FINDING OURSELVES.

 
                      In a devastating tragedy a man lost everything he
had -his family, friends, wealth and status. As a result, however,
he became aware of something exhilarating and uplifting.
"I lost everything," he reflected excitedly, "but I found my self!"
The divine soul-self residing in our ephemeral bodies
has been buried beneath umpteen shrouds of vanities: money,
fame, status, power, the opposite sex, friends, colleagues,
make-up, jewellery,clothes, cars, computers even the stars
in the sky - in fact everything in the universe we attach ourselves
to! In 1998,947,000 females and 99,000 males in the U.S.
underwent cosmetic surgery in a bid to improve their appearance.
In the same year, 234 billion dollars were spent on cosmetic enemies,
food, drink, addictions products worldwide!
But, the further out we wander into these wrappings,the
more we lose contact with our centre, our essence. As a consequence
we experience heightened levels of anxiety anguish and emptiness.
One meets with melancholy,dejection, and hopelessness. It is no surprise
that 200,000 people in the U.S. and millions more around the world
attempt suicide every year.
Individuals centred in their divine selves, however, are like
people positioned in the eye of a hurricane: they encounter complete
serenity. It is only when a person moves outwards, away from this centre,
that he or she experiences feting - beset on all fronts by the perpetual
onslaught of life's demands, pressures and adversities.
There is no need to blame anything, anybody or any event
for your sufferings. Just return to your centre. That is where you are
supposed to be. The people, event and environment may not be as
they could be, but as far as your personal happiness is concerned
they are not the source of your distress. You are. It is you who is
mis-positioned.you are an umpire unwittingly chasing the ball at the
boundary.You are a goalkeeper, mistakenly playing the role of attacker.
you are a spectator who has inadvertently jumped into theboxing ring.
return to your seat. You are supposed to be an observer of your
surroundings, not a part of them.
Life is really about retracing our steps and making a pilgrimage
to our own nucleus. But because this inward trek is so difficult and abstract,
man has chosen the more easily achievable goal of venturing to the moon,
planets and stars.Or simply to the discotheque, cinema or sport's club.
He has chosen to earn mountains of money, fame and status and to indulge
in sensuousness as an easy alternative - the Primrose Path - rather than
treading the unfamiliar and solitary path to his own glittering and effulgent
centre stage.
The passage within is a stairway to eternal glamour and teems
with colours, sights, sounds and tastes so tantalizing and exquisite that
anything the outward world can offer appears as pittance in comparison!
Like an Aladdin's cave, near its mouth there are rocks and dust, but deep
within there lies priceless treasure - not emeralds, diamonds, gold and
platinum - but subslances far more precious, far more attractive and
infinite more enchanting. It is a magical world, where time stops,
distances contract and expand, where actions merge, emerge and
submerge. It is infinite; beyond the material world, yet the source of
all its energies. It is an infinite ocean of light before which the lumin-
escence of the entire universe appears 5 a mere flicker of a candle.
The divine soul-self residing within the body is like a prodigal son of
the ineffable Lord who himself presides at the centre of each and
every soul.

Anchor your lives in your soul and anchor your soul in God.
This is where the journey within culminates. And the path is not so long;
the goal not so distant. In fact, promises Bhagwan in his Vachanamrut
sermons, "The inward path to God is so short that he and his
divine abode are not even an atom's width away."
So close, yet so far. But repeated efforts under the guidance
of a spiritual master are what lead to all great successes and they will also
consummate in the greatest achievement of all realization of the
transcendental,omnipotent God.














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