Rheinhart: Hi, James.
Thanks a lot for your answer. I think I’m almost through with this strong and unexpected emotional vasana download in this so-called corona crisis and my role in it. I eventually can step back and see this impersonal happening in the world. It’s not that my perception of it has totally changed. This worldwide projection of evil on a virus is still crazy. But such is this dark current culture and its medical approach. But my temporary identification with a “position“ has really changed. Thanks be to God. I am back on the way to Myself, i.e. to knowledge.
And – this is the good side of a crisis – I’m even more committed than before.
This Nisargardatta quotation touched me when I accidentally came across it: “Nothing stops you from being a jnani here and now except fear! You are afraid of being impersonal! As impersonal being it is all quite simple.”
James: Good for you, Rheinhart. Freedom is a choice once you understand the options. You didn’t actually choose fear. Maya chose it for you. And you believed it was a valid choice. It is valid if you want to suffer, meaning leave the path to truth. Good and evil are always present. We, meaning people who know, don’t choose either. We choose the other option, the “I,” the knower of good and evil. It is simple.
~ Love, James