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Kara-Leah is an internationally-renowned writer, teacher and retreat leader. Millions of people have been impacted by the articles, books and videos she has published over the last ten years. Her passion is liberation in this lifetime through an every day path of dissolving layers of tension into greater and greater freedom and joy. You can find out more about her, including when her next retreats are, on her website. Kara-Leah is the visionary and creator of The Yoga Lunchbox.
Nobody says
For the past several months, you were seeking Self-Realization. Seeking Truth.
Week after week, month after month, you were focused you were driven, you had a massive amount of momentum built up.
Even half way around the world, reading your blogs, one could literally see a massive boulder of focused seeking hurling down a giant moutain at break neck speed, speeding toward Maya’s prisons walls about to break through. To be free. To be freedom itself.
Then Poof, just like that it was gone. Only crickets to be heard.
So what happend?
Best guess, you woke up. For a few moments you found Truth. You became Truth.
But Maya is a tricky one isnt she. She controls your mind, your memories and this entire world.
So what did Maya do?
Finding truth scared the tar out of Maya. She realized she was about to lose you from her illusionary world. In desperation she went through her long list of seductions. She needed the perfect bribe to pay you off to keep you from asking any more questions.
Money, Power, Success, Fame, Glory are all great bribes. But she needed the big gun…LOVE.
Love the biggest and greatest bribe of all time.
So she paid you off. She brought Love into your life to keep you finding out that you are not a human being, not a woman, not a yogi but in fact are Love itself. A vast ocean of love existing through all time and space.
One can only show you the gates of heaven. but the question is Do you want to leave?
Do you wish to continue to embrace your Love & Fears and all the wild wonders of this illusionary world.
(which is all perfectly fine)
To continue to be one of Mayas slaves on this planet? Or do you wish to turn your back on it all and keep asking questions. To wake up. To find truth. To find Self-realization.
About now, if you hadnt before I imagine you are finally starting to grasp the enormous price one has to pay to wake up.
Do you still want it?
Whatever the case please know that Everything that you do or do not do in this perceived life, everything is going to be ok.
Wake up or do not wake up..whatever it is all going to be fine.
Its all ok
Best wishes
Jenifer says
while this may be true, it might also be Maya.
as a woman who has been in relationship for 15.5 years now, my experience is that enlightenment as a householder is just as possible as enlightenment as not a householder.
Kara-Leah Grant says
Are you enlightened Jenifer?
Maddy says
Your words suggest that Maya actively tries to enslave us. I experience that Maya allows us to play the game of sleeping and waking, of choosing how we respond in each moment. I think that when we leave this place we will all laugh at the wonder of the experience. And be grateful to Maya for helping us have it.
Kara-Leah Grant says
Hey Doug,
Oh juicy, juicy, juicy comment!
After reading Jed McKenna’s books, I couldn’t see the point of waking up from the dream, as he puts it. Instead, I could see the point of waking up in the dream. He calls it the difference between Enlightenment and Human Adulthood. Plus, I’ve also been reading Adhyshanti who has a slightly different take on Enlightenment – one that still involves human relationship.
Here’s an extract from an interview with his wife Mukti:
soon after I was married to Stephen Gray, now Adyashanti, we attended a satsang (teaching) with a teacher named Gangaji. Right away Adya got up and spoke with her from his perspective. I could see that the dialogue that ensued was from a shared, awakened perspective of knowing Oneness, and that it was a dialogue in which I was not able to participate. As I witnessed their exchange, something came fiercely alive inside me, saying, “In order to have a true spiritual marriage, a true meeting of Adya, I must know this perspective.” And my seeing this didn’t come from a place of jealousy. It just came from a knowing that this must be—it was as though within myself, without literal words, my Being was saying, “This must come to pass. So that I too can meet my husband from this perspective.”
This knowing kicked off a real fire within me. In the past, I’d come from traditions of faith and trusting in the guidance of a savior or guru. But this was different. I think it was the first moment when something in me knew that it was time for me to be truly serious, to truly engage the issue of realization for myself.
To become what you were witnessing in them…
Become that and to no longer waste time. It was as though something just clicked inside me that took me out of a sense of “Whatever God wills” to an intense inquiry: “What is God? What is this?” Before that, when I had a savior or a guru, I would place my trust in their wisdom, their divinity.
Their enlightenment.
Their enlightenment. I believed that if I emulated them as best I could or followed the teachings that they’d set out, then maybe I would come to know what they know. But in this moment, what happened was it went from following the teacher to “this must be.” There was just something inside me that made not knowing no longer an option, and in that sense it was as though time had run out. Sharing Adya’s perspective had to be in order for this marriage to be what it must be for me, the only thing that will be satisfying for me.
It shifted from wanting to know God to seeing God in these two people interacting, to seeing that they looked out of those eyes of God. And my saying to myself, “I will not be satisfied unless this is my perspective,” changed something. It no longer was about wanting to know God (as an object). I wanted to be that. So this inquiry began…“What is that? What is that perspective?” And the word that Gangaji and Adya were using for the One was “Truth.” So, it ignited something new. As opposed to wanting to know love or bliss or the joy of union with God, the movement came to wanting to know the truth of that perspective, of Oneness.
And so, this became my inquiry, a very, very alive inquiry for months. And I had to do it for myself. The outward, more routine spiritual activities I did, such as attending services or meditations, became arenas where I would dive into these questions. I think it’s important to emphasize that something shifted inside me where I had to know. It’s not something that I can take credit for. Something in me just turned.
And yet, one of the distinguishing features of that moment was that the marriage itself became part of the motivation to say, “I can’t stop here. I’ve got to go where I can meet this being where he is.”
So can one still be truth and be in relationship? Jed would say no, yet Adhyshanti would say yes. And maybe I’ll find out for myself.
KL
Terimoana Gilgen says
eemmmm…. love it all ….. love KL’s freedom to share…. this is great.
Maddy says
Thank you KL, you tell a wonderful story. And I love that you so clearly perceive how your choices created your experience, and how you are free to make different choices this time. Awesome! So happy for you, and for him.
Kara-Leah Grant says
Thanks Maddy… it’s an extraordinary feeling, for sure.
Tara says
KL you are a legend! I love that you articulate your self so well but just share your rawness and realness openly…oh I so relate to many of your articles..