This Is Only a Transit Lounge

Excerpt from Wake Up and Roar, 1992 edition

Satsang with H. W. L. Poonja

Devotee: How can I remove the fear of losing everything?

What fear can you have? It may be fear of the destruction of everything that you are holding. Fear that you will lose all the holdings of your mind. So you are caught in between. On the one side, you can see the destruction of everything your mind has clung to, all of your holdings. On the other side, eternity is calling you. You don’t like to go back, and yet you hesitate to embrace eternity. This is a transit period only. A transit camp. A flight will be announced. You can’t go back. The plane you arrived on is gone and you are in the transit lounge. Wait for the call, that’s all.

Since you know it is a transit lounge in which you are sitting, do not become attached to anything. This is only a transit lounge. No one will be here, and no one has been here. Do not become attached here. Let go of everything so that you can travel comfortably.

All samsara is transit lounge; nothing is permanent. Everyone is shifting. Some are coming, some are waiting for the call. You are very fortunate to know that you are in the transit lounge. Get ready. Don’t be attached to anything. You have to return home.