June 2015
It may seem too simple to be true, but don’t be misled by the simplicity of the advice. Very few are those who have the courage to trust the innocent and the simple.
To know that your limitations are of your own mind; that your life, its boundaries is of your own making is the dawn of wisdom. To want nothing of it, to be ready to let go entirely is earnestness.
Do not let the suffering make you dull, unable to see its enormity. Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next is to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.
It is no matter that the mind may seem weak and vacillating. In a way, that is the most hopeful case. There is an alternative to Sadhana – Meditative exercises – which is trust. You are the fullness of perfection here and now and that nothing can deprive you of your heritage, of what you are.
You do not know what you are and therefore you imagine your-self to be what you are not. Hence desires and fears and overwhelming despair, and meaningless activity in order to escape. Just trust and live by trust. You will not be misled.
You are the Supreme Reality beyond the world and its creator, beyond consciousness and its witness, beyond all assertions and denials. Remember it, think of it, and act on it. Abandon all sense of separation, see yourself in all and act accordingly. With action, bliss will come and with bliss, conviction. After all, you doubt yourself because you are in sorrow.
Happiness, natural, spontaneous and lasting cannot be imagined. Either it is there, or it is not. Once you begin to experience the peace, love and happiness which need no outer causes, all your doubts will dissolve.
NaturesDestiny 