Human Purpose
Humanity has a troubled relationship with the single creating and governing source of reality.
Those who consider themselves secular dismiss the notion that such a single, intelligent, detectable source exists. They do so even if they feel there has to be some intelligent “theory of everything” putting the seemingly disconnected, incompatible forces acting on us in order.
And those who consider themselves religious, and believe such a singular creating force exist, maintain that such a source is unattainable within this life we exist in right now.
But there exist unique, “primordial”, empirical natural scientists who claim for a few thousand years now, that it is not enough that such a single, intelligent, creating and governing source exists, but this force is clearly, tangibly attainable here and now, within this physical, material life, which attainment is our only Human purpose in existence.
Who Is In Control?
There is only one problem standing in our way in reaching this purpose: our own inherently individualistic, proud and “ruling” nature. As they say “two kings can’t wear one crown”, there can only be one ruling force in reality.
Which means that the only way of revealing, attaining this single creating, governing force is by acknowledging, justifying its singular rulership over everything that exists. And this means completely giving up our own rulership. We have to give up the notion that we are in control over our lives, that we have any free choice over our actions.
It is a very clear either/or situation, there is no middle ground. Either we are in control, or there is another authority controlling us.
Questions
Here we are starting to face very serious questions.
1. We are all born with a unique, proud, individualistic nature. Our inherent operating software is based on a completely egocentric “pleasure/pain principle”, we can’t act or even move a finger if it is not for self-benefit.
Our “self” has a extremely strong “survival reflex” which can even overrule, supersede our physical survival reflex in order to secure that our self-esteem, pride remains intact.
Thus how, in what circumstance does it become possible to capitulate, to sacrifice this self “on the altar” of that other authority, creating force?
2. What do we gain by such a fundamental, seemingly impossible self-sacrifice?
Limitless, Perfect Existence
Let us start with answering the second question. When people manage to reach complete self-annulment, sacrificing self-concern, self-esteem, self-protection in order to accept total submission to reality’s single creating and governing force, they receive an unprecedented “mind and heart” upgrade.
Replacing the inherent nature – in the empty vacuum created by self-annulment – a completely new mind and emotional faculty is injected. Basically instead of their own limited, subjective mind and selfish, egoistic emotions these unique people receive the unlimited, perfect mind and boundlessly loving, bestowing “heart” of reality’s single operating force.
Through this new acquired mind and heart they start sensing themselves just as perfect, omnipotent, infinite and eternal as the source of creation itself. This is a previously unimaginable sensation, torn away from anything related to the “self”, in complete, absolute freedom to give, provide and love everything and everybody in a limitless way.
The Need For “Supernatural” Importance
The obvious question arises: why would not people willingly run towards and accept such an incredible, infinite and eternal existence by themselves? After all one’s limited “self” with its bounded, subjective perception seems incomparably inferior to the new existence described above.
The thing is that this potential, perfect existence, sensation is nowhere to be seen until one’s inherent nature is still in control. As we mentioned above the law of “either or” operates with 100% accuracy. The upper nature only appears, clothes into a person when the self has been completely annulled.
And there is absolutely no guarantee that one would receive the new consciousness, perception of reality before one sacrificed the original selfish, egoistic nature. Thus our inherent nature that works need to agree to the self-sacrifice has nothing to stands on.
Thus people would need to give everything up for a potential reward nobody has ever seen, felt, tasted, and nobody can guarantee. And in order for someone to make such a crazy, “unobtainable” sacrifice, one would need to acquire a “supernatural” importance for that new, unprecedented and untested state, qualities, so one could “jump of the cliff” with eyes closed.
The Mutual Game
In order to acquire such “supernatural” importance people need to enter and participate in a unique human environment. In closed, mutually committed circles people need to use a special method, special exercises in order to generate this overwhelming importance for acquiring the “godly qualities” of selfless, altruistic love and service of others on top, despite of the inherently selfish, egoistic human nature.
