Writing in 2024

We are all a Sacrifice in God whether we like it or not

Sri Yanchiji
2024

One aspect or outcome of the human Sacrifice in Love, the Love for Love’s sake sacrifice (the sacrifice of our own resistance to Life) is when You have made it possible, through no effort or sense of self-denial on Your part, for the other to  speak/express, in their way more honestly as they are at that time of their life.

We are all a Sacrifice in God whether we like it or not.

We are already and always in the Body of God, or the Body of Life, whether we are aware of this or not.  All Bodies are the Beloved Love in God the Real.

And, being so, we become True Lovers with each other and all Creation when we, with the Grace of Love, Whole Heartedly rise to the Highest Moral Law of Life that all other creatures fulfill. And, that is, to Live with the Dignity and Strength that arises in our own form when we Live the human Sacrifice in Love.

What is the human Sacrifice in Love?  It is not merely to become a sacrificial lamb to the will and wants and demands of others. It is not the commonly understood sacrifice, the socially or even religiously indoctrinated way of sacrifice. It is the Sacrifice in Love; the already Life Ordained Sacrifice in Life. Well, we must be In Love, In Life, not out of It merely talking about It. Love must be the form of our disposition already.  Love for Love’s sake, for Life’s sake, must already be the motive of our own human life. We must, first of all, acknowledge and Gracefully accept the Circumstance we are in – the Great Sacrificial Way of Life that our Bodies were made to fulfill. Our Bodies are always In It. Our minds are out of IT.

When we truly begin to submit our reactive resistance to Life, our vital shock, then we can better consider and understand, and be the Heart that is the Great Wound of Love in all our forms of inter-relatedness – be they socializing or formal or one to one relationship.  When we humans gather together in the Whole Bodily Realisation of what we are already In, when we bring That vibration of Love to each other, be it for any socially contrived reason, or in the purpose of community, or one to one, then, there is literally what can be described as a higher or less dense vibration between us.  It can permeate the room, the space between us.  Just so, the converse of this is also true, a more dense vibrational energy permeates the space and each other when we interact outside the Heart It-Self, when we are not already, before any interaction or discussion about anything at all, understanding and relating to our Self as Life’s Own Great Love Sacrifice for the sake of Love –  If we are assuming and acting and talking with a sense of our Self not already Being in Life, not already and always presently in Life, in Love, then we starve our Self and others of the True Food that continually Restores us, Nourishes us, Inspires us (Inspired; which is the same as the feeling of being Restored)

One aspect or outcome of the human Sacrifice in Love, the Love for Love’s sake sacrifice (the sacrifice of our own resistance to Life) is when You have made it possible, through no effort or sense of self-denial on Your part, for the other to  speak/express, in their way more honestly as they are at that time of their life.

I do not represent nor profess to give you any conclusive answers to your unique human form or to tell you what you should be doing or how you should be and so on.  When anyone teaches that way, or speaks to another in that way, that is the evidence of self-conceit.  And the first step to living Wisely is to give up self-conceit. I simply offer You the Way to Understand Your Self in Spirit rather than judging Your Self relative to social and/or cultural norms.

To Understand Your Self in Spirit, as Spirit, is to behold the world and Your Self and others fresh, without prior knowing, without any categorization. From the point of view of the Heart or Spirit is to see anew through the eyes of the Soul.  See again, to hear again, without forcing current experiences into previously formed categories. “Oh yes, this person, this thing is just like so and so and such and such…oh yes, I know”

To see and listen to another, not on Your conditional terms, but again, through the eyes and ears of the Soul. To know that You do not know, and to be willing to admit that You do not know, without false humility, without sheepishly apologizing, is real strength and opens the way for learning and growing in any endeavor.

“The wisest among us appreciate the natural limits of our knowledge and have the mettle to preserve their naivete.” ( Epictetus)

We, in the ignorance of our Great Heart Self, tend to seek for conclusive once and for all knowledge answers. We tend to approach those we call Spiritual Masters with the idea and attitude they will give us, or are giving us, once and for all conclusive answers, and if they don’t, many resort to blaming that One. We tend to obsessively put others and ourselves into a tight once and for all box – into one or other social or cultural or emotional/ psychological label.

We are taught by external forces how to see our-selves, how to relate to our- selves but never to Truly Love the Very Heart-Self we are.

There is no such thing as a once and for all conclusive You, or knowledge.

The wise do not confuse information or data or labels or categories, or themselves, no matter however prodigiously or cleverly deployed , with “once and for all” comprehensive conclusive knowledge or transcendent Wisdom.

