Today, I want to share with you a story from the Upanishads. Now,
before I get started, I want to give you fair warning. In
this particular one, it uses the word God, and particularly uses the word
God in the masculine form. I don't want you to get too caught up
in those words. You can replace the word God with universal energy or life
force, or whatever you prefer to call God. Whether it's masculine or feminine,
it doesn't matter. In fact, in my belief system is kind of
one and the same, So you can interchange anytime you hear me say him
or he, change it to she or her if it makes you feel better.
But listen to the words the message that's trying to get across, because
when I first read it, it took me a minute, but when it
hit me, it literally almost brought me to tears because it just makes so
much sense. It's something that I keep forgetting. So here's how it goes.
What is the cause of the cosmos? From where do we come?
Where should we find peace? At last? Where power governs a duality of
pleasure and pain by which we are driven time, nature, necessity, accident
elements, energy, intelligence. None of these can be the first because they
are effects whose only purpose is to help the self rise above pleasure and pain.
In the depth of meditation, sages saw within themselves. The Lord of
Love dwells in the heart of every creature, deep in the heart of all,
He dwells hidden behind the Law's energy in inertia. He is one.
He it is who rules over time, space, and causality. The world
is the wheel of God, turning around and around, with all living creatures
upon its rim. The world is the river of God, flowing from him
and flowing back to Him. On this ever revolving wheel of life. The
individual self goes round and round through life after life, believing itself to be
a separate creature, until it sees its identity within the Lord of Love and
attains immortality in the indie visible whole. He is the eternal reality and the
ground of existence. Those who perceive him in every creature merge in him and
are released from the weal of birth and death. The Lord of Love holds
in his hand the world, composed of the changing in, the changeless,
the manifest, and the unmanifest, and separate self, not yet aware of
the Lord, goes after pleasure only to become bound more and more. When
it sees a lord, there comes an end to its bondage. Conscious spirit
and unconscious matter both have existed since the dawn of time, with Maya appearing
to connect them, misrepresenting joy is outside of us. When all these three
are seen as one, the Self reveals his universal form and serves as an
instrument of the divine will. All this change in the world are the senses,
But changeless is the supreme Lord of Love. Meditate on him, be
absorbed in it him. Wake up from this dream of separateness. No God
in all illusions will fall away, no longer identifying yourself with the body.
Go beyond birth and death. All your desires will be fulfilled in Him who
is one without second. Know him to be enshrined in your heart always.
Truly, there's nothing more in life to know. Meditate and realize that this
world is filled with the presence of God. So in essence, what I'm
getting from that is that we have forgotten that we are just part of God.
And that's where we are stuck in this wheel of birth and death,
birth and death and birth and death. And the minute that we become cognizant
of the fact that we are one with God. When we wake up to
the realization of who we truly are, well, maybe that's when we stop
having to keep coming back and learning lessons again and again the wheel of reincarnation.
Maybe we're just doing that until we realize who we are, at which
point then we get to stop and be happy with who we are. And
that is to say the all. I don't know that just rings in me,
touches me, makes me feel something. Do you feel the same?
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