Angel

Me : I love Angel. 

Voice : I know. When you love with all your heart, I always know because I receive it.  

Me : Is this called attachment in some way ?

Voice : Ha ha. I know that you have been hearing that often. 

Me : Well...

Voice : The question arose from your mind, not your heart. Now, what I tell you would be good to share with everyone.

Me :  Okay.

Voice : Attachment and detachment both carry deeper interpretations. Pure love is free of these interpretations. 

Me : How ?  

Voice : Attachment seeks to possess. Fear is the base for this feeling. Attachment arises from the emptiness of one’s being. It is a constriction of consciousness. It seeks self-gratification. It's a desire that imprisons. 

Do you see this between you and Angel ? 

Me : Nope. There is no fear. I feel she has opened up my heart and I only feel..more deeply.    

Voice : Good. And Angel is not attached to you, either.

Me : Really ?

Voice : Fiery pure love can appear strange to many. Often, this will be misinterpreted as attachment. Her love for you is fiery, fearless and unconditional.    

Me : Hmm 

Voice : Now lets understand the other word used - ‘detachment’. 

Me : Yes. Am often told to stay reasonably detached. 

Voice : Reasonably detached ? This is an amusing choice of words.. 

Me : Spiritual seekers use this often. 

Voice : Yes. Most aspirants advocate or been advised 'detachment', but this takes one further away from the supreme goal of Love. 

Me : How ? 

Voice : In reality, detachment cannot be a goal for anyone. If your desire is detachment, know that you are embarking on just another strong attachment - 'attachment to the idea of detachment.' 

Divine detachment simply emerges. It can never come as a pursuit. Any such attempt is a mental exercise that causes further binding. Only when one is drowned in the fire of pure love, detachment becomes an experience. It is a state of Being that arrives afterwards, not before on the divine path. 

Detachment remains only a word, until the intensity of Love consumes one's false Self.  

Me : Oh  

Voice : And, in true detachment, one is oblivious of his own sense of detachment. Since he is not attached to anything not even his physical self, the idea of detachment is alien to him. 

Instead of understanding divine detachment fully, humanity has crowned this misinterpretation and only succeeded in constricting consciousness from it's full expansion. It’s a life of half measure and in many cases a life of disguised indifference.  

Me : Beautiful. How did we get to this point  ? 

Voice : Because of self-preservation. You seem to understand it is easier to withhold part of yourself in the guise of detachment. It seems easier to protect your own emotions with the distance. You build layers to protect your heart. But, pure hearts will always have vulnerability. Yes, it can break easily but remember hearts that are filled with love, when broken, only pour out more love. 

How do you think I prefer you live .. protecting yourself your entire life ?

Me : Hmm 

  

Voice : Angel is in your life to expand your consciousness beyond the interpretation of attachment or detachment. She is in your life to give you the opportunity to love fully and completely. She is here to rip you heart open so you can feel love, receive love and grow in love. You will feel its glory, the joy, the pain, the sorrow, the exuberance, the anguish...all of it is part of experiencing the glory of pure love. 

You are giving all of yourself not really to Angel but to pure love that she symbolises. The reward of love lies in total immersion.

That is why I would rather you live in the world expressing love, rather than meditate for hours everyday. Love and God mean the same. 

  

Me : Wow. I feel normal now. Thank you. 

Voice : How fortunate are you to have this opportunity !

She is helping you grow and you have given yourself fully and held nothing back. You feel her heart and she feels yours. You devote yourself for her comfort, you are prepared to go any distance to give her the best. You have spared no part of yourself to be attentive to her smallest needs. It was easy to find reasons to shorten or skip her walks in so many years but something made you choose her over everything. This is the nature of love. 

Any other way is really distance from your own self. How can any interpretation of detachment even begin to capture this ? 

Me : I wasnt like this. 

Voice : I know. Just like many, you took shelter under the guise of 'spiritual detachment' to get closer to God but were actually distant from Him. You only succeeded to build walls of indifference and carved a barren living that was yet to taste the glory of love. You wanted God for your 'Self', but only when you forget your 'Self', can He be found. Angel was to take you away from looking at your own Self.  

If you create distance from My own creation, how can you love God fully ?

