Homemaking
for God
Most of my life I spent looking for my
Home
even though I didnt
actually know what that meant. But whatever I had done or wherever I found
myself, the longing for something more real, more fulfilling found its
expression in this idea that I just wanted to go Home. As the years passed
and I learned more about the possibility of an Inner-Life, I came to
understand that this Home I was seeking was in fact actually within me all
along, in my very own Heart, waiting patiently for me to turn my attention
from the endlessly fluctuating external temporal world of things, people,
and places - back into That, the One which is the Source of everything.
Anubhavananda Saraswati is a guru who believes in
happiness and tells humorous stories to illustrate his profound
Wisdom-Knowledge of the sacred Sanskrit texts. I saw him on cable TV many
years ago when I lived in Virginia. He was the first teacher who got this
idea that there is only one Soul through to me. Beneath all his smiling
humor there is real power and Wisdom.
Be
attentive!
Recently by chance I found him again on YouTube
where he has his own channel with many free
happy
lectures for you, if you like. He does move from English to I think
Hindi, or maybe Gujarati, and Sanskrit - and judging by the audience
laughter, I miss many of his best jokes. It does not matter to me because so
often he makes a point I need to hear, such as this one.
Anubhavananda Saraswati said that the other day God
spoke to him and told him that like so many of us, God is searching for a
Home, a place to stay. God is searching for hands that are free from
selfishness, so that God can express through them. God is searching for a
tongue that is not busy talking about their own glory or the ills of others,
so that God can express Joy and Love. God is looking for a mind not
overpowered by the wrong emotions, so that inherent Bliss can be expressed
through that mind.
God is seeking an abode, a Home to stay in, an
instrument to express Its real nature which is Joy, Happiness and Bliss.
Therefore Anubhavananda Saraswati tells us that the real goal of life is not
to merely see
God, but rather to give accommodation to God. Our job is to make a
Home in our own Being for God.
I find this idea wonderful because for so many years
I had been searching for my Home, when all along God was simply waiting for
me to prepare some room within my own being, in my consciousness, to make
room on the couch so-to-speak, in my kitchen and Heart, everywhere, for what
I had longed for all my life. This is a very simple idea, very beautiful,
that can only come from a real master.
Anubhavananda Saraswati
@49:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnEk6YIcU0w
https://www.youtube.com/user/smilingswami
http://www.hindudigest.org/2013/01/18/swami-anubhavananda-life-history/
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