Me, my Guru – on heaven and hell

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Me, my Guru – on  heaven and hell

Look at each of your experiences. Although the situations you have faced in life over time are same, the way healing has taken place is different every time. Take relationships for example; - the type of healing taking place affects your relationship, approach, perspective, expectations and is different each time. This changes over the years. So, the healing never ends. It is like an onion. Layer by layer it heals. Layer by layer you see its effect in your life. Healing regularly is the choice you make. And you create one heaven after the other for yourself. One heaven is better than the other. To the one at the starting point though it is difficult to see understand and appreciate, it sure is a fact. Those who have tasted heaven at least in bits and pieces encourage others who are at the starting point still confused, frightened, doubtful as to whether to step into this world of self-healing or not.

Cheer him up at every little step he takes. Encourage him with your past state of mind. Regale him with your experience. Stand by him when he falters in his newly ‘taken steps’. Shout at him if need be – like a mother who shouts at a child who is afraid of riding a bicycle. But let that shout come out of love for him. At the same time don’t let him cling to you. Use your love for him to exploit you to do things for him. Don’t turn him into a human parasite that feeds off others’ love and concern. Don’t create hell for him. Don’t join him there. Make him stand on his feet. Make him self-reliant. Teach him to create heaven for himself. He may swear at you with his ignorance. Don’t bother. You work towards creating heaven for him. Send Reiki to a channel who you think needs to be self-reliant, who needs to look with honesty as his flaws and work on himself. If you expect others to do reiki for you then do for others. By making the road thorn-less for others, you are creating ‘heaven’ of higher degree unto yourself. Let not your wish be verbal. Act on it. You are creating a heaven every time you act on your words. If you just ‘mouth good words’; it is like standing on the shore and wishing to cross the river. Jump into the river – ACT, ACT NOW! 

Be a heaven unto yourself. Be a heaven for others.

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Questions addressed : 

• How to create heaven for one's kid?
• How to be a better parent?
• How to create heaven in every relationship?
• How to avoid causing hell for others and self?

Thought for the day :

• At every stage we see the healing addresses the same issue differently.
• It heals the issue at times.
• It heals our perspective some times.
• It heals the way we handle the situation on other times.
• It heals the way we make a wish also.
• It increases our strength and resilience to face a situation.
• It heals our fears, imaginations and anger.
• It develops our trust, confidence and ultimately playfulness.
• No issue goes away from our life till it has taught us everything it has come to teach.
• Life is a hard teacher. It doesn't leave you alone. It goes only when it has completed the job it has been assigned to do - that of teaching you!

Healing Tip :

Instead of asking 'why it happened to me?' try asking 'how do I handle it differently to be in a better state of mind?' 

Me, my Guru – on heaven and hell

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Me, my Guru – on  heaven and hell

Now replace Master with every person in your life separately and re-enact this story completely. Don’t worry it’ll take only ½ an hour to one hours max. it can be your spouse, kid, sibling, colleague, boss, neighbor – in short anyone and everyone who is cause of pain and suffering in your life. You can also replace Master with life, Universe and today’s Pandemic situation. What do you see?

You’ll see that in every situation your expectations from them, the conditions that you set for their behaviour, your ego is the cause of your anger, irritation, helplessness and even tears. These are the cause of your pain and suffering. And thus we create our hell with these reactions and choices in our day to day life!

Our expectations, anger and conditioning of mind are the tools we use to create our hell.

But when we take a pause, look within, heal the situation instead of complaining or suffering it, we choose heaven for ourselves. We work on creating heaven for ourselves.

Heaven or hell is not a one time destination. It is not the goal of our journey. It is the station of our journey that we keep going to with our every single choice and action.

Our healing increases our awareness. That in turn makes us choose heaven over hell more number of times. That way we seek heaven more often than not!

We don’t know what treasures we hit upon till we get them. We usually related and think ‘Reiki’ to be an avenue to fulfill our desires (that we are eligible for or that which is good for us or ones that we can handle) or a shield that protects us from all that is bad and harmful.

