Me, my Guru – on heaven and hell

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Me, my Guru – on  heaven and hell

Heaven or hell – we have a choice at every single point of time in our life. But it is not a place where you go once, simply sit, relax and see Apsaras (heavenly damsels) perform for you. No; in life come situations one after the other. They are physical challenges like some ailment or so, financial challenges of life and some come as events of life. Every time you falter, worry, anger, remember you are creating and living in hell. The moment you realize, accept it, sit and heal it, you turn that hell into heaven. So simple! Create multiple heavens each day of your life and lo! Before long your life is a journey from one heaven to the other.

Let’s suppose we have created 890 hells and 1000 heavens. The overall effect in our life and of our life is 1000-890=110 heavens. So satisfied, happy and successful life! That’s simple maths for you. If life be compared to an ocean, bountiful are the treasures of this ocean. Do you dare to take a dive into it? Bountiful are the beauties of this ocean. Care to play in this ocean? Heaven and hell are not destinations to be reached. They are our every day choices. You decide your choice. You decide your experience of heaven or hell. Nevertheless, keep healing; the process though doubtful, boring, uneventful at the start or at any point of time, will finally lead to the end of the tunnel. And yes there is light at the end of the tunnel!”

Our Guruji finished her explanation. She usually gave a gap in between her explanation but it came in one go today. Was it the topic? Was it her mood? Or maybe something else. We each stuck to our assumptions. 

“Then what does Guru do in all this?” asked Vaishnav.

“If a person is one of the few who has one then, Guru shows and points him the choices he takes that would lead him to hell. Guru would suggest and explain why choices of heaven are the better ones. Guru would show him the reasons of his choices of hell and heaven. Guru can make one aware of the past errors and mistakes repeatedly so that he doesn’t make a similar one in the future. Every time a sadhak falters, Guru can tell the exact reason for his slip. Guru can see that getting up from his fall is easier and worthwhile. Guru can teach him techniques to stay on the path. He can keep questioning him on his choices in various tones to push him towards his own self good! Sadhak in his ignorance is naturally inclined towards his “hell” of choices. Guru can give techniques and prick him in right places so that he develops clarity of thought. Guru can stand by him till ‘making choices’ that create heaven for sadhak becomes his nature. 

                                               

Guru can do just all of this. All other parts sadhak has to do! Guru can show the choices and their consequences. To choose them and walk on them, well that totally depends on the sadhak or a Shishya here. No Guru can force a student to walk ‘the right path’. That is against the universal rule of ‘freewill’. Guru would stand by him patiently as he falls and get up umpteen number of times, cheering him, cajoling him, taunting him but all in the hope that he gets the will to get up from the quicksand of ‘wrong association of mind’ or ‘wrong identification of his ego’. This is where Guru’s job ends!” Our Guruji completed before retiring into her inner chambers.

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# choices, destiny, hell and heaven, clarity of thought, mind and its games, Guru, right choices, right and wrong

previous posts on this topic : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=two+frogs+in+the+pond 

What do the two frogs in the pond represent?
What is the pond?
What is the man suffering from?
Why is the man not able to sleep peacefully?
What does sleep of the man point to?

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Questions addressed : 

• Why am I not happy?
• When will my suffering come to an end?

Points to be understood :

• My pain and suffering in life is NOT BECAUSE OF HOW PEOPLE BEHAVE IN MY LIFE! 
• My pain in life is because of who I am.
• My expectations from the people in my life is the CAUSE OF MY SUFFERING.
• No one - not even GOD can save you there! No body can save your suffering that comes from your expectations from people and life! You need to address that sooner or later - that choice is yours to make!
• As long as you postpone making the choice to heal that expectation of yours you'll wallow in self pity, crying, panting, feeling low, sorry for yourself, going on the guilt ride, anger, hatred, jealousy and what not!

Reiki Miracle :

Someone was describing scenes from "Mahabharat" and at one point I felt "I wish I had seen this scene". Couple of minutes later I was to have my meal and so I put on TV. The scene that I wanted to see was playing there. Not even a scene before that. Just that exact scene. I finished my meal and so was the scene complete. I got up and put off the TV.

This is the everyday 'miracle' of reiki that I experience! I am put at place where I am needed or supposed to be at that point of time. There is nothing as 'coincidence' in a sadhak's life!