Elevate your Consciousness

Everything that takes place in your life happens because of your consciousness.
Raise your consciousness and you raise your whole being, your whole outlook on life, and you start to live the full and glorious life which is your true heritage.
You can be told about it, and you can see others living it; but until it enters your consciousness and you can accept that is is for you, nothing happens. The most seemingly simple and childlike soul can accept the Kingdom of Heaven far more easily than the most deeply intellectual soul who thinks it knows all the answers with its mind, but its consciousness has not been raised to higher levels.
Every soul can reach an elevated state of Consciousness.
But it is something to be achieved from within, from inner knowing, from inspiration and intuition which require no outer knowledge and wisdom.
It is all there within every soul, simply waiting to be recognised , drawn forth and lived.

- Eileen Caddy

Opening Doors Within

It is in the stillness that all will be clarified. It is in stillness that you become at peace and can find Me.
I AM always here, but you are blind to this wonderful fact until you can become still and seek Me in the silence, and you can do it at all times. The more often you put it unto practise, the more natural it becomes until you can do it as naturally as breathing. You do not have to rush off to be by yourself to find Me.
You will be able to find Me at all times and in everything you are doing. It does not matter what chaos and confusion are all around you or what outer noise there may be. You can go into that inner peace and silence and find Me.
When you have found Me, the Light of Truth will shine on every situation, for where I AM,
there is no darkness :
there are no problems...
There is only Peace.

-Eileen Caddy
( An excerpt from her book Opening Doors Within )

In Unity lies Love

The Mystics tell us that we are born for one purpose : to expand our awareness until we see everyone on the face of the earth as our very own, our kith and kin. Distant as it may sound, the joy of this all-embracing love is within the reach of us all, and we dont have to wait until the afterlife to taste it.
Every step along the way brings greater happiness, love and richness to life. More than three thousand years ago, sages who belong not just to India but to the whole world gave us one of the earliest spiritual treasures known to history, The Rig Vedas.
Here is a prayer addressed to all of us :
Meet together, talk together.
May your minds comprehend alike.
Common be your action and achievement,
Common be your thoughts and intentions,
Common be the wishes of your heart,
So there may be thorough Union among you.
Unity is strength; unity is the purpose of Love. in relationships it may begin with physical expression, but holding hands and cheek to cheek is just the surface of Love. Two hearts becoming one, two lives becoming one: that is the true meaning of Love. We just dont know the signals. We dont know the code.

But St.Francis broke the code ; SisterTeresa of Avila deciphered its signs. She said, " Amor saca Amor." Love begets Love. When we give love, we draw love to us from everyone around us, and in that love is the highest heaven a human being can know. When you give yourself to all, the Mystics say, you no longer love just one person here and another there ; you become Love itself.
This is a heavenly insight into the depths of the human heart. We begin by loving just one or two people, but the day will come when we catch the entire world in our Love. Imagine the Joy of loving all creatures, all people, the whole of nature!
As The Upanishads say, anywhere such a person goes, he or she is at home in a compassionate universe :

Those who see all creatures in themselves
And themselves in all creatures know no fear.
Those who see all creatures in themselves
And themselves in all creatures know no grief.
How can the multiplicity of life Delude the one who sees its Unity?

- Eknath Easwaran (One of the most loved Spiritual Teachers-PBUH)

“Let the ugliness of unkindness in others impel me to make myself beautiful with loving-kindness.

May the harsh speech from my companions remind me to use sweetwords alway , if stones from evil minds are cast at me, let me send in return only the missiles of goodwill.

As a jasmine vine sheds its flowers over the hands, delivering the axe blows at its roots, so, on all who act inimically towards me may I shower the blossoms of Forgiveness.

O lord of Compassion, teach me to shed tears of love for all beings.

May I behold them as my very own-different expressions of my Self.

I easily excuse my own faults ; let me therefore forgive the failings of others.

Bless me, O Father, that I not inflict on my companions unwelcome criticism. If they ask my advice in trying to correct themselves, may I offer suggestions inspired by Thee.

I will behold the person who now considers himself as my enemy to be in truth my Divine brother hiding behind a veil of misunderstanding. Let me tear aside this veil with a dagger of love so that, seeing my humble, forgiving understanding, he will no longer spurn the offering of my goodwill .”

-Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (PBUH)

Thoughts from My Spiritual Diary-13

I have been waiting and yearning with bated breath to have a glimpse of the clear blue sky wearing a new grey coat and yes, its finally raining and pouring cats and dogs here in Mumbai City…and I am ecstatic : )
The rains have always been my favourite season and I am so much at bliss during the monsoons. As I kid, I used to feel that when God was happy and He had a hearty laugh, tears would roll down His cheeks and it would rain…!! It was a sign of His Happiness which came down as blessing soothing the dry, arid and burning minds of all His Children!
What immense joy and pleasure it is to see the green trees having a celebration of sorts with Beautiful Mommy Nature, dancing, swaying, endlessly giggling and passing on all their happy vibes to souls like me who then join in their party!
Water falling from the Heaven’s fountain and for a long four months…its sure a cleansing process I feel. The washing and bathing of the dusty, clogged minds and hearts and love being flowed incessantly into our hungry souls…That’s the beauty of the rains…from the Heaven’s own intricately carved white marble fountain : )
With all our the sorrows and bitterness being washed away it sure makes my heart bloom to see My Eternal Soulmate being happy after a long long time!
As I write these words sitting in my office as it pours heavily outside, I cant seem to focus enough on where these words are flowing…the breeze touching my face and asking me to come out and play with it and the trees inviting me to have a tea break..;)
The rains have such a calming effect on me and I just keep having bouts of amnesia forgetting all my worries and petty issues which usually keep bothering me, thanks to me brooding temperament.

Like me, Kunal too is such a nature lover and our talks about its captivating beauty especially during the monsoons seem to be endless! Over a hot cup of tea, he usually comes up with all those topics that he would otherwise not open up with and I am so peacefully hearing out all his talks (without the slightest irritation ;) and he says it’s the magic of rains that his sister has become such a good girl so instantly! I agree with him, after all it’s the magic of His Laughter remember??!!
Rains come every year and bring with it so many nostalgic moments and cherished memories of my loved ones especially my father, who too was a die hard romantic at heart and an ardent rain lover..all the moments I shared with him liven up this time of the year and there was never any monsoon without his loving thought and even now as I write these words I have a photo of his near me and can feel his blessed aura :)
My only consolation is that he is with Him sharing the joyous laughter and having a goodtime : )
From your mad little sweety and kuni..who are still stumbling without you..we so dearly miss you and your Love..every moment and every heartbeat…
May you always be happy and have that million dollar smile on your face everytime you see us march ahead and put up a brave front :))

Happy Monsoons to you Papa :)

Welcome Pari Jaan : )

Dearest Friends,
My Soul Sister Pari Jan has started a wonderful and beautiful blog called Seeking Noor.
Please visit her blog and leave your blessings and comments :)
Let us all warmly welcome her in our Blogosphere!
My Sincere goodwishes and prayers for you Pari- My Little Angel :))

Here is an excerpt from her blog..A very soothing post, an excellent read called, Stormy Night

“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely....

It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take “everyone on Earth” to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale....Read furthur...

As I lay down in bed with a tired self and a disillusioned heart in an attempt to seek solace from God and an answer to my innumerable questions I happened to open this page from the book, LOOKING FROM WITHIN by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother..and there I found the above writings!

Talk about His Divine Intervention : ))

He is truly My Sweetheart!

May you all find inner peace and an end to all your worries, just the way I found mine!

Love you all :)

“ Every morning my aspiration rises ardently to Thee, and in the silence of my satisfied heart I ask that Thy law of Love may be expressed, and that Thy will may be manifest. And in anticipation I adhere with joy and serenity to those circumstances which will express this law and this will.

Oh, why be restless and want for oneself that things should turn out in one way and not another! Why decide that a particular set of circumstances will be the expression of the best possibilities and then launch into a bitter struggle so that these possibilities may be realised! Why not use all one’s energy solely to will in the calm of inner confidence that Thy law may Triumph everywhere and always over all difficulties, all darkness, all egoism! How the horizon widens as soon as one learns to take this attitude; how all anxiety vanishes giving place to a constant illumination, to the Omnipotence of disinterestedness!

