The Unborn

 

“Heaven and Earth last forever.
Why do Heaven and Earth last forever?
They are unborn,
So ever living.
The sage stays behind, thus he is ahead.
He is detached, thus at one with all.
Through selfless action, he attains fulfillment.” Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching

The world is born from being.

Being is born from non-being.

All that is born will change.

All that is born will die.

The unborn is the eternal mother of all things.

Beyond being and non-being, beyond space and time, beyond body and mind,

Only the real exists.

The real is infinite, unchanging, unattached, perfect and whole.

Like a mirage rising from hot desert sands, the unreal rises and falls – again and  again.

“Is it not because one forgets one’s truth, the light of consciousness, that one gets caught in the net of  Maya, from which one does not know how to escape? The power of Maya is that it causes the jiva to do over and over again that which it already has done.”  Sri Ramana Maharishi, Padamalai.

If you identify with that which is born, you choose suffering and death.

If you identify with the source, the unborn, you choose immortality and blissful peace.

The first choice leads you into the maze of  delusion over and over again.

The second choice takes you home to your true perfect Self.

The sage, in his infinite compassion, says to us: before this body dies, choose wisely!

Return to the source and discover heaven on earth.

“When a man knows God, he is free: his sorrows have an end, and birth and death are no more. When in inner union he is beyond the world of
the body, then the third world, the world of the Spirit, is found, where the power of the All shines, and man has all—for he is one with the One.”
Krishna Yajur Veda, Shvetasvatara Upanishad

Harmony

 “We are even closer to God than the fishes are to the ocean in which they live. The innermost being of man is the real being of God; man is always linked with God. If he could only realize it, it is by finding harmony in his own soul that he finds communion with God. All meditation and contemplation are taught with this purpose: to harmonize one's innermost being with God, so that He is seeing, hearing, thinking through us, and our being is a ray of His light.” Hazrat Inayat Khan

Kabir said “ I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty.”

Pause a moment – feel the flowing current of  God in which you live.

Deep in your chest, a flame shines like a thousand suns.

The triumphant music pouring from that flame is your wake-up call: listen!

Without instrument or voice, heaven and earth join in that hymn of glory.

Tree and wind and mountain and sea join the chorus of stars and sky.

Listen with the ears of your heart and you cannot but hear that music.

With all your being, just sing that divine song!

O child of immortal bliss, stand tall and claim your heritage.

If you would know Grace, understand that everything is pervaded by the One .

Fill your days with beauty and joy, live fearlessly and totally in that harmony.

Thus will you be a light unto yourself and unto all creation.

“Thou art my all in all, O Lord!-the life of my life, the essence of essence;

In the three worlds I have none else but Thee to call my own.

Thou art my peace, my joy, my hope; Thou my support, my wealth, my glory;

Thou my wisdom and my strength.

Thou art my home, my place of rest; my dearest friend, my next of kin;

My present and my future, Thou; my heaven and my salvation.

Thou art my scriptures, my commandments; Thou art my ever gracious Guru;

Thou the Spring of my boundless bliss.

Thou art the Way, and Thou the Goal; Thou the adorable One, O Lord!

Thou art the Mother, tender-hearted; Thou the chastising Father;

Thou the Creator and Protector; Thou the Helmsman who dost steer

My craft across the sea of life.” 

A favorite hymn of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.