If we want to change the world in a significant way, if we're serious about creating a better future, then we have to face the fact that the only way it's going to happen is through the evolution of consciousness itself. And for the universe to evolve at the level of consciousness, you and i have to be the ones to make sure it happens.
We have to create the future for there's no one else who is going to save us. Some of us cling to the hope that there is someone "up there" or "out there", a kind of higher power, that is directing the process, will intervene and make sure that everything will turn out all right in the end. Many have long since outgrown such beliefs, and it may seem utterly obvious to us that we need to save ourselves from self-annihilation. How much have we considered the deepest and most profound implications of accepting ultimate responsibility for the future?
To accept responsibility for the future means we know without doubt that it is up to us to create that future right now. Those of us at the leading edge have to stop waiting, hiding and pretending. We have to be the ones to take this leap because there isn't anyone else to do it. It needs divine intervention, but we have to be the divine interveners. We have to choose to be God, the creative or evolutionary impulse itself.
Billions of years ago, something exploded out of nothing. And who but God could have made the choice ^ to create an entire universe? That powerful urge to become is now beginning to wake up, through the unique capacity we have for self-reflective awareness. Through us, God, or the energy and intelligence that is driving this whole process, is just beginning to awaken to itself. So becoming God in an evolving universe means we have to be the ones to carry this process forward to consciously evolve for our collective salvation and transformation.
Spiritually, the enormous challenge for each and every one of us is to look directly into what it means to be the one who is going to do this. From the absolute or non-dual perspective, there is only One without a second.
We can only consciously evolve to the degree that we have actually realised at the deepest level of our being that we are that One without a second. Facing the truth of non-duality that the many is the one and that the one is ultimately who we always are in an evolutionary context forces a confrontation with any relationship to the life process that is less than whole, complete and fully committed.
To consciously evolve is to surrender unconditionally to the truth that there is no other and at the same time to accept responsibility for what that means in an evolving universe ^ a cosmos that is slowly but surely becoming aware of itself through you and me. That One without a second is simultaneously awakening to itself as it develops, as it evolves, and it is that One, as you and me, alone, that can now begin to take responsibility for endeavouring to consciously create its own future. That is the profound recognition that God is that singular energy and intelligence that initiated the creative process and is just now awakening to itself as we awaken to it. In that revelation, there is no other.
(E-mail: infoindia@enlightennext.org. Website: www.enlightennext.org)