The Only Dance There Is by Ram Dass

Author:Ram Dass [Dass, Ram]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 978-0-307-77872-7
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-02-09T05:00:00+00:00

OPTIMUM BEING

The job finally is not just to keep moving it up but to move it up until you are free of each one, including the last one, so that you are at all of them, all the time. You are the optimum being at every level. That must seem to be what it’s about. I can’t walk out on the illusion, if you’re stuck in the illusion, since you are part of me. So if you’re stuck, I’m stuck. So, where can I go? I can’t go out and finish my own trip at your expense, since who ends up being caught in that but us. And I’m part of us. I’ve already seen that in the fourth chakra, you see. A person can’t really go on his own trip all by himself and forget it.

Now there are some beings whose work at these different planes is reasonably finished—this has something to do with karma—and therefore they are at the point where they end up in the seventh chakra. There are some sadhus in India, for example, who go into the seventh chakra and don’t come back—not because they are stuck, but because their work is done, in that sense. They have divested all of their gross body and subtle personality; they have divested any energy from it. The rule of the game under these conditions is that after twenty-one days their body falls apart, because there is no motivating principle or thought, of which it is a manifestation, maintaining it any longer. As long as you want to have hallucinations, you’ve got to have somebody thinking the hallucination. When there’s nobody around thinking it, the hallucination falls away, including the body, at that point. That only happens under a few conditions.

Now we have interesting models in history to work with because we have not only a Buddha, who goes all the way through and ends in the seventh plane, which is the Buddha state, and then comes back into the world and plays out the role form that he is as a Bodhisattva, meaning he stays on this plane at the same time that he is finished with all planes. We have also the model of a Christ, whom I can comfortably deal with as a being who doesn’t come up through the ranks, so to speak, but is a direct manifestation of mind into matter, in order to play out a certain part. Now this is a different kind of storyline for us to work with, because it is as if a sixth or seventh chakra being takes a gross body manifestation for a certain function in the total drama of Man’s coming out of the illusion. See, he’s playing his part in it in that way, because there is rhyme and reason and law and order at each of these planes of existence. There are beings that are existing at these planes of existence, because only at the planes below the fourth chakra do you need to maintain a body.

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