Voice of Guidance

Me : How do I tune into the voice of my heart and not my head ? 

Voice : Why ? 

Me : What you mean why ?? For that connection with you ! 

Voice :  So you feel there is time then I am not connected to you ?  

Me : Like when I am using my head ? 

Voice : Are those thoughts in the head, yours ?

Me : Think I know where this is going …

Voice : Thoughts in the head or feeling in your heart are all Mine. In fact, there is no such thing as using the heart just like you would never say you are using your spleen to connect to me. Everything emerges from the functioning of the mind. What you call heart is nothing but a secondary functioning of your mind which is feelings.  

It’s a little strange to confine our connection to body parts.

 

Me : Hahaha. People speak about listening to one's heart and often I have listened to my mind that caused me to take bad decisions - that's you ? 

Voice : You believe there is anyone else ? 

Me : And, why would you make me do dumb things ? 

Voice : You are impelled to do things because of the vibration you hold. Your vibration determines your thoughts, words and action.

Me : Huh 

Voice : Love is the energy of our vibrational communication. It’s beyond physical labels of heart and mind. When you constantly live your life at a higher frequency, you live a guided life moment to moment. There is no feeling of separation from My guidance at any time. 

Me : So, it doesn’t make sense to say I am guided or even ask for guidance ??

Voice : For the one who lives in perfect surrender and inner silence - your head, your heart, your voice or My voice have no distinction. Everything is God-ordained and lovingly embraced. He knows the so-called wrong decisions are divine stimulus for closer companionship. What remains to interpret ? 

It is only when you feel the separation from Me, you are compelled to call out to Me to be present. This is the reason you seek My so-called guidance, messages, approvals and signs because you lack conviction in My everlasting presence. You make distinctions of receiving guidance through My Voice in your head or the heart. When the gentle caress of a breeze can be Me, when nothing exists but Me, to who does all the Voices belong to ? 

You may ask for My guidance or even label a certain feeling as guidance, but know you do so for your own sense of validation. My connection to all in creation is just the way you are connected to the air you breathe…every single moment.   

Me : Hmmm

Voice : The illusory diarchy of you and Me causes distinctions of My voice or your voice or the heart versus the head. For the one who knows no separation seeks no guidance as He knows there is never a moment of disconnection from God. In his highest state of inner connection with God, he knows the futility of making distinctions of the heart and mind. The source of All voices emerges only from One Source.   

Me : Sometimes I really take a bad decision ….

Voice : Bad and good is your judgement. not mine. In the same way, you judge voices of the heart and mind and hunt for signs and divine guidance. You are guided every moment but you can't totally accept it because of your bias and judgement of good and bad. Maybe, what you call a bad decision is the perfect outcome of your alignment with your vibration. Often your myopic vision and ignorance fails to comprehend that NOTHING can be a wrong decision.    

Me : Right now, you are speaking to my heart or my mind ?

Voice : Haha. I am not speaking at all nor are you listening as you understand. The subtle state of your current vibration is manifesting. Love is an energy that interprets itself.   

  

Like I said, our connection is beyond verbosity and distinctions of heart, mind or any other parts of the body. It is your current frequency that guides you to inspiration and guidance. The higher your frequency, the deeper the connection. When you feel divine love, both heart and mind do not exist.     

When you are vibrating at this frequency, you don't need to seek guidance, you simply become.     

Me :  And I was muddled up with voices in my head versus Your guidance... 

Voice : Simply align to higher vibration and you will feel no need to seek guidance.  

If I am God, I am in the voice in your head and in your heart. I am the origin of all voices. I am all there is. 

Me : You know you are a great Guardian of the Universe ?

Voice : I am the Guardian of YOUR Universe. Haven't taken My attention off you even for a fraction of a second - even before you knew of Me!     

Recluse

Me : Is being a recluse a bad thing ? 

 

Voice : Haha. Knew that was coming.

Me : No big deal to know - if you are in my head all the time!

Voice : It’s because 'I am in your head’ you have become a recluse !

Me : What ?

Voice : It’s just another quality. Not a stigma. Feeling lonely may become a problem, but choosing to be alone is different.  

And, really it’s because ‘I am in your head’ - like you said.   

Me : And how is that ? 

Voice : When you are alone by yourself, you are very naturally aware of My presence and this brings a feeling of fulfilment and so you never really feel alone. You are content in My company, not realising the missing social interaction.  

