Hilarion: Bringing us to a question that has been posed about a good business that would incorporate or welcome some aspects of spirituality, of consciousness, of awakening. Does there appear to be a contradiction in terms in understanding this? The very nature of business itself is focused on profit, on bringing money. All of the things that you are going to leave behind. But, the very nature of awakening, the consciousness, the awareness, the love, these are the things you are going to take with you; you will learn from this and grow.
So, it would appear in learning from what has been successful in marketing, in making lots of money for people has been the promise of this awakening of this consciousness of more love, etc. All of the important spiritual ideals that you can list as important in your own life. If this is promised then it is that which would appear to engender a lot of attraction, a lot of money, a lot of possibility.
Karmically, you always recognize the problem with this. Because if it is only a promise and you don't deliver on that, then karmically you're doing a great disservice to others, you’re even fooling yourself. It is very difficult to do that which would guarantee some of those important spiritual values. Even some of the lesser ones such as friendship or listening or helping others. These can sometimes be difficult to provide in a marketing sense.
This at the core is the opportunity for new business; for a way in which this poor fit between profit and true potential or consciousness could work together somehow in the world. It must be more than a promise. It must be that which delivers. It must be the way in which an individual for themselves is naturally going to, as a result of whatever is offered, be able to enhance or bring up their own consciousness, etc.
So, naturally you come into areas of education, areas of coaching, areas in which you are communicating with others to help them to a higher level of consciousness. But, along the way it is very helpful if a continuous evaluation of oneself takes place.
Am I only promising or am I delivering? This is a very difficult place and there are very few, even of the greatest gurus and teachers that have ever done this. They bring their information forward and let it go and this is perfectly appropriate if there is little in the way of karma engendered. Specifically, as soon as money gets involved, karma isn't usually very far behind because after all what does money signify but the idea of debt and borrowing and promises and all of these things that have symbolic meaning to their reminder to you of your own karma.
So, if it is that which is being offered freely you can pretty much go anywhere you want with it, karmically speaking. But, if it is that which money does play an important role or even specifically if you are designing your enlightenment or education or awakening or consciousness or coaching business to bring in money, then the karmic issues must show up. In the sense that whether you say so or not, you are making a promise; you are loaning your consciousness to the other person in a sense and to be true to this it is important to understand two things: there are two paths that now illustrate and understand for you by your own nature what is really going on here.
This is different. It used to be the only path of the karma. You would create a promise, an issue, you would deliver or not and have to deal with it later where there was a problem or an imbalance perhaps even into the next life or into the next and on and on it would go.
But, the other possibility here is that even when you don't deliver there is sufficient love, there is sufficient forgiveness, there is sufficient energy associated with love that the karma is dissolved. This is pretty tricky because it's saying that it is possible to do business in a way that does create problems, expectations, debts, various issues and this would not have significant residue if you had enough love.
The jury is out on that one, one might say as to how this might be an application of the ability to use love to dissolve karma when you know ahead of time that you are creating karma. But, it is an intriguing one to think about for one simple reason: that at some point when the love is strong enough, when it truly does melt and reach and connect, it does something spiritually much more profound and powerful than what you had promised. It is showing your own self-revelation.
It often at such a level then would require an individual to give back any money that they had taken in simply and purely out of their own forgiveness. It might require them to go into a position of deep service or assistance to someone else. The way in which this manifests is that which people may begin to think about even more now that this idea of dissolving karma with love has been introduced.
