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