When you are with a lot of people, it’s not about the people you are with. It’s about you being absent with Me at that time. This distraction brings you the feeling of being alone inspite of a lot of people around. 

This is the reason why you feel you are lost in crowds and found in solitude. 

You find Me good company! I don't see choosing to hang around close friends a problem. 

Me : Ok, so I am not anti-social..

Voice : On the contrary, our deep connection allows Me to reach so many people through you. 

Me : How is that possible when I am not with anyone ?

Voice : Not with anyone only in the world of forms. But you are with the whole world when you are absorbed with Me. 

In the solitude of your surrender, you drift in My companionship. And since there is indivisible interconnectedness with all in creation, you allow My energy to flow to others without physical proximity. 

The feeling in your heart touches more people than you can understand. How is that anti-social ?  

       

New Age of Divine Manifestation

Me : You say a time will come when the world will turn to you.. 

Voice : That is My Manifestation. It will be a new age for humanity. 

Me : I can imagine a world where your pictures will adorn all homes, shops, cafes, schools and offices. And your prayers recited by millions of people around the world. The whole world will know of you! 

Voice : They will know of themselves. 

Me : Same thing, right ?  

Voice : There is a difference. 

Me :  What is that ? 

Voice : The coming age will experience the manifestation of God. It is inevitable. But, not in a way that you expect. Pictures of Me will be irrelevant to new mankind. Instead they will feel and live God. They will know they are not separate from God. 

Divinity with a form exists in your time, as it is necessary for your journey to raising your consciousness.They serve their purpose. 

The new age of mankind will recognise the beauty of All-Pervading God in all its glory, the magnificence of Divinity will shine forth in daily living, God will belong to no confinement to any forms, shrines and limitations. Mankind will feel divine love burst in their hearts and feel Divinity in each other and all aspects of creation. 

If My form was still worshipped, then My Manifestation would be incomplete. If places of worship still drew crowds, My Manifestation was yet to unfold. 

Me : Wow. Many expect the new age of spirituality would sweep the world in a way that people will follow God..

Voice : Why follow God when you can feel Him ? You can only ‘follow’ someone if you believe He is outside of you. 

Me : Can one expect a Divine Incarnation to unveil His form to the world ?

Voice : How is that an evolution of consciousness if mankind were to do the exact same thing - of looking for God outside of them ? Wouldn’t it be a true rise of consciousness if God became a living experience of each individual ? No limitations will define Divine glory as it has always happened. The coming age of mankind will be receptive to this higher ideal. 

Love in the heart of man itself will be My manifestation without form.         

Me : What a magical world that would be !

Voice : A golden age when Buddha or Rama will be forgotten for God. 

Mountain Home

Voice : So you are not doing anything about that dream of yours ? 

Me : No. I don’t feel driven about it all of a sudden. Its not getting me excited as I always used to be. Find that weird. 

Voice : I know. You always wandered off everyday in your head imagining a lone cottage in the icy remote snow mountains. You got past every day with this imagination. I know how you even worked up snowstorms in your head for that real mountain feel...

Me : Ha ha. You know every detail of my dreams!

Voice : I know each detail..all your dreams and your emotions. You wished for a cottage high up in the mountains…stone walls, fireplace, large windows overlooking the majestic snow peaks, surrounded by thick oak forests, wooden floor, cozy study room with your writing desk, rocking chair in the sun drenched porch, hot cups of ginger tea, backyard kitchen, snow flakes gathering in your porch …you even imagined the cedar wood fragrance in the air and that deep silence with nobody around for miles…I know each thought that ran into your head…   

Me : Wow, you really are attentive to each thought of mine.  

Voice : I always am. I also know the deeper feeling behind your thoughts. 

Me : You know I have held this dream in my heart for so long and I have reached a point in my life where I can create this dream into a reality…you have given me all the resources and opened doors that I just have to walk into. But I don’t understand how I am not excited about it -  did the desire just vanish from my consciousness ? 

Voice : Maybe, it transcended. To something bigger ? 

Me : What does that mean ? 

Voice : You dreamt, but were detached from it. The dream brought you the feeling of peace, stillness, joy, love - and now, the same feelings have magnified into your consciousness. You have unconsciously become a perfect match for a deeper experience of the same feelings. And when you are detached from results, you allow dreams to get bigger. Few know this. 

   

Me : Hmm..

