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SPIRITUAL UNFOLDMENT - Part 1
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THE heart of man pants for many things. Desire moves man more than aught else. Passions may lash up the lake of his mind into a thousand pulsations; grief may burn the iron of despair right into his brain, and make him feel as one stranded; all his emotions and feelings may play upon him; the world outside may fasten its grip upon him, toss him up from pillar to post and beat him flat;-yet the impress left by these is sooner or later wiped out and man rises to his feet once more. But not so the iron grip of desire. It holds on to him like grim death. It drags out the soul minute after minute of our existence, electrifies the unwilling hand to exertion and stimulates the brain to accomplish its ends.
From the hoary, venerable sage, standing triumphant upon the heights of spirituality, down to the most animalized, coarsened man-the Bushman, the Central African savage-this phenomenon makes itself clearly visible to the observant eye. Now, there come moments in our lives, when even the greatest money-spinners; the most persistent pleasure-hunters, turn aside from their usual occupations to listen to a voice within them which is constantly asking, "Man, where art thou from? Where art thou drifting along? To what end is all this?-Money, wife, children, and all that you hold next to your heart. "What has a man gained, if he has gained the whole world and lost his soul?" These and similar other questions beat upon our brains in spite of all our contrary partialities, our thorough world-ism. All this unrest and discomfort is quite in the nature of things. Man cannot always be building mud-pies and swallowing "goldpills." Something more abiding, more permanent, is wanted. This yearning after the Eternal makes us call a halt upon the pursuit of blind passions, the hunt after pleasure,-which is the vanishing point between satiety and reaction. The son wants to be united to the Father, his primal source. God becomes an indispensable necessity. Without Him, life seems to be a dance after fleeting shadows. Each word of advice, of guidance and of spiritual help comes as a cup of cold water to the thirsting soul. Life is simplicity itself. It is governed everywhere by One Life, One Lam, One Word,-such is the grand teaching of the Ancients. And as we, by knowledge, experience and observation, get a clearer grasp of this doctrine of Unity, we approach Truth. As our vision of God grows more and more distinct, Life with its million, million tongues, seems all music. Fear is sloughed off like a dead skin. Peace, poise and power are all attracted to us by the subtle magnetism of pure thoughts. Man eyes man with Love, Compassion and Pity. The fibres of the mind have grown too finely strung to stand the shock of evil thoughts and desires, and these latter fly off from the keenly vibrant mind. Listen to Yogi Eamacharaka: "From this point you will gradually develop into that consciousness which assures you that when you say "I" you do not speak of the individual entity with all its power and strength but know that the "I" has behind it the power and strength of the spirit and is connected with an inexhaustible supply of force, which may be drawn upon when needed. Such an one can never experience Fear-for he has risen far above it. Fear is the manifestation of weakness and, so long1 as we hug it to us and make a bosom friend of it, we will be open to the influence of others. But by casting aside Fear me take several steps upwards in the scale. . . . When man learns that nothing can really harm him, Fear seems a folly. And when man awakens to a realisation of his real nature and destiny, he knows that nothing can harm him and consequently Fear is discarded.
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