Forms appear within You...

If you have really dis-covered the unconditional happiness and peace of Being that already dwells within at and as the core of your very being itself and mine, and every form that exists, you will no longer feel compulsively compelled and driven to search for your happiness in all these passing forms in themselves, as if they were separate from you to begin with, which they are not. After all, you don't seek to possess your hands and feet, do you?

And yet, after dis-covering the unconditioned happiness of the Self, when you are no longer looking to passing objects as a potential source of fulfillment in and of themselves, you can appreciate and enjoy them as temporary manifestations of the very Self that you already are.

You no longer believe them to be separate entities that exist apart from God and you recognize the ultimate source of them as being your source too, innate within you already. So there is no longer a need or a desire to "possess" physical forms and hold onto any of them forever as a potential, final source of your happiness, which in themselves, they can never be.

You are no longer looking at the various forms, as some kind of separate "entity", put here by God to somehow ultimately fulfill you, any more than you would look at the fleeting form of a rose in itself, as beautiful as it is, to fulfill you. It is lovely of course, but it is not able to do that.

You are then able to relax and let go of the unrealistic expectations you used to have about forms and simply enjoy them for what they are; pleasant, beautiful, even exquisite perhaps...........but temporary art "pieces" of Brahman, temporary manifestations of the source of unconditional happiness that you already ARE within and which is also already within every form you see "appearing around you", as it's very essence and ground.

All these forms are not actually "appearing around you" at all, they are actually constantly appearing and disappearing, WITHIN you! "Brahman, (God, unconditional happiness, the source of wholeness and peace), is in all creatures and all creatures are within this Brahman, ever united....."


Francis Bennett