You Cannot Become Happy–You Can Only Be Happy

From Chapter 23

Conditional human Existence Is Not Merely a thing To Be Preserved, but A Process To Be Fully Understood and Fulfilled. The conditional Cosmos As A Whole Is Not A Fixed System Of Order (The Goal Of "God"), but An Open-Ended Theatre Of Sacrifice In Real God. Life Is Made Of A Little Temporary Order, A Constant Tendency Toward Change, and An Ultimate and Absolute Demand For Sacrifice. Therefore, All Of This Is A Dynamic Play Of Order, Change, and Sacrifice, For The Sake Of Growth and ego-Transcendence, and Not For The Sake Of conditional Existence In and Of Itself.

The Unconditional Reality Is Modified (but Only Apparently) As The conditional Reality. This Must Be Realized. Until This Truth Is Realized, all conditional experience Is A School With A Single Lesson. This Is The Lesson (The Lesson Of Life): "I" Cannot Become Happy. "I" Can Only Be Happy.

The self-Contracted being (or conditional "I") Seeks Happiness conditionally, By Pursuing and Depending On conditions, objects, and others. This Is An Error, and The Fault Is Profound.

Happiness Is Not A Characteristic Of conditional Reality Itself, but Happiness Is An Inherent Characteristic Of The Unconditional (or Divine) Reality. And The conditional Reality Is Always A Modification Of The Unconditional Reality. Therefore, The Realization Of Happiness Is Possible In any moment, If conditional Existence Is Released Into Full Participation In Me–The Avatarically Self-Revealed Prior (or Unconditional, Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, Inherently egoless, and Self-Evidently Divine) Person and Self-Condition (Which Is Always Already The Case).

Happiness Is Inherent In The Unconditional (or Always Already) Condition Of Reality–and, Therefore, It Must Be Inherently (and Most Perfectly, and Not Merely conditionally) Realized. The Only-By-Me Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart (or Way Of Adidam) Is The Way Of Inherent Happiness. The True Demonstration Of The Only-By-Me Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart Is, In the conditional worlds, Associated With all kinds of conditions, objects, and others–but Search and Dependency Relative To conditions, objects, and others Is (By Means Of My Avatarically Self-Transmitted Divine Grace) To Be Constantly Transcended, Via Responsively ego-Surrendering, ego-Forgetting, and ego-Transcending Devotional Communion With Me (and, Thus, By Means Of The Always Present, and Always Grace-Given, Realization Of Inherent Happiness, or My Divine Love-Bliss-Happiness) Under all conditions and In all relations.

I Do Not Call My . . . Devotee To Become Happy By Strategically Separating body, emotion, or attention From conditions, objects, and others. I Do Not Say: Be Unmoved Under all conditions and In all relations. I Call My Listening Devotee (and My Hearing Devotee, and My Seeing Devotee) To Observe and Understand the conditional self Under all conditions and In all relations. And I Call My . . . Devotee . . . To Transcend self-Contraction Under all conditions and In all relations. Therefore, I Call My ego-Transcending . . . Devotee To Be Happy (By Responsively Relinquishing Un-Happiness Itself, Which Is Only self-Contraction itself) Under all conditions and In all relations–and Always By Means Of ego-Transcending Devotional Communion With Me. And Me-Realizing Happiness (Itself) Inherently (and, Ultimately, Inherently Perfectly) Transcends all conditions and all conditional relations.