Offering Weaknesses To God ?

Me : I need your help. I have so many weaknesses.   

Voice : Are you suggesting that My creation of you is ‘Faulty' ? I thought My work is nothing short of total perfection.    

Me : I know I am not perfect, but….

Voice : But, you want to be perfect. For yourself or Me ? Because, your so-called weaknesses is not coming in My way. Do you find My love conditional ?  

Me : Of course not. Your love is unconditional.

Voice : Then, what more do you want ? Maybe, you want Yourself more. You are already having a false identity of yourself and now you like to further shape this falseness by desperately sculpting yourself by removing the so called ‘weaknesses' to meet your satisfying idea of being God-worthy. 

If you were immersed in Divine Love alone, you would never had any notions of faults or weaknesses, because the life-giving love would make you feel complete in the truest sense. You would not have any doubt that ALL of you is accepted and loved. This is the true nature of divine love that flows both ways - unhampered, unconditional and ever flowing. 

Your attention to your so-called faults is nothing, but remembering your ownself more than God.    

Me : But, why then do I feel I must overcome my weaknessess ?  

Voice : Because of the notion that mankind has held for ages.

Me : What notion ?  

Voice : Notion of virtues and vices, good and bad. You have a habit of judging your ownself. This mirrors from the deep subconscious habit of judging others. All your attributes are a perfect blend of creation to fulfil your destiny. Attempt to work on so-called weakness will only perpetuate them. That is the law. 

I don’t have a list of vices or virtues at My front door and neither can I place My finger on one God-unworthy soul, but you have a long list there and even a longer list of what you call ‘unworthy attributes’. 

How can you ever tell if the so called faults or vices are not playing the most crucial part of your spiritual advancement ? How can you be sure that you are not walking the path of pride having ‘vanquished’ so-called lower attributes ? How can you ever know if it's your weaknesses rather than strength that keeps you grounded and helpless to My Love ? Can I not use your weakest attributes for the greatest work ? Do you think I am drawn to you by your strengths ?    

Me : Wow. I need to reflect on this perspective. 

Voice : Perhaps, you want to reflect on why you want to overcome your weaknesses, in the first place ? Will the conquest of overcoming your so-called weaknesses tickle your pride for your innate desire to be spiritually 'perfect' ? Or does a part of you relate to 'assumed modesty' that suggests you are not worthy of God ? Whatever that may compel you - the premise stems from a strong attachment to your own identity. The idea of weaknesses emerge because of the distance you experience with your ownself.   

Me : Damn. How and where did this idea of 'offering your weaknesses' to God come about from ? One hears that often.  

Voice : The idea of 'offering your weaknesses’ emerges about from an inner attempt to detach you from thinking about ‘faults’ within you. ‘Offering' means totally forgetting about it so you can focus on Divinity wholeheartedly. The intent is to dislodge your thoughts about it.     

When you love God deeply, just the way you become detached from the world outside, you become detached from who you are. Strengths, weaknesses, virtues, vices, good and bad becomes significant only for the one who has not dived deep into Divine Love.  

What am I going to do with your weaknesses ? I want nothing but pure love. Only love is of significance to Me.

Me : Hmm

Voice : When you are immersed in love for God alone, the consciousness of 'I' begins to fade, and gradually you begin to disappear and God begins to appear. 

And, when God manifests, to whom does the so-called weaknesses actually belong ? 


   

    

Who Am I ?

Me : Who am I ? 

Voice : A-ha. So, you have moved into the league of big questions now.   

Me : Are you gonna answer this ? 

Voice : To find the answer to 'Who am I’ - ask yourself  'Where are you' ?  

Me : You can never give me a straight answer, can you ?

Voice : When you come to a point when you can reply to that question honestly and say - 'I am in the NOW’ - you will find the answer. Answers to all questions lie here.

But, your questions itself have been pulling you out of the NOW. That is the nature of questioning. Because when you ask, the expectation of an answer has already created a moment of a probable future, and you drift away from the Present.   

Me : Oh 

Voice : This oscillation of your mind between the past and future drifts you into a state where you create more bondage and suffering. You feel worn down from the bindings of conceptual past and future and this drifting causes the emergence of endless enquiry, questions and doubts.  

When you drown yourself in the precious stillness of the Present, you find your honest state of Being. Your identity with your ownself loosens up and so does all that comes with it. There is nothing to know; only Experience. 

