WHAt ARE we
SUPPOSED TO LEARN?
So what’s your subject? Life. That’s your subject. The subject you’re studying is your life, how to be happier, more knowledgeable, more balanced, more free. And that knowledge, that awareness will be held within you, within the causal structure that will stay with us from lifetime to lifetime. Available to you in the next life, ready to be used and built upon. Maybe not right away, but if you meditate, this knowledge will come back. If in this lifetime you don’t meet the challenge and you don’t learn anything new – in other words, you just sort of veg out, that’s fine, too, you’ll get another shot at it the next time around. You will just start the same grade again.
However, if you’ve learned, that learning will stay with you and it was all worthwhile. “There is no such thing as a wasted life if you’ve learned” Rama maintained. Even if you find yourself in very difficult or painful circumstances, if you can pull your power together, meditate deeply, look on the bright side and learn something from it, then you’ll have gained from that life.
“There is a definite way to store and amass power, to re-awaken past life power, to continue your journey.” Rama Dr. Frederick Lenz
Not every soul will reach enlightenment. Although, since we are all one, we are all enlightened, enlightenment exists within all souls and all things. Some souls, however, reach a plateau, a certain peak and they stay there. And it’s fine, too. “Souls have different journeys.” Self discovery is essentially about finding your own dharma, your own rhythm – knowing that and pursuing it. If, however, you are one of those that seek enlightenment, what you need to know is that there is a definite way to progress; “there is a definite way to store and amass power, to re-awaken past life power, to continue your journey.”
If you meditate, lead a clean life, and if in spite of the egotism, vanity and jealousy and all the weird thoughts that pass through your mind and personality; if in spite of these things you continue to be bright and positive and hopeful and to continually, no matter how many times you wander away from it, follow the pathway to enlightenment, then you will learn a great deal. You will amass more knowledge, and you will move to a higher incarnation. That is to say, in your next lifetime, you’ll be much wiser than you were in this one, much happier, and you won’t have to go through as much suffering. Or if you do go through suffering, you will be able to use it to advance yourself even further.
“Happiness is something that you don’t postpone.”
Rama Dr. Frederick Lenz
Having a timeliness of life is paramount. If you feel that “Yes, I will be in another incarnation.” and “Yes, it does matter what I do in this incarnation.” then you have the right attitude. However, when you feel under a lot of pressure to do everything perfectly, so as to not have a horrible incarnation the next time around, that’s taking things to the extreme. “Happiness is something that you don’t postpone.” If you do, you’ll probably never experience much of it. If life is unpleasant for you because you’re spending all your time and energy on the salvation of others, you’re not really creating any good karma. And that means your next life will be about as good as this one. No better