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letter expressing these same sentiments and requesting to
become a student. But in truth, I do not require anything,
as I am simply carrying out anami’s divine will. anami is
an ocean of love and Bliss and only asks that we yearn
more for the Creator than the creation, that we yearn for
the self and god above all else. When an individual finds
oneself within this level of sincerity, this state of conscious-
ness, one is qualified, and this is all the lord asks of us.
To desire the true self and god over and above the created
universe is an achievement that few have attained. It is
rather easy for the ego to presume that it would choose
heaven over earth in a heartbeat, but this is the exception
rather than the rule. The conscious ego so loves its present
desires that to even consider desiring god more than them
is simply a nuisance and an inconvenient consideration for
the ego. generally speaking, most people are content in
their unhappy condition and would not exchange their lives
for another’s, nor would they desire a higher level of exist-
ence even if it were offered to them.
lord krishna, in his parable of the pig, made this
very point to one of his disgruntled disciples, and it so
infuriated this man that he wanted desperately to prove
lord krishna wrong. lord krishna had simply been asked
why he did not lift up those souls immediately around him,
and he had replied that it was because they would not be
eager to leave this world and go to a higher heaven. lord
krishna then told this disciple that if he could find any
creature that did want to ascend to the next higher level, to
bring that creature to him and it would be done. so the
man began running around the countryside looking for any
creature he could find, and he finally came across a pig.
The disciple told the pig that he would be granted a higher
level of existence if he would only come before lord
krishna and ask to be lifted into the world of heavenly