An ancient
text says: "Mankind does not know. Only the Horse knows."
Therefore, you must grasp the tail of the Horse, the God-Realizer.
. . . The Horse takes you — I
take you — Where there is to go.
The
highest human potential is
God-Realization,
the complete awakening from this "dream" of limited
existence —
to awaken as the
One in Whose Consciousness the dream is arising. And the way
to perfect Realization of God is through a moment-to-moment
process of communing with God, by feeling God and self, and
feeling beyond self to God.
But how does
one find and feel God
for real?
All the wisdom traditions of humankind point to a single answer:
we locate God through the Transmission of a Spiritual Master.
So the "how" of Realizing God actually has a simple answer: find
a genuine Spiritual Master and become a devotee of His or Her
Spiritual Transmission. To Realize God most perfectly
—
to
awaken completely from the dream of limited existence, rather
than moving to a somewhat better "realm" within the
dream
—
requires
linking up with the Transmission of a
Divinely Realized Spiritual
Master.
The
Need For a Spiritual Teacher and Teaching—There are so many ways to misinterpret what we are experiencing,
and to get stuck at some point, and fail to grow further for
lack of an accurate and complete roadmap.
"There
but for the Grace of God go I": The Need for a Spiritual
Transmission Master to liberate man the machine
—
Are we machines? If not
altogether mechanical, to what degree are we "machine", and
to what degree, "free being"? Many wisdom traditions suggest
that increasing spiritual maturity
is what moves us along the spectrum from the "machine" end toward
the "free being" end. But how does one mature spiritually? Grace
—
tangible help from the Spiritual Reality —
is what makes the difference.The genuine process
of Spiritual practice has been so carefully guarded by the esoteric
circles in which it was practiced, that few people are aware
nowadays that the primary function of the Spiritual Master is
not to "rap out" a Teaching or philosophy, but to Transmit Grace,
to Transmit the Revelation of the Divine, to literally communicate
the Nature of Reality via the vessel of their own body-mind.