Every trip to Parthi is an eye-opener, and without doubt, it never is either of the two between the ears. Un-strangely enough, the awareness of the epiphany that the vision bestows on you remains demystified till many yeas later, if at all. And one day, we realize that it all makes sense in hindsight, which is the foresight that real Masters possess. This jaunt reminded me of a song entitled, Hotel California by The Scorpions, ‘where you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.’
Parthi is a Hotel California, where you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave. All that we can hope to do is to munch and step out and then return again for some more sustenance,- till He decides that there is nothing needed to be fed. That’s probably when it will also dawn upon us that the Hotel had boundaries of our making alone. And, that Paradise was never lost in the first place. Till then, you should allow the stomach to be starved, and the thirst unquenched.
My takeaway will be that I will keep asking what would love do in this situation, for many situations from now on, till I forget to ask. And, when I sink to the state of spiritual starvation, He will send me back to His hotel.
I have neither been to Hotel California nor have heard the song. But the feeling of home that only a home can give, recharged me every time I went there.
ReplyDeleteIt's a song from the seventies. Very old, and very popular for the rock sector, if I may. Incidentally, Hotel California was also a metaphor, as was the one I mentioned!
ReplyDeleteWhen love confronts love there is a collective decision making of renouncing the lower and embracing the higher.
ReplyDeleteWhen love confronts ego, the decision making is often unilateral; for the ego the decision maker is more important than the decision!
In ego- a win is ultimately a loss
In love- a loss is ultimately a win
Love only gives, forgives and forgets. Any selfless work is God's work, any selfless act His act- and His actions are always soaked in love!
You might as well frame this question "What would love do in this situation?..."
as
"What would you do if you were to be totally selfless in this situation?...."
and the answer will invariably be: Renounce the Lower , Embrace the Higher!
I like that point: the decision maker is more important than the decision!
ReplyDeleteHaven't we seen this many times?! Anyway, let's look ahead and hope things will look different. No one can remain hidden to himself for ever.
Praveen - One small disagreement and I prove the point by first taking off on a tangent
ReplyDeleteWhat is the one relationship in your life that you would like to have without any judgement?
What is the one organisation where you would like to work where you can be totally selfless, without expecting anything (absolutely nothing- not even a smile or a gesture of appreciation) in return and without any judgement?
No prizes for guessing the answers
True Love has no expectation of things becoming better or looking different in the future. For True love the present is already perfect.there is complete and total acceptance of the present as is.
Love, Existence, Consciousness by whatever name you call it-has complete and unequivocal acceptance of the present as is!
Without resistance if we can accept the decisions of the Decision makers of His organisation, there is peace. This is exactly what Love will do all such situations!
That does not mean we should not strive to make things better strive to correct the wrongs that happen- We should strive but whether our efforts will yield any results- we should not bother we should leave it to Him and be at peace!
Praveen, I have inadvertently experienced an “Eureka” like experience when reread what I had written earlier “For True Love the present is already perfect”
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts took this flow
God is Love. God is perfect. God is Omnipresent. Corollary- Perfection is everywhere.
“Everything is perfect. The World is perfect. There is no imperfection in this world”
Three interesting blog entries interestingly also confirm and corroborate the same thing
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Firts blog
ReplyDeleteEverything is perfect. And I mean everything everything everything.
Imagine you’re sitting in a room talking to people. The person you’re sitting next to is the exact person you need to be sitting next to, and the same is true for them. Every word that is uttered. Every thought that is thought. Every atom in every place. Every molecule of air in every moment is exactly where it should be.
There is nothing out of place. There are no mistakes. There is nothing wrong with anything at all.
It’s amazing the degree to which this perfection exists. It’s not just the big events or little moments that are perfect, but I mean EVERY POSSIBLE THING you can think of!
If everything is God and everything is you, what on earth is there to fear? What in any universe is there to fear? There is only the perfection of God/You. That’s it! In the “unknown,” you’ll find nothing else!”
Second one
ReplyDeleteI, too, have had the experience of the absolute perfection of everything. The trouble is, when you try to tell people "everything is perfect just as it is" you get a lot of misunderstanding. People starving is perfect? War is perfect? Greed, assault, wholesale fleecing of the general populations by greedy corporations, global warming, that's perfect?!
Well, yes, actually. It is. It's perfect because it is God, and it is Whole, and it is All. How could it be other than perfect?
But it's impossible to explain. From the view of duality, yeah, the world sucks, and so does everything in it. From the view of the Absolute, it's all perfect, it's all an illusion, it's all exactly what it's meant to be as God comes to understand Godself through these cycles of life, death, and taxes. People in poverty are God. The greedy landlord keeping them poor is God, too. The victims of genocide are all God, and so are those who commit the genocide upon them. The planet is God, the environment is God, and the people who are pumping carbon into the air like maniacs are God, too! All is God, and All is Whole, and All is Well, and that's all there is.
