The journey into power  – Anant Sri

The journey into power  – Anant Sri

When you are being deprived of power and knowledge, you fear because you cannot imagine life without these two and hence there is a mad rush for power and knowledge without adequate thinking going into it. Nothing in life is permanent, however important it may appear to be. Nothing stays whether it is power or position or money or health or people or even knowledge that goes one day. But blindly we go on accumulating these and feel secure, whereas these too have their limits and at a stage they too fail. We are not prepared to lose them and therefore when we are deprived of them, we fear.

The journey into power is from muscle power to money power, then from money power to mind power and then finally from mind power to soul power.

Initially a person who was strong, one who could fight, go into wars and emerge winner commanded respect of the public because of this muscle power. Then money became the major factor in life as money could buy muscle power that we find even today. Further in the journey the mind gained importance for it was the mind that could think and plan and find ways to invest money and muscle at the right place for best results. Then as the mind has its limitations too, we further started looking at the soul for miraculous benefits and then the soul power became the most superior.

Whatever be the nature of power it must go at some point and that scares us. But we have to go through it for in existence nothing is static, and for dynamism both presence and absence are equally important. It is similar to our breathing, one breath comes in then it goes out and then another breath comes in again and so on, it is like the changing cycle of day and night, the cycles of changing seasons. We are not bothered by these changes in nature because we have lived these cycles, and we are assured of their return. But when it comes to life, we somehow are so dull-witted that we are not able to accept and appreciate the change and we go for permanence and that is never to be found. The only permanent thing is the impermanence in life.

When power and knowledge are leaving, consciously allow them to go and as they leave, take a leap into witnessing. One who is capable of letting things go has no fear. This experience takes you beyond hope and no hope and you are assured that even when everything goes, nothing is actually lost, for it returns in a new way.

Whatever goes comes back to you, whatever is taken is returned back to you manifold, once you understand, all fear of absence disappears for then the life is a cycle of presence and absence and you are beyond that detached and unaffected.

When we think about Masters, and other awakened friends, we take them to be having infinite knowledge and that they know everything and that they have all power and can do anything. This again is not properly understood by people. It is not that they know everything, or they can do everything, and that they have not accumulated any knowledge or power. On the contrary they are empty. They are beyond all knowing and ignorance, they come to know what needs to be known and they do what needs to be done. It is existence that plays through them as per the script of the drama. They just play the role and therefore they are said to be in leela.