The Choice

“The silent life in which the mind is dead, alone is the life fit for a man to live; the life of a man whose mind is wandering is no better than the life of birds and beasts.” 

Bhagavan Ramana Maharishi, Guru Vachaka Kovai

“In the end, only three things matter: How much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.”

The Buddha

What a wonder is this human being!

A living bridge between earth and heaven, beast and God, matter and spirit, embodying the entire tapestry of evolution. 

Woven of the opposites, masculine and feminine, good and evil, demon and god, its inner state can range from discordant chaos to sublime harmony. 

As long as the mind is turned outwards, one moves away from the divine and loses oneself in the mesmerising thickets of desire and fear.

This outward mind creates worlds without cease, dreams and nightmares, heavens and hells, pain and pleasure in endless cycles.

Sooner or later, growing tired of this fickle, impermanent and torturous world, every human craves for true and lasting happiness and peace.

Fortunately, the Divine, in its infinite wisdom, dwells always as the innermost heart of every being.

This compassionate grace within grants a taste of its restful, healing peace every night in the form of deep, dreamless sleep that rejuvenates and refreshes the tired soul.

Why is this sleep so restful? 

Because all activity of body and mind ceases: only pure being, one’s true nature, remains unchanged. This pure being is just unalloyed consciousness, peace and bliss.

Every human being, by birth-right, has the choice and the opportunity to discover its true divine nature.

This is why a human birth is so precious!

All one has to do is choose to turn the mind inwards – to seek out its source, the nest into which it disappears each night in sleep and from which it emerges again every morning on waking.

As one’s attention is focussed deeper and deeper within to find this source, mental activity decreases, falls silent, still.

With practice, this inner seeking grows easier and easier….and suddenly one day, when the fruit is ripe, the miracle of Grace happens: divine energy stirs, throbs and takes charge.

All effort ceases.

The mind, which was ever but a passing bundle of thoughts, is sucked inexorably into the spiritual heart that is the core of being.

Like a river merging permanently with the ocean, the mind dissolves forever in the infinite, eternal, divine Self.

What then remains is the Buddha, the awakened one……the noblest and most compassionate form of human existence.

Are you tired of the drama? Would you like to know true and lasting peace and joy?

Do you want the human race to evolve into its highest and noblest form?

Would you live out the rest of your life as a brute or as God?

You choose.