Me, my Guru – on valuing right!
“If you want to be happy, just
follow 3 simple rules.
Rule no. 1 : Stop using people and
loving things!
Rule no. 2 : Love people and use
things!” our Guru said.
“And what is rule no. 3?” asked me.
“Never interchange the
above two rules”.
We all laughed. It seemed simple
then. But later as we sat on those words, it actually hit us. This usually
happens with us with almost all of her words and actions. We don’t understand
or we misinterpret them then and only much later (I mean only if we are in
sadhan and thinking about her word or action) do we see the actual import of
her words.
They don’t mean what we
assume them to mean, they mean what they mean”
And to just get that, well it took
years of sadhan, introspection, patience, perseverance on bettering self,
commitment to be happy, balanced, loving and successful inspite of people and
situations in life. Wow, that’s quite a list! And to look and go through that
today looks doable and work of doing. But when we started, all this looked like
a ‘mirage’. I remember so many of us coming to her crying, shouting,
complaining, disappointed and being adamant about how we wanted our issues to be fixed in our lives. We just
wanted a ‘magic’ to clear all the nonsense from our lives and so wanted to have
a fairy tale solution and ending. She didn’t give us one. Now we realized no
one could! But she didn’t
 |
| Add caption |
judge us either. She patiently listened to our woes
dozen to a score and then gave us a wand called ‘Reiki’ to use. She remained us
to use it again and again. This wand was no harrypotter wand that could give
quick-fix solutions but it did introduce us to a ‘mirror’ called ‘self’. Then
we didn’t understand how by looking at ourselves and working on our reflection,
we could right the wrong of our lives. It didn’t make sense then. It still
doesn’t to people like me. But I understand know one thing for sure – it works
for sure! In one of our early classes she said, “We create and reflect our
world”. She said it so matter-of-factly. And we took more than 15years in this
journey to get it. Today, we see that to effect. The more we changed for
better, the more people in our life change. She was right in saying “no good
would come of changing people (and her favourite quote here was /men may come
and men
may go but your suffering would go on forever) in your life. Just
change yourself and see them transform as people you desire to share your life
with”. It seems like a good hard job but trust me, it’s worth it at the end of
the day. A good many stopped mid-day. And the
rest who kept up with this task and stuck to her have reaped benefits which
can’t be stolen or damaged by anyone. And these benefits had far reaching
benefits than just being a quick-fix of doing temporary plastic surgery to our
problems. We transformed as humans and thereby the energy that we were
generating was so near to the way we desired for events and people in our lives
and hence we experienced life the way we desire! Phew! So simple now and yet so
difficult to comprehend then….
contd.....
related reads : https://kantipadam.blogspot.in/search?q=we+are+what+we+chose+to+be
No comments:
Post a Comment