Tuesday, 29 April 2025
Monday, 28 April 2025
Spirituality
The best gift to yourself would be blessings from even one person whose life improved because of you.
Why don’t we teach our children
these wonderful songs with meanings for life and living? Where you do something
genuinely for another without advancing your ego by commissioning the
paparazzi/ media to write about that.
Living life on the surface and
not connecting with other aspects of God’s creation is just a loss of
opportunity to upgrade in the current lifetime.
We have no bandwidth for
understanding the reasons we are here. We can stand upside down to project
ourselves in the world but with misled values and understanding of the true
nature of life.
We need an integrated approach:
education first and then efforts with mind, values, intentions, spirituality,
inclusion of creation and action.
Yes, our duty is towards self-uplift
but the tools are based on our connectivity in this world. We are not here to
be exclusive.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Thursday, 24 April 2025
Wednesday, 23 April 2025
Courage
Don’t allow people to disrespect you or push you down because the shine of your soul is too blinding to demean yourself through others. Believe me, the brighter you are the more you are forcing others to shut down your light. But this WILL be the side effects of ascension.
Be it anyone before you, and I
mean, ANYONE, just retain your glow. Others may just be envious they have not
managed it yet.
It requires the courage to
withstand the onslaught of the cruelty / callousness meted out to you. These
are times that you just proceed to increase your light and allow it to erase
that negativity coming at you.
The biggest mistake we make is to
expect our brand of energy in people around us.
Remember, we are all here, within
relationships to sort out our karma with each other, not to get entangled in
pushes and pulls of the senses. Or in attachments inevitably leading to
aversions / hatreds, thereby losing the whole purpose of our existence.
“I am existence, consciousness,
bliss. “
Say it and remember it.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Sunday, 20 April 2025
Spiritual Growth
Be aware that as long as you are getting toxicity and aversions from either your relationships or your own reactions to those aversions, your spiritual growth is suspect. If you genuinely want spiritual growth, remember to follow a one dimensional path, leaving the peripherals behind.
It takes lifetimes to realize how
involved we are within the cycle of likes and dislikes, mine and thine,
controlling others to fulfil your ends and these are never spiritual … however
much you might be into spiritual texts.
Once this hits you, change starts
to happen and it is a long arduous path because there has been so much build-up
of memories which cannot be shaken off easily.
I remember a Hindi saying
Ek saadhe sab sadhe
Sab saadhe sab jaay
So, get into that single point
agenda as soon as possible. There is no other option, believe me. Relieve yourself of the pain that the world
provides you amply.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Friday, 11 April 2025
Thursday, 10 April 2025
Humanity
What is relevant in today’s context is the revival of the old values that we have lost as having branded them as obsolete. They are the need of the day!
You only have to see the turmoil
around us to understand that we are completely on the wrong path. We have
overstepped the boundaries everywhere, person to person, family to family,
religion to religion, country to country and so on.
We don’t understand the concept
of space. The human being is basically constricted within the physical persona
and the instinct is to expand. In the attempt to do so, we are impinging on the
space of others, whether people or countries. Instead, we should be expanding
into the vast spiritual realm .
Deliberate interference,
intentional attempts to control and this through the invasion of space which
does not belong to us. And this is generally the starting point of every
complication and conflict, which then keeps building to a point of no return.
Intervention is generally a bad
idea. It is crossing boundaries.
It raises opportunities for
conflict.
We have gradually travelled in time from forward to regression, harmony to dissensions, intolerance of difference in perceptions, dominance of personal egos and a race to become the dominant power in the world.
See, all this comes with a huge
price tag and a raging discontent of many. We have seen revolutions happen in
history with the discontent of disparities. But we don’t seem to stop. I wonder
what self-destructive mind-sets are these that we have become suicidal in the
self-destructive actions.
Again and again, we see people
destroying people and in the end, destroying themselves.
This is where the old, so called
“obsolete” values need to be brought back…. The patterns of human thinking and behavior
to be thoroughly looked into and changed whatever required!
It is all very well to say we
have become modern. But perhaps we stood out only because we were NOT but
culturally sound. We practiced humanity, the power on which we stand today
also, up to a point, and for which the world looks up at us today.
But success lies in the sum total
of the collective values of the masses that believe in some common principles.
We all know what they are. But practice is another issue altogether.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Wednesday, 9 April 2025
Friday, 4 April 2025
Thursday, 3 April 2025
Simplicity
Why be complicated when simplicity can set you free? It is truly amazing to see how people think. And how they can actually trouble themselves with their thinking patterns. Like…
Finding a problem for every
solution.
Attributing hidden motives to
innocent statements
Interpreting words according to
their personal prejudices
Believing lies about people who
are not in your list of “favorites”
Getting colored by people you like
even if they are wrong
Supporting friends who are doing
wrong
Getting close to people for the
wrong reasons
Shunning those who love you
dearly
Discarding family for various
frivolous reasons, most of them not valid
Knocking down many supporters in
a race for popularity and success
And more….
My question is, why! Do we have
to discard the ladder which was put together by so many loving souls? For you
to climb on. Is it necessary to misunderstand motives of those who have always
looked out for you with love and even selfless love?
Are we never going to change all
this? How many years do we have on this earth? And how many years do seniors
have left? These reflections should have started yesterday.
For life waits for no one.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
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