The Seed of Holiness is Available Within Each One of Us

 The Seed of Holiness is Available Within Each One of Us

Engraved on the front of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi is the famous Greek saying by Socrates, 'Gnothi Seauton', signifying 'know thyself'. Today, a few of us are willfully ignorant of the presence of the Supreme Power right inside us and we go to liquor, drugs, and other inebriating substances for help. It is in this setting that these expressions of Socrates have expected of additional importance.

In the Chandogya Upanishad it is more than once expressed, 'Tat tvam asi', 'You are That', which proposes that the Supreme Lord, the Higher Power, is not too far off in the deepest openings of our Being. Meister Eckhart, the incomparable German scholar, and spiritualist, instructed that the seed of God is inside us all. Similarly, as a rancher sows a seed, waters it, takes great consideration of it, and guarantees that the little plant blooms into a major tree, we also can understand our full otherworldly likely by carrying on with an unadulterated existence and performing ordinary contemplation throughout some stretch of time.

  By noticing a mango tree over many seasons wherein a huge number of mangoes are created, we can say with certainty that the potential for these mangoes was available in the single seed from which that tree sprang. Likewise, one ought to stay mindful of the way that the God-seed is available within each one of us, hanging tight for water, concentrated care, and legitimate sustenance to ensure that the seed develops rapidly and appropriately.

The Divine hence is the quintessence of each and every individual in the universe, what Emerson brought the 'Over-soul'. Despite the fact that God is one and unbreakable, he lives in all of us; consequently, he gives off an impression of being a large number. It is a Catch-22 that God, notwithstanding showing himself as the bright universe with a bunch of varieties, remains flawlessly unadulterated and untainted. What's more, totally rises above the Universe. Consequently, his two angles - natural and extraordinary - however obviously went against to one another, ought to be perceived as two of a kind.

In the last phases of contemplation, when all the narrow-mindedness that isolates us from the Supreme is killed, we find this Self in the profundities of our Consciousness. In yogic phrasing this wonderful state is called 'Nirvikalpa Samadhi' wherein no duality of awareness is capable; in this expression, the searcher takes off high in the domain of Pure Consciousness where there is only preeminent joy. Here, all qualifications of reality get crushed and the searcher breathes easy into the Eternal Now. It is at this stage that the searcher is honored with the last rapturous vision, where he sees the 'face behind all faces' - the Ultimate Cause behind all marvelous presence.

We might close with the accompanying expressions of Meister Eckhart: "To get to the center of God at his most prominent, one must initially get into the center of himself at any rate; for nobody can know God who has not first known himself. Go to the profundities of the spirit, the mystery spot of the highest, to the roots, to the levels; for everything that could be done been focussed there."

D.G.Shastri