The Conditional Self Is a Presumption

From Chapter 25

If There Is Natural Identification (Of Consciousness Itself) With . . . the present conditionally Manifested body (Whether low Or high In The Cosmic Pattern), Then Contraction Toward The Illusions Of Separate (or Non-Dependent) body, Separate (or Non-Dependent) mind, and Separate (or Non-Dependent) self Is Inevitable. Indeed, Natural Identification (Of Consciousness Itself) With the conditionally Manifested (and Even gross) body Is The Very First Form Of self-Contraction. That Identification (Rather Than any biological or physical event itself) Is Your birth as an ego. Your birth as an ego (or a Separate conditional "I") Is An Event In Consciousness. It Is The Paradoxical Presumption, In Consciousness, That Consciousness Itself (Which Is Unconditional, or Transcendental) Is Reduced To (or Bound By) a conditional form, state, and circumstance.

Once the Naturally Threatened (or mortal) born-condition Is Accepted (or Assumed) In Consciousness, the body-mind Contracts Upon itself (Thus Recoiling From all its Natural relations)–and the physical and the psychic (or mental) Become Two. In that "birth event", the ego-"I" is born.

That egoic birth May Not Occur Inside the womb, or Even the instant breathing Begins, Outside the womb. (In My Own Case, the born-condition Was Not Accepted, or Assumed, As a self-Defining limit Until My Bodily Human Form, Outside the womb, Was Approximately Two Years Of Age.) Whenever ego-birth Occurs, Consciousness (From that instant) Identifies With the Total (and Even Reincarnating, or conditionally self-Perpetuating) past and future of the personal body-mind (or conditional self)–Including the present body's Rudimentary pleasures and shocks in the womb, As Well As its physical death, and the conditional destiny that Must (or Will Tend To) follow its physical death. Only ego-Transcending Divine Enlightenment (or Inherently, and Inherently Most Perfectly, or Un-conditionally, ego-Transcending Real-God-Realization) and (At Last) Divine Translation Crack The Illusion Of conditional self-Existence and Spontaneously Terminate The Terrible and Fascinating egoic (or conditionally self-Made) Ordeal Of Cosmic Wandering.

The conditional self Is Not (itself) an entity–Like a thing, or Like the body (in and of itself). The conditional self Is A Presumption. The conditional self Is a concept (or An Illusion In the Presumed Independent, or Separate, mind). The conditional self-concept Is Simply A Reflection (or An Analytical Abstraction) Of the Conscious born-condition, the Conscious birth event, The psycho-physical Contraction That Occurs When Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, Inherently egoless, and Self-Evidently Divine Consciousness Assumes (or, Rather, Apparently Assumes) That It Is Identical To a limited and Threatened condition. . . .

Nevertheless, egoity Can (By My Avatarically Self-Transmitted Divine Spiritual Grace) Be Observed, Understood, and Transcended. Indeed, If it Is Not Observed, Understood, and Transcended, conditional Existence Is (Itself) Suffering (If Only An Illusion Of Suffering, or An Imaginary Disease). . . .

The Way Of The Heart Is The By-My-Avataric-Divine-Spiritual-Grace-Given (and By-My-Avataric-Divine-Spiritual-Grace-Proceeding) Process Of Such self-Observation, self-Understanding, and self-Transcendence (or Real ego-Transcendence)–In The Context Of The Always Primary Practice Of Searchlessly Beholding Me. Therefore, My Teaching-Argument Relative To "Radical" Understanding–or Most Direct and (Most Ultimately) Inherent (and Inherently Most Perfect) Transcending Of the self-Contraction–Is Most Basic To My Word Of Instruction. And The (Necessarily, Devotional) Course (or Process) Of self-Observation, self-Understanding, and self-Transcendence (or Real ego-Transcendence) Is Most Basic (and Indispensably Necessary) To The Practice Of The Only-By-Me Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart (or Way Of Adidam).