Raising a toast...

To provoke or invoke (depends on how one sees it, all contextual and perceptual) a query, is to invoke and incite an insight, an answer, which we know not we know, till we sight them as an insight (inside, and thus, named!), when entering into the explanation that a query beseeches.... And as comes up the sighted and is cited, realized is, again and again, anything and everything comes up in infinite ways, and could it be otherwise, when at source, every thing and being is infinite, the Source of all, one and infinite?

Being a host to this post, is yes...attributed to a query raised, as it is that that contributes to this post, that coasted along and out, as a comment (a part shared here, though all contextual, yet, the part, standalone, too). In response to the post “Deconstructing Edifice...” a being, not getting the response from within, not understanding, graciously put forth the query as to what it alludes so, as only thus deluded, would she be able to follow it. I am thankful to her for the same, and for all, that has flowed and follows in its wake.... The explanation unfurled...that, if  the rituals, tenets that she follows, present her with the peace...trust...the sense of knowingness of being connected to God (the whole purpose of following those principles being that), presenting her with those sparks, the moments of absolute clarity...of the reality—however transient are those moments, the experience and the feelings are persistent, inciting more and more of such moments—that she is one with God, those principles are working for her, and thus, are true for her, but if they are not, they are not true for her.

And then, is unwrapped (unbeknownst), with sublime fluidity, that which comes about as the signpost, the crux of this post, raising a toast to all that is, God...our very essence...love...and thus, the reiteration eternal that unconditional love is God, that sublime feeling of requiring none and nothing else, external to one, and that, created are each and everyone, with love, by God, as God-incarnate, to realize God. Realizing unconditional love, immersing in a state of being, of absolute knowingness, is experiencing God, and thus, one’s God-self.

Here is that toast (that part of the reply), though, it came out as queries (yes, again!), to the one who put forth the initiating query:

“A simple and fundamental question: Can anyone decide for us, how we would love a person (irrespective of the domain of the relationship), and what would be the experience? When you put in a ‘should’—that, love should be experienced and expressed in only such and such ways—and try to follow it, only pain is experienced, as innately, we can feel the truth of love...and thus, what feels true, and what doesn't. Likewise, for experiencing the connectedness with God.... When a rule is set, the stage is set for allowing all, but that.... Just ponder, what is that activity that presents you with unparalleled satisfaction, a feeling of immersion in the activity, seeking nothing and none? You surely have such an activity. So, please embrace it more and more, and then, you would be led to yourself...your oneness with God, and then, you will realize what stands true for you, and what doesn't. For one, you could begin to have your own journal...that is, if you already aren't into journaling....”

And, on this note, I leave you all to ponder, on the same, as when the same is answered, nothing remains the same—satisfyingly overhauled, all is. After all, it is about deconstructing those edifices, that defy and deny life, at the core...the issue core, that, unanswered, has been corroding life and times till there is nothing more to corrode and erode and erase, save that, which has been behind the corrosion. The unconditional is realized by coming out of the conditional inputs....

Thus, is raised a toast, to love...God...that erases the erosive, dissolves the corrosive, healing all with Its unconditional love—all-pervasive, all-accepting—none deemed abusive, all hailed as one of Its own, on a journey of realization, to and through which It guides, all the way. That is Its eternal, unwavering word...that is the purpose of life in physical form, which, It facilitates through the process of life...all the way!

So here is to our essence of being, love, God, for which, all that there is, is...!

Sushmita,

December 29, 2014

Sharing the e-magazine imantra

Grateful to be a part of the 8th issue of the e-magazine imantra, and sharing, likewise, the links: http://www.imantra.org/issue-8/issue-8.html andhttp://www.imantra.org/

The website and the magazine—in fact, all the 8 issues—behold and uphold the magnanimity of life, and how imantra's mission and vision is merged with mantra of life, and endeavors to lead all to same. Once, that is known, nothing remains the same, wonderfully overhauled as all is, transformed, as one is, inside out, journeying within to journey without, finding one's core, and allowing it to come to the fore, as, being the core, lies at the core, as the principle principal of living a fulfilling life, as that is the purpose sole, living as the soul, the core, realized, oneness with the Source realized.... And this, inevitably, sends out healing, in myriad ways, from within to without, life, individual as well as collective, all, a part of the whole, and whole in one's own self....

Deconstructing edifice...

