Everything Is within You

Excerpt from Wake Up and Roar, 1992 edition

Satsang with H.W.L. Poonja

Devotee: When I ask myself what this whole spiritual journey is about, I say it is nothing more than getting rid of all concepts. Am I right?

Spirituality doesn’t tell you to get rid of anything. What will be removed? Where will you put it? In this world there are mountains and rivers and animals. If  you get rid of them, where will they go? They have to stay here. It is better to stay with everything and with love, not to reject or to accept.

Be your own Self. These things are not apart from your own Self. They are within you. Change only your viewpoint. Accept these things within your own Self as your own Self. Why not accept that all of this is me? This is a fact.

Even the hopes and concepts?

Yes. If you accept these as within you, where is the trouble? There is trouble only when we accept differences between ourselves and something or someone else. Accept that everything is within you as your own. Emptiness. Eternity. Whatever you call it. Everything is within that, and you are one with that. Then what will you reject? Where will you send these things?

You are whole. Where will you send anything? “I AM ALL!” is the teaching of the Upanishads. All this is myself. Spirituality doesn’t tell you to let go.

But let’s try a different way. If you let go of everything, then what is left? What will be left?

You can’t reject anything from the Self. If you reject, there will be frontiers between you and the Self. If you say “Let go,” there will be frontiers between you and the things you have thrown out. So it is not possible in the Truth to have limitation, any frontier. It is whole! Either you reject everything or you accept everything as yourself. Whatever suits you, you can do. Then you keep quiet. Become empty of thoughts and accept everything.