9. A Journey Without Journeying
The succession of experiences that one goes through in the
process of involution is called the Spiritual Path, and the going
through them is likened to a journey. On one stage you hear
melodious sounds and music that enchant and overwhelm you.
On another stage you see wonderful visions in which most often
you get lost. Such experiences are part and parcel of the Great
Dream in Illusion, though together they may be called a real or
super Dream compared with day to day experiences of the gross
sphere.
The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey
appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight.
But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination
you find that you had never travelled at all! It was a journey from
here to Here. As one Sufi expressed it, When I plucked the date
(Fruit of Realization) I found the fruit was within me.
The journey seems infinitely long while you are passing through
the dream-experiences of reincarnation and the six planes of
involution, until finally you merge into yourself to emerge as Self.
But the journey is after all no journey: it is simply the momentum
of your urge to awaken from the Dream and get established in the
reality of the God-state of Infinite Consciousness. To awaken
means to consciously experience the sound-sleep State of God.
When you awake you find that the Great Dream containing all
the varied illusory aspects of dreaming, has vanished for ever.
Heaven and hell as well as all the planes vanish within your Self,
to remain as nothing. In this Awakened State, there is no scope
for anything besides you - the Self, the Existence eternal and
infinite.
This is the only Experience worth experiencing and aspiring after.
To gain this Experience you have to become as dust at the feet of
the Perfect Master - which amounts to becoming as nothing. And,
when you become absolutely nothing, you become Everything.
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