Guest guest Posted August 5, 2007 Report Share Posted August 5, 2007 We Always Have a Choice !! Shankaram Siva Shankaram This is a very nice article on the purpose of life and how our approach should be towards life. Baba has been making us realize this fact through His daily speeches. Some of us might have already (received and) read this article, but it always helps us to go through it once again (and again) :-) Regards, Srinivas. -- Awareness of perfection is attained by sitting down and arriving atthe state of expanded cosmic consciousness inside yourself. It's thereonly to be discovered. You can do that in nine minutes, nine hours,nine days or nine years. Take as long as you like. The fact remainsthat deep inside you is perfection. So, you see, you have a choice. Youcan remain in the valley, live in fear of the stormy ocean of life anddeath, or you can scale the nearby mountain and see from the top how itis from that perspective. Either way, you and everyone in the world areall right in the now.The mystic lives within himself and deals positively with the eventsand forces outside himself. He is always consciously striving to realizethat limitless Reality within him. That is his practice. Yet, he welcomesthe challenges of the world, not as a karma forced upon him against hiswill but as his own self-created dharma. If he is really a mystic, hedoesn't run away from these challenges. He inwardly knows that life's dailydifficulties bring forth his inner strength in response to them. Hesees the underlying purpose of life. He accepts and doesn't reject. Hesearches for understanding, for the lesson that lies behind each experienceinstead of resenting the experience, which then creates another subconsciousbarrier for him. He knows that most problems are with man and the wayhe looks at things. So, the mystic doesn't need to retreat from theworld.The same process continues regardless of where he goes. He can be aspeaceful or as disturbed in New York City as in a secluded Himalayanvalley. It all depends on what goes on within him. Nor should he beemotionally concerned with the problems of the world in which he findshimself. A concert sitarist is doing himself and his fellow man no goodby saying, "How can I play so beautifully when everyone else plays sopoorly?" Similarly, the mystic cannot take the attitude, "How can I bepeaceful and content when the world is in such a mess?" We needbeautiful music and we need beautiful, peaceful beings.Actually, the mystic sees the world as a conglomerate of adjustingforces, and through this perspective he is not emotionally involved inthese forces. The world is a mirror of ourselves and is perfectly allright to the man who is content within himself. But you have to findthis out for yourself, because unless you experience it, nothing I saywill convince you that everything you have been through and are goingthrough is wonderful and a fulfillment of the great pattern of yourlife. Take the Internet to Go: Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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