are uneducated. You feel as though they are less intelligent. And the only reason you have that feeling is because of language. They could be chemists or great mathematicians, but if they do not know the words that you understand, they cannot express what they know. And it becomes difficult for you to feel that they are, in fact, intelligent. Now there�s not a thing wrong with you, except when it comes to expressing yourself in language that others deem to be reasonable and intelligent and the manifestation of, well, the manifestation of intelligence. What I am saying is that you are not unintelligent. You do not have a deficiency of intelligence. And just because others find it difficult to understand you, that does not mean there is something wrong with you. You want to know what the real question is? The real question is: Can you dare to be different? Can you dare to be unique? Can you dare to simply be present as you, and let the chips fall where they may? Can you dare to be in a way that makes others stretch without apologizing for their having to stretch�to be willing to open up to more than they are used to having to open up to? Now, what I am saying is that you need to start loving yourself just as you are, even if others have difficulty connecting with you and even if it seems that they have to put forth more effort with you than they do with someone else. I�m going to be very frank with you. And I am going to apologize for my language, but I need to say it this way. But the simple fact is that you are not caught up in the ego shit that everyone else is caught up in. You are not interested in the same things other people are interested in. What you value is not the same as what everyone else values. And you are the one who is standing in the position of greater clarity, while everyone around you says they are the ones who are clear, and they are the ones that you are supposed to be like. And it�s not true. Now, it is time for you to stop trying to be equal to everyone else. It is time for you to be willing to abide with yourself. I do not mean be alone, I mean to be present without apology, without thinking that you must be different from you. And as you do that and you let go of the feeling of incompleteness that everyone else has projected upon you, and which to some degree you have come to believe, you will find yourself beginning to experience some joy. And you will also find that because you are willing to be present without apology everyone else�s need to have you be like them will diminish and they will begin to be able to be more present with you. And you will begin to find communion occurring with others that is meaningful. It will be a great gift of joy to you and it will be a great gift of joy to them. At this point, the element that gets in the way is not what others have determined is a lack of intelligence or a deficiency on your part, but a willingness on your part to feel guilty or to feel bad for being different. That�s the thing that�s getting in the way. Do you not think that Paul experiences being different at this moment from what most of his peers think constitutes normalcy? If he cared what any of you thought, he would be so self-conscious that he would become bound up and nothing of any value would happen. And if you care about other people�s definitions of you, you will become self-conscious and bound up. If you will stop caring what they think, what their definitions are and what they think needs to be done to correct their misperception of you, you will find yourself able to express yourself meaningfully. And others will experience you as being meaningful. And you will have helped them get beyond their tight little concepts and the prison they keep themselves in. You�ve got to start valuing yourself exactly as you are and you must let go of the definition that someone else provided to you that said, "There�s a deficiency of intelligence, or a deficiency of any kind." This is very important for everyone. Because if everyone begins to love themselves more, if everyone will stop caring what everyone else thinks, whether it�s mom or dad or the church or whoever the law-giver and moral-giver is, and you begin to be willing to be with who you Are in your peace, you will begin to make the gift of You, and that�s You with a capital "Y"�the gift of what you divinely Are. And when that happens it will make some people uncomfortable, especially family members. Because they know who they think you�re supposed to be. And some of it you taught them. And then when they hold you to it, it makes you mad, it makes you uncomfortable, etc. When you begin to make the gift of You, you begin to be quite original, not necessarily strange but quite original. Your presence not only allows for but it nurtures others letting go of their preconceptions of you and their preconceptions of who they are relative to you. Everybody tries to hold everybody into a very narrow band of "normalcy." Why? So that none of you will be faced with any originality whatsoever and therefore won�t have to make any adjustments. The Father says, "Behold, I make all things new." He never repeats Himself. You�re never the same old you from moment to moment, because God is Being you new at every moment. And all of you who have worked all of your life to become very clear as to who you are, are missing the point. Because the vitality and the joy of life comes in your freedom from preconceptions or developed perceptions, that blind you to the ever present original Movement of God, called Life. For those of you who are