The Divine Truth

(Author: Smruti Ranjan Sarangi)

It took me quite a long excruciating time, effort, and austerity, to see the truth of life, the truth as bright as sun. You can call it by any name, the God, the cosmic rule, the supreme power, the soul. Can I explain it in words? NO, I cannot. I can express only the effect it had on my life and on my existence, and few aspects surrounding it.

I started this journey accidentally in the year 2004, from a brief conversation with a clandestine yogi. The conversation was so powerful that it captivated me and sucked me in as a black hole does. The journey after that can be termed as, a very long conversation with my soul (Sad guru). The conversation invokes many life situations, teacher (gurus), references, books, and events, all towards its own fulfillment. I was a mere helpless observer. In other words, I was in a trance (Samadhi) in walking state for years.

The conversation was self-demanding and self-fulfilling. The conversation made me challenge every thought, belief, knowledge, judgment and feelings that I had in my mind. It challenged every habit and practice of mine. It peeled layers of untruth that had covered my soul. It was also the source of power, that enabled me endure the ordeal.

The conversation finally ended with me witnessing the supreme truth. The witnessing of truth was overwhelming for my humanly senses. The sound was deafening, the light was brighter than the sun, all other senses were overwhelmed with riot of sensations, and the source was within. All the knowledge, thoughts, judgments, beliefs, feelings, wishes belong to mind evaporated leaving absolute void, and a silence of mind previled that I had never experienced in my entire life before. Finally, I am a soul free from all type of anxiety and fear. My soul is free from the spell of mind. I experienced the real freedom.

Life before the revelation of truth was like darkness. In the darkness, I lived in anxiety and fear of unknown; I could not see my path for myself.  I did not even know who I really am. I speculated, relayed on my limited knowledge and experience. I was paralyzed with weird imaginary dangers like everyone else. The sole purpose of life was to survive. I remain completely unaware of my own surroundings and of my true self. I remain captive of my own imaginations, and I was never free in true sense. I merely grew old being wise by knowing many tricks that were effective keeping me in survive in the darkness, taking momentary respite by indulging. Those momentary pleasures were rewards of my painfully deceptive life. Reward for living in darkness, taking pain to clinging to materials and ideas for safety.

The revelation of the truth was like rising of the sun. The awareness of truth made the life like broad day light. It left no room for confusion or imagination. It dissolved all false knowledge and theories, and all true knowledge becomes obvious facts, that are very clear and already known. The true life the truth revel is so pleasant that longing for pleasure fade away. I could see my real self and on broad day light I could see that there is abundance of happiness around in the life, and always available at my disposal. There is no need for me to hold on to my possessions or ideas for safety, as safety is not a concern any more. There prevails a great love and empathy for all.

The truth by itself does not change the life situation. If you are hungry at dark, the day light does not get rid of your hunger. The day light shows you abundance of food around you that you had never seen earlier. The truth however reduces many of human’s problems, as most of human problems are imaginary. Just like, the fear of unknown will seize to exist in day light.

On realization of truth, the soul rises and takes control of life, and the mind seizes to exist. The mind just like other organs does its job. Human is no longer remains a slave of mind. Life no longer ruled by greed, fear, imagination, impulses, and wants. Unlike the mind the decision by soul are spontaneous, powerful and divine, and they defy logic. The body and mind becomes a tool in service of soul. The life really started after that. The movement of soul is extremely powerful, it moves with mighty and subtle force.

In darkness Knowledge gives comfort, it takes away fear and assures that you can deal with thing. I have seen many highly educated people those go on acquiring knowledge, with every new knowledge they get a new sense of safety, which is short lived. Then again starts another crusade for knowledge. People in darkness seek social approval, as that ensures them of their safety and that is very reassuring in darkness. People go to any extent to be sure that they are doing right, blind religious beliefs, are one of those, It gives a false assurance. Many accumulate wealth of astronomical proportion with the hope that this would ensure peace and happiness. To me it looks like, they are tiring themselves gathering hip of corn in the middle of a cornfield, where there is corn everywhere till the horizon, which they can’t see.  In the darkness, people go on searching for new avenue for happiness and sense of fulfillment. They reach to moon, and cruise towards mars, and I am sure one day human will reach out to other galaxy, there is no end to what extent human will go to find happiness and peace. In the darkness, they can only destroy life’s after life, planet after planet, but there will be no respite. The darkness in lives increasing causing irresponsible acts worldwide, which would lead to total disaster, where nobody in untouchable, not even a realized man.

Life for me after realization is very peaceful and also very saddening. I see people walking in the dream, screaming in pain that they experience in their dreams. It pains me a lot to see that people in pain going round and round like mad, hurting themselves. They hurt themselves, then hurt others, and go to the extent to create war and terrorism. I reach out to people to calm them down, they do calm down for a while, but it is short lived. They again scream in pain, and it is deafening to listen to the pain.