THE PERFUME OF GOD IS WITHIN

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THE PERFUME OF GOD IS WITHIN: Spiritual quest is not a tangible

experience. It is a state of inner tranquility. Remember the legend

of the musk deer. One day it sniffed a breath of musk perfume. It

leaped from jungle to jungle in its pursuit. Not knowing from where

the scent came from, it pursued it through ravines, forests and

hills. Finally, starved, harassed, exhausted and wandering about at

random, it slipped from the top of the rock and fell mortally

wounded. And in the process got its musk pouch torn. It gasped and

tried to breathe in the perfume, but it was too late. The perfume

which the deer looked for externally, was all the while contained

in itself.So don't seek the perfume of God outside yourself and

perish in the jungle of life. Search and look within your own self

to find God. – Janina Gomes

 

ASHTAVAKRA said that nothing exists other than the Self. There is

neither bondage nor liberation for one who understands that the

world is illusion. The science also tells us that everything is

ultimately energy and the spark that became life has to one day get

back to its original state.That is, return to the ultimate cosmic

energy that permeates all space. Birth and death are mere

interregnums. – Narayani Ganesh

 

DESTINY: It is something we create unconsciously. We can also create

it consciously. There is no ultimate destiny. In a limited sense,

the accumulations that we have within us form certain attitudes and

tendencies and they start moving in a particular direction. It is

not because something is guiding them in that direction. Simply

because our tendencies are such, we are going that way.For example,

the river from the mountain eventually joins the ocean. Is this the

river's destiny? No, this is the water's tendency. The river is not

longing to go to the ocean though many people say so. Water finds

its own level and just keeps going. If you put a dam, the river does

not start crying that I want to go to the ocean. – Sadhguru Jaggi

Vasudev

 

prof laxmi narain (prof_narain)

 

Source and courtesy: Sri Ramana Kendram, Hyderabad

This article was published in Sri Ramana Jyothi,

monthly magazine of the Kendram.