One is Never Alone

 

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One is Never Alone

There are times when one feels a sense of very deep loneliness that no friend, family member or lover can seem to satisfy. That sense of loneliness can arise in life when one is not searching for the self. Once we embark on our search for the self, we realise that we are never alone. Someone is always with us, and that is Paramatma or the Self. Once that happens, we find that we are never alone.

If we depend on anything or anybody outside us to be a companion, it is impossible to have that companion always with us. Even if another person wants to be with us always, he or she cannot. We come alone, and we go alone. Don’t depend on outside company. Even as we are coming and going, there is always another there—our own spirit, our own Self, or the Paramatma within us.

Paramatma is in us, outside of us, in front of us and behind us, to the right, to the left, above and below. The moment we realise that we will never feel lonely. Unfortunately, we seem to be depending on outside things and people for company. The outside company is fine, but don’t depend on it. Be independent of everything. If it comes, fine. If it goes, wonderful.

When we say don’t depend on this or that, it does not mean that if something comes to us naturally, we should reject it. Let it come whenever it wants and let it go whenever it chooses. Give everything that freedom. The minute we try to cling on to something or someone, we are creating big trouble – it is the attachment that becomes an obstacle to attain Paramatma. Nobody can be with us always except Paramatma, the Self, within you.

Just because we read about it, listen to discourses, meditate, it’s not going to happen overnight. The more we contemplate on it, the more we think about the pros and cons of our depending on other things and other people for our happiness, the more we realise that this is impossible. How can we depend on other things and people for our own happiness, when we cannot even depend on our body!

Always remember that it is the ego which craves company while the soul wants to connect in solitude. When we begin to come into a higher knowing of ourselves, we begin to connect deeply with the Truth, and slowly the need for distractions naturally start to fall away and the will to socialise also diminishes slowly till there is nothing left.

Instead, now we enjoy our solitude while remaining centred in our Self. We realise that we are never alone, the divine within us is always giving us company, looking after our welfare, providing us protection 24x7.