Understanding aloneness
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March 10, 2012
Question: I always understood Spirituality as a path of aloneness. But you always ask us to share these great truths and our experiences with other people. When we share and talk, are we not moving away from the path of aloneness and engaging ourselves in the useless network of relationships of the materialistic world? Why is it important to share with other people when I can just remain in bliss, being in aloneness and ultimately merge into you?
You don’t have the right understanding of aloneness.
‘I can remain in bliss without anyone’ – you cannot. You will be depressed.
Understand, your aloneness is more like a fear of relating with people.
Aloneness is not living without anybody. No! It is the ability to live with yourself. The ability to keep yourself inspired without any the need for anything from outside is aloneness.
Real aloneness is being able to relate with and inspire everybody, and being able to relate with yourself and inspire yourself whenever you want. You are not just living inside your body. Only 33% of you is living inside your body. You are living with people. Imagine what you will feel if suddenly all the people living around you are dead and you are just there alone? Are you going to live happily? Sharing with others is nothing but creating an enlightenment-based community around you. It is not even serving others; it is serving yourself.
Human beings first create the biology-based community – the family. Then, when you evolve, you create a psychology-based community – like your friends, who are ideologically connected to you. Only a few create consciousness-based communities around them.
Fools are those who create just a biological community around them. Great are those who create an ideological community around them. Blessed are those who create a consciousness-based community around them!
If you have a sangha around you, you are blessed. You have someone with whom to share the spiritual truths, the great experiences of life. The greatest joy is in creating consciousness-based community, sangha.
