EYE ON SPIRITUALITY: EASTER/PASSOVER MESSAGE
Easter Sunday rejoices in permitting the Christ power inside to be enlivened and to flame-up in our soul. In previous years with Passover seders, I was reminded of the symbolism of freedom from slavery and the rebirth and renewal that came about with the fleeing from Egypt via God’s grace and a reminder of our private journey from the bondage of ignorance into the liberty of shifting towards the liberation of the soul and Divine revelation.
Non secular ponderings from weekend reflections:
1) We’re right here to get pleasure from and never work ourselves into our grave. The financial system and the fabric realm of cravings push us to surrender treasured relationship time with family and friends. Older people who find themselves on the point of move typically are requested what they remorse and it was that they labored an excessive amount of and didn’t spend sufficient time with their household.
2) We’re right here to not repeat the identical errors of the previous. I’m typically reminded of my favourite film, Groundhog Day with Invoice Murray. Are we going to endlessly make the identical errors and get up in the identical unhealthy dream that we’re caught in or are we going to make new decisions and wake-up reborn, with a brand new lifetime of pleasure and enthusiasm? If now we have unhealthy relationship karma, are we going to simply accept duty for what we do flawed and do it higher this time?
3) We have now to be acutely aware and never make the identical errors which imply selecting kindness and compassion over blaming and fault-finding and complaining. In case you are not prepared to repair it and do one thing about it, you haven’t proper to endlessly complain about it.
4) We have now to train moral judgment. In an age of Rahu the place dishonest and corruption and swindling are the norm, now we have to attempt to do the appropriate factor even when it’s not straightforward. I miss these tales on the information the place individuals discover misplaced cash and discover a method to monitor it again to the proprietor and provides it again.
5) We have now to seek out Jupiter and defeat Rahu and never settle for corruption in authorities because the norm. We have now to return to instructing ethical values at dwelling and within the classroom and never let our children get corrupted by violence and celebration of evil that has grow to be the norm on tv. Time to show off your tv, let your child play solely playground video games with different children, preserve them away from violent video video games, cell telephones, and return to old style values.
6) We have to return to easy, caring for individuals, sharing, and never spend our time hiding in our addictions, numbing out to violent tv, and discover time to make a distinction in different’s life. Take some flowers to a stranger in an previous individuals’s dwelling frequently and go to them and know they’re beloved and never forgotten.
7) We’re right here to apply kindness and compassion. I’m reminded of a beautiful story from Elizabeth Kubler-Ross who interview somebody who skilled dying after which got here again and was revived on the working desk. She remembers having her entire life flashed and reviewed earlier than her as she ascended however she was solely proven the occasions when she practiced unconditional love and kindness. She remembered serving to a woman in a wheelchair at an in a single day camp and retaining her firm when everybody went off on a tenting journey and her sacrifice and love was an excellent reminder.
All of those require making main modifications, selecting new patterns, and creating new pathways in our life. It may be carried out nevertheless it takes a acutely aware effort and an energetic alternative. We have now to be alert and awake to do it.
We’re right here on this planet, to offer and to like and to share, and to assist others. We aren’t right here within the Age of Rahu to build up as many new devices as we will, waste or life numbing our to our emotional ache and harming anybody or something or spending our time denouncing others or demonizing others who don’t share our viewpoint.
Slightly yoga, meditation, acutely aware consciousness, and conscious motion and may make a distinction. Discover time to vary your life together with your non secular practices.
Easter is finishing. Time for rebirth, renewal, and doing issues otherwise. You may make a distinction in your life and in others. Time to like!
Completely happy Holidays Everybody. Get pleasure from and full your rebirth in the present day with an act of kindness.
Will finish with this glorious quote from Yogananda in regards to the Beginning of Christ at Christmas however Easter additionally reminds of rebirth:
Paramahansa Yogananda:
” Every single day, each hour, each golden second, Christ has been knocking… Now, on this august sacred daybreak, Christ is particularly coming in reply to your inside name, to awaken his Christ Consciousness Omnipresence inside you.
This Christ of In every single place is sleeping within the breast of Eternity; He likes to take new delivery at any time, wherever, particularly within the heat of your true affection. Although the Infinite Christ is current in each speck of area because the splendor of ever new knowledge and inventive expression, you’ll be able to by no means see Him until He chooses to be seen within the cradle of your unceasing devotion. The comfortable crib of your coronary heart has for a really very long time been small, holding self-love alone; now you will need to make it monumental, in order that social, nationwide, worldwide, and Cosmic Christ-love could also be born there and grow to be One Love.
The Infinite Christ is in all places; worship His nativity in Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Moslem, Jewish, and different true non secular temples. Each expression of Fact flows from the All-pervading Christ notion, so be taught to worship that sacred Common Intelligence in each pure faith, perception, and instructing. For the reason that Cosmic Christ dreamed into existence the divine being that’s man, it’s best to rejoice the delivery of Christ in your newly woke up equal love for each nationality and race.”
From “A Cradle for the Christ of In every single place” in The Second Coming of Christ
(Particular because of Juliana Swanson for reminding me of this glorious quote)
