| Riding Transcendental Waves: Part 1 - continuation |
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This is actually what a person is searching for – pleasure in unity with God. Now they’re getting a little glimpse of it on a wave. That’s why a lot of people after surfing or getting some tubes or getting that higher taste can give up all kinds of things to be able to get that tube, to be able to get in that position of harmony. So a lot of people who are surfers become serious
about making their whole life in harmony with God, not just one of God’s waves, but the entire wave of God. After all, a wave is just God’s energy. So you’re trying to place yourself so that you’re in tune with God’s energy. Now if you can do it on a vast scale or you can do it directly with God Himself, then you can imagine how much pleasure there is in that.The highest happiness occurs when a person has actually placed his entire life in the hands of God and God is simply pushing him. Just like when you’re in a tube it’s like you’re in a glove. You’re riding the tube feeling you’re being perfectly moved along, you’re not doing anything anymore. You’re doing things to get in that position where you don’t need to do anything. The best part of the tube ride is when you’re just right. You’re right there and you’re not having to move a muscle, in fact you don’t want to move a muscle. You’re being propelled – totally locked in another energy, someone else’s energy. You don’t need to do anything. So you’re doing all these things to get to that one little point of that one little experience of being propelled by another energy and you’re happy in it. You’re satisfied just being part of that perfect situation. But it’s so short and so fleeting. Now if you can imagine being in God’s hand – rather than just a little tube which is a tiny fragment of God’s hand – then how much happiness is in that? That’s why many surfers are actually searching for that harmony of being in tune with God, and they are getting glimpses of it in the surf once in a while. But this is just a glimpse, it is not all satisfying. You need more. What you need is an eternal tube ride, then you’ll be happy. What is that eternal tube ride? That is when you’re perfectly linked up in connection with doing God’s will. Just like when you’re going with the wave – you’re going with the flow and you’re doing the wave’s will. The waves are coming this way and you paddle out to catch them, you don’t make the waves, you catch the waves. So surfers by nature already know that there’s some kind of happiness by going with an energy that’s already there – just catching it and then relaxing – being in tune with that energy that’s already moving. So when we talk about God’s will, we’re talking about the energy of God. He has His own will. Just like a wave has its own will and you harmonize yourself with it. I know some surfers look like they’re trying to tear the waves apart but this is another thing again. If they can’t get in the tube then they just want to tear it apart. This is the difference. There are actually two different experiences. But the first experience I’m talking about is the experience of being in complete harmony with the energetic source of all energy then that is the perfectly happy position and that is possible to achieve by engaging in the bhakti-yoga process. |