Those who know and live this, are living in True Freedom. 

And, don’t worry thinking about God when you are in the eternal NOW, because when you are in the NOW, God is already present.

Feeling Fortunate, God Lover ?

Voice : So, you feel you are fortunate that you have a deep connection with Divinity?

Me : Yes 

Voice : And, the others are less fortunate? 

Me : Sounds like I am in for some serious chat here ... 

Voice : You were speaking to a friend the other day and he had to abruptly excuse himself to observe Namaz.

Me : Ya..   

Voice : So, I know each thought and feeling that went into your head, when he excused himself to offer prayers. It is true that God is love and it is only love that draws the seeker closer to God. 

Seeking Divinity through empty rites or ritualistic prayers done out of fear or mechanical exercises is a barren approach. You know this and your mind spiralled into thinking how your friend was unaware, unawakened and distant from the Path. Your pride was tickled into believing your closeness to Divinity over the other. It resides deep within you and you are unaware of harbouring it. 

You know that just call from your heart can get My attention and therefore any other so-called dogmas are only a part of lives of 'unfortunate' souls. 

Me : Well…

Voice : But, you overlooked that it was True to him. And, therefore I am True to him. He may not understand Me completely today, but that's unimportant to Me. I understand him, for I know his tomorrow. 

I know the sincerity and honesty in his prayers. Irrespective of whatever he is busy with, whoever may be around him or wherever he may be, he halts his entire world to offer his Namaz. He has found a way to break his day five times daily, to halt the force of the false pull of the world and remember the Almighty. None can ever question the expression of a pouring heart and the means used for it.

Detachment from constant assessment of others in their spiritual journey, is imperative for your own progress. It's not uncommon, for those treading the early spiritual path to form constant judgements in the mind of where everyone stands with their spiritual evolution and use that to gauge one's own closeness to Divinity.   

Me : Oh

Voice : I am quite sure I don't belong only to a 'Gang of God-Lovers' and 'Spiritual Seekers'. That is to belittle My Love and Infinity. 

I am for all - Equally. How will you ever understand that a part of My working includes veiling My Ownself from man ?  

Me : Hmm

Voice : Your strong and self-created identity of 'God-Lover' is your own binding. 

In contrast, your friend who is immersed in rituals is free as he is detached from any labels, ideas, spiritual progress or rewards. Being true to himself, he lives with an honest heart. 

Remember, once you identify yourself as a Seeker or Lover of God, you also create 'Non-Seekers' in your mind. It is bound to silently creep into your being. 

Me : I don't want that. What do you suggest I must do ? 

Voice : You have to believe the whole world is moving together towards God - in its own way. There cannot be any distinction of the right or wrong Path as there exists nothing like a Path. You have conjured the idea of a 'Path' to create your own distinctions, when the Truth is only a matter of unveiling layers of Self. The false idea of 'The Path' can make you pretentiously pious when you are not, and judge a maverick while he may be closest to the Truth. 

To build communities, groups, speak and hold gatherings in the name of God, you have to be ever conscious of the fact that you don't nurture feelings of separateness and divisions from rest of the people and take subtle delight in it. 

How can you afford to miss the idea of unity if your friends and family choose to worship a stone idol in a temple, pray in a mosque, visit church for a Sunday mass, observe fasts, attend healing workshops, walk barefeet to a tomb, make pilgrimages to shrines, climb mountains to search for God, or even totally disbelieve in His existence ? 

Me : Hmm..

Voice : The illusion of duality is tricky and it often uses a back-door entry especially for 'God-Lovers' and 'Spiritual Seekers' to magnify separateness and invisible pride. You share a greater responsibility to weed out judgement, differentiation and opinions in your own mind before you can be the Light yourself.   

Remember, that each journey to Me is crafted by Me alone. I am most eager for you to find Me.      

It is good to feel fortunate, but how you use this good fortune is of great importance. 

If everyone is equidistant from Me, then believe it's only a matter of turning the key. 

Weren't you an atheist, few years ago ?  

If Everything Is Preordained..

Me : “ Whatever was to happen has happened. Whatever has to happen will happen ” - that’s one of your lines, right ? 

Voice : Right. 

Me : You know how futile I can feel with this thought ? 

Voice : You know how long it has taken for you to ignite a sense of futility to world affairs ?  

Me : Might as well remain resigned to everything that happens and simply go through the motions…. 

