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by Maharaji
WITHIN ME is this most beautiful and profound thing. And if I connect to it. . . it will bring me joy.
There are so many ideas in this world. And sometimes, at first, we don't even realize that these ideas surround us. They're there, and we accept them. They seem familiar. And as the time goes by, these ideas take more and more and more of a stronghold in our lives, until everything else takes on a priority.
Until one day, what we held to be so true and real no longer matters.
Obviously, the transition is smooth. Too smooth. It would be better if one day, you woke up and said, "Bam! I'm going in the wrong direction." But it isn't like that. It's ever so slow. It's ever so evolving. Because there was a time when the only thing that mattered was to be alive.
I know when I say this, a lot of people look at me and say, "Huh?" as though they have forgotten what it was like to be a little child. All that mattered was, "I'm here." There was no judgement of what today meant. It didn't need to be defined. It was, it is, "I'm here. I don't know about tomorrow. I don't know what was yesterday, but I am. I am alive, and that's all that matters." That was a simple time. That was a real time. And everything was in real time.
And then.…you know the story. All of the other things become priorities, and the one thing that mattered the most - being alive - got pushed back and back, and back.
But there is good news. And the good news is that there is Knowledge. The good news is, there is someone that can remind us. And what does this Knowledge do? It takes that which is so lost and it makes it found again. Where the focus, where the understanding of what this existence is all about - what this life is all about - becomes real. And to accept. To actually accept that "I exist". That, within me - within me - is this most beautiful and profound thing. And most importantly that, if I connect to it, it will bring me joy.
