Assemblage Points - 07.22.10

Student Question: It was mentioned in the study group that the ego moves through different assemblage points. Can you maybe describe more about how the ego moves through these different points?

“An assemblage point is an organizing principle around which the ego operates,” delineates Shunyamurti, the director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “The first one is about security issues,” and the ego wants to cling to anything that will give it “a sense of security in the world—but it doesn’t actually . . . know how to enjoy them. . . . And then at the next level, it’s more of aggression, and anger, and revenge for having lost the nest, the womb of the mother. And then at the next one, finally there’s a relationship of reciprocity that becomes possible with others. Love finally becomes possible, but it still has this quid pro quo. . . . And so at each assemblage point, there’s more freedom, there’s more generosity, there’s more attraction to Spirit, to Love, to Light, to giving, to feeling one with nature. . . . So the great willpower that we need is to get past the lower assemblage points, and then the higher ones take us effortlessly to bliss.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, July 22, 2010.