Voice : Perfect…..but somehow you won’t do that.

Me : Sigh... Yes. I mean if everything is pre-ordained, where is my damn role ?

Voice : Oh with the most important part.

Me : And that is ??

Voice : Karma happens to you, but how you FEEL about what happens to you is everything. This is in your hands.

Me : Hmm

Voice : It's not the action that is binding, but the notion of it.

Me : Now, I really need to process this.

Voice : The world is caught up in the actions of self and others, instead of being immersed in the most important aspect of 'how you feel'. You end up in the entanglement of karmas because of your lack of attention to how you are supposed to respond and feel. Feelings of anger, hatred, resentment, sadness, frustration, distrust, attachment means you have let the drama of life control how you feel. This will bring a feeling of being stuck in life. 

Karmas will play out. They will. They are intricately woven for your spiritual growth. Instead of using this to free yourself, your ignorance creates more bondage.   

What happens outside is to stir you inside. Instead, your attention is everywhere except where it needs to really be. It's natural for a flawed vision to bring flawed results.      

    

Always bring your awareness on how you are feeling. Consciously work on this. Because this is what you can change. In the end, how you feel moment to moment about whatever that is happening around you or to you, will determine your evolution.

Me : It's not easy to be detached to everything that happens in your life.

Voice : I know. That's where My love for you comes in.

Me : But, you don’t alter Karmas.

Voice : But, I give you opportunities to transcend it. In my compassion, I keep allowing the same situations in your life to remain for as long as you may need - until finally overcoming it using the divine qualities of love, joy, peace, forgiveness, surrender and contentment. And when you succeed, the situation has served its purpose and you no longer need it in your experience. 

What makes the difference is not what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you. And lack of this understanding brings you suffering. 

But, because I love you so much, I let those circumstances remain or reappear in your life, so you could finally wake up to the falseness of your existence and become someone who chooses love, no matter what situation you face.  

   

Me : In other words, if I am repeatedly in a situation I hate to be in - it's probably your love and compassion that's throwing me in challenges ??

Voice : I never use coercion. But, I can wait endlessly for you to make your choices. I have all the time in the world for you to wake up. Because I love you.  

You feel despair because of your strong attachment to your false identity. You are putting all your energy and efforts to change and control what is pre-ordained. How can you ever be at ease, when you resist the natural balance of cause and effect ?     

Things only change with how you feel. Remember this before you resign in utter dejection of your situation. It's you who is making a choice to remain in karmic entanglements and suffering. Effortless detachment comes from understanding the greater spiritual cause.  

Me : Hmm

Voice : Your firm and repeated resolve to operate from love and forgiveness will open your soul to the ultimate treasure of spiritual reality bringing you everlasting peace, joy and equipoise.     

And this will bring a day when you will be in a state of immense gratitude for your hard trials and so-called 'villains' in your life. 

Me : And then, all that burden of my karmic baggage becomes lighter and I progress on the Path ? 

Voice : For a person with equipoise, what avail is any progress or even a Path ?  

 

Gifts Vs Blessings

Voice : Hi

Me : Not now. I am watching a movie.

Voice : Your whole life is a movie.

Me : If you keep talking to me like that…

Voice : Ha ha. I see you watching Superman again ?

Me : I am a big fan of Superman. I love Batman and Spidey too. Just love Superheroes.   

Voice : I have saved the world a few times too, you know.

Me : Right now, I think you can do with some good PR.

Voice : Ha ha. You know Superheroes have special gifts, but its only when they turn their gifts into blessings, they become Superheroes.

Me : Whats the difference between gifts and blessings ?

Voice : I’ll explain. Lets say Superman's special gift is the ability to fly. But, if he chooses to live his life on the ground because….

Me : ....Because the pollution in our ozone layer would kill him !  

Voice : Ha Ha. Yes that, or if he thinks it's a lot easier to stay with a hidden identity in a quiet place - he wouldn’t have to deal with unwanted attention or risk himself to bigger threats. That would mean that Superman will have a good, peaceful life with special gifts and he  won’t be much of a Superman, then. 

But, if he chooses to use his gifts to serve and protect people of the earth - his gifts turn into blessings. 

When Batman used his wealth and skills for saving lives, he turned his gifts into blessings. Its been the same story with all your Superheroes, isn’t it ? 

Superheroes are not defined by their powers, but by the path they choose. They give their lives to a selfless ideal, so that the world becomes a better place.     

