Joy, the fruit of spirituality: Part 2
After looking for joy and the eternal source of it, another way by which one can stay happy is the age-old method of meditation and following some spiritual ways such as nad, omkar and shabad.
MANY INNER experiences have been described in spiritualism. These do not follow sequentially or certainly. However, the most conspicuous and certain of these is the experiencing of an inner sound called variously as nad, Omkar, shabad and so on. Experience of nad, therefore, is the first major milestone on your journey within. The next in meditation practice is staying with the experience of nad over longer and still longer periods. A stage comes when nad is experienced throughout day and night. Once there, you feel how captivating and fulfilling it is.
As you rejoice experiencing nad and continue practicing to remain with it, singularly, (with the mind sitting calm and quiet), some day, suddenly the miracle happens, when you find that it is not only you but the entire universe rejoicing with you. You experience as if you have become the universe or the entire universe has cuddled in you. With this experience, you have arrived; since it is the closest one could go to experience the truth of life - Adwait.
The experience of your oneness with the universe and with everything else contained here is so deep and real that you could never lose it. With this experience, you have reached the core of your being. Everything else you ever associated with (including spiritual experiences) becomes secondary or irrelevant perhaps.
The experience of truth leaves with you untold joy. It is not to say that you keep smiling ever after (although the possibility of it is not ruled out) but to say that you would never feel otherwise - sorrow, sad, bored, hateful, etc. to name a few - ever afterwards.
Your joy will be expressed in everything you do (or better everything that happens through you), including suffering discomforts, if any. And since you enjoy whatever you do, creativity peaks, and you give out the very best. Even if you were to do the utensils, you do it with such grace and enjoyment that even utensils would thank you for the affectionate handling.
Nobody could take away or disturb your joy ever afterwards, for it resided not in the outside, but embodied in you.
The taste of the pudding is in the eating. Why agree or disagree with the writer when you could experience ‘joy’ first hand? Start with meditation right away and bear joy as the fruit of spirituality.
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