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by Eddie Traversa
You have taken yourself to be something that you are not.
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Each is loved unconditionally, unequivocally, eternally. Because
I love each
unconditionally there can never be mistakes. I do not
care what you have done or what you are about to do. You are loved
regardless of any action, any thought or any emotion, no matter how
bad you imagine them to be. You cannot escape from love try though
you might. Allow yourself to bathe in the radiant light that is “I”
for that is all existence. The only existence.
Hear a bird singing and I am there. See a tree and that is where
I live. I am in every part, in all atoms, in each super string, in
every cell and fibre of your being. I am the planets and the stars
and everything in between in this universe. I am every universe and
much more. There is no need to move anywhere, no need to seek, for I
am already here right now in all things and in all places at once.
I am the sacred realm, the holy presence. I am beyond all that
have come before me and all that will follow. I am that which you
have been seeking, the thing you long for, what you have dreamed
about since time immemorial. I am the source of all things, the only
true thing. Be still, listen without your mind and body, let go of
your thinking and know that I am God. Know that I am the source of
all things.
If I am that, then that too is what you are.
Come to know this and reality is yours for the taking. Not my
reality, nor your reality, but reality: the reality that people call
the kingdom of God. You are already here in the realm of the sacred,
but you have so many dogmas, ideas and feelings that you have hidden
what is blessed from yourself.
When I walk on earth and I hear a bird singing, the singing is I.
I am pure and whole in the experience of singing. It arises within
me and around me in perfect harmony with all that there is. The
singing of the bird knows no boundaries. It has no rules for how
things should be. It does not try to be something that it is not. It
is just a singing in perfect harmony with its true nature.
Yet, when I see people, I see people hurrying, worrying, and
making a drama from the smallest thing. It seems that everyone wants
be anywhere but here, right now. There is no resonance with
consciousness; instead there is disharmony, which only serves to
deaden the essence of you. You walk as if already dead, but pretend
to be alive. You have hidden the natural grace that is your
birthright.
You were not like this once. When you were a young infant you
cried without shame or regret. When you laughed it was heartfelt and
the world laughed with you. You were just as happy to doodle in a
coloring book, as you were to play with a friend. There was never a
thought of “I would be happier doing something else”. You were
happy and content and that was enough. When you showed affectionate
to others it did not come from a place of need or wanting something
in return. You were affection incarnate. You had no notion of a
human being instead you were “being” constantly. As this young
child, you did not know fear in being.
Now that you are not being, but rather a human being which knows
fear all too well, can you honestly say you have moved even an inch
closer to eternal peace and joy? Look from your own experience; is
anyone that you know abiding constantly in deep harmonic peace? Are
they even happy 85% of the time? I in form know of only one being
that is happy over 85% of the time. She is my niece aged 21 months.
She is the most enlightened person I know.
In a few years time she will be indoctrinated to live in fear and
enlightenment will be hidden from her. She will no longer live in
the loving embrace that is I; instead she will experience doubt,
guilt, shame, anxiety, and apprehension. She will become a human
being and miss the divinity that is always before her.
She, like you will not know that every moment is a divine
creation. The wind that blows through your hair, the smell of the
ocean that is alive and fresh, the sunset that allows you to weep
with joy at its ephemeral beauty are sacred creations. As you writhe
in the ecstasy of passion, as you feel deeply the splendor of a
child and as you rejoice in being, this too is divine creation
unfolding before your eyes.
Divinity is in each and every moment. This is where the sacred
realm of the God exists. It is not out there or up there, rather it
is here before you and within you. It does not await you after
death, nor does it occur through the reincarnation of many
lifetimes: that is just Maya weaving another layer of illusion. In
the world of separateness there are many illusions, layer upon layer
of illusion.
In being there is no illusion, there is just the experience of
the unfolding of a moment. That is all there is. There is no
separate object perceiving another separate object. Separatism is
the illusion that is at the heart of suffering. Being is the direct
presence of divinity appearing as its true nature of oneness in the
here and now. There is never any suffering in being; there is just
pure abundant acceptance of what is.
Being is truth and it is available to you right now.
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