The Forgetting of the Sacred (The Man Who Searched Outside)
Asking questions is not the common denominator in our society. Since happiness is outside, so are the answers. Everything you seek or need must be urgently tied to external experience. It is something to acquire, not inherit. When we feel unwell, we look for someone to tell us what is wrong with us, whether on a physical, emotional or mental level. Someone close to me will have the answer, or that doctor, or therapist. Perhaps those television programmes might have it. Because we have been taught to seek external references, someone to inspire us, someone we can blame for our failures. We only ask the obvious. Since we do not know the other questions, because we have asked for answers to the obvious, and it has condemned us all. Is there something more? What kind of question is that? To think there is something is to enter a philosophy, because our institutions have exploited beliefs, have created a range of thousands of colours through religions, politics and science. The best thing is not to ask, because the inherent belief of all this is that we know nothing. It is not worth asking, because there is no answer. I am born, I grow, I reproduce and I die. There is nothing more. No one can prove it to you in words, and the fact itself has been conditioned, programmed so that we only recognise it in one way.
But why am I unwell? I have taken that pill and followed the advice of my friends, doctors and therapists. Why am I still unwell? One day, after a long time being unwell. All those doctors and therapists will tell you it is because there is something inside your body that is growing. They have called it cancer. And they will tell you that you are going to die, that there is a chance you will die, but that they have the solution. Then, truly, you will ask yourself if there is something more. Because you will be dying, and you will believe you are dying because you have only sought the answer outside. Because you have believed, and in turn created, the answers of a programmed world. The real questions are born when you go beyond the obvious. It is obvious that one day you will die. You will leave this plane, the only one you have been taught, but not the only one that truly exists. Because creation is not one-dimensional, it is multidimensional. The blind also see, but we have not related to their dimension, because we cannot understand it. How many things do we not understand, and by the fact of understanding, our entire reality has transformed? We must understand consciousness in order to transform it.
An ancient Hindu legend tells that there was a time on Earth when all human beings were gods. But they abused their divinity so much that Brahma, the supreme Hindu god, decided to deprive them of the divine breath, he would hide it in a place where it could never be found and used again for evil. Thus, he summoned all the lesser gods to find a suitable place to hide the divinity of the human being and prevent it from being misused again. The problem was finding the right place. The gods offered their proposals:
GODS: We will hide the divinity of man in the deepest part of the Earth. BRAHMA: No, that will not be enough, because man will dig deep into the Earth and find it. GODS: In that case, we will submerge it in the deepest parts of the oceans. BRAHMA: Nor that, because sooner or later man will learn to dive into the ocean and will find it there as well. GODS: Then let us hide it on the highest mountain. BRAHMA: No. Because one day man will climb all the mountains of the Earth and reclaim his divine breath. GODS: (confused) Then we do not know where to hide human divinity, nor a place where man cannot one day find it. BRAHMA: Hide it within man himself, he will never think to look for it there. And only the one who has a pure and noble heart will think to seek it in that place. And so they did. And divinity was hidden within every human being.
And since the dawn of time, so the legend goes, man has travelled the Earth, descended into the oceans, climbed the mountains searching for that quality which makes him similar to the gods, but which in truth he has always carried within himself.
