The Nature of the True Religious Life - 1.4. - Swami Krishnananda.

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Monday, January 30, 2023. 06:00.

Chapter 1: We are Mysterious Somethings - 4.

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Many times you may feel, “I am unwanted, helpless, a poor nothing. Who cares for me?” This kind of feeling may sometimes enter into your mind. But be certain, at least from this moment onwards, that you are not a helpless nobody. Every moment you are seen by somebody. Millions of eyes are looking at you, and everything that you do is known everywhere, just as any occurrence in any part of your body is known to the whole body. If a stone hits a toe of your foot, it is not only the toe that knows that this event has taken place. The whole body knows that the toe has been hit by a stone. This analogy will explain your relationship to things.

The universe is your family. Calcutta, New York—these are not your locations. This little example that I placed before you of the interrelationship of everything will reveal that you do not belong to a small nation, a country, a house, a parentage. Perhaps you do not even belong merely to this Earth. You should be happy to hear all this. “Oh, this is wonderful! I am not so poor and helpless as I appear. Do I belong to this universe, really? I thought I am only a citizen of Calcutta, Delhi or Bombay. I thought I am only a poor nobody living in a hut in Rishikesh. This is what I was thinking, and now I know it is not so. Do I belong to this Earth? I thought I am only a citizen of a small village or a big city. Now I am told I belong to this whole Earth. Wonderful! I am told something more. I am not only of this Earth, I belong to the Solar System.”

What a beautiful thing to hear! Your digestion will improve at once because you become so happy. “Is it so? Am I a friend of everybody? The Sun knows my existence. He will take care of me. How beautiful! If I fall sick, the whole world will come and help to relieve me of my illness. Doctors will run to me. Why should I run to doctors?” The world will be at your feet. Why should you run after the world?

Do you not think that you are protected by your family when you have any difficulty? If you are unable to get up from your bed, your mother comes, your father comes, your brother and sister come. Everybody comes: “My dear boy, what has happened to you? What can I do for you?” Do you not think that everybody in the family is concerned because you are not able to get up from the bed due to a little headache? Why is it so? Why is it that all your family members are running to you? It is because you belong to them. Similarly, if you know that you belong to this world, why should the world not come to you?

As I mentioned, you do not belong merely to this Earth; you belong to a larger atmosphere of the whole universe. All the citizens of the cosmos will run to help you: “My dear boy, what can I do for you?” If you hear these things, you will simply go mad. Your brain will cease to function. The joy which will inundate you will come in such a flood that you will not be able to open your mouth afterwards. “What a poor and idiotic life I was living up to this time, thinking that I am a little boy or a little girl, of this and that place, etc. I am eligible for support, protection and care from the forces of the universe, if the truth is that I am interrelated to all the forces—the cosmic rays and everything else.”

You are a citizen of realms which are invisible to the eyes. Modern physics says that this world is not a realm of three dimensions. We have been told this again and again, and this has been dinned into our ears, that this world is not a world of only three dimensions—of length, breadth and height, as it appears to our eyes. They say these three dimensions are only an illusion of a four-dimensional complex, which is the reality. Our brain has never been able to understand what this fourth dimension is, just as when we are dreaming we cannot know what is waking.

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To be continued

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