About seven hundred years ago a great Master and mystic named Sosya,
ripe with years and honors, lay dying. His students and disciples asked
if he was afraid to die.
”Yes,” he said. ”I am afraid to meet my maker.”
”How
can that be? You have lived such an exemplary life. You have led us out
of the wilderness of ignorance like Moses. You have judged between us
wisely, like Solomon.”
Sosya replied, ”When I meet my maker, He
will not ask, ’Have you been Moses or Solomon?’ He will ask, ’Have you
been Sosya?’” This is one of the most beautiful stories; meditate over
it.
Sosya says: ”God will not ask me, ’Have you been Moses or Solomon?’
He will ask me, ’Have you been Sosya?’”
And remember, God
is going to ask you the same thing. He will not ask you, ”Have you been
Jesus or Buddha or Kabir?” He will simply ask you, ”Have you been
yourself?” – and that is not happening, not to millions of people.
They
are all trying to be somebody else, something else; rejecting their
beings they go on rushing towards some idea of becoming. They remain in
confusion because they remain in duality, and they remain in misery
because it is not possible; they are trying the impossible.
Remember,
misery arises only when you try the impossible, because it can’t happen
in the nature of things and you want it to happen. You want two plus
two to be five: you will be miserable unless you see the point that two
plus two CANNOT be five.
You may even believe for a few
moments that they are five, but sooner or later the truth will reveal
itself – they are four. How long can you deceive, and what is the point
of deceiving? You are simply wasting your life.
The truly
religious person is one who drops out of the whole trip of becoming, who
relaxes in his being, who rejoices in his being, who says, ”I am that” –
AHAM BRAHMASMI – ”I am already that”; ANA’L HAQ – ”I am truth, I am
God.” These are just expressions of being. The basic message is: ”I am
already that, so I need not try to become.
Just be yourself jaani....yehi hai abhi kahaani .....!!!
Just be yourself jaani....yehi hai abhi kahaani .....!!!
- An Excerpt from Internet...
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