{"id":1771,"date":"2012-03-10T17:11:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T11:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2012-03-11T06:14:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T00:44:22","slug":"why-would-you-want-to-be-merely-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/why-would-you-want-to-be-merely-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Why would you want to be merely you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A looked at my teacher, the tree, \u00a0outside my window and it said to me :<\/p>\n

You have travelled and listened to the wise ones. Have worshipped with them. Loved them. \u00a0Been their best friends. Have seen compassion, yes. But also Ego.<\/p>\n

Ego is fear. Fear of loss of individuality. Who am I in this world that surrounds me ? The answer is is there if you look carefully at the world that surrounds you, Without prejudice. Without memory. \u00a0Just look and observe and you will see you are nothing but an inherent part of all creation. Perhaps an incredibly essential part of creation but no more essential than a leaf that fell from my branch. You are Nature itself. Just because you have mobility and imagination does not make you individual. \u00a0The wind that passes by me has greater mobility and imagination that you could imagine through your imagined prejudices.<\/div>\n
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Your imagination is a gift to revel in the true meaning of existence. But you use it to define and so confine yourself.<\/div>\n
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You are both God and the servant of God. You are everything that was ever created and everything that was destroyed. You are also everything that will be created and destroyed.<\/div>\n
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Here and now you are everything. Then why would would you want to be merely you ?<\/div>\n
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Sit still like me and you will observe. Feel my 1000 leaves rustle in the wind and you will know.<\/div>\n
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