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A Hermit in the Himalayas – Paul Brunton

………..We humans have become so self important and so self conceited in our own eyes that it does not occur to us that the Great Mother who bears us so patiently upon her earthy breast, feeds us with such an abundant variety of foodstuffs and takes us back again when we are sufficiently tired, has a purpose of her own which she wishes to achieve in us if we will but let her.

We have set up our scheme and projects, we have decided what we want from life and we are thinking, striving, struggling and even agonising in our effort to obtain the satisfaction of our desires.  If however, we devoted a quarter of our time ceasing from self efforts and quietly letting Nature's mind permeate our own, we might make a wise revision of the catalogue of things wanted, yet at the same time secure Nature's co-operation in obtaining them.

For Nature has a will to outwork in  us and only by desisting for a time from the continuous exercise of our own will can we acquaint ourselves with her purpose.  If however, we do this we may learn with surprise that she also has a way of silently yet forcefully attaining this end before our eyes, once we help her by such selflessness.  And then her aims and our aims become one, interblent.  Ambitions are then transmuted into aspirations and the things we once wanted to achieve for our own individual benefit alone become achieved, almost effortlessly, through us for the benefit of others as well.  To co-operate with her in this way is to give up carrying the burden of life and to let her carry it for us; everything becomes easy, even miraculous.