Find the Core Of Your Being
                                                     by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

                            The superconscious mind and the body of the soul have been around a
                            long time. This immortal body of yours has been around a long time,
                            and it's seen many lives come and go, many experiences pass by the
                            windows of its eyes. Some need no explanation, because they are the
                            playing out of vibrations. Others do need an explanation, the
                            explanation that would come and impress you intellectually from your
                            superconscious, would give you power maybe to face an experience that
                            was yet to come. So, don't analyze every nuance of a reaction or try
                            to anticipate the next series of experiential patterns, for life is a
                            series of experiences. They are all great experiences.

                            Hold your center. Find the place within you that has never ever
                            changed, that's been the same for many lives, that feeling that has
                            been the same within you since you were a little child up to this
                            very time. Find that! Catch that vibration, and you've caught the
                            vibration of the soul and identified it to your intellectual mind and
                            your instinctive area of the mind. Then build on that. Work with
                            that. Say to yourself, "There's something within me that never
                            changes, no matter what happens."

                            Work on the analogy that if your foot hurts, your head doesn't hurt.
                            If you have a pain in your stomach, it doesn't mean that you have a
                            pain in your hand. In the very same way, if your emotions are upset
                            and you're suffering, there's an area within you that's calm,
                            peaceful, dynamic, vibrant, watching. That's the body of the soul.
                            Work with that. Find that within you that has never changed, never
                            will change, cannot change. All it can do is become more than what it
                            is. This will give you understanding. This will allow you to
                            innersearch, because you have an inner anchor which you're always
                            trying to get into. You have identified the core of yourself very,
                            very thoroughly. And each time you have unwound the emotional
                            patterns and the intellectual patterns of an experience, you've
                            graduated out of that classroom and you're on to greater and fuller
                            experiences in this lifetime.

                            If you would like to live a lifetime where you have no experiences at
                            all, because you don't like experiences--you've had a lot of
                            experiences that have been distasteful to you--you cannot do it on
                            this planet. Lifetimes don't come about that way on this planet. But
                            the core of you is the observer of all experience of the emotional,
                            the instinctive, the intellectual areas of the mind.

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The Master Course of Himalayan Academy
by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
http://www.gurudeva.org