What a respite, deconstructing the edifice of the conditioned mind, provides, despite the concomitant jarring and rubbles that one has to wade through. As the realities, of being, the truth of one’s being, the existence behind existence, eternal, are experienced, the subjective is seen through, the objective truths leading to and through one’s objective, purpose of and in life. Then, one’s own experiences suffice, and solely resorted to, instead of consorting with what the “described” and “prescribed” experiences should be, chipping of, gradually but assuredly—reluctantly to begin with, but then, spontaneously—the momentum picking up by the moment, the edifice of norms and conventions that bind the experiences as “normal” and “abnormal,” “right” and blasphemous... Blasted are those edifices, and it is a blasting that is calming, the hammering, of the inner voice, feeling the truth of feelings, heard and adhered....

A state of ecstasy, even if momentary, watering the eyes spontaneously, and at the same time, glistening with joy, the droplets of tears let out, drop as pearls of bliss...face alight with an ear-to-ear smile, a warmth filling all cells of being, and overflowing...all, experienced...the contrasting expressions, all at once, is that ultimate truth of connection, with one’s Source of being...Its love.... A moment of such experience dissolves all torments, in a moment.... So what, if the activity that brought it on is not something which is documented...that, which doesn’t belong to the "normal" definition of prayer or the prescribed rituals? It could be anything; even a light breeze caressing the cheeks, could provide the sublime feeling of emancipation and completion, feeling one’s completion within, the whole that one is....

How, one would connect with the Source, how should one love...are the primal urgencies, yearning intrinsic, and they find themselves bound in many principles, yet, the Source and love, one, unconditional love, is boundless.... And thus, the sole aspect, that guides the whole of life and living, as there is nothing else, It being all that there is. And in trying to guide one to one’s existence, the existential truth, one’s very being, through external means, meaning of being and divine, accessed is anything but that. The edifices that have been constructed, eons back—and for which, humanity has been serving as peons, mindlessly—have sufficiently and efficiently, constructed confusions unbound, albeit, ignorantly, and not a bit of it, but with an immensity that finds the perplexity of humanity at its zenith, and likewise manifestations....

Creating edifices, and choking the natural expressions of the Divine, our very essence, binding it in labels, at various levels, no wonder, would create disabilities, and that it has, and quite successfully. And yet, it is the magnanimity of the force, that, untiring, blasts through, judging none, claiming nothing, simply affirming, gently, all has been due to ignorance, and time is now, like never before, to bring about this holy deconstruction of all edifices that have been blocking the flow of life, from within to without, creating fibrillations of discord instead of the reverberations of harmony for which creation got created.... Like never before, humanity is being called out to connect with the reality of being human...depending wholly and solely on one’s holy self, whole...wholesome...and see the same holiness in all, which is possible, only when all dogmas...conventions...these walls are deconstructed, reconstructing life in and as its full holiness, each moment holy...each breath a prayer...life a pilgrimage of realizing one’s divinity, individually, and facilitating the same collectively...a thanksgiving....

Yes...difficult it is to come out of those constructs, edifices of eons...perceiving them to have been functional.... Yet, at the core, any construct, that perceives and propagates a separation between the self and the Source, builds a wall, has to be brought down, to bring oneself to life, fully, truly.... Such a construct, which bears the seed destructive, creating an impression of separation from God, and thus inflicting depression, calls for destruction, deconstruction...for the resurrection...and such a situation, thus, arises, bringing down all the edifices in the mind, a revolt within, manifesting as one without, and hence, revolutions....

Standing on the precipice, finding the edifices of eons bringing down the whole of creation into pieces, departing from the bliss, peace with which creation intrinsically is encoded, as individuals start decoding the same, accessing the master key, self-awareness, evolution constant, as self-referral is constantly on, everything starts falling into its place, by felling all that which blocks the place. Hence, evolution, revolutionary intrinsically, brings down the edifices that threaten to bring down the boundless edifice of life, deconstructing the edifice superficial....  

When something crumbles, tumbles and fumbles, accompanies the rumble. But, instead of grumble as the response, it is better to know why happens, what happens, so that it won’t happen again—if we do not wish it to happen. As the process of life humbles, it guides to stand up and tall, the armor of self-awareness impenetrable, knowing, that which isn’t functional, has to give way, even if that way is initially experienced as jarring, as follows the healing comprehensive. Well, standing on the precipice, life leads, from within to without, to this recipe sole, deconstructing to reconstruct...for realizing the whole, wholesome, holy that life is, beginning with self...whole in itself, and a part unique of the whole...of creation, resurrected, realized!

