I’m asking every one of you to reach within you the peace, which you want in the world. Particularly when the world is in distress – attain peace in you. If you believe in peace – peace alone is the goal. We must put our every cell, our every organ, and our thoughts, words and actions towards peace. By doing that we are also creating a reality for everyone.
Satsang excerpt of Guruji Sri Vast
Your inner experience is the key
Always be aware that you are an empty pipe, and you allow a certain energy to operate you. It is very important to understand what kind of thoughts, words and actions you have and what kind of inner experience you have, as they are directly connected with each other. Through this inner experience you are choosing the kind of energy that passes through you.
We need to recognize and be aware of the ‘feelings’ we have. Subconsciously, we give signals to some energy to allow it to express through us. We become a ‘medium’ to ‘channel’ this energy – it creates our reality, and in turn, we impose that reality on those around us.
Inner experience naturally wants to expand, indeed there must be space for its expansion. The peace in our body will not just stay there and say, “I am in peace.” No, this peace expands, and there needs to be space for it to expand – that is, this world: My love expands – I need the whole of humanity to express my love. Equally, I expect my fear to be felt by humanity, and my doubts to be shared, too. Indeed, whatever experience I have, needs this life to be able to expand. This is a very core understanding of what life is. Not only ‘this is me’ but ‘the whole planet is me’ – it starts with me.
Which energies create my inner experience?
If you don’t want hatred outside, you need to meet it on the inside. The same with fear – when you sense fear, you are ‘in fear’ and so create it. If you don’t want fear outside, you need to meet it on the inside. When you are in fear, you sense fear, and you create fear. When you are in doubt, you sense doubt, and you create doubt. When you are in peace, you sense peace, and you create peace. When you are free, you sense freedom, and you create freedom.
We need to be aware of these energies: fear, greed, guilt, shame, doubt, anger, hate, jealousy, peace, freedom, love, grace. All these energies are trying to operate our body, they can talk inside our head, through our mouth, and even through someone else. We need to radically become aware of what is expressed through our presence: fear or peace, doubt or hope, hate or love? Do we create rejection or acceptance? Knowingly or unknowingly, everyone is operated by all these energies inside; the ratio of these energies differs within each of us. In this way we are unique, our experiences then, are also unique.
We are innocent, but it is important to radically acknowledge and recognize the energies and emotions that are expressed through us, through our presence, our thoughts, words and actions. How does it feel inside? What kind of experience are you creating in others? Through this, you come to know yourself, your struggles and sufferings and the source of your joy.
You can always break free from the negativity of these energies. The more we increase the ratio of peace, freedom, love and grace within us, the less space there will be for anything else. Naturally, other energies withdraw from you, your surroundings, and also from this world.
Take part in the evolution of consciousness
You can build a school, you can donate a lot of money, you can do so many good things – but this is not your contribution. This is the contribution of the capacity you have been given. Your real contribution to humanity, to this world, is your inner experience – how you experience, and how this experience is expressed through you, and the kind of experience you create in others.
When you master this experience, you are free. You have the great opportunity to create doubt instead of hope; fear instead of peace; hate instead of love. You have a great opportunity to choose: hope or doubt, peace or fear, love or hate. It is a great opportunity to know yourself. It is an opportunity given to you. Without it, you might not ever know who you are.
This is how you take part in the evolution of consciousness.
Every one of you, through every thought, word and action are giving a direction to how this life is experienced, expressed and evolves.
By transforming yourself, you are transforming your world. When you attain freedom, you free everyone from your inner prison, you free this world from your inner prison. No one is responsible for how you experience this life, and no one is there to fight for or against, because you are free.
Your body – a portal to peace
The pure awareness of yourself is the pure awareness of your inner experience and its source. When you listen to someone, you become aware of what is entering inside: Fear and doubt or peace and freedom? In the same way, you become aware of the kind of experiences created by you. Then you have the choice. Through that choice, you are also choosing the karma of those choices. Always reflect on your thoughts, words and actions, and where you are at this point of your life. Every moment is an opportunity to give a new expression of life – by initiating new inner experiences. This world is an extension of your body. You can always transform this body, as a portal to peace.
Welcome to the life that is already free.
Guruji Sri Vast is an enlightened Master of our time who teaches celebration of life as a way to total liberation. The Master resides with His Sangha in Divinya, Sweden. More information: www.srivast.org
Article published in More to Life – Edition 68
