The
Last
Step
Welcome. The last
step is the first and last step. There are
no more of it. You are done with it and have
arrived. Am already there, waiting for
you all, please do come, you are most welcome.
If you really want to be where I am and where you want to be, you
can. Everybody can, no exceptions. Everyone can if he has an inclination to be
there. There is space for all. It can accomadate each and everyone and all
can be at this place, it will never get full.
There is no place like this. This
is it. Welcome…and come back home
discover self.
The ladder of life, and the last one.
Life
is a mystery. It has to be lived, to
experience it. The one who has reached can only help or guide others to make
the process or the journey easier, but cannot lead anybody over there. It is
like a maze. Everybody has to go through
the process alone. It is not a
competition to win or lose. It is not about
running away from the crowd. You live amidst the crowd, but you are not part of
it. You become a witness to the crowd
and self. It is to be lived to be understood.
Out of understanding you evolve. Your way of living will be different, because
you are out of the race. You have to outlive
the momentary pleasure that keeps you going thinking ahead somewhere, something
at the end you will have lasting happiness.
It is a game played by a body part on you, in which, you will be left in
an insatiable state. It will never allow
you to sit. It will keep you on your
toes all the time giving you an impression that you have to reach somewhere. It is like chasing a mirage in a desert. The way in which it leads you is a never
ending game. It itself does not know
where to let alone take you there or somewhere.
It is more external than internal.
It is more extrinsic than intrinsic.
Life is balanced growth. A journey
of combination of both, a mixture of both in right proportions.
Life
depends on life. Life is not independent;
it is always interdependent. It is a
process in continuation. You yourself is
not enough, you have to have the other to exist. Nature has evolved in such a way that
everything is interdependent. There is
nothing which can proclaim it can without anything or nothing can without
it. Every product of nature has a role
to play in all others products around it, directly or indirectly. Nothing is unessential. There is no superior or inferior, everything
is important, the essential and nonessential.
Day is equally important as night to be.
Man is diurnal creature. He needs
the other, the night, to compensate the day.
Both are essential for his existence.
Life is possible for someone who is ready to die. Only a fearless person can venture out in
this direction full of risk of unknown.
Out of his knowing he becomes a true human being. A rebirth.
A virtuous human being. A
righteous person, who is flexible, can take any form or shape, indefinable,
indestructible, and invincible. Nothing
can alter his pure consciousness. A
being who never dreams of anything and there is nothing to dream of. Everything is fulfilled in present, so
nothing to carry forward in the subconscious mind. There is nothing that remains
unfulfilled. He is never in the past or
future, always in present with pure awareness.
He has become himself. He has
discovered his true self. He is no more
in illusion. He is as is in his true form. He lives life in its real terms. A man of no belief systems. A being living aligned with nature. A true religious human being. The grace sets in. A man of true convection.
The
journey of life has to be travelled by each individual. There is no short cut or you cannot have a
substitute or follow a fixed route. It
is a pathless path. Every individual has
to create his own path. A hint can be
given by a being who has gone through the arduous journey. He can only help someone in quest to reach the
point of no return. It is a journey
where you reach the last step. There is
nothing beyond and behind, cannot retreat.
All the steps you have seen till today is the same steps you used to
climb down, but the situation you are going to be in, the steps you have taken,
where the moment you take the next step, the previous one disappears. You align with the existence. You have to undergo the difficult journey to
come to a point where it is revealed to you the ultimate that there is nothing
beyond, you have arrived.
Even though
you were born physically, you will have a new birth. In one sense, it is reaching and in the other
it is arrival. An end with a new
beginning. A birth of a new individual with
pure consciousness. Simply sitting doing
nothing. The existence made you come here in the first place and it takes care
and it will take you back. You were not
aware when you were born, but when you depart you will be aware of it and it
makes a significant difference. You will
be a witness of your life and death. You have transcended both, the cycle of
birth and death. A birth of a new human
being who cannot die. He is so powerful
that nothing can alter his consciousness.
Birth was not your choice, but life can be. It is up to you to take the risk and know
what life is.
This
last step is not something different.
You were standing on it all along, but you lacked realization. Only through understanding you come to a
realization that you are already there where you want to be or have to be. You have a great laugh at yourself, at your
absurd behavior. You were born in heaven
and you thought you had to sacrifice this precious life to reach somewhere that
you do not know. Only out of unknowing
man acts in a ridiculous way. A man of
knowing does not act, he just lives, and accepts life as it come. He never
judges. He is in a let go mode. He is innocent, never commenting on the
situation, accepting in its entire totality.
The yin and yang of life. He has
reached the point of zero. He is a more
balance individual. Nothing can upset
his balance. He has reached a point
where anything more or anything less does not alter his state of consciousness. Nothing is required. A point of no deduction or addition. A pure conscious individual.
