You Have The Capacity

Weekly Message, September 16, 2006
You Have The Capacity
Written and transcribed by Terry Grant.

This is a continuation of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on May 28, 2006. - TG.

Ishvara:

The human being is really struggling to break free of the limits and boundaries placed upon it by conditioning, beliefs, and consensus reality. The philosophy that, "This isn't it," hinders this liberation.

Those who teach, "This isn't it," are wasting your life. If you go through life thinking, "This isn't it," expecting that there is something else you are going to get, you have squandered your whole life. I find it difficult to be nice to those kinds of teachers. They are propagating illusions, escape, and what's worse, they are causing the believers to throw away their lives.

THIS IS IT. Your life is your life, your experience, your uniqueness, your opportunity to find connections, to expand, to discover, to explore, to go beyond what is being taught and believed. You have the capacity to do this, because you are the universe. You have the capacity to go beyond anything on this planet, any structure, any condition, any problem. You have the ability to make up YOUR mind.

A magical thing takes place once you make up your mind. Life supports you in infinite ways in that realization. However, you know what usually happens when you try to make up your mind: you think about something, it sounds good, but then you start thinking about something else, and that too sounds good, and then another thing comes up, and that also sounds good. You keep thinking, "Well, I could do this . . . I could be this . . . Oh, maybe not. Maybe I can be that. That looks exciting. . . Oh, I don't know. I just can't make up my mind."

You perhaps can remember the things you went through in your childhood, and how others tried to program your life. I recall that, when I was a child, I wanted to be a fireman, because I liked the special suit and the big red hat. My parents got me cowboy guns and a cowboy hat, and I didn't like those. The fire engine was far more fun.

Then when I was a little older, I felt the call of "God," and so I decided to be a minister. If I had stuck with that, I could have been a wealthy televangelist today, because the people in the Church thought I had it. They knew I had it. They told me I had it. They were disappointed when I told them I didn't want it.

There is something in me that ultimately rejects programming. I have never been a troublemaker. I am often quiet about what I see. I let people think they are making me believe something, when they are not making me believe it at all. I just sit quietly and listen, knowing, "You may fool yourself, but you don't fool me." I discovered very early in Life that you keep quiet about those kinds of knowings. Grown-ups don't like to be caught in their lies and deceptions. I knew they were lying, but I knew that they didn't want their lies brought to light, so I let them be.

The whole world is a deception like that. The whole world is missing an ingredient.

We would like to think that the various religious and spiritual structures on this planet are contributing to the evolution, the self-discovery, the expansion, the transcendence of the human race. But to the contrary, those systems and structures are confining, limiting and destroying the human race. I know, you may think, "That's kind of hard Ishvara." Well, I'm not here to be easy on the very things that are destroying the human race. Sorry. I cannot take those things as unimportant. No matter how judgmental it may sound, it is necessary to say what-is, otherwise the illusion continues to hold humanity in its grip, and as long as humanity is held in that kind of grip, it remains stuck and destructive.

There is no way to doubt the destructiveness of this human race. Everywhere you look there are wars, destruction, killing, and outright murder, all in the name of ideologies, religions, beliefs, and concepts. That is a very sad state for human existence.

Something is missing. Actually, it is not "missing." It just seems hidden from view. It is here and can be known, if we are willing to stop hanging on to the beliefs and concepts of the past.

(To be continued next week).

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