Sushmita,

December 19, 2014

Racism, what is, and what is not?

Yes, this question knocks, and knocks very hard, on the doors of consciousness, even as those labeled “racists” are knocked hard and down, with and by rejection, racism, unacceptable, under any and all circumstances. And the word that provokes and invokes the question and insight: “Race.”

On one hand, race implies a competition, of any sort, and on the other, “race,” stands for the human classification, based on various parameters: anatomical, geographical, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, religious, and / or social affiliation (Wikipedia). And there is found and felt an uncanny link between these two “hands”—as if, shaking of the hands, strengthens the stand, of both.

True, racism is held and felled, for the discrimination, atrocious, based on the color of the skin, carrying out the atrocities—propagated by the “race,” collectively called humanity, and which hails itself as “the” intelligent creation of creation. Yet, the very act, of profiling, on the basis of pigmentation is a mark, indentation of ignorance of the intelligent “race” called humans—the very race, which is called out, implored: “Be human.”

True it also is that, there is no harm in classifying and categorizing, but, what, if the classification is integral to claiming supremacy of one over the other? And it is so, even classifying one’s God, superior to That of the other, proclaiming It as the “most powerful”—and in trying to impose one’s notion, the imposition breaches all integrity of humanity. And this is no classified information.

Science teaches that classification makes the study systematic and so, it indeed is. But, when that classification is used (abused and misused?) for redemption—and of what, that, too, we do not know—what purpose does it serve? Yes, the hands matter that handle the tools....

We indict racism, a specific type of racism, “chromatic racism,” that which is based on color. Yet, racism of all sorts, we indulge in... Yes...indulge...and even in the “chromatic racism,” and thus, thrives the cosmetic means to become fair when nature is considered unfair for not having made one fair. Then, there is that criterion (in many parts of the world, still) for the prospective bride / groom: Wanted, fair-complexioned...! Well...well...the indulgence of ignorance, runs, unbound, in a race, that is perceived to be life on the physical plane, the nomenclature of “races” presenting the lineup for the race. Thus, we conjure the race and injure ourselves, in a race to injure the other “race.”

We do not see ourselves as one “race,” “humanity,” as we do not see ourselves as the formless essence in form, our source one. Thus, every time we speak out against anyone and refer to as a “race” (which could be even a generalization of trait), we are courting and quoting racism. It is a race we have pushed ourselves into, unwittingly. Yet, we are empowered to pull ourselves out of this race, willingly, embracing each and all as a part, unique, of creation, beauty lying in the diversity, bracing for a life wherein our decisions are independent of the external parameters, independent of all generalizations and precedence....

When the “ism” of life and living is dependent on the generalizations and perceptions based on a “race,” it is a race and 180 degrees departure from the “ism” of life: oneness. Lost in the race of “races,” the grace, that life is, is lost, till is regained, as we trace our roots, charting various routes, though direction, in each case, same: inward.

So, the question haunts and taunts: Racism, what is, and what is not?  

Sushmita,

November 13, 2014

Note: Thanked is Taposhi Samanta for sharing (on Facebook) Jiddu Krishnamurti’s definition of what is violence. The insight, which was brewing, has been thus filtered, catalyzed by the resonance.

Chase of Choices by Dr Hari Parameshwar: An immensely thought-provoking and insight-invoking book

“Nothing ends in life forever. Every end leads to one or more new beginnings. It is a new opportunity: To try out new things, to perform new experiments. It is a rolling wheel, like Buddha’s wheel of dharma, with its eight spokes representing: Right insight, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right efforts, right mindfulness and right meditation. It is a continuum, revolving continuously , without an end. As the wheel of life rolls we experience new experiences, only to return to where we began. But by then, we are different, with the accumulation of new knowledge and experiences within. Nothing ends... And nothing is forever! We just experience... Life is nothing but a process of continuous rolling, of learning and experiencing the occurrences.”

The thoughts provoked, insights invoked by Chase of Choices invokes the opening of this post with the message, the last “message” that the book forwards…and quite aptly…

This is the last one, of the forty-six universal laws (as is mentioned on the back cover page), that Chase of Choices so brilliantly conveys, as is weaved a story captivatingly, chronicling a moving journey of the protagonist, in search of that elixir, of emotional stability, an unconditional relationship... And as it thus moves, brought forth is, how, the mind keeps moving, winding and meandering through the complexities, created by the conditioned thinking of the mind, a conditioning deep, and going even deeper than the conscious mind, embedded in the subconscious. The yearning continues, and thus continues the chase...

