Short story: The Cave Dweller, who dwelled without results, not realising they dwelled in him already.
By emptychair
@innertalks (23745)
Australia
January 24, 2021 2:01am CST
The would-be spiritual master, Horuf Gremichko, climbed a high mountain, and retreated from society, for the next ten years of his life, trying to find a direct connection to God.
After the ten years had passed, and when still, Horuf, still did not have the direct connection to God that he was looking for, he wondered about what he should now do.
Then, one night, fairly soon after this ten years had gone by, he had a dream.
God appeared to him in this dream, and said to him.
"Why are you ignoring my creation? You will never connect to me until you connect to me through my creation. Honour me, that is right, commune with me too, but do not isolate yourself from me in my creation, where l am too."
The would-be master changed his mind as a result of this dream. He climbed down the mountain again, and he reentered society.
He was obeying God directly, not realising too that he had achieved direct connection now with God already.
He spent the next ten years preaching and sharing his ideas with all who would listen, but at the end of this ten years, he still did not think that he had yet his direct connection to God yet either.
A man then came into his ashram, and took him aside, and said to him.
"You always have had a direct connection to God; it was your looking for this connection that blinded you from seeing what you already had."
"Stop searching, and just let this connection be."
The would-be master thanked this unknown man, and said to him,
"Why didn't you come to see me 20 years ago, and tell me this? It would have saved me 20 years of searching."
The unknown master, for that's what this man was, replied,
"The search gets you ready to hear the truth, when it finally comes to you, without you just ignoring it, by your not recognising it yet."
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The cave does not make the master. The master is existing already within the cave too. A true master can exist as themselves, wherever they are.
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@innertalks (23745)
• Australia
24 Jan 21
Thanks, yes, it's either allegory, or analogy.
You put that well. When we do not believe in God, we search for him, everywhere where he is not, because we do not see him in these things with eyes of faith, and believe in him
(We only see what we believe is there to be seen. We need the believing eyes of our hearts to see God, past our unbelieving minds).
So, we see him not, where he is, and God is everywhere, as you said.
When we start believing rightly, we see him in ourselves too, and then leading on from this inner insight, we see him then in all else too.
@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
25 Jan 21
@innertalks I totally agree.
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@Shiva49 (28397)
• Singapore
25 Jan 21
Ignoring the creation around us, isolating ourselves from reality of creation, get us nowhere.
By seeing our creator in his creations, we pay our homage, obeisance, to him who created us with love and compassion.
However, some great masters seem to have received enlightenment though a period of isolation and austerity away from the hectic material world that we swim along for survival and even get obsessed with.
We should not run away abdicating our duties but see the greater picture so that we embrace this physical world too. However, we tend to isolate our masters too and even go to the distance of seeing them as quirks of creation and put them in a high pedestal. .
I think the truth lies in between and is everywhere too but we pay lip service most times.
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@innertalks (23745)
• Australia
25 Jan 21
Thanks, siva.
It is hard to understand the lives of such masters.
Some masters do go into retreats; some become monks, cloistered away in monasteries.
Some simply stop speaking; others speak in volumes, unendingly.
(Meher Baba stopped talking. Sri Nisargadatta Marahaj spoke in volumes to all who wanted to hear him.)
Each to his own, I guess.
Even Jesus Christ left to soon.
Perhaps he could have done more good living as long a life as the Buddha did, who knows, for sure.
Both Jesus Christ and the Buddha made big impacts, still being felt by the world today.
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@innertalks (23745)
• Australia
25 Jan 21
@Shiva49 Yes, I do not believe that God will abandon any soul in the end, as the parable of Jesus tells us, he goes out searching for every lost soul, and is overjoyed every time that he can find one, and bring it home to roost for himself.
@Shiva49 (28397)
• Singapore
25 Jan 21
@innertalks Yes, that makes us truly God's children.
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