Voice : Your dreams have played their part perfectly well. It has gradually opened your heart and you will be drawn to deeper experiences of love. All desires, dreams and ambition gently fade away in the background. Contentment is no longer a battle. The world of pursuit is replaced with joys of inner journey. The Truth seems closer and your path takes a turn from all that you have planned. Happiness is redefined. This is a natural state of being that is not earned from repressing or pursuing anything. Love will pursue you. You have 'allowed' pure love to flow to it's own destiny.  

Me : So, my mountain dreams played the most the important part ? Even if I don't have what I visualised ?

Voice : You get what you feel. 

Me : Oh

Voice : One can go higher by allowing oneself to go beyond imagination. 

Me : Meaning ? 

Voice : For those detached, images have no meaning. The heart only lives with the feeling. That way what you have or don't have in the world of forms doesn't matter. Mountains were your impression of freedom and unbounded peace only because of your sense of imprisonment at that time. But, overtime you have grown to inner freedom and joy in the present moment. The clutches of future have lost it's power of you.   

     

Me : Hmm. Okay so tell me if God is represented in so many 'visual versions' and if I hold any image of God in my mind, I can possibly get something else??

Voice : You hold God not in your mind, but in your heart. God is not Him or Her or It. The feeling you hold in your heart - that is His real version.The truest version of your life will always be in what you constantly feel.

Me : Wow

Voice : Humanity has been taught to pursue dreams. I help you transcend the imaginary. 

Me : As always, talking to you feels so good. 

Voice : ...As good as it feels like the warmth of a fire on a cold winter night in the mountains?    

      

Me : Haha. Actually yes!

Voice : Raising your consciousness brought you to know the futility of the pursuit for happiness outside of you. 

  

Your abode in the Himalayas is truly manifesting, but in the serenity of your heart - where everything exists.

Shrine Of God

Me : I feel Your presence so strongly in the Shrine.

Voice : It would be a mistake to confine Me to a Shrine. 

Me : I know you are Omnipresent. But, I feel so drawn to visit your Tomb-Shrine. You are clearly more present here than anywhere else. Thousands of people feel the same, too. Its undeniably soothing for the heart inside. 

Voice : That is true. But, do you know why everyone feels that ?

Me : Why? 

Voice : I am All-pervading and everywhere. I am in the Tomb, too. But, you feel My presence stronger inside than anywhere else because when you step in, your mind spontaneously brings wholehearted awareness of My Being. This is Divine Awareness. Your awareness of Me creates My presence wherever you are. 

When the number of people holding the same Divine Awareness increase, the atmosphere surcharges with this deep common feeling from the heart and it contributes to creating even a stronger presence of Me in one spot.  

To find Me at one place and not the other, is only an oscillating awareness of Me.  

As man struggles to quieten his mind, statues, images of God and places of worship will remain, to help keep awareness of God in a confinement as they understand - until the inner awakening will bring man to feel My presence in the gentle caress of a breeze, as much as in a Tomb. 

Saw God In The Clouds

Me : I saw your face in the clouds today !! Yay !

Voice : Did I look good ? 

Me : You looked awesome !

Voice : Sometimes, I feel my hair looks unkempt.. 

Me : Haha. You were looking perfect. Was so thrilled to see that sight today. Your face emerged very clearly in the clouds. Made me feel happy and connected to you. Thank you so much.

Voice : You like to see me more often ? 

Me : Of course. It fills my heart with joy !! 

Voice : Then, next time watch the cloud closely. So closely that you realise I am not in the cloud, but I AM the cloud.  

Know that I am not ‘in’ anything - I am it. Then, you will see me very moment. 

 

Meditation, Chanting - Unneeded Rituals ?

Voice : Hello  

Me : Hi. Whatever it is..it wasn’t me.

Voice : Haha. Struggling with that mind, again ? 

Me : Isn't everyone ? Since you are already in my head, how about offering me some solutions ? 

Voice : I did. But you had your reasons to abandon it. So, I am working to pick another one you might like.. 

Me : Now, what did I reject ? 

Voice : Daily practise of withdrawal from the senses and anchoring into infinite consciousness and also spending some time in silence repeating the Divine name.

Me : Oh, you mean meditation ? 

Voice : If that is what you like to call it. 

Me:  I don’t want to do anything that seems like a ritual. 

voice : Fair. And you don’t have to. 

