Transcript - from Rhondell
As long as it is Thursday evening, we will commemorate Mushkil Gusha.
So as it is said many times, that Mushkil Gusha’s story is known by many names in many lands and many times not even known as Mushkil Gusha but the theme is practically the same. So we have told the story of the old woodcutter and his daughter many times, so we will take another.
Mushkil Gusha is the remover of all difficulties, and obviously is of a Spiritual nature. And the nearest thing that probably in the English language that would fit it would be the Holy Ghost, or the Paraclete. And, we know that the Paraclete or the Holy Ghost, or X, is in every human being. Lives with them, it does their breathing, does their seeing, does their hearing, does their tasting, and everything and certainly it would be well worthwhile to be commemorative of X on at least Thursday evenings.
Now communication between X and Awareness can be a two way street. Basically, it is a one way street because the Awareness is so busy getting what it wants and responding to stimuli etc. that is never really hears anything from X. But X will communicate to awareness and very plane discussion. Now most of the time we get it by symbols and then we try to shut it up. So, if a person has a pain, it is X, Life, Spirit, in that person, Mushkil Gusha, that is trying to tell the person that something is not functioning right and they can do something about it. But ordinarily the person doesn’t want to hear that so they do something to make themselves incapable of hearing X or Mushkil Gusha, the remover of difficulties so they cover it up with and use many, many forms of things from distractions to drugs to alcohol to many other means of effort to keep from hearing X from talking to them in the symbol. In order to hear X you have to be somewhat quiet as the old wood cutter sometimes would sit down he was at the end of his rope he didn’t know where to go and as Mushkil Gusha told the old woodcutter, when your need is great enough and your want is small enough. Only when your want is small enough does the mind become quiet enough for the two way communication to take place and be heard. As long as the wants are yammering away as loud as they can obviously we never hear that voice of X coming through the other way. So it effectively keeps it off. When the want was little, small enough and the need was great enough, then Mushkil Gusha appeared to remove the difficulty.
Now what really happens is fairly easy if we stop to see that a mind has to be quiet before we can pick up communication from X. In other words, X is not going to scream, holler and kick at the door like a banshee, it is calm, serene and peaceful but it does respond. And it does hear for all that is asked of it. We sometimes call it reporting, but no matter where you ask or report or tell or whatever as long as the need is great enough and the want is small enough that the conditioned or fragmented awareness can be quiet long enough for it to hear, then there is information that comes through.
Now in the story of the old woodcutter, it seems that when he forgot, that terrible things happened to him but that’s not because he forgot, that he was being punished in any way what-so-ever, because X loves it’s awareness and it’s body continually. But it is when he paid no attention to it, all of his attention from higher consciousness level got away and he got concerned with a hundred and one things and was not thinking of Mushkil Gusha; we would say he was asleep. In the fact of being Spiritually awake, being Spiritually awake is possibly being in a condition of service, without being thought up that I have to do this, I must do it or in any other way, but it’s there, let’s do it. And without regards to personalities, etc, and so forth. Where there, some of the notes of the Scriptures where the Christ was condemned because he talked to hookers and because he talked to foreigners and because he would heal a person from an other land as quick as he did the Hebrew people and the Hebrew people were scandalized by it because they felt he should only be doing things for them because they were the chosen folks. But he saw that he worked for a Roman soldier slave boy just as much as he would for some of the high muckety-mucks of the Judaic religion, probably a little more. And because the man came in the right frame of mind and asked for assistance, the assistance was given. Nobody had to go see him or anything of the sort, the assistance was given. So if we can begin to see that if we can have a quiet mind and the only way we can have a quiet mind is not to have a lot of wants because if we want a bunch of things the mind is yammering constantly and conniving as to how it can get it and if the person is somewhat of a religious bent they might pray but if they pray they are telling Life what to give them as if they already know.
We have been reading a little book about a sweet little girl from down in the tropics and she didn’t outline things as to how it would come, she just knew it was going to work out well. And I would say she had an example constantly that Mushkil Gusha was there because in the story which is obviously fiction but probably based upon some semblance of a real person somewheres or other. Instead of being tagged with wants she saw that everything would be alright as far as things went and she was in many, many, many difficulties that were extreme and she was always delivered by seemingly almost miraculous methods if not we can say miraculous if we want to go for those words but that she was delivered by her having a quiet mind. And that was one of the things she always worked at was to get her mind quiet even if she had to leave everybody and go out and sit in the jungle by herself. She got her mind quiet and then she come in and say everything was all right. Now her need was obviously in many cases very intense but to all appearances her wants were very, very nil. She wasn’t wanting anything for herself or what have you. And I think that is as much a story of Mushkil Gusha as the story of the old woodcutter is.
So let’s see if we can have ourselves in the mental condition that we can have, see something that is needed that we can say that it will be taken care of and be quite willing to serve but we have no desire to say how it will come about because in many of the ways that are relieved is as the Scripture says, “Strange and wondrous is the way of the Lord.” Lord being X, Awareness, Life, whatever word one wants to use there. That is constantly communicating to the conscious mind or the interest of Awareness and using it if it will allow it to be used. You allow the whole thing to be used. But most of the time, the conscious mind the educated awareness, is so cock sure that it knows exactly what ought to be, how it ought to be done and etc. and that its wants are so great that it is yammering away that it never hears the voice of Life which is Wisdom itself. And possibly would be the only really transforming situation in a human life that if a person’s life is; all the action is determined by X and that the Awareness sees what is but doesn’t see what ought to be done about it, how it ought to be done or anything else, it’s job is to see what is without judgment. And that it knows that the other things will be alright without going into all the detailing of trying to tell the Creative Power what to do. I have been to churches and I have also been to dinners where somebody said to give the blessing and they gave great detailed instructions to God. So if they are capable of giving detailed instructions to God, obviously God is a dumb cluck and would not know how to do anything, so why tell him about it and if you're so damn smart and know exactly how to do it why don’t you go do it instead of telling the Lord how to do it.
I, at one time interfered in a long dissertation of a blessing. I was serving dinner to about 50 some people and I announced that dinner was ready and they called upon one of dear Sisters to give the blessing; 34 minutes later she was still telling the Lord what to do and I walked out and slapped the table very hard and said “Dinner is served!” And we started setting it down in front of them. I don’t know what happened to the rest of her prayer, but in anyway it got shut off along about there somewheres, because this person was giving detailed instructions to the good Lord, what to do about this people, what to do about that person, what to do about the whole national situation, what to do about everything as though she knew all the answers, so I didn’t feel that in any way was I being sacrilegious by interfering in this long recitation, it would appear that she was trying to convince everybody around her that she was so smart she knew what to do about everything and everything under the sun, so I didn’t feel it was very wrong to go out and slap the table and say we are serving dinner NOW and start slopping it in front of them right quick.
So I think that if we can remember that Mushkil Gusha is a name for Life, for the inherit Spirit that emanates man. Without that Spirit there, there is a dead body laying around, whatever. And that that is quite capable and willing of communicating to us if we stop to listen, now and then, anyway. And that it can take care of all sorts of things if it is allowed to do so without the interference, but evidently it is extremely polite, and does not interfere in anyway. It does take care of things in many and strange and wondrous ways. So I think that would cover the story of Mushkil Gusha for tonight and we appreciate always remembering to consider it and possibly just Thursday night is not quite adequate, probably if every day in the week was thought about it, it would probably be even better. Good night.
