Fire and Ash

Fire and Ash

[6:10 AM, 12/1/2024] Shrenik Shah: The ego ( if there is anything like that ) does only one thing: project outside and collect various experiences from Sansar.

Each experience the Ego runs after, whether food, objects of pleasure, people, gurus, scriptures, knowledge, fame, recognition, etc, is nothing but raakh ( ash ).

Every experience eventually ends in death; every moment dies, only to be continually replaced by another fresh moment.

The raakh ( ash ) is dead; it has no life in it.

Memories are collections of experiences that have already been ( dead ).

Fantasies are nothing but expectations for new experiences, which also will die in due time.

Living in Sansar is living in death.

We are not living.

Realize this fatal mistake called Ego.

Come out of its illusory spell.

The ego is very superficial, like the ash.

The egoless fire ( the soul ) has been burning deep inside us, eternally.

This fire never turns into ash.

Why?

Because it is outside the time-space complex.

The cycle of past, present, and future does not touch it.

This fire, the fire of life, never turns into ash; it remains forever young and vibrant.

Walk away from the Ego, go within, and you will find the perpetual stream of life.
[5:16 AM, 12/2/2024] Shrenik Shah: If Ego ( “ I “ ) is false, thoughts are the entryways into the falsehood, and our psyche is covered with layers and layers of such falsehoods.

Meditate on it.

Being aware of the falsehood leads to the truth.

( Just the way a witness stays out of the plaintiff and the defendant who are fighting ).

And the truth is the one that survives in the end.

The one that survives is the awareness itself.

Awareness in its pure state ( without what it is aware of ) is atma ( the soul ).

Awareness is not just awareness; it is the vibrant life itself (Chaitanya).

“Chaitanya hi atma hei.”

– Shiv Puran.