Journey to Enlightenment Part 02

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

Page 92

The eyes cannot see without the Seer within. In meditation, we may see the Seer, the Invisible, the sentient energy within us, our true self. We need to come to our true self and recognize and respect it. In a mirror, we see the 'outside appearance', whereas in meditation, we experience 'inner awareness'.
A multi-billionaire built a huge, palatial house for himself and his wife in Uganda. He decided to go for a pilgrimage to the Himalayas, before moving in to the palace. He flew to Delhi with his wife and stayed at a hotel before the onward journey to the Himalayas. At night, the invisible spark, the 'Atma' left his body and the wife was left bereft. I was asked to stay at their palatial home, when I visited Uganda. I wondered, staying in that huge mansion, and realized that unless one knows his own real self and readies himself (constantly) for leaving the visible body, the amassing of wealth and material things does not make sense. We need to make time and spend it in looking at and knowing our own self.
There is a couplet in Hindi that says in this world, one can be said to have achieved something really great, if one meets his own self.
Do we really know ourselves? Do we spend time to sit beside our own selves and see who we are? No, there is no connection, no knowledge and no information. It is time, we make time to know our own selves.
A poet sang in Hindi that you have walked miles, away from the core, marching away from the self. Now for heaven's sake, change the path, O traveller, to come back to your self. Light a lovely candle, to manifest your own self, and realize the God within, by the radiant light.
Name, body, wealth, fame are all outward attachments. God is within us.
A rich man, on his death-bed, surrounded by his five sons, worried only about his business, asked them why they were all gathered around him and not at the business premises. Til the end of the journey, most people do not realize the purpose of life and who/what they really are, busy accumulating only material wealth!
Hence, we need to understand and then climb up the five steps to bring us closer to our true self.
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