They need to embark on a “strange, artificial” game of play acting such “godly qualities” towards one another as if they already possessed them, while constantly magnifying, intensifying the importance of those qualities and the need for reaching them.
Through such artificial, mutual inspiration, positive examples, exaggerated demonstration they can push and pull each other forward through igniting the instinctive attributes of envy, jealousy, desire for respect.
Running Out Of Steam
At the beginning this game is easy, since the members of this unique society are buoyed by the prospect of acquiring the above described perfect existence they learn about from the sources used by the method. They are excited by the potential eternity, infinite knowledge attained, they enjoy the “secret”, closed environment and the special camaraderie in between them.
At this stage the original, egoistic and selfish nature provides plenty of fuel going for unprecedented rewards, considering the prospect of “self-annulment” empty talk, some potential, “distant threat”.
Only when they make good progress with their game, with the mutual inspiration, support, that the inherent egoistic nature starts to suspect that the often mentioned “self-annulment” is actually real.
This is when the inherent nature starts nagging the person with the questions of “who is this ‘creating force’ that I should sacrifice myself for?” and “what reward will I get if I continue working for this goal of acquiring a selfless, altruistic second nature?” And there are no reasonable, reassuring answers.
Gradually the selfish, egoistic engine realizes that it can’t hope for any reward or even reassurances from this mutual work, and thus it revokes any selfish, egoistic support. This is when the members of the unique circle find themselves suddenly deflated, with a empty fuel tank, full of excuses and complaints, temptations to leave the mutual campaign.
On Borrowed Fuel
What happens next solely depends on how successfully they built their mutual system, “covenant” before this decent, before this lack of internal drive arrived. From this point on they can only progress on “borrowed fuel”.
I general, within this circle, the “borrowed fuel” can arrive in two ways. One is through envy, jealousy, desire for respect, by seeing the constant inspiration, positive example from the others. This selfish fear of being left behind can motivate one even when other, inherently selfish motivations already dried out.
Of course for this to work the collective goal, the example others are showing already have to be very important, worthwhile to pursue.
The other kind of “borrowed fuel” comes through the shame of letting others down. It works when one commits oneself to do certain regular roles, actions, functions for the circle, society, without which the circle can’t progress. Thus, like a sick mother waking up to feed her baby, the person rises above personal difficulties, excuses in order to continually perform the commitment even if none of one’s cells, organs would want to do it.
These modes of “borrowing fuel” necessitates mutual guarantee, a watertight mutual covenant in between the participants, since even if they don’t want to, or feel they can’t, they still have to perform certain actions, and continue the external play acting of high spirit, positive example toward one another.
First Contact
But there comes a time when even that mutual commitment, living off each other, running on “borrowed fuel” falls apart. A final state comes when no more fuel is found, when the air is sucked out of the mutual laboratory, when the participants look at each other feeling everything frozen, still, darkened.
This is the moment of total capitulation, self-annulment as a result of unsuccessfully using, trying, recruiting all of their individual and collective abilities, reaching the point of no return.
This is the moment of total heartbreak when on one hand they sense their desired goal just millimeters away from their fingertips, still unable to move any closer, like people sensing, but unable to reach the life saving water in a scorching desert.
This is the moment of “prayer” the unsolvable, unbearable, burning, unbridgeable gap in between the potential and actual, in between the yearned for, almost tasted, sensed next optimal state and the utter inability to reach it. This is a silent “prayer” that completely overcomes them and they know without any doubts that they all feel the same heartbreak, silent cry inside. And it is their clarified common prayer that opens something in between them.
This is their first contact of reality’s single creating and governing force that accepts this prayer and injects into their emptied, purified “vessels” the new, “godly” upper mind and heart.
And then they suddenly sense a new surge, new life fleeting through them. This gives them an unprecedented ability to turn towards one another and towards the world with unbounded love and acceptance, with one desire, need only: to keep serving, passing on this unbounded goodness endlessly.
