Peace - Oneness with God - Our Real Nature Part 02

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A tiger cub was once separated from its mother and lost in the

forest. It happened to come upon a gathering of goats and joined them

for campanionship. After some time, the cub began to eat grass and

behave like the goats with which it lived. It bleated and pranced

just like others. This went on for months, until the herd was spied

by the mother tigress. She pounced upon the group, scattering them in

all directions. The young tiger cub bleated and dashed for cover in

panic. However, the tigress noticed the incongruous " goat " and chased

it down.

 

Dragging the terrified cub to a water hole, she instructed it to look

into the water. The cub was amazed to find that he looked just like

the fearsome tigress, not the goats with which he had associated. He

was, after all, a master of the forest himself.

 

We tend to be grass eating tigers. We have come to believe that we

are something less than divinity. If we look into the pool of

spiritual truth, we find that we are the very source of wisdom, love,

and peace. When we still the mind, it will cease to delude us into

believing that we are less than what we are-the atma.

 

Atmic peace is our true nature; it is acquired when we look within.

If we are concerned only with our outer circumstances, the jumble of

daily events, we will be unable to experience peace. Ignorance of our

divine origin causes us to be elated or dejected at the changing

course of events. Our true nature is selfless love and joyful peace,

unbounded by time or circumstance. It manifests when it is allowed to

shine through the clouds of illusion.

 

" Once you enter the depths of the sea, it is all calm, it is all

peace. Agitation, noise, confusion all are only on the outer layers.

So also in the innermost recesses of the heart, there is a reservoir

of santhi (peace) where you must take refuge " Baba

 

The possibility of acquiring inner peace is not so distant as we may

think. In fact, all people possess it already. Peace is our essential

nature, but it is hidden by the clouds of attachment. Peace is like

the sun, always shining, but temporarily covered by the darkness of

anger or selfishness. The divine self, the atma, radiates peace and

joy. We need only to look within for the source of our joy.

 

" Peace and joy can be secured only by realizing that they are one's

own real nature " Baba

 

 

Continued..Peace - Oneness with God - Inner Peace, Outer Peace Part 03