When “I” Realize the Transcendental Identity of every one that is loved and every thing that is desired, then sorrow leaves the body-mind, and Happiness is restored. When “I” Realize the Transcendental Idenity, then fear leaves the body-mind, and Humor is restored. It effectively reduces human existence on this planet to the mortal meat-body only.Īlways remember that your inherent heart-disposition wants and needs Infinite, Absolute, True, Eternal Happiness now, now and now, and not in some imagined other place (heaven) away from here after your present-time incarnation body inevitably dies.Īlways remember that whatever does or does not arise you are Consciousness Itself, or that your Real True and Eternal condition now, and in every moment of this incarnation and all future incarnations is Sat-Chit-Ananda ( Being, Consciousness and Love-Bliss) The statement that ye are dust is deeply depressing. And it’s true that - although the Church has reduced its minimum fasting requirements in recent decades - Lent makes more sense in a culture which is increasingly sceptical about self-gratification as a route to fulfilment. One possible explanation is that, with its emphasis on self-denial, Ash Wednesday and the rest of the Lenten season fit seamlessly into a world of No Alcohol November, Veganuary, widespread gym memberships, and other popular methods of disciplining the body. But what about today’s holy day - the other occasion on which even the most sporadically-observant Christians feel irresistibly drawn back to church? Ash Wednesday seems badly-designed, from a marketing perspective: you have to make time on a grey weekday, probably in February, to turn up and have cold ash smeared on your forehead by a minister who intones: “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Yet somehow, at least in a non-pandemic year, the churches are packed out. Easter feels like the official beginning of spring. Credit: GettyĬhristmas is warm and nostalgic. On this day, Christians are frankly told that we’re not fooling anyone.
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