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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" 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. 

Divine Silence

Me : Why is silence so spiritually important ? 

Voice : If you wanted to paint, would you prefer to choose a blank canvas or just paint over another painting? 

Me : Anyone would want a blank canvas..

Voice : Silence creates a blank canvas for your soul. The painting on this canvas unfolds from within in its own free way, in this inner silence. 

Me : How does one create that blank canvas ? 

Voice : In total surrenderance to the moment. 

Me : Always sounds great, but what does that even mean ?     

Voice : Just the way you choose a bank canvas to paint, you empty your mind to create magic. You become so empty that you do not even hold the painting brush. You observe. The unfoldment of the painting of your life finds its own colours, textures and size. The result will be the most magnificent work of art from the hands of the Divine. 

A mind that has surrendered is not rushing anywhere. It remains silent and allows.

It is when you want to paint over another painting, that you begin to get flustered. And most of humanity is lost to the noise, instead of living with the sound of silence.  

When you create moments of silence within you, you create blank spaces which fill up with inspiration. In those moments, you hear the voiceless voice, the silent sound of Divinity.   

Me : Wow. How does one find this silence ? 

Voice : In many ways.. 

Me : Tell me an easy one I can do now.  

Voice : Ok. 

Now, close your eyes only for a small moment. Believe there is nowhere to go and nothing to become. Drop all the titles you live with. Desire for absolutely nothing..not even God. There are no goals. Be still. Know that nothing belongs to you, not your body nor your mind. Drop all your beliefs of time and know that past and future do not exist. Only bring your awareness to this present moment. Become free like the wind. This moment belongs to your soul. 

Me : Wow

Voice : You will find your real self here. It will open your life to freedom, vibrancy, wisdom, joy and love. When you feel this moment with all your heart and trueness, you will find your highest state of being. 

Me : Why can’t we all find this small measure of peace, if it's so simple ? What's coming in the way ? 

Voice : You. You are coming in your own way. Nothing binds you except your ownself. How many of you live in the awareness of inner silence ? How many of you want nothing ? How many of you embrace the present moment ? How many of you welcome losing everything to find the reward of nothing ?

If your canvas is not blank, how can the painting be special ?  You have held the painting brush so tight, that I only remain waiting for you to release your hold, so I can create, that which can fill you with unbounded love and joy. 

Release. Release more and more. What are you holding to ? 

When the floodgates open within you, rivers of love will gush in it's silent flow through your entire being, filling emptyness with life-giving love. Seeds will bloom with the nurture of your heart. A Divine garden will spring forth in perfect silence, while you remain only a witness.       

When you begin to live with Divine Silence, your senses will feel the vibration, instead of the sound of words.

The Circle Of Life

Me : Where does mankind stand right now with it's evolution ? 

Voice : Your question itself will give you a fair understanding of where you stand. You naturally think about evolution of mankind. But, mankind is not alone on this planet. All life in creation is on the evolution journey. And, when you begin to include ALL even in your question, you will begin to discover your own answer.

When you pay attention only on the ascension of mankind, you are making the same mistake to isolate all life in creation from yourself. 

For long, you have lived a life disconnected from rest of existence. Your natural world is interconnected and interwoven with your own Being. You are not separate from it. You never were. And can never be. When this distance is bridged, you will begin your journey as an evolving race. The idea that your species is separate from nature despite being evolved from nature, dependent on nature, and involved in the cycles of nature, may need to be rediscovered.  

Your natural world is a perfect gauge of your evolution. This will mirror where you stand as a human race.    

Me : We urgently need strong laws and enforcements to protect nature !

Voice : Not when there are laws to conserve the natural habitats, but when there are absence of any laws is when you have evolved. You protect and preserve not because of any enforcements, but because this is your very nature. There can never be laws to force the expression of love. Not only protecting, preserving and creating an abundant natural world, but communion with it, is your very nature. 

Your evolution is a realisation of your shared place on earth which affects your being - how you experience the world; your emotional response, beliefs and attitude towards nature. Nature is an artistic expression of God’s love. When you live disconnected from nature, you impede the natural flow of love and healing that sustains all.  

Me : This will need a major change. Leaders of nations would play a role here. Will the current situation bring about this change ? 

Voice : The pandemic will trigger governments around the world to release relief monetary packages to protect and boost their economies. This may be a good at your attempt to keep your material world afloat. But, when a country that begins to know and understand that the natural environment and mankind are an eternal, supreme and unfailing co-existence, it would release an equally generous relief plan to nurture it's environment to seek a new found harmony. This shift of priority will be the first sign of a major change in your world. 

Me : Not tuned into news. Not sure if any monetary relief is announced for Mother Earth by anyone, yet.

Voice : You don't have to strive and struggle for restoration of balance, you just have to become human beings, again. When the natural correction runs it’s course, Humanity will find itself where it needs to be. 

Me : Are you implying we could have more upheavals coming our way in the coming years ?  Like more lives lost, destruction, natural calamities, wars, etc ? 

Voice : It's called the Circle of Life. It is the natural order of the highest Love that will renew, revitalise and rejuvenate all of creation.  

Will you ever consider yourself healed, awakened and revived if a part of you is dying or struggling to survive ? How can you imagine to thrive, if a part of you isn’t equally thriving ? 

All living things on this planet, are part of a single, all-encompassing consciousness. It is this consciousness, that makes your planet capable of supporting life, while your near neighbours in the solar system are barren and lifeless.

This is why I said that the best way to gauge your own evolution is to look at nature as a mirror. This is your honest and truthful state. 

Me : Think our woes have been our disconnection with nature. 

Voice : If you were connected with your own Self, nature would become an inseparable part of your existence and your life would be in a natural rhythm.

