Words From The Master - 01 May 2008

You are a spiritual being!

We have always been trained to think that we are human beings looking for spiritual experience. Now I tell you: You are a spiritual being looking for human experience. This is the truth. If you develop a firm conviction about this truth, it is enough; you will start experiencing it.

I tell people: I am not here to prove I am god; I am here to prove that you are god! People look at me with shock and fear when I tell them this. But it is the truth. When I say this, I don’t mean that you should develop a spiritual ego; I don’t mean that you should go around claiming that you are god. Just understand that by nature you are an ego-free spiritual being and because of societal conditioning, you feel that you are a human being, and so you start searching for spiritual experiences.

When this point is understood deeply, you will understand that all emotions like fear, jealousy, desire, ego and discontent become baseless! A spiritual being can never come under the clutches of these emotions. But you have been reduced to an ordinary human being; that is the problem. All terrorism and violence that goes around in the world today are because we don’t understand that we are a high-level being. Not only that: People start looking for powers like black magic, materializing things and what not. They think that these are all a measure of being spiritually powerful. The whole concept needs to undergo a 180-degree change.

As long as we feel we are human beings, we will be focused on gaining material wealth; all our actions will be towards that; we will continue to run behind material things. At the end of it, even if we have gained all that we wanted to, there will be a void in us, a yearning in us; something will be missing.

That something is nothing but a deep awareness that we are high-level beings. If this is understood, the focus will shift from material wealth to living a sweet life. Wealth is not the real richness; the capacity to be un-clutched from the wealth is the real richness! When you can be un-clutched from material life, life will become so sweet.

When you understand that you are a spiritual being, you will be able to watch the whole of life as a big drama; you will be able to play your role joyfully without getting caught in any of the emotions; you will then understand that your real nature is neither spiritual nor material; it is beyond both! When you understand this, you fall into the middle path and you become liberated! Moving towards understanding this is the goal of life itself. That is why I say, ‘Bliss is the path and the goal.’

Be Blissful!