We can call the contact between Master and disciple as the “Real Relationship.” I mean the direct activity of the Master with a suitable response from the disciple. You can try to cheat on this, but you won’t have great results. Self-realization is unique and irreversible. One of its implications is that you cannot make it happen and you cannot do it on your way.
You can be self-taught, can learn many things in life almost alone, based on other’s experiences and without a direct teacher – but when we talk about Self-realization, we are dealing with Something entirely different, not to be learned through experience, that is, impossible to be learned from others. This is like being born: you don't learn how to be born from others; you are just born! Either you are born or you are not! In order to be born, you won’t learn this experience from others. So, in the Divine Realm, in the Grace’s Realm, there is no way to learn how to do it.
Here in Brazil, there is an ongoing saying “the Brazilian way,” which means always finding a way around all problems or issues. However, Brazilians cannot find a way around Enlightenment. There is no “Brazilian way” to this. So, there is no way for you to cheat on This, to break the rules, because Realization is not like a small secret window you discover and pass through, while others remain on the other side. In politics and in several other areas, you see a lot of this, these potential “ways” to reveal a window that you can go through to get a head start, and therefore reaching what others won’t be able to.
God's realization belongs to God, it is an event of the Grace, so there is no place for contravention here; you cannot break the law. In God’s Realm there are no policemen, judges, prosecutors nor lawyers. They are not necessary, since no one can break this law and receive sanctions. God's Realization belongs to the Grace. Since in God’s Realm everything happens according to the Divine Grace, you don’t know what is happening, there is no "someone" to drive or to control anything.
Now, going a bit deeper into this matter of Self-realization, another reason why you cannot learn That from others concerns your ever-present Nature. What You Are is not learnable, but rather recognizable.
The question here is: "How can I realize That, since it is not possible to learn from someone?" When you go sleep, you set an alarm clock to wake you up at the time you need. The alarm clock is a mechanism to support you, to help you, but that mechanism cannot get you out of sleep. It makes a specific noise, helping you to leave the sleeping state – but the alarm clock does not get you out of the sleeping state; you are the one who does it indeed! If this alarm clock is ringing and you are in deep coma, you won’t get out of this sleeping state. Even if you have your bed surrounded by several alarm clocks making different noises, you won’t leave the sleeping state.
So, here we get into this matter of the “master-disciple” relationship. You can choose not to have a master or you can choose your master, but you are in a "coma," your "sleep" is deep, and this movement of choosing happens within the “sleeping state”. So, in the “sleeping state” you choose not to have a guru or you choose the most beautiful one, preferably that one living in your country or that pleases you, but since you are the one making the choice, it won’t work. All this will work as an alarm clock for the coma state – it will not work! That is, this cannot be your choice!
You can be self-taught, can learn many things in life almost alone, based on other’s experiences and without a direct teacher – but when we talk about Self-realization, we are dealing with Something entirely different, not to be learned through experience, that is, impossible to be learned from others. This is like being born: you don't learn how to be born from others; you are just born! Either you are born or you are not! In order to be born, you won’t learn this experience from others. So, in the Divine Realm, in the Grace’s Realm, there is no way to learn how to do it.
Here in Brazil, there is an ongoing saying “the Brazilian way,” which means always finding a way around all problems or issues. However, Brazilians cannot find a way around Enlightenment. There is no “Brazilian way” to this. So, there is no way for you to cheat on This, to break the rules, because Realization is not like a small secret window you discover and pass through, while others remain on the other side. In politics and in several other areas, you see a lot of this, these potential “ways” to reveal a window that you can go through to get a head start, and therefore reaching what others won’t be able to.
God's realization belongs to God, it is an event of the Grace, so there is no place for contravention here; you cannot break the law. In God’s Realm there are no policemen, judges, prosecutors nor lawyers. They are not necessary, since no one can break this law and receive sanctions. God's Realization belongs to the Grace. Since in God’s Realm everything happens according to the Divine Grace, you don’t know what is happening, there is no "someone" to drive or to control anything.
Now, going a bit deeper into this matter of Self-realization, another reason why you cannot learn That from others concerns your ever-present Nature. What You Are is not learnable, but rather recognizable.
The question here is: "How can I realize That, since it is not possible to learn from someone?" When you go sleep, you set an alarm clock to wake you up at the time you need. The alarm clock is a mechanism to support you, to help you, but that mechanism cannot get you out of sleep. It makes a specific noise, helping you to leave the sleeping state – but the alarm clock does not get you out of the sleeping state; you are the one who does it indeed! If this alarm clock is ringing and you are in deep coma, you won’t get out of this sleeping state. Even if you have your bed surrounded by several alarm clocks making different noises, you won’t leave the sleeping state.
So, here we get into this matter of the “master-disciple” relationship. You can choose not to have a master or you can choose your master, but you are in a "coma," your "sleep" is deep, and this movement of choosing happens within the “sleeping state”. So, in the “sleeping state” you choose not to have a guru or you choose the most beautiful one, preferably that one living in your country or that pleases you, but since you are the one making the choice, it won’t work. All this will work as an alarm clock for the coma state – it will not work! That is, this cannot be your choice!
*Online meeting transcription originally held on September 12, 2020 – First published in Portuguese on October 15, 2020. For further information about our meetings, please
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