What is this humble work we do when we work to achieve consciousness?
Consciousness does not belong to us. We ourselves belong to it.
When we manage to reach the third state, it means that we gain access to those subtle energy levels of the universe that exist independently of our knowledge of them.
If we happen to succeed in remembering ourselves in this lifetime, it simply means that we have been lucky enough to do so. And the factors that determined our birth and existence turned out to be quite favorable.
The consciousness we are trying to achieve is comparable to a global power system. We are little light bulbs in this system. Our light turns on only when we connect to the whole and the current is on.
What is this humble work?
When we share our knowledge and being, this is a very modest and humble work. There is no fame, no honor, no heroism in it visible to others. There is no room here for vanity or pride. At this time, we cease even to be a lightbulb. We become just an electric conductor hidden in the wall. We exist in order to conduct. If the current does not flow through us, our existence ceases to make sense. As soon as we start to teach on our own behalf and say “I,” “my presence,” the divine turns away from us. Then, in place of higher states, comes imagination about presence–as barren as a mirage in the desert.
There is an important thing that helped me to understand the correct perspective of this humble work.
Descending octave of transmitting consciousness
When a conscious teacher conducts a conscious teaching towards a student, it is a descending octave. That is, it occurs with a decrease in vibration. The teacher teaches the student, and something in the teaching inevitably remains incomprehensible for the student. Something gets lost in transmission. The level of consciousness at the end is lower than the level of consciousness at the entrance. When a student tries to transfer the teaching further, the loss in knowledge and being becomes even greater, and so on. The energy or consciousness tends to fade away when traveling from the center to the periphery.
The message, not the messenger
But when the teacher helps students to establish their own connection with higher forces, a student can connect to the same source as the teacher. In this case, the quality of consciousness does not drop.
The identity of the person conducting conscious energy of higher levels is not so important. What is important is the consciousness that flows through a person. The message, not the messenger.
Conscious schools are fractal representations of the hierarchy of higher powers. “What is below is like that which is above, and what is above is like that which is below, to do the miracles of the whole thing,” according to Hermes Trismegistus.
A conscious school organizes itself in the same way as the universe created by the Absolute, but at a level of consciousness several orders of magnitude lower. Schools are successful that provide independent access for students to the highest possible levels of consciousness, preferably to the same level the conscious teacher has achieved.