Journey to Enlightenment Part 01

Author(s): Chitrabhanu, Chetana Catherine Florida, Nirmala Hanke, Raksha Penni Helsene
Publisher: Create Space

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Winter 1993: Take the Challenge in Life
The following are excerpts from Chitrabhanu's message How to Understand Our Way of Living: October 19.1991
If we meditate and ask what the purpose of being human is, we will be able to get the answer from experiences and from examples. Examples are there if you seek them, because all the great masters have given us examples from their lives. The names are different, but behind all the names they are all seekers. They are trying to find their origin, their home, their connection. How long it takes depends upon the person's previous life. All that we practice we have done. We cannot compare one person with another. We cannot say this person got such enlightenment in such a short time, and I did not get it. That person had worked in the past time, and is getting results sooner. For somebody who had not worked, the process takes a little longer. We cannot compare.
When we are alone with ourselves, we feel bad because we became nasty; something in our person does not like what we become in certain moments.
We become rigid and we say, why did I become like that? Change your perceptions and don't become all that serious, don't make everything have rules, and don't make everything all righteous. Too much righteousness will make you stiff. Just take it that people are people. We always expect this person should be like this or that, but we don't see that we ourselves are not able to change as we want to be. If it is hard to change ourselves, think how hard it is to change others. We can't change ourselves to what we want, but we are out to change others. And that is why I want to tell you in a spiritual group, if we are not watching this, sometimes we slowly build expectations. If we meet in a spiritual group to grow, to understand, and share the moment we have, relax and accept everyone as they are, the group will grow. But we build the spiritual background and then when somebody acts crazily, we say why are you acting like that, I didn't think you would act like that, because we are all spiritual. But we are all human beings, so accept that. And then you gain in the environment and liberate yourself and instead of worrying about the potholes, you celebrate the journey. It is a small time, very small span of life - 80 years at most 90 years. So many hours go into sleep, some to teacher, some in restroom, how many hours do we have? And we are making life unnecessarily heavy and unhappy?
We have come in a technological world - so everything is designed. Even the marriage partner is selected by computer. The human being made the computer - now the computers are making human beings, because we lost touch with self. On this journey, you tune to yourself. You come from the environment, and as long as you are with the teacher you fill up yourself completely with that and say I want to build a new perception and see life as it is. Life is a journey for those who travel it. We are all travelers. So make this journey very pleasant, it's a trip. We don't die - we change the places, we change the town, we change the clothes, but we are always travelers and travelers cannot afford to waste time quarreling with each other. Make this human trip as light as possible.
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