Once You realise how little we know, You are not so easily duped by fast talkers and demagoguery. Rather, the Wound of Love, the Open Heart motivates a Spirited Curiosity that IS the emblem of the flourishing Life.

Otherwise, we fall into self-conceit, and self-conceit is the smug vanity of thinking one knows better than the other, that one is in possession of that much sought after illusive once and for all answer and yet, all the time feeling threatened by self-doubt and the need to “keep on top of things”.

Conceit is an iron gate that admits no new knowledge, no expansive possibilities nor creative ideas. In fact, and in truth, indulging in excessive pride in one’s own knowledge, abilities, or experience and attempting to force that on others, to use it as proof of one’s Self is self-conceits insecurity at work.  Ah, to garner authority more than Your due, is fatal.

You keep running around in the same familiar circles: You get caught in the same sticky webs. Nothing novel or festive ever happens. In which case, one’s bodily disposition and life does not have the quality of Homage, Gratitude, Wonder, Awe, Curiosity, Humor, Giving. Oh, we do have these Life Gifts in us but they tend to remain dormant while we assume not to be already in Life, in Love, in God. In which case we over exercise our vital shock, our resistance to Life and each other. And that’s a pity because we have a Great Circumstance here in our midst in which to let go and truly Celebrate with the Joy of Gratitude, our Self and each other in Life.

Know well that important knowledge and guidance for the Life of You dwell in unexpected places. Know well, the flourishing Life is not achieved by techniques, nor is it achieved by the pilfering and misappropriation of the words uttered by those who have, for may years, submitted to the Wound of Love –  the Heart It Self as the Self –  as the means of their Life. You cannot talk Your Self into a Life well Lived.

You can only Live Your Self into a Life well Lived.

I could describe my self in simple terms of Life. That is, I look for and try to uncover, both in myself and others, the Life Creative Urge and Activity in each and all human beings. I look for it, try to listen for it, in the moments of their happy and in the moments of their suffering, in the moments of love, in the moments of their feelings of loss and despair, rather than trying to push something else into them.  After all, we can all, You and I, so easily, little by little, bury our Radiant Soul, our Great Heart Self, beneath the fall-out of the physical and psychic flotsam and detritus that sticks to us when we give far too much attention and importance to the pursuit of this societies nauseatingly pretentious idea of success –  meaning we must show we are “on top of it” and ‘got it together” and “face-book satisfactorily popular”

Alas, all too often we are either implicitly or explicitly trying to give that impression, thus only spreading the dis-ease.

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Treat all with Love and Compassion.

When we engage with each other, wherein each one of us is free of any motive towards our own inter-personal hurts and goals and desires, then we can    treat all people with Love and Compassion – we can enter the conversation with the disposition, the vibration, the energy of Spirited Curiosity.  And in this way, we will be free of any prejudice or condescension. To say to anyone, I know what you are like, or you are this and that or you are young so you may not understand or you are old so you probably won’t get it, or you think you are better than me or us or who’s a beginner and who is a finisher, are all acts of righteous condescension.  It’s not so much the words I am pointing to, it is the underlying attitude, energy, disposition that is transmitted ……

And how can we even begin to talk about Love and relationship when we bend and subsume these words into the motives and purposes of our inter-personal relationships.  What flavor of energy, what color of energy, what vibration of energy/disposition permeates the motive and purpose and pursuit of the conversation and atmosphere when we get together and propose to talk about any of our bodily Life functions and/or activities.  We may very well use words from the Ribbhu Gita, the Bible, the Bhagavat Gita, the Diamond Sutra, the Torah, the Guru Gita or from Prahbu Babaji…….but in what context do we use them and for what purpose? What is our motive/purpose for using those words? In what contest were they given and in what context are they used?

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You know very well, as I do, most people “live” a very a dense kind of vibration….and when one has a sensitive body as You do (well, also myself) all the casual mixing with people of this common lower vibration has effects in us and if we do not get the chance, or take the chance, to express ourselves, our Higher Heart Self, without objections, that dense vibrational energy absorbed from others, tends to back up in us, becomes blocked, even congealed, and finally it turns in on us…..in other words…we turn it in on ourselves……we begin to feel like shit about our self.

This is why Great Company is not only important, it is needed. Otherwise we tend to think and feel we have to do it alone, that we have to somehow restore ourselves by our own means.  And this only adds  another, probably self-deprecating, onerous task, to the already burden of all the effects.  

However, the benefits of Great Company are only received when one understands and accepts and reciprocates with Great Company.

It is not an automatic given that just by hanging in with Great Company you will begin, over time, to Awaken to Your Radiant Soul Self.

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