Limitation is imitation

Living as an “imitation,”

Life is perceived and received,

As the thus created limitations.

Mired in the thoughts conditioned,

The mind is stalked,

By the stock of inhibition,

Imposing the same as prohibition,

Calling it: Life’s limitations.

Yet, the mind awakened to the soul,

As cognizes and accepts the purpose sole,

Realizes: Limitations are none.

Mind, mindful, seeing through the illusions,

Embracing life’s eternal invitation,

Calls out: Limitations are, but an imitation!

  

                                                                                           Sushmita,

                                                                                                 August 5, 2014

Freedom is, from fear

As moments are lived, living in the moment, realized  is more and more the evolving meaning of Rabindranath Tagore's "Where The Mind Is Without Fear." Realized is that freedom is the state of mind's absolute freedom from fear...its freedom from its very own inhibiting and prohibitive cultural indoctrination, its conditioned thinking. Shackles are not external, but internal...a mind fettered with  thoughts regressive, wired to the past that has passed for ever, mired in doubts, courting bouts—intermittent and frequent—of fear: superimposition of the past on the present.  

Realized is that this journey of realization is the journey of liberation, of the mind from the mind, reposing to, immersing and staying immersed, permanently, in the essence of being, inherently free, allowing itself to be guided as the tool that it is, relinquishing the superficial notion of being the doer. As it surrenders itself to the essence, the soul, and thus the Source of being, it ends its superficial reign, handing over its reins, with gratitude and glee, fully free, to the Source. And in such a state of awareness, comes out from within (a manifestation of a resonance, with a sharing by Neale Donald Walsch, on Facebook, on June 20, 2014), from the core:

Where the mind is without fear,

The path is absolutely clear,

As to that one does adhere,

For which one has come here.

Sushmita Mukherjee,

June 20, 2014

Maya Angelou: Still I Rise....

That she does, as angelic is her presence...her essence....

As her physical form ceases to be, her, "Still I Rise," reverberating in the consciousness, since the time I got the opportunity to read it (thanks to a student-cum-friend, Mahasweta Podder), experiences a rise in the frequency, coursing through with further momentum.

Paradoxically, the news of her "crossing over," as is received, I get to know that which I didn't: I have been sharing the same phase of eternity, in physical form, with her, though, I had thought otherwise. Why, I know not. And that matters not.... The essence never ceases to be...and thus, her presence, as has been felt, will continue to be.

In fact, even in this, her, "Still I Rise" is heard...! Poignant and powerful...inspiring and inviting...affirming and encouraging....

Yes, she will continue to rise through eternity...having indelibly imprinted eternity...though her body is put to rest.... She stands for an indomitable "rising" and her words seem to waft within: "Still I rise...though no longer I am in form called 'Maya Angelou'...and I will continue to, for ever...."

I take this opportunity to thank her, and express my regards and tribute to her, knowing well, the essence connects independent of the form....

The taste that she has imparted...will continue to rise...and linger...and inspire...eternity...through eternity...eternally....

Sushmita Mukherjee,

May 29, 2014

Invocation of prana, life, and faith

Deifying the divine, the life force, as idols are worshipped, they are, after the ritual (performed by the “qualified,” hailed as the connecting medium) of prana pratishtha, invoking life in the lifeless form. And in cases of festivals where the idol is immersed in water, like Durga Puja, the deity is invoked, again, to leave the form to render it lifeless, and the ritual is of visarjan.

Coming to the one of prana pratishtha, and obviously, all is a matter of faith and not contention, but of utter regard, one faith honoring the other, while it continues to follow its own path, fully, the queries arise:

• Why an external medium is required to connect to the divine?
• Is it not because the divine is placed out of us, while found within one realizes that It is that sublime sense of love, Its essence, unconditional love, which only one can feel, and no connector is required for the same? Though, it is also is true that there are many who connect to the external form without needing any connector. Nothing is being generalized, as important is faith, and each one has unique ways and means of connecting, as is acknowledged that the guru within, our essential essence, does come out in a form that one would be receptive to, the form could be animate or inanimate, guiding one to ultimately transcend the forms and find the divine in the formless...everywhere...in everything...every being...Its omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, realized, as is realized oneness with It, as every manifestation happens within, as all is experiential.
• Is not deifying the divine, a futile attempt at trying to confine the infinite in the edifice of a form, and limiting Its experience, and that of life? And has not this, also, led to acts deplorable in the name of the divine, as also, claims of one’s ways as the way and one’s God as the most powerful and best?
• Anyways, acknowledging all as the infinite ways and means of accessing and realizing the life force, the essential energy that we all are in form, albeit, vibrating at different frequencies, still, the query knocks that while idols are worshiped, as prana is perceived in them, as is believed to have been invoked in them, why is it so difficult to invoke the prana that flows through us, the life force? It flows so we are.... It simply has to be believed in and called forth, realized.
• Is it because it seems too good to be true?

At the end of it all it is all a matter of awareness.... That which we are aware of being and having, with faith in the awareness, that we bring to being...that we invoke, as thus we resonate with the prana that flows in, as and through them, and thus, establish (pratistha) them as realities of our life.

