|
Main Index
|
| |
| |
|
| |
asking "where"; God is a meaning, not a person. I cannot indicate, "There -- go there, and you will find him." God has no address, God cannot be located, it is a meaning. You have to create meaning in your life, then God is. God has to be created.
And the beginning of creating God is to start becoming more and more sensitive to the existence that surrounds you. The trees, the rocks, the stars, the earth -- you are surrounded by great poetry. But you remain separate, hence you go on missing it.
MY FRIEND, EVERYTHING EXISTING
EXISTS THROUGH HIM;
YOUR OWN EXISTENCE IS A MERE PRETENSE.
If you live as separate, if you think, "I am separate," if you live as an ego, then your existence is a pretense. Then your existence will remain meaningless. Then you will never know the glory and the grandeur of life; you will never know the splendors that have always been available to you but you went on missing.
If you exist as a separate individual, you have created a wall around yourself, you have become an island. And no man is an island, we are parts of an infinite continent: that continent is God. We are parts of an ocean. The moment you recognize it, that we are parts of an ocean, your life starts having a context bigger than you, higher than you. In that context is the beginning of meaning -- and meaning is God.
NO MORE NONSENSE! says Sanai. LOSE YOURSELF,
AND THE HELL OF YOUR HEART BECOMES A HEAVEN.
Just a single step is enough: lose yourself. Don't exist as an `I', don't go on proclaiming yourself as an ego. Drop the ego, and suddenly, immediately, instantly, the hell of your life turns into a heaven. Misery disappears.
Misery is a by-product of your separation. Bliss is the shadow of falling back into the unity: UNIO MYSTICA. When again you start feeling like a wave in the ocean, misery cannot exist. What is misery? The fear of death. But you can die only if you are separate, you cannot die if you are not separate.
If the wave thinks, "I am separate from the ocean," it is going to die; it will remain afraid, trembling. If it knows it is part of the ocean it is not going to die. It will fall back
|
|
|
|
| |