Everyone’s a Star and our Practice is our Everyday Life | Steve Beckow

By Steve Beckow, December 26, 2023

(Golden Age of Gaia)

I’m having a flow of inspired thought that’s going faster than I can capture. For those looking for entertainment on Boxing Day, please accept this as my offering.

I grab this inspired thought from the flow as it passes by me: Everyone’s a star and our practice is our everyday life.

Wow. I like that one. It resonates.

Let me expand it here, while also staying aware of the background flow.

Think of the matter this way. All of us, as I saw in my vision in 1987, are on the same One Journey: From God to God. (1) Everyone. And that journey has the same One Destination.

The folks on the train behind us: they’ll be at the destination a day later than us. The folks on the train ahead of us? They’ll be at it a day earlier.

It doesn’t matter where we are on the One Journey. There’s no stigma attached to being on tomorrow’s train. We’ll all get there. I’ve quoted Sri Ramakrishna before on the matter:

“All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food. All, without any exception, will certainly know the real Self.” (2)

Knowing the real Self is the destination, is it not?

Here’s another depiction. Think of a toroidal field, because, in a sense, this is exactly what our situation is. Siri, give me a toroidal field please:



Credit: lifeharmonized.com

Thank you.

Mother/Father God lies at the center. What the figure partially depicts is that everything emanating from the center returns to the center again. Voilá! Precisely what I’m saying, is it not?

Jesus described that One Journey here:

“I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.” (3)

Yes, exactly what an object in a toroidal field does, does it not?

Where the One Journey from God to God varies is in what Archangel Uriel called “scenic detours.” (4) I may decide I want to spend a lifetime on a beach in Fiji, sipping … Starbucks Frappacinos. Given that my other lifetimes have been quite active, that might be seen as a scenic detour.

But the longing for liberation kicks in at some point and I’m back on the One Journey again. (5)

An Indian sage once said we have as much free will as a tethered cow. Yes, the longing for liberation guarantees that we not stray too far but return to the One Journey again.

Even Jesus consented to become one strand of a toroidal field. Follow me, he said. No more scenic detours. Back to Mother/Father God. Back to the One.

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Completing that One Journey is the purpose of life. Why? So that Mother/Father God can have the pleasure of meeting, yes, us, but equally importantly, themselves. When one of us realizes God, at that instant, God meets God.

Sri Ramakrishna, like Jesus, a descent of God into a body, poked fun at that ultimate moment:

“When Siva realizes his own Self, He dances about in joy exclaiming, ‘What am I! What am I!'” (6)

For this moment of joy was all of creation made.

In my vision I saw a small golden star jet out from a large golden sun. It was that star that completed the toroidal journey from God to God. Every one of us is a star.

Mastering the divine qualities is our overall spiritual practice and the longing for liberation keeps us at that practice. No matter what the scene that presents itself, everyday or state occasion, every one of them is an occasion to practice the divine qualities.

Everyone’s a star and our practice is our everyday life.

Footnotes

(1) For an account of the vision see “The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment – Ch. 13 – Epilogue” in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at http://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment.pdf

(2) Paramahansa Ramakrishna in Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 818. (Hereafter, GSR.)

(3) Jesus in Matthew 16:28.

(4) “Dear friends, our hope is that what you choose to do is to go straight forward and not take any more, shall we say, scenic detours.” (“Archangel Uriel: I Assist Individuals in Their Journey into Enlightenment,” December 15, 2014, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/12/15/archangel-uriel-i-assist-individuals-in-their-journey-into-enlightenment/.)

(5) On the longing for liberation, see:“Ch. 7. The Longing for Liberation” in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment.pdf
“Understanding the Longing for Liberation – Part 1/3,” October 16, 2016, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2016/10/16/understanding-longing-liberation-part-13/
“Understanding the Longing for Liberation – Part 2/3,” October 16, 2016, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2016/10/16/understanding-longing-liberation-part-23/
“Understanding the Longing for Liberation – Part 3/3,” October 17, 2016, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2016/10/17/understanding-longing-liberation-part-33/

(6) Paramahansa Ramakrishna, GSR, 393.