Travel Learn Grow E-Book

Jan Wolter

• Herausgeber: epubli
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 57

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

Life is an eternal experience of change, learning and growth. In particular, truthfulness and love, purity and compassion, as well as the instructive connection to the Supreme Truth, to the Absolute, the eternal equilibrium, is possibly the most beautiful and nourishing way to experience life. Self-experience is the only real good that finds its support in loving service, and this is what needs to be experienced. Come with your guide on a fabulous excursion of knowledge and truthfulness, which ultimately leads to the recognition and experience of this truth. An experience of the eternal self, the soul or the spark of God. A new heading. This process of learning transcends all limitations. It is the most easy and trustful connection that one can establish. Based on scriptures, authorized by master teachers and led by a travel expert, this journey is bound to be successful.

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© Jan Wolter

Travel Learn Griw Book Series

A journey to one Self

Dedication

God helps those who learn to help themselves.

All honour to the devotees, all love to the world family. This dedication goes to Papa and Mama, who gave me education, training and travel.

To my spiritual master.

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Cover Story

Life is an eternal experience of change, learning and growth. In particular, truthfulness and love, purity and compassion, as well as the instructive connection to the Supreme Truth, to the Absolute, the eternal equilibrium, is possibly the most beautiful and nourishing way to experience life.

Self-experience is the only real good that finds its support in loving service, and this is what needs to be experienced.

Come with your guide on a fabulous excursion of knowledge and truthfulness, which ultimately leads to the recognition and experience of this truth.

An experience of the eternal self, the soul or the spark of God.

Jan Wolter

Globetrotter

[email protected]

Introduction

Is it really true? What we see, what we hear, what we experience? Is reality the norm? Is human life a description of reality, which has an individual and unique nature?

Life is a learning process and so the old saying goes: 'You grow old a lifelong, and you are still learning'.

Time and space seem equal to the learning process, but what are we really supposed to learn? Isn't life just there for no reason at all? Don't we humans first give meaning and reason to the world?

Questions upon questions, and whatever the answer, each is as unique as the unique human being. As Providence, the divine will is free and incomprehensible.

Consciousness, knowledge and the knower seem to be one and yet different, so eternally connected, and yet always freely inspired.

In the course of life, man doubts, incessantly, endlessly, until at some point a moment of peace arrives, balance.

“The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Whatever is produced of the Complete Whole is also complete in itself. Because He is the Complete Whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance.”

(Śrī Īśopaniṣad, Invocation)

This is a truth: Balance.

Living this concept is actually realisable and true to life, for further on balance gives a foundation for good, even perfection.

After all, man has a life, here and now, up and down it goes, but nowhere does the individual find true meaning until he falls.

Falling in love, that is service,

then everything is already over, the fear of the fallen is also fallen.

Happiness and distress, fear and freedom of fear, elevation and fall down are very close, keeping balance, then is the art.

Accordingly, growing up, becoming an adult and getting old is likewise about learning to keep balance.

Especially within this process, we ask wisdom to help us, begging for relieve and advise how to live a happy and fulfilled life.

There is also another truth: bliss. Holding that the essence of life is an expression of God's grace, and because God is eternally blissful, it only means for us, no matter how strict the Dear Father may be, grace gives rise to understanding bliss.

Out of deep gratitude and devotion, life should serve people who are open-heartedly interested in living a life in harmony to move good in others. That service is blissful.

Out of dearest sincerity I give the art of words to all those who honestly and simply seek experience, enlightenment and instruction. This shall be loving service to life.

Let us walk together on the path of sincere learning and loving joy of life, making true self-awareness possible.

"Perform your duty equipoised, O Arjuna, abandoning all attachment to success or failure. Such equanimity is called yoga."

(Bhagavad-Gita, As it is, 2.48)

This unity or yoga will truly guide us on the path of balance and bliss.

Thus, Krishna personally tells Arjuna about the life of a person who always acts in balance and experiences the Self (the eternal, transcendental soul) in the Gitā.

In this state of trascendental service there is no higher gain, for this bliss is true perfection, in consciousness and love of God.

Selfless, simple and straight joy

Those were the first years of learning, as I remember. I guess that's where the outside advice came in later. The real experience is guided from within.

Riding a bike was learned, but who then had to sit on the bike and steer?

Dad was, of course, a faithful and promising companion on this path, but the inner will knew the real reason.

Inwardly, some inspirations like brother and sister floated past my eye, but really pedalling, of course, was only possible alone.

We are learning for life.

So we learn from an inner force, a drive to constantly grow and experience.

To be and to live means steady, further acceptance of the circumstances of the here and now, no other possibility than what is, and what do we learn from that?

We accept knowledge, simply and naturally, just as we accept sunlight and the air we breathe, for without these there is no life.

Selfless and alone, these processes happen naturally, but truly it is the Self.

The 'S' makes the difference, for the eternal, transcendental spark of the soul, is peculiar and unique to each one and is therefore 'the Self'.

This 'Self' according to the knowledge of the sages, seers and scriptures sits in the heart of every living being.

This self is alive, conscious and a source of eternal, divine bliss. Sounds nice, doesn't it?

In 'The Beauty of the Self', the scholar and philosopher A.C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada describes the true distinction between real knowledge and material knowledge.

"Scientists and philosophers, with their frog philosophy, think they know what is true," Prabhupada says, "but can the frog who lives in a small pond truly know how big the vast ocean is?"

Of course, we humans are prone to such fallacies and presumptions, but real knowledge, Prabhupada discusses in explaining the Bhagavad-Gita, is truly only available from authorities such as sages and saints.

Likewise, sacred, timeless scriptures serve as our source of real knowledge, and last but not least, we should follow the advice of a teacher. These three guidelines for knowing true soulfulness is real.

"Unlike material university knowledge, which has exclusively worldly references, true knowledge is spiritual in nature. It is transcendental," Prabhupada said.