The One Thing Which You Have To

There Is A Beautiful Expression Of This In The Chandogya Upanishad: 'there Is This City Of Brahman, (that Is The Body), And In This City There Is A Shrine, And In That Shrine There Is A Small Lotus, And In That Lotus There Is A Small Space, (akasa). Now What Exists Within That Small Space, That Is To Be Sought, That Is To Be Understood.' This Is The Great Discovery Of The Upanishads, This Inner Shrine, This Guha, Or Cave Of The Heart, Where The Inner Meaning Of Life, Of All Human Existence, Is To Be Found.

You Must Be Ready To Give Up Everything, Not Only Material Attachments But Also Human Attachments - Father, Mother, Wife, Children - Everything That You Have. But The One Thing Which You Have To Abandon Unconditionally Is Your Self.

This Was The Very Purpose Of Creation That Each Unique, Individual Being Should Participate In Its Own Way In The Divine Being, Should Realize Its Eternal 'idea' In God, Should 'become' God By Participation, God Expressing Himself Through That Unique Being.

I Liked The Solitude And The Silence Of The Woods And The Hills. I Felt There The Sense Of A Presence, Something Undefined And Mysterious, Which Was Reflected In The Faces Of The Flowers And The Movements Of Birds And Animals, In The Sunlight Falling Through The Leaves And In The Sound Of Running Water, In The Wind Blowing On The Hills And The Wide Expanse Of Earth And Sky.

...the Need To Overawe People And Demand Obedience From Them Is Powerful And Seductive. It Is A Part Of That World That The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Not Of.