Right Words
Speaking at a meditation retreat in Lamorna, Cornwall, 14 June 1981.
There is only one Spirit, one Universal Man. When I say Man - capital M - I mean woman too.
Q. So why don’t you refer to a Universal Woman?
In the truth, when I speak of the individual there is no man and no woman. Take Christ: Do you assume that Christ is only a man? That the living love of loving kindness is only man? The One Man is just like the Christ. In what I am talking about Man is above this man or that woman. Both men and women have the character of Man. I use the term to distinguish what we call ‘mankind’.
Q. Why not use 'woman’?
I am free to use any word that Is right to communicate the truth to my fellow man in the clearest possible way, and that is Man, or mankind.
Q. Is it that women see the same truth through a different lens? To me the truth that women see has a great deal of truth in it.
I understand your objection. But there is no 'men and women’ in this truth I am speaking of. I am talking beyond men and women. There is only one Spirit, one Man. But I could tell you about my love for woman and you would know that it is great and wondrous and my admiration for her is limitless. I love her beyond all loving. I admire her for herself - not for what she thinks she is - for I know what she is. I love woman; and what you love you understand. I understand woman. I truly love woman, because I live with a real woman. I have died inside of me for the bhagavati. So I understand woman as God. I have realised her as God.
I have nothing to prove. I am here to demonstrate the reality within you. And to grow in love and for us to make each other real; to see the truth in our fellowman without preconceptions, without filters, without conditioning, without past. I have no past in me. I am the timeless. This is why I can demand of you that you give up your filters to me.
My fellow man is timeless but he doesn’t believe it. You are the timeless. Do you see how the filters of time twist and distort everything? The filters have to be dissolved in time. The question is: How to do it?
Start with what is closest to you, and that is the person you love. Acknowledge love when you see it in the other. Love will grow by acknowledgment and familiarity will dissolve. Acknowledge Man’s reality, the characteristic of rightness, in the people around you. This is how to break the filters down. Your life will start to become more real, more meaningful. Individually, you are timeless. Man is timeless. That is your character.
Now, you have to keep yourself wide open to hear this: The words I use are not just terminology. They are right words. The highest realisation on this earth is the realisation of the blessed Earth Spirit. When I realised it, I was aware that it is Man - my fellow man. This realisation can only be granted by the love of your fellow man.
Push back the filters and preconceptions. Just ask: Am I hearing the truth? The ring of truth? Whether I mention woman or not. Whether I use the term Self or not. Man is the highest term. Self is not. Self means all the problems I endeavour to get you to give up. It can easily be confused with the so-called Higher Self. It is all self. But behind the self is what I am, Man, the blessed Earth Spirit.
I am a teacher in words. I never stop talking. That is the nature of the teaching that comes through me. I am the truth. I do not equivocate. I am responsible for my life. I am an ordinary man who can ask you to pass me a cup of tea and you will know what I mean. And if you ask me for the truth I will pass it to you for I am infinite in my ability to communicate the truth. You are as powerful in the truth as I am. But you don’t know it. If we could say what I am saying, there would be no filters between anyone and we would all be free.
Love and Death