Be Like Jesus - 20

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travel on business through many lands and stay in several towns in great

comfort, but he gets rest and peace only when he reaches home. The earthly

career is but a stage in his long journey, where he has camped for a while. The

camp is not to be confused with the home, but many do and refuse to remember the

home. Forgetting the supreme power of the Spirit within, men place their

reliance on the powers of the body, the mind and the intellect. Men seek the

cause for death, but no one seeks the Divine source of life. If a tiny sugar

crystal is mixed in a heap of sand, even the most intelligent person will not be

able to separate the sugar from the sand and recover it. But without any

extraordinary intelligence, an ant is able to make its way to the particle of

sugar in the sand heap and relish its sweetness. The ant is aware of the

sweetness of sugar and is able to get at the sugar even in the heap of sand.

Likewise, man should seek to distinguish between the permanent and the

transient and realize what is everlasting. Man is endowed with the capacity to

discriminate between the permanent and the evanescent, but unfortunately

instead of using this capacity he is caught up in the delusions of the

phenomenal world and is wasting his life. Consider the reality of things –

mountain peaks are only heaps of rocks; the ground on which we dwell is only a

mound of soil; the body we carry about with us is but flesh and bone,

composites of the five main elements – space, air, fire, water and earth. Man

has no need to seek

anything outside himself. He has the universe within him in his heart. He is

potentially the Cosmic Being. He has in him the magnetic power of attraction.

It is derived from the Divine; every atom has Divine power. For one to

understand this truth, he has to realize that the Divine exists in the

microcosm and the macrocosm. God is the basis for all that exists. Rely on

God, rather than on things that are dependent on God. Develop self-reliance on

the basis of faith in God. This was the lesson that Jesus taught to a man who

was starving. On the first day he gave the man some fish to eat. The next day

Jesus met the man and asked him: “You ate the fish I gave you yesterday. How

are you going to get the meal today? How long am I to relieve your hunger by

giving fish day after day? You must know how to secure fish for appeasing your

hunger. Then you will have no need to depend on others.” What everyone has to

learn today is how to be self-reliant and not depend on others. How is one to

be self-reliant? By developing confidence in God and adhering to truth and

righteousness.

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