Journey to Enlightenment Part 02

Author(s): Chitrabhanu, Nirmala Hanke
Publisher: Create Space

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describe. In Hindi there is a saying: “I cannot be explained to somebody.” A person who is deaf and mute had a beautiful dream and felt ecstasy and in the morning he was smiling so the other people were asking, "What was the dream which makes you so happy?” As he was remembering, he was becoming more and more happy. The dream he ruminates, and the dream gives him more joy and peace. It cannot be described, just as a deaf and mute person who feels happy cannot describe his dream. Swami said, "Still you can describe.” I said, “Let us write something on a paper,” and I wrote: “I want peace.” My friend also wrote, “I want peace." I said take out 'want' and what remains is 'I peace.' I now take out I - then only peace remains. It is 'I' and 'want' that are creating trouble. However, if you take both out, you are in peace. My friend held my hand and said, “You are right." I said, “I want love, and again take out 'I' and 'want.' What remains is love. The problem is 'want' and 'I.'
I tell you, my friends, if you send an invitation for joy, you will end up having frustration. When you want something from somebody, you end up in frustration, as everybody is not capable to give something that you want. Frustration comes because we are carried away by want. Frustration is two words: 'l' and 'want.' The subject and the verb are 'I' and 'want.' There are two eyes: the l' of wisdom - which we call the third eye - and the 'l' of possessiveness. When we try to see with our possessive 'I,' then the eye of wisdom closes because the 'I' goes out and grasps outside things. The whole problem is being possessive. We are trying to possess something, even the person, a watch or a friend or anything. It makes you happy if I say, "I belong to you." You become happy.
The question is who belongs to whom? My friends, we are all individuals and we have come to make the best of the time, and to possess something is a mental sickness. Let go and everything is yours. The earth, the flowers, the sky and everything else is there but you want to possess it and that is where the problem arises. In this world not even Alexander the Great could hold on to anything. When he died, he kept two hands outside to show that he was going with empty hands. From Macedonia he went out to conquer the world and killed so many people, yet he did not take anything with him.
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