Sometime in life, you have to develop
Your sense of peace, which is
yours alone.
Whatever you have is enough.
Whatever your needs are will be
met by the universe.
HE will decide when you receive,
what and how much you receive.
The futility of thoughts can take
away from peace.
Comparisons are odious, to say
the least.
Moving forward is the key
And the tendency to JUST BE!
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
I have found “c’est la vie” to be a wonderful way to live. “So be it!” Imagine, if we could use this in our daily lives! How much stress and strife we could avoid in matters which are really beyond our control!
But, oh no! We will fight every
inch of the way to turn the circumstances and people in our favor and kill
ourselves in the bargain, while God has the last laugh at our silly egos!
We always get “enough” for our
sustenance. There is a reason for everything. Cursing is not going to help.
Comparisons are going to help even less. A raging battle within us will kill
our positivity and our initiatives.
Sometimes, life is as clear as
the sun shining brightly. And sometimes, it is a cloudy sky. C’est la vie.
Unnatural circumstances like Covid forced us indoors. Did grumbling / crying help?
Ultimately, we had to buckle down to the lifestyle demanded by those times. Something
will happen against your wishes often. These are challenges to see how we
respond / react. The aura is our space and to keep a clean aura, without
letting negativity in, is the sanest thing we can do for ourselves.
So, let go! Let it be! So be it!
These are miracle phrases if we can practice them. We all have a rightful place
in this world, just not necessarily where WE want to be.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Studying Advaita Vedanta is the best way to
the path of detachment. When Shakespeare said, “ all the world’s a stage and
all the men and women merely players”, I did not realise the vastness of
implications in that one statement.
Advaita Vedanta tells you the same thing by
segregating transactional and ultimate reality. It comes as an amazing
realisation that we are not who we claim to be when we identify with the body
and mind. In fact, this puts us in a world of transactional reality where karma
rules the cycle of birth and death.
The moment we start the process of
elimination that we are not the body, not the mind, nor the intellect nor the
body of desires we have accumulated, there descends a tremendous sense of relief and lightness of
being .
There is nothing and no one to get attached
to. Yes, I have often been scoffed for this statement but believe me, as
Echkart Tolle says, now is the time either to evolve or “die” , the latter
meaning a metaphorical death.
Now, the choice is ours. Are we going to carry on with our old ways of comparisons, judgements, hatreds , dislikes, manipulations etc or stop that completely useless baggage and see the light which is everywhere ? Only our inner light is dimmed by us, and none other .
So, we should know that one hundred percent
responsibility for our souls is ours .
Yet, we are unable to detach from what we know to be futile in our
journey, like a dog’s tail, however much it is straightened, comes back to
being crooked.
But sooner or later, the circle of life’s
mixed experiences , once exhausted, will bring us back to the point of
elevation: the NEED to elevate as the only choice . That will be a brilliantly
illuminated day for each of us.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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