Welcome to the fifth issue of Light-Up-Your-Life Newsletter.
The aim
of this newsletter is to guide you as you discover the very
source of
Happiness and Wisdom. This source is so deep that it is unaffected by the
conditions of your environment, your body and mind.
In this issue we will discuss Immortality; is it possible, and if so
where can you find it.
We will also show how you can't renounce happiness. Once you
understand that you find happiness right where you experience it, you
will be able to partake in the world or not partake in the world, as
you please, but you will never be fooled as to where your happiness
comes from.
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michael@light-up-your-life.com.
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Michael, I don't want to tell you what's in you heart;
when you can look there and find a peace so close
that it swallows you up and leaves the aroma of golden
incense wafting from the cedar ceiling.
There is no distance between you and the color of
your heart. Just drink the wine of eternity and rock
in her arms forever.
Question: Are you ever glad or sad? Do you know joy and sorrow?
Maharaj: Call them as you please. To me they are states of mind only
and I am not the mind.
Question: Is love a state of mind?
Maharaj: Again, it depends what you mean by love, Desire is, of course,
a state of mind. But the realisation of unity is beyond mind. To me,
nothing exists by itself. All is the self, all is myself. To see myself
in everybody and everybody in myself most certainly is love.
From "I Am That"
Translated by Maurice Frydman
Copyright © by Nisargadatta Maharaj
Many people are interested in immortality. To most people this means
the ability to live for a long time. Although our life spans are increasing,
there are a few problems connected with physical immortality. First of
all the quality of life is important. It is hard to imagine a long life without
joy. No one would say, "I hope for 90 years of misery."
Secondly, as the body and mind gets older, the quality of life that you
experience might diminish. At what point will immortality kick in?
With a young body and mind or with an old body and mind?
Thirdly, we hope to be conscious. We may enjoy looking at a rock
that's millions of years old. But that doesn't mean that we would want
to be that rock. One reason that we wouldn't want to be the rock is that
the rock is not conscious of its own existence.
The forth problem with physical immortality is that even if you live as
long as the universe lasts, on the last day of your life it will seem too
short. Our sense of time is not a fixed quantity. The older we get the
faster time seems to go. As you get older, from your perspective the
universe could pass in seconds.
With all these potential problems with immortality we still hope that
we can live forever. Furthermore, when we look inside we have this
deep feeling that somehow we won't die. It seems like more then just
a vague hope. Although we don't know what it is, there is something
at our very core that we feel will last forever.
If there is a place at our core where we live forever, full of
consciousness and joy, where would this place be? If you are like me
you don't want to wait until you die to learn about this core. You
want to learn about it and experience it now.
If you recall from my article on www.light-up-your-life.com,
I made
some comments on, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you
free." In these comments I attempted to show that if something was created
it will surely pass away. If, on the other hand, it was there already,
uncreated, then it would not die.
Now if it turns out that this thing is not a thing at all, but you,
then
you would not die. Maybe this is the place of light and joy that the sages
of old wanted you to discover when they said: "Know thyself."
Perhaps the immortality that you long for is not physical immortality but
a place at your very core that's innately free from the condition of your
body and mind.
I was talking to a friend the other day and she said that her mother, who
was ill, was disturbed because her mind and her memories were starting
to go.
I thought, "how does she know that her memories in her mind are fading?"
She was clearly and deeply conscious of the changes in her mind. This
consciousness was not fading; just her state of mind. This consciousness,
aware of the fading mind, must surely be who she is and not her state of
mind that seemed to be in flux.
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In different religious orders they do a spiritual practice called renouncing
the world. Some of these renunciates, like priest and nuns in the Catholic
church, don't get married. Others limit their diets, sleep only a few hours
a night on hard beds, live in poverty, and do other practices that limit
their intake of the things that most of us consider pleasurable.
However, there is one thing that you cannot renounce and that is
happiness. This is because, to renounce happiness, you would have to
renounce the very source of joy at your core, God, and that is impossible.
But you should know that I have made everyone who reads this newsletter
a renunciate, and most of you have not given up a thing. How is this possible?
Because on www.light-up-your-life.com
I showed you the secret source of
happiness that lies at your center. This is the place where you actually
experience happiness.
You can never again be fooled into thinking that your spouse, your car,
your house, or your food provides you with the joy that you already have.
And equally important they can never take away that which is innately yours.
Once you experience this joy directly, you will naturally renounce these
things. This does not mean that you have to give them up physically.
It just means that you will not make you happiness dependent on them.
Your actions then will depend on your temperament and not on your need
for happiness. In fact renunciation has nothing to do with your actions.
A priest may give up certain actions but if he still feels that happiness comes
from sex, he will still be bothered by what he renounces. Like a balloon that's
about to burst, his need for happiness can come out in the most perverse way.
On the other hand a married person who loves their spouse can easily see
where the love that they feel comes from.
So, true renunciation is based on knowledge, not actions. For when you
know where happiness is found, you can reclaim that joy that is innately yours.
This is the joy of spiritual practice.
Finding the source of joy is finding the spark that will light up your life.
The
fear of being left in misery will drain away and you can rest in your own being
forever.
Please feel free to contact me with questions or comments
at: michael@light-up-your-life.com.
Sincerely,
Michael Gluckman