Moving From Identity To Aloneness

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

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Thursday, July 31, 2008, 10:39

Watch a child at play. A child can admire or smell a flower or watch the insects crawl, or a bird fly with
tremendous curiosity. A child can play for hours without any human companion. He is completely self absorbed and needs nothing external to keep himself happy. It is only education and conditioning that rob him of this innocence and aloneness.

We all need to embrace aloneness and welcome it. However, we usually don't. Instead, we resist it.
Aloneness is the path to personal liberation. We equate aloneness to loneliness. The two are not the
same. We are afraid of being alone. We will party, shop, watch television or even read a boring book until our mind is tired and numb. But we will not take time to be alone with ourselves. We are scared to be alone with ourselves because we no longer know how to be alone with ourselves. We run away from the truth.

How do we regain this core of individuality that we seem to have lost during childhood? We are all
individuals and unique beings. Our true nature is the core of our individuality. This core of our individuality is known as moksha, kaivalya, or nirvana. In simple terms, these are names
that refer to the ultimate liberation from worldly bondage. How can we reach this state? We reach it
simply by enquiry or constant contemplation of ourselves.

We each need to sit alone and contemplate upon who we are and why we are here. This is not simply a mental exercise. It is not an empty intellectual exercise. It is a question we ask deep within ourselves.
We need to ask our core, 'What am I; what am I here for? What will I be if all my labels are taken off me?' The feeling that we experience during an honest contemplation should be completely expressed.
Express that feeling even if it is painful. It is painful to realize that we are alone.

Try to experience that pain again and again. This pain will give birth to ourselves as we were once born. The seed has to suffer the pain for the tree to grow. The seed has to rupture for the tree to be born.
Our identity has to die before aloneness is born. We then grow from ego to Self: from personality to
individuality; from depression to expression; from loneliness to aloneness; from pain to bliss. When we
welcome and enter loneliness without resisting, we achieve bliss Nithyanandam!

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