Showing posts with label crosses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crosses. Show all posts
Thursday, 9 July 2020
Monday, 30 October 2017
Get a life!
When there is drought, even a few drops of
rain have the power to cause excitement. The kindness of people is similar.
Every little sincere act inspires gratitude. The absence of genuine kindness is
like a drought. So, suddenly, when you come across people who you haven't had a
close connection with but who spontaneously offer help, it makes you can feel
those raindrops fall on your heart.
Life has become very clinical, mechanical
....like dance without expression, like music discordant, like a house which is
not a home....I guess, I find the soul missing in many around me. And I often
feel that souls on the earth must be experiencing much loneliness. Imagine
being connected and not realizing it! Being lonely when there really is no need
to be so. Deliberately hurting someone , not knowing that it is definitely
coming back to you...or often knowing it but still doing it...succors for
inviting grief.
Oh! Humans! Get a life!
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Monday, 31 October 2016
Spirituality
Spirituality is not a
religion. Neither is it a chain of rituals to be performed. It is beyond
anything manmade. We can be practicing any religion but we are all spiritual.
Our intrinsic quality is to be a spirit.
Yet, people don't seem to
understand this. They talk of anything spiritual like it is a phenomenon from
another world.
Even if we teach the theory of
spirituality, there will be a lacuna, because spirituality is to be recognized
as a set of principles which have to be practiced and experienced. If you are
spiritual, you have to follow a path which will be fraught with uncertainties
and painful realizations. So, people don't go there at all. Understandable, I
guess, but ultimately, a deep loss.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Detachment
The greatest awareness to build up is that
anything can happen anytime! Complacence is the last thing we should have,
especially about our health. Someone just bends down or picks up a heavy bag
and is afflicted with a slip disc issue. Another sneezes and has a retinal
detachment.
Car accidents happen in a fit of anger,
depression or rage.....we think it happens to other people , only until such
time as , much to our shock and disbelief, it happens to us. A lesson for
constant awareness of our own health first...always exercises caution!
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Friday, 9 September 2016
Monday, 29 August 2016
Consequences
We
don't really realize what happens when we violate a universal law. The repercussions
have long and far reaching effects. There is a snowball effect for everything.
And once the consequences begin to spiral outwards, they complete their circle
of movement. And to experience the consequences is inevitable.
Humans are naive enough to believe that if
they disobey the universal laws surreptitiously, deviously and silently, they
can get away with it. Think again! Like the proverbial fly on the wall, the
Universe watches. Every second! But we do many things in ignorance and out of
the preview of the parameters of wisdom...this has to change first.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
Karma
Karma simplified! The easiest way to define karma is
"what goes around comes around". But is it so easy? That is only a
part of it. Let us be aware of the
collective nature of karma besides individual ones.
The popular saying, “a father's sins come onto the
children" is not meant lightly. One person's actions can involve many
people around them. Like the AGHORA book on karma talks about an example of
racing where so many people's karma is joined together...the jockey, the bookie, the people who bet etc.
Can you imagine
the level of awareness and wisdom one has to develop to experience the old
karma while refraining from performing new harmful ones?
We often feel so
much intensity of emotion that actions are rooted in feelings, sometimes imbalanced ones.
Let us examine
our thoughts very minutely to control karmic fallouts in our current lives.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Friday, 22 July 2016
Individual consciousness
Living with individual consciousness is never enough. We have
to learn to live in a collective consciousness too....as parts of a family,
society and country. In fact, these are times for
being International. The world has shrunk and we need to expand.
There is a fine balance that we struggle to achieve. Some don't even try. The fact is, we are a sum total of so many unhealed memories that unless we cleanse them, we are not moving forward anytime soon into a significant spiritual space.
So, though we can have affluence, power and control over humans in our physical reality, we still remain insecure and lacking in totality.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Sunday, 31 May 2015
OUR CROSSES TO BEAR
A man felt that he lived a very hard life. He came to God, told him about his troubles, and asked,
“Can I choose another cross for myself?”
God looked at him smiling, took him to the store of crosses and said, “Choose which ever you like..”
The man went into the store, looked around, and was surprised to see many varieties of crosses: little, big, medium, heavy and light.
The man looked at each of them and finally, chose the littlest and lightest cross, then came to God and asked:
“May I take this one?”
“Yes, you may”, answered God. “It is your own cross.”
How quick we are to brand our lot in life as very hard or even the worst at times! I haven’t seen any human being without crosses to bear. What I HAVE seen is the amazing difference in attitudes while carrying these crosses. We make our beds with thorns and expect to lie on a bed of roses. And when we don’t see those roses, we cry like spoilt children. The question is, why didn’t we make a better bed for ourselves?
When adversity comes, our eyes are so full of tears that our vision becomes blurred and we fail to see the learning that is inherent within the adversity. Our ego is so fragile that we magnify little things into very big, and therefore, unbearable things. Complaining to God becomes a daily ritual and “why ME” becomes our theme song.
I have realized that what comes our way is what we have invited. However, we also get the strength to handle what we have to bear. We just need faith and courage. As the story indicates, if we can actually understand that the cross that we bear is much smaller to those of many others, we would be in a state of gratitude instead of disgruntlement.
There is a popular saying that when we need to improve, we need to look up to a role model and when we need solace, we need to look down to see the many who are worse off than us. The truth is, some carry very heavy burdens lightly and others seem to carry light burdens as if they were struggling with a very heavy weight. The issue is in the tolerance and faith levels.
Everything falls into the realm of the “relative”. There will always be someone better off and someone worse off in our perspectives. One must not forget that when we make an observation of this kind, we are looking at just the current phase of life. Things can change as the phase changes. Hence, the importance of the statement, “this too shall pass”. Nothing is permanent in this world. Change is the only constant.
If only we can learn to accept life with more faith and more grace, every cross might appear small and manageable!
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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