…contd….
Have you gone into ‘Hall of Mirrors’? It’s a room (usually
kept in an exhibition) where varying types of mirrors are kept. When you go and
stand in front of the mirrors, you look reed like in one and like cartoon
characters Obelix in another. Like-wise you look odd yet different in each of
the mirrors. But, at the end of it, it’s all you ONLY. So, how can you call
those images ugly? You just laugh at your images knowing fully well that they
are just images which are ugly and not the real YOU. The mirror makes them look
like that.
Like-wise, when we realize that we are not the body, mind or
intellect, we know we are souls – Divine, complete and eternal. And it is the
same soul in the other person too! Since, it’s the same one as you, you both
are same. So, how can you hate him though his image was disgusting, the real
one was nothing but YOU? Image here means the ‘personality that includes
attitudes, character, tastes, clarity of thought, perception et like.
Just as water in the ditch which is dirty, water in a vessel,
water kept in freezer which has become ice and the boiling water are the same
at the end of the day – Hydrogen plus oxygen. Yet water from ditch when drunk
can even kill a person if his infection is untreated, whereas ice can reduce
the fever and steam from boiling water can burn us. Water being same its
effects are different depending upon its state of existence. Like-wise, as soul
we all are same – Divine, eternal, love, complete yet are different by way of
our effect on others because of our ‘state of existence’. Like some when they
enter the room they bring happiness with them and the rest, they give happiness
when they leave the room. The difference is in their ‘State of existence’ and
that is because we manifest differently.
No one reached the top without having to climb the first
step. The climb may be slow or fast but is always from 1 to above. So, people
with limited clarity of thought just mean they are at the lower steps of their ‘soul
journey’. It’s a place where I was yesterday. So, how can I get irritated at
him? At most, I should sympathize with him because having gone through that stage;
I should know what it’s like to be there. So, if you wish you can lend a hand
and bring them up or support them by being patient and giving them clarity of
thought.
If your irritation takes over your compassion, no problem
just let go and move on but don’t get irritated at them. Just bless them and
avoid them if you can.
…contd…..
2 comments:
It suits well for my situation. Thanks for helping me come out of it without any feelings/emotions.
Very nice explanation mam...Thank you so much..
The lines from "No one reached the top....
to
...Just bless them and avoid them if you can."
Explains it all.
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