Just Let It Be-

Hi Folks !

The new year has begun.

Visualize it as the nicest one you are going to experience.

Thank the Universe right now for this blessing.

Let it work out how to make it so for you.

It's so simple, really!

Trust it, and let go !

Let those niggling issues remain just a niggle, do not let them overwhelm.

Obstacles and problems will be there, they add spice to what would otherwise be a bland life.

As a small exercise, go back to 1st Jan 2010 and the state of your problems on that day.

Now think of 1st Jan 2011.

How many of those aches and sorrows, tensions and worries remain with the same intensity?

There you are !

Smile.

Give gratitude.

Life's wonderful - because of the small print!

To begin the new year, here's a lovely story sent some time ago by Dattaji.

Once Gautam Buddha was travelling with a few of his followers.

While they were passing a lake, the Buddha told one of his disciples,

"I am thirsty. Do get me some water from the lake."

The disciple walked up to the lake.

At that moment, a bullock cart started crossing the waters of the lake.

As a result, the water became very muddy and turbid.

The disciple thought, "How can I give this muddy water to the Buddha to drink?"

So he came back and said, "The water in there is very muddy. I don't think it is fit to drink."

After about half an hour, the Buddha asked the same disciple to go back to the lake.

The disciple went back, and found that the water was still muddy.

He returned and informed about the same.

After some more time, the Buddha asked the same disciple to go back.

This time, the disciple found the mud had settled down and the water was clean and clear.

He collected some in a pot and brought it to the Buddha.

The Buddha looked at the water.

Then he looked up at the disciple and said,

" See what you did to make the water clean. You let it be. The mud settled down on its own -- and you have clear water.

Your mind is like that too !

When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time. It will settle down on its own. You don't have to put in any effort to calm it down. It will happen. It is effortless."

Having 'Peace of Mind' is not a strenuous job; it is an effortless process!

Wow!

He is something, isn't he?!

Let us take up a couple of questions now.

1.Can you please explain the meaning of "Time is an illusion"? I know the meaning on a very superficial level that time is not running away and we can have our ample time to learn our lessons and rise to the next stage of evolution
but I don't think this is it. Can you please explain this to me with some examples."

There was a similar question -

Is time passing or are we?!

When I am confronted with such interesting but seemingly intractable queries(and I myself used to have loads of them!), I follow an advice given in one of the Vipassana discourses.

Does this have a direct bearing on -

1. My suffering?

2.The cause of my suffering?

3. The removal of my suffering?

(That's 3 of the 4 Noble Truths!)

If the answer is Yes, look for the answer.

Where?

In the 4th one !

Follow the path!

Go inside your mind because that's where the question has come from, is going to stay, stagnate and stink and keep needling you.

So Meditate.

Still it.

If the answer is No, remove all such time - wasting clever techniques used by the mind to keep us from controlling it.

How?

Well, Meditate!

Read today's story again !

There's another question.

I had chosen my parents and they had chosen me as their daughter before I was born. However, when I wasn't born, they were alive, so how did we take this decision? Did my soul meet their astral bodies when they were fast asleep and we decided this? Please let me know.

There is a Level of Consciousness we all go to after the body dies.

It's the In-Between Stage, between 2 lifetimes.

(That's our real home and all of us are goinghome! not just shubhayeri !)

To understand this, go through the posts -

1. Pre - Birth Choice and Agreements and

2.The Soul's 7 stages.

We start as a group of 150 to 200.

After each lifetime, we take stock of things learnt, yet to learn and how best to go about it.

First we choose our individual lessons to learn , to evolve.

Next, from our group, we select the best possible supporting and challenging cast for the show and request them to be our mother/father/sibling/spouse/friend/enemy etc.

Our spiritual guides are present when future lives are planned. They advice and give their blessings to us.

There is an exchange of thoughts, most of us do take time over this, so no life is an accident, nor a coincidence.

The parents are born, get married, then have us.

Some times, we wait for a particular spirit to be our parent for our own special reason.

Those who are in the first 3 levels of consciousness, are not really aware of the In - Between stages and race to take a new birth.

As each one evolves, there is learning there too.

That's what you and your parents too have done.

So !

Love life, treat every day with the respect and care it deserves.

Be Happy !