July 26, 2023
Why do we want to run after happiness? Happiness comes in life, enjoy it. Don't hold it, let it go. It is not necessary for you to hang on to this shadow because you are the reality of which the shadow is projection. How do you get rid of the shadow? Yogis are not very dogmatic, but they point out that the only way is to turn towards the light. The shadow is gone. You will not see it unless you turn away from the light again.
Can we live with our inner vision trained on this inner light all the time? We are not asked to abandon something which is real. The yogi is not such a fool that he wants us to abandon this world, abandon this body, abandon living in a house. What are you going to do? Can you abandon this world? Wherever you go the world is still there, because you are the world.
"You are the world," may have other interpretations, but even if we are able to appreciate it, the simplest connotation is enough for us. What is the body? The body is the same as the earth or the vegetables that you eat - or the vegetables that those beings ate whom you eat. The vegetarians take vegetables first hand, the non-vegetarians second-hand. So, your body is made of nothing other than what the world contains already. Your life breath is one with the air of the whole world.
Your intelligence is shared by all other beings in the universe. You are not something special. So you are the world, you are part of the world and this is the inescapable truth. There is no need to run away from this truth.