Above All We Have To Go Beyond

Atheism And Agnosticism Signify The Rejection Of Certain Images And Concepts Of God Or Of Truth, Which Are Historically Conditioned And Therefore Inadequate. Atheism Is A Challenge To Religion To Purifiy Its Images And Concepts And Come Nearer To The Truth Of Divine Mystery.

I Was Being Called To Surrender The Very Citadel Of My Self. I Was Completely In The Dark. I Did Not Really Know What Repentance Was Or What I Was Required To Repent Of. It Was Indeed The Turning Point Of My Life.

You Must Be Ready To Give Up Everything, Not Only Material Attachments But Also Human Attachments - Father, Mother, Wife, Children - Everything That You Have. But The One Thing Which You Have To Abandon Unconditionally Is Your Self.

I Suddenly Saw That All The Time It Was Not I Who Had Been Seeking God, But God Who Had Been Seeking Me. I Had Made Myself The Centre Of My Own Existence And Had My Back Turned To God.

There Is A Beautiful Expression Of This In The Chandogya Upanishad: 'there Is This City Of Brahman, (that Is The Body), And In This City There Is A Shrine, And In That Shrine There Is A Small Lotus, And In That Lotus There Is A Small Space, (akasa). Now What Exists Within That Small Space, That Is To Be Sought, That Is To Be Understood.' This Is The Great Discovery Of The Upanishads, This Inner Shrine, This Guha, Or Cave Of The Heart, Where The Inner Meaning Of Life, Of All Human Existence, Is To Be Found.