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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Garments

The basis of any good relationship should be and can be only when we agree to disagree.

The statement clearly explains that two persons are agreeing to disagree with each other’s opinion. Opinion is just not a conclusion that we arrive at based on facts & figures available to us. We add the tinge of our experiences, prejudices and also our feelings related with the related experiences to the facts and figures and view it and then stamp it as our opinion. This is not correctly arrived at as we are viewing the entire world with tainted glasses of ‘my likes and dislikes’. So our opinions change the moment we have a paradigm shift and our perspective has undergone a change. So why hold on to the shifting opinions so dearly that I am ready to let go off my near and dear ones for the sake of an opinion?

Opinion is mine, but I am not the opinion. It may change tomorrow but I still will be the same. So, I am clear that we can agree to disagree with regards to the opinion but still be loving and respecting each other for what we are.
Garments
Once upon the time, Beauty and Ugliness went for a bath in a sea. They both undressed and swam in the waters. After sometime, Ugliness came back to shore and garmented herself with the garments of Beauty and walked her way.

Sometime later Beauty came out of the sea and not finding her garment, not wanting to go naked took the garment of Ugliness, wore it and walked her way.

And to this day men and women mistake the one for the other.

Yet, for some there are who have beheld the face of Beauty and they know her notwithstanding her garments. And for some there will be who know the face of Ugliness and the cloth conceals him not from their eyes.

I have always found some statements that doesn’t make any sense like “She is good but is dark”.
“He is good but poor boy not so good looking”

Such statements talk about our confusion and conflicting stands rather than about the other person. When we say “she/he is good but not so good looking” we are actually mixing two issues which are not at all connected. What has looks got to do with the good character? But, we say “she is dark, poor girl” as if it were a sin to be dark, as if it were a negative quality. Colour of the skin doesn’t guarantee the character of a person. Krishna, Rama and all gods are considered dark. Westerners spend so much of money to get the tan which we are naturally endowed with. Dark skin has melanin more in quantity which is natural UV ray protector and insulates against all sun-burns and sun related, skin related diseases. This blessing is considered a curse. What a pity! Fair skinned flaunt their tan and the dark skinned spend millions for getting that unattainable fair skin. What a state of mind! What we have is never good. What we don’t have is the only good thing and worth having. Right? Think about it.

From today let us just say “she/he is good” and “she/he is dark skinned” as two separate statements but never in the same breathe. Likewise, when we talk of some one’s attitudes then it is only “she/he is good” – period – there will be no mention of the colour of their skin. Let us be very clear about what we say and how we think.

Why? What difference would it make if we say as we are used to saying? Well, it talks about confusion in thinking and the energy which is generated is that of confusion. Confusion energy is a negative energy which is going to reflect as confusing events /situations in life. And I am sure, no intelligent person wishes to have confusion reigning in their lives. So, if you want crystal clear way of thinking and living, then start at the point of beginning which is “thought”.

Got any more such statements which are self contradictory? Let’s discuss them if you wish.

revathi

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

How to understand blog and Me, My Guru series especially


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How to understand blog and Me, My Guru series especially


And the blog is here to only de-addict us from our belief systems.

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One such belief system that is broken is Guru is a female here! Usually it is believed and prevalent that Guru is some male like Swami Vivekananda, Dattatreya Swami and so on. We are used to ‘spiritual Gurus’ in male bodies. We tend to assume that women and this field don’t go together – for whatever the reason. But Guru’s are just not those who have ‘branches’ in 100 countries.

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They also who lead a normal simple householder’s life can actually be a treasure trove of spiritual knowledge and power – which we are not good at recognizing because of our belief systems.

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In this series Me, My Guru we see the Guru in a simple background. There is nothing loud about her. And yet she ‘lives’ spirituality and doesn’t just market it to the masses.

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This Guru is also our possibility. This Guru should also be seen as the ‘way we are to conduct ourselves’ when people in our lives behave as her disciples. Her students are selfish, downright stupid, envious even of her, arrogant, obstinate, greedy, hurting and every attitude that is disturbing. 

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Each of her students represents the various characters in our lives – their attitudes and their behaviour towards you. And the way Guru responds or lives is the ‘key’ to tune in to be content, choosing clarity over suffering and being balanced in such day to day interactions with such characters in your life.

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Also know that she is not bound to any of them. She doesn’t owe anything to anyone. And yet with poise she lets her love and knowledge flow towards people who mistreat her or misunderstand her too. When a person can choose to be so balanced even having a choice of simply shutting such people from her life, why can’t we live happily and full of love and understanding with the people in our life? Think for yourself!

Don't see her as a character especially "Guru" and think "oh, Guru should be like that etc etc...". I am not interested in marketing the image of Guru here. Only motto of this blog and our classes is to develop those qualities that make us worthy of experiencing heaven within and without. It also means we need to let go or outgrow those qualities that are creating hell for us and in us....

If you see it that way, then the way Guru responds and behaves is the 'answer' to your problems in  your life. That is the way towards abundance in your life. 

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Wish, desire, expectation, condition, anger and suffering are told and explained in various layers and from different angles and in different situations for you to understand it in toto.

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