You and everything you want are inseparable

BARTERING AWAY YOUR SELF FOR YOUR HAPPINESS:
HARDLY A BARGAIN

This universe – just its known part -- spreads across zillions and zillions of fathomless light-years. Considering that the speed of light is roughly 300,000 kilometers per second, these are distances that Humans are never likely to traverse, even accounting for the likely advancements in science and technology in foreseeable future. And millions of times more are the events that take place every millionth of a second in this yet expanding universe. For us to be able to experience even a part of these events, we would need instruments and machines that travel many, many times faster than the speed of light. And scientists hold no hope of our putting together such instruments.

And yet, the experience of the vastness of this universe is not something entirely unknown to us. For you and me, there is only one instrument on which these experiences are recorded, felt and lived through. That tiny instrument is the five feet something – a few inches more, or less – of human body and an even tinier mind placed therein. But such is the range and power of that mind that it can encompass the entire boundless universe in an infinitely small fraction of a second, making the speed of light appear a creature of stone-age shot in slow motion. Universes upon universes and ages upon ages race past our eye with a smoothness unknown to us in any form of travel invented by us.

Respect this instrument, and don’t let anyone belittle or humiliate it. Your mind or your “self” is the only thread you have to connect you to life. We barter away this ‘self’ in very cheap bargains in exchange for attention from those whose love we wish to secure for this very ‘self’, or the possessions we wish to place at the feet of this self to keep it happy. It is a poor bargain, totally unacceptable, because we get the ‘self’ pass through insults in pursuit of respect and happiness that we seek for it. It is only for this ‘self’ that you want , desire or pursue everything. The irony is that we sell out this self in exchange for the things we want to buy for it. Nowhere is this more evident than in our pursuit of love of those who do not value it.

This instrument, this mind, this ‘self’ deserves better. Learn to love and respect it, and you will find love everywhere. And you will love everything. Because everything is contained in this self, this mind, this you. And out of this realization will be born boundless love and endless humility. Everything will be yours then because everything and yourself are inseparable, the seeming partition caused by the mind’s eye tightly shut.
Mind alone is God, mind alone is the whole universe – nothing exists outside it. Mann se bada na koi …….. Mann he devta, mann he ishwar. Mann ujjiara jab jab phelai, jag ujjiara hoi, said Sahir.