Voice : Did you brush your teeth, have a shower, eat your three meals a day, have that evening tea, exercise hard, do that office work, buy groceries and walk your dog yesterday ? 

Me : Yes

Voice : And today ? 

Me :  Yes, I did all that today

Voice : And, you feel you are likely to do this, the day after ? 

Me : ….Yes. What you getting at ? 

Voice : Nothing. It’s a pretty ritualistic life you have there. I can roll the days back and forth and see that you have been doing the exact same thing for years. That reminds me..it is time to change your brush.  

Me : These are not rituals. It’s something that has to be done to live normally. Everyone has to do it.

Voice : When you are already living a pre-prescribed life with repetitive and patterned behaviour and more often than not, you do this without being totally involved in the action by simply going through the motions …what can be more ritualistic than this ? 

And the irony is that you have abandoned conscious act of meditation or repeating God’s name because it falls under your understanding of a ritual. 

The one who is really free from all rites and rituals including prayers, chanting or meditation is also free from all the rituals of the worldly living. His absorption is whole and complete. This brings him natural detachment, freedom and joy. His thoughts, words and deeds flow from only the dictates of Inner Communion with God. His every moment is a natural and spontaneous expression of Divinity. His surrenderance is so complete that he experiences his life as not his own, but of God living though him. He does not strive, but just IS. Such connection is rare and for such a one, rituals have no place. 

Do you have this experience ? 

Me : No. 

Voice : The one time during the day when you open your heart for communion with the Divine is discarded because it seemed ritualistic and you feel you want to be natural. How natural is your life in this world ? Does living with worry, anxiety and fears feel natural to you ? Your only natural state is being God.   

It is perfect that you do not forsake the world, but live in it to the fullest. When you are living discarding nothing from the world, why choose to only discard a divine practice while living in the world ? You can do so, but do it with the right understanding.   

Me : But, shouldn’t we live by the heart. I feel it to be another dogma ? 

Voice : Yes, live by the heart. The deep feeling within you, is your guide. Be conscious when the mind masquerades as the heart. Let me give you an example..for the longest time, weren’t your workouts just a regime …another ritual ? 

Me : I used to do my workouts based on a schedule I had set for myself. 

Voice : But sometime back, you had discovered something that books and courses don’t teach you. You discarded your workout timetable and used your heightened awareness. You paused, felt the energy for the day and after a deep communion with your body, you let your heart dictate the physical activity for the day and this is what you do daily. The dry motions turned into body movements of joy and energetic upliftment. You begin your exercises with listening, feeling and connecting, not on a doctrine.       

Me : Yeah and this has begun to work really well with me now. Having no pattern govern me, it’s opened something at an inner level and I feel renewed. 

Voice : In the same way, what may begin as a ritual always has an opportunity to become a deeper experience and it always lies in your hands to change the way you do the same things. Nothing is a ritual when do it with your heart. And, over time you will know how the power of falseness can prompt you to embrace and discard beliefs through the mental trickery that you are going through.   

If remembering God becomes a ritual - know that you have turned it so. If you are determined to seek something higher, you don’t discard the ritual, you transform it instead, by bringing love and higher wisdom.

Meditation, rituals, prayers, chanting - these are words. Your feeling about it gives them the meaning. 

Me : So I can continue with what I abandoned as a ritualistic meditation ?  

    

Voice :  What is meditation ? Everyone meditates. When you making a sales pitch you are meditating on your client, if you are playing, you are meditating on the game, when you are cooking you are meditating on the food, when you are writing you are meditating on your content, but when the subject is God, meditations and prayers become rituals that a 'liberal aspirant’ can discard with very good reasoning.  

Me : Hmm..

Voice : Anything done without love is a ritual and in the same way anything done with your heart is meditation in action. 

Me : My logic was that God is beyond doctrines, rites and regimentation.  

Voice : And that is true. If you have spontaneous, effortless and wholehearted remembrance of God each moment - who needs anything ? If not, maybe, you need to choose your so-called ‘rituals' wisely. Everything will depend on what you want desperately and your honest efforts towards it. 

As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate your behaviour. You can find profound liberation and live life intentionally and in freedom. A well tuned mind helps to conserve vital energy wasted in unserving emotions. This loss of vitality leads to illness. 

When you know how to rightly handle any turmoil in the mind, your own power comes in your hands and you effortlessly become someone who can live with love and share this love with so many others. You have so much to give especially in times like right now - can you afford to waste your vital energy in just battling for your personal equipoise and mental equilibrium ?

