The sages, the great
seers, have been again and again declaring from direct experience that the
perishable is not the real, and that the real is the unseen.
The aim of life does not lie here; the goal is
not to be sought in the means, as the ideal is different from the process.
The individual’s existence
on earth is not a true existence, but only a process of becoming. No one here
can say that he is a real being, for being does not change or die, whereas
everyone experiences constant changes in himself and thus cannot but feel that
he dies to himself incessantly.
Hence, one has to realise
the transient character of one’s phenomenal existence as an entity separated
from the life of the universe.
The world is a field of
training for eternal life, the purgatory for the sin-hardened
individual, the
deserter of truth, the killer of the self, the wanderer among phantoms.
Worldly life is not
perfection, even as hell is not heaven, purgatory is not salvation.
The world and the body are
ladders and steps to the lofty realisation of God.
The world of time in which
one lives is the visible face of the timeless Light of the invisible Glory of
God that throbs in the heart of all.
The restlessness and
struggle of human life dimly foreshadow the feeble response which man makes to
the call of the higher Life.
The call is eternal, and
the intensity and quality of the response to it from man’s side depend on the
depth of his awareness of the fact that his state is one of a severe want for
the higher life, which cannot be fulfilled completely by anything on earth.
When man knows that the light which shines within him is the light which descends from above, he becomes filled with abundance and joy.
His conceit gets melted in
the willing surrender of the self to the Divine.
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