The Great Masters

We often can feel so alone in our spiritual experience that we may begin to form relationship with those great people who have died. Especially spiritual leaders. It may surprise you to know that they are not sitting around in nirvana waiting for an opportunity to swoop down and give aid and service to those still trapped in the human flesh. It may seem that way at times when strange and wonderful phenomena occur but typically not in my experience. 

They gave that service already when they were here. Read the writings. These great women and men were not writing just because they were bored. What they wrote typically gives to us the sense of having discipline and a personal responsibility for our own spiritual path and how we are walking it. 

They communicated time and again that we are responsible for our progress. If one follows them they may be required to do as they did and from within our own special condition of life and experience we are afforded the amazing quality of moving into grace by our own volition. 

We can walk a similar path yet even within the similarities we are unique and distinct in our nuances and karma. Jesus isn't giving seminars. Rama Krishna isn't writing books. St Hildegaard isn't still running an abby. 

We can learn from what they left via the many wonderful expressions and lessons written or otherwise bestowed upon us. We can learn and we can apply those learnings but it is us that will do it not them. They know what we do not and that is it is by our own actions and behaviors and expressions that we are allowed into the grace of enlightenment.

Not by praying to one who has left this realm of the physical. Go within is what many of them taught. Go within! Reach into yourself and master your own spiritual equation. You have been given the same potential as any of the great masters. A physical body, a mind, an ego, and emotional body and a spiritual body. 

We have many of the same opportunities that the great masters had. We choose to use these gifts in the way we wish to use them. If you choose spiritual evolution then live in the ways and behave in the ways that the great masters have left a record of. If you wish to emulate them. Or choose your own way and forge your own path. It is truly up to you. - chrism