After dropping my character armor, (1) there’s a lot less chatter which “I” (2) compete with – a lot less of the automatic, habitual “error messages” that we navigate our lives by.
And among these there are always a few which have command value. I’ve called them “Grand Motifs.” (3)
- You can never trust anyone.
- Don’t turn your back on anyone.
- Always look out for Number One.
That was my merchant-marine father who won sparring matches dockside.
He was a good foil for me to get on top of my own anger, which the Arcturian Group said recently is exactly what many of our parents this lifetime are there for – to excite all unresolved issues in prep for Ascension.
Once I realized his probable role in getting my own anger issues going, I forgave him. That probably took around three-score years and ten – a normal, Biblical lifespan!
Even though my core issues (or vasanas) are muted now, they’re still there. According to Ramana, they’re not burned to a crisp except by Ascension (sahaja nirvikalpa samadhi, vijnana). (4)
But even more prominent is that I feel a silent holding back in myself, a resistance, and I struggled to put a name to it.
Then by really looking, I discovered that my Grand Motifs were still operating, very subtly, in the background.
So dropping one’s character armor is not the end of the road or any road!
It really is just a second chance, another opportunity to get it right, like Scrooge on Christmas Eve. The rest is up to me.
If I were to continue in my Scrooge-like ways, I imagine I’d rebuild my character armor. And, oooh, I don’t want that experience.
This clarity that I feel, this clearness of the air waves, is such an improvement that, even if I were only looking out for Number One, I’d hanker for it.
But, as a guinea pig or pathfinder, I’m always looking at any new development from the standpoint of whether it’s of benefit to the collective.
Dropping one’s character armor is definitely highly valuable to one’s peace of mind and direct experience of life. I’d say, highly valuable to the collective.
But this matter of the background commands that still seem to go off, the Grand Motifs that linger unto the last, hmmm….
Footnotes
(1) See:
- Factory Reset; or, Dropping Our Character Armor at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Factory-Reset-or-Dropping-Our-Character-Armor-R6.pdf
- Emergence at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Emergence-3.pdf
(2) The actor/observer.
(3) See “The Grand Motif,”
(4) If the mind becomes introverted through enquiry into the Source of Aham-vritti [the “I am” wave in the mind], the vasanas [core issues] become extinct and in the absence of the reflecting medium the phenomenon of reflection, namely, the mind, also disappears being absorbed into the Light of the one Reality, the Heart. (Sri Ramana Maharshi in Maharshi’s Gospel. Books I and II. Being Answers of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi to Questions Put to Him by Devotees. Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanasramam,1979; c1939, 87.)
In Yoga Vasistha two classes of vasanas are distinguished: those of enjoyment and those of bondage. The former remain even after Mukti [liberation, Ascension] is attained, but the latter are destroyed by it. Attachment is the cause of binding vasanas, but enjoyment without attachment does not bind and continues even in Sahaja [Ascension]. (Ramana Maharshi in S.S. Cohen, Guru Ramana. Memories and Notes. 6th edition. Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanasramam, 1993, 89.)