No matter where you are on the planet we invite all to reflect
on a spiritual text or passage with Jivanjili each month.
The suggestion is to read the selected text slowly and reflectively
as many times as you wish. If you feel moved by Heart you may write
Jivanjili with your insights and reflections. You might be answered by Heart,
by Jivanjili herself, by the birds or the gentle breeze of the wind.
For those who attend satsang bring your insights and reflections so that we may
shine light on them together.
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Due to many who have been on summer holidays, the theme of August stays on through September.
The Ultimate Adventure
A quote from the ancient spiritual wisdom of the Upanishads1, which seem to come to us from the very dawn of time. These great seers (Rishis2) have spoken to us to inspire us.
What makes a human being dare the impossible? What fires the will when we glimpse something never done before and a wild urge surges up to cry: "Then let's do it"? The sages would say: "Just to reach for the highest”.
Human beings cannot live without challenge. We cannot live without meaning. Everything ever achieved we owe to this inexplicable urge to reach beyond our grasp, do the impossible, know the unknown.
The Upanishads would say this urge is part of our evolutionary heritage, given to us for the ultimate adventure: to discover for certain who we are, what the universe is, and what is the significance of the brief drama of life and death we play out against the backdrop of eternity. In haunting words, the Brihadaranyaka3 declares:
You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny. (Brihadaranyaka iv.4.5)
(Quote from the book The Upanishads by Eknath Easwaran).
1. The Upanishads are ancient, sacred texts that form the final part of Hindu religious thought. The Sanskrit word ‘Upanishad’ literally means ‘to sit at the feet of a master to receive instruction’. 2. A rishi denotes an ever exploring representative of God, a "seer of Truth" or "shaman" to whom Wisdom has been revealed" through states of higher consciousness. 3. The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is one of the older, ‘primary’ Upanishads. |
