20 November 2009

SALVATION IS HERE AND NOW


People make a lot of effort to achieve salvation. They think as if it is to be attained step by step with the passage of time. But the fact is that salvation is here and now. It is in the very breath which one takes from moment to moment. Happiness and salvation are two sides of the same coin. Salvation is total freedom, total bliss and total happiness.
Most of the people pursue physical pleasures or various forms of psychological gratification because they believe that those things will make them happy or will free them from a feeling of fear or want. Happiness may be perceived as a heightened sense of aliveness attained through physical pleasure or some form of psychological gratification. Invariably, any satisfaction that people obtain is short-lived. Total satisfaction eludes them and they project the condition of total satisfaction or fulfilment on to an imaginary point away from the here and now. “When I obtain this or am free of that, I will be okay.” This is the unconscious mindset that creates the illusion of salvation in the future.
True salvation is fulfilment, peace, life in all its fullness. It is the joy of being that depends on nothing outside itself. It is felt not as a passing experience but as an abiding presence. In theistic language, it is to “Know God”- not as something outside you but as your own innermost essence. True salvation is to know yourself as an inseparable part of the timeless and formless One from which all that exists derives its being.
True salvation is a state of freedom - from fear, from suffering, from a perceived state of lack and insufficiency and, therefore, from all wanting, needing, grasping and clinging. It is freedom from compulsive thinking, from negativity and above all from past and future as a psychological need. But unfortunately your thought and mind, which is the byproduct of time, tells that you cannot get salvation so easily. You have to do something for which time is needed. You see time as the means to salvation, whereas in truth it is the greatest obstacle to salvation.
There is nothing you can ever do or attain that will get you closer to salvation than it is at this moment, in the very life breath vibrating in you. This may be hard to grasp for a mind accustomed to thinking that everything worthwhile is in the future. Nor can anything that you ever did or that was done to you in the past prevent you from saying yes to what is and taking your attention deeply into the Now. You cannot do this in the future. You do it now. Salvation is Here and Now in the breath you inhale and exhale.
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