Showing posts with label Belief system. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Belief system. Show all posts
Monday, 16 May 2022
Sunday, 23 August 2020
Spiritual isolation
When you have an active conscience, you have to be prepared for and have the courage to face a certain amount of isolation. Remember, we live in kalyug? Who wants to awaken a deadened conscience which is exactly what you will be triggering by exhibiting a sample of your conscience. You are bound to be a threat to some.
I see spiritually strong people oozing an
enormous amount of their inner light which draws people. And also, scares some
other people who evidently have some amount of dark places within them.
I am beginning to understand the law of the
Universe which says, what is below is also above. As the air over a mountain is
rarified, so is the atmosphere around spiritually elevated people. And on that
high level of consciousness, there would be very few people, hence the
isolation.
Spiritual isolation is a natural graduation,
which cannot be forced externally. You have to grow into it experientially. A
blissful state!
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Sunday, 26 July 2020
Sunday, 15 September 2019
Disentanglement vs detachment
Disentanglement vs detachment:
In these modern times, the one person who
makes practical sense in terms of interpreting old values seems to be Sadguru.
The important point to note is that everything comes back to each succeeding
generation in a new package, with a certain twist.
One day, I was having a discussion on
attachment with my guru and telling him how I wished to be detached like sadhus
like him are. And he had smiled and said," even sadhus have attachments. I
was a little thrown by that statement, purely because of my own mindset which I
had cultivated by reading old texts and listening to many lectures of spiritual
orators. Sometimes, introspection on some statements can fall short and belief
systems formed by half knowledge.
Sadguru explains very convincingly that if
you think detachment is what you are here for, you can find ways of dying right
now, because you are not here to learn detachment. If you are not attached, how
would you experience life, the purpose for which you were born? The reason we
suffer is not due to attachment but the mind getting entangled with people,
situations, and emotions.
When that happens, you cannot extricate
yourself from the experience whereas the idea is to experience and move on.
We can even call it living each moment
completely. And living IN the moment each minute and moving ahead with a clean
slate each time and from each experience. Somewhat like the magic white board
which turns white every time, after being written on in many different colors.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog:
www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Friday, 8 March 2019
Sunday, 10 February 2019
Sunday, 23 December 2018
Belief system
The conditioning that happens between
childhood and adulthood is responsible for adult behavior to a very large
extent. What is right and what is wrong is dictated by the learning at that
time. Of course, there are cases where the children are sometimes complete
throw backs on the elders in the family.
Life is pretty much a mix of first
unlearning , the relearning and new learnings as well. It is not true that
everything we believe in works all our lives. Some belief systems have a short
life and must be looked at to find them obsolete very often, with dire
consequences. And some belief systems might be workable longer.
The most difficult thing to do is to keep
changing because it might end up resulting in confusion and a certain amount of
fickleness. To be solid and stand by your values is one thing and to become
rigid in your beliefs totally different. The former is highly respected but the
latter could go terribly wrong if not thought through.
Something's work for some and for sometime
, while some things work for others for a while. Given the changing nature of
creation. But there is no ONE formula or belief that works for all.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
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