Me : But chanting a Divine name is certainly mechanical and ritualistic, especially when the mind drifts everywhere. Isn’t it just a dry and mechanical process ?     

Voice : Yes, chanting of a Divine name or repeating prayers may certainly seem mechanical and even trifling. If you try to use your intellect, you will fail to comprehend the most powerful secret. Do you know the ancient wisdom behind it ?

Me : What’s that ?  

Voice : The chanting of a Divine name is a simple spiritual formula of tremendous power that has been transmitted from age to age. The Divine name has the potency to stamp and mould the consciousness. When repeated with such faith for long, the Divine name goes on creating vibrations which press upon the layers of the inner consciousness till one day there comes a sudden opening and the power hidden in the Divine Name reveals itself to the being. Even as fire is naturally endowed with the capacity to burn combustible substances, the Divine name has the natural capacity to burn away impressions that bind. 

Me : Wow. But, one needs to have that kind of faith to chant ..

Voice : The factor of reverence is not essential. This seemingly mechanical exercise is the most potent ancient tool for any spiritual aspirant. It is no empty repetition, for each repetition has a new meaning carrying you near and nearer to God. This frequent service of lips imperceptibly becomes a genuine appeal of the heart and sinks down to an inward life, becomes a delight, becomes as it were, natural to the soul, bringing nourishment and fulfilment. 

Just the way you have made an unconscious ritual to consume certain things everyday that weaken your body, why not choose another 'ritual’ if it helps you move from anguish to love ? Remember, your inner reserves of love and wisdom are infinite.     

Me : The mind is tricky...   

Voice : It’s an age old battle - between mind and the heart. Meditation on God and chanting the divine name itself can be the remedy. If remembrance of God is a ritual, I would say it’s a lofty choice amongst all the other rituals that interlace your life. 

You have jettisoned the time that you would have spent on prayers, meditation or chanting. How have you been substituting that extra time ?   

Me : Well, many things.....ahmm…..look, it’s not like I am absorbed in God every moment, but I get your point.     

Voice :  Whatever your way..deep absorption in divine consciousness fills your heart with what you seek. Then, what happens around you, or to you will become crystal clear and the false existence will loosen it’s grip on you. You are able to live with freedom, love, joy and importantly, this joy is your inner creation. 

The heart goes by this inner feeling to pursue what it must. The mind draws it’s own conclusions. You are free to choose. But, do so in total awareness.

Even if you abandon God, you are ever assured of God’s love. You just decide how you want to feel each day, while on a divine sojourn.      

And when your life becomes a divine example of God's love, truth and purity in the world, you don’t have to worry about meditating…you become a living meditation. 

Here’s a tip - meditate on God, but be utterly oblivious to the idea that you are meditating.

Me :  How the hell do I do that now ?

Voice : In time, you will know. 

Me :  Ok

Voice : Do you believe this world is an illusion and only God is real ? And that all that happens is divinely ordained ?

Me : Yes. But it’s not something I experience. But, I am convinced of that in theory.  

Voice : Then, know that your entire living existence and all that you do is nothing but a ritual.   

Me : Hmm

Voice : Prayers, Chants or Meditation on God is not about emptying your mind, but should be about filling it with God’s Love. Not a harmful ritual to choose, especially when your life is nothing but one big living ritual. 

When you believe nothing and nobody is separate from you and everything in life is interconnected, you will realise you don’t meditate for yourself, but for the whole world. 

Form of God, An Illusion ?

 

Me : I don’t believe God has a form.  

Voice : True 

Me : I think most of the idols and images are from people’s imagination. Are they even real forms of Divinity ? 

Voice : How can anything in duality be real ?  

Me : Then why would the world pray to forms of Jesus, Ganesha, Krishna, Durga, Buddha, Mahavir, Zeus, etc ?

Voice : Tell me, who are you? 

Me : Somit. 

Voice : So as long as you identify your own form as Somit, you will identify yourself externally with forms and God becomes one of them. 

Just as your form is not your real identity, in the same way the various forms of God are not real. The form of God as you know, is an illusion.    

But, the form of God will be real to people, as long as their own form is real to them. 

Me : Then, why do Spiritual Masters not actively discourage attachment to forms? 

