Question: Who am I? What religion do I belong to?
Answer: I have been asked these questions very often. The first question is the most important. In fact, I have been asking this question repeatedly for a long while. This is the great Self Inquiry that Ramana Maharshi instructed all seekers to go beyond the definitions of the mind. The Answer is found in the Silence of Being or non-Being. It is the Nirvana of the Buddha and being in the Presence of the Father of Jesus.
Now it is very hard to move through this world without finding definitions latching on like leeches as you wade through a swamp. All kinds of definitions have been heaped upon Janaka. It seems so much easier at times when I could just say to someone: I am a devotee of Ramana Maharshi, or I am a teacher/student of A Course in Miracles (ACIM), or a Buddhist, Christian, jnani yogi or bhakti yogi, Anthroposophist. However, I cannot.
I am wary of non-dualists who are stuck in an abstract reality in their fear of working on becoming Human, who become cold, rational and distant. As well as I am wary of those who thrive on devotional highs and suckle on the teats of teachers, and walk around with ear to ear grins shouting, "Praise the Lord," or "Ma," or "Baba." And I do become bored in a short while showing off of how many occult facts one may "know."
I find the Bliss in the Silence of Being, feel the joy and compassion and the pathos of the Heart, and come to work and struggle in the world to transfom it to a place of Beauty and Goodness. This is the Path I walk and stumble upon. |
