OBSERVATION MAKES YOU A CAUSE

As long as you are identified with your bodies and with their changes, desires, and thoughts, you are an effect because they control you. But when you try to observe them, you become a cause. Detatchment comes through observation. In identification, you become one with the object. When you are one, you cannot observe.

A disciple must be an observer. He must see things as they are, as they are going to be. He must observe things in action. He must observe himself in all his actions - physically, emotionally, and mentally.

When you observe, you will find among other things that your body is activated by outside force; your emotional body is the playground of many emotions ; your mental body is used by thoughts other than your own. This will give you the idea that they are vehicles and not your Self. You have an opportunity to detatch yourself, and your observation will make you a cause.

Be a cause. Your education, money, and position do not mean anything from the viewpoint of your evolution unless you become a cause. If you are not a cause, you are used by other interests, and you have no choice.

Vices are identification with the objects of your desires. When you are in an observing state of mind, nothing can hypnotize you. You can even reject subliminal suggestions. If you are passive, you are subject to hypnotism.

Observations show you the effect of your speech, thoughts, and emotions. See how your thoughts, emotions, and words are affecting your digestion, for example. See how other people's words are influencing your digestion through your thinking. People think that it is stomach that digests food. It is not. It is your mind that digests food. If your mind is in agitation, confusion, or a chaotic state, you will not digest properly and all your food will eventually turn into poison.

That is why Great Ones told us to eat our food in peace and silence. You must eat in serenity, joy, and love, and of course you will digest your food.

When you eat while watching television programs about crime, hatred, war, and so on, you are actually eating the impressions from the television, mixing them with your food, and sending them to your stomach.

Observation makes you awake, thus you take those steps which lead you to health and sanity.

Observe the effect of things you drink. Then after you notice the effects, eliminate the things that are not healthy. In observing your life, you are mastering your life and making yourself a cause instead of remaining as an effect. Progress means to be a higher and higher cause. It is said that God is the Causeless Cause.

Pg. 170.chapter 23; Challenge For Discipleship. ;Torkom Saraydarian.