Be still and let God

 In accordance with the latent tendencies of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet. (Ramana Maharshi)

 

Conditioned mind cannot be overcome with the help of conditioned mind. No matter what “I” do in order to step out of the ego plane, it will be still part of the ego plane. So, what can we do when we don’t like the outcomes we see when we interact on the ego plane?

 

Albert Einstein once postulated that we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that created them. Imagine the following challenge. A square appears on a piece of paper, and the task is to leave this square without touching any of the surrounding paper area. What to do?

 

The answer is quite simple when we have access to a three-dimensional cube that is invisible on the two-dimensional paper level. Instead of moving south-north-west-east on the paper—the ego level—we stay still and let the energy of the three-dimensional plane take us places.

 

Ramana Maharshi often quoted the Bible, “Be still and know I Am That I Am” as the path out of the ego plane. We take care of what needs to be done, but we are still on the inside and are therefore not carried by the energies of conditioned mind as we access the manifesting energy of “I Am.”

 

The Tao Te Ching proposed that we can be part of the mystery, and we can be part of the manifestation. To be part of the mystery we have to look through the illusion of the ego ownership and have to come to a rest of our own accord. Let go, be still and let God. It is as simple as that.