The
journey starts with a question, an enquiry, but does not end with answers, it
ends with no questions. A being who has
reached has neither has answers or questions. The man of question is no
more. A pure awareness. There are can be only questions, but no
answers. The day you have no more
questions, you become an answer. The
master is an individual with no more questions, not that he knows answers to
questions. The day you are exhausted
with your questions, you become aware that you have reached and found the
answer. It is neither a consolation nor an
achievement. It is a state of pure
awareness, blissfulness. A feeling of getting up from a deep slumber
after many days or years of sleep. A
real awakening as if waking up for the first time. A great dawn, where the sun rises but never
sets. A land beyond time. He cannot be tempted or influenced. A man of nothingness. A man of knowing with zero knowledge. A whole man with all the body parts in communion
with no domination. Every body part functions
as it should be without interfering in one another and working as a collective system,
falling into the rhythm.
Any
product of nature has energy within with which it sustains. Man is a bundle of energy. When the energy is channeled in the right
direction, it will have a quality of radiance and the positive one. You become luminous. You will start radiating the energy you
posses in excess without anything in return in a let go fashion. He is fearless and does not instill fear in
anybody. He can only give warmth and
strength. He can or cannot be doing
something for a living, to have enough money to take care of day to day needs. He is not after it, it is after him and he is
not running away, like he used to. He is
not obsessive about anything. He desires
nothing. He lives for no reason. He cannot be categorized because he can be
anything, everything, and nothing. No
categorization is possible because of his abundance of positive energy. He flows with the rhythm of life. He is life.
Life is, he is not. He is never
against. He is in a trance state. He is so intoxicated with life, he overflows.
He transmits the thing which is in
abundance in him, which keeping within himself is death for him. Any energy in excess has to be dispersed
irrespective of its usefulness to things surrounding him with no regret. It is a compulsion. He cannot contain it, he has no capacity to. He does not have the capacity to contain it,
it has to be dispersed and that is the only way out. He has to let go his excess energy.
For a
lay man, a man of consciousness appears like a drunkard, under the influence
especially of alcohol, the spirt. He
is, he is under the influence of nature.
He is so intoxicated with life that he might appear to be a drunkard. He is so drunk with life that nothing else
can give him the kick the way the life has.
The only difference is he has full control of himself, conscious of what
he is doing, and anything that he does, he does it with full devotion with 100%
of his involvement. He does nothing half
heartedly; his wholeness is there in all his doings.
Life is a maze. It appears as if you
are (when you are mature enough to) stuck somewhere from where you have to find
your way out, and the right way, otherwise you will end up with a wall thinking
that it is a door, the way out. The day
you realize, you will find a way out. It
is like a blind man trying to come out of a room he is not accustomed to. Unless you have the quest, you will never
take the first step to reach the last one.
Enlightenment,
blissfulness, benediction, awareness, consciousness are all the different words
to describe the feeling you go through when you have reached. Enlightenment is your nature. It is your default state and everyone's too. It is not a goal. It is not some thing to be achieved. It is
not something. In fact the something
which you already have is not allowing you to be in your natural state, it acts
as an obstruction. You are already in
it. The reason why you are not aware of
it is you are not conscious enough to realize it. You live life in an unconscious way. You are born in conscious state, but got
deviated, altered in the course of time.
The route you had been lead to by your parents, teachers, friends,
relatives and the society in general, which you are put up has only helped you
to get farther and farther away from your source. On the way, if you encounter it, it might
feel familiar to some who has had a glimpse of it over the course of time being
on this lovely place called earth and strange for many due to your crowed mind,
you brush it aside, thinking that it is not your cup. You are so involved outside that you do not
want to accept your consciousness. You
are happy with your unconscious state thinking that otherwise. If you come across someone who gives a hint
about what it is, you disregard it due to lack of understanding. It is as if explaining about light to a blind
man. He can only listen to but he can
neither see or visualize it. In fact, he
will not know darkness as well. Unless
you know what light is you will not know what darkness means; same is the case
with darkness or no light, unless you have known what darkness is, you will not
know what light can be. You need the
other to know the present. A contrast is
needed. Unless you know what bitterness
is you will not know what sweetness means, it is vice versa. The other is essential although, it appears
to be unessential. Both are required to
know it in its totality. If you have to
know about something, you need to know what nothing is, and when you know
nothing, you know everything. It is a
paradox. Life is not logic, it is
beyond, but not illogical.
Life starts with nothing, then something gets in the way, then you
realize and come back to nothing, the source.
