Holy Days Package - Climax of "The soul's Journey to its Destiny"

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To all Advaitin Members

Pranams and Namaskar

Greetings and Good wishes on the occassion of

Christmas on 25th and Vaikunda Ekadasi on 26th.

 

I am taking the liberty to post the "Climax" of the

book from "The Soul's Journey to its Destiny" by Swami

Ashokananda on this special occassion.

 

There were 3 previous postings and the next posting of

Chapter will be on 27th Dec. This is a special

posting.

Hopefuly it reflects on the mood of the moment.

 

THE CLIMAX

What is truth? Truth is the spirit. Make your mind

feel that changeless, unmoving , subtle being, which

is the support of the whole universe and without which

in one moment it would go into nothingness. Think on

that "Being" which is the essence of everything that

is. By imagination remove all these variations and

make your mind dwell on this homogeneous Being, the

one essence of all these variegated forms. This is

spiritual practice.

 

Take your mind away from differentiation and make it

dwell upon the infinite, homogeneous Unity, the one

Being. At first it will be just some vague

abstraction. That also is good. Your mind has never

thought like this before. It has always thought of

little things,changing things. In fact it has never

really thought; it just danced the dance of a monkey,

that is all.

 

Feel yourself one with that Being. That is thinking.

Learn to do it more and more, more and more. That

expereince is the proof of the reality of this one

Being. This transcendental Being does not appear

before a person deluded by the idea of acquisition.

 

Do you think a person who has found the truth wants to

parade himself before fools? No! Another kind of

vitality comes to you, the vitality of etenal life.

 

A time comes when you are no longer caught by this

world; you are free from it. If a remnant still

remains, you just remind yourself that it is really

nothing. By effort you kill the remnants of illusion,

and the whole mind becomes free. True intution comes;

the mind becomes unified and exceedigly subtle. You

become aware of the one divine Being.

 

This most wonderful , beautiful Being is hidden by the

forms of this universe. It is He who is contributing

the substance, the color.

 

His the Power, His the value, His the Love, His the

sweetness and the beauty. He is the living one. And He

is not a stranger to us. We have not to be afraid of

Him. He is not far off. He is the nearest of the near.

He is our very breath, He is the life of our life, He

is the ye of our eye. He is the very soul of our Soul,

our very own. It is not a realtionship we have built

up; there can be no fear it will dissolve. It has been

always there; it is infact not a realtionship at all:

He is one with us.

>From time to time, the mind would stand still. So from

time to time the mind quitens down and in that

quietude reality flashes and you see his beautiful

face. That is the answer to all your seeking. Once you

have fallen in love with him, you will never forget

him.

 

Then a new stage comes. The soul will never rest until

it has been united with Him forever. It just cries out

for him. When that state comes to the soul, it will

never go back; it will just rush towards God. And he

rushes towards the soul. That is the culmination of

the soul's journey. That is its destiny. No soul will

find peace until it has reached that stage.

 

Until we have done that there will be no rest for us:

continually we shall have to move from moment to

moment, from life to life, from stage to stage, until

the highest has been reached. That highest is

at-onement with God.

Om Shanti, Om Shanti, Om Shanti.

Hari Om.

P.B.V.Rajan

 

 

 

 

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