Monday, March 19, 2012

How to let go?

Sometimes there is something which you can not let go, which holds you tight and you want to let it go. At that moment if you can simply  imagine the vastness, the immensity of the grand design of the universe in time and space and this little event on which you are worried and concerned so much, you see, it will immediately vanish and disappear. It will lose it's importance.  Perhaps a little part of you will not let go of this event so easily, it may try to hold on, it may try to convince you that it has an importance.

Once you see the true value of things compare to the immensity of life then you can easily leave that part behind and move on, then you can keep your consciousness intact, as it is. Then it is very easy. There is an ancient technique in China, it says you to lie down upon events as if you are floating on your back upon the sea. Imagine the vastness of sea and let yourself go floating upon the waves.  When you compare your problems like this with immensity and vastness then all your personal problems are gone.

Visualize that little event in your hand and realize there were myriads and myriads of years before this present moment and there will be myriads and myriads of years after this moment and ask yourself what importance this little event has compare to eternity? In relation with space and time before and after that event it has not much importance.

Just lie down on your back and look at the night sky full of countless luminous stars, contemplate the sky and visualize yourself floating in that immensity of innumerable sparkling points. All your big problems will immediately lose their importance, they will become tiny. You just need to have the sense of relativity between the things which makes you worried and the universal immensity. 

We give too much importance to little things and they take root in the mind, once they take roots it become difficult to eliminate them and to let go. Ego does not want to let go things so easily. But once you see those things in the relation with immensity they have proper space in your life. Then they don't occupy your whole life.

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