Six Sacred Questions

There are six sacred questions that you may answer within yourself. However, if you find that you can answer them only with words then you still do not know the answers. The true answers are to be felt by your soul, the center point of your being. Whatever you believe the answers to be with your mind are not the true answers. You can truly answer them only when you have reached the Enlightenment. The questions are:

Who am I?
What am I?
Where am I?
When am I?
How am I?
Why am I?

Remember, if you answer these questions in words then you have not found the true answer. Those ideas you have of yourself, those thoughts, those sentences, are only partial answers, quite shallow really, and ultimately you may discover, if you are successful, that they are merely illusions that stand between you and the truth. Finding the true answers to these questions is the most important thing you can do in your lifetime. If you succeed you will be illuminated and the cares, sorrows and the troubles of this world will no longer have an influence on you. You will see all things in the light of truth and you will have achieved the Enlightenment of Eternal Beauty.

I was driving at the time. I was pondering these questions. Who am I? I did not bother to answer that I am my name, as I am not my name.

I am.

This is the first stage of realization. This is root of your being. It is the root of the Cosmos.

As I drove I suddenly became aware of the sunrise. I suddenly felt the vastness of the spaces around me, and could feel the distances of the clouds hovering above the world from horizon to horizon. The space within which I am is infinite. It is beautiful beyond words or intellectual comprehension. It is the limitless Cosmos.

You have just seen 'Where' you are. This is the second stage of realization. Where you are is not merely at a location on a map, an address or an idea of where you are. Ultimately, you are in the middle of the ever-swirling, everlasting and infinitely beautiful Cosmos. But understanding this intellectually is insufficient. You must see it with your soul. Most people do not ever quite realize this in their lifetime.

It lasted only a moment, but that one moment felt like I had entered Eternity. I was beyond thought, beyond the mental world of ideas. I was in a heavenly world. I was in the paradise of light and beauty.

This first stage of realization is the beginning of the journey. The answer to each question brings you to the next higher level of understanding and awareness, and yet each level is part of one great understanding. Keep going. You will find the answer if you can master patience and self-discipline. You must overcome your false perceptions; you must let go of the illusions of your mind. Once you have found the truth you will know it. It is beyond your mind. You will experience it for yourself. There are no words that can answer these questions truly. There is only the Experience of Enlightenment. It is the most difficult thing in the world to do, but once you have done it, you realize it is the easiest thing in the world to do. Keep going. You will see.