Nov’ 2015

Destiny only refers to that which has name and shape, which, while in existence is subject to change and inevitable destiny.  Since you are neither body nor mind, changeless, destiny has no hold over you. You are already complete, and completely free. A cup is conditioned by its shape, material, use and so on. The cup is dependent on the space for its utility, but the space within the cup remains free. It happens to be in the cup only when viewed in connection with the cup. Otherwise it is just space.

Imagine a room full of furniture, and you are the space around the furniture. The furniture represents your ideas and attitudes.  It is they that is subject to change and destiny, you are not. Everything depends on you for its existent identity, you do not depend on it for yours. Remove the furniture, and even the walls, and you remain boundlessly there, and available for within and without all that may arise.

As long as you appear to look out from this body and the world it contains, you appear to be the body and its contents. Without body identity you are not disembodied – you just are. Even destiny is but an idea, a content of thought. Words can be put together in so many ways but does that make any change to reality? There are so many ways to view and explain things – all sound plausible, none is true. When you drive a car, your body and its destiny is subjected to the laws of mechanics and chemistry: step out of the car and it is under the laws of physiology and biochemistry.

Asking why be born and what is life’s purpose is like asking – ‘what does it profit gold to be made into an ornament?’ The ornament gets the colour and the beauty of gold, gold is not enriched. Similarly, reality expressed in form and action makes it meaningful and beautiful. The eternal self gains nothing through its expression, nothing whatsoever but it is in the nature of love to express itself, to affirm itself, to resolve difficulties. Beauty is but love made visible. Once you have understood that the world is love in action you will look at it quite differently.

It is easy to be misled by purpose as an aim to be more than you are; for beauty or perfection; that implies a sense of imperfection, a need for change. Would you say that a flower is trying to be beautiful? It is beautiful by its very nature. It is perfection itself, not an effort at perfection.

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It is an error to believe that what is good or bad is to do with what is pleasant, or unpleasant. Karma, or destiny is an expression of a beneficial law: the universal trend towards balance, harmony and unity.  At every moment, whatever happens now is for the best.  It may appear painful and ugly, a suffering bitter and meaningless, yet it is the governance of Nature’s balance in action.

Beyond happiness, the true universal nature of love wants growth, the widening and deepening of consciousness and being.  Whatever prevents that growth is a cause of pain and love does not shirk from pain.  But first is your attitude to suffering, for at the root of suffering is the want to be somewhere else. Pain is primarily a call for attention which itself is a call for love; the great healing power of attendance.

The natural motion for balance and harmony works for righteousness, and orderly development cannot be thwarted. In ignorance any attempt to obstruct turns against itself and becomes destructive, a source of suffering. Whenever love is withheld and suffering allowed to spread war becomes inevitable. Our indifference to our neighbor’s sorrow brings suffering to our door.

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Wisdom beyond knowledge finds perfection beyond birth and death – B’Gita Ch: 14

All that lives works for protecting, perpetuating and expanding consciousness.  This is the world’s sole meaning and purpose.  It is the very essence of Yoga – ever raising the level of consciousness, discovery of new dimensions, with their properties, qualities and powers.  In that sense the entire universe is a school of Yoga.

Perfect unity is Natures Destiny and that of all living beings. For living beings the possibility becomes a certainty when the notion of enlightenment appears in the mind.  Once heard and understood that deliverance is within his/her reach, s/he will never forget, for it is the first message from within.  It will take roots and grow with inevitable conscious unity.

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