Me : So you sent Angel to bring this love into my life ? 

Voice : Love was always there inside you…she walked to you with the keys.  

Me : Sure did. But I feel deep pain when she is in pain.. 

Voice : Enlightened ones thank God not just for the joy, but especially for the pain. They know the mysteries of divine path. They dont fear the pain of love, but dread to have never had the opportunity to immerse in pure love. 

Let not the noise of words outside you of attachment and detachments dim the light of love. Grow deeper. Love deeper. What else is real ? There is no effacement of Self without selfless caring and giving for another.      

Remember, in the pursuit of detachment, you are present. In loving, I am present. 

Me : Wow

Your precious human birth is a gift and this gift turns into a blessing only with the magic of love. You are not expected to be a stone again. Let the intensity of emotions surface. Allow yourself to love and be loved. Cry with joy and pain. Become a human fully before you may become God.

Me : Beautiful. 

Voice : Angel symbolises love in the gross world. She has drawn circumstances to bring you closer to your own Self.   

When the time is right, the purity of this love will lift you from where you are, to be where you need to be...that will be My part. 

Me : Woah

Voice : Angel.. interesting name. Just a dog, you think ?    

 

Privileged Life

Me : So why can't he see this ? If he placed his trust in God, his life would incredibly transform. 

Voice : The irony of duality is time. Time dictates everyone’s apparent journey. It is your time now - even if you resist it. Sense of this closeness to God is in your lot in this life. 

Me : Hmm

Voice : No matter how it may appear to you, there is only one direction where everyone is moving. Look at life of everyone as an apparent time-lapse that eventually fades into insignificance when you experience Oneness.  

Judgements will rest. Resistance will pass. Drama will cease. 

Everyone is exactly where they belong.

Me : Then, I should consider myself very very very fortunate to even just believe in Your existence and experience Your love in this lifetime.

Voice : To have even a faintest awareness of God as God - is a gift from God. 

It is not you who has found Me, but Me who has sought you.

You are living a privileged life. 

In the Name of God

Me : Why do spiritual Masters and Saints speak about chanting the Divine Name ? Almost all ancient scriptures unfailing speak about it. Why is this so important for a seeker ? 

Voice : Often you have walked alone in the mountains and you have reached villages you have never been to, but how is it that you have never really lost your way ? 

Me : That's because there is always a natural trail to follow. 

Voice : Who made these trails ? 

Me : With repetitive walking on the same path, I guess ?

Voice : Thats correct. Repetitive footprint on the same path created a trail on it's own. And now, it holds good in the harshest weather and the pathway remains for everyone to follow for years. It's the same with chanting the Divine Name. 

Every time you repeat God's name you are gradually creating a divine pathway from your subconscious mind to your conscious mind. Over time you subjugate unfavourable impressions in your mind and are no longer held captive by them. You clear your path to Divinity. The longer and deeper the repetition, the faster you create this divine pathway.   

Just as you remove a thorn embedded in your foot with a needle, you create a new impression to remove the unwanted ones. 

So every time God’s name shoots up into the conscious mind, the barrier between the conscious and subconscious mind gets stronger to prevent unwanted impressions to take charge of you. This is a powerful remedy for those who wish to live their life from Divine awareness instead of being helplessly ruled by the lower Self. 

Me : Just by simply taking God's name ? 

 

Voice :  Yes, and its very simplicity goes against it. 

Me : True. And would it not get too mechanical sometimes ? 

Voice : It is natural for chanting to appear mechanical in the beginning, because of the thick layers of impressions that you have gathered since ages. But over time if persisted, chanting God's name will open open your heart and it will no more remain mechanical. Love will be the motive of everything you do.  

Me : Hmm

Voice : Repeated thought or action forms an impression that if reinforced becomes a strong centre in your mind that governs you. This repeated chanting of the Divine Name will help create a devotion centre within your consciousness. Just the way repeated strides on a  grassy land creates a pathway.  

The name of God holds power beyond your imagination. True seekers of God know it and live it.  

Me : Wow 

Voice : It is you alone choosing what to fill your mind with every moment and that in turn is shaping your consciousness. 

Is God on your mind ??