Hard Move Up

Voice : Well Done !

Me : Thanks. That haunted me for a long time ! I know you helped me, didn't you ?

Voice : Just a little bit.

Me : Ha Ha. Your help is always more than just a 'little bit'.

Voice : I saw your effort and it drew My Grace. Your sacrifice, hard work and determination got Me to take notice.  

Me : Thanks. I was stuck with this one hard climbing move I could not make. It prevented me to finish this climbing route. I kept falling but I knew I had to find a way to overcome this if I didn't want to remain stagnant in my climbing pursuits. 

Voice : But you did try to dodge this difficult move and choose another rock face.. 

Me : Yes I did..only to realise that the exact same move appeared even on the other rock face ! 

Voice : So then what did you do ?

Me : I knew this difficulty level had to be overcome. That climbing move was hard but I knew I would never make it to the summit or pass the climbing grade unless I conquered this. I just worked harder with my practice, upped my training and choose all that was difficult and didn't give up.   

Voice : And that's the same with your life.   

Me : Meaning ?  

Voice : Just the way it was with the rock face, it's the same with people in your life. Faces may change, but that move that you have to make, to overcome stagnation will keep appearing and persist until you use all your strength to do that which is difficult. And when you transcend it, you will feel the spiritual progress in your heart. 

Me : What do you mean ? 

Voice : You can brush things aside, keep it under the carpet, avoid confrontation, allow storage in the deep recess on your consciousness but that doesn’t make it go away. If a hard path shows up, then it’s meant to be overcome. 

Could you ever skip a difficult patch on the way to the summit ?

Me : No.

Voice : You can love the whole world but it you have even one person you cannot love, it will haunt you like that climbing move - even surfacing into the next lives. 

People forget that the deal was not about the ones you can love, but the one you cannot. And when you love the one you cannot, you will be able to love the whole world ! That's the big move that pushes you up and few can overcome it.   

Triumphing over hurt, anger or resentment are your climbing grades to the summit. You can only temporarily dodge them but they will persist.  

Me : Hmm 

Voice : Make those difficult moves and finish the climb you have started. I haven't just given you the qualities to be only a good rock climber.

Me : Right! 

Voice : Overcome the weakness of your ego and embrace the strength of My love. I will help you. 

Just the way your harness and rope is your safety gear, its the same with My love and guidance in your uneasy situations. You are a determined climber. I know you don't give up easily.

Me : Yep! 

Voice : If a relationship carries the weight of pain, endeavour to lighten it.  

Get over with anything that weighs you down. We still have many climbs together on much harder routes in this lifetime.  

Me : Damn 

Voice : There is a reason why summits are vacant places.

True Surrender

Me : You sure you don't want me to include any spiritual practice anytime during my day ?

Voice : You want me to give you some spiritual exercises ?

Me : Was thinking of including something in particular everyday that helps me.

Voice. Yes you can.

Me : What ?

Voice : Love. Love more and more. Love deeper. Love wholeheartedly. Expect nothing in return. It's a great regime. I have the experience of it giving great results.     

Me : Ha Ha. You know what I meant to ask..something that I can include daily into my routine for my spiritual progress.

Voice : Oh I see. You want to go backwards.  

Me : Now how is this going backwards ?

Voice : Having 'God on a platter' can be very hard to comprehend. 

Me : I want illumination. I want to realise You. I only want to do something that takes me to the goal of God.

Voice : I am God. I am the goal. If you are with Me, you are already living with your goal.  

All the spiritual paths, pursuits and following Masters strive to get one closer to God as they understand. Here, you already have Me.  

Doing nothing but living in continual wholehearted surrenderance to Me, you will reach where you need to be as only I know the way, the way that is above all pursuits and paths. All you have to do is be present with Me.  

Voice : By 'wanting the goal', you create a distance. It is not the spiritual practice that is a hindrance but the 'wanting' that is present in it which creates binding for you. 

You desire illumination for yourself. A noble desire indeed but this is still a want that inhibits you. 

Me : Then should I not want to desire realisation ?

