2012 Matrix singularity

Part 8: Spiritual Intelligence Transcription

Babaji: Why did Jesus kick the money changers out from the temple? Wasn't he being judging? How about every time he talked with the Pharisees? Didn't he call them hypocrites? Vipers? Snakes? So, he was using discrimination. There's right, and there's wrong. There's truth, and there's untruth. If we have 2 cups, and one has water and the other has poison, which one do we take? Discrimination is the most important function of intelligence. So all the great spiritual personalities, they have certain things they would accept, certain things they would tolerate, and certain things they reject. This is intelligence. 

Spiritual consciousness means very sharp intelligence. It requires very sharp intelligence to understand God, the self, consciousness, the soul, service and love of God. All these things require intelligence. Sentiment is good; but sentiment guided by knowledge is better. If we simply have sentiment and we don't have discrimination, we can easily be mislead or deceived. That's why we not only give knowledge from the scriptures, we encourage people to think for themselves and understand how that knowledge is true. 

There are 4 stages in the realization of spiritual knowledge. The first one is duplication. Did you ever play that game where you have a secret message, and one person whispers it to the next person?

Audience Member: Telephone!

Babaji: Telephone, yeah. And then by the end of the line it's completely different. Yeah. Why? What is the point of the game? If I’m here and I have a message, and then another person is here, and I want them to have the knowledge, what has to happen? Think about it. I have a thought; I have a thought in my mind, so then I have to put this thought into some kind of  language. Then I have to deliver that language to another person. So now they have the same thing. Then they have to decode that language into the same thought. See, it's really quite complicated. Now let's add one more step. This person here comes back to me and says: "Is this what you really meant?" Imagine if we played the same game, alright? And I whisper the message to him, and then he asks, then he repeats it back to me and says "Is this what you really meant?" And either I say yes or no. If no, then I can give the message again until he duplicates it. The duplication is the most Important part of communication. First we have to duplicate, make an exact copy of the message. 

The next is called understanding. Understanding means [that] I can think through the message and come to the same conclusion. If you really understand it, you really have understanding, [it] means you can really think through it. Reasoning, you can come out to the same conclusion. That means you have to talk over to yourself, and ask yourself the question "How is this message correct?" Until you yourself can understand it. This is different from criticism; this is like sympathetic criticism. It’s not asking, "Well, what's wrong with this?" It's actually the opposite, we're asking "How can this be right? How can this be correct?" The assumption is that the message is correct, but I just don't understand it. When we receive a message from, especially from a spiritual teacher or from the scriptures, once we duplicate the message we have to understand it. [This] means [asking ourselves], "How is it right, how is correct, how is it true, why is it true?" This is called understanding. 

The next stage is called contemplation. Especially with high spiritual teachings, when we finally get understanding, we're going to go "Wow, That's beautiful." Naturally our mind will become attracted to it, because it's Absolute Truth. When we understand Absolute Truth, and we can think through it with our own reasoning, this is like understanding the mind of God. And this is very beautiful, very wonderful. And so our mind is automatically attracted to this beauty, and we think about it all the time. That's contemplation. 

And finally, realization. Realization means [that] we enter into complete understanding, as if it's our Idea, even though it's coming from God. We become in full agreement with it. Intellectually, emotionally, and practically. We see why it has to be that way. We understand the rightness of it, the justice of it, the benefit of it. And we experience that benefit in our own lives. For example, if we hear the truth that God is within the heart. The first thing we have to do is duplicate it. "Oh, God is within the heart, OK." The next question is, "How is that possible? Why is it like that? How can I understand this statement? How is it true? How is it right?" So if we approach it with that viewpoint, we may go reading through all the scriptures, finding all the examples of God being in the heart, trying to understand it from different points of view. Psychologically, spiritually, emotionally, what it would be like to have God in the heart. And when we finally understand the concept, we'll realize the beauty of it. And our mind will be naturally be drawn to contemplation on it. Until, one fine day we realize, "Ah, God is in the heart. Hi God!" [laughs]

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