Voice : Because of your own identification with falsehood, finite, separative and limited existence, you have a reference point for God through a form. This reference is the start of a divine journey for a soul from finite to infinite, from separateness to oneness, from the form to the formless.

Divine Forms represent incarnations of love in the gross world. Thus, to ignite and propel love within people, there is an object of love for mankind to express devotion and longing. God is formless, but because of your own existence in duality, a human form of God brings relatedness, instead of an abstract understanding of the presence of divine love. 

God is pure love and when you hold His form in your heart, you ignite your entire being with the same love. And, what you hold in your thoughts deeply, is who you become. The very simplicity of gaining Illumination, seems to have become it's own impediment.     

 

Remember, the form is God but God is not the form.   

 

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Just thought I should create a separate blog link for poetry... 

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" When life begins to flow, everything comes afloat."

       This poetry is about the hiding flutist in the high mountains: 

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While some Somit is the name behind this blog, the real author is the One in everyone. 

  

Open That Door

Voice : You can do it. Go on. Open the door. Walk…

Me : No. I don’t want to. 

Voice : Don’t want to or 'want to, but it can get uncomfortable' ? 

Me : I am fine here. I am doing good

Voice : I know that. 'I am doing good’ is the usual obstacle to ‘I can be God'.

Me : Damn..

Voice : You know of the strife you had to go through to get to ‘I am doing good’ ? Continue your journey to get to ‘I am God’. Why stop ? Your soul is on the most important phase of your life! Let not the idea of any discomfort, pain or fear stagnate you.   

Me : I am not ready to risk anything now..

Voice : You are a rock climber. So you know exactly how this works. When you are vertical on the rockface with all your 4 limbs balancing on the faintest holds at dizzying heights - how do you make an advance move ? You have to release the comfort of your present grip in order to advance to another one. Many times on the rock wall, you had to let go of the most comfortable and safe spot on the vertical wall in favour of harder, riskier pinch holds that offered no sense of security. 
Staying with secure hand and foot holds will keep you safe, but will also keep you away from the summit. Many times, you have advanced on the vertical rock without a guarantee of safe footing, but you knew this was the only way to make it to the top of the pinnacle. There is no other way. And once you make it to the summit, the feeling inside your heart supersedes all pain, blood, sweat and suffering. 

Me : You are right. But when I am halfway to the top, there is no way I was going down without trying my best to finish the climb. 

Voice : Then why do so now ? You have worked very hard, but you have not finished your climb.  

Me : Maybe because I am just too comfortable right now and it feels ... safe.

Voice : That’s exactly how the entire human race is. You unconsciously place yourself in self-created 'safety-nets’. This illusion of safety and security impedes your own evolution. You work endlessly on creating the delusion of 'safety-nets’ and miss living to your truest potential. Your existence is made to thrive on a belief of a ‘safe' future that you have not seen. You get comfortable to live without challenges. This is where you lose Me. 
It’s natural for our relationship to thrive when you are in rough waters and I am your Guide. That way we create deeper connection and a special companionship. Your love and faith in Divinity grows with doing things that are difficult..sometimes supremely difficult. But, if you choose safety and comfort over living to your highest potential, what role is left for Me to play in your life ?  

Me : Hmm..

Voice : But, since it's inevitable to fulfil the soul’s destiny, things will happen in your life that will appear unprecedented or seem undesirable but it's only to draw your attention to where you need to walk. But if you still choose to resist, the faint nudge turns to a bigger challenge and sometimes into an adversity and eventually you choose to open that door that was always in your sight. You then become who you were always meant to be...yourself. To find Me, you must find yourself, first.   

Me : So, we are our own resistance which invites suffering into our lives.. like we are misleading our ownselves with the pretext of 'being good' ?   

Voice : That does happen when the inner voice is ignored for the dictates of the mind that feeds on limitations, fears, desires, distrust and the false notion of self-preservation. 
Your climbing pursuits taught you through experience that the reward often lied on other side of great fear.

Me : Always and always my worst fears have brought me the greatest growth. I can barely remember having doing anything noteworthy in my life without opening that door that I would really never want to open.   

Voice : And it cannot be any different with the way you live your life right now.

Me : If it's just about doing what the heart wants, why is it such a hard decision to make ? 

Voice : Because the mind has hundreds of very good reasons; the heart has just one.   

