Spiritual Learning

When you help anyone in need, do it without expecting a return, and even less, wishing you had not helped at all.

Our spiritual learning is based on how connected everything is. And at such times, when you wish you had not helped, understand that God has been kind to you and given you the blessing of helping someone in dire need, where survival was the issue. It COULD have been you, but instead, the power to HELP was given to you. A karmic blessing. 

Helping someone in need is greatly rewarded by the universe. Though we may not have faith in this, when you give with a pure heart, you get in abundance.

But we don’t believe it! We need reciprocity in everything. And we are ignorant about the fact that rewards come from a higher place, not necessarily from the one we helped, if only we can have faith in the process of life.

Surekha Kothari

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Divine Hand

A family is like a bunch of assorted flowers put together by a Divine Hand. Different souls slated to be together to help each other evolve. They are all different, with different destinies but bonded in love and compassion, looking out for each other.

This karmic nature of families is real.

We are duty bound to act as per the divine laws to attain freedom of the soul.

Learning humility and letting go of our pride, our egos is the first lesson.

Developing a community of friends outside is wonderful but not at the cost of family.

We only ask for blessings from family. Have you noticed? From our connections bound by birth. Somewhere within you, you know that genuine blessings are given from the heart by people you have grown up with and who love you despite all your faults and weaknesses and such blessings reach the Divine, believe me.

So, please return to your families, especially your parents who are living in senior citizen’s homes. It is sad that many parents prefer to be there. This says something about the lack of care and love from those who were nurtured and cared for with love by these very parents.

Surekha Kothari

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Respect

 Between the mental states of over explaining to please people and attacking people when YOU might be wrong, there is a middle ground.

RESPECT everyone whether, in your eyes, they deserve it or not. Not because of anything else, but because it demonstrates your sterling quality of non judgement.

We need to understand this. Yes, we all have showered our frustrations and anger on others. But we do need to become conscious and change this. For ourselves. Not because of others.

Whatever we change for the better is a win win for us. When we detest people due to their negative qualities, the law of resonance says “look within”. YOU may have something to clean up yourself.

My guru says, detest the negativity, NOT the person. Every soul shows karmic traits and learning to cope with their karmic agenda, so, your role would be to live and let live. If you are close, point out lovingly what they need to work with.

Just as the cane acts as a loving support to a blind man when he crosses the road, love can hold your hand and help you cross over from grief to happiness. If you don’t have enough love, then you need to enhance the love factor within you.

Surekha Kothari

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Circumstance

 

Everyone has difficult circumstances to tackle in life. But, it is disturbing to see so many people developing a victim mentality. Worse still, making their victim card a weapon and playing it to their advantage to gain sympathy.

Today, we need more courage than ever before. Life is fast and no one has the time. We need to do things for ourselves because the support systems of families and elders is crumbling. To blame life is completely futile. Nothing just “happens”. The fatalistic card of “woe is me” can only mean defeat /lack of motivation to get up and walk again.

There will always be supporters around you in strange ways though you may never see them as such out of wallowing in self-pity and confused feelings. I have seen many an olive branch by well-meaning people, rejected again and again.

Actually, you can beat yourself up all your life, with comparisons, maybe for bad decisions made or a karmic onslaught, branding yourself as “unlucky” or whatever.  But you know what? It only makes it worse. Only you can turn your life around.

Again and again, I come back to the courage needed to transform a negative pattern of thought to an “I can do it” mode. It is hard work and sometimes, many tears before you smile again.  But that one smile is worth the tears preceding it.

Surekha Kothari

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