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Is God Testing You?
We have heard from
our childhood days that 'God is testing you' – invariably this was told to us by
our parents when we faced tough times. The question I was asked was – if God is
within us, if God is present in all creation why would he want to test us? If
he is the one who protects you from the thorns and carries you over them when
you want to give up and surrender – then why would he want to test you?
We need to be clear on ‘who’ is
being tested. When we live in duality it is me and my soul and the ‘me’ is
represented by the ego. The ego is a huge part of the conscious mind – the ego creates
challenges and problems where none exist.
Life
exists through duality. Life needs duality. Everywhere you will find it, till
the ultimate arrives. The ultimate, the absolute, or call it God, transcends
duality. But then life disappears. Then you become invisible. Then you have no
form, no name; then you have gone beyond. That is nirvana.
When we start meditating, one has
to eliminate, one has to empty oneself totally. On the path of love, the
opposite is true, we have to fill ourself completely. We have to become so full
of love that it starts overflowing.
On the path of meditation, one
has to become so empty that nothing remains, one becomes pure nothingness. Buddha
calls this the ultimate experience, nothing is found; only nothing is found!
Nirvana means ‘putting out a candle’ – the ego just disappears as if you have
just put out a candle. Nothing remains.
When
nothing remains, the observer becomes the observed. There is no difference
between the observer and the observed. Man is like an onion: you go
on peeling, layer upon layer, go on peeling, and finally nothing is left. But
that's what the search is. When the hands are empty, nothing is left, you have
arrived. Now there can be no misery, because there is nobody to be miserable.
Now there can be no pain, because there is nobody to feel pain. Now
there is neither knowledge nor ignorance, because there is no knower. Now there
is neither bondage nor liberation, because there is nobody to be bound or to be
liberated. All is gone, all has disappeared. You have fallen back into the
source.
The manifest is there no more; you have become unmanifest. In this state
you are neither man nor woman, in this state you are neither happy nor unhappy,
because those are all parts of the dual world: happy/unhappy, man/woman,
beautiful/ugly, good/bad. That is all gone. You are neither good nor bad. There
is no Devil now, and no God - that is part of duality, the same duality. And in
duality there is always tension, in duality there is always conflict. In
duality there is always the other.
1 comment:
Brilliant. Thank u.
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