The Longing to Know One’s True Self

Namaskar. Today is a new day, a new beginning, a new opportunity. Every day is a fresh day, a day to live your life afresh. The past is gone, no longer here. Its influence of experience remains in the present, but the past is over. It cannot be changed.
 
The future is to come. It is not now. Now is when you have the opportunity to be all that you want to be. This is the fresh moment of your life. It is always in the present.
 
And every day is a new opportunity to live in love, to live in truth, to recognize your own nature. Living beings have the opportunity to move forward, to move towards their true destiny, their true light, or the opportunity to move away, into darkness, away from the light of their own inner nature.
 
So, with each day comes the opportunity, the choice, of which way you will live your life. Yoga means to yoke, to yoke the little to the great, the individual to the whole of being. Meditation is merely a tool to bring the opportunity of success to you, to bring the opportunity to know your inner nature.
 
Because when the mind is still, in that quietness, awareness can sink deep into eternal being. Within you, within your own soul, you carry the connection to the divine, to the light of the world, to your deepest natural state of being.
 
Whether you consider yourself a good person or a bad person, however others see you, there is within you the light of eternal being. The one divinity abides in all. It is an omnipresent, eternal, and immortal being. It is your home of homes, your resting place.
 
Everyone has a longing, a longing for greatness, a longing to be whole, a longing for the infinite. This longing is shared by everyone. It is not unnatural. It is natural. But the mind becomes confused, and soon that longing becomes for a new car, a new house, a new partner, for something that will fulfill you, you hope.
 
But when you acquire these things that you feel will fulfill you, of the world, they may bring you joy for a time, but then this restlessness begins again, this longing. The fulfillment of this restlessness of the mind lies in your own natural state of being, in your soul, in the Atman. Because your own deepest nature, your soul, your consciousness is made of divine being, of the substance of love, of the nature of the universe.
 
You are not alone or isolated. Your consciousness, your awareness, your essence is the same as the essence of all beings. You are part of an interwoven, interconnected web of life. Divine being is in you, with you, all around you. There is nothing else.
 
In the world of form, the mind moves between the idea of I and thou, I and other, identified with the body and the mind; your conscious awareness identifies with self, and through the eyes and senses, the experience of the other. But in the deeper reality of the soul, there is no I and other. There is only the one, eternal essence, the aware conscious beingness, and the closest experience to that consciousness is love, love, and the stillness of peace.
 
It is in love that you find the wholeness of being. Not “I love you because you love me”; not that type of love, but an unconditional love. Like a shower of grace that is always falling upon you, this love is eternal, never-ending. It is your own natural state to be immersed in this love, to lose your sense of separation in the wholeness of being, to lose your loneliness in the wholeness of being.
 
You are never truly alone; the infinite one abides in you, and all that surrounds you. Nothing is outside of that one. That conscious intelligence, aware beingness, has the quality of unconditional love, and through that love is pulling you towards it, towards your own nature, towards this eternal essence. And that pull is the restlessness in the mind, the yearning to find wholeness.
 
In that one, there is no I and thou; there is only love, unconditional, no separation, no pain of longing. All that pain is from duality; its root cause is the sense of separateness within you, that sense that you are apart, alone, that you must fear and grasp to survive. All of that stems from the very nature of separation, from the feeling in your aware consciousness that you are separate.
 
When the illusion of separateness is dissolved, the belief in I and other dissolved, you find you are one; you are whole; you are part of an interwoven interconnectedness, a whole of being that abides eternally, immortally, an unconditional love, that falls on you like a gentle rain, that is within you from your heart or hearts, shining forward through you. That love is your home, your immortal Self, eternal being. It is the essence of your soul, your God connection, your connection to the whole.
 
You are always one; you are always whole. You have always been whole, and you will always be whole. The dream of duality arises in the mind, the belief in the separateness, because you identify with a body and senses and experience the world as outside—you experience people as other… But when you deepen and when you go deep into your heart, deep into your soul, you realize there is no other. Unconditional love is the very nature of all that is.
 
And it is only the dream that covers the eyes of knowledge in darkness and brings you into illusion from which you feel you need to grasp for power, grasp for money, grasp for anything to keep you safe, to keep you whole, to keep you alive. But when you go within to the light, to the love, to that gently falling rain of eternal being, you recognize that you are always whole. You are connected.
 
All is one. You are one with the eternal. There is nothing to fear, no place to hide, no guilt, no shame, no fear. Instead, you are held in love unconditionally. You are loved fully and completely for who you are, and that essence of you, that truth dissolves into the whole, into the love which has always been there for you, will always be there, is within you and all around you.
 
For those who have eyes to see and ears to hear, the divine is in the song of a bird, in the babbling of a brook, in the call of the infinite, in your own body, in your own mind, in all those you love, and in all living beings. There is a unity of love, a unity of wholeness. This is the secret potential, the secret learning of human life. And it is yours.
 
Allow yourself to fall back into this love, to let go of all identities, all beliefs about yourself. And just let go into the arms of love, into the beloved of your heart. Let go. Let go.
 
And when you meditate, simply let go. That love is unconditional. It doesn’t judge. It is all-abiding, infinite grace. All right?
 
Namaskar.

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