You may thank God for giving you special abilities and gifts, but the real offering of gratitude is turning your gifts into blessings - using it for the higher good.  

Me : Hmm  

Voice : Do you know why you keep watching these movies repeatedly ? Do you know why you always picked up comics as a small kid that chronicled all the great stories of Gods and Superheroes ? Know why you have Superman toothbrush, Ironman pendrive and a Batman figurine on your desk ?   

Me : Cause I haven’t grown up ? 

Voice : Yes, a part of you hasn’t grown up. It still believes in dreams. A part of you relates to the idea of a Saviour for your Planet and stories of saving the world inspire you. You want to believe the superpowers are a possibility.   

Me : I dream a lot... 

Voice : Then, beware of adulthood. 'Being grown-up' has claimed countless lives.  

Continue to have dreams that make you smile. Remember, the size of the dream is not what matters, but its trueness to you. 

The greatness of your ability is not in the level of your power, but the value of it. 

Pursue your dreams with not only love for what you doing, but love for who you doing it for. Because to change the world, you must find love and when you do that - you save the world.  

Me : Thanks to you, I am counting my gifts. 

Voice : Count your blessings.  

Special News Bulletin ! TODAY'S HEADLINES...

Voice : Hello. How is your world doing ? 

Me : I don’t know. Haven’t tried to even glance at the news since over a month. Not updated with anything. Totally clueless. Must be intense, I think ? Anyway, it's your creation. 

Voice : You don’t miss staying informed ? What if there is an important headline, you ought to know ?

Me : I don’t know...just making a choice to do what keeps me uplifted and skip what feels otherwise. 

Voice : It's a choice, indeed. Let me talk to you in detail about something I want you to share with everyone..  

All of humanity shares a collective conscious mind. It is like a collective reality that you are all connected to and influenced by. The emotions of many people travel on the energy frequency of the collective mass thinking and these emotions are then amplified and reinforced by the combined energies in the collective field from many people feeling the same way - which then filters back to anyone having affinity to similar thinking or feeling. This works powerfully when you are glued to some kind of media over the internet or television which may not be uplifting; you begin to feed your subconscious mind with angst, excitement, fear, sadness, anxiety into the collective cloud of churning emotions, and then these collective feelings of weakening emotions cycle back to you with added vigour.

Me : 'Back to you with added vigour !??' 

Voice : Yes. It propels back in strength and you are impacted from what you are a part of. When you are watching riveting events unfolding on mass media, you will find it almost impossible to not cord-connect to the collective consciousness of world events especially when watching a visual coverage. Your innate affinity towards unpleasant news doesn’t help, either. While you are naturally drawn to events that are more dangerous or tragic, you pay an energetic toll for that fatal attraction.

Me : So, if billions of people in the world are having a certain response to corona virus; most likely feeling sad, hopelessness, fearful, anxious, etc - we are essentially tapping into this energy field ? Like a small energy filament turning into a big energy cord ?? ...And because we can’t see it, we are unmindful of it..

Voice : You are not separate from each other. You are immersed in an ocean of energy that flows and moves in constant, ever-changing undulations through time and space. The world around and within you is an interplay of patterns of ever-flowing energy. You are constantly engaging in emotions using energy fields. Most of you are unaware of the effect energy strands have on your life and wellbeing. 

Never before, has it been more important than Now for you to know that you are nothing but energy. Tapping into anything other than the energy of love will hold you back from feeling normal. The 'NEW NORMAL’ has been set. I want you to know this. I want you to feel peace. I want you to trust. I want you to be the Love that you are.           

It is the same reason why ancient chants are so powerful. An incredible wellspring of energy has been created by thousands of people, which in turn creates a profound energy loop. So when you say a chant or repeat a prayer this energy surges on a cord from you to the collective; then there is a potent surge of energy and light from the collective back to you. 

Me : Whoa..

Voice : Once, factually correct or incorrect ideas take hold of your mind through information, its makes it harder to dislodge them back from your mind. 

I bring this up right now with you because your entire world is cording energetically to one idea - 'Corona Virus'. Unlike what you may believe, this idea has a consciousness of its own and you can imagine it to be floating around the ether, looking for people to connect to with similar thoughts. If several people are oscillating at the same frequency, it will cord to them. This creates an innocuous act of tuning-into news a very potent energetic cording - simply because of a unique world situation of one common topic of news and profoundly large number of viewers attached to it.

