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‘You need to know the light in order to recognize the darkness you dwell in; else you would mistake the darkness for the light.
A typical human mind remains under control of the external world, Maya, which has a never-ending arsenal of highs-lows, good-bad, right-wrong, love-hate, pleasure-pain, likes-dislikes, pure-impure, spiritual-materialistic, belief-disbelief, rational-irrational, and so on to keep a mind engaged. Therefore, Maya has all the powers to enslave a human
mind and control what information the latter receives.
of the mermaid, his eyes dilated and gleaming
‘If we express our emotions with the awareness of being a character in this grand play, we remain safe from the mermaid.’
journey. If you can imagine a scene, it exists out there in Space-Time. Whether you get to live it or not is another matter.
Karma and Desire are the only two building blocks of one’s identity.
You have the freewill to live any scene you want, but not to create or alter a scene.
Who am I to take them? You have to let go of them. And it’s not easy to let go. It is like giving up a part of yourself. Can you cut off your hand? Yes, it is that difficult. Your beliefs, your opinions, your attachments, and anything that makes you who you are is because of the packets of Karma-Desire your soul possess. Giving up those packets means giving up your identity. Let me give you an idea of how these constituents are ingrained in your identity.
called tree. The air is all around you and inside you. You are floating in the sea of air. You should be amazed, but you aren’t. Because you possess a bunch of Karma-Desire packets that tells you that it is a normal thing called breathing.
Why do you behave the way you behave? Because of the unique combination of Karma-Desire packets you possess.
The immortal Lord Hanuman was meditating in a jungle at that moment. He woke up and asked Kala, the God of Time, ‘Did you feel that, Kala? A human soul has attained Godhood somewhere. Tell me, who is this monk whose penance has yielded results?’
