Individuation

Would you please comment further on the differences between c. G. Jung's 'process of individuation' and the essence of the secret of the golden flower?

And if it goes on and on in this way, India will become many countries. Now, deep down, South India wants to separate from North India over the question of language. Now they say that they are a different race, Dravidian, and the North is a different race, Aryan. 'Our blood is separate, our ideal is separate, our language is separate.' So the idea of separating from the North is getting more and more powerful, because then they will have their own prime minister. Up to now all the prime ministers have been from the North. They take the president from the South just to console them, because the president in India is a nonentity. He is like the Queen of England: he is the nominal head of the country, without any power. Just to console the South, they take all the presidents from the South. And the prime minister…

You also asked that George Gurdjieff used to say the awakened man becomes crystallized. Individuation, the person, is born within him. Jung too speaks of individuation in the same way as Gurdjieff: the more a man awakens, the stronger his person becomes within. From this it is natural to ask: in the awakened one does the person become stronger, or does it end? Does the ego form, or is it dissolved?

Therefore Buddha, and all who want to be exact, will speak in the negative. It is not that Mahavira does not know, nor that Shankara does not know. But people are eager: even if a drop agrees to be lost, it will agree under the lure of becoming the ocean. The drop will consent to be lost only if it sees there is no real loss: “Only the drop is lost; I become the ocean.” But Buddha says: if a drop falls into the ocean with the greed to become the ocean, it will not become the ocean—because that very greed will keep it a drop. That very craving, that very thirst, will bind its personality on all sides. Therefore I have used the word shunya to mean that the Ultimate has no boundary. The person simply disappears. Gurdjieff says crystallization; I would say total decrystallization. I would say complete…

The crystallization of an awakened person happens when an individual takes birth in such a person. Jung also says the same thing which Gurdjieff says, when a person is a awake within, his individuality becomes stronger. So, it is natural to raise a question whether the individualization of an awakened person becomes strong or dies out. Is it transformed into ego or does it go away? This is merely the difference in language, nothing more. I call that as the birth of void -- emptiness which Gurdjieff calls crystallization. Really speaking 'an individual is born for the first time by being 'void', because by becoming void, he achieved that virat -- huge individual. By becoming void, by losing individuality, a person becomes 'an individual' for the first time, but this is difficult to understand. This is one of those contradictions of religion we fail to understand.

Master lu-tsu said: only the primal spirit and the true nature overcome time and space.

THE PRIMAL SPIRIT IS BEYOND THE POLAR DIFFERENCES. HERE IS THE PLACE WHENCE HEAVEN AND EARTH DERIVE THEIR BEING. WHEN STUDENTS UNDERSTAND HOW TO GRASP THE PRIMAL SPIRIT THEY OVERCOME THE POLAR OPPOSITES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS AND TARRY NO LONGER IN THE THREE WORLDS BUT ONLY HE WHO HAS ENVISIONED HUMAN NATURE'S ORIGINAL FACE IS ABLE TO DO THIS. WHEN MEN ARE SET FREE FROM THE WOMB THE PRIMAL SPIRIT DWELLS IN THE SQUARE INCH BUT THE CONSCIOUS SPIRIT DWELLS BELOW IN THE HEART. THIS HEART IS DEPENDENT ON THE OUTSIDE WORLD. IF A MAN DOES NOT EAT FOR ONE DAY EVEN IT FEELS EXTREMELY UNCOMFORTABLE. IF IT HEARS SOMETHING TERRIFYING IT THROBS; IF IT HEARS SOMETHING ENRAGING IT STOPS; IF IT IS FACED WITH DEATH IT BECOMES SAD; IF IT SEES SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IT IS DAZZLED. BUT THE HEAVENLY HEART IN THE HEAD, WHEN WOULD IT HAVE MOVED…