DAILY DECLARATION: A SHORT STORY

He began everyday with this:

“There is a lot going on in the outside world, in the world of the senses, in the thinking mind and egoic self, and in the physical body.  But it is peaceful and calm here in the center, in the clearing that is the awakened Atman.

“This is the portal through which the Atman awakened in this person five years ago.  May he grow ever more present in this person, continue to unfold, to blossom, to deepen, to widen.  After all, this is his life, not this person’s life.  The Atman's many lifetimes, his many journeys, including the current sixty-nine years and counting journey, have been that he may realize his destiny, which is this awakening.

“This person is proud to have been the Atman's vehicle, and as it happens his final vehicle.  This person, this biology, will die one day, but the Atman will not, nor will he ever be born into this world of form again.  His task is complete, his mission accomplished, the deed done.

“At the same time, this person is well aware that he is one of the rare ones to have actually experienced the awakening of the Atman.  It takes countless incarnations as both insentient and sentient beings, that is as objects and then as living organisms, for the awakening to occur.  That it has happened in this person’s life is humbling indeed.

“But with this comes a responsibility to maintain the awakened state, because all too easily it can be smothered over by the outside world, the world of the senses, the thinking mind and egoic self, and the workings of the physical body.

“The Atman has come too far for this person to ruin it all by becoming so distracted as to lose the awakened state.  Accordingly, this person will not permit that to happen.  Accordingly, this person will maintain the awakened state faithfully.”