Our aim in life should be to directly experience the true reality behind all the forms in the universe.
We are impressed and inspired
when read or hear spiritual teachings. We decide to follow them. Either we
become blind followers or drop following halfway through. We should read and
listen to spiritual teachings but stop following them blindly. Think.
Contemplate over them. Then chalk out our own path. Then we will be able to
lead a better and fruitful life. Only then will we be able to have self
realization. Until then what we are having is borrowed realization.
When we realize the unlimited universal Self, we learn more about the limitations of our body, mind and intellect.
We have been fed this
wrong notion that we are an island. In the island, we are supposed to have only
certain type of people, ideas and beliefs. This is wrong. By supporting this
wrong teaching, we are limiting ourselves. That life force which is present in
me is present in all animate and inanimate. This knowledge helps us in widening
our horizon. We will no longer be narrowed down by wrong teachings and dogmas.
When this knowledge dawns, our tolerance level will increase. We will not then
need walls and barbed wires. They might be eating different food, their dress
code might be different and their gods might be different but they are all part
of that unlimited universal Self. Having said this, please do not try to inject
our ideas into another person. Let the person realize it. A major problem that
we face today is that people say they are correct and they want other people to
follow them. If we know the truth, we should keep it and not go around
advertising it or forcefully selling them. Share it only with someone who is
eagerly seeking it.
There is no goal to be achieved outside.
We need not climb a
cliff or move a mountain. All we need to do is break free of all limitations
and know that we are the Supreme Truth. We are always searching for That. We
travel around the world in search of That. We become follower, we unfollow, we
again follow, we become blind followers, then we curse and then again we search
for someone to follow. All this futile exercise is to know That. But That which
we are searching is inside us. We just need to realize it. Perhaps what we need
is some quiet time and a quiet and peaceful place. This will help us in diving
deep into our true self. Silence the mind. Stop all thoughts. What remains that
is the real you. We all experience this in deep sleep. Now we need to
experience it in the wakeful state.
Do away with egoism because there is no another here.
There
is no one to fight. There is no one to defeat. Success, defeat, achievements
all this are illusions. To fight, to defeat there must be a second. There is no
second here. There is only That Single Supreme Truth. When we are able to
realize this; work becomes easier and our games become real games – we begin to
enjoy them. We then play to play not to win. We then work to work not to
achieve something.
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Abhilash Rajendran