Here are some short excerpts from transcripts of Arjuna and Chameli teaching the Deeper Love, to give you a better feel for the orientation of their work:

1.  The Need To Practice

In some ways translucence is just another way to describe a human being’s most natural state. This is how children live, with an open, playful, total involvement in life, free of concepts, glued to the present moment. But to sustain this way of living, awake to our unchanging nature but without resisting the natural flow of life, is to take a stand against a lifetime of habits. Translucents embrace spiritual practice not as a means to achieving a future goal but as a way to a more fully lived present moment, with open heart, open mind, and open body.

We face a mountain of habits at odds with our heart’s deepest knowing. This schism can be profoundly frustrating and painful. We have no choice, those of us with feet of clay and hearts on fire, but to face habits as they arise, allowing them to be alchemized through honesty and courage. As we encounter our old ways, passed down through generations, we must use increasingly creative tools to crack the concrete of our routine life and to wiggle our love and clarity into the crack. Anything short of this leaves us compromised and restless.

2. The End of War

When the current of deeper love is alive in us, it becomes just as interesting to be proven wrong, than to be right. In fact, being right may seem to be quite a lonely, isolated and painful place to live.

When life is dedicated to a deeper love, we start to seek out feedback, we become so thirsty to dissolve separation and come back to an alive open flow constantly meeting this moment fresh.

Then our whole disposition towards our partner calls out, ‘Show me where I am unconscious.  I am tired of being right.  I no longer trust the certainties of my mind.  Show me where I am mistaken.

We spread our arms wide open, exposing the soft belly, we say “I welcome the sharp knife of your surgery, now serve me well.”

No one will take this stance in mortal combat.  We have to become willing to lose the fight and thus to win our freedom.

3. Appreciation

The way that the current of deeper love flows through you is a gift to the world, one that can only be given through you, it can never be given in this was through anyone else.

The very same thing is true for your beloved.

Who is your partner, really?  Who is this other person who you love, and who loves you?

When we ask ourselves this question, there are many dimensions of answers which can come back to us.

At one level your partner is a personality with needs, a bundle of compulsive neurotic tendencies.  And you can point out those tendencies almost eternally, and try to fix them.

Now look little deeper.

At another level, at an absolute level, your partner is you, is limitless pure consciousness, your partner is that same presence from which everything is made.  In that absolute Oneness there is no relationship at all, there is only the recognition that what is seeing and what is being seen is the same.

 Now look again.  There is still so much more to see still.

 As soon as you partner moves, as soon as your partner speaks, makes a casual gesture or even has a casual thought, you are experiencing another unique expression of divinity in form. 

 If you live for a hundred million years, you will never see God dance in the way again. When you see this, it becomes almost impossible to ever take your beloved for granted again. You are watching a miracle.  The fountain of godliness which is erupting from the source is so huge, so magnificent, so inspiring, if you open your eyes and heart and mind wide, that you will fall to your knees in awe at what is before you. 

 Every single day, be sure to come back into this way to looking beyond appearances.  Look, just really really look, and devotion will flow all on its own.

 4. Come Close ~ Give me Space

 The need to be close and intimate, and the need to spend time alone, are both basic human needs.  There are natural and universal.  If you do not think, or judge, or hold concepts of what should be, intimate relationship will flow between these two like the tides in the ocean.

 But for most of us, early on we loose connection with these simple needs.  There are not generally respected or given much attention by the outer world when we are growing up.  When we really need to be alone we ignore it, afraid we may hurt the other, and then face our own rejection.  When we really want to bond we often stand awkward on the sidelines, forgetting how to dance, or even how to ask for a dance.

 And so it is that we can force ourselves, and the other, to be together when we really need to be alone, and to be separate when we really long to be together.

 The current of deeper love knows exactly when to dance and when to enjoy the sweetness of solitude.  Drop deeper into the current, and each becomes an ecstasy and another dimension of intimacy.

 Don’t wait.  Your body, your heart will know. Take space from each other as an act of devotion to your closeness, and come together with totality not because you need to, but as a token of deepest meditation and honoring of the Oneness that pervades all of life.

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