A MAP TO THE DIVINE

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A MAP TO THE DIVINE

 

 

 

The disciple visited his Master one afternoon, the weather was cold and

other disciples were present gathered around a fireplace warming their

bodies. They were all peaceful and chatting together a small talk about

how cold, it was outside. Soon tea was offered and few biscuits and

crackers were served, they were all having a pleasant cup of tea. The

Master entered and saw what they were all doing so he said:

 

M: Do you recognize that –right now- you are enjoying the breeze of

Heaven?

 

D: What do you mean by enjoying the breeze of Heaven, we are only having

a cup of tea and some biscuits?

 

M: When a small child aged 3 or 4 months is hungry, then he is given

milk or anything to eat, he experiences immediately the Bliss of

Completeness. This Bliss of Completeness –for the child- is his true

birth right abode, and anything that might –even very remotely

disturbs the Bliss of Completeness abode of the child- is promptly met

with, by changes in his outer circumstances and environment with the

sole objective of not permitting the Anguish of Need to set in. In other

words, the inner abode of the child is his Heaven while his outer

circumstances only serve to establish and fortify that abode. As the

child grows older, he is very easily tempted to leave that inner abode

through the inward Creation of Multiplicity or the creation of his mind,

so the child replaces the Bliss of Completeness with the anguish of

multiplicity and the creation of his own individual mind and tries to

establish an outer Heaven. Now, regarding your cup of tea, this is

another color of Heaven, where your egos are not called for. You do want

to prove yourselves, all of you are inwardly relaxed, and you do not

want to gain anything from this chatting. This is the intimacy between

the dwellers of Heaven. This intimacy comes from the disappearance of

otherness among you. This is again the Bliss of Completeness. Where

there is no ego friction. Now you know where Heaven is, you have a map

to the Divine.