The word "perfect" has such connotations of "goodness" to it, but in this case, that's not quite the sense of it. To say "perfect" implies that it's even possible for there to be "imperfect"...
This is not something I speak about often, because people misunderstand so profoundly. I can't blame them, I mean, I wouldn't have believed it either had I not seen and experienced it for myself (my ego-self still doesn't fully believe it, at least, not all the time, but I try not to pay too much attention to her; she's a drama queen). But it is perfect, because it is impossible for it to be anything other than perfect.
Third one
ReplyDeleteI just had an extraordinary experience. I was meditating, just to quiet my mind, and I ended up having a vision that completely blows me away.
Just now I saw, really saw, that my life has been perfect. It's been perfectly ordered, perfectly played out, and it was to create in me or of me a very specific kind of vessel. Nothing happened by chance, and while some of the experiences were almost enough to kill me (literally and metaphorically), they didn't, and that was for a reason, too. I can't explain all of the intricate details, because it's a very fine and beautiful mesh, like hand made lace, and I'm not trying to say that being abused as a child is something that anyone deserves or that it's a good way to spend your childhood, but I have seen, with absolute certainty, that every event of my life, good and bad, painful and joyful, has happened with specific purpose.
Wow. Just wow.
And I'm perfect, too. I'm perfectly fitted to be precisely what I am meant to be, what I need to be, what I want to be. Perhaps, since time is purely a function of space and therefore only a reality of the material universe, I ordered my own life, from some point in my own future, knowing precisely how much I could withstand and precisely what purpose it would have (even physics has to admit that there is actually no known reason why reaction must follow action and it can't be the other way around). Perhaps it was all planned out before the beginning of space and time. Perhaps it was meant to be all chance and luck, but my own Godself or God's Self stepped in and guided, little nudges here and there, little hints, outright miracles now and then, all of it. Perhaps there are no appropriate words and no way that something as material as language can possibly describe what I saw, and how perfect my life is, was, and always shall be, and how perfect I am, was, and always shall be.
I am perfect. Or maybe I AM perfect, perhaps it's great I AM inside of me, that which lives and breathes and experiences creation through this ego-self that is so perfectly created and formed through such a perfectly timed and executed series of moments, events, awakenings, suffering, and all the rest.
I am, right at this moment, in absolute awe of this perfection. I'm even more awed to know that the perfection is me. Perfection is not a word I would have used for my life, nor for myself (maybe for mySelf, but that's another topic). I am a perfect vessel for my purpose.
Wow. Just wow.
So why does True Love view this world as perfect and we the 'humble mortals" do not. If everything is perefect what is imperfection
ReplyDeleteSo What is Imperfection
The blogs relevealed the answer
What people call imperfection, well, that only exists in thought. People may see themselves as imperfect, but that is only the case because thoughts say that and those thoughts are believed in.
The Japanese concept of wabi-sabi embodies this, and is often translated to mean that "perfection can only be found in imperfection.
Aristotle's definition of perfection which - perfection is that which has attained its purpose .
Imperfection is not an absolute concept but a relative one and it is related to purpose
Practise makes one perfect.
When we first begin our practice, it is in one place and has a more specific or scoped purpose. Over time, the purpose itself broadens, deepens, and/or shifts. Practice leads the way to this place, this new target for the practice. We never quite reach the ability to attain the purpose, since the target is also moving, but we have attained future definitions of the purpose. There's a freedom in always reaching perfection in one sense and never reaching perfection in another. It gives practice purpose, and a never-ending one at that.
So What does Love do in such a situation?
Love's action depends on the definition of purpose and the level of imperfection it observes relative to that purpose?
I had to read and re-read what you wrote to figure out that while I was talking of Newton's laws, you are talking about the theory of relativity.
ReplyDeleteIf the Newtonian world does not find cause to include for the un-absolute nature of time and space, it does not mean to suggest that the Newtonian explanation is really wrong. It just means that we need a more expansive theory to encompass the elements of space and time.
So, to draw from your last line itself, the perspective would be defined by the purpose. If Vivekananda remained in eternal thrall of the experience of Adwaitha by the Divine touch of his Guru, it would have been unfortunate for the many who would have been deprived of spiritual and psychological emancipation through his talks and speeches.
In spite of the perfection he saw in absolute reality, he had to linger in the lower levels for the rest of us to get there. And for us to get there, the question 'What would love do in this situation?', might, in my opinion, be a good start.
This was where I was coming from! Sai Ram!