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“Atonement is only a thought away,
if you will let it be the last one.”
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A Conversation with Raj
on March 27th, 2020
Paul: What needs to be known? What am I not getting?
Raj: What you are not getting is that thinking, no matter how familiar you are with it, is the static, the interference, which is responsible for the creation and presence of the Holy Spirit. And I am going to tell you something else: The Fall, the creation of the Holy Spirit, and Its presence are happening, for lack of better words, in the “unholy instant”! The unholy instant is the misuse of the holy instant, and the holy instant is now! This instant! This instant! THIS instant!
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(Continuing)
This means that “the human condition,” one’s “mortality,” the “fallen state,” is only ever an instant old! You may seem to have lived lifetimes in the illusion of mortality, but it is a memory only an instant old. What does this mean? It means that the thoughts, feelings, and “perceptions” of it being an ancient habit are brand new — of only an instant’s duration! And it is your commitment to that perception which distracts you from what can only be an instant-aneous healing — a correction of a present instant of misperception.
Listening is that correction. It is the interruption of thinking. And the interruption happens instantly! It is not complicated or difficult. It’s just that it makes something unbelievably complicated — the reversal of the Fall and the undoing of everything that followed — unbelievably simple, without any sense of an actual ancient history to complicate it.
One doesn’t usually believe the unbelievable, and so one never shifts from thinking to Listening with any sense of an inevitable transformation called Atonement happening NOW, even though that sense would naturally bring an accompanying commitment to Listening.
This is how I raised Lazarus.
The “commanding history” overruling any possible alternative to “death,” was that he had been dead for four days, and his body “stinketh.” But the fact is that this “historical” and “physical” evidence of death were perceptions no more than an instant old, held to tenaciously by his family and friends.
You must understand that it wasn’t Lazarus who was raised from the dead. It was the tenacious belief of “death, with a stinking history,” held in the minds of everyone around him, which had to be interrupted! I interrupted it by not abandoning my union with God and indulging in thinking. Instead, I said to Martha, his sister, “Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?” I interrupted her conviction!
And then, once the stone was removed, did I take a deep breath to smell the air, or go in to check out what the potential was for a miracle? No! I looked up — I interrupted the prevailing thoughts of those around me, by redirecting their attention — and said, “Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.” It was their perceptions which needed to be raised from their “dead.”
I called Lazarus to come out, still bound in the graveclothes of everyone’s difficulty to believe the unbelievable . . . and told everyone what they needed to do: “Loose him and let him go!” Release him from your still current false convictions . . . which are really only an instant old.
And they did!
You are never doing anything in time and space, but always in the instant — holy or unholy, depending upon how you are using or misusing it. And the solution to every problem lies in its proper use — letting God move upon it, instead of you filling it with your thoughts.
Persist in doing the only thing which interrupts thinking . . . Listen! Be actively joined in attentive communion with me, the Holy Spirit, and the Father.
There is a reason the Course says, “your attention is God’s treasure.”
Rajpur
Kingston, Washington
March 27th, 2020
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Thank you for reminding us of who we are and our oneness with our Creator.
Thank you Sabu. Once again I am filled with gratitude for your sharing. To me it feels like it is God, our most loving Father, who is bringing up the questions, Who is highlighting what the need to Know is, through you and through whoever shares from the heart. It is, to me, like Father giving words to my own need to know. The love and gratitude I feel is such that it opens me up and I can finally hear ( most of) the answer in me.
Thank you Father, Brother
Thank you Barbara. Yes, the answer must be in somewhere in myself, too.
The way I feel so heard by the Universe through your sharing brings home to me how actual it is that we are not separate and that the answers we seek often come through another. I. am finding that to be true more often. I had some questions, need to know which I felt encouraged to share about on Tgp at a brother’s invitation and his sharing about his own need. In the involvement there, and here with you too, I feel the Answers unfolding in my understanding. I’m looking forward to our continued sharing.
glorious ideas and words here!
Thank you for those observations….do we keep in mind that all who die choose?
Maybe no one would choose that if they were in their right mind? And so the one in the Right mind Would prevail and leaves that option available to the one who had hereto not believed?
Thank you for your sharing, Fran. I am finding that it is in the togetherness with others that my listening and hearing are hightened.
Thank you so much for the Truth and the phrase “Let God move upon it.” 💚
Wonderful!
At first, I struggled to understand the first sentence.
What an interesting take on who needed to be raised from the dead. But surely Lazarus played a part in the dynamic if the illusion of death is not or never caused by God. So he too was raised, although I guess, in his experience, life continued. You (Raj) have said before that Lazarus could have said ‘no.’ And so he came back, and then went again. Just as we do, I guess, in an instant perceived as time. Or, now we see him, now we don’t, so to speak.
I’ve always had a burning question, for many years: You have said that ‘when someone dies, what we bury or cremate is the after image we have of them in our eyes.’ But if what we are looking at is Reality seen clearly or through a glass darkly, what is actually present in the very “space” where a decomposing body seems to be and the person who has died has long gone? I get that the answer may not have anything to do with time and space, or the concrete mind just can’t grasp it.
You have often said that the statement, ‘when someone dies, what we bury or cremate is the after image we have of them in our eyes,’ is an oversimplification. I would love for you to unpack it for us. For me.
My mother passed almost 2 months ago. For me it was as profound as it was painful on many levels.
Now we have a global pandemic with deaths in their thousands; and the Course says ‘no one can die unless they choose to do so.’ I now not only have compassion for the loss but for the illusion of it too.
We can never be reminded enough, that listening is the interruption we need from thinking.
Thanks, Raj.