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SUTRAS THE KEY TO THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
prompts us to become open to ever new experiences and to unfold an ever growing understanding of reality.
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It is not the main purpose of our reality to give permanence to material components that may accompany our actions, but to stimulate us to always seek out new fields of experience. Whatever - positive or negative - circumstances we find ourselves in always lose their importance for our life as soon as we gained optimal insight from them. When this happens, they cease to engage our interest and fall off automatically.3
Once we recognize this basic function of our reality, we can direct our attention and energy towards the growth-process instead of striving for a fleeting and illusionary stability of our material environment. With this understanding we will then interpret the purpose of any change within us or outside us as an alignment towards something new, even if these changes may initially cause disorientation and confusion.
Confidence in the purpose of reality is the fundamental conviction that all events we confront in our present state of corporeal existence do have the purpose to awaken us to our immense abilities, so we
3 This is the reason why the accumulation of material objects as the modern media propagate - hardly ever produces the promised permanent satisfaction. After our initial joy of buying wears off, we often are disappointed how little happiness the purchase of a new thing brings us. All too soon a feeling of unfulfilled desire prompts us to again crave new objects and experiences.
People able to fulfill all their material desires, but lacking orientation beyond matter, often lose themselves in activities that do not advance their development (e.g. the unshackled accumulation of material objects or money, charitable activities without real inner engagement, participation in social circles directed towards superficialities etc.). The feeling of boredom and meaninglessness of material existence that often surrounds this type of people is an excellent proof that reality is directed towards inner growth and not towards the stability of our outer environment.
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