Heaven Is A State Of Our Consciousness
Sri Chinmoy
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If you treasure a good thought, then you are creating Heaven. If you cry to God for light, then you get a good experience, an illumining experience, and this experience is nothing but heaven. Again, if you harbour a negative thought, then you are creating hell. In this manner, heaven and hell is experienced everyday .When the mind falls victim to worries, anxieties and other undivine forces; when the mind is disturbed, agitated, tortured by ugly , impure and undivine thoughts, we feel that we are in hell. But when the beauty , light and divinity of the heart come to the fore and we try to reveal and manifest them in the aspiring world, then we feel that we are in heaven.
We do not have to wait for death to find hell or heaven. Both are within us in our daily life and conduct. If we are always surrendered, we are in a position to remain always in heaven in this very life on earth. For each time we enjoy a pure thought, we feel that we are living in our own homemade heaven.
Just because we have not experienced the Infinite, the Immortal and the Eternal, we feel that the opposite, the finite, is hell. But the bondage that we are experiencing every day is only a passing phase. It is like an overcast day . For a few hours the sun may not shine, but finally the sun comes out.Each individual has an inner sun now covered by fear, doubt, worries, anxieties, imperfections and limitations. But a day will come when we will be able to overcome these so that the inner sun shines forth brightly .
We are all God's children. For us there is no hell; there is only light. But if we do not see the truth in the way truth has to be seen, then there is inner pain.The truth is there, but we have to see truth in the proper way . Then only we will see that life has its true meaning.
Heaven means infinite peace, light and bliss. When a seeker prays and meditates, he enters into heaven. When his mind is calm and quiet, when his mind is tranquil, his heart becomes all-giving and his life becomes Divinity's Reality . Heaven is not a place; it is a state of consciousness. When we free our mind from the meshes of ignorance, we see, feel and grow into heaven.
The aim of the life is conscious realisation of God. Everyone has unconscious awareness of God. A seeker meditates on God and gradually, his own consciousness develops to such an extent that he feels God's presence constantly everywhere. A sincere seeker is a divine hero. He fights off the teeming darkness to fulfil God's will here on earth. Otherwise there will always be a yawning gulf between earth and heaven. This earth of our must be transformed into heaven, into a place of joy, peace, bliss and delight.
The very conception of heaven is something bright, luminous, delightful and, at the same time, immortal. But we have to know what is immortal in us.When we say that earth will be transformed into Heaven that means that anything that is within us or in the world that is now imperfect, obscure or uninspiring will be transformed eventually into perfection.
We do not have to wait for death to find hell or heaven. Both are within us in our daily life and conduct. If we are always surrendered, we are in a position to remain always in heaven in this very life on earth. For each time we enjoy a pure thought, we feel that we are living in our own homemade heaven.
Just because we have not experienced the Infinite, the Immortal and the Eternal, we feel that the opposite, the finite, is hell. But the bondage that we are experiencing every day is only a passing phase. It is like an overcast day . For a few hours the sun may not shine, but finally the sun comes out.Each individual has an inner sun now covered by fear, doubt, worries, anxieties, imperfections and limitations. But a day will come when we will be able to overcome these so that the inner sun shines forth brightly .
We are all God's children. For us there is no hell; there is only light. But if we do not see the truth in the way truth has to be seen, then there is inner pain.The truth is there, but we have to see truth in the proper way . Then only we will see that life has its true meaning.
Heaven means infinite peace, light and bliss. When a seeker prays and meditates, he enters into heaven. When his mind is calm and quiet, when his mind is tranquil, his heart becomes all-giving and his life becomes Divinity's Reality . Heaven is not a place; it is a state of consciousness. When we free our mind from the meshes of ignorance, we see, feel and grow into heaven.
The aim of the life is conscious realisation of God. Everyone has unconscious awareness of God. A seeker meditates on God and gradually, his own consciousness develops to such an extent that he feels God's presence constantly everywhere. A sincere seeker is a divine hero. He fights off the teeming darkness to fulfil God's will here on earth. Otherwise there will always be a yawning gulf between earth and heaven. This earth of our must be transformed into heaven, into a place of joy, peace, bliss and delight.
The very conception of heaven is something bright, luminous, delightful and, at the same time, immortal. But we have to know what is immortal in us.When we say that earth will be transformed into Heaven that means that anything that is within us or in the world that is now imperfect, obscure or uninspiring will be transformed eventually into perfection.