Few months ago, you felt and sensed a large event in the world to take place, which would halt your world. Do you know why you felt this ? 

Me : Yes, that happened when I was walking my dog alone, in the open grasslands during sunset and suddenly a strange calmness emitting from the sun, clouds, wind and birds began to speak the same frequency. And, that is when it was known to me to anticipate and embrace what was certainly going to come. I rechecked all my plans and waited. This communion has always been in my life like between a watchful mother and a child.      

Voice : Because you are not separate from it. Not only do you know it, you feel it. Spending much time with nature, you have found your ally. The bond is that of unadulterated love and protection.    

Nature is a painting of the Creator reflecting your own existence, that can be your gateway to many mysteries, secrets, awakening and whispers from the Divine.       

Me : True. When will everyone know this ? 

Voice : When one awakens to feel God's love reverberating from every blade of grass.  

Me : And, what about our measures for Saving the Earth ? 

Voice : Don't worry about saving the Planet. Save yourselves. Rest of creation already exists in natural harmony. 

This Life Or The Next

The path wasn’t visible, 

But the direction was certain

Searching for peace,

 And trying to breathe 

 Fate seems to follow,

Where destiny leads

 Light was in the darkness, 

Which laid me to defeat 

It wasn’t walking towards,   

But the walking away 

Somethings are meant to surface, 

In this life or the next. 

True Surrender

“ This period you call darkness,

Is the emergence of light 

For in its wake of despair,

Lies a new lease of life 

Only when things end, 

Can things begin 

For without a fall, 

There can be no rise

Just like a dawn brings dusk,

So does a slumber bring an Awakening 

The heart that is open to dreams,

Knows what the future will bring.

When loss becomes a gain, 

There will be none to blame 

The spirit that knows no bondage, 

Will feel the coming of a New Age.

Isn’t it a true surrender,  

To lose all for the ultimate gain

For loss of life can only happen, 

To a life that was truly alive."

The Ride

Voice : You remember spinning on a revolving wheel in a playground ? 

Me : Oh ya. I was totally enjoying that until I was asked to step out and let the kids play. In our world we do everything possible to keep up with that schedule of 'growing-up' !

Voice : But you haven't. You still ring your neighbour's doorbell and run. 

Me : I think they know it's me, but they can't come to terms with it. Ha ha. Anyway, you were talking about the revolving wheel ...

Voice : You know when the wheel really begins to spin fast, and if you are on the edge, you are likely to loose balance and possibly fling away. But, if you remain right at the centre of the wheel, you are able to hold your balance and keep steady no mater how fast the wheel gets. 

Me : Yep. It was always harder finding balance on the periphery. 

Voice : That's exactly how most of you are living with God. God is right at the core of your being and you are always hanging on the periphery. This is the real reason why you tend to loose your balance. You easily become vulnerable to emotional swings, find yourself susceptible to fears, anger, fustration, worry and anxiety. It’s because of where you are standing with respect to Divinity.

If you want to ensure you don't fall from the wheel, the first thing you will do is anchor yourself. In the same way, the first thing you need to do is anchor your consciousness deeply with God, and then attend to your worldly matters. Instead, you are living in a reverse way by anchoring firmly with the world and later adjusting your time for Divinity. Wouldn't it then be natural to keep losing balance ?      

For the one who chooses to stay at the centre of the wheel, no matter how rapid the wheel may spin, he will remain grounded. For the one who is centred in God is balanced, steady and content. Real balance and equipoise is not gained by being on the sidelines, but by diving deep into the core of Divinity. It's impossible to lose balance when you are anchored in His Love.     

If you see yourself losing equilibrium, you would want to reflect on where you are standing.  

Me : Thank you. I am so glad you talk to me like this. You are so amazing, patient, humorous and of course, 'heavenly'. You have such a simple way to put things in perspective. Your guidance is ever so gentle and loving. I can't think of anything you really disapprove in me. I would be so utterly lost on my own. When you speak to me, I feel ...well....I can't find words to express it...   

That hugely misplaced idea of 'God' going around is so so so far from the truth. If only one knew what it felt to live deep in your awareness, one would not want anything else. 

Voice : Thank you. Ride with Me can get bumpy sometimes, but ..

Me : But, You always bring in the popcorn and candy and that's all I need to stay happy!     

Voice : Ha ha 

Me : You know I have loved that Transformers 4D ride at Universal Studios and done it multiple times. I have thought this often..like imagine if one day we would have a possibility of multi-dimensional ride into Infinity, crossing over the seven planes, moving into past and future simultaneously, hear the sound of creation, feel the knowledge, power and bliss...The ride can be called ‘The God Experience'. Wouldn’t that be so cool ? I mean anyone who gets a small glimpse of this experience, would easily turn to you, love you and you’ll have millions of crazy fans worldwide !   

Voice : Maybe a little different, but the ride is coming soon for all .....

Search For The Perfect Blossom

If you like the idea of taking a break into a different world, view this link here and let the visuals and music stir your soul. You may allow the music to play in the background, before you begin to read the  small poetry below. Detach yourself from everything and get immersive. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OEL4P1Rz04.  

Search For The Perfect Blossom

"Golden rays filtered through the mighty oaks, 

Creating a magic of darkness and light   

Scent of cedarwood filled the air,

Rustling of leaves pierced the silence. 

Mighty mountains enveloped the forests,

While the mist played hide and seek

Was that time when silence could speak, 

Innerbeing was in rhythm to nature’s beat. 

Finally, sighting the perfect blossom, 

It was a rare sight indeed

Life of a pursuit met its end,

But, I happened to sow seeds again. 

   

It was a familiar story, 

Of search for the greatest beauty 

The fulfilment was not outside, 

But, deep within me."