Divine Heritage
chapter summaries

Your true self? Your true self is the same true self who resides at the heart of All that surrounds you. The real scarcely recognized secret… We are different expressions of the same identity. Everything emerges from a single source. The appearance of diversity is not evidence of life’s multiplicity; it is evidence of the One Life’s infiniteness. We are all charged with roles to play in life, characters whom we portray, personas which we craft and put on like airs. This is not your real self. Your absolute truest self is a communal identity. To realize this truth marks a spiritual graduation of sorts. This realization gives way to one’s first real glimpse at the grandness that awaits your conscious awareness. Your divine inheritance is the realization of your true identity, your true self. The ideas conveyed in this material are intended to stir such a reflection in you as to hopefully inspire your own personal glimpse of the grandness of Reality, the grandness of your Real Self. Sample the book, read the chapter by chapter outline that follows and gauge how well the ideas presented resonate with you.

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Chapter 5: INTRODUCTORY TIDBITS (HEADINGS)

Life

Idea and Expression

Your Self

Chapter 5: Tat Tuam Asi: The World is Your Mirror

SUMMARY: Tat Tuam Asi is a Hindu expression which in English translates to Thou art, that thou art. It is the expression which is used to convey that in Truth, All Is One (for All Is Life and Life is One). Any idea which proposes difference, separation or multiplicity as a feature of Reality is a delusion, not a Reality. It is the undiscriminating mind which interprets diversity as a literal fact. The discerning mind realizes that diversity is merely the appearance of the One (infinite) Thing which truly exists – that being Life / Spirit / God. All Is One, everything is but a reflection of you (your Real Self). Everything is of you; therefore, nothing can truly act against you. And it’s all because of this Truth– All Is One. Evil is a distortion of goodness. It is not a power unto itself. Evil belongs to the world appearance; it has no place in the state of Reality. The delusion of evil originates from ideas which give merit to the concept of difference, separation and multiplicity. But this delusion steadily disappears the more the idea of Oneness is embraced. All Is One; and (in Reality) All Is good within the One.

Chapter 5: CONCLUDING TIDBITS (HEADINGS)

The Root of All Evil

Judgment Is

The Cure for Judgment

The Constant Reminder


Chapter 6: INTRODUCTORY TIDBITS (HEADINGS)

Joy and Sorrow

The Restless Mind

The Illusion of Time

All Things Are Now


Chapter 6: Being Present

SUMMARY: Being Present is about rising above the haze of delusions which pervade our personal perception of reality; it is living Life in the state of The One (true) Reality which is common to All. Past and future are apparitions. The only thing Real is Now, the Present moment. The past is merely experience, the future is merely possibility, and both of these aspects of time exist with the boundlessness of Now. All things are Now. Time is an illusion, a relative phenomenon, it does not exist in Reality. Time is “merely a form of perception by which we express our consciousness of the Change in Things.[1]” Time has no reality outside of the recesses of one’s very mind. To Be Present, one must shatter the illusion of time within and learn to perceive the Reality of Now.

[1] Yogi Ramacharaka. A Series of Lesson on Gnani Yoga. Chicago, IL: Yogi Publication Society.

Chapter 6: CONCLUDING TIDBITS (HEADINGS)

Misery In Waiting

You Are Your Best Self Right Now

The Concentrated Mind