The key to awakening is essentially in the process of our deepest desire to be free of all that divides us, splits us, disintegrates us and creates the many personalities lost in our crowded mind. We remember many important things that we need to accomplish in life but how many of us are Aware of the inner self, ourselves. The great philosopher mystic Gurdjieff reminded us that we need to do the sadhana of "self remembering", just to remind ourselves of ourselves.
The pains of humanity are not because we lack something and all suffer from the poverty of physical deprivation. Instead our suffering comes once the physical needs are met and the mind creates millions of problems for us and we spend the whole life fixing them and in the process suffer a lot.
The true search for the spirit, soul, begins only when we experience the pains of this disintegration or the splits within ourselves as if there are many persons living in the same body! Isn't it so true that we hear so many voices contradicting each other? This is the inner conflict born out of our inner splits. This conflict creates confusions and consequent frustrations of life.
Our search in life is not to find something outside of us which can resolve all the problems of life, for the problems are not outside of us, they are continually being created in the bed of our own minds in illusion and ignorance. Hence our need for the spiritual journey to the inner world once again. For if we do not take care of the roots, the problems persist.
The Vedic Rishis and Masters are calling our attention again and again to first understand this basic reality, to just begin to feel the presence within, the presence of "Amness". The existence.
"Who am I"? This is the most wondrous pilgrimage of humanity from human to Being. From man to God, From somebody to no-body.
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