Spiritual Goal Of Mankind
-The Children Are Not The Future-
The walk was very soothing and delightful. It was a great marvel watching the multicolored leaves falling from the trees. They were of all the various colors, hues and shadows. Ones wholeness of being is watching the entire tree, the branches, leaves and the space in and around it. You could feel the gentle breeze blowing softly without rest. The fall season and all its freshness was upon us. Unknowingly, you could smell the many fragrances of every flower that you passed. To smile within oneself was just there in this beautiful display of natural wonderment. Crossing the vast landscape and entering the enormous building that was at the edge of the city, suddenly I realized, there was this peculiar awareness that was free and detached from the body. I laughed slightly for these experiences never frightened me. Ones awareness was not attached to the body. There was this watchfulness that was free of all things.
A young Caucasian couple approached my presence and began questioning me. They said they could since my spiritual aura and wanted me to go home with them to talk. I was not afraid and they were rather friendly and sociable. To me, it was the strangest thing, how they could feel in that very moment my intense presence. They said they could feel my spirituality and they wanted to know everything about me. Without faltering, I accepted there invitation.
That afternoon they came to my house to take me to their home. It was a very long ride and we did not say much only small talk and platitudes on our way there. Finally, we arrived in their spacious home and began to have a deep discussion. They told me they were esoteric Christians who were very religiously open. When I told them that I do not belong to any religion to my surprise, they were not offended. I began telling them my life story from childhood until the present. About the silence, that never leaves me and the stillness of my inner being. Slowly, I began to tell them about my endless search to discover the truth. The deeper I spoke to them I began noticing my body becoming very still. Then the body started vibrating as it always does in the afternoon. It never did this under any other condition. I managed not to draw their attention to it but they were watching me very closely as I continued to speak. I told them about awakening to God here in the present moment, not in the afterlife. They were both very responsive as they sat there in rapture, listening with all their heart. They were truly eager to find out if there is something beyond this life. A life in which there is no sorrow.
I could feel their deep interest in all that I was saying. They were anxious not to miss a single word or thought. There was no resistance as we all continued to share our thoughts, feelings and aspirations. The more I spoke the more they were captivated in the conversation. For several hours, we spoke of every aspect of life. We were three human beings sharing the beauty of life and liberation. As the night drew on, we decided it was time to end our discussion and finish the next day. For we had touched on something sacred and did not want to discontinue. However, we were all becoming very tired. As hosts, they prepared a bed for me as I went to take a shower. When I came out, they were standing there waiting for me to climb in under the sheets of their sofa bed in the living room. It was very comfortable and the bedspread was rather warm, soft and clean. As I laid my head on the pillow and we all were saying our good nights, out of nowhere their little toddler came in and climbed into bed with me. She did not say a word or acknowledge her parents at all. Calmly, she snuggled very close to me, placed her head upon my chest and went to sleep. It was the most natural thing you could ever witness. Her parents simply smiled as she lay their so peacefully in my arms as I planted a soft kiss on her forehead. Quietly, saying their final goodnights they turned off the lights while disappearing into their bedroom. I slept perfectly still on my back with the little girl serenely sleeping in my arms.
All night long, until the next day we were in ecstasy. It was faultless sleep, undisturbed. It was perfect stillness of the heart and mind being completely open and free. We had transcended the limitations of the body and mind. Truly, this beautiful experience cannot be captured by the mind or emotions.
When I awoke the next morning, there was an immense smile on my face that deliberation did not create. It felt so peaceful and joyous. There was complete harmony between the little girl and me. There was no distance between us. When I awoke that morning, she was still asleep with a very peaceful look on her face as I watched and listened to her softly breathing. She was deeply, sleeping in peace and serenity. The beauty of life beyond mere existence is the only life worth living. When you are in this peace, this beauty, where is sorrow, what is death to such a being?
Do you realize that the children are of the earth and not of this world? This world is one thing and the children of the earth are another. This world and all its greed, ambition and hatred are disintegrated. The heart of a child is detached from the ugliness of this world until you teach them how to be ugly, divided and unkind. So through your teaching them your ways of darkness they become like you. To understand this is to see that you must be free of all darkness before you can possibly teach and lead the children. When we teach them to be like us, then they are not the future but the continuity of the past. Surely, if you are interested in being free and detached from the world one must have a childlike heart that is open, carefree and undisturbed by the things of this world.
Within the purity of perception, when you are aware, alert and keenly sensitive, it is a great delight to watch the young ones playing their childhood games. To listen to their laughter is the purest joy. Naturally, life through their eyes can be a great wonder free of brutality and strife. The thing is, do you see such beauty or are you enslaved and caged by your multitude of problems? The very presence of the children is in harmony with the trees, the birds and the open sky. Only when you are free and living a life of integration will you discover the oneness of all living and nonliving things.
Definitely, you can see that all our problems are within our consciousness, within our lack of perception. So if we are not free and undefiled, then how can we possibly help another to be free? These are simple facts that anyone with a little thought can penetrate into and see for themselves. When your perception is clear, no one needs to tell you anything. You then act out of that clarity, that light, which guides your life.
SPIRITUAL SAYINGS OF ADONIS ALEXANDER
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