Thread by @AdiShloka

Spiritual Sādhanā – A Chiselling Process :

Hidden in the Mass of Rock,
&
Visible Only to the Transcending Vision of the Sculptor,
is the Graceful Form of the Sculptor’s Creation.

Only an Artist can Bring this Hidden Beauty Out of a Common Piece of Rock.
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He has the Subtle Intuition to see the Glory & Perfection of the Form Within.

At last it is Done.

Đ Finished Product Emerges in all its Perfection.

The Artist has added Nothing of his Own to Bring about or Heighten the Beauty.
Đ Beauty was always Throbbing in the Secret Womb

of the Rock.
The Sculptor Only Released it from the Encircling Mass of Formless Rock.
Similarly,

Man does Not Realise how Gross he looks as he lives his Worldly Life,
His eyes Ever-ready to Overflow with Tears from the Smart of Suffering.
His Brow is Ploughed with Discontent &

perpetually Sweating with exertions as he Fights his Own Individual Imperfections.
& Yet,
Đ Eternal Self,
The Beauty of Beauties, Paramātmā,
The Omnipotent & Omniscient, lies deep Within Him,
Shrouded by Layers of Ignorance.

To Remove this Veiling is to Secure Nearness to Paramātmā,
to ‘Re-cognise’ His Essential Nature, The Godhood.

The Worldly Life is led in Agony & Sorrow by a Deluded jīva (The Individualised Ego) Distorted by His ever-Present Dread of a Continually Threatening Calamity ~ Death.

Đ Divine Life is Experienced in Joy & Bliss,
Ever Resplendent wid Life-giving Wisdom,
through which Đ jīva Again finds his Own Essential Godhood.

Đ Divine Life is d Chiselling process by which Truth is Brought Out to Fulfil Itself.

In Living d Divine life, One Realises Đ Truth.

No Other Sentient Being in the Universe has the Equipment for Hastening its Own Evolution as Efficiently as We can.

If We, With Our Wealth of available Apparatus,
do Not Learn to Spend our Life in Striving for Perfection,
Ours Indeed is a Life Wasted!

The Infinite is Our Nature.
We have to Realise this;
&
We would Find Ourselves at Our Journey’s End.

ll ॐ तत् सत् ll🙏