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.

Many Faces of Fear

When do we desire something? When we think that it is lacking in our life.....And every lack is accompanied by a fear.........Fear of never having it.

Most of the times, we DO NOT ALLOW ourselves to RECEIVE what we desire, because there is another kind of fear lurking underneath......that of leaving our comfort zone (however, constricting that might be)....How will my life change once I have what I desire? What will I need to give up to have what I desire? My conditioning says, I can't have my cake and eat it too; so which one would I not get to do- eat or have? THIS IS THE UNDERLYING HIDDEN FEAR.

The fear of upsetting the apple cart; the fear of leaving the comfort zone; the fear of the unknown.

This fear keeps us in chains, boundaries, boxes, social constructs. This fear doesn't let us embrace our power, our magnificence, our glory, our freedom, and our BLISS.

This is the fear which brings up a desire and yet, doesn't ALLOW its fulfillment.

It is time now to EXPOSE this fear, FACE it, and call its hoax. It is time now to EMBRACE our POWER in COMPASSION for SELF in all its hues..

When we are FEAR-LESS, we become DESIRE-LESS. No fear; no desire......This is the kind of desire-less-ness saints talk about.....It is not about suppressing our desires (that only complicates our lives further), it is about not having any desires... and that can organically happen when there is no FEAR in our psyche....for every desire originates in some fear.

And as long as there is a desire; there is a re-birth......Desirelessness is Nirvana/ Moksha. However, Nirvana can't be desired / achieved...IT simply HAPPENS when we achieve FREEDOM from FEARS.

Fears need to be exposed/ faced/ dealt with......and the first step is NAMING our FEARS. Making a list of our deep fears. Exposing them. Bringing them face to face....in DEEP COMPASSION for SELF....and GRATITUDE for those FEARS; for all this while our fears have been protecting us from The Unknown.

NOW is the time to FACE the UNKNOWN. 

Where are our fears stored? In our Physical Body....in cells / tissues.

How do our fears get released? Through the Physical Body.....in the form of illness/ dis-ease.

In view of the above is illness / disease good or bad? Desirable or undesirable? Should we try to get rid of the illness or the fears? Isn't it more desirable to offer gratefulness to the illness (and the body) and facilitate its cleansing (the release of fears) through tender loving care (TLC)?

I remember a time when every medical prescription ended with 'and TLC'........now, this golden truth seems to have been forgotten....by all the players- the medicos, the patient (who is most impatient to get rid of the illness), and the caretakers (near and dear ones).....

It suddenly occurred to me that a person, who suffers from a dis-ease, is called a 'patient' for s/he needs a great amount of PATIENCE to be well again. Perhaps that is ALL that is needed....along with some TLC of course...:))))))))

There was a time when I shunned the popular media (both TV and newspaper) for the quality of news they hysterically promoted.

But now, I understand the role of popular media in BRINGING UP our SUPPRESSED / STORED fears from our cells/ tissues into our awareness. Media acts as the finger which presses the trigger, but the trigger/ button is inside us. If there is no fear inside, nothing will get triggered (we will either not be attracted to this media or find alternate / more personal catalysts).

In the New Energies, nothing (that is based in fear) can be hidden/ suppressed any more. It all has to be exposed to LIGHT/ LOVE.

Media is playing a very important role in helping us RELEASE our fears (and the release always happens through illness/ disease). Let us offer our gratitude to it.....Unless our fears are released from our cells (our cells are cleansed), BLISS cannot find a space within us.

Dis-ease is just a word to collectively talk about the PAIN (absence of ease) of releasing our fears....which have been protecting us for so long that we do not wish to release them (irrespective of what we say outwardly...

Letting go of anything, including our fears, is usually a painful process.....hence, there is dis-ease! When we offer gratitude for this release, there is joy and ease. Hence, the wise saying, 'there may be pain but no suffering in that pain.'

View-Point

Deep Spring Center: Thought for Today

"Do not move into an oppositional stance against others, which simply invites more negativity. Only when there is non-attachment to view and an openness to hearing others, to hearing their pain, to hearing their confusion without judgment, without reacting to any feeling of threat from them, only then can you begin the work of healing in the world."

:))) This is Universe's personal message to me, as I tend to stick to my view-point.........Thank you. Thank you. Thank you..........