Unmask yourself. And you will find
pure joy, unadulterated bliss, with no expiry date, limitless, in a
nano-second.
You are not father, son, husband, brother,
sister, mother, wife and daughter. You are not an engineer, doctor, CEO,
writer, lawyer, student, gardener, cook, cleaner, pilot, whatever. You and I
are not what we yearn for, or toiled, to become. You__and I__are a free spirit.
You are because you can breathe. When your breathing stops and someone declares
you dead, they will pack you off and cremate or bury you. Kabir, the 15th
Century weaver-poet, describes this so matter-of-factly: “While you are busy
perfuming your body with sandalwood, someone else is chopping the wood for your
funeral…you forget that when you die, they will truss you up with a rope, just
like a common thief, and put you on the pyre to burn…can’t you see that Rama is
the only truth says Kabir…” When you are gone, gone too will the engineer or
brother or wife or CEO. But what about the energy that powered you? Has it
perished and been consecrated like you? Or is it free – and out there in the
cosmos!
This is all there is to understanding Life.
When you unmask yourself and stand naked, you see the truth. Kabir refers to it
as Rama. Shirdi Baba called it Maalik.
Jesus called it Father. The truth is that the Self, the atman (in Sanskrit), the soul, is indestructible. When we know this
truth, then living becomes so simple. Life acquires an indescribable hue, a
beauty that cuts across race, caste, protocol and stays anchored on being
human. Khalil Gibran (1883~1931), the Lebanese-American author, has taught this
so powerfully: “If a man knew himself, he would know all of mankind. I say if a
man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.” To know yourself,
therefore, and to become love, capable of loving all, you must unmask yourself.
Peel off all your layers. And anchor in the energy that is you. This is where you__and I__and all of humanity will meet and
drink from Life’s cup of bliss, together!
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