I love this kind of thinking. It makes total sense.
It's sorta my experience. It's what has drawn me
into this pursuit of enlightenment. But there seem
to be many cases where seemingly awakened
people -- famous masters and participants in this
forum -- don't behave as Dr. Deepak describes below.
If I'm drawing the wrong conclusion, please,
someone who's realized the truth of what
Chopra describes, correct me.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The experience of the Self, or self-referral, means that our internal
reference point is
our own spirit, and not the object of our experience. The opposite of
self-referral is
object-referral. In object-referral we are always influenced by objects
outside the Self,
which include situations, circumstances, people, and things. In
object-referral we are
constantly seeking the approval of others. Our thinking and our behavior are
always in
anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
In object-referral we also feel an intense need to control things. We feel
an intense
need for external power. The need for approval, the need to control things,
and the need
for external power are needs that are based on fear. This kind of power is not
the power
of pure potentiality, or the power of the Self, or /real/ power. When we
experience the
power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to
control, and no
struggle for approval or external power.
In object-referral, your internal reference point is your ego. The ego,
however, is not
who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is
the role you
are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants to control, and
it is sustained
by power, because it lives in fear.
Your true Self, which is your spirit, your soul, is completely free of those
things. It is
immune to criticism, it is unfearful of any challenge, and it feels beneath no
one. And yet,
it is also humble and feels superior to no one, because it recognizes that
everyone else is
the same Self, the same spirit in different disguises.
That's the essential difference between object-referral and self-referral. In
self-referral,
you experience your true being, which is unfearful of any change, has respect
for all
people, and feels beneath no one. Self-power is therefore true power.
Power based on object-referral, however, is false power. Being ego-based
power, it
lasts only as long as the object of reference is there. If you have a certain
title -- if you're
the president of the country or the chairman of a corporation -- or if you have
a lot of
money, the power you enjoy goes with the title, with the job, with the money.
Ego-based
power will only last as long as those things last. As soon as the title, the
job, the money
go way, so does the power.
Self-power, on the other hand, is permanent, because it is based on the
knowledge of
the Self. And there are certain characteristics of self-power. It draws
people to you, and it
also draws things that you want to you. It magnetizes people, situations, and
circumstances to support your desires. This is also called support from the
laws of nature.
It is the support of divinity; it is the support that comes from being in the
state of grace.
Your power is such that you enjoy a bond with people, and people enjoy a bond
with you.
Your power is that of bonding -- a boding that comes from true love.
--Deepak Chropa, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
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