If I can ask you to visualize a starship making its final approach on return to the mother ship…. That’s about our situation.
We’re on our return to the Mother/Father One. Well, we’re not quite on final approach. Just a refueling stop, it turns out, on a very long journey.
Some people have taken a scenic detour and we’ll catch up with them later. Others were sent out on their one common journey before or after us and so they may be at a different place on Jacob’s ladder of conscious evolution.
We’re all in the Fourth Dimension now but there are twelve sublevels to all dimensions. Think of them as classrooms.
Next stop after this sees a branching of tracks, one branch into the province of non-duality. Another branch circling back for one more cycle here. And some even fall off the wagon, get bogged down, and go back a few turns.
But even they complete the journey.
The Mother feeds everyone, Sri Ramakrishna says. Those who are hungry in the morning, she feeds in the morning; those at noon, she feeds at noon; and those in the evening, she feeds in the evening. (1)
So, yes, we’re all equal in the sense that we were birthed from the Mother, encasing the same one Soul of the Father in matter (mater, Mother). But we’re all sent on a long journey into ignorance and on to Realization. (2)
And some are here and some are there. No judgment. No fault. No disgrace.
Just different places … on the one same journey.
Footnotes
(1) “The Mother will not allow any of her children to go hungry. He who is hungry in the morning will be fed in the morning. He whose appetite is aroused late in the evening will be fed in the evening.” (Paramahansa Ramakrishna in Swami Chetanananda, ed. and trans. Ramakrishna as We Saw Him. St Louis: Vedanta Society of St. Louis, 1990, 172.)
“All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food. All, without any exception, will certainly know the real Self.” (Paramahansa Ramakrishna in Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 818.)
(2) So that, in that moment of Supreme Knowing, God can meet God. See
“Chapter 13. Epilogue” in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment-5.pdf