not familiar with A Course In Miracles, the first lesson is, "Nothing that I see means anything." Well that�s a shocker for a start, isn�t it? But you know what it does? By being willing to consider that nothing that you see means anything, it puts you in a place you cannot stay very long. It puts you into a void. "Well, if it doesn�t mean anything, what does mean something?" Now I have brought out that at the bottom line the meaning of that lesson is, "Nothing that I see means what I think it means." And in order to open yourself totally, unconditionally to the true meaning of a thing, it is most beneficial for you to simply say, "Nothing that I see means anything. Nothing that I see means anything." I will tell you that your present concepts and definitions of everything exclude so much of what it divinely Is that what you believe that thing to be is illusory. All of you, if you are going to wake up�and I promise you you are, whether you want to or not�stand at the threshold of expanding into the clearer experience of Reality, the clearer experience of what everything is. And that means that you�re going to have to look at a person that you call "normal" and say, "My definition of normalcy that they fit, that they are congruent with, doesn�t mean anything. What is normal to them is far more than I am embracing. And it won�t necessarily fit my concept of what normal is." And so specifically for you, when others define you as deficient in some way, all it means is that their perception is deficient. And I am here this morning to tell you that your experience of who you are is far less deficient than their definitions. The truth about you will become more apparent to you as you abandon their definition and do not assume that they know more than you, and you relax, be yourself more fully without trying to be different and let them stretch a little bit in order to let in a new perception. Don�t wonder why you�re the one who has to be this kind of focal point. You know, if someone�s all dirty, grimy, and they exist in the dark along with everyone else and no one can see how dirty and grimy they are, they have no problem. But when somebody turns on the light, and all of a sudden it becomes obvious to everyone else how grimy and dirty this one is, the one who turned on the light becomes the enemy of the one who was comfortable being grimy and dirty. And so if you are going to be in the world, something which causes others to have to stretch beyond what they have been comfortable with, don�t shy away, don�t wish that you weren�t the one who turned on the light. Don�t wish that there was nothing about you that made anyone else have to stretch at all. You see all of you are refraining from stretching into and expanding into your divine stature so that you don�t make waves for anyone else. And most all of you live in co-dependent situations that are very unhealthy, and you�re doing it all for the sake of peace�you think. You have something quite marvelous to give everyone. And there are those in your life who receive and recognize the gift you give. And if you succeeded in conforming to everyone else�s definition of intelligence, the gift you have to give would be lost�and everyone would lose. And so I will end by saying what I started with: You must love yourself without requiring any changes whatsoever. And then the gift, the transformational gift of the presence of you will become even more active in everyone�s lives. You are feeling guilty for being different, while everyone else is laying that guilt trip on you. And you�ve got to say, "It doesn�t fit. And since it doesn�t fit, I�m not going to wear it." I love you. QUESTION: Raj I�m John, and for the first young lady I would like to say she is a lovely person and I feel love for her. My question is, who is Si Baba? ANSWER: Who do you want him to be? I would like an answer. Or who do you need him to be? QUESTION: I don�t require him to be anything for me, personally. ANSWER: Then why do you want to know? I am not picking on you, this is helpful for everyone. QUESTION: I understand. I am only learning, that is all. ANSWER: Si Baba is one who stimulates awareness in the world of the fact that there is indeed a divine order, a divineness to existence, not a divineness that is other-worldly, that doesn�t relate to here and now, but one that does relate here and now, where divine Love is not something that God alone expresses toward His children, but that it is the natural inherent Love that each one of you is able to embody and express toward each other�and that this is what is appropriate here, not in the hereafter. And because of the signs, you might say, that are given through his ministry, we will call it, everyone�s willingness to believe that life here may operate under rules different from the physical laws of the universe�that your scientists have revealed to you�is magnified. The manifestations that occur obviously do not express conformance to physical laws. And this gives each one of you who is familiar, hope that maybe you, and in this case you means your body, isn�t necessarily governed by physical laws, and that there can be changes in the twinkling of an eye. For those who come in contact with him, he is a very important trigger to their letting go of their confidences as to what a thing means. And that opens the door for revelation. Whether you go to his ashram, whether you connect with him in anyway, you have already connected. And the great lesson that all of you must get through your heads�if I may put it that way�is that it isn�t a teacher