Through The Bindhu

 

Consciousness liberates itself by individualizing, not collectivizing. It is not the herd but the alone that becomes all-one. The lost sheep, not the flock, who is saved. So leave the herd and get lost. Leave the party, the race, the gender, the class, and be the only One who is ever found by God. You must pass through the portal of "I" to become "Am," through the infinitesimal to become the infinite, through the Bindhu a the center to become the whole mandala. Then you can serve others, but your work will be one on one, friend to friend. And if you are a writer, an artist, or a "spiritual teacher," your audience will always be a person, not a group. This is why, in the presence of a true Teacher, even if we are ten thousand, each feels that the Teacher is speaking quite personally to me.