The Lesson of Life

The Non-conditional 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 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 (or Love-Bliss) is an Inherent Characteristic of the Non-conditional (or Divine) Reality Itself. And the conditional reality is always a modification of the Non-conditional Reality.

Happiness (or Love-Bliss) Is Inherent in the Non-conditional (or Always Already) Condition of Reality — and, Therefore, It must be Inherently (and Most Perfectly, and not merely conditionally) Realized.

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 dissociatively unmoved under all conditions and in all relations.

Rather, I Call My devotee to transcend the conditional and egoic "self"-contraction under all conditions and in all relations.

I Call My devotee to turn to Me moment to moment — and, thus and thereby, to transcend "self"-contraction under all conditions and in all relations.

Therefore, I Call My ego-transcending devotee to Be Happy, by to-Me-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. Without dissociative strategy, but only by responsively devotionally turning to Me, Me-Realizing Happiness (Itself) Intrinsically (and, Ultimately, Inherently Perfectly) Transcends all conditions and all conditional relations.

Inherent Happiness (or Love-Bliss) is Realized Prior to — but not by strategically excluding — conditions, conditional "objects", and conditional relations. Inherent Happiness (or Love-Bliss) is Realized in the context of present relationship (or under present conditions), when the "self"-contraction is utterly relinquished.

And, in the only-by-Me Revealed and Given Reality-Way of Adidam, that relinquishment is not a matter of strategic ego-effort (or the search that dramatizes "self"-contraction), but it is a matter of devotionally Me-recognizing and devotionally to-Me-responding (and responsively ego-surrendering, and ego-forgetting, and effectively ego-observing, ego-understanding, and ego-transcending) participatory resort to My "Brightly" Attractive Avatarically-Born bodily (human) Divine Form.

Life, in its Ultimate Fullness, is the Ordeal of right, true, and full Real-God-Love, even the Ordeal of the heart under extreme conditions.

The price of Happiness in every moment is release of "self"-contraction (and release of the search to acquire, hold on to, or strategically escape the conditions of conditional existence). This release is possible only if there is most fundamental "self"-understanding.

And that most fundamental "self"-understanding may be Fulfilled, Most Ultimately and Most Perfectly, only by Me-Distracted devotional Communion with Me, the Divinely Avatarically Self-Revealed Person of Reality Itself, Truth Itself, and Love-Bliss Itself.

— from "Alpha / Omega"