Journey to Enlightenment Part 01

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

Page 95

Attachment and Letting Go
Allow people to live. If somebody wants to live with you I say fine, if they want to go, I say goodbye. Don't cry, oh without you my life will be empty. No, without that fellow also you are happy. It is your attachment that makes you unhappy. If you let go of the attachment, you will not die. You will die if you emotionalize, then it becomes tragedy. And many people have made their life tragedy, because they don't know how to let go. Let go. Anything which does not want to stay with you, you know it is not meant for you. And why do you want to love that which does not love you? It is silly. If you love to go away from me, I love to go away from you. So let us have the same match. We have to do it. That you have to do with your children also. Because always we shift our attachment from one to another. When we were young we have the parents, then we grow with the wife, then we grow old and have the churches, and mosques and synagogues, then with the teachers, the grandchildren. And we can't live as individual souls, but we are souls. We have to do lovingly whatsoever we can do, but the people who have been with us, what they don't want, there is no need to impose anything on them. You offer your love, you offer your service, with the feeling of gratefulness, they have done something for you, and you do something for them. But they say no, not doing sometimes we are doing more for people. Sometimes in not doing, also we are doing. Because they don't need. And sometimes you are doing service by not doing because they don't desire now.
When you are in silence, you are in peace, and words of wisdom come and each word will become a trip to enlightenment. What the master found is that my soul is not different than the highest soul, the small sapling is not different than the big tree, only the big tree has grown big, the sapling is growing now. The seed that was in the big tree is in the sapling in the same way. So one is seeing the presence of God in oneself. It is not ego, it is not becoming something superior to others. It is realizing we are all nature. And you feel good the moment you get this insight that I am not different than the Father/Mother in Heaven, I am one with God. Each person should feel that the highest, the noblest, the beautiful, and the permanent light, the divine presence. When we experience this from that day, our inferiority complex will break. Go on meditating and, you feel inseparable. And always you walk with the feeling of incognito God.
When you realize that I am that and when you drop the old things and don't identify with those things, from that moment you are enlightened. The old habits will come, but you go on working again and again and slowly they will fall apart. They always come to tempt you, to seduce you, to draw you back, they come. But we have to be in good company, good reading, good environment, good thinking, so slowly we get rid of them. I can create my heaven and say I am going to create my heaven. It will be a challenge. Take the challenge in life. And the challenge in your life, not the challenge from outside. You have not to win and be better than others, you have to be better than yourself. We don't go ahead of ourselves; we go ahead of our old conditions and our old personalities.
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