Perspectives to Ways of Living

As I said earlier also that in a way, the call from all the teachings is to be more and more free of me, my mind. So a little awareness of death or even occasional realization that whatever now I call Ravi, will not be here for any length of time. That actually can assist in assist in freeing me a bit more from being attached to me, me, me. Which is really a requirement according to all the serious teachings that I can see. Because to allow me to connect with divine energies, I need to free myself from what I'm now connected with.

So in a way to raise this question again and again, sometimes one has to keep repeating the same thing, even mechanically. It may not even speak to my heart so much. But if I just mechanically remind myself, Ravi, you will die. That can actually gradually begin to have an impact on one. It's a little bit like to kids, we end up saying, when I was a kid, for example, occasionally my father or uncle or somebody would say, Robbie, you must work hard so that you do well in school. So that also has an impact.

I mean, not necessarily that I, therefore, immediately followed it and worked hard, but it remains as a kind of a background. So similarly, to remind myself that whatever I'm now calling Ravi is actually transient Therefore, sometimes a call for finding my true identity, that's another way of saying it, or feeling more and more free of what I am now attached to. So that I can then if I listen to or read something quoted what Christ said or the Buddha said, I actually notice that I hear the same remarks differently now. As I become more aware of the fact that I will be merely transiently in this body. So the same remarks, but they are understood a little differently by me. For example, even the remarks, as I mentioned earlier, my kingdom is not of this world.

So first of all, it's a reminder that there are other worlds. I don't need to be wholly occupied with this world. And then how do I connect with these other worlds, then a very strong suggestion that something in me is in fact coming from the other world. In fact, belongs to the other world. If I can more and more relate with it, then I can more connect with what Christ said.

Similarly, there are, again, and again, suggestion. We have a very famous text in India, Shashweta Pramal. Which actually says when a person dies, he goes to the door of the sun, and he will be asked, who are you? If the answer is anything other than nobody he may not enter. So it's a very interesting emphasis really how to be on the way, but out of the way.

Because if I'm not on the way, meaning I'm not practicing anything. I'm not trying anything. That's what I mean by being on the way. But how can I be more and more personally out of the way? Let's give a call in my