Living In The Presence of God (VolII/PtI)-Chapter 50

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50 Life, itself, is God. The love for life is the strength and might of this power - you call God! God is simple to understand, if you do not separate Him for your own self, anymore. Life, My child, is His form, love is His way in which He manifests. Awaken, O child, with the knowledge of this blessed union. Believe that the Lord is not only a part of you - but recognize and realize that you here, to play the full role of the Master. Yes! The role in which one can live in this world, loving the life within him, making his life the love that brings in it only God and leaving time behind to cry its sorrows, alone. Those that are

attuned to the Lord's presence, will pass the period of every worldly pain. Remember, O child of truth, that it is in pain, alone, that one finds the pillar of faith to lean upon. The strength, to ignore the pinch of pain comes, only when one finds the opportunity to face it. The loss of the self is only an illusion - to experience this truth, time must play the role of the heartless robber. The man of desires weeps, letting the illusion of loss appear real with the creation of self suffering. The period of gloom, that night of doom passes - the tears dry - and man rises with a new strength that he always had, but was unaware of. He fights and finds the smiles amidst the tears and chooses to accept the loss, for his simple acceptance makes the loss the illusion and makes his strength the only reality. Know, My dear, that the truth always stays - it can never end! Pain in life comes and

goes. Anything that changes is only transient - anything that has a beginning and an end is unreal. The truth is only eternal, none can ever trace its beginning, none can ever determine its end. One can only follow its course and become a part of its permanence. Joy and pain are alternate cycles of life that make man aware that he is not in any way bound to the gain or loss. Yes! Pleasure can truly offer him nothing - pain can never truly even touch him. They are only the course on which the soul races to reach the true purpose and goal of life. Hence, do not depend nor fear, develop a pleasing attitude towards life - do not wake up to attack life, everyday! Depend less and lesser on the love you receive - depend, My child, more on the strength that lets you give selfless, unconditional love. With such an attitude, relationships will bind you

lesser and lesser and will free you from the fears of attachments. Remember, whenever you receive, you are indebted to the giver. One, My child, can never receive a gift from this world that one will not pay for in the future. Hence, touch nothing, for anything you received from anyone, other than the self, will possess you and your time, much more, than you will ever enjoy it. Stay away from your own mind as much as possible and desires will surely lessen. Know that each of your reactions are only the state of the mind. Feeling happy, feeling sad, feeling angry are merely the expressions of the mind. The true self, My child, is in a state of constantness. It, My dear, wades calmly through the biggest waves. For the self, there is never the fear of uncertainty, for it exists in the truth of its

indestructibility. The external influences will remain, as long as the mind waivers in its fears. Once the mind is opened to the intelligence of the inner, higher life, then, to such a one, life, too, will remain as constant as one's own true nature. Hence, look at pain and look at pleasure with the same eye and fight both with the same strength, for remember that pain is simply the disguise of pleasure, and pleasure is the mask of the face of fear. Both, My child, are only the fear of the mind. Pleasure is the fear of keeping - pain is the fear of losing. Stop living in such fear. God is here - Yes! God is with you, in you, and around you. Be with the Source - become the Source. Love, My dears - love fearlessly - blessed is that life that comes, awakens and leaves only with the one joy - the joy of loving God! Saying Why be afraid of the tests of faith. Faith, if not tested, wil become fear, itself! As one walks on the spiritual path, leaving slowly the outer world, one sometimes fails to recognize the change in his own vision. He, My child, is sometimes unable to realize the gifts of higher strengths that he has received from the self in the course of his own spiritual development. Hence, My child, all of a sudden, the smooth road will end, abruptly, leaving the spiritual aspirant to cross the bed of thorns. At first, there will be a small period of devastation, but each time, the obstacle will come, the seeker of truth will awaken from the pangs of self pity, quicker, and will force the strength of his faith for his own self to arise from within him the higher intellect that will give him the solution. Yes! With the purity, will come the higher sense of discrimination that will allow the

lover of God to build his bridge and cross the ocean of so called sorrows. The bigger the pain that he wades through, the more clearer is his own experience of the strength of his own faith. Hence, My sweet, look boldly for challenges in your spiritual journey - seek them - and with no reservations nor limitations, face them. Measure the strength that you have attained in simply loving God. It will amaze you, My child, just to see that your spiritual discipline and dedication to God made you travel a long distance and brought you much closer to the Lord within a brief period. Faith is the wheel that turns faster than any other form of devoted love. Roll upon the wheel of faith, crush every desire that will restrict its movement, and reach the destination much before the awaited arrival!Source : LIVING IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD (Volume II/Part I)

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