Letting the Seed Grow

 

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Letting the Seed Grow

Each and everyone of us is born with the seed of liberation planted within us. We carry this seed with us birth after birth, till we reach a stage when a Satguru enters our life. When Swamiji or any other Satguru gives initiation, he awakens that seeds and waters it a little so that it can take root.

All such Satgurus carry an aura of divinity, such that we are drawn to them like a magnet. They too had that seed, but now they have nurtured it and grown it to such an extent, that it has become a massive banyan tree which gives shelter and succour to millions of people across the globe.

If we want to make a seed into a tree, the seed has to go. It is quite stupid to keep the seed as a seed, but unfortunately, preserving ourselves is considered smart in society. Allowing ourselves to be demolished, to destroy the limited possibility of what an individual person is, is not considered smart. So, after all, we consider ourselves to be very smart, so smart that we even conned life.

All of us have come with the same seed. Though every seed has come with the same possibility, between a seed and a tree, there is a journey to be made. If we want the seed to become a tree, we must nurture it, we have to protect it; there are weeds that we have to take care of – too many weeds. The same silly weeds have been bothering humanity for a million years. Human beings have still not figured out how to handle them.

Simple things like anger, hatred, jealousy, fear, doubt - the same silly weeds have lasted too long because weeds do not need any nurturing or protection – they just grow. But if we want a sacred seed to sprout and prosper, we must weed the place, cultivate the land, manure it and make sure enough water and sunlight find their way. If we are afraid of the harshness of the sunlight and avoid it, we will also avoid its life-nourishing warmth.

To nurture the seed into a massive banyan tree we need to meditate and reach a state of void, a state of continuous bliss, in the here and now.