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Sunday Meeting Sept 12, 5Th Year Siva Kalpa (1971) www.thefoundationofrevelationarchives.org Father Sunday Meeting First Unitarian Church San Francisco, California September 12, 5th Year Siva Kalpa (1971) First Unitarian Church meeting in San Francisco. 12th September, 5th year Siva Kalpa. Now tell me, what you want me to do. Shall I talk or shall I chant? Anything you want. I’m feeling a little wiped out physically, but not mentally. Whatever you want, I’ll do. Would you like me to talk, or would you like me to chant? Talk? Okay. Now, we are moving towards 19th September, just one week to go, twelfth, nine, ten, seven days. And, even, the Secret Service people came asking me what is going to happen on 19th September. So 19th September: Many are conscious about the 19th September, and in many spheres, even Sacramenti, [sic] White House, and not to speak of ourselves. “But what really is going to happen?” They asked me. “What is going to happen? You and Mr. Nixon are president. Jointly, you said you are going to take over the government,” or something like that. The tape is here. I said, “No, but there will be a takeover: Takeover, a spiritual takeover of the spiritual world. They call themselves spiritual and religious world, but they have neither spirit nor religion. So that is going to happen. It has got nothing to do with politics as you understand.” And they were nice people and were rather reassured that nothing is really going to happen, so far they are concerned. Actually, “Now I’m going to tell you what is going to happen.” Marsha said that. “We are going to blast the trumpets.” But we won’t speak everything all at once with this kind of mental weakness as the so-called heads in all spheres have been suffering. They cannot accept everything all at once. So, from 19th September, we shall get into a new phase of movement. The rhythm will become more beautiful and more powerful and more people will become happy by getting rid of the phantom they create for themselves. This is the principle that’s going to happen. But, somebody might get struck, by what? By truth. We have seen that how Lou Gottlieb got struck by truth. Yah. Marsha said, “Everything is divine.” So you see there is no devil really. It’s only the becoming of a divine nucleus. Because if we take anything outside divinity, then, that is a separate entity and an excuse for hostility. But if everything is divine we can reconcile the most irreconcilable hostilities in the whole world. According to the limitations of subhuman conceptions you see the ability of conscious nature for reconciliation of the most irreconcilable thing: matter and life. Matter in its field and condition seems to be inertia; and life is only a kinesis, an action. What happens in a world of ignorance is devouring and destroying. One tries to thrive by devouring others. So if it’s a chemical compound then they both lose their character like sodium chloride, both are poison, but they both lose their character by Shanti ~ June 1998 ~ May 2019 1 Father - Sunday Meeting ©2019 The Foundation of Revelation September 12, 5th Year Siva Kalpa (1971) www.thefoundationofrevelationarchives.org chemical combination. But here it’s different, or if you mix iron with sulfur without chemical combination then it will be a mixture of iron filings and sulfur dust. They will remain separate as entities without relation. But life and matter, the material part, remains, maintains its complete nature, and life possessing the material forms combines with it completely maintaining its own nature of kinesis. So this is almost irreconcilable by the knowledge of ignorance, but for the knowledge of consciousness it’s easily achievable. Matter is refractory in the hands of material ignorance, but it’s very plastic and conscious in the hands of creative ideas. And what you can create is what is within your knowledge. And what is outside your knowledge you wonder at such creations. But since ego took possession, we forgot to wonder at the creation of God and got involved in the creation of a subhuman consciousness . But, nobody’s fault, it had to happen because without this involution of the creative consciousness, after creation, if it could not achieve a total state of involution how could you speak of evolution? World cannot be created by ignorance; it can be created only by knowledge and light and power. But it has a right to become completely ignorant and stupid because what appears in the world of ignorance as contradictions are really the tools for the Creator, and to Him, they’re all complements. And I’ll teach all of you in the right time, if you don’t feel complacent. If you feel complacent then there’s no use teaching you to alert you, but when you will understand how to keep awake under all circumstances and make no difference, then you can learn the Technology of Applied Imagination. So we can precipitate anything materially by only imagining it, which you have done by going to moon, you imagined you have to go to moon. Just imagined and thirty years or forty years after that you went to moon. But this Technology of Applied Imagination is instantaneous. So you imagine word after word, page after page, creating the great epic of Siva Kalpa which will run through thousands of years. And when we shall become satiated, you can become satiated with perfection, you’ll become completely perfected as creators and numbers will become an illusion and joy of forms. After that many things will happen, but we shall surely have to think how to create lies in a world where total knowledge and truth is in perpetual expression. So who will be able to create contradictions? He’ll become Moses, Śaṅkarācāryas, Buddhas, you can’t deny their power. So wherever you see any kind of power which can precipitate great actions and changes, are also divine; that was the assignment by the Creator. Had there been no Moses there would be no rivers of blood flowing, or the death of the first born babies. Heathens were not doing anything wrong. A part of the heathens followed him across the Red Sea, and what they had been doing we have been doing for the last five years. When Moses went up the hills to think about the Ten Commandments with which he came down and intimidated the people by showing the miraculous escape from the heathens in pursuit, so he gave them Ten Commandments; but nobody agreed with him. What they had been doing, like us, they started doing it under cover and that created night. It may sound little crass, but you read Bible it’s full of crassness. But it’s an opinion, right? A true chronicle of the activities of the most colorful personalities of any Shanti ~ June 1998 ~ May 2019 2 Father - Sunday Meeting ©2019 The Foundation of Revelation September 12, 5th Year Siva Kalpa (1971) www.thefoundationofrevelationarchives.org given time is powerful and colorful, and that colorful personality hides God and presents his limitation. But that’s only a period, and we have crossed over so many periods and we can experience those periods if you want to take a journey into those periods I can take you some day. But it cannot be done in such a large group. It can be done in small numbers then all those small numbers of people can put together and become a very large group. It is possible and it is going to happen. So we’ll feel all the periods that preceded this moment, and the memory will tell you the truth and give you intelligence not intellect: It’s a quicksand for the superstructure of fictions to go down in the right time. Can you conceive? It is only possible by the hominoids not by the children of God. Hominoids can make anything, but they don’t enjoy it. But the children of God can do anything, and they enjoy what they do because they don’t hate anybody not even for the hominids. Why? Because as Marsha said, “God is everywhere in everything.” Otherwise there would be no game and there would be no awakening. So you had to sleep. If you ever get hurt you know you are getting hurt after becoming joyous, and if joy brings you complacence or complacency then you’ll get hurt a little, but you won’t lose anything, you’ll get happier after suffering a little. It has been said in Gita. I will say that another day, but I’m feeling really wiped out on the physical plane. Haven’t I got a right to feel idle in six years as a person? And in the evening I’m cooking. I have to cook. So I have no dopes, you see, to pick me up. Krishna and Arjuna: To speak, you must have a listener, or to listen, you must have a speaker. Actually they’re both one and the same. I imagine, and the bodies feel it, and this is one of those bodies. Do you mean to say it’s not one of them? What I am thinking? And one body is speaking, other bodies are laughing, because they’re enjoying what I’m thinking what I really want them to do. Hey, it’s over, and I am over too. Yah. Arjuna is asking, well, “If somebody sincerely makes an effort and yet falls from his aspiration by being sidetracked by some phenomena of apparent pleasure or happiness, what will happen then? Won’t he be spoiled like a patch of cloud, by a tempest, without shedding a drop of rain? This doubt makes my mind very unsettled, and you can definitely remove my apprehension so that I can really move and surrender to the aspiration.” [Bhagavad Gita, VI.
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