5. Create Your Soul!

George Gurdjieff is an enlightened Master from the West. Once he declared, 'All of you do not have a soul. It has to be created.'

This will set us thinking. Is this man speaking the truth? What does he mean by these words? What is he suggesting and what is the lesson that we need to learn from him?

The words of George Gurdjieff is not to be taken literally. He actually offers us a technique through the words. He is laying down the foundation that a person should have to call himself living. Do we live? If we say, yes- we breathe, we eat, we work, we have family, then we must be alive- we are totally wrong in this.

We are not fully alive until we are aware. This is the key to transform our ordinary life into extraordinary miracle. We create a soul only through awareness. It is only when we start to live consciously that we create a soul. What does this mean to us?

Even if we have a soul, unless we live consciously, we are neither living nor do we have a soul. Does it matter whether we have a soul or not, if we don't live consciously? If we don't use it, whether we have it or not, it doesn't matter. The soul expresses itself, the self expresses itself, and the energy expresses itself only when we make conscious decisions.

We express our soul when we start living consciously. Our conscious living should spill over to all areas of life. Conscious decision does not mean about our job, or about our marriage, about our lifestyle. It is not limited to the big decisions in life.

Even when we make ordinary decisions like sitting in a chair, we should practice by sitting in it consciously. We need to feel the comfort of the chair consciously. Not only should we sit consciously, we should also listen to things happening around us. We should be aware and conscious of things happening around us. When we totally relax into our body, with in its boundaries, we are automatically conscious of many things within us, around us, and outside of us.

Then we will see the outer thing or matter will not be enforced, the outer thing will not create its own waves in us. We can live in the world and create our soul. Breathe in awareness. Create soul, create consciousness in actions, thoughts, and speech.