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Living in
the Infinite
Start living in the infinite, because that is our
true reality. The idea that we are finite is just an idea, it does not
correspond to reality; hence it creates a lot of misery. Once we start thinking
of ourselves as finite we are constantly in struggle with the infinite.
By being finite we become many, by becoming infinite only one remains.
Then there is no possibility of any conflict, and when all possibilities of
conflict cease there is peace. Peace cannot be attained only by mental
efforts; it needs a new spiritual vision.
We should
not think of ourselves as the body – not that we are not the body: we are definitely
the body plus – we are the infinite, the soul. We should go on thinking of ourselves
in bigger and wider terms. We are the sun too because without the sun we would
not be alive. We are the earth too; that’s what we go on eating every day. We
are the air too; without it we are gone. We are this whole universe, this whole
universe criss-crosses within us. We are just the crossroad of millions of
things passing through us.
It is
just as when we go on drawing lines through one point: the point will become
thicker and thicker and thicker; more lines pass and the point becomes very
thick – that is the ego. Start taking lines away and slowly, gradually the ego
disappears. One day we come to know that the ego was only a construct of
crossing lines. It was not a reality, just an illusion.
When we
think of ourselves as finite, we become the ego; when we drop the finite the
ego disappears, and the disappearance of the ego is the arrival of God, the arrival
of divinity. Think of yourself as the universe. In the beginning it looks crazy
but soon the heart starts flowing that way.
Because
it corresponds with reality, it comes easily, spontaneously; one day we
suddenly see that we are connected with everything that exists. We cannot exist
without them; they cannot exist without us; it is a great interdependence. And
the sheer complexity of it is a mystery.
The mystery gets solved when the consciousness gets awakened. The
spiritual path does just that – eradicate the proxy self by shattering our
tinted glasses to broaden our parameters that we may eventually mature from
finite to infinite.
Swamiji is an example of the ultimate human being. He is beyond and
above all limitations of time. Not bound by any mental or social blocks, He
loves all of creation, judging no one, teaching others to be the same. Through
meditation under His guidance, one eventually learns to let go and gradually
align with the divine will.
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