AUTO-PILOT'S MANUAL: VII. Maintenance

1. Remember that your control room is fully equipped with maintenance and repair kit.
2. Your contact with control room and accurate reporting automatically bring the maintenance and repair kit into action. 
3. The awareness of the slightest disharmony is a sign that the pilot is not in the control room and he must get back to it at once. Disharmony is not a defect, but is a guide to the pilot, bringing more and more parts and functions of his craft to his awareness and so to the ground control to be rectified. The search for an illusory state of undisturbable harmony is the Hijackers' trademark. The pilots duty is to be aware and report.

It is the Hijacker who runs further and further away from the control room when the craft is in trouble in search of garages knowing full well that no garage on earth has made his craft. 

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AUTO-PILOT'S MANUAL: V. Control Room and Ground Control

1. At some point in the pilots apprenticeship course he will become automatically aware of control room and ground control.
2. He will learn that the control room is an extension of the ground control. 
3. He will learn that the learning of control lies in accurately reporting to the control room or ground control ALL THAT COMES TO AWARENESS without editing. It is the Hijacker who Edits.
4. In training his craft to more and more accurately 'log', 'report', ALL THAT COMES TO AWARENESS, through whatever channel - mind, dream, eye, ear, muscle, word, thought, feeling, all the nerves etc., without editing, annotating and amplifying, and such other habits introduced by the Hijacker, the pilot does his job and the ground control does the needful. It is the Hijacker who thinks that with the limited information he has at his disposal, he can reform, transform the ports of call or his craft etc. The ground control has a more total or global information and can use the information you give to the best advantage. If you have separate interests of your own, then Editing becomes necessary and YOU WILL KNOW WHO YOU ARE! The Ground Control keeps no secrets from you - see that you do not keep any secrets from the Ground Control. The Hijacker loves Mysteries and Secrets.

Falk Lademann - Ground Control

REMEMBER!
To establish the Age of Light and Delight on earth You must establish them first of all, in the bit of the Earth given you, called your own body.

       5. The pilot will soon learn that:

Expressing love, oneness, truth, joy, positive speech, learning the controls of the craft, accurately reporting to the control-room, being in constant contact with the ground control, all these are just the different facets of the same process.

AWARENESS IS A FACULTY

Electricity is an abstraction. But uses of electricity are concrete. Our understanding of electricity increases with the exploration and exploitation of its uses.

Awareness is a faculty - perhaps the first of faculties without which nothing exists for Me.

Faculties grow with cultivation. I must systematically cultivate this faculty in much the same way I cultivate other faculties like my speech or muscular power.

I found some of the following ways useful.

1. At any given moment I note down the contents in as much detail as practicable: persons, places, times, objects, own instrumental reactions - feelings, thoughts, intended actions and words; reactions of muscles, breathing, heart beats, bodily and facial expressions, etc.
2. In practice, I find that the contents get dominated by some social interaction, by an incident, centering around a person or two. There is very little of the vast abundance around me: the trees, sky or sea, birds and nature’s bounty.
3. I become aware of the extreme poverty of my house of awareness; the feelings of narrowness, imprisonment, suffocation that are the natural consequence of this cultivated constriction.
4. I, at once, become aware of this narrowness and the ease with which this can be enlarged.
5. I become aware of the centuries of conditioning that have resulted in this misfortune of having the awareness oriented to view the miserable little personal self as the centre of the universe, the whole universe as an object for one’s eating and exploitation. The whole awareness is trained to scan for food or a mate - the proverbial vulture which soars very high with its eyes in search of carrion.
6. It is this systematically inducted egocentric awareness that is at the basis of the present civilisation and its malady.
7. No amount of juggling with this or that reform, or ism, or technology, can solve the riddle till this basic lie on which civilisation rests is nailed for what it is.
8. In any case, I must learn to enlarge the area of awareness, and the awareness of my underlying unity with the whole universe in order to liberate myself from this conditioned prison house. Let me look at an example…

AWARENESS OF UNDERLYING UNITY

I am in a room in the midst a group of people in heated argument. Each assumes some degree of omniscience, omnipotence and self-righteousness.

