Ten Days Journey Into The Self

Author(s): Chitrabhanu
Publisher: Jain Meditation International Centre

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Chapter Ten - Meditation On Creative Action
Friends. Today we will concentrate on the question,
"How do I put divine energy---which is in me--into creative action"...
If our energy is guided by love and intelligence, the human dimension becomes the foundation of the spiritual. Physical and spiritual are not contrary: they are complementary dimensions.
Human and divine also are not contrary, but complementary. We must make the human support the divine. When our actions are guided by love and intelligence, matter helps spirit fulfill its aspirations.
Our actions create our destiny. This life is in our hands. In this life, our time and energy are limited to this journey. We want to fulfill ourselves: to use, and not misuse, our talents and energies. We can never find a better time than now. There may be a New Age ahead, but now is our time. We are here; this hour is for our unfoldment and fulfillment. And tomorrow is not separate from today. Tomorrow, friends, is constructed today.
Atman is soul, and atom is matter. Life is the partnership of the two. The Essence looks through our eyes, and hears with our ears and speaks with our lips, and learns and acts with our whole being. Behind the visible is the invisible, that gives it function. Also, experience has to be digested, as well as food. We do not want thoughts, words, deeds-this human trinity--to create negativity. We withdraw from the world during meditation, in order to know who we are and how we can help the Cosmos; and we return brimming and overflowing with positive energy, energy in the hands of love and intelligence.
Through the qualities of his loving and his knowing, man is constantly being born. He is giving rebirth to himself, a rebirth in which he becomes conscious of the causes and consequences of his assumptions and actions. He evaluates, judges what he has been doing, chooses a new option, and explores and develops the new possibility. In this way, he moves toward the fuller realization of his essence, his divinity.... The day dawns for him who is awake.
Growth and progress are not instant, but the fact of human ascent is discernible. Take a moment and think--Is man not a miracle?... From a single cell we have grown to the point where we can observe the moon, the sun, light rays. But do we learn anything by observing our own interactions Many centuries ago in China, Mo-Tzu said: "If it is a crime to rob or kill one man, how much greater a crime to rob or kill a nation of men."