You may choose to tune into news for a leisure update, or it may interest you to watch media to stir your imagination, or you may take it upon yourself to embark on a reconnaissance of finding the real truth behind things, or you may engage in authenticating real news from fake, or you may want to switch on for some casual stimulation ….whatever you choose to do -  you must remember, it's all being imprinted in your subconscious mind and it will play its part of magnification of this energy. 

Me : So stop watching news, reading social media updates or discussing it ? 

Voice : I did not say that. What I want to impress upon is raising your awareness to how your feelings and thoughts are impacted with the choices that you make. Energy of thought is always looking for a perfect match. You want to be a perfect match for Love.

And if you sometimes feel powerless, try taking action where you can - extending help in small ways. Doing so will give you a positive sense of engagement in the face of adversities because you are simultaneously making yourself feel happy and contributing to the greater good by creating a loop of energy that is humane, healing and sparkling.

I may sound repetitive, but since everything is made of energy - staying at higher vibration is a priceless contribution you can make right now. It is not an act of doing nothing, but a responsible contribution. You can choose to shut yourself from what is unneeded and open up to the higher frequencies. 

Me : I have grown up being encouraged to have better 'General Knowledge'. Does living with deep inner awareness and limited knowledge of the world outside - a totally ignorantly foolish living ?

Voice : Ignorantly foolish but, not foolishly ignorant.

For the one who lives with an inward connection, is convinced that whatever he needs to know will emerge in his awareness. For he knows deeply there is nothing to know, except really knowing, that there is nothing to know. 

Intellect wants to know what is happening outside. Wisdom knows. 


   

Spiritual Awakening

Me : What does Spiritual Awakening mean ? 

Voice : Its coming to one's own being. 

Me : Thats it ??   

Voice : Thats it. 

Me : Simple huh. 

Voice : Simple. And its taking lifetimes for you to get there.    

Me : Simplicity...... hasn't been our thing, right ?  

Voice : Its a familiar pattern. 

Me :  Is this current upheaval finally the Spiritual Awakening of mankind ?  

Voice : Do you think an Awakening is a matter of getting up from your bed one morning and finding yourself Illuminated ? Did you think everyone is on some 'spiritual awakening timeframe' ? Do you think Awakening is only for mankind ? Or is Awakening a button to switch on ?  

Spiritual Awakening is a matter of journey. Lifetimes of journey. It is not a single defined moment. Past preparedness brings you to a time where you can either live or lead an inevitable transformation of your world. Remember, all life in creation is a part of evolution, not just mankind. What has always been a part of Divine Truth, is simply gaining collective strength now. 

The journey of Awakening depends on how deep is your slumber. For an analogy, consider a situation where people purchase tickets and hop onto a bus. When the bus begins its journey, the passengers fall asleep. As the bus-stop approaches close, the conductor attempts to wake you up. Depending on how deep your slumber is, he may resort to just a whisper, gentle tap, a hard nudge or he may forcefully shake you up, so that you wake-up to alight at your stop.

Here, the bus represents your life, the bus-stop is life's goal, the bus conductor is Hand of Divinity, the act of waking you up is the awakening process, and the bus ticket represents your connection with Divinity. 
Importantly, the bus ticket guarantees you a ride in the first place. 

Me : Beautiful. So, are we being forcefully shaken up by the 'bus conductor' right now ?

Voice : Its a gentle tap.

Me : You call this world crisis a gentle tap ???

Voice : You call yourself awakened ?

True To You

Me : A second or a million years is the same for you, right ? 

Voice : Right. 

Me : So, instead of constant remembrance of God, I can just as well think of Him for a second - and it would mean the same to God, right ?  

Voice : That’s true.

Me : Ha ! I was wondering whats all that fuss about squeezing more and more time for the Divine connection. You are above time !       

Voice : You are absolutely right. I am above time. A second of pain or an entire life of pain for you would also mean the same to Me.

Me : Hey hey.... I got your point.

Voice : Remember, until you really experience infinity, oneness, timelessness or even God, you are only living with words. A cloak of spirituality is just one more difficult layer to unveil.

Be who you are, so you can really Become. 

Humanity has found itself in an unusual predicament - where just 'to be who you are' is a privileged state of being.

Me : True. Listen, you are not serious about that pain thing, right ?  

Voice : Let you know in just a million years..