This is ‘the point’ that most of the sadhaks start their journey with Reiki. Though they start for this it is neither the end nor the ‘be all’ that Reiki can give us or bestow us with. Only the ‘regular sadhaks’ (regular – includes every student from 1^st degree channel to masters)  will go through this stage in multi-layer way. Their expectations are met in multi-dimensional way or multi-layered way.

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Questions answered :

• Why are we suffering day in and day out?
• How to be happy?
• How to mend people who are responsible for our suffering in our lives?
• What is the cause of our pain and suffering?
• When will our suffering come to an end?

Food for thought: 

• One sees a problem where the other sees an opportunity! The difference is in the perspective.
• The perspective decides our reaction or response.
• The perspective decides our fate.
• Perspective totally depends on the individual.
• That way 'self' is responsible for his hell or heaven.
• Self is within my reach to correct and the good news is that by correcting our responses over the period of time the way our life expresses itself also changes for better.

Life Tips:

Today when I went to stand in balcony saw two birds eating the food I had kept as bird food. I looked at them for long. And then I realized I was looking at my 'reiki miracle' not one but......

1. I could SEE the birds (meaning I had sight)
2. The joy I experienced just by seeing them eat
3. I had time to 'be' with them
4. Their 'chatter' that sounded so musical to my ears (bahut saari batein kar rahe the) 
5. I had food to share with them
6. I had heart to share with them
7. Reiki gave me 'a thought' to share it with them
8. The beauty of those birds

I came inside to attend to some other chores. But the miracle list continued. It was just I had cut it short by moving on to other chores......

Though it happened every day I still felt 'wow' every time i noticed. I had such miracles happening to me on daily basis.

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He did not become great by controlling or winning battles with brutal force and strength. He became great by winning over his own ego and anger!

And he knew and realized how much he had wounded the Master with his uncontrolled anger and so he fell on his feet! Alexander created his heaven there. He regretted his action and ego-drive. There he created his heaven. His genuine tears expressed his genuine regret. That way he was in heaven!

Verbal forgiveness or sorry is no repentances. It’s a ‘required act’ performed mechanically. There the feelings of resentment, ego, anger, expectations and conditions of ego are not washed off the soul. They still exist! As long as our attitudes of remorse are still with us we are in hell. The day they are washed away in our tears (not physical but of soul), then, no words like sorry etc is required or needed to express that repentance. Repentance if – ONLY if real is given forgiveness automatically! The person, if repents his acts or words, rises as a ‘new man’ without these qualities or emotions of expectations, ego, conditions, anger etc. He has created a heaven then and there with ‘his sins’ condoned and washed away!

One who says sorry but repeats his actions and words again and again creates hell for himself. Nay, he becomes hell for people in his life too! We carry our hell and heaven with us – where ever we go! We suck people into it by making them responsible for things in our lives!

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((Homework : Read this story again and again – even if you suppose you understand it or understood it. Read it again. Even if you say and think ‘I know this story from before’ – read it again!

Now write what you have understood from this in your reiki book and come back with your notes to read the blog post………))

Questions addressed : 

• Why seeking forgiveness verbally doesn't qualify for repentance? 

Food for thought :

• No forgiveness is received or given as long as it is only verbal.
• We say we cry seeking mercy. But that cry is not out of shame or regret of how we behaved or how we are as a person. We cry out of fear of having to receive punishment for out acts. We cry for we don't want to receive that punishment. When such tears are rolled out, we can't and never will get 'forgiveness'.
• We can't demand forgiveness.
• Seeking forgiveness itself means we have wronged. And if there is no humility even after thinking we have wronged then how can the other forgive us?
• Humility doesn't demand.
• Mercy is a favour done by the wronged. It is not the right of the wrong doer.
• Unless the soul cries out of pain and shame, unless soul is ready to wait till eternity to seek forgiveness it doesn't qualify to receive one.
• When we seek forgiveness we should be ready to do anything to seek condonment from the other. Only then our intention seems genuine. A verbal sorry is no sorry!