God Has Given Us Everything

 

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God Has Given Us Everything

A healthy human body, a desire for liberation and a spiritual guide to show you the way – when you have all these three things which is very rare indeed, do not waste them! If you do end up wasting them, God is not going to say, “What are you doing, wake up!” God has already given you all that he possibly could!

Whether we believe in reincarnation or not, it’s a fact and we have not jumped into the human life form directly. We have done a lot of meritorious deeds and gone through the circle of birth, death and re-birth. The soul has been travelling for a long time – the journey from animal to human, human to superhuman – we are almost at the end of our journey. The journey from unconscious to subconscious to conscious to superconscious. The end is now near.

It is said in the Bhagwad Gita that our desires become very strong at the last minute, towards the end of our journey. During our final moments our body, our mind – everything – is very weak and the hidden desires will surface at the last minute. The strongest hidden desire surfaces at the final moment and we leave our body with that desire and everything we worked for is shattered.

Hence, it is very important that we should be very, very careful about what desires we cultivate. We will have lots of petty, minor desires, they don’t matter, but our most prominent and strong desire should be something which is elevating. The desire should be something that will take us to a higher level and not something that will take us in the reverse direction, backward!

So, when we face even the direst situations in life, we should be extremely careful as to how we react. A negative reaction leading to anger, pain, sadness, hate will send us hurtling backwards – acceptance of the situation rationally, without any rancor, facing the situation and moving on, will ensure that we remain on the highest path. Become a witness, watch life as it unfolds, play your role and keep moving on – you are not the doer, you are the soul, you are consciousness – you are just the witness!

Once we realise that we are just a minor cog in God’s universal wheel, once we accept that we see that we are not just the cog, we are the wheel – we become one with universal consciousness – and we realise that God has truly given us everything – inner peace, silence, bliss and joy!