EXPERIENCE DIVINITY
Everything is Divine, and when you realise everything is Divine, you will first have to realise that you are Divine. Divinity is gained through our spiritual and meditational practices, where the totality becomes a reality instead of an abstract conception of an unknown God.
It is an impossibility to know God. You cannot know God because the very idea of knowing God means that you are using your mind to learn something abstract. How can the finite ever conceive of that which is infinite? You can never know God; that fallacy is perpetrated upon humankind, but surely you can experience God.
What do we mean by experiencing God? It is experiencing yourself, and when you experience yourself in totality and not fragmentedly, then you are experiencing God. There is nothing up there. There is nothing below there. Everything is here, and every person can experience himself.
HAPPINESS IS INSIDE
But we run so far away from it. It is like the musk deer running around to find the fragrance. Running around and around and around, it became exhausted and fell. In the falling, it was discovered that the musk was in its navel. That is where musk comes from, for the information of you ladies. So, the musk, that fragrance, is there within you, and you seek it outside you. You try to find that fragrance, that happiness of life, that joy in all the things around you: beautiful bungalows, cars, this, that and that. You run around, and you get exhausted until you collapse. What is the sense of collapsing when you can find the musk here and now and enjoy its fragrance?
The most significant pain in life is seeking that illusionary happiness outside when it is inside. So simple!
If it is inside, what precludes it from expressing itself outside? That illusory mind is always running around the park, which is how pain comes about. Because when you run around in the park, there might be dogs or cats around, and the smells might not be pleasant – and that is the pain you suffer. Otherwise, essentially, by your nature, you have the fragrance within yourself.
My message is of love, joy and hope, which I do not say in defiance of other theologies. These teachings are for the world – and then people start realising that I am Divine, I am Yahweh.
I am Divine, which means there is no one outside of me. I am who I am, and I will forever be. This I must learn to see.
If I want to see, I have to stand outside myself to be able to see myself. But this is unnecessary—Seeing is the inner being, where you experience total joy and bliss. Then, where are you? You just are. Finish—problem settled.
When you stand outside yourself and see yourself, all the pains and sufferings come from there. I love you. I love you. I love you. That is what my mind tells me, but I do not love you. I am love, and you are in me, which is also love.
The question of I and you disappears. There is no question left. This is not a matter of identification only because you require the identifier to find identification. To see, the act of seeing and the seen become three different entities when there is only one. How can you divide up Divinity into three parts? The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are the same – there is no separation because the Father is the Son, and the Spirit that connects the Father with the Son is the Holy Ghost. You see. There is only one: one, one, one. No separation!
LIFE IS WORTH LIVING
Life is eternal; it is eternity itself. How can you escape from that which is eternal? It is a complete entity in its entirety. You have got to live it, but live it joyfully, understanding and experiencing yourself through your spiritual practices, and then you will say, “Aha, life is worth living.”
When you experience the beauty within yourself, you will experience the beauty everywhere around you because you have become that beauty. Is that tree outside a beautiful tree? I do not want to observe that tree with my eyes and analyse it with my mind: the shape and size of the branches there. I merge away into the tree and experience the tree. When you can experience yourself, you experience everything around you.
When you experience everything around you, you love everything because no person in complete sanity hates himself. You learn to love yourself; Man knows thyself. And in that knowingness or experiencing, you love yourself. And when you can love yourself, all your problems will vanish. Your fears, doubts, anger, anguish, and anxieties disappear because you love yourself. All the fears will be gone, for what are you fearing? Let us use a simple analogy. You are crossing the road, and a car is coming, and you fear the vehicle will knock you down. But why and how can it knock you down if you stand on the curb and remain still until that car passes?
You see, the understanding that man requires, that understanding of that beauty you are? It will transform your life in one second. When this understanding is gained, it has to be strengthened. And how do you reinforce this understanding that you have achieved? By doing your spiritual practices regularly. You accumulate greater strength and energy in that togetherness of your mind, body, and spirit.
As you gradually gain greater and greater energy, you will find atonement or at-one-ment within yourself. And once that is found, then what is there to bother about? What is there to worry about? Then, all the illusions disappear. The disappearance or dissipation of illusion would give you a sense of reality, and reality is life itself. And life itself is God.
… Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang US 1984 – 22