To will what Thou Willest, O Lord, is to live constantly in communion with Thee…to be delivered from all contingencies, to escape all narrowness, to fill one’s lungs with pure and wholesome air, to get rid of all useless weariness, be relieved of all cumbrous loads, so as to run briskly towards the only goal worth attaining : the Triumph of Thy Divine Law!

As soon as one becomes conscious and convinced of this, one can no longer worry about future circumstances or the turn of events : it is with perfect serenity that one does at every moment what one thinks best, convinced that the best too is sure to come from it, even if it is not the result which we, with our limited reasoning, expected from it.

O Lord, with what Joy and Trust I greet Thee this morning!!....”

-The Mother

Happiness is easy. Its letting go of unhappiness thats hard.

A hundred times a day our love of happiness is cut short by our even greater fear of it. A happy thought is inevitably followed by a "realistic" one.. We are willing to give up everything but our misery.
If we find ourselves laughing with abandon, singing in the shower, or whistling loud enough to be overheard, for some nagging reason we feel we must resume a "serious" state of mind. And yet its happiness that is truly practical and serious.
It positively affects our mental and physical health, our relationships with friends and family, our job performance, not to mention our relationship with God.
Happiness connects us with Reality ; Unhappiness disconnects us.

Hugh Prather- One of my favourite writers.

" Now you may ask, How can we come to perceive this direct leading of God?
By a careful looking at home, and abiding within the gates of thy own soul.
Therefore, let a man be at home in his own heart, and cease from his restless chase of and search after outward things"

- Johannes Tauler

Reflections on Love

My Dearest Friends,
Here i am sharing with you a soul stirring piece of writing by Sri Paramhansa Yogananda (PBUH) whose books i am currently reading and am completely engulfed by every single word. He has experienced a multitude of the innumerable aspects of the Ultimate Reality. And he expresses such Intense Love and Devotion to God that it inspires us to tread towards Him and be drowned in His Love...May we all be drenched in His Divinity!
He says,

"Love is a golden mansion in which the King of Eternity homes the entire family of Creation. And at His command, Love is a mystic fire that can melt the grossness of the cosmos into the invisible substance of Eternal Love.
Like a river, Love flows continuously through humble, sincere souls ; but it bypasses the rocks of egotistic, selfish, sensebound souls, because it cannot pass through them.
Love is an omnipresent spring with countless founts. When one of its heart-openings is clogged with the debris of wrong behaviour, we find it surging from some other heart. But to think of love dead in any heart is Ignorance of the omnipresence of Love.

One should never block with wrong actions the channels of Love in his own soul. Then he will drink with countless mouths of soul-feeling from the Divine fountain of Love coursing endlessly through all open hearts.
Love may exist in the presence of passion, but when passion is mistaken for Love, Love files away. Passion and Love together are a bittersweet mixed drink that produces some joy, but mostly an after sorrow. When pure Love is quaffed , the taste for passion loses itself in the sweetness of true feeling.
Droplets of Love sparkle in true souls, but in Spirit alone is found the Sea of Love. To expect perfection in human Love is folly unless one seeks to perfect that Love by feeling within it God's Love. Find God's Love first ; then, with His Love, Love whatever or whomever you like.

Do not limit your Love to one being, however lovable, to the exclusion of all else. Rather, with the Love you feel for the one you love most, Love all beings and all things, including the one you love. When you try to inprison Omnipresent Love in the form of one soul, it will escape and play hide and seek with you until you find It in every soul. Increase the intensity ans Spiritual quality of the Love you feel for one or a few souls, and give It to all. Then you will know what Christ- Love is.

Love is wonderfully blind, for it dwells not in the flaws of the beloved, but loves unconditionally through eternity. When dear ones are parted by death, mortal memory may fail to recall the pledges of love they made ; but true Love never forgets, nor does it die. For incarnations, it escapes from the heart of one form and enters that of another, pursuing the beloved, fulfilling all its promises until the emanicipation of those souls in Eternal Love.

Grieve not for lost love, whether it is through death or the fickle fluctuations of human nature. Love itself is never lost, but just plays with you in many hearts ; that in pursuing it you might find its ever greater manifestation. It will keep hiding from you, and disappointing you, until you have quested long enough to find its abode in the One who resides in the deepest recesses of your own soul, and in the heart of everything. "

-Written in 1940s