out there that is important, but that that teacher is just like you and you and you and everyone of you. Each one of you embodies the same divine selfhood that great teachers do. Ultimately, if you give too much of your power away to a great teacher, the teacher will send you away. Because the teacher is not supposed to be the focal point�you are. And it is your divinity that is to be illuminated, it is your divinity that you are to dare to embrace and embody. And believe it or not, it�s supposed to be an enjoyable experience. "Now I don�t know if I want to get in touch with my guide if it means I�m going to have to travel all over the world like Paul does. I don�t know if I want to wake up if I�ve got to start behaving like a holy man and throw ash everywhere. I don�t know if I want to wake up, because I�m going to stand out like a sore thumb in my society." Everyone is afraid that being divine will be something very different from being human. And when I use the word human, it absolutely relates to and ties in with the word "humane." And the word "humane" ties in with the way family, brothers and sisters treat each other in the most ideal of circumstances. And I am telling you that being divine will make you more real and more valuable and more present as that which is meaningful right here with each other. You don�t need to go off to someplace where the Christ's are, because you�re all the Christ. It�s the unwillingness to see the Christ in each other, and it�s the unwillingness to conceive of the possibility that being the Christ means being the most humane of human beings, the most Real of brothers and sisters, that keeps you from embracing your divinity. It�s just ignorance about what being divine means. Now it is beginning�and I�m saying this for those of you who are students of the Course�it is beginning to be suggested that the Course, being channeled through Helen Schucman, was something unique to her and that she was in some way different from you and that you should not expect to experience the sort of guidance that she experienced. And yet if you will think about it, you will realize that there is a lesson in the Course that says, "Today I will make no decisions by myself." Well, let me tell you, the word decisions there refers to whether or not to go into this department store and get a fur coat or to go in that department store and get one, but one which is on sale. It is guidance that will be exactly like she got. You see, the point is not to be alone. And the need is to join, to be in companionship with, to be in that state of companionship where you are forever conscious that you are not alone. That is what breaks the ego�s grasp. Because the ego says you are alone and it is in your aloneness that you are unique, and it is in your aloneness that the full gift of who you are can be given. But in your aloneness you lose the direct experience of being One with the Father. And without that experience of connectedness, I�m going to say with your Source, you cannot help but have an experience of being lost�unanchored in that which is immovably substantial. So what is the grand lesson illustrated by Helen Schucman? It�s not the Course In Miracles. It is the demonstration of the fact that a simple human being�with an apparently rotten attitude at times�when she was willing to listen, received guidance that caused her to be most meaningful at the level of everyone�s daily humanity. And you can do likewise. You may not write another book called A Course In Miracles, Volume III or IV. The gift of the presence of you, in touch with your divine Source, will be meaningful in its own way. And then heaven help everyone else if they become a student of whatever the way was that you expressed it, instead of being inspired to be guided, to not be alone, as an ongoing, conscious experience just as she did. The one thing she did demonstrate was that in not embracing the guidance for herself, she didn�t get the relief that it was her Birthright to experience. But it didn�t keep her from being a presence in the world of profound significance. So watch your teachers, whether it is Si Baba, whether it is me, whether it is Helen Schucman, no matter who it might be, watch your teachers because they really are telling you about You. They are not saying, "Come and learn how to throw ash out of nowhere. Come and learn how to write great books. Come and be my student and wake up by virtue of your association with me." No, they are there to illuminate your potential by daring perhaps to stand a little bit further forward on the leading edge and embody more of what is true about themselves and about you. Now the question is asked, is Si Baba totally Awake, totally Enlightened. The answer is no. But, he is being congruent with the Father and he is fulfilling a place at this time that is essential to everyone�s Awakening. He is making the dream somewhat less dense by proving that the dream doesn�t function absolutely according to physical laws. And that inspires every single one of you to not be so committed to your firm beliefs about what everything is. Full
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The inner light can answer any of this world's queries and resolve any of its problems. Beyond all of these concerns, the inner light will show you who you are and your relationship to all...and bring you an understanding of love and peace that transcends ordinary human thought processes. Discover what it truly means to "love one another" and to "see peace."
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