Yes, it is a fiction, but no fiction is without a basis in non-fiction. Through the fiction, the non-fiction, the reality of our emotions are expressed beautifully.

When there is smoke, fire is there, whether perceptible or otherwise. If  there is an effect, there  is a cause. Everything, that is manifest, would not have been, had there not been the unmanifest. The emotions, presented, through and in the context of the story, the upheavals, the conflicts, the betrayals...and yes, of love, either all, or a few or even one of them, we, in our journey of and through this physical sojourn that we call life, experience, at some point or the other, in one way or the other. It is a part of this journey, in human form, to realize the spirit in form that we are. This, the book brings out in the spirit of our reality, the spirit in form that we are!

Chase of Choices, thus, though, a fiction, is manifestation of the frictions that we experience, the sparks that fly; some, burn us and some, make us warm and light, causing us to soar, triggering a flight for the soul, the spirit, as the mind gets rid of the dampness, the inhibitions, the prior limiting conditioning...allowing the spark to spark, connect with the wisdom that lies within....

As one moves through the forty-six chapters, each a part of the continuum, a part of a gripping, pulsating, and at the same time, at times, poignant, too, tale, one finds the author to have come up with these forty-six nuggets, the universal laws—which, though, a part of the continuum, summing up the chapters, are “standalones” in their own right. Besides being a brilliantly scripted script, in entirety, with a distinctive style and clarity, these forty-six messages are definitely the salient features, adding immense dimension to the story, giving it an added edge, and yes, definitely the aspect, especially to look forward to—a huge icing, on the cake that this book is.

The book brings to light, through the tale it tells—with which many can associate—how, life presents to us infinite choices, and how, depending on the perception…the perspective, depending on the level of awareness, these choices are embraced, consciously or otherwise…. As is the awareness, so is the manifestation, and thus, the effects seen on us, felt by us, is caused by the cause, that, too, us, as we respond to the external. A fiction, it is, but, as it expresses the choices made…the emotions presented, are always our experiences made manifest, in subtle ways. And thus presents the book, these messages, the forty-six universal laws, as forty-six messages through as many chapters, crisp and gripping, the messages encasing the reasons behind slipping and the formulae for getting up, as well!

And another interesting aspect that is brought to light, in a subtle way, with much clarity, is the reality: As we chase the choices, and choose while chasing, that, which we truly seek, remains elusive. Yet, when chased they are not, they, chase and present in such a way to the consciousness that it is the wisdom within that chooses, free from clouds of confusions, mind detached from the prior conditioning, and all illusory, including the societal norms, the strings that try to inhibit and cloud the decision-making. 

Chase of Choices brings to the fore, thus, free will, gently… It is a Pandora’s Box of emotions, neatly arranged and deftly opened by the author….

The thoughts, provoked, insights invoked, by Chase of Choices, finds this post opening with the message, the last “message” that the book forwards…and quite aptly…. Yes… Nothing ends in life forever. And again, nothing is forever! All is contextual…and thus, the “nothing,” too, is so…. The essence is forever, yet, the “material,” isn’t. The material plane is a plane to realize the real, the ethereal…the eternal…infinite….

Thus, in a life, endless, as life goes on forever, merely changing forms, the choices, too, are endless. To end the endless chase, operating from and as the “base,” the essence, that we are, shows the way. When we realize the essence of being, operate from the level of awareness of the essence that we are, the chase, of endless choices, ceases, as we ease into our own being, at peace with the choices made, looking at them in a new light, with the light within lighting the path of life. It is—as the quoted passage, message, at the outset, notes—about a journey, from the origin to the origin, life, an eternal cycle….

Chase of Choices is a unique presentation, reading which, definitely a choice, but not a chase, and definitely worth embracing….  It is a novel, novel!

Sushmita,

October 22, 2014

Simply, simplicity to simplicity, through complexities!

