Chapter 5

Be aware. Any moment you may collide with God!

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Be aware. Any moment you may collide with God!

All this time you have been living others’ lives - the life dictated by your family, by your friends, by society. Isn’t it time to start living your life? Put out your little lamp and open the door. Only then can the moonlight flood your room! In your life, you've tried everything. But how much has been truly worthwhile? If this is your life, isn't it time to drop it? It is time to experiment, to explore, to expand. Learn to enjoy the utter insecurity of Life. There is security only in Death. Death is the only certainty of our lives! Respect Confusion. It means you are in the process of changing, deep inside. What you experience as confusion is only the natural conflict between the old and the new. Give it time to settle and watch the transformation! Greed and fear are the two greatest driving forces in our lives. To be free of both is to be Awakened. The whole of Existence is a gift to you from the Divine. Accept it with love, grace and humility. It is perfectly natural to have desires. What you need is the energy to transform your dreams into reality. Whatever you do, do it with totality. Attitude speaks more than mere action. With prayer, you start becoming religious. With gratitude, you start becoming spiritual. In the wilderness that is Spirituality, always carry a small torch of doubt. Doubt is the journey, the path and the light. Your path is neither indulgence nor repression. It is the unflinching awareness of both. Against whom are you putting up defences? You are already one with all that is, already one with Existence! Whenever an action is left unfinished, there is a force that compels you to bring it to its rightful conclusion. You enter a new life simply to bring these actions to fulfilment. That force is what I call Karma. Death is not the end of Life, it is the culmination of Life! Who is afraid of Death in you? You are Life; how can Life be afraid of its own culmination? Power without intelligence is like a knife in the hands of a child. Existence never makes the mistake of bestowing one without the other! That's why, with Enlightenment, power, intelligence and compassion all flower together. Pain is neither good nor bad. It is neutral, like a flash of lightning on your path. Whether you let it terrify you, or simply use it to find your way ahead, depends entirely on you! Respect pain; it can be a powerful catalyst to growth. The seed must rupture before the plant can grow and blossom. Suffering is not a state of life, it is a state of mind. It is your reaction to a situation. Nobody or nothing can make you suffer without your silent permission. Bliss is not the opposite of Pain. Bliss is that which floods you when you have gone beyond both Pleasure and Pain, when both Pleasure and Pain have ceased to disturb you. The only way to love is to risk everything, give everything and ask for nothing. If a relationship is not going right, don't drop your partner, drop your ego. Don't squander your energies in conflict, channel them into joy instead! How long will you Quantify Love? Make it a Quality of your Being! Love is the ultimate blossoming of consciousness. It is the ultimate possibility available to us. 'You belong to me' is the voice of Ego. 'I belong to you' is the voice of Love. If there is possessiveness, there can be no Love. To try to possess is to treat the other as one's property. Bringing down an individual to the level of gross matter shows deep disrespect of the other's free being. How can it be called Love? When I say, surrender in love, I don’t mean, surrender to your partner. I mean, may both of you surrender