Self-transcendence³

What do we long for? We long for self-transcendence. And what do we actually need? We need self-transcendence. In ordinary life ordinary human beings desire something, but at the same time they do not need it. Again, they need something, but they do not desire it.

Here we are all seekers. We all need self-transcendence, and at the same time we fervently long for it. Self-transcendence brings us the message of happiness. We are happy when we fulfil ourselves in our own way. But when we fulfil ourselves in God’s own way, then we are infinitely more happy. We fulfil our self-imposed duty and thereby we derive joy. But there is something called God-ordained duty. When we fulfil our God-ordained duty we get joy in boundless measure.

Happiness is in our self-giving. We give what we are. What we are is our aspiration, inner cry, and what we give is our dedication-life. It is in self-giving that we grow into God. Self-giving is the precursor of God-becoming.

Self-transcendence gives us joy in boundless measure. When we transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only with ourselves, with our previous achievements. And each time we surpass our previous achievements we get joy. We do not compete with the rest of the world, but at every moment we compete with ourselves.

We measure our doubting mind. We measure our sacrificing heart. How far we are away from the doubting mind, or how much we have illumined our doubting mind, or how much we have cultivated receptivity in the inmost recesses of our heart, we try to measure. At every moment we transcend ourselves by measuring the capacity that we already have.

There are quite a few adequate ways to transcend ourselves, but the two main ways are the humility-way and the awareness-way. We try to cultivate humility, true humility, soulful humility. It is through our humility that we acquire the power of receptivity. When we have the power of receptivity, Peace, Light and Bliss in boundless measure descend from above, and with no difficulty we can embody these divine attributes.

We have to be aware of our Source. Our Source is flooded with Light and Delight. When we are tempted to do something undivine, if we can be aware of our Source, which is all Light and Delight, we get the inner message and thus prevent our misdeeds. We feel that it is beneath our dignity to wallow in the pleasures of ignorance; it is beneath our dignity to swim in the sea of darkness. This is what we get from our constant awareness, and this is the only way we can establish a free access to our own divinity, to our own highest delight.

Either we can walk along the way of true humility, or we can walk along the way of awareness in order to transcend ourselves. Transcendence is satisfaction; satisfaction and perfection are the observe and reverse of the same coin. If we become perfect, then we are happy. At the same time, when we are happy, soulfully happy, we can grow into fruitful perfection.