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Namah Vol. 30, Issue 1, 24th April 2022

It is not difficult to see where these words
are pointing. Again and again, the Mother
hints at us to not find a resolution in our
problems, in our dramas, and no wonder
that we are never able to truly connect the
dots of complexities in our life. Because what
we think is solid, is not that real and solid as
it appears to be. The more we focus on our
drama and story in our head, the more solid
and heavy we make it, and more unpeaceful
we become. While true peace is to be always
found by plunging deeper within, detaching Awakening to a deeper reality
from the surface consciousness, which appears
now as a vain mirage or surreal as a dream, When we realise that, I am the one, the
and in our depths, we are always able to observer, who is responsible for altering the
access the blue sky of calm, peace, wisdom, so-called reality, I see through my sense-
love and serenity. mind, then I get the opportunity to turn my
attention not to the object of my senses, but
Blue sky of true consciousness and fleeting towards — who is looking at all of that. A turn
clouds of thoughts/feelings/perceptions within. When I am looking through the lens
of my sense-mind, the egoistic consciousness,
One very relatable image here is that of an I project my own coloured versions of reality
aeroplane taking off. There may be very in the outer world, and hence my looking is
dark, thick clouds in the city from where it not clear, but tainted with my perceptions,
is taking off, it may appear as if there is no dogmas, beliefs, notions, of which I am not
blue sky at all. But if it makes an effort to go even conscious of.
beyond the thick sheet of clouds, after a bit
of wavering and trembling, it is able to pierce But when I see this play of egoistic con-
through the sheet of clouds, and access the sciousness, and how it colours everything
ever-present blue sky, with the sun shining. I see, I can hold my own ideas, thoughts,
The sun and clear sky never were absent, but beliefs a bit loosely, not take them too
if the focus was only thick clouds, it appeared seriously, and give them a breathing-space.
as if there was no blue sky, while that is not Here, I have the possibility to alter my world,
true. It is just that my focus was only on the irrespective of outer situations, to connect to
cloudy stuff, and the blue clear sky was ever- a clear sky of wisdom and intelligence within
present in the background of clouds. In fact, me, which is not separatist and divisive like
the presence of the sky, the spaciousness of the sense-mind.
the sky is the one responsible for allowing
the play of clouds in the very first place. But “Spirituality is in its essence an awakening to
in ignorance, we still keep on missing the the inner reality of our being to a spirit, self,
spaciousness of the blue sky, when our focus soul which is other than our mind, life and
is always on the clouds. body, an inner aspiration to know, to feel, to

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