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nature, closes his eyes and meditates. After two hours, everything becomes dark.
Then the teacher asks, “What do you see?” The student answers, “I see nothing. Everything has gone."
“Where have they gone - the beauty, the shapes, the clouds, the colors?” They have gone and yet they have not gone. They are there in a way. This is the point: everything is still there in the universe.
Nothing has gone. Everything is there. But, because of the rotation of the earth, you see changes. Your physical eye sees that something is gone.
Now using your inner perception, see that the whole galaxy is moving in an unbroken rhythm. The same sun we think of as vanishing here is being seen across the globe as rising. And yet it is the same sun. Lift yourself above the level of earth to the height of the sun. You will always see the sun. Behind the continuous changes is the continuity of the changeless. Be conscious of that sun in you. There is changeless life in you.
When we become convinced that change is for growth and growth is for becoming aware of our inner divinity, we will be inspired to be free, free from the tendency to cling to familiar things. We will become eager to unshackle ourselves from the fear of change. When the truth sinks into our consciousness, it opens a new door. We stop seeing in a rigid way. The words gone, disappear, vanish, death are seen for what they are - as empty or misleading words, based purely on our visual perception, not on our inner insight. So what appears to be "death" to one is "birth" to another; both are two waves of the same ocean: life.
Changes are causing us to be aware of the changeless, and the changeless is causing all the changes to take place. Until we reach the "best,” we pass through “good” and “better.” All the terms change in order to bring out a better and better form. Ultimately, we become so refined that we are able to experience the radiance of our inner reality - the permanent bliss of our being. So, as you grow, cultivate this awareness: That in the sunset, dawn is hidden; in the dawn, sunset is hidden. Appearing and disappearing are the play of life. Both are manifestations of the changeless.
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