Monday, October 30, 2006

Universe - Was Is Will

Universe is Non Judgmental. Till now, no human was ever able to find its origin, nor will ever find it. If there is something that is IMPOSSIBLE , it is IT, everything else is possible. All the science experiments to find out about it and the origins of it, is just a small drop in the ocean out there. Science would probably never ever get us there. But understanding can help. It can help us to an extent to see what Universe is. Even the experiences in life can help us broaden our vision and perspective about the mysteries of ways it work.
From time immemorial, Universe has been a self manifesting and self sustaining structure. It has been there, is there and will exist for time unknown. It is infact, beyond the space and time. It does not have any track of time, Time is just an understanding of us creatures to handle the our life in this universe well.

Universe is also a very self correcting machine, in the sense, it knows when to correct and when to let go, when to move, and when to demolish, when to abolish and when to create.
At a miniscule level, we all see the day to day events happening around us and get overwhelmed by those events and some times, stress out and that leads us into all kinds of dysfunctional dimensions. But the moment we start seeing things at a broader level, the understanding changes, and we figure out that there is some thing we all call “Bigger Picture”, to all these events happening in life and around us and at a universal level.

There are so many religious theories about origin of universe, and when the earth is going to perish and when the humanity is going to come to an end. But, those are just the ideas of the people who are spreading them, we ignorant humans blindly accepting those theories without doing any further inspection. Infact the answer for this is, "Introspection", like the famous spiritualists and philosophers say “It is all in the mind”. Yes, it is infact. The answers are their in the understanding of the mind. If we contemplate and go inside, we will find the answers.

But coming back to the Universal manifestations, the evolutionary theories, religious theories are pretty close to each other. This is reflected in another article that I had written “A Weird Analogy”. Both the sides come together and say that over a period of time, Earth goes through phases and evolutions. In the Hindu Mythology, they are called “Yugas” each yuga is associated with a God and Goddess called Avathar. So people believe that each of these yugas, start and as the bad keeps piling and growing up in the material world, the God comes down in a human form and resurrect the humanity. The similar theories exist in Islam, Christianity, Budhism, Sikhism, and so on. But the ultimate pointer is that, over a period of time, as the filth piles up, there is some form of energy that comes and does the cleanup.

The evolutionists come up with a very similar theory, that there were all kinds of creatures like Dinosaurs, and in the due course of time, there was a Volcanic eruption or a meteor hitting the earth and killed all the creatures and then new life started again and the evolution took place.

All the theories point to the same fundamental phenomenon, that universe knows, how and when it needs correction. It has its way of life, It is Intelligent, Far more intelligent than we humans. If we small specks of Flesh and blood are so smart to lead our lives and take care of ourselves, Don’t we think that Universe should be much more smarter than all of us together here, and the one force that has brought all of us here. Universe not only takes care of earth, but many more planets and galaxies, and stars out there. There is a reason for the formation of a new star, for a black hole and for our existence here. Like biological process in our human body, the universe is much larger process.

The answers to life and death, the pains and happiness, the sorrow and joy, all these are within the system. I once asked one of my spiritual friends “Why is there so much chaos in the world, created by us and by nature, For example, why did the people in Tsunami have to take the brunt, why did so many people suffer in an earthquake that hit Indonesia, AIDS in Africa, Drugs in America, Poverty in Asian countries, what sin did they do to suffer?”

The answer opened up my eyes, “Just like in a human body, all the cells are together performing so many functions and at the same time millions of cells are dying and a million are born, each one based on the situation and circumstance performing their duties and perishing.
In a similar manner, the Universe has a process running within, and we all are just small cells or even smaller than that contributing to something larger than life here on Earth. Our existance is beyond the flash of life on this planet."

Yes, this goes down deeper than what the above answer is at a logical level. It is about Acceptance of the events that happen around us. Just observing and keep doing our work. We all are performing our duties at any given moment of time and we switch roles and move on. Just the way cells are performing their duties and moving on, either dying, or transforming into something else. Accept everything that happens around us, and that each of us are performing what is programmed into us by the Universe. Universe is perfect and so we all are who are a subset of universe.

Understanding of the Universal Process, teaches us Acceptance, and in turn can make us lead better lives. Acceptance comes from Awareness, comes from observation, watching things slowly and being non- judgmental about events.

All these start making sense, when we go inside and look for answers, because we ourselves are manifestations of this Universal spirit covered with blood and flesh. Infact Acceptance and Understanding the nature of universal events go hand in hand.

Universe is absolute, It WAS, IS AND WILL.

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Song of Allah!!

What a beautiful and divine experience. One of the best spiritual retreats of my life. The soul sang, danced, and reached heaven, touched the home and bent down in love and joy, with all the due respect to the mother of all, the creator of all, the sustainer of this space, the Universal Spirit, the Cosmic Center from where all the souls arrive and depart. In that moment, the allah, the jesus, the krishna, everything is one and the same. "The Omen", "Allah oh Akbar", "Hare Krishna Hare Rama", they all mean the same, they all vibe the same energy and it is a point of convergence of all the souls in this material world.

