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Genaro

We walk a forest trail for a long time, then cross a small swift river by an almost decayed wooden bridge. After the river, there is a pine forest — a favorite place of don Juan and Genaro. Here don Juan taught us to wear His hat.

After walking several tens of meters, we enter a space which is filled with laugh sparkling with joy — it is Juan and Genaro greeting us.

… What is the laugh of Divine Teachers? It is soft waves of goldish sparkling Light that rise from the universal Depths and spread like rings on the water. They enter into you and fill the consciousness and the body with Their joy and bliss!

This is how They both laugh.

“Do you see how it is easy when one is joyful and does not lose heart?!” jokes Genaro. “And the Divine laugh makes man also kind! Once you merge with Me and dissolve in Me — there is no you, there is only My laugh, there is only I!

“You love Me — and merge with Me. But I also love you — and merge with you! Mergence can be only mutual and voluntary. Any deviation from this rule is violence!

“In order to achieve absolute fullness of Mergence you have to become like-minded to Me…

“It is very hard to cleanse and enlighten the mind. In order to become like-minded to Me, one has to begin with throwing out from the head all habitual, old stereotypes, which are easy to use, — the stereotypes of thinking and behaving. The spiritual warrior has to make the mind open for receiving new.

“One needs also courage, power, and knowledge.

“You begin to live really only when you stop interacting with the outer world through your ‘masks’ and stereotypes. They are offered to you by your mind — the creator of your lower self…

“One has to learn to perceive the outer world with the ‘naked consciousness’, cleansed from the traces of the lower self — to accept the world as it is in reality and not in the mind!

“… There is a trick of awareness which gives you a key to the Freedom! It is the ability of being aware of oneself not as a body. This ability brings one to the freedom from the body — from this dense material container of the soul.

“First, one has to know that he or she is not the material body. Gaining practical experience of this kind means the first encounter with the world of nagual*.

“For many people, however, this stage becomes the last one: one needs courage to choose to go further on the Path of Freedom and Knowledge, of Love and Power! There is no place for vain curiosity on this Path. Cowards and ditherers, sluggards and egotists cannot withstand the Freedom: the Freedom destroys them, wipes them out, rips them! It is like a rocket engine, which should not be attached to a child’s bicycle.

“The Freedom sets down its condition which don Juan called impeccability of a warrior. Every non-impeccable step on this Path can become a complete failure, one has to keep this in mind.

“One has to know an important point: after a certain stage, spiritual warriors cannot return to the ordinary life. They can live only as warriors. After a certain moment, there is no way back for them, there is only the way forward!

“But the freedom from the body is only a fragment, it is only a part of the Freedom of Spirit.

“… The freedom from the body cannot be achieved at once.

“There are methods — and you know many of them — for moving the self-awareness within the body and then outside it…

“One has to become absolutely free from the material body! This freedom cannot be taken away in prison, it does not disappear when death comes…

“The Freedom is a possibility to move — at your will — to the world which you choose. It is also the freedom to stay there if you want it!

“Let the world which you choose become ‘assembled completely’! Let the Primordial One become more real than the world of material bodies! In the same way as you had to master the strata of the Absolute, to learn to assemble in each one of them the entire world of that particular eon — in the same way this deep stratum of the universal Beingness — the Beingness of the Creator! — has to become not just a reality which you know, but you have to learn to live in it!

“The farther from the body you move — the easier it is for you to perform.

“And then — there — you have to grow!

“You have to become so large in the Abode of the Creator that you cannot be contained in the body and in the other strata of the Absolute!

“For example, you cannot now put onto yourself a baby suit which you wore in childhood. Even if you try — you cannot do this! The same happens if you have grown yourself there and habituated yourself to living in the Primordial Consciousness! Then comes the moment when the old perception of the world does not fit you, however hard you try to ‘put it on’!

“And then you have to do a little: just to treat the energies of the material body… The body has to become completely identical — by the quality of the energies — to the world where you want to go. This allows you to disappear entirely from this world and to ‘assemble’ completely the other one!

“A perfect Nagual has the freedom to move to any world which He chooses. This is omnipresence, the freedom to be where you want. This is the freedom to be Everything and to move the concentration of Yourself inside Yourself — Universal, Boundless! At that, the center of Yourself has to remain in the Home: in the Home of the Primordial One. One should never forget about this rule!”

“Genaro, what can You advise our readers concerning how to rid oneself of the feeling of self-importance? Please, tell us how it was in Your case?”

“The feeling of self-importance disappears when the mystical death happens: when you die completely to everything worldly. How can it be achieved? Only through self-control, unceasing control over one’s own indriyas. It is the indriyas that bind one to worldly things.

“Disappearance of the feeling of self-importance brings one to the loss of the human form.*

“Yet, it should be noted that the feeling of self-importance has positive aspects.

“In the beginning of the life path, this feeling is necessary, one cannot develop without it!

“It is due to ambitions that people try to become better, cleverer, stronger. And it is out of the desire to be loved and respected that they perfect themselves. This is the first positive point.

“The second point is that you cannot train a person who is devoid of the feeling of self-importance. An absence of this feeling gives one psychological invulnerability. How can you guide or correct such a person if in him or her there is nothing to ‘press on’, to ‘strike to’, to ‘fillip on’?”

“Genaro, could You share with us Your own experience?”

“I was always of an ‘easy’ temper, others have an ‘ill’ temper. But the feeling of self-importance is present virtually in everyone, it is just its outer forms that are multifarious.

“Once My Teacher told Me that I would be a powerful sorcerer when I would rid Myself of the feeling of self-importance. I believed Him and devised a plan how to fool this quality in Myself and become free from its control. I tried — and did not allow it to act. Among other means, I devised the following tactics: to not exult at My success and to not become despondent about failures.

“For example, when I succeeded in something and was about to inflate out of pride, I had to look at the situation from such a far distance that nothing could be seen.*

“In other words, when the Power ‘rolled over’ Me creating certain situations and I was about to inflate with pride or anger, I had to move immediately outside of the cocoon, outside of Myself and merge with the rolling Power into one.

“But do not think that ridding oneself of the feeling of self-importance is the acme of perfection. No: it is only the beginning of the next part of the Path…”

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