Becoming a Spiritual Potter

Excerpts from Sri Chinmoy's Book - The Wings of Joy

"If we accept the spiritual life in the true sense of the term, we do not renounce the world or try to escape from the world. We embrace the world and try to fulfill the world in a divine way, in the way that God wants. I do not see eye-to-eye with those who say that God is only in Heaven and not elsewhere. God is in Heaven, and God is also on earth. The Creator can never be separated from His creation. This world of ours is His creation. He is here. He abides within all things.

We have to accept the world as it is. If we do not accept something, how are we going to transform it? If the potter does not touch the lump of day, how is he going to shape it into a pot? If his aim is to make a pot or pitcher, he has to touch the clay. This clay is the world. We have to transform the face of the world on the strength of our dedication to the divinity in humanity.

Do not think that by praying to God or meditating on God, you are caring only for yourself and not for the rest of humanity. If you go to the foot of the creation-tree, you will see that God is the root. If you water the root of the tree, then the creation-tree will grow the way the divine Law wants it to. The concern you show for the root of the tree, for God, will feed all the branches, which will then live according to God's Perfection." ~Sri Chinmoy

Peace we achieve
When we do not expect anything
From the world,
But only give, give and give
Unconditionally
What we have and what we are.

~Sri Chinmoy

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