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Recieved: 2000/11/10 07:34
Subject: RE: [K-list] Enlightenment/The Distance between Sudden and Grad
From: Harsha
On 2000/11/10 07:34, Harsha posted thus to the K-list:
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From: Wim Borsboom [mailto:aurasphereATnospamhome.com]
Dear Harsha,
You wrote (to Harsha Satsangh):
> Some say that Enlightenment is "sudden", as if struck by lightening, and
one
> is never the same. Some say that Realization takes place "gradually" and
> just as the clouds evaporate and dissipate with the wind and the rain, Sun
> eventually shines brightly. Both views are meaningful and may be helpful.
I found that for me the two, enlightenment and realization, came one after
the other... first enlightenment then realization. Just wait, I will
explain.
I had to discover that enlightenment is not the same as realization. The
western imprecise use of the word realization indicates something 'mental',
as in, "O, I realize that." but the original meaning of the word realization
is 'to make something real', realize it, make it tangible, factual, actual
in action and function, living love, light and truth second by second.
Whereas enlightenment flips the switch, realization is the shining through
process.
I am looking for a better metaphor....???? Hmmm?! OK!.
It is like irrigating an area of land, you open the water-gate once, it only
takes a second ...(Enlightenment !), but then the water has to cover the
land to be irrigated slowly. It has to reach each and every plant with just
the right amount of water, not the full blast, lest the tender plants get
flushed away. Each plant has to be given what it can handle, gradually, a
bit more every time over time (Realization). With irrigation one may open
the water-gate once a week, the plants though experience that they get
watered more or less continuously.
When I got struck: "Aha, Eureka, Big Laughter". I knew that THIS was IT, I
was over the hump, I had it made. But boy-o-boy did I get messed up, too
much light at once. I was even rushing into it. It was like I flew into an
halogen lamp. (Dutch: "Liep ik even tegen de lamp"). I did not 'realize'
that I had to realize that light.... make it real. Oh, I got IT straight,
and all of it, the full blast... the full Light of Truth, Knowledge and
Love. But that Knowledge did not become Power (Don Juan). The Light did not
become Matter. That is the law on earth we have to turn light into matter,
we have to materialize it, manifest it, realize light in time and space.
(Now, when you read that last part carefully there is an AHA in it.)
Love, Wim
Give me all
but not all at once.
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Hi Wim. You have a way with words. "Give me all but not all at once"! That
is funny and could apply to a lot of things of consumption. The irrigation
metaphor is great. I think you would like Aurbindo's writings. He also talks
about bringing the light down. I liked what Amanda said below in response to
you.
Love to all
Harsha
Amanda: The irrigation image is a good one, indicates the freshness and
waking
upness and being nourished-ness of the process.
But it is also one of pure undressing, stripping away the layers of
that which is not true and which hinders true expression of being. In
my eyes, it feels something like being a satellite ? :) falling
through the atmosphere and slowly burning up, and becoming one with the
atmosphere, the rest having been sublimated away. The Mind thinking
itself into existence again, having seen what it is.
Love,
Amanda.
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