People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
– Thomas Szasz, “Personal Conduct,” The Second Sin, 1973
Kabir – The couplet
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transliterated:
Kasturi kundal base, mrig dhoonde ban maahi |
Aise ghat ghat Ram hai, duniya dekhe naahi ||
Translation:
The musk deer has its musk inside, yet hunts the fragrance all over the forest |
So also Ram (realization) is inside and all around us – and yet we see it not||
My understanding:
The most profound things in life are often the easiest to find – if we can slow down our racing thoughts enough.
We are fully equipped to find our place and purpose in this world – if we can quiet the furnace of our thoughts and focus on the consciousness inside us.
Our true greatness is not in what we do, but rather in what we can do and the reason we exist. If we can find that and focus on it to the exclusion of all else, we can each be greater than ourselves, and the world will truly become “heaven on earth” !