Going Within: A Complete Guide for 2025

 

Coming from inside – It has taken a life to build my perception about the world and it has also taken a life time to unpack the world to reveal what I really am – like carving out a statue.. Each time I dissent, which is usually in this case most of the time with the concepts that can summed up as the conventional wisdom, guiding this society’s behaviors and belief systems, I feel this truth stretching out to me. There is a distant guilty fearful and mad mentality. This has a habit of complaining about what we can’t accomplish for ourselves, faulting others for our shortcomings, and seeking salvation and joy from a human being or God.

Here there is a beautiful Sufi story: A man saw his neighbor stealing in his garden. He says, “Hey, what are looking for?” “For my watch,” says the other. Therefore, do you remember where exactly you might have misplaced it, or lost it? He answers “Anywhere in the house.” ‘Ugh so why are you looking for it in the garden?’ The response is: "Because it is dark in the house, as they say I can see out here."

This is our life's error. As the outer world is what we can perceive through our five senses, then searching from there is easier. However, both the lost self and the whole world are within and without. Here, no outside force can help us. There is no logic in expecting that our happiness and salvation will come from somewhere else, from a life mate, or a guru. The search for it and the change of the other to be more suitable to our taste equally does not bring happiness. The other one is not in our control either. All we can and should attempt to do is change ourselves.

Lifting Internal Awareness

Mind and body are inherent in human beings. Together, these two could bring life into the soul. Soul operates in awareness only. The task of making people conscious is up to us.

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