Wrong States

Undoubtedly, in the rigorous observation of the Self, it is always imperative and unavoidable to make a complete logical distinction in relation to the external events of practical life and the intimate states of consciousness.

We urgently need to know where we are situated at any given moment, both in relation to the intimate state of consciousness and the specific nature of the external event that is happening to us. Life itself is a series of events that are processed through time and space…

Someone said: “Life is a chain of martyrdoms that man carries entangled in the Soul…” Everyone is very free to think as they please; I believe that the ephemeral pleasures of a fleeting instant are always followed by disappointment and bitterness… Each event has its special characteristic flavour and the interior states are also of a different kind; this is incontrovertible, irrefutable…

Certainly, the inner work on oneself refers emphatically to the various psychological states of consciousness… No one could deny that we carry many errors within us and that there are wrong states… If we really want to change, we urgently and imperatively need to radically modify those wrong states of consciousness…

The absolute modification of the wrong states brings about complete transformations in the field of practical life… When one works seriously on the wrong states, obviously the unpleasant events of life can no longer hurt one so easily…

We are saying something that can only be understood by experiencing it, feeling it really in the very field of the facts… Whoever does not work on themselves is always a victim of circumstances; he is like a miserable log in the stormy waters of the ocean…

Events change incessantly in their multiple combinations; they come one after another in waves, they are influences… Certainly there are good and bad events; some events will be better or worse than others… Modifying certain events is possible; altering results, modifying situations, etc., is certainly within the realm of possibilities.

However, there are factual situations that truly cannot be altered; in these latter cases they must be accepted consciously, although some may be very dangerous and even painful… Undoubtedly, pain disappears when we do not identify with the problem that has arisen…

We must consider life as a successive series of inner states; an authentic history of our particular life is formed by all these states… By reviewing the totality of our own existence, we can verify for ourselves directly that many unpleasant situations were possible thanks to wrong inner states…

Alexander the Great, although always temperate by nature, gave himself up out of pride to excesses that led to his death… Francis I died as a result of a dirty and abominable adultery, which history still remembers very well… When Marat was assassinated by a perverse nun, he was dying of pride and envy, he believed himself to be absolutely right…

The ladies of the Deer Park undoubtedly completely finished off the vitality of the appalling fornicator named Louis XV. Many people die from ambition, anger or jealousy, this is well known to Psychologists…

As soon as our will is irrevocably confirmed in an absurd tendency, we become candidates for the pantheon or cemetery… Othello, due to jealousy, became a murderer and the prison is full of sincere miscreants…