Lester Levenson - No Attachments, No Aversions: The Autobiography of a Master

No Attachments

No Aversions

By Lester Levenson

An American Master's Own Story

to Spiritual Enlightenment

For the first time, a living American Master tells the story of his life and details step by step in simple, everyday English how he achieved the extraordinary powers of omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence.

This twentieth century Master came into his immortality not by the shores of the Ganges, nor on the heights of the Himalayas, but in the bustling heart of New York City.

In the past, anyone who has sought information and understanding of ultimate happiness and peace has had to turn to the exotic teachings of the East.

Lester Levenson, born in New Jersey, a former physicist and businessman, points the way to freedom that Westerners can readily understand and follow.

Introduction

When I think this book is going to be about me, I get cringing feelings. It's not easy for me to be an ego and yet I must talk as an ego in order to communicate.

Once you see your real inner Self, it's very difficult to identify as a separate individual, an ego. But I can go through with the telling of this story. I fell into something that everyone is looking for. I had no idea it was there. All of my desires were fulfilled; all my miseries dropped away; all my sicknesses disappeared.

I came into an exalted state of happiness, so tremendous, it is difficult to describe. This joy is what everyone in the world is seeking. This is what very few people are finding.

But the way this fell upon me can be given to others, so that it can fall upon them also. I'm talking about something that hardly anyone has yet experienced. How can I describe it?

No limits on anything in any direction whatsoever. The ability to do anything for the mere thought of it. Yet it is more than that.

Imagine the highest joy you can have, multiply it by a hundred, and tell me what it is. You will only feel it to the degree that you're capable of feeling it, experiencing it. It can't be gotten intellectually through the mind.

Imagine being madly in love with your mate and embracing your mate, with your mind on nothing else but the joy of the embrace. Now double that for two people, quadruple it for four people, and then make it four billion times greater by including the four billion people on earth.

That's the feeling.

Lester Levenson

Table Of Contents

LIFE BEFORE CONSCIOUSNESS

Love is Trust

I was an average guy seeking happiness in money and women, battling my way through life like everyone else. Never finding it, I continued banging my head so hard on the brick wall of the world that I almost smashed my brains out. I had ulcers, migraine, jaundice, kidney stones and finally a coronary attack which put me near death.

That extremity drove me into the right direction, to the knowledge of what life is all about. This knowledge gave me contentment, actually a peace which cannot be disturbed. People can yell at me, scream, do anything, and the peace in the background never changes.

It's there all the time. I was a rebel against society and I banged my head on its brick wall until I discovered the way out.

Now that I have discovered it, others don't have to bang their head so hard to find it. It's available for anyone who wants it.

Anyone who really wants the knowledge and freedom gets it. All you need is youand the desire for it. You are the book. You are the real book. An intense desire for it opens up the real you to you.

That's what happens. But we're so plagued with blindness today that we need a teacher, one who knows and can keep pointing out the way.

Within you is unlimited power, knowledge and intelligence. You just open yourself up to that which you subconsciously already know, have always known and always will know.

From the beginning, I was bewildered. I couldn't understand the world. I rebelled against it, yet I wanted to do right, be right with the world. From post-college days on until 1952, I just kept trying to do what I thought was the correct thing.

I had a degree in physics and I wanted to be the world's greatest physicist. I was graduated from college in 1931. No jobs for physicists then, so I shifted into engineering. I worked as an aeronautical, civil, mechanical, electrical, marine and construction engineer.

I'd get a job and wouldn't last a year because it just didn't feel right. So I'd go into another type of engineering and yet another. I tried going into business for myself. I've been in many businesses, again for short periods of time. I'd get them successful, lose interest, then lose them.

I just kept changing and changing, never understanding why until 1952. Then I realized what I was looking for was not in a job or business. No job, no business, even when I was into it and successful, could give it to me.

During my whole life, I was unconsciously seeking what I discovered in 1952.

MYSELF:

I was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, July 19, 1909.

My earliest recollection was of water. I always loved water. When I was four, I used to walk two long blocks and two short blocks to a large docking and recreation wharf in Elizabethport.

I'd climb up on a wall at the edge of the dockit was about two feet high and about three feet wideand I'd just lie down on it with my head over the edge watching the water flow by for hours at a time, for so many hours that my mother went looking for me. When she found me, she almost collapsed seeing me, a tot, hanging over the edge of the dock and gently took me by the hand and with a smile said, "Come on home." She never scolded me. She just told me I shouldn't do that because I might fall in.

But I never fell in. I didn't believe it. Liking the water so much I'd wander back to the dock.

Even as a child I wasn't believing what others told me. My mother warned me that green bananas made people sick. I used to love bananas. I had eaten green bananas and had not gotten sick. So to prove a point, one day I ate a dozen green bananas and said, "Look, Ma! I feel fine!'" She just laughed.

My mother used to get a delight out of me. Here I was, so little and acting like a grown-up, teaching her by proving things to her.

"We are unlimited beings, limited only by the concepts of limitation we hold in our minds."

My mother was an unusually loving person. Never in her whole lifetime did she ever scold me. Never.

She was so good, whatever she asked, you had to do it for her. Not only I, but my three sisters did the same thing. We could never refuse her because she herself went way out of her way to help us all the time. She never said "No" to us. Wouldn't even "No" us on anything.

When she died, mobs and mobs of people came to the funeral and we never expected it. She loved every person she met. What a winning personality! All of my friends, everyone, loved her.

She was the real guiding light in the family.

She was so very giving. I'd come home, get undressed and throw my shoes and clothes all over the place. She'd follow after me and pick up, never with a harsh word.

My father was the opposite. "Now you do it or else...!" I'd defy him and then run to get behind my mother for protection.

When I became a teenager and was dating girls, she gently said, "Just be careful, Lester, Just be careful."

I said, "Don't worry, Mom. I know what I'm doing." I thought I was a man.

I was a bewildered, quiet, small child, always down at the end of the line in school because of my short height. My predominate characteristic was shyness.

It's a horrible thing being shy. In the first grade when I was supposed to recite a Christmas poem, my mother was so delighted, she diligently helped me learn it. I was trying not to, but I did learn it only to make her happy. Then I got sick the day of the Christmas party. I really played sick.