Author: Dennis Taraporewala

Years ago in the early part of my career and a new job heading an advertising agency, the owner asked me to make a huge billboard and put it up right in the centre of the agency. The board read “If you Don’t Ask, You Don’t Get”. His theory was that if you cannot articulate and “ask” for what you want, create or receive; then it becomes increasingly difficult for you to get it or for anyone to give it, cause no one knows what it is you are actually seeking.He wanted people in the agency to imbibe this culture, get it into the advertising agency thinking and wanted me to lead this effort.

I have contemplated this statement for the last 10 years and the truth hidden in it has repeatedly struck me. The statement can be extended to the metaphysical level – that is, if you don’t ask of the universe what you want, need or intend, how is it supposed to make that manifest in your life? Thus you must ask, to get. What is interesting is, that by asking – you are forced to think, clarify and find out want you truly want. This process refines and solidifies your intention. The act of asking, is actually the end product of your introspection into your wants, needs, desires and intentions.

Our mind works like an out-picturing machine. We construct our reality through a multitude of images, beliefs, conditioning, thoughts, conscious and sub-conscious. Now that is fine. The problem comes when we start superimposing these things on others, as if this is the truth. The reality is, that there is nothing out there. That out-picturing is an illusion we create and live in. And then we cling onto it like a reality and shove it down most people’s throats. The inner work and true perception of the truth happens inside ourselves. More often that not, the way we describe things, creates a reality for us in our minds. So why not describe things in the highest possible way; in a manner that leads the soul to an inner truth, the ultimate truth.