“Dear
Master, we have heard during your discourses that the true goal of spiritual
practices is to realize the true Self and the God. However, we live in this
world wherein we have to conduct from the time we wake up from bed in the
morning till the time we go to the bed at night. How should we view and conduct
in this external world?”
The
master appreciated the sincere depth of the question silently and then said
with a voice filled with compassion, “Son, you have asked a very relevant
question. One good question benefits a lot of seekers. That is the reason most
of our Upnishads are in the form of question answer session between a Self-realized Saint and a
true seeker.”
After a
brief silence, the master continued, “Yogis and Self-realized Saints look at
this world in two manners based on the stage of their progress in their
spiritual pursuit– “This apparent world is not real; it is made up of the same stuff as a
dream; it is only an illusion.” Or
“This world is all divine; There is presence of God in every atom of
this world; Every emotion, every thought, every moment is divine.”
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