A Great Faculty – In Gita Verse 9.5 And yet everything that is created does not rest in Me. Behold My mystic opulence! Although I am the maintainer of all living entities and although I am everywhere, I am not a part of this cosmic manifestation, for Myself is the very source of creation.
Krishna says that knowing well that – Krishna is the very source of creation – yet many of us will not rest in their own Godliness, means in Krishna. They feel that they are separate from God. This separation will not allow them to feel creator and his creation.
This is misery. Man alone is misery. Man plus god, and all misery disappears; misery is transformed into ecstasy.
But man has to become part of god, man has to dissolve into god. One has to learn the art of dying in God, because that is the way of resurrection.
Ecstasy is possible. Each moment can be ecstatic and each moment can be a higher ecstasy than the preceding one. One can go on from one peak to a higher peak, from peak to peak. Only one requirement has to be fulfilled and that is that we should not think of ourselves as separate. We are not separate.
To think of ourselves as separate from existence is illusory, and that illusion creates fear, anxiety, anguish. That illusion gives us the idea of birth and death, and with birth and death we are crushed. Between these two rocks we can’t be ecstatic, it is impossible. When death is there, how can you be overflowing with joy? It’s impossible. How can you ignore death?
But the moment you start learning that you are not separate from the whole there is no death. You have always been here before your birth, and you will always be here after your death. You are an intrinsic part of the totality of the cosmos. Then immediately all fear, all misery, all sadness, disappears. And what is left behind is ecstasy.
If ecstasy is possible then where we have gone wrong and feel separate from our own Godliness: What has been given by nature to man is a great faculty to adjust in different situations. It is a flexibility – nature has not made man rigid. But man has misused it: rather than going on a spiritual search for the secrets of life, the miracles of existence, he has become completely adjusted with the mundane, with the meaningless. He has misused his great faculty.
Every faculty has that danger – you can misuse it.
A meditator has to remember: he has been given many powers and he has to be careful, watchful, alert not to misuse those powers.
And what do I mean when I say not to misuse them? I mean if you are going outward, it is a misuse. If you are going inward, it is the right use, because the ultimate joy is hidden within you. Union between you and God is within you.
Life is not just what it seems. It is tremendously much more, it is incalculably much more. But you will have to turn your face toward yourself.
The day you are alone in your inwardness, you have come home.
And the whole of nature and existence celebrates it, because even a single man’s becoming enlightened is a celebration to the whole universe. A part of the universe has become enlightened – you are not apart, you are an essential part of existence.
But don’t waste your energies on futile things.
Life is simple if you have just a little clarity.
About doing…that is the extrovert side of your being. I am not condemning it. I am simply saying it has its uses but it is not what we are here to get.
Inside you is your divinity – that’s what we are here to get. This whole world is just an experiment, a training school to make you aware of your being.
Your being is the being of the whole existence. Your being and my being are not separate. Your body is separate, my body is separate, your mind is separate, my mind is separate, but your being and my being are one.
Krishna says once you know yourself is to know the whole existence, is to know all. Don’t get stuck in mundane situations. If you will be stuck into mundane situations you will not be able to rest in yourself, in me. Use a great faculty to adjust to different situations and move for spiritual search for the secrets of life.
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