Love and Light

Suppose someone you care about is going through an extremely difficult time. You would do anything to help but cannot. Perhaps the person is not ready to receive your help. Perhaps the person does not want your wisdom. Whatever the case may be, there are always times when you have to witness another’s pain without being able to help.

At such times, remember that it is not your job to alleviate their pain, just so you can feel good about yourself. If you were to take away their pain before they are ready to release it, you would be robbing them of precious life lessons that they would have to learn through other difficult circumstances.

Things are not always as they seem. Accept them as they are. Send love and light of understanding to them. 

Seeker or Co-creator

The ego (the personality self) knows life as a seeker and cannot imagine a life where all questions are answered and there are no more questions to be asked. The path of the seeker ends when the seeker realizes that the one who asks the question is also the one who holds its answer.

Whatever understanding your soul seeks is already inherent within each experience of your life; just allow yourself to pause long enough to hear the answer. Each life experience carries THE answer for you, and only one answer is required. (Dhai aakhar Prem ka padhe so Pandit Hoye)

You bring divine order to chaos when you understand that the one who is AWARE of the chaos IS the answer and the solution to it.

When you are no longer a seeker, when you become the answer to all your questions through your re-connection, you look at life as a ‘path of unfolding creation’ where you move from one point of creation to another- acknowledging your role as the co-creator of the Uni-verse (one song that we all are singing). 

Holier Than Thou

Making others feel important, while putting themselves down, is a subtle strategy people use to control others. When we make somebody feel very ‘high’, we gain power over them because we can either keep them high or throw them down.

Staying on a pedestal can feel very good and special; most people enjoy that trip, and in order to enjoy they have to fulfill a few conditions, such as, “Don’t do this; it doesn’t suit you. Don’t do that; it is below your dignity. Keep your status.” You see the manipulation.

The man on the pedestal cannot live his own life. He is completely dependent upon others, who will control and manipulate him, while making him feel like a god. That’s the trick, and it is an ancient, time-tested trick.

After staying on the pedestal for some time, people fear coming down and becoming ordinary once again. Others take advantage of this fear for their own gain.

Making others feel low or high are tools of manipulation and control. If someone is low they can be repressed and punished; if someone is high they can be thrown from the pedestal. Only an equal person cannot be controlled. Only an equal person is free.

So, beware from either climbing on a pedestal or making yourself feel lower than others. Both ways you can be manipulated. All pedestals are a kind of disease. 

Being ordinary is the only birthplace of freedom. Only ordinary people can be natural, alive and true. Considering each other equal in our ordinariness is the greatest respect we can pay to each other as human beings.