A journey from O-to-O. Both
the zeros are same, it appears to be different, there is no difference. Zero
is zero, any number of zero amounts to zeroooooo…… Nothing is more important than
something. With nothing you have
everything, with something you only have a part, you are not full, totality,
the whole. Only when you are full with
all the miseries of life, something, that you move towards the other extreme,
nothing, you empty yourself, you become pure again. The fullness has got you everything, but it
amounts to nothing, you feel empty.
Nothing has got you nothing, but it is everything. If you are full, something can be added or
deducted to make a difference. But being
nothing you can neither add nor deduct, because it is like a hollow pipe,
nothing can be held, there is no base.
Enlightenment
starts with glimpses and you are pulled towards it, later on it might prevail
for seconds, then minutes, then hours, then days, then months, and then it is
and you are not. It all depends on you,
if you want you can be. It starts as a
desire, but ends with no desire. It
starts sprouting from a seed and takes over you. The day you realize you are no more, you have
reached, The Samadhi. The one who
started the journey is no more. A new
human being is born. His physical
appearance remains the same but he is different than what he was earlier. A new
essence has contributed to this change. You cannot call him the same man. He has left his past behind and emerged from
the cocoon to fly into existence where he belongs to. Nothing can restrain him. He cannot without himself, how can he, when
he is not in control of himself, a no self person. There is no one to be restrained. He has gone beyond and out of reach. Whatever he does he does it in alignment with
existence, he cannot be otherwise, that is the only way he can be, there is no
choice.
A man of consciousness has a different quality. Anything and everything that he does has a
quality in it, a mild fragrance. He does
not have to proclaim that he has reached.
His existence itself is enough.
Like a flower blooming in wilderness attracting bees, his fragrance
spreads and he creates an attraction. The people who had a glimpse of it flock knowing
what it is and people who had never tasted it, will get pulled to know what it
is. He radiates what he has in abundance
and there is no way he can contain it. He
is in let go mode. He becomes the sun, the
moon, and every element in existence. He
has a quality in himself. He simply is
and existence takes care. It is not a
defeat, he has accepted his reality. He
has understood his program. He lives
life as it comes. He has accepted the
nature and the nature has accepted him back to its fold. He is ready for anything and everything. He expects nothing. He expects/accepts the unexpected.
If it
is possible for somebody to attain to the level of consciousness called
enlightenment, then everybody can, with no exception. If he is, you too can. It is just like groping in the dark. Everyone comes in darkness and a light has to
come or you move towards light when it comes.
Everybody is kept in darkness about the fact. Light reveals, the truth dawns, the secret
that everyone can reach a higher plane is revealed, you need not be where you
are. When the light comes into your
life, the darkness is gone forever without a trace. You become the light for yourself and
everybody else.
You
are not here to take credit for anything.
Everything was going on gracefully before you entered this garden of
Eden, this paradise called heaven. You
created a hell here and started dreaming, projecting heaven somewhere
else. You started fabricating a thesis
that only if you sacrifice this life you can go to heaven. It is a projection of a sick mind, a corrupt
mind. An illusion created by immature
being. A statement of man whose understanding
of life and life forms is zero. A
statement from a depressed and confused soul, not from a conscious being. This is the only life, if you miss it, that
is it. If it not possible now, it is
never possible in any number of life. This
life span is enough for you to understand about it and you can die with
understanding, and without almost all do so.
Be finished with it now or never.
It is do or die situation. You
can die now and live instead of dying in the end like everybody else, the
majorities are ignorant.
Time
is money – whoever has coined this phrase must be sick to the core. It is a statement from a sick mind. He has no understanding of life and life
forms. The race started the day people
took this phrase seriously and continues till today for the unfortunate
ignorant. Until then everybody were
going at their own pace, never in a hurry, they had all the time in their
life. The pace of race has increased
ever since. The way in which the
humanity is going seems to be like an animal fashion, where in, the life span
is limited to just 10-15 years ie., dog, cat or it can be any other four legged
creature. Speeding up the process is to
lose the grace. The sheen is
missing. It is the process which is
important not the end thing. There is no
perfection in nature. Nature evolves in
a continuous fashion, never disturb the setting, never disturb the alignment,
everything is good as is, nothing can make it better. In fact anything more can spoil the
show. Accept it with gratitude in its
wholeness. Do not influence it. Do not try to change its course, you will
have to face disastrous consequences, which will be irreparable, irreversible
damage, and a ill-mind catastrophe.
The
journey of enlightenment starts the day you take a turn from the usual treaded
path. It is always a new path. It is an arduous journey with lot of twist
and turns you encounter over the course of time, but only who is determined
goes on. Giving up in the middle of the
journey is very easy, that is the first thought comes to the traveler when he
undertakes it, feeling it is impossible.