Awareness becomes aware to the query: How do we not take cognizance of the prana that establishes us...for which we are in form, the very form we hold as our real reality?

Sushmita Mukherjee,

April 9, 2014

Life, recycled, eternally....

Life is an eternal cycle, its process thus of eternal recycling, as life is recycled eternally.... A process of eternal conservation of soul it is, moving through eternity, undergoing infinite transformations, so as to realize the infinite essence that it is.... In bodily form, with the unique combination of a unique mind to go with it, when the body goes with the mind, disconnected from the sense of the essence, nothing seems to go right, as we then embody not the soul but the mind. It is a superficial living, spending of life, bereft of the sensitivity and sensibility of the essence, and we complain of being taken for a ride by life. How and what else can it be, when we cycle but the limbs are not our own...when we move yet the direction is not known...when we move yet, know not why we do...when we move chained to the fetters of “shoulds” even though the movement doesn’t feel true?

But life, ever-affirming, its purpose, to lead us to our origin, which is our destination final, keeps cycling, untiringly, the soul transforming, from lifetimes to lifetimes, and presents with recurrent repetitions, as petitions to change our response, evolve them. And it is not only through lifetimes that repetitions appear, but, in, as and through the times of a given lifetime, too—this, an earnest introspection would clearly speak out as, as are retrieved incidents and evolved take on them from the recycle bin of memory, irrespective of how long they have been lounging there. So long we keep repeating the same choices, the ones which are inverse to the essence of life, detrimental to our purpose, life, keeps repeating the representations.... Thus, the cycle of life.... Hence, the repetitions....

As, en masse, humanity is being awakened to the indispensability of recycling, of preserving and conserving the resources, so as to utilize and honor them, to make them available to all, and keep them available for posterity, the process of life, in, as and through human form is a lesson in why and how life is cycled, eternally, and life is thus eternally recycled to realize its fullest potential and purpose, unchained fully, flowing as the essential essence completely.

Sushmita Mukherjee,

April 4, 2014 

Can...

We jump to conclusions, jumping at the opportunity to pass judgments, creating many such opportunities, seemingly, out of nowhere, and thus declare, the likes of, as per our liking: “You/he/they... should have done this,” rarely, “I/we should have done this,” and covering up in and as defense, with a lamentation, a resigned statement, stating, “What can I/we do?”

Yet, we shy away from asking: Why do the thoughts of “asking” from others, cross the way of our consciousness? Do we consider selves incapable of doing the same, or do we consider it to be not applicable to and for us? And above all, is it because, we have different sets of rules for self and others?

Ruminating, over these, and introspecting on our lives and times would lead us, inevitably, to the realization: All that dots our lives are the spots that we have created, whether consciously or unconsciously. The truth is spotted, sooner or later...and again, at the right moment, when the awareness is ripe to receive what it receives, and thus it receives.  

When a smile, directed at others, creates a feeling of warmth inside—to cite a simple sighting, experience, instead of extending the observation, though a fact, “Be the change that you wish to see in the world,” a famous observation by Mahatma Gandhi, so as to convey that we get what we give...we create through our being—even before the one towards whom it is directed is impacted, why choose to be a bystander, living life as a standby, putting life on a standby, and then blame all those who happen to pass by, all passers-by reviled...?

Why not ask, self, “What can I do, and who can I be, to change what I wish to change?” Life is a “can” of infinite possibilities, and it is up to us to find out how and what we can extract from the infinite content to change the contents of our life.

Life, is always affirming, manifesting our intent, always, without discriminating the content of the intent...and thus, beckoning us to activate and utilize its natural reciprocity, affirming: “You can do even more than you think you can.... Have that belief and with that belief have the intent to expand the ‘can’ of your ‘can’s’. Instead of asking what others can do, and lamenting that you can’t do anything about it, affirm and be the affirmation: ‘I can and will, do...: effect the change that I wish to see...my will willed to the intent to change, with faith in the operation of life, within and without...knowing, it intends to keep us operational, always, and in-operational, never....”

Life calls out to us, earnestly looking forward to our affirmation: “So be it....”

So be it!

Sushmita Mukherjee,

March 18, 2014

Gift of self-worth

One can take anything from anyone, but, one shouldn't, ever, try to take away or dent the self-worth of anyone. That is the ultimate gift that one can give to anyone...even if by not giving or infusing self-worth in that being.... And of course, if one can infuse it, lead one to one’s self, to the light within, then, it is an icing on the cake. Such a being, thus led, acknowledges that this is one cake that tastes better than the best.

This is made possible by those, who, consciously or unconsciously, are led by their own light within, love within, and thus, spontaneously spread that light, being the “being of light” that one is...as we all are so...lighting the path of others, showing, where the path is and leads: inwards. 

Sushmita Mukherjee,

March 5, 2014

Note: This is one of the primal messages of Neale Donald Walsch's Conversations with God series, too: "Give people back people to themselves..."