VBT – Meditation 105.4
Inner Formlessness
Religion has to become creative – being uncreative should be thought of as the original sin, and being creative should be thought of as the only and the supermost virtue.
Millions of suns will burst open with brilliance and the formless in visual forms.
If you are moving in the right direction – receptive, creative, happy, celebrating, loving – millions of suns will burst open. One day you come to your innermost shrine …and the formless in visual forms.
You will see what cannot be seen only if you can be the formless in you.
Remember it: you can see …only if you can be the formless in you. If you want to see the formless you will have to become formless within. Because only when the wave lengths are the same, is there communion. When you are also formless within you, suddenly something clicks and you are one with God. He is formless, you are formless; there cannot be two formlessnesses. There can be millions of forms, but formlessness can only be one.
How to attain this inner formlessness? – Drop the ego. That is giving you a limitation. Drop the very word I. Use it, it is utilitarian in the outside world, but never bring it home. Never say “I” inside because that makes a limitation, and because of that barrier you will never be able to move into the beloved, and you will never be able to allow the beloved to move into you. If you want to see God, become something like God. Be creative – one thing; be formless – another thing.
“Have you tallied, my heart, the number of ways of finding Him in the city of love?
The treasure of life, sans bogus reckonings, the world is a carnival where lovers meet like children of games.”
“Figure out the nature of your feelings for the jewel of your life.
He is reached in the way each seeks to reach Him.”
“He is reached in the way each seeks to reach him….
Through tender passion or servitude, through loyalty or parental care, or through the love of tranquility, peace, find the feelings which are born with you and then worship Him with your own strength.”
Bauls say that there are no fixed laws and rules to reach him. There is no methodology. There are no superhighways to reach, to him, only small footpaths. And each has to seek him in his own way. Of course, a poet has to seek in his own way, a dancer has to seek in his own way, a lover has to seek in his own way, a meditator has to seek in his own way.
So you should never listen to what others are saying; listen to your feelings. Remain true to yourself and you will remain true to God. He has already given you the key – the key is in your feelings. Never imitate, because there is no one way for all. If you understand me correctly, then the really religious world will be a world of no religions – no Hindu, no Mohammedan, no Christian, no Jaina. A real world which is religious will be of religious people: everybody seeking and searching in his own way. And God is not limited.
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