The
fulfillment
The purpose
of your living
You know it,
you who are seeking or going on a spiritual path that the purpose of
the living isn’t to live waiting to dye, nor to buy a house over 25
years and that you are not sure to be able to pay out and even if you
can, you are not sure to live inside untill the end : so much
older people have to live in medical residences, leaving their house
empty.
You don’t
set up in the existence as if you would stay for ever, aware of you
impermanence and you turn your look inside you. A lot of people,
sincerly attract from God’s love want to devote him their life and
the way they found to do that is to follow the saint’s footsteps,
no doing like them but taking inspiration in their virtues.
Getting
closer to God
These
persons are turned towards the others and are concerned with their
problems, improving altruism and empathy. And more : they put
the generosity, the fraternal sharing, the compassion above
everything, confusing the consequences of the course and the path.
These
generous persons are mistaken but that doesn’t diminish their
virtues : not by being kind will get you closer to God but in
getting closer to God you will become kind. When you explain to these
seekers they have to turn their look inside them even to find the
presence of this part of One that let us live, they reply : «
don’t focus on yourself, selfishly, but towards you brothers…»
Isn’t it
strange this binary thinking ? That means either turn inside in
order to find One or turn towards your brothers ? Either the one
or the other : either we have a propensity to turn ourselves
towards the other and the spiritual research has nothing to do with
that ; it is our nature, a good and nice nature and we
follow our penchant. If we haven’t got this nature, it is useless
pretending.
Turning
towards the Peace
The
important thing is to turn yourself where the divine part is the
nearest of you. The nearest are not the others, the nearest is not
the end of your noise, no : the nearest is inside you.
When you do
this, you meet this divine part because it is there : inside
you. When your Conscience meets this divine part that is inside you
then you meet, at the same time, the divine part that is in other
creatures, animals and vegetals. Don’t they have got the same
divine part inside ? Aren’t they alive too ?
Compatible
with the life in society
The path
inwards is not incompatible with the life in society even with a
strong social consciousness. There is the spiritual field, the
individual one : we are born alone and we desembody alone, we
take nobody with us, and there is the dharma (sacred duty) field that
can, if we want, cover the world and its creatures.
You can be
an activist for the preserving of the biodiversity, against the
deforestation in Borneo or/and Amazonia. You can be activist for the
justice around the world or, for a political party without forgetting
the first reason of your coming on earth and if you have a social
phobia or like solitude, then don’t push yourself : you can
accomplish the reason of your birth.
''But let
your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all
these other things will be given to you in addition.'' [Matthew
6/33]
If it is
necessary to think, and it is necessary, then think in sphere and not
in circle…the thought is not an enemy when it is your Conscience
that uses it in order to solve a problem refering to the dharma. The
mind, the intelligence, the instruction are not enemies of the soul
or brake to the spiritual life.
It is not
cheese or dessert
Of course,
when you sit in meditation, at this moment, it is not the time to
cogitate… there is a time for everything. But when it is the
Conscience, calmed by the communion with the inner Peace that is
using the mind then the thought is not an enemy but a tool.
On the path,
it is not cheese or dessert but chesse and dessert. Put everything
back at its right place and don’t oppose what is not :
materialism is not oppose to spirituality nor the body is opposed to
the soul, either to turn towards the others is opposed to turn
inwards where is the answer to all your questions and the solution to
your biggest problem : to be without Him, an orphan lost in the
existence.
There is
people who devotes to the others and feels, doing it, a satisfaction
that only this dedication can bring them. However, this dedication,
as good as it is, won’t bring them the fulfillment of the purpose
of their living. When we forget ourselves, in medition or in
dedication, we feel the Peace, the true satisfaction, the Holy-Name,
it is normal : he is inside us.
But to feel
the Holy-Name is not enough to fulfill the reason of your living,
no : you have to do it so much and so much that the Conscience
become deeper. It is the purpose of the Path.
[Bhaktimàrga
1-2-14]
