Showing posts with label Illusion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illusion. Show all posts
Thursday, 27 July 2023
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Friday, 20 November 2020
Thursday, 20 August 2020
Dark and light
Dark and light is a natural process. Dark
can be dispelled anytime if your inner light is accessible by you. Darkness can
dominate only in the absence of light. And this happens when we don’t have the
tools to access our own light. The opacity of a negative inner environment
conceals the light and the opacity deprives access.
Dispelling darkness is the only choice .
And the Lord said, “Let there be light”. And there was light.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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Tuesday, 7 April 2020
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Wednesday, 10 April 2019
Monday, 5 March 2018
Lifestyle
We constantly speak of evil and good,
making and marring, right and wrong. We get exhausted just trying to understand
what we are all about and what life is all about. I often feel that over
analysis of anything can never have a solution. Looking at something from
different angles and then coming to a conclusion is not that simple, because in
most cases, you will find a bit of both the extremes and variation only of
degrees. So how do you come to a perfect or the right solution anyway?
So, it pays to take the surface value
instead of trying to get into details. Details have many layers and peeling
them may be a painful project.
Simple perceptions can keep life simple.
Convoluted perceptions may be temporarily exciting but in the long run, they
can be very tiring.
So, my funds is, keep it simple. In every
way, including keeping simple friends, simple food, simple lifestyle and
generally, a simple life based on simple thoughts.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Sunday, 3 December 2017
Aspects
With social evils like "sati"
abolished, women got their right to life. But that was just one aspect. We
still have a long way to go. Can you notice how the genuine moral support of
the government today has brought many maladies like triple talaq, rape etc to a
point of revolt, discussion and solution? Women who lived in fear are beginning
to come out and raise their voices against the injustices meted out to them.
All because finally, the right issues are being aired and laws are being passed
to arrest the further growth of the "jungle raj”.
The light coming in to the world of men is
being blocked desperately by the dark souls of humans but this time, they may
not succeed in spreading further darkness. I am hopeful!
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Thursday, 30 November 2017
Phases
Sometimes, you go through a phase where you
meet the same kind of people again and again…like a repeated pattern. In
negativity, you attract negative people and in positivity the positive people.
At the same time, there is an unseen film of past karmas that plays in the
background simultaneously. We also start attracting those people and events
which stun us, are overwhelming and inevitable. We tell ourselves we don't
deserve this.
What we call "bad" days or
"bad" phases are often of this nature. Some call it the impact of
"shani". We must look for a reason, of course. Or an object to
transfer blame to acquit ourselves. If truth were to be told, what we tackle
day to day is a mix of our own choices and our compromises of those choices.
And in all these choices, there is a definite play of our thoughts and actions
from the past, some of which mould our present. Those who are within serious
spiritual practices get to see more of these challenges in their lives, tests
that must be passed before a further elevation is granted.
I have noticed that there is opaqueness in
the experience of karma, too. Like, people working behind the scenes and sudden
exposure to events orchestrated meticulously behind the scenes...things like
that. Dramatic! But true. Anyways, we must deal with such phases without going
down and under and hope that our constant companion will be courage. For all
times.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Wednesday, 24 May 2017
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Personalities
I just had to write on the post below. I don't think we even KNOW how
much in fear we live, in the name of love. We cling on to our "near and
dear" in the name of caring, sharing, unity etc. Parents claim to love
children. Children claim equally to love their parents. Friends claim to love
each other. But often, we see so many power games being played. The more
rampant the ego, the more power play we see. Powerful or powerless? In control
or controlled?
We readily compromise our personalities, our choices, swallow our tears
when hurt , smile when we want to scream foul play or blue murder....haven't we
seen enough misery in "families" , in fact, in most groups? ...and in
the bargain, we lose ourselves trying to procure a bit of love, to feel wanted.
We don't realize we go along with the wrong, the unjust, even the callous
because we want to feel good in being a part of people, and then we stop
thinking. We just have to toe the line. And we do...all the time. It is easy.
Exercising the right choice and thinking for ourselves may set us apart ...that
is scary, to say the least.
Exactly as the post says. We are so afraid of "losing" others
that the fear of loneliness results in our opting to lose ourselves instead for
a temporary happy feeling.
How heavy a price is this for our soul! Our journey is alone. We are
like passengers on a train who meet for a while and disembark when we reach our
destination. I have never seen any passenger telling another to go home with
them and live and die together. Have you?
But we know of people who had a mission and who had the courage to forgo
many an impediment to retrieve their inner core and energy from the people,
places and events to which they had lost it. So don’t be afraid to lose people,
be afraid of losing yourself.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Monday, 22 August 2016
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