Why what you see is not good or bad
A teaching from Sri Swami Shankarananda Giri
Do you want to know the truth?
If you are steadfast in your desire to know the truth, to realize oneness, you come to a realization wherein you say, “I don’t care how long it takes me to feel, to experience, to realize this blissful unity. I know intuitively, inwardly, with utmost clarity, that there is nothing more important to me than to regain that which seems to have been temporarily lost, to regain full awareness of that Reality that all the enlightened ones have spoken of as bliss. I long to live and move and have my being in that creative consciousness and to be able to love everything as an expression, or an extension, of the nonphysical Reality.”
When you can see every physical expression, not as an obstacle but as an extension of the nonphysical Reality, you will understand that the manifestations came into being in response to human desire.
Whatever you see in the world is not good or bad; it is simply an extension of the nonphysical Reality, called forth into manifestation through someone’s desire or the desire of many.
Whatever someone’s desire is, the very desire will bring its fulfillment into manifestation, if one is steadfast in holding to the desire. Others may have the benefit of it or experience it detrimentally, but you cannot experience anything that anyone creates unless you have the consciousness for it.
Creating consciousness
All the wisdom that yogis have realized will not even approach the periphery of our individual awareness, unless we have a desire to grow in wisdom and understanding, in Self-knowledge and Self-realization.
Everyone is called to a life of joy, growth, lovingness, expansion, and fulfillment; but few choose to follow that calling because there are so many different reasons to justify not answering the call, for putting it on hold, and then forgetting what that was all about.
What we’re dealing with here is the desire to realize God, the desire to realize that which is the nature of God, the desire to realize whatever is possible for us to realize. You may say, “I don’t know what it means to realize God.” Then let this be your prayer: “My desire is to realize whatever there is to be realized.” Put your mental and vocal thoughts into a positive frame of mind.
Please watch your language and mind your own business which is is-ness, the business of being.
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