Each one is aware of nothing but his own miserable little self, its requirements, imagined or real, and various alibis for bolstering up the value of this self-image, as against the others.

Are we really so independant? Are we and the islands of interest the only determinants, even in the contines of the room?

Let me enlarge the contents of awareness, to include something more than the persons, the objects like chairs, and shelves. Consider the air in the room. Imagine for a moment that this air were withdrawn. Not one of those wise disputants can exist. It takes but a fraction of time to realise that we are bit the frontal expressions of an agent called air.

How much enriching contact with the world do we lose by an awareness constricted by the ego-conditioned habits of awareness?

Is there not something one can learn from the worship of the various elements of the universe? I come out of the house and greet the world with a scowl: what a horrible hot day; dreadful rain; and so on. There are quite a number of such people. These are the persons most likely to get pimples, prickly heat and pneumonia. If you hate the sun and rain, the hate will come back to you, the same as your hate for a person. The person who greets the world and the day and the persons he meets with a glad welcome in his heart, ensures himself and his body a bright prospect.

It is not the animists of the primitive tribes who are to be pitied for their ignorance, but the educated primitive of today who cannot go beyond the basic perceptions, essentially true, of the primitive. Man is a product of the evolutionary laboratory of the universe; and his consciousness and awareness and the instruments for it are its products, not its creators. And yet, this puny person denies a much richer and vaster personality to the universe and its various inhabitants. Even a smattering of present day physics should dispel this pretension. What does not come under the category of food ceases to have meaning.

All the isms, plans, technological exploits will fail to solve man’s problems until this first error of perception is abolished: that man is the centre of the universe; the universe exists for his especial exploitation and enjoyment.The world is a person; much bigger and cleverer than you can hope to be.

REARRANGEMENT OF CONTENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

When I speak of My awareness, I am conscious only of the contents of my awareness. Perhaps, I am aware of of awareness itself - but it itself at once becomes a content. This is the practical position with me. I am quite sure there are some persons who are aware of a featureless awareness, and even content to remain in that featureless Brahman. This is not possible for me; and what is not possible for me is useless for me, and the academic question whether there is a featureless awareness, whether it is good or bad have no operational consequence for me. What affects me are the contents of my awareness, and I must investigate and cultivate some control over them.

At this moment what am I aware of?

A catalogue of comments at any given moment, in as much detail as possible, is of great help. I can soon see that the comfort or discomfort I feel is traceable to a particular arrangement of contents; their mutual harmony or discord. A different arrangement might lead to comfort. I must try this out. After all, if I say that this house belongs to me, I must have some control over the contents.

For example, I am annoyed. My awareness consists of:

1. The memory of words someone uttered,

2. The significance of ‘insult’ I attach or learnt to attach to these words,

3. The memories of the good I have done the person and his ungratefulness reinforcing the annoyance,

4. The channels through which my annoyance is expressing itself,

5. Possibly the image of the retaliatory words I intend uttering or acts contemplated etc. - all reinforcing one another; and the whole leading to a most discordant household in the precincts of My Awareness, My very own territory.

If I am to be the master of my awareness, I become aware of the need to rearrange the contents. An ugly room can be improved by any one of the three or more methods:

1. By throwing out the ugly bits,
2. By finding new uses for them,
3. By enlarging the room or the number of its contents, so as to ventilate and dilute the smothering contents,
4. By introducing beneficial and harmonious contents, and so on.

In the above instance: I can counteract the feeling of hurt caused by the person by recalling the number of occasions when the person has been good to me or at least to someone else; by recalling the number of good things that have happened to me during that day, so that this hurt loses its primacy in the enlarged background of the goodness of man or god or life, and so on. If the ownership of the territory of awareness is accepted, the responsibility of beautifying it follows, and the search for methodical mastery follows, instead of bemoaning about fates and gods.