NEXT STEP: A SHORT STORY

The purpose of his life had been the awakening of the Atman in him.  Now that this awakening had occurred, did it mean that his life no longer had a purpose?  (Notice that I did not say his purpose in life.  Rather, I said his life’s purpose.  His life had a life of its own, purposes of its own.)

The other day he wrote a blog posting where he said that he did not want to be his thinking mind, egoic self, that person, any longer.  He wanted, instead, to be “this,” by which he meant the Atman.  What he was talking about was uniting with the Atman, becoming “at one” with it.

If union with the Atman was what he was after, though, wasn’t there something he was to do to facilitate it?  There was only one thing that he did in the time that it took for the Atman to awaken to begin with.

Like that sixty-four-year awakening period, then, he would encourage what was coming next, in this instance mystical union with the Atman, which was to say he would not resist it, would not get in its way.