Voice : Why do you want anything ? Don't you feel fulfilled in My Love ? 

A true lover of God desires nothing for himself but only His Beloved's pleasure. That is his way and his only goal. He can live a million lifetimes to only uphold God's wish whether its pain or pleasure. Realisation, salvation, absolution are not his quests.  

This is love. This is true surrenderance.   

Do not seek more for I am your God who has sought you. Comprehend the depth of this statement. 

Me : Wow

Voice : For, in just a moment of true surrenderance to God, one receives everything.

Keeping Me Close

Voice : There ! I found you again. 

Me : What ? 

Voice : I lost you for a moment.  

Me : Me ?

Voice : You keep disappearing. 

Me : I am right here.

Voice : But not with Me. 

Me : Well..I was lost in my work. There was so much I had to do and figure out. You know it..how intense things can be sometimes.

Voice : I know. What a world I have created - filled with all the distractions !

Me : Ha Ha 

Voice : But, that is why I keep in touch with you. I always remember you.   

Me : Oh ! Your love for me is immeasurable. I can see what you do for me everyday! And I know there is so much more you do what I don't see. What have I earned to deserve this love ?

Voice : The core of your heart longs for God. Your presence in the world tugs your awareness towards itself. But, I tug you back to Me even more. There is no chance I will let you slip away from Me. You are Mine. 

Me : Living with love like this..there is nothing I need to ‘do' !

Voice : And you will still be ‘doing'. Just the way I will keep ‘doing' whatever it takes to keep you closest to Me. 

  

Infinitely Simple

Me : You were right.  

Voice : God usually is. 

Me : You have been shouting the same thing over and over again and I am so stupid to take Your words lightly but you keep persisting with me. 

Voice : Shouting ? I only whisper.

Me : Maybe you need to just sometimes shout aloud so that it shakes us all up! 

Voice : When I can whisper to your heart, why must I shout ? I have infinite patience to wait for you to turn to My words. 

Me : I know. You keep telling about the emptiness of this world, you have always told me that only love for God matters, that this world and its affairs are illusionary and nothing except love for God will give me what I seek. 

Voice : Hmm

Me : And it took me so long to understand this. I find myself today with your words seeping deep in every fibre on my being and I dread living any other way. It has changed everything. You have come to share this divine love and I can't fathom how fortunate I am. 

Voice : You are fortunate.  

Me : I used to wake up and live each day tossed between the head and the heart, between chaos and calm, between right and wrongs decisions, between what to do and what not to and between questions and answers. I was oscillating between purpose and purposeleness, straining often between motivation and lack of it. 

Voice : Hmm

Me : Now, I just wake up to love You. And I sleep with your love. Your love itself is my purpose. I have taken the whole circle to come back to what I had already known! 

Voice : Ha Ha 

Me : It was always so simple. Just love You more and more. Only love is real. Nothing matters but love for God. It is true freedom. Why did it take me so long to get it ?

Voice : It didn't take you long to 'get it' but it took some time to really feel it. You made the choice.  

Me : Hmm

Voice : No more confusion and conflicts ?

Me : Nothing your love can't handle.  

Voice : That is the power of pure love.  

Me : Love God ! Everything around just falls in its place. 

Voice : The Truth I have come to give is infinitely simple - sometimes that can make it hardest to understand.  

My Light

Voice : I know how trying it has been for you. I am aware of your pain. Do not despair. Have hope.  

Me : It feels dark. 

Voice : I will always hold you in My Light, no matter how dark everything seems.   

Me : Everything I want seems out of reach..   

Voice : Yes it may be, but not Me.  

Me : Why am I tested ?

Voice : Testing has no place for the love God has for you. I have come to share your pain. 

Me : What do I do ?    

Voice : Nothing. For nothing in the world matters except love. I love you and this is all that matters. 

Bathe in my light. Dance to my song. Come in tune with My divine rhythm. 

For I am your God. I am in your midst. 

I have come. I had to. Because I love you. 

Me : Your each word lifts me up! 

Voice : I will lift you to Me in eternal bliss. I promise.