Is it too late, too little? When will the Guru appear? When will reality dawn? What is the end of this journey?
“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are walking on a path and getting frustrated looking at some destination or final outcome in your mind, then you are on the wrong path. The right path is one which gives you peace and glimpses of divine bliss. Nothing is to be found. There is nothing waiting for you to achieve. Enjoy the journey of self-discovery. Remember- Journey is the destination. There is no destination.
तलाश-ए-मंज़िल-ए-जाना इक बहाना थातमाम उम्र मैं अपनी तरफ़ रवाना था-अमजद इस्लाम अमजद
[I was always in the process of self-discovery. The aimless wandering towards a destination was a mere excuse (for the world to see].
For ages one wanders here and there, as if something is to be found outside. This is a mistake. The outside world is endless. Your tools of exploration are so limited. Take a pause, look within. You will find what you seek inside you- in your breath, in your heartbeats. You will find it in your thoughts and even in that “no thought “zone.
कस्तूरी कुंडल बसे मृग ढूंढे बन माहि।ऐसे घटि घटि राम हैं दुनिया देखे नाही।।कबीरदास
[ Just like a musk deer has the fragrance in his navel, but he keeps searching for the same throughout the forest, the same way, Rama (God) permeates each and every living and non-living part of Universe, but the world remains unaware of him.]
An Excerpt from Osho’s Krishna- the man and his philosophy:
When at long last Gautam Siddhartha attained to enlightenment, when he became the Buddha, the awakened one, someone asked him, "What is it that you have achieved?" Buddha is reported to have said, "I achieved nothing. I only came to know what was already the case. I discovered what I already had with me. Earlier I did not know that it had been with me forever and ever; now I know it. It is nothing new that I have come upon, it has always been there. Even when I was unaware of it, it was very much there, not an iota less than it is now."
What Buddha says in the last moment, Krishna will say at the very first. Krishna will tell you, "What is the point of going anywhere? You are already where you want to go. What you think to be a stopover on your journey is actually your destination – where you happen to be right now. Why run in any direction? You are already in that place you want to reach to after you have done your running. You have already arrived."
