All Life is
equal.
Celebrating creation
is our principal religion and only duty! Over centuries, religion, by its opportunistic
practitioners pointing to an external God, has made bad spaghetti out of a
perfect recipe for equality. Religion singularly has made us forget the
divinity in all creation.
When you
recognize that all Life is equal, and that you are as much the source of the
cosmic energy, that which powers the Universe, as creation itself, then, you will
discover the Godhead in you! Then, and only then, will your search for an
external God end. When you have found God, why would you need religion?
Let’s do a
small exercise to grasp this truth in a nanosecond.
Take an
empty (water) glass.
Is the glass
really empty? Or does it contain something?
Well,
arguably, it contains air.
Now, drop
the glass on a hard floor (not carpeted). Yes, just drop it!
It breaks,
right?
Now what
happened to the air in the glass? Where has it gone? Did it also break or did it
go somewhere?
Well, it just
merged with the air in the room. In fact, it always was merged with the air in
the room in the first place. The glass was merely a container holding some of
the air.
So is this,
your, body. It is merely a container holding, during a specific tenure, a
portion of the air, or the cosmic energy that’s powering the Universe. Isn’t
that case strong enough to establish that you and everyone else are equal?
Because all of us are powered by the same cosmic energy.
All our
problems in the world, between us human beings occur because we identify too
much with the human body. Without the body, without the mind, there can be no
desire. Without desire, there can be no one-upmanship. Without one-upmanship,
how can there be inequality? And without inequality how can there be ignorance?
Just this awareness that you are not the body, that you are the God you seek,
that you are the Universal energy is so brilliant and so very liberating.
“Desire, ignorance,
and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage,” taught Swami Vivekananda, whose
150th birth anniversary it is today!
Indeed. We are enslaved by our ignorance of
our true Self. We are trapped in our desires. And we are victims of the
conditioning that we are an unequal race. The question we must ask ourselves is
if you inhale from the same source I exhale into, how can you and I be unequal?
If people across the world understood this truth, there would be no problems,
no wars, and we will have peace and love everywhere.
Swami Vivekananda further said, over 100 years
ago, and it is so true, so relevant, even today: “We believe that every being
is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance;
the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of
these layers of clouds.”
By simply worshiping, and celebrating, creation,
we will find our God and peace __ both that which we desperately seek and need!
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