I once heard a reading from Ray Lynch’s Truth Is The Only Profound; the piece, What to Remember to Be Happy, written by Avatar Adi Da Samraj, was read by a child. It pierced me, brought me to tears during my morning commute. The innocence of the child’s voice, combined with the wisdom of the message, made me very aware of the Mystery. What I pasted below are excerpts from it, slightly rearranged according to how I remember it sounding.

Nobody, not Mom, or Dad, or Grandmother, or Grandfather, or big Sister or big Brother, or teachers, or doctors, or soldiers, or athletes, or lawyers, or TV stars, or any people who are working, or any people who are playing, not even a President, not even a King or Queen, not even people who love each other know what even a single thing Is. And it seems to me that no matter what we name it we still do not know what things Are. Truly, you and I don’t know what even a single thing Is. Do you know what I Am? See. And I don’t know what you Are either. It is a Mystery. Doesn’t it make you feel good to feel It?

Did you ever ask somebody where this came to be? Some say, “I don’t know”, and saying this makes them feel they are being very honest and truthful. Others say something such as “God made it” or “It comes from God.” And such people are also being very honest and truthful when they say this. How can they both be telling the truth? It is a great and more than wonderful Mystery to all of us that anything is, or that we are. And whether somebody says “I don’t know how anything came to be” or “God made everything”, they are simply pointing to the feeling of the Mystery, of how everything is but nobody knows what it really Is or how it came to be. As long as we go on feeling this Mystery, we feel free and full and happy to others. This is the secret of being happy from the time you are small until the time you are old.

You are the Mystery! Yes. And you don’t know what you Are either! Yes. There Is Only the Mystery! And you yourself in your Heart and up and down and in and out Are the Mystery. It Is All One Feeling.

If you will remember every day to feel and breathe the Mystery, and if you will remember to feel that you are more than what you look like, and if you will remember to Be the Mystery Itself, then you will be happy every day. And all kinds of more than wonderful happenings will come up for you. You will feel happy and you will always help and love others, even those who are having trouble feeling happy and are even trying to make you forget the Mystery.

It is good to spend a lot of your time talking about the Mystery with others, instead of talking about unhappiness and things that happen when we forget to love. People who also feel the Mystery and love It are the best friends to have.

Just remember this, or remember God, which is the same thing. Keep on remembering God, or the Mystery, and you will feel happy and act happy to others, and so you will keep on loving and helping others so the world won’t get all afraid and stupid and unable to sleep or play or work.

If you do this all the time, you will have lots of amazing and more than wonderful experiences until you go back to sleep. And if you remember the Mystery even when you are going to sleep, then you will go to sleep all happy in the Mystery too. And all your dreams will be about the Mystery until you wake up again. Remembering the Mystery is a way of being everything you always already are. When you sleep you are something different than when you wake up. And when you dream you are different too. The way you seem to be when you wake up is only one of the ways you are. Someday you may meet someone who has felt the Mystery really strong for a long time, so that person feels the Mystery all the time and is always happy. Such a person is the best person to learn from about happiness and life and love.

I hope you will remember to feel the Mystery every day, as long as you are awake, forever. The best thing to tell anybody is to remember to feel this. I have been doing this for a long time, and it is the best and most important feeling of all.

I am very happy I could tell you this. Maybe someday we will meet face to face. Maybe. Anyway, at least you and I will always know that at least one other person somewhere is remembering and feeling and breathing and loving and Being the Mystery right now.