Simplicity is difficult to comprehend and hence, complexities are born, borne and propagated.  "It is too good to be true," if that is the belief, disbelieving one’s experiences of the pristine purity and simplicity of the magnanimity, unconditional, of the Source of all, this is what would be the creation. The day, en masse, is realized that we are one, appearing differently, as different and unique energy manifestations of the same universal energy of creation, we would realize that inherent connected-ness...and thus, the collective that we are leading, individually as well as collectively.... Yet, for that to happen, ultimate and primary is self-acceptance, unconditional...self-knowledge, the sole essential knowledge, beholding the answers to everything, forwarding the journey of self-realization, the purpose sole of life on Earth.

Everything begins at home, within.... One who judges not self, judges not others, too, finding the uniqueness, as in self, so in all...as parts of the unique branches of the same infinite tree...actualizing the Native American proverb: "No tree has branches so foolish as to fight amongst themselves."  Yet, life, life-affirming always, purpose, self-realization, the process leads to and through the same, inevitably...and unavoidably! Again, it is the same magnanimity, constant and unconditional, that, ultimately, guides one and all, to self-realization, God-realization, and thus, eases all perturbations, as judgments cease to be.... The cycle completes its journey, from simplicity to simplicity, through the intervening complexity, which dissolves, through the eternity, dissolving in the irresistible magnanimity of the Source, within...presenting the same, without, too.... And no wonder, revolving and evolving, evolving and revolving, thus, life is realized to be evolutionary, revolutionary immeasurably....

All is sourced from, rooted and routed to, one, and hence, is..... Had it been otherwise, it would have been otherwise.... The beauty of realizing the simplicity in diversity, as unity made manifest,  we are thus not kept away from,  swept off the conditioned thinking, disconnecting from the same, forever, soaring and transcending, accessing the connection with the Source, eternal.... For It we are, and to realize It, we are, and realize, It, we, guided by It, in a journey from simplicity to simplicity through complexities, a journey from the Source to the Source, guided by the Source...the Life Force....

Sushmita,

October 13, 2014

Post script: Acknowledged is dear friend, Jyoti Sondhi―and not for the first time―for this posting...the scripting...experiencing the grace, in, as and through the scripting, fulfilling, and its posting, fulfilling, equally. Once again, as she serves as the external catalyst, resonating with the Ultimate, within, the manifested, the post, manifests the very inherent connected-ness, which calls forth what it does, always coherent, sourced to one, being one at source.

     

Resonance of faith

• Faith is encouragement.
• Encouragement inspires, by way of instilling confidence.
• Confidence incites insights...acts, which aren’t in sight otherwise, plucking from all that is there already, has been always, with the receptivity just ripe for the receipt.
• Mechanism of faith is multi-faceted:

ü      Activates consciously the natural laws of reciprocity.

ü      Realizes the oneness at source, of all, with the oneness of the Source: one and infinite.

ü      Materialization is of the energy, energized...set into motion.

ü      Faith entrusted in God, the Source—our very essence and not anything or anyone separate from us—the universal and essential energy, the life force, and surrendered to It, with self, as an individual, out of the way, allows the uninhibited flow of the real power that is, to manifest, in ways, grander than the grandest and wildest, but not wilder, of imaginations!

ü      Faith entrusted in a being, too, is so. But, from the physical perspective, if one has to explain, then it could be explained as: When a being is trusted, a being is encouraged...a being is led to redeem oneself...even beyond one’s own esteem of self...and knowingly or unknowingly, accesses and utilizes the life force that courses through.

• In whichever way we explain, ultimate is, the resonance, that, it facilitates, facilitating the manifestation.

Life is resonance, conscious or unconscious, made manifest. Even that, which we consider life to be infested with, is the manifestation coherent, a belief or disbelief of the collective. The perceived incoherence, is but an absence of the awareness of the inherent, the essence powerful, that works in us...as us...through us. Critical it is, thus, to be in conscious connection with the essence that we are, to make a sense of life...and for creating conscious creations...impacts. Faith, lived, we leave not traces of discontent on the sands of eternity, as we live with and as the realization, that, the critical mass for manifestation is not dependent on generating it without, but within, and being it—being thus the life force that flows within, and out—the force gathers momentum and mass, and thus, the critical mass is attained, from within to without.

Resonance within, is resonance without.... And with and as faith, as faith in one’s unique self, the conscious resonance with one’s being, leads through the process of manifestation consciously, manifesting consciously....

Life is a matter of faith, as faith matters.... Life is not about ephemeral inheritance but eternal resonance with self.... Life is about realizing the self, facilitated by resonance with self: Resonance, thy name is faith!

Sushmita,

August 29, 2014