Short story: Will the real self please stand up, and be counted

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The spiritual master, Sri Anota Berbaski, would always tell his students that the spiritual journey was never really just about self-improvement, on its own. Here is how he put it: "It is more about our allowing ourselves to live naturally from who we are, loving, wise, truthful beings. It is not even about unfolding, it is about being this person, right now, by our being love right now." "Whereas God created all souls perfectly so, as perfect, the life of that soul in a physical body is not perfect until the soul lives as itself in that body, and when that body does not try to live with its mind-self, all on its own." "We do need to retrain our minds to serve us, rather than its controlling us, though." "We also need to refine our character, or personality, which will often try to dominate, and dictate our behaviour to us too." 'We need to work on eliminating negative traits, and negative emotions." "Anger is such a trait, while it is also an emotional energy too." "We can have the trait of anger, as our way of reacting, and then we fuel it into action by an emotional outburst of anger too." "We need to awaken ourselves, and our spiritual potential, in order to live fully the purpose of our soul for us in our life." "We need to drop old ways of behaving, and acting." "In a lot of ways, we do not really need to be enhanced by spiritual growth, we more just need to activate the soul being that we already are." "Being calmer, more peaceful, more aware, more understanding, might lead us to what we think is a more apt, and beneficial, life for our existence here, but these aims are often made just to try to improve our life here, rather than our trying to better serve God, and his will, for our life." "We need to stay connected to the source of life, to God, and not try to make our own sauce, in order to just try to make the palate of our life taste better here." '"Who you really are is enough."' "Oriah Mountain Dreamer, a Canadian writer said this, and if we are talking about our soul self, I would agree with her here." The master gave this talk once, when a heckler up the back yelled out: "What sort of garbage is this? Even a child knows that it must learn stuff, in order to get their life to work here." The old master smiled, and replied: "Growth is haphazardly chance driven, unless the hand of God's is joined to yours, and so you then grow in the enormity of God within you. You become a bigger you, because you are allowing more of God's love to be you." And with that response, he ended his talk, for that day. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com