I Suddenly Saw That All The Time

There Is A Beautiful Expression Of This In The Chandogya Upanishad: 'there Is This City Of Brahman, (that Is The Body), And In This City There Is A Shrine, And In That Shrine There Is A Small Lotus, And In That Lotus There Is A Small Space, (akasa). Now What Exists Within That Small Space, That Is To Be Sought, That Is To Be Understood.' This Is The Great Discovery Of The Upanishads, This Inner Shrine, This Guha, Or Cave Of The Heart, Where The Inner Meaning Of Life, Of All Human Existence, Is To Be Found.

Atheism And Agnosticism Signify The Rejection Of Certain Images And Concepts Of God Or Of Truth, Which Are Historically Conditioned And Therefore Inadequate. Atheism Is A Challenge To Religion To Purifiy Its Images And Concepts And Come Nearer To The Truth Of Divine Mystery.

I Suddenly Saw That All The Time It Was Not I Who Had Been Seeking God, But God Who Had Been Seeking Me. I Had Made Myself The Centre Of My Own Existence And Had My Back Turned To God.

God Had Brought Me To My Knees And Made Me Acknowledge My Own Nothingness, And Out Of That Knowledge I Had Been Reborn. I Was No Longer The Centre Of My Life And Therefore I Could See God In Everything.

Perseverance Is The Essential Requirement In The Practice Of Yoga. It Has To Be Done Day By Day, Week By Week, Year By Year, Until The Mind Is Brought To The 'still Point' Where It Is Open To The Grace Of God.