Little Bagful of Karmas

Me - If all is an illusion and everything is a dream, why the hell am I supposed to do anything?  Why do I have to bother working hard for a living when in the end it has no value? 

Voice - Oh it has great value!

Me - Value ? You keep saying nothing is real except God !

Voice - That is correct.

Me - So I continue to pretend ? Like go to work, handle my family, etc ? 

Voice - You give everything in your life your best effort. 

Me - Why not go to the mountains and take it easy instead ? 

Voice - Let me help you understand this …

Me - Damn well need to understand this very clearly.

Voice - Lets say I give both you and your friend a million rupees. Now your friend is asked to be in the city and you are sent to the a cave in the remote Himalayas. Both of you have the task to ‘spend' ( not throw away ) that money as quick as possible. Who do you think would be able to do this the quickest ? 

Me - Thats easy. The guy in the city will have an obvious advantage than I would. Where would I get to spend anything in the middle of nowhere with nobody around ?? Whats your point ? 

Voice - Now imagine the money to be nothing but bagful of karmas. So, when you escape from the world, you carry the load of your karmas and instead of working them out, you create added biddings that only accumulate over lifetimes. While, your friend by living in the world, doing his duties is getting closer to real freedom…freedom from his karmas. 

So living in the world and working through Maya, you move closer to your goal. 

Me : That is hard work !

Voice : It takes great courage to live through love with whatever is offered to you in this life. 

Me - Karmas ! So its all about karmas !

Voice - You thought the goal of your actions was to be successful, wealthy, intelligent, famous, respected or even spiritual ?? None of those outcomes matter to the slightest. You work to shed your karmic baggage. You progress is defined by your karmic balance and your life in this world is the means to achieve this.       

Me - Oh 

Voice - Your very bondage is the means to eternal freedom. Observe how many times you have resisted challenges in your life and how many times you have embraced them ?  

Me - What if I want to be a yogi ? 

Voice - You could be one.

Me - Ok, whats the catch ? 

Voice - You may choose to be a yogi and even attain samadhi. The state of samadhi is not the final destination of union with God. You would achieve to ‘halt your life’ through this experience but once you rerun from that state of samadhi, your karmas will catch up with you and you start from where you left. Why would you want to slow down your path to God ? 

Path to God is only love which must be lived through your thoughts, words and action. And  Karmas will then take care of themselves. 

Me :  

" In this world I have to stay, 

   Work with love ever and always 

Oh these the corporate meetings, 

How many karmas have I shed today ? "

You like my little poem ? 

Voice : I love everything you do.       

Me - Karmas ! Karmas ! I am gonna think only karmas ! Btw, how many big karmas do I wipe out in a corporate presentation ?? Or do I shed much more while taking care of my mother-in-law ? I am looking to score big here !! 

Voice - Ha Ha. Love will be your guiding light.     

Finding God Within

Voice : Having a quiet time ? 

Me : I like silence 

Voice : What do you find in silence ? 

Me : God. 

Voice : Hmm

Me : I feel God is within me. 

Voice : That is true. But do you feel it ? 

Me : Yes. I am talking to Him right now !

Voice : This is important what I am going to tell you. Its is true that God found within. You have always heard this. Many say implying that its all about only acknowledging the God within himself. But, really its about continual experience of acknowledging, seeing and believing that God is within all the people you come across. When that conviction is attained, you can say that you feel God is within you. 

How can you only find Him within you and ‘miss’ seeing Him in others ? When you see God inside everyone, thats when you can truly say you found God within you. That is the real meaning of finding God within…finding Him in everyone and everything. 

Me : So, " To find God within you, find God in that ass*@# " .. Aren’t you really enjoying all this ? How funny is this for you ?  

Voice : Ha Ha. Not funnier than this entire creation.    

Visiting My Shrine

Me :  I feel glad to have come to your Shrine.  

Voice : Always nice to have you remember Me.

Me :  I was in the middle of many things. I also had to walk my dog but I know I must prioritise my visit to your Shrine and so here I am !

Voice : To make me happy ?  

Me : Yes 

Voice : Forgive me, but I must know how you know it would it make me more happy when you leave one Shrine for another ? 

Me : Leave which shrine ?? I only come to You. 

Voice : It was time to walk your dog today evening, and you skipped that to pay your respects to My Tomb where I reside but, my dear I reside no less in your dog. Your dog looks forward to his walk and to deny him that joy is to deny Me. My shrine is no less in anyone. I am in each heart. How can I be only accessed only from one place and not another ?  You have only left one shrine to come to another.

Find My Shrine in every being you come across. Bow down to it like you may bow down at My tomb and it will make me very happy !!     

The Return of the Saviour

The Return of the Saviour 

 "It's that moment, that time, 

When the last hope crashes 

When you lay down defeated,

Losing all but your own self  

Everything around has fallen, 

You survive, because you must 

You hold on, because you should, 

Crawling closer to endless pain.  

With the sky tearing apart, 

The ground breaking beneath 

Where is Love of my heart, 

To rescue me ? 

And then, in a magical moment, 

Comes the Messiah, The Saviour 

The Lord of Lords, the One in All,

To breathe life in your soul. 

  

Crestfallen and helpless,

With darkness and despair 

He comes like the rising Sun, 

In a flight of Light and Mercy  

He descends for his Love, 

He lifts you in His arms  

When time becomes agony,

He says - Come Unto Me."