What Is Permanent Is Knowing?

Weekly Message, February 25, 2006
What Is Permanent Is Knowing
Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

This is a continuation of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on January 29, 2006. - TG.

Ishvara:

One of the most important things for you to realize is that you cannot be controlled unless you say you can be controlled. You cannot give away your power unless you say you can. You cannot become ill or depressed unless you believe you can. That may be difficult to master, because all of us can experience such things as illness or depression. Yet my feeling-knowing is that Life is now presenting the opportunity for this mastership.

This work involves freeing you from the was-ness. Over these last 19 years*, I have been working very hard to exemplify what IT is. I don't know whether this work will attract great crowds of people. That is not my business. My business is to be the best example of IT as possible in this time and space.

So I am an enigma. Sometimes I forget that, and think I am normal. But I realize it is the enigma, the living mystery, that incites the riot in the human mind, the intellect, and that causes things to happen. It is not the words. The words are just something for the intellect. It is the IT-ness of it--that is what you resonate with, that is what you feel, that is what you really know. Your intellect may argue with it. Your intellect insists, "Well, it is written. . . they said." But you must realize, from your own direct experience of Life, that everything written is after-the-fact. A biography is written after the fact. People wouldn't know what to write in a "pre" biography. Only the so-called prophets try to do that. The "prophets" tell you how it is going to be. Many of their erroneous predictions go unnoticed, because if the predicted event is far enough into the future, people will often have forgotten what the "prophet" predicted when that time finally comes around.

Life is so easy after the fact; we are all geniuses then. But to be in tune with the moment, to be in the connection and awareness that is unfolding, to be the living impermanence of Life, is the real place of mastership. If you master that, you stay afloat. That doesn't mean you won't experience storms, but you stay afloat. You have ups and downs, but you stay afloat.

Until you know something, it is not so. The moment you know something, that is the way it is. You can hope it is going to be that way, you can pray for it to be that way, you can want it to be that way, but it is not that way until you know it can be that way.

Knowing is the most powerful thing in the universe. The universe knows, and it is always in a process of knowing. When you know something, it cannot be taken away from you. On the other hand, when you believe in something, hope for something, or imagine something, it can be wiped out, because the nature of that sort of pre-knowing is very fragile. For instance, suppose you have hurt your big toe and now you are experiencing the healing of that. It has been painful, but you feel that your toe is getting better. It is looking better and moving more easily, so you are pretty sure it is getting better. Then somebody comes along and says, "Well, I don't know; it looks the same as ever." Boom! It's not getting better; it's the same as ever. That result is not a mystery because you didn't KNOW it was getting better. You hoped it was getting better, you thought it was getting better, but you didn't know it was getting better.

When you know it is getting better, it doesn't matter what anybody says. Someone says, "It looks the same to me," and you reply, "Look closer! See, it's better." And then the other person says, "Oh, I guess it is." Your knowing overrode their belief. Knowing always overrides beliefs, if you give it a chance. But most people stay with belief. That is not their fault; that is just the way it has been.

How does this apply to your life? Any time you experience the confidence and the courage to know something, it has a definite, absolute effect on your existence. This always happens when you get around to knowing. That is the big trick, the big difference. You are becoming a knower, not a "know-it-all," but a knower. Those who are knowers live in this world, see what is going on, see why things are the way they are, and know that they (the knowers) do not have to participate in what is going on. As a knower, you know that there is more to your world, your life, your existence, your experience, than what you can see in the consensus world. You know the world is impermanent.

The only thing in your life that is permanent is knowing. What is permanent is knowing: not "knowing what", but knowing. You move from one knowing to the next knowing to the next knowing, and in that way you are "permanent" in knowing. This takes confidence; it takes getting over yourself. You do not take things personally because you know things are impermanent. They are in passing.
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*Ishvara experienced a major awakening event in 1987.


This message is part 3 of 4 parts and will conclude with "The Blue Print Has Changed," part 4 of 4. It began with "The True Power Of Your Being," part 1 of 4; and was continued with "Bringing Humanity To The Next Level," part 2 of 4.


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