The mind makes you feel it is impossible, the same which is leading to
leave you in imbalanced, confused, and can lead to take your own life. Suicide is a mind affair. Mind gives up easily and tries to get you a
feeling that there is no way out, except to eject. Because the route you had
choose is against the society in which you are against all the usual practice
of masses you are part of, but that is how it appears to be, because you lack insight
as well as foresight. You are on a
journey to know the unknown. There is no
exact route to it. All the existing
routes have lead to more chaos then peace.
You are the lonely traveler on this pathless path. The only risk is losing yourselves and if you
are ready for it, you are on the right track.
Unless you are lost, you cannot achieve.
You are the barrier, you let go, you have arrived, in fact you are
already there. You are going against the said norms. You feel as if you are going against a river,
taking an uphill path, till such and such a time, you will realize you are with
the flow of the river called life. It is
the crowd who are going against the wind, so they encounter a lot of
resistance. You are open to the natures
direction, its path, never opposing it, going with the flow, and in the course of
time you will come to realization that you have fallen into the rhythm. You started with effort, push was required,
forcibly you started, but gradually you sail effortlessly. You have become one with the nature. You have accepted yourself and your true
nature. It is coming back home.
You
start the journey with questions and realization comes when there are no
questions. It is not that you have found
answers to questions. A man who has
reached has no questions. Masters have
no answers to your questions, he is there to clear you, empty you of all the
questions. The answer is without
questions, not answers to questions.
When you have exhausted with questions, you have reached to a point,
where there are no questions. You have
reached a point of no return, a balance, zero, a pure consciousness. The questioning mind dissolves. First of all there are no answers, so
question never arises. It is purely
illogical. It is not for a logical
mind. It is an area of no mind. No mind, no questions. A peace within, a tranquility, which is ever
lasting, nothing can alter it. You have
reached a no alterable state. There is
nothing to alter. You have reached home,
where you were already, you realized, you fall out of the race.
An
enlightened being has no questions are answers, he is empty of both. An empty boat, just drifting in the river,
going where the river takes it, no resistance, in a let go fashion. The grace sets in. You do not have to propagate, it
radiates. It emits in whatever he
does. A person who has had a glimpse of
it, a taste of, will come to know a flower has bloomed. He gets attracted to it like bees get
attracted to fragrance of flower in wilderness.
A flower attracts bees or birds onto itself by its fragrance and a
reward, the nectar, so as to propagate itself, its species. It goes on with the life process, the way it
is supposed to be. It is going perfectly
well. It was perfect before your
coming. It will be perfect after you
depart unless you become an obstruction in its path try to meddle in its way,
you spoil the show.
If
your intention is for something then out of competition the consequences
will be despair, greed, anguish, helplessness, weak, disoriented, not focused,
confused, frustrated, discontent, angry at yourself and everybody else,
uselessness, meaningless, and thought of ending of life, suicide sets in. You come to a point where closing the chapter
of life is the only possibility.
Anything which is focused outside, extrinsic, materialistic can lead to
permanent dissatisfaction. It is as
if fighting with self. A conflict within. Only silence can calm the chaotic mind. Out of silence comes harmony. A unity in your being. No split personality. There is nothing to fight about. You let go and live, life become more
meaningful. You will neither desire life
or death. You have transcended
both. You are beyond body and mind. You are just a living consciousness accepting
life as it comes, living life spontaneously.
Your action does not demand compensation. You do not work for any returns. You let go yourself to such an extent that
you can be anything, everything, and nothing.
You become an answer to all questions.
You are ready for everything.
You have reached the ultimate point in life, you understood and accepted
your inner being, the nature, you become the blessed one. Your work reflects your inner being. The difference that was there earlier has
nullified. You are one and act as one. You live with no reason. The
reasoning mind is put to rest. Your
doing will have immense quality in it, which reflects your personality. You do not need any credentials or
recognition from anyone; you know what you are and be so.
What
is there to worry when a person has nothing to lose as he has lost himself and
there is no one to lose or gain. He has
reached zero. A balanced
individual. He has reached his
equilibrium. The one who is supposed to
lose or gain has negated himself. There
is no more him. He is one with
existence. He has become the whole. The river has reached the sea or the river
has become the sea. There is no
distinction. Distinction arises from the
mind. No mind, everything is as is, in
its true state.
The
last step is the first and last step.
You take off from it and land back.
It is one and the same. When you
come back, you are in right sense, to know where you are. You were all the time there, it appeared as
if you had gone somewhere, where you already are.
See
you there….the last step…. do not give up… I am already there waiting for you to welcome you, to
accept you back to the fold…we were never apart, we are part of the whole - we
are the whole – and will be a lot
called…the blessed ones.
