(09-25-2017, 10:25 PM)sjel Wrote: [ -> ]So Ra technically isn't enlightened??? :O And perhaps could be considered less spiritually evolved than Nisargadatta?
Did you know that in many forms of Buddhism that while it is not exactly a theistic religion by any means they do not necessarily deny the existence of "the gods" as it were, but that enlightenment is actually
more possible for a being born into the human realm than the god realm? The life of the gods are extremely long and pleasurable, but the pleasure actually becomes the downfall, or hindrance, to these more etiolated realms of existence. It actually slows down forward progress. It takes extremely good karma to elevate one to these realms (lots of service to others), however, the personality actually becomes, strangely enough,
stronger in these higher realms in certain ways. The personality becomes more pure, more cognitively capable, but a being like Ra has essentially become a super personality -- the fused amalgamation of an entire race of beings. Such a personality, though it be pure in its desire for service to others, and existing in a far more pleasant realm of existence than 3rd density, is actually
more difficult to dissolve into the cosmos. You might consider the analogy represented by e=mc2, wherein as something is accelerated to the speed of light, it requires infinitely increasing amounts of more energy to keep accelerating it, as mass increases without bound, to infinity, as well. There is always a give and take. The bigger the vessel, (or personality) the more it takes to accelerate it.
Ra: [...] The Wanderer, if it remembers and dedicates itself to service, will polarize
much more rapidly than is possible in the far more etiolated realms of higher-density catalyst.
Ra: [...] More importantly, the time/space mind/body/spirit analog, which is evoked as the magical personality,
has its only opportunity to gain rapidly from the experience of the catalytic action available to the third-density space/time mind/body/spirit. Thus the adept is aiding the Creator greatly by offering great catalyst to a greater portion of the creation which is identified as the mind/body/spirit totality of an entity.
The catalyst of our realm is
extremely intense, and powerful. Even more intense for a wanderer because their spirits are attuned to the more harmonized vibrational realms. If it can overcome this extreme harshness, the potential for spiritual acceleration is immense. But there is also a downside to this -- a being may, if it becomes lost, be potentially caught up in the planetary karmic vibration, and repeat the 3rd density cycle as a truly 3rd density being. Where there is potential reward, there is a corresponding potential risk to such "wandering". Note that negative beings will almost never engage in such wandering, because not only are they not interested in such enlightenment, or shedding of all identity barriers, or service to others (the usual overarching reason for wandering) they fear the the forgetting.
The question is a bit like the question: if Jesus was a 4th density wanderer and you are 6th density wanderer, does that make you more spiritually evolved than Jesus? Do you feel more spiritually evolved than Jesus? It feels almost wrong to make the comparison wouldn't you say? Even though it technically might be literally true. Something is lost in translation when you reduce it to such terms. But it is a very good question, nonetheless.