Sharing One’s Joy & Bliss

 

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Sharing One’s Joy & Bliss

We embark on our spiritual search looking first for peace of mind, and then once we taste that we embark on the eternal search for inner bliss. We look for eternal liberation as we look for the divine light divine life. But initially the center of the search remains with us – it is a self-centred search. Whatever we are seeking, we are seeking for ourselves. Ultimately this self-centredness proves to be a barrier, simply because when we remain self-centred, we cannot taste and enjoy the ecstasy.

It is natural to be self-centred in the beginning, but with the passage of time and our own inner progress, it must not be so in the end.  It’s natural that one should start the search for oneself. There is no other way. We cannot start for someone else. In the beginning it is fine, but in the end it becomes dangerous. We reach a point when our self-centredness should cease and only after that will our being flower and bloom into total joy and bliss.

It is as simple as breathing in, we inhale. This is only half a breath; we also have to exhale thus completing the circle of one breath. Both, inhaling and exhaling make it a circle, one total breath. If we think that we should only inhale and not exhale – what will happen? We will die, isn’t it! Inhaling which is necessary for life, will become dangerous if there is no exhaling – the breath has to be released!

The same happens when we start receiving joyous, blissful moments, when we start receiving ecstatic moments, when the eternal starts pouring into us. The first thing is inhaling – we will inhale joyousness, blissfulness – but then, exhale it. Otherwise, we will die of our own joy and bliss. That joy and blissfulness will become poisonous. Exhale it, distribute it, give it to others. When we feel that we are filled with joy and bliss, express it. Share it; don’t try to conserve it within oneself.

Don’t force it, don’t try and own it making it self-centred. Don’t try to own it; allow it to be shared with everyone. Really, celebrate it in such a way that the whole existence shares it. A flower blooms and the perfume spreads. The winds take it away, far away, to the far comers of the earth. Allow the perfume, the fragrance of our bliss, to be taken far away from us, to be shared, to be shared the existence itself. 

Why? Because then bliss has become total: inhaling and exhaling both. It becomes a circle. And the more we distribute it, the more we get. The more we throw it away, the more we find it, because now we are in contact with the infinite source.