Today my soul sang the song of Allah for the first time in my life, the soul probably in its past existences had opportunities to associate or be part of the groups of the messiah, but today to my knowledge, this soul that had been thirsty and curious to chant the name of Allah, had finally been quenched. Also this soul, had been wanting to be part of another marvel of creation of this universe, "Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi", the Poet of heart. This person came into my life at various points when I was trying to understand love, but today it is so special that destiny finally brought me close to him, to his soul and other souls that live and love his life and ways of expressing and sanctifying soul.

Today is momentous in my life, that finally I am seeing what I have been vibing inside for a long time. The Mirabhai's bhajans and poems were recited as we all souls were dancing to the lyrics of Rumi, and sounds of Mowlana on silent drums and the bands that are as subtle and tender as a baby's touch of skin. The sensitive sounds emergin of the skin of these drums along with the voices of soul, echoed at RoundHouse, Vancouver to lift the spirits of the land to the heavens. The material disappeared into the silence of the night, the bodies melted into their spirits and the minds vaporized into the plasma state of universal medium. At this moment Rumi's soul probably wavered around us and became part of all the souls dancing around. The 45 minute nirvanic dance and music, pulled many a soul to be part and energize their inner self and liberate and shed the skins of materialism and egos. For a moment, all the souls hand in hand, heart in heart, the energy forming a continuous strands of love and joy, encircled the painting of the chakra.

The unforgettable event with words of Allah, Il-ilahi, Bismillah, moving on everyone's lips of heart, as Leslie Stanick, depicted on the paintings she had done as a tribute to Rumi’s work, displayed in the Sacred space in RoundHouse, and my soul completely drenched in joy and mist of Pure Spirit.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Silence

Silence is the most powerful of languages. It communicates a million things in a zillion ways to everyone in the world. It is the Universal language of this Universe.

Lack and Abundance

Lack and Abundance
Frustration is caused by the feeling of Lacking in us, The root cause of all problems in our lives. The moment we feel that "I do not have this" and then start attributing reasons for the sense of lack, causes severe anxiety. This anxiety causes frustration and depression.

But as humans we all go through the peer pressure, or we end up getting something when we want something else in life,. This mis-match of the expectations vs results causes the sense of lacking and ultimately the pain in life.

How do we solve it?

First knowing ourselves, helps us in finding out what we want. Most of the times in life, we tend to not realise what we are, what we like and just keep doing something, Then when we look back, we realise that it is not what we wanted to do or have. This feeling causes frustration. So knowing ourselves clarifies what we want. Once any person is clear about what they want , life becomes easy. Things infact fall in place naturally as we do not have to strive for them. They come naturally to us. But this fundamental aspect of knowing ourselves is a big challenge. How do we know what we like, unless we try something? Unless as a child we tried different sweets, or desserts, how do we know what is our favorite.
How do we know what to order when we go to a restraunt next time.

But life is not as easy or simple as choosing a dessert. We have years of education, careers we build, relationships we emotionally get involved. So, it is not easy to change these and jump into a new one, especially with so much of peer and societal pressures. It becomes even harder to get what we want. Society creates many hurdles in finding out our true selves. The real self is hidden, by the layers of conditioning, parenting, teaching and social pressures. But, we all end up realising at some point or the other, To be our real self, find our real self and ask what I really want.
The moment the answer is clear, we pretty much start our dreams coming true. There is no more starvation, there is no more feeling of Lacking.

The feeling of lacking also comes from peer pressure. I might not necessarily want a big house in the Manhattan downown, but because my friend has it, I some times can get pressured, and cause the sense of lacking. To overcome this, I need to be clear. What I like is a small beautiful home on an island and swing in the backyard. That is me, and the moment I realise that, I go about in creating that and no more worry about what I do not have, compared to my friend. So to be aware of whether the want or need is from within or induced by some external force is very essential. The only way to avoid peer pressure is to become Aware of thoughts that run in our mind. Always check and see if the thought is original or induced.

So Life's challenge is to keep eliminating these forces that influence us at a material level and cover up the peaceful inner self. To keep the inner self always active and watchful is the trick of the trade. Life becomes easier. Many times, the sense of not having comes and causes pain. But truly we all are gifted and we live in a universe of abundance. The universe has so much to offer us. But we forget that and keep sulking in the lacuna between what we have and what we do not have.
Again deeply seeing, that gap is nothing but illusive. It actually does not exist. It is created by the conditioning of the society. That gap is illusionary. So always, always be in touch with your inner self. It is very easy to get distracted. But try to be on track, on the track of life's journey.
Well, some times we do get off track, it is ok to do that, because they count as life's experiences. These life experiences are knowledge and we become better individuals. Knowledge is powerful. It is like, we end up trying out different sweets in a tray, but at the end the knowledge about all of them helps next time someone offers a tray of sweets, we know what to exactly pick.

Eliminate Lacking and Life is Full...just like the Nature and Universe live in thoughts of abundance.

New SOul

A new Soul is born now, at this moment...