You are God in your deepest identity. You are one with the transcendent.
Anyone who has an experience of mystery and awe knows that there is a dimension, let’s say, of the universe that is not that which is available to his senses. There’s a wonderful saying in one of the Upanishads: “When, before a sunset or a mountain, and the beauty of this or of that, you pause and say, ‘Ah, that is participation in divinity.’” And I think that’s what it is. It’s the realization of wonder. And also the experience of tremendous power—which people, of course, living in the world of nature, are experiencing all the time. You know there’s something there that’s much bigger than the human dimension.
The image of God becomes the final obstruction. Your God is your ultimate barrier.
If you’re clinging to your ego and its little world and hanging on, and the deity wants to open you, the wrathful aspect comes. It seems to you terrible. But if you are open, and open enough, then that same deity would be experienced as bliss.
Eternity is not something everlasting, and you can have it right here now in your relationships.
And then he says, “Just as those people whom you met by chance became effective agents in the structuring of your life, so you have been an agent in the structuring of other lives.” And the whole thing gears together like one big symphony. He says, “everything influencing and structuring everything else.” And he said, “It’s as though our lives were the dream of a single dreamer, in which all the dream characters are dreaming too, and so everything links to everything else, moved out of the will in nature.”
Just sheer life can’t be said to have a purpose, because look at all the different purposes it has all over the lot. But each incarnation, you might say, has a potentiality. And the function of life is to live that potentiality. Well, how do you do it? Well, again: when my students would ask, you know, “Should I do this, should I do that? Dad says I should do this.” And my answer is: follow your bliss. There’s something inside you that knows you’re in the center, that knows you’re on the beam, that knows you’re off the beam. And if you get off the beam to earn money, you’ve lost your life.
