As the scribe of NTI, I became afraid when I wrote NTI 2 Corinthians 12. I was afraid to see that I was beyond the body-mind-personality. Beyond the mind meant “God” to me, and attempting to see that I am “God” felt like blasphemy. Therefore, I was not ready to discover that I am beyond the mind.
Some of that fear lingered the following day when I sat down to scribe NTI 2 Corinthians 13, so inner wisdom met me where I was and brought me forward from there. It’s as if I was standing in a realm surrounded by the unknown (beyond mind), and I was clinging to a pole that represented the known (concepts). Inner wisdom was able to get me to let go of that pole with one hand and show some willingness to move away from the pole.
When today’s reading starts, the scribing is more closely related to the fear I experienced the day before. However, the scribing begins to move away from the pole with this phrase:
I have told you that your mind is tricky, …
Upon hearing that, I opened up again. I loosened my grip on familiar concepts, I became willing to listen to inner wisdom, and I became willing to follow it again.
The scribing in NTI 2 Corinthians 12 and 13 do not go where inner wisdom wanted to take me at the time. I was not ready for beyond mind. If I had followed inner wisdom and went where it wanted to take me, I would have had a direct experience of the non-affected Self. I would have realized I am not in the world; the world is in me. I would have seen everything that NTI 2 Corinthians attempted to teach.
I did not become willing to look in that direction until The Teachings of Inner Ramana were scribed three years later. However, inner wisdom did not abandon me just because I was not ready. It did not scold me. It continued to work with me by leading me toward truth in a way I was willing for. It gave me whatever wisdom I would accept, and it continued walking with me in the direction of truth.
Inner wisdom will do the same with you. You can trust it to walk with you towards truth at a pace that you will accept. It will not go faster or slower. You are the pacesetter.
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