JUST LOOK BACK………

Whatever the age for which you have lived so far, please do one little exercise – just look back and try to find out that one thing, precisely one thing, which has really kept you alive for all these years. Though you might say or claim to have done so many things but could you pinpoint that single thing which has really kept you ‘on’ for all these years? The most obvious thing which would come to your mind is the food that you ate. Though food is essential for this body but it’s not food which kept you alive. Because if the food is the reason then the rich would never die. We also know that food is of no use and of no help once a person is dead. The food cannot bring him back. A dead cannot eat food. You cannot force-feed the dead. 

One could also name breath and vital force as the reason for one’s living. Though breath is the reason for life and death but breath too is physical which happens in the body like other happenings in the body while you are alive. Again breath is not under your control. Though you claim to be breathing but if you observe closely you will find that it’s not you who is breathing. Again once a person is dead you cannot bring him back by pumping air into him. This proves that breath is not that which kept you ‘on’ for all these years. 

Thus it’s not food; it’s not breath but there is something else in you which has kept you ‘on’ or alive for all these years. This ‘something’ is some presence in you which has not only kept you alive for all these years but also because of this you have been prancing around and doing all, which, though ignorantly, you claim to be your doing. In that presence happens all that need to happen. This presence is the same existence which has kept not only you ‘on’ but is also keeping the whole creation ‘on’ as well. 

In fact, if you search within you will not find anything which you can claim to be yours. Not only but you are not even the soul because soul which we know as jivatma is soul only so long it is in bondage. So long it’s in a body. Once it’s free or liberated, it goes back to its source. It merges with the same existence which we know as parmatma – that which is free; that which is not in bondage. Hence this existence is all. Nothing else but the existence really exists. All talk about individuality and individual existence is illusion and hence untruth. It’s the existence which is living through us. It’s the existence which is breathing through us. When existence enters a body we call it a birth; so long this existence is there in a body, this body moves around which we know as life and when this existence leaves the body we know it as death. 

It’s not you as an individual but this existence is actually living through you. Because of this existence, this body is alive and moving around. The existence will decide as when is the time to leave this body. Thus the existence is the only reality. Everything else is just our idea. Then why worry? Just leave it to the existence. That’s what surrender is. Surrender is not to an individual on the outside but surrender is to that which IS. Meditation is a method which helps you know that not the individuality but the existence is all. Self- realization or enlightenment is nothing but knowing that existence is all. 

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