Losing touch

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SaiRam to all,

 

I remember someone posting about having lost touch

with Baba inside, and asking for inputs on why that

happens and what can be done to overcome it. I found

this message from Baba written by Carol Riddell on her

website and it addresses the issue:

 

The 'God Sense'

 

The senses say that only that which is touched, seen,

tasted, smelt or heard is real. Yet there are so many

things that do not register directly on the senses,

either because they are too small or at vibrations

which the senses cannot pick up. The scientific

discoveries of this generation are opening people to

the fact that this unseen reality is very important.

That can be a significant step to understanding the

reality of the omnipresence of the divine.

 

Try to think of underlying reality, whenever you do

something, not merely of the images presented by the

senses. Let us say that there is another sense, the

God sense, which has to be developed and listened to,

because it is more subtle than the other senses. You

can't touch God, you can't feel, see, smell or taste

Him, but you can experience Him, using this wonderful

and most subtle God sense. For it isn't that God is

sometimes present, sometimes absent, like a friend or

a pet, God is always present, everywhere, in

everything, but the sense of His presence is subtle,

and the human being is deluded by senses developed to

operate in the world of form; so the experience of Him

is ignored, disregarded, overlooked. But if you look

for quality, you will find nothing to compare with the

experience of God in any of your other senses, for He

is the pure essence. People sometimes have brief

connection with the God sense, and then feel sad that

God has 'left them' .Actually, they have left God. To

become more and more in touch with the God sense, you

have to develop your abilities of discrimination and

sensitivity. It is certainly worth it, but it involves

changes of lifestyle, a training to replace one

reality with another. The world of the ordinary senses

seems real. The world of the subtle God sense, unreal.

The great challenge of life is to turn this round, so

that reality resides, accurately, in the God sense,

and the world of the gross senses is seen as relative

and epiphenomenal to it.

 

The God sense is experienced as love, but much more

than a mundane or sentimental feeling. It is an

overpowering, all encompassing, heart and mind

expanding love that lights up your physical being from

the inside. Sensitise your bodies, your capacities to

be in touch with this love and live from it as your

reality. Don't indulge the gross senses, encourage

them to be dominant and to define your world of

pleasure and pain, for then you will miss out on the

exquisite, remain separate from the divine. Do not

observe the divine from a distance, discuss it, pay

lip service to it, feel inadequate before it, think

that one day, perhaps, you might possibly have an

inkling. Take confidence, claim it as your own, and

prepare you body properly as the physical vehicle

which it inhabits. Indulgence of the senses is

senseless, but God indulgence is the way you will find

lasting happiness and overcome all fears. Continue

your preparations patiently. Accept My guidance,

worship My exemplary form on earth, live in Me. You

are blessed. (6.5.92)

 

Source:

http://www.carolriddell.co.uk/To%20Transcend%20Ego4.htm

 

Regards,

Mangala