The Power of Personal Harmony

Personal Harmony
Most people see harmony as a difficult attainment. It’s not. It is neither difficult nor an attainment. Wherever it is that you are, you are in fact already harmonious, you just may not know it. Nothing new is to be added and nothing is to be discarded; you are as perfect as possible. NOW. It is not that you are going to be perfect sometime in the future, it is not that you have to do something arduous to be yourself. It is not the journey to some other point somewhere else; you are not going somewhere else. You are already here. That which is to be obtained is already attained. This idea must go deep, only then will you be able to understand why such simple techniques can help.


You just have to become more what you were meant to become. Born as a seed, your true nature is when you have flowered. You have come to complete growth, an inner growth, to the inner end. Now this will contradict the ideal that we must aspire to be the best we can or that we must continually evolve in order to find ourselves. In this concept of finding your “True Nature” you aspire to be complete. That means totally content, comfortable with who you are, inspired by a purpose larger than ourselves and connected to the vitality of life. At this point we can totally surrender and become what is described as living our True Nature.

Whatever this means, the ultimate experience is to be in total contentment, to want absolutely nothing. To desire nothing. To be totally content with yourself. Then there is nothing lacking; there is no desire, no movement. And then from this place all actions are taken with purity. Then whatever you touch, whatever you are doing or not doing -- even just existing -- is a peak experience. You are alive and that is enough. Then growth can occur in harmony with nature.


If you are not perfect already then there is no possibility, there is no way, that you can become perfect. The whole situation is totally the opposite to searching for identity; you are already that which you want to attain. That is why simple techniques can help. It is not an attainment, but the discovery. It is hidden, and it is hidden in very, very small things.

Personas are just like clothes. Your body is here, it is hidden in clothes. In the same way your inner Harmony is here, hidden in certain clothes. These clothes are your personality. You can be naked right here and now, and in the same way you can be naked in your True Nature also. But if you do not know what clothes are covering your true nature, it is impossible to take them off. You do not know how you are hidden in them; you will not know how to be naked. We have been in clothes for so long -- for years and years and years, we have forgotten that we are in clothes -- we become so identified with our ideas, our beliefs and our achievements, that we don't even recognize them as clothes. You think these things are you. And that is the only barrier to Personal Harmony.

For example, you have some treasure, and you have hidden it. And the grass grows and trees grow all around and then you have no way of understanding where that treasure is. When you begin looking for it all over the place, you search high and low and you dig at all the ground and you become like a beggar hunting and hunting for the precious treasure. You know that you can be wealthy when you find it, but it is hidden in a place and now you have forgotten where. And then one day when you finally give up searching, after all the ground has been completely uncovered you realize that the real treasure was not somewhere to be found. It was in your pocket.

It is the same with Personal Harmony; it is a hidden treasure. The more you search for it, the harder it gets to find. It cannot be in the future because the future, tomorrow, never comes. You are the treasure that you are looking for. Your judgments against yourself disguise the treasure. Your beliefs about what is good and bad about others and yourself are the clothes that cover the treasure. This treasure is your inner peace, your freedom, your joy, your contentment, your focus, your concentration.

So, there is a certain relaxed calm that descends over a person who has found Personal Harmony. The inner power, the heart, gives a radiance, a constant showering of love and inspiration seems to come from them. There is a silent power surrounding them. When a person has found harmony within – it is a personal spirituality, they have become content with themselves and their energy becomes infectious. Just as negativity can be infectious so the positive energy of an inspired person can become infectious. We know this as leadership and radiance. But it is not leadership of the mind or intellect, it is leadership of the human spirit.