Within us is our Goal
We are Gods all-fulfilling Dream. Our within is Gods boundless
Plenitude. Our goal is Infinitys Heart and Immortalitys Breath. Our
goal is within our very body.
In the physical world the mother tells the child who his
father is. In the spiritual world our aspiration tells us who our God
is. Who is God? God is an infinite Consciousness. He is also the
self-illumining Light. There is no human being who does not own within
himself this infinite Consciousness and this self-illumining Light.
If we want to see anything in the outer world, in addition to
keeping our eyes wide open, we need lighteither sunlight or electric
light or some other kind of light. But in the inner world we need no
light whatsoever. Even with our eyes closed we can see God, the
self-illumining Light.
God is not something to be obtained from outside. God is that very thing which can be unfolded from within.
In the ordinary life each human being has millions and millions
of questions to ask. In his spiritual life, a day dawns when he feels
that there is only one question worth asking: Who am I? The answer of
answers is: I am not the body, but I am the Inner Pilot.
How is it that a man does not know himself, something which
ought to be the easiest of all his endeavours? He does not know himself
precisely because he identifies himself with the ego and not with his
real Self. What compels him to identify himself with this pseudo-self?
It is ignorance. And what tells him that the real Self is not and can
never be the ego? It is his Self-search. What he sees in the inmost
recesses of his heart is his real Self, his God. Eventually this seeing
must transform itself into becoming.
Our Goal is within us. To reach that Goal we have to take to
the spiritual life. In the spiritual life, the thing that is most
needed is awareness or consciousness. Without this, everything is a
barren desert. When we enter into a dark place, we take a flashlight or
some other light in order to know where we are going. If we want to
know about our unlit life, we have to take the help of our
consciousness. Let us go deeper into the matter. We know that the sun
illumines the world. But how are we aware of it? We are aware of it
through our consciousness, which is self-revealing. The functioning of
the sun is not self-revealing. It is our consciousness of the sun that
makes us feel that the sun illumines the world. It is our consciousness
that is self-revealing in everything. And this consciousness is an
infinite Sea of Delight. When we drink even a drop of water from the
earthly sea, it tastes salty. In the same way, during our meditation,
if we can drink even a tiny drop from the Sea of Delight, we shall
definitely taste Delight. This Delight is Nectar. Nectar is Immortality. ~ Sri Chinmoy
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