Juanito
One calm sunny day, being on
seashore, we noticed a Mahadouble of a Divine
Teacher over a glade. As always, we began the
acquaintance by asking His name. He resisted for
some time:
“Why do you need it? It’s not
important!”
But then He “gave up”:
“Juanito, a young Indian chief in
the last incarnation.”
“When did You incarnate? At the time
of Spaniards?”
“No, it was before the Conquest. I
was the chief of a small tribe in Mexico.
“It was a tribe of explorers of the
nagual. And it was tribe’s way of life — to expel
unworthy people and to invite worthy ones from
everywhere, from all other tribes. This kind of a
‘tribal’ spiritual School we had! In the history of
this tribe, there were always about 100-200
students.
“Then the Conquest began, and we all
were shot dead…
“And now — I remained alive and am
with you!”
“Have You ever been with us before
today?”
“Every time you met don Juan, I was
nearby. This place I like especially!…”
“What about Mexico?”
“No, there remained no such people…
“And here — every clear day, I
admire rising and setting of the sun!
“And I dream that any person from
any corner of the planet could come here and develop
spiritually!”
… We ask Juanito what, in His
opinion, is the most important for us now.
He shows the meditation “the hat of
Juanito” and says, laughing:
“Look at the Freedom! Now you look
at all kinds of things: on your followers, on your
foes… You have to look more forward: at the Freedom!
“Also, realize: I remain always That
What I am independent of the conditions occurring on
the material plane. You, too, have to master this:
to be Me whatever happens around.
“One of the aspects of the spiritual
warrior’s art of action is that he, if
happened to be in adverse conditions, never merges
with them but always remains true to himself. It is
not places of power on the Earth’s surface
that have to dictate you who you are, but rather you
have to remain that what you decided to be —
independent of the energetics of the surroundings
and other influences!”
“Juanito! Tell us please about Your
Path to the Creator, about Your tribe, which
imparted from generation to generation the knowledge
about the spiritual methods leading to the cognition
of God! How did You learn, how did You help others?”
Juanito smiles with His whole Calm
of the Consciousness, which gently envelops you from
all sides… From this transparent Calm, images begin
to appear, and words flow softly…
… Warm calm night… A fire is
burning. A young Indian chief is sitting motionless
and looks at the fire not with the eyes of the body,
but with the eyes of the consciousness. Nothing
disturbs the calm, but quiet crackling of the fire
and distant cries of bird…
“Every member of the tribe learned
to be ‘invisible’,” Juanito began narrating. “It was
accomplished though gradual mastering of methods of
total reciprocity. (Of course, we called it by
different terms). In order to become ‘invisible’,
one has to learn merging with the surroundings in
deep calm. Naturally, one could not master this,
‘living in the head’: dissolving and merging is
possible only from the lower bubble of perception.
“For hours, a student could be
mastering the ability of becoming one with
stones and rocks — and then the steadfastness and
stillness of cliffs became such an experience of the
consciousness that to spot the body of such a
person, looking at it from a distance, was almost
impossible…
“Then — trees, forest… Embracing the
space with the consciousness, the student would
disappear; the student’s body would merge with the
surroundings and do not stand out against the
background.
“Staying in calm-mergence taught
students love. We had no special techniques for
opening the spiritual heart, but we knew that man’s
spirit abides in the center: where the source of
breathing and heart’s rhythm is.
“Then one had to learn moving
in this calm. We chose animals whose movements were
most soft and graceful. And a student learned the
ability of looking like one or several animals: to
move softly, to see and hear the surrounding space
with the consciousness, to give with the
consciousness signs to a distance and to receive
signs from others… If one stays with the
consciousness in the lower bubble of perception
and tries to see something that only an eagle can
see from such a distance, then gradually one gains
the ability to see with the consciousness that which
cannot be seen by the physical eyes.
“Then, worthy students were
initiated into young chiefs. Becoming a tutor
for the beginners, a young chief could learn
experiencing the students as clear as oneself, could
learn love-care. At the same time, he could
gain the ability to perceive the Higher Chiefs
and the Supreme Chief — the Great guiding
Power, the Supreme Will.
“He would master also the ability to
see and hear in the space of the Spirit. Seeing,
i.e. perceiving with the consciousness, leads to
knowledge, to understanding the essence of what you
see and hear.
“In this way, gradually, a student
would come to the direct perception of God. And then
— it is easy —as in your case: the methods of the
final stages are not very different between
different spiritual Schools; only their names differ
in different languages. And the ability to dissolve
and be that which you merge with, provided
remarkable results: the transfer of the
self-awareness into the world of the Spirit,
the world of the Power could be accomplished
very easily.
“In this way, we helped
consciousnesses to move to the worlds of the Holy
Spirit and then — to the Abode of the Creator. And
every One Who achieved the Freedom became a
Guide leading there others…”
