If you ask yourself the question: "What do I expect from life?” and you give an honest answer, the quality of that answer contains the response the question of the Soul’s maturity.
Here are 12 keys to recognize the
maturity of the Soul
Key 1.
The immature Soul
is always full of desires, it has
ambitions and objectives it intends to achieve, whether these ambitions are of
the lowest order (money, power) or of the most sophisticated ones (religious
devotion, spiritual self-implementation). Reaching these goals always requires
time, so future is always important for the immature Soul.
Key 2.
If
the immature Soul
has spiritual objectives, than it may suspect that all important things
take place in the Now, here and now, but the Ego still uses the present moment
as a springboard to get to its future objectives.
Key 3.
The mature Soul, when the question "What do I expect from life?” is posed,
provides the following answer: I want to
find the real center of my life in order to reach the lasting happiness
afforded by the independence of shapes and forms, the joy of Existence and the
state of unity.
Key 4.
When
the immature Soul
turns towards spiritual goals and encounters the requirements of a
mind-free state, it starts to play its mind games with which it attempts to
bridge the unbridgeable gap between itself and real Existence.
Key 5.
The
mature Soul is
beyond its desires and ambitions bound to shapes and forms. The realization
that achieving the goals and ambitions did not bring it real happiness, made it
mature. It may have brought temporary satisfaction, but not lasting happiness.
Key 6.
The
mature Soul experienced
the nature of desires, the constant variability of the world of shapes and
forms, where nothing is lasting, everything is dialectical, changeable.
Key 7.
The
mature Soul is
able to abandon its desires and ambitions, and becomes poor in terms of worldly
property.
Key 8.
It
is important to know that the immature Soul is only able to imitate that poverty,
as it has not yet experienced wealth (whether it is material, intellectual or
moral wealth), so there is still a suppressed, unconscious desire in it for
those things. Until the desires are satisfied, the Ego will not have a chance
to experience the nature of forms, shapes and desires, so it cannot become
mature.
Key 9.
The mature Soul is aware that
the Ego is not the real center of his/her Self. The mature Soul will
identify with it to a lesser and lesser extent. The mature Soul will
start to seek the real center, and rely on it to an increasing extent.
Key 10.
The mature Soul does not insist
on itself, it is pleased to surrender to the process that eventually dissolves
it.
Key 11.
The
immature Soul
wants to live in the shapeless and formless world too, and it wants to
be somebody in that world as well
Key 12.
The mature Soul gradually
abandons identification with the Ego, giving way to the recognition that the
Ego is in fact a Consciousness without a form.
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