Renunciation and redemption…
As I sit here and with my eyes closed, turn my energies and focus inwards, a strange type of peace quickly descends into me that is far greater than anything that any material possession can possibly give.
I question myself, why this fitful struggle to achieve and accomplish in the material realm when everything I have been taught and the little I have experienced clearly says, that the ultimate goal of this journey is renunciation and ultimate redemption?
Our life is a journey and there is a purpose to this life. The Indian philosophy teaches us that there is a Karmic Script that we are all executing… that we grow from awareness to awareness, until we become free from this viscous cycle of birth and death. In the meantime, it is our responsibility to do the very best at what we have been entrusted, in the time that has been given to us… for if that is done, is when the karmic script would have been executed and the outcome slated for this birth achieved!
Try to force a shorter route, and you will fall short on multiple counts making your journey like the frog that climbs 2 feet in a well and drops down 3. You might get an odd occasion to take that leap… May be it’s a great Sadguru that contacts you… may be God’s Grace draws you to a realm that renders this entire journey redundant… but that’s wishful thinking. It is too much of a chance, I personally believe, not worth taking.
That leaves us with the one choice…. Of looking inwards, to understand our Karmic Script, that we may fulfill the mission that we have set out for this life of ours, to the fullest… that we may renounce the cardinal sins that are to be gotten rid off, and not the responsibility and the purpose of this birth… and at the end of this phase of our soul’s journey, find ourselves better positioned to be redeemed!
All the short routes and crash courses that you might be tempted with, as promising as they seem, could potentially knock you off your center.
Focus on your work. Do not lose time nor focus. That is the one definite path that the Lord has promised, in the Great Bhagavad Gita, will get us where we need to!
