Bang on the Door by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar [Shankar, Sri Sri Ravi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Art of Living Foundation USA
Published: 2014-05-29T20:00:00+00:00

The color of a wall depends on the wall. In the same manner the existence of creatures depends on the love of God. Separate the color from the wall and the color would cease to be. So all creation would cease to exist if separated from the love that God is.

Meister Eckhart

ALWAYS CONNECTED TO GOD

Whenever one has to talk about God, the limitation of words and language becomes very evident. Truth cannot be captured by words. The words you use to indicate a connection to God also indicate a separation from God. If you say you are connected, it indicates that in some way you have been outside of God—that you have existed as something separate and are being connected. This is not so.

You are like the fish in the ocean. The moment the fish comes out of the water, life comes out of the fish—a corpse of a fish comes out of the water, not the fish itself. The fish cannot exist outside the ocean, just as waves cannot exist apart from the ocean. Life is inseparable from the ocean; you are inseparable from God.

You may say, “always connected to God,” but the two words always and connected do not go together. If you say “always” and then “connected,” the word connected loses its meaning. The existence of God is beyond time. To indicate that, you can use the word always: God is always. But when you say you are always God, you make yourself separate from God. That is why I say language is inadequate to express God.

Whenever Buddha was asked to speak about God, he kept silent. It was not that he didn't know. Many people thought that Buddha was an atheist because he never spoke of God. He was not an atheist. It is simply that he knew the profundity of truth and the inadequacy of words.

If you subtract one portion of a circle, the circle is not complete. If you subtract one thing from God, God no longer remains. But the nature of your mind is to dissect and divide. The moment you divide, duality happens. A word appears. Two appear. And the two become many. In many, you are lost.

In Sanskrit fear means “two.” How does fear come? Because of some division, because of recognition of separateness. Division means taking one thing in and separating something out. Accepting and rejecting. Your rejecting, your separating causes fear, and fear is unbearable to life.

Separation does not exist. You cannot separate. It is an illusion in the mind. In recognizing the oneness, fear vanishes.

You have two options: either you feel you are connected to God, to the master, to existence; or you feel you are God, you are the master, you are existence. Then laughter, dance, and joy dawn in life.

For a long, long time you have taken the first option and felt that you are separate from the whole of existence. This is a hypnotism that you have undergone. You have to de-hypnotize yourself and know that you are part of the truth, you are part of this whole.

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