"This Week" by the
Bahrain Meditation Centre
6th May, 2006

Moments of Destiny
Part II - Carved in Stone

In part one we saw the three mistakes we can easily make when we think our destiny is an outer condition sometime in the future and created by others. These mistakes arise from the belief that we are material beings trapped in time and space. When you realize the very essence of you is spiritual (you are spirit) then you will also understand why your destiny is already carved in stone and cannot be avoided.

Throughout your life you will make many journeys. On each journey you will go away and come back. Whether it’s the journey to work, visiting friends or going on your annual holiday, in each case you always come home. (traffic permitting!). And so it is with your spiritual journey called life, where you make two journeys at the same time. The first is your journey into this material world. The second is your journey away from your self.

The beginning of your spiritual journey is not located in a physical place. It begins from a state of being, it starts from your original state of being. What would be the original state of any spiritual being but the purest and newest state – that of undisturbable peace, unconditional love and undying joy, all woven together by the purity of innocence. While you may leave the physical location of your home it always awaits your return. Similarly, when you journey away from your original state of love, peace and joy into the territory of anger, fear and sorrow, your original state awaits your return. You can never lose the original attributes of your spirit, of you, but you do lose ‘awareness’ of them as you become disconnected from them within our consciousness. Hence the saying ‘ love does not leave you, you leave love’.

They are always there. It is the inner presence and the deep memories of their ‘insperience’ that motivates your search for peace, love and happiness in the world around you. This search is essentially what motivates everything you do. As you search outside your self you find your self striving, acquiring and achieving, and in so doing there may be a temporary peace, fleeting moments of love and the kind of joy that needs an external fuel. These moments are real but what you feel is not true peace, love and joy. It just means you have not yet realized you are looking in the wrong direction and so you journey further away from what you essentially are. And yet, in the end, it must pull you back. In the end you must return to what you are. Of this you have no choice.

There is nowhere else to go on your spiritual journey but home to your original state of being. It is only a question of how easily you will travel. Some do recognize the truth about the nature of the self and surrender to that inner truth of ‘what I am’. The moment they do the journey for them will be relatively smooth. Others will notice they are being forced to ‘let go’ of all that is false by events, circumstances and the changing nature of their relationships. Their journey will contain the ups and downs of life, where the ups get shorter and shallower and the downs become longer and deeper, until they realize they already have what they seek. And some will be dragged kicking and screaming back to their original internal state. Once there everyone realizes there was and is nowhere else to go and nothing else to do but… be there! This is the destiny we all share and is set in stone… metaphorically speaking!

Question: What do you think of the above text?

Reflection: Love doesn’t leave you but you leave love – contemplate the meaning of this insight

Action: Take a minute, find a quiet corner, sit and invoke the peace of your spiritual heart and listen to the pulse of your intention to love

Om Shanti
(I am a peaceful soul)

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