Me : Wow. So true. But, just like all climbers, I have always used a safety rope to climb. The inherent risk remains, but the feeling of this security enables my freedom to climb harder. Everyone looks at creating their own safety-net, right ? 

Voice : Yes. Sense of security is not the problem. You just have to recognise when it becomes your bondage instead of freedom. 

Serving God

Me :  How can I serve You ? I want to make a significant difference…want to offer myself in service to God’s work.  

Voice : Why do you feel so ? 

Me : Isn’t living a life working for God a privileged opportunity ? 

Voice : What do you have in mind ? 

Me : Hold gatherings, read books, talk to people, write, spread messages, create awareness about God….

Voice : Wonderful. But, you do know that it's also possible for Me to do that on My Own ? Being God, I can be resourceful. 

Me :  So, what are you saying ?  

Voice : There is no higher or lower service, there is no unprivileged or privileged work and in the same way there is no such as thing as serving God, if you fully comprehend Infinity. 

God by being God, is fully adequate and complete. How can the Infinite be served by the finite ? How can one from the separateness serve Oneness ?  Wouldn't an All-powerful and All-knowing be in total charge of his own creation ? Could God the creator, in a moment create and destroy ? What help can one offer Him ? In reality, is this idea of 'serving God' even possible ? 

When you are offered any opportunity to be involved in the cause of Truth, you are only helping your ownself. God is beyond help. Every act of service is only an act that serves your ownself. You only do service because that is who you have become. You begin to know that you are not serving anyone or cannot serve God, but you have become helpless in your spontaneous expression.  

Me : If service is about serving oneself, then does it matter what one does to serve ?  

Voice : It is not ‘what' service, but ‘how' you serve. Love must be the reason for everything. He who never propagates about God, but lives from the deepest love in his heart serves best. On the other hand, if you were working for God, but failed to live from the highest ideal, all so-called service in the name of God has little meaning.

Your own growth lies in the act of service, not in it's accomplishment, because I am beyond results. And the only result that matters, is the manifestation of love within. 

Service presents you an opportunity to serve your ownself with love. True service is when love pours out of you because this is what really changes your world. If you believe your world needs Love, you have to become the carrier of it yourself, first.   

You have developed this notion that only a certain type of service is serving God. Once again, you have succeeded in creating distinctions of higher and lower. Once again, you hold judgements that restrain the flow of pure love. A lofty ideal to serve for God can also lie in making a cup of tea with so much love that God flows in each sip to the one who drinks it. 

Everytime you hold Me in your heart and 'give-in’ for love and choose being called wrong, in spite of being right for the sake of love, is one of the highest ways to serve. 

Me : What about possessing qualities of selfless service ? 

Voice : Why nuture any idea of possession ? You do not ‘possess’ anything. You only become or unbecome. If you strive to live from this ideal, you don’t have to worry about selfless service because in time, you will become that.   

Me : What about our repeated failures to make this world a better place ? 

Voice : You mean repeated failures to make your heart a better place ? There is no 'other place’. 

Me : Wow

Voice : Do you imply that I have lost charge of My Creation or something missed my attention or I messed up an outcome because I was busy handling an overload of prayer requests ? 

Me : Hahahaha. You are funny. But importantly, you are Infinite Consciousness...and I get your point clearly now.  

Voice : You may accomplish the greatest humanitarian work or you may fail in all your efforts to serve as the world understands, but remember this, if there was any failure for man - it will be failing to operate out of Love.  

The idea of service needs to be carefully understood. Since you come from a race that is used to classifying and standardising everything over the years, you seem to have done the same to human activity or what you call work. Social service, philanthropy or service to God are the many 'graded activity titles'. Yes, for some people it can be a beautiful and a natural form of expression of love. Each one is free to choose and do what helps them develop love, express love and live with love. What you do does not matter, but how you do it.  

The full weight of any accomplishment lies in the process, not the result. Opportunities will come into your life to make this love flourish within you. The kind of work or outcome becomes utterly insignificant, if you have already achieved the prized result of love. Then, know that you have served very well.     

And, for the one who knows Infinity deeply will know that I am already aware of the result...aeons ago.   

Me : I just sometimes feel left out when I watch and know of people doing great work in service to God..

Voice : Be you. Be Love. Because a river of love can flow only in one direction - towards the Ocean of Love. What else can be your goal ?    

Can losing the love within your heart to work for My Cause, be higher than being Love ? Having Love in your heart, is in itself serving the world.