Follow Me IN! Follow Me IN! Mental Body
event and a very daring one, there were many journalists questioning him. If you have been to the Niagara Falls, you would know… the depth of the fact that someone survived jumping down the Niagara Falls. I can't imagine someone surviving the Niagara Falls!
When asked how he managed this unimaginable feat, the man replied beautifully, 'When I jumped, I became a part of the Niagara Falls. I felt like I was a part of it. I never felt that I was different from those falls.'
When we are in tune with the collective consciousness, when we become a part of the collective consciousness, Nature is with us, Nature is our friend, and Nature protects us. Nature will not harm us.
When we start thinking that we are different from nature, that we are an individual consciousness, we will always experience Nature as our enemy. Let us be clear that as long as we are in tune with the collective consciousness, we experience Nature as that which protects us.
Wherever we want to achieve success, either in the social or economic world, when we tune in with the whole group, when we fall in tune with the collective consciousness, we will achieve what we want to achieve.
As long as we feel that we are separate individuals, as long as we want to keep our identity distinct, and wish to have an idea that we are 'somebody', be very clear: we will be resisted and we will be resisting. The moment we start resisting, we make a hell out of it.
Whether at home, office, workplace or industry, this is bound to happen. However, if we disappear into the collective consciousness, we will be protected and taken care of, again and again. We will attain complete success, not only socially and economically, but we will also experience it. It would be a feeling of fulfillment which is inexplicable.
A small story:
A man was suddenly informed that his wife has fallen into the river.
He immediately jumps into the river and starts swimming against the current.
Everybody is surprised and asks him, 'Hey, why are you swimming against the current?'
He replies, 'You guys don't know my wife. Even if she falls into the river, she would only swim against the current!'
As long as we resist the current, whether it is our workplace, our house, our company or any other place for that matter, as long as we do not disappear into the collective consciousness, we will be continuously creating hell for ourselves and for others.
Tao, the ancient Chinese philosophy, contains the same teaching. Tao is all about flow. It is about flowing with Nature. Water is the greatest illustration of such a natural flow. Water simply flows with the landline, around obstacles, smoothly and energetically. Tao talks about the reeds in the water that bend with the flow and straighten up once the flow reduces. This can only happen when we do not imagine ourselves to be different from our environment.