Accountability and Responsibility
Sri Yukteshwar
You and I all have what is called a learned experience in life. Hopefully, the experiences that we've had have been to take information and make it into knowledge. To take the knowledge and with time make that into wisdom.
But there's more to it than that. As we truly take accountability and responsibility for ourselves by revealing that true inner strength that has always been within us we then make that wisdom into what is called realization.
There is a quote from one of my favorite saints by the name of Sri Yukteshwar, “Do not mistake realization for understanding. Understanding is the intellectual process of comprehension, while realization is the direct and intuitive experience of truth.”
In my learned experience I've studied the Tibetans and also very deeply studied the Mayan civilization of Central America by taking groups of people there on spiritual journeys to understand their true cosmology. Way beyond American tourism but to a direct inner revelation of their true teachings.
From my 35 years of spiritual work and research I realized that this is the age of personal accountability and responsibility. As we witness the chaos and turmoil externally in this world it's causing us to look within. But looking within is not to create a place of peace instead it is to reveal the inner peace that always exists within us!
We do emphasize in our culture to take good care of our physical self but it's even more important to take care of our inner self because that is where the true power is. Comprehension is not realization, they are completely different things but, in our culture, we're taught to try to intellectually beat something to death in order to understand its true meaning.
It is as Einstein said: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” That is why you see the proliferation of true integral health and integral healing that seeks to facilitate the individual's true inner realization beyond a religious connotation.
For many years since the early 1990s, I've been saying “You cannot temper steel in a cold fire.” I was a machinist in my father’s shipyard and I knew how to heat a piece of steel hot enough that, when quenched, it would achieve the desired hardness so that I could make a chisel out of it. The saying means that sometimes for us things have to get hot enough before we can, or will, truly change.
Perhaps all of this external turmoil is really facilitating even more of our own inner personal accountability and responsibility to reveal the true power within ourselves. To be able to truly solve a problem you must arise beyond an intellectual understanding to a true inner comprehension.
Let all of that learned experience in your life lead you from wisdom to realization by continuing to nurture your inner growth. Learn more about Integral Health, meaning mind-body-spirit. Seek out qualified teachers and practitioners who can help facilitate your Divine blueprint to externalize.
Blessings,
Dr. Richard Jelusich, Ph.D.
