If you were born and grew up within the confines of a large, well-ventilated room, but with all the doors and windows sealed so that you would never see the sky, that room would appear to be your world, and it would be the biggest space you could comprehend. But if someone told you, after twenty years of your confined residence in that room, that there was a vast space beyond the walls of the room, you would not believe it and would laugh at him. However, if suddenly a little window in your room were opened and you saw the vastness of the sky and the ocean, you would certainly be extremely surprised. You think that this world with its confining sky is the biggest place there is. But suppose you could pierce the shell of the sky with your consciousness and peep into the territory of your own Heavenly Father(God), then you would be able to see myriads of solar and stellar systems with their worlds floating like dust particles in the eternal void of space FORGET LIMITATIONS The idea is, that as often as you fasten your eyes on your little body, you cannot help thinking that you are confined in a few feet of form, and that you weigh a few pounds of flesh. This idea is what binds you to the body, its tribulations, limitations, limitations of poverty, sickness, and ignorance. Spirit is the endless chamber of wall-less space, which is decorated with the flickering stars and myriad lamps of planetary lights. If you are made in the image of God, you must forget your limitations and make yourself one with the bigness of God, and thus end all your sorrow and suffering. The little cage enclosing your omnipresent consciousness is your body. When you love your family, neighbors, and the world your consciousness flies beyond the cage of your own limiting body, and when you watch the sky and feel yourself spread all over that vast space, your consciousness grows bigger still. - Sri Paramhansa Yogananda (Autobiography of a Yogi)
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:01:34 +0000
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