It is easier to follow the crowd they say. But, is that true?
Doing what everyone else is doing, not even realising what you enjoy doing.
Leaving ourselves doing the same mundane things everyday. That drains all the energy in us and dulls the mind, don’t you think?
On the other hand, being different might save more energy. At least you are at peace with yourself. And when you reach your goal, after all the effort, there is an inner bliss. It surely isn’t easy, but surely it is not hard, it just makes us strong and believe in our innerself more.
Sometimes it gets lonely, because people won’t understand what you are doing. Maybe, there is a lesson in that too. Hope is the closest friend we could have. At the end of the day, things do turn out for the best, losing hope, that is what makes it difficult.
The loneliness might not be so bad, you get time to connect to your innerself, become aware of your thought patterns, your habits. You get time to work on yourself, open yourself to new things, find your true self.
Easy is difficult and difficult is easy it seems!
Love and Light
I’m on my way to where I can lie on the clouds and hold hands with the sun singing the songs of the moon.
As I walk away, I smile all day, from contrasting folk. Well I’m a tribe of my own, sometimes a tired lone star.
One day I hope to see the light when I close my eyes. One day I hope to hear the songs the cosmos dance to when I close my ears. One day I hope to sing the songs of the harmony when my I open my heart.
I’m on my way to where I can lie on the clouds and hold hands with the sun singing the songs of the moon.
“Westernization, we think of it as a curse word” laughed Nayaswami Devashree at the morning service. It stuck me that we humans, like to discriminate against everything under the sun. Following the western culture and enjoying it’s comforts everyone cribs about it. Hypocrisy. The world is full of opposites, day and night, up and down, black and white, etc.. And each side has it’s positive, why do we only focus on the negative side of everything?
The east can learn so much from the west about materialism and perfecting it. The infrastructure there is so beautiful and well maintained, everything seems to be in such order. They in return can dwell in the spiritual knowledge that the east provides. If we can learn something new from every person we meet, why can’t we from every civilization?
We are all a mirror of each other’s consciousness at the end of the day!
Love and Light
“Child you must meditate more. Your gaze is not yet faultless. You could not see me hiding behind the sunlight.” With these words resonating in my mind, we stood in the garden chanting and celebrating the day Maha avtar Babaji appeared to our guru, Paramhansa Yogananda.
As the vibrations of Om Namoh Vasudeva filled the universe inside us, up above the skies decided to sing our tune. Black clouds covering our heads lighting striking, our eyes full of tears with devotion; the thunder accompanied us. It waited till the procession ended to start pouring. Drops from heaven wiping our tears away, blessed our open hearts.
An evening full of blessings with in and without is always special.
Love and light.
Last night, I was talking to my cousin telling her about how I have been blogging. She asked me to watch Julie and Julia!
I woke up in the morning did my meditation and hit play! Inspired I decided to challenge myself. I think it is a good way to perfect or be good at what I am doing, juggling piano classes, choirs, conducting classes, photography and yoga classes. I realised I am trying to excel all at the same time, being hard on myself for not being good at any. Besides these things I have always wanted to cook, stitch, paint and do so many other things. Maybe if I just do one of them properly.
I think I will start with sight reading. It is so essential in choirs, piano and would surely help me in my conducting class. Starting with one piece a day! I will first sight sing the piece and then play it. wouldn’t want to remember the sound of the piece if I do it the other way around. Each task I think I will take up for 40 days. Why forty? Because I read in The Forty Rules on love how important that number is. Let me copy paste the extract that talks about it.
Dear Ella,
Happy Birthday! Forty is a most beautiful age for both men and women. Did you know that in mystic thought forty symbolises the ascent from one level to a higher one and spiritual awakening? when we morn, we morn for 40 days. When a baby is born it takes 40 days for him to get ready to start life on earth. And when we are in love we need to wait for 40 days to be sure of our feelings.
The flood of noah lasted forty days, and while the waters destroyed life, they washed all impurity away and enabled human beings to make a fresh new start. In Islamic mysticism there are forty degrees between man and god. Likewise, there are four basic stages of consciousness and ten degrees in each, making forty degrees in total. Jesus went into wilderness for forty days and nights. Muhammad was forty years old when he received the call to become a prophet. Buddha meditated under a linden tree for forty days. Not to mention the forty rules of Shams.
You receive a new mission at forty, a new lease on life! You have reached a most auspicious number. Congratulations! And don’t worry about getting old. There are no wrinkles and grey hair strong enough to defy the power of forty!
Warmly,
Aziz
It is funny how everyone comes together. One by one the universe sends things to you to bring
subtle changes in your life. Though this month a lot has been changing around me, bitter sweet feeling. But since change is the theme I would like to add my own spice to this!
Calling this the Julie and Julia challenge, I hope to have others joining it too!
Calling this the Julie and Julia challenge, I hope to have others joining it too!
Lots of love and light!
Tuning the radio in the car, trying to find a frequency to listen to something I want to. Not realising that the antenna is not out me but inside. We are always in tune with something or the other, that is what determines our thoughts. So, the thoughts we like and even the ones we don’t like are because we have tuned into them. But, thoughts are what comes to OUR mind we might think. They are our thoughts our ideas. What if, that is not true? What if that is just a way for the ego to fool us?
Thoughts are universally rooted. That is how we get along along with people, oh he thinks like me, oh she thinks like me. Is it even possible? Well, you know how now! You are just tuned into the same frequency!
Now, it is up to us to choose which frequency to tune into, what we want to think about, what we want to surround our-self with and what we want the world around us to look like.
Funny isn’t it! Giving credit to ourselves for the things we thought all these years, to suddenly realise that they aren’t ours at all!
Must leave you with this beautiful thought on a beautiful day!
Love and Light!
Lately on a lot of introspection, I realised everything I have around me reflects my state of mind. Watching a video of the whirling Sufi’s I got lost in their skirts, they looked like blooming flowers. To me they looked free and much flexible. So I decided to do this experiment.
Everyday of the week I noticed what I wore and how it made me feel.
By the end of the week, I came to the conclusion that tight clothes made me feel caged and grumpy. But, dresses and skirts and loose pajamas made me feel light, free and chirpy. I would just spin around in circles singing along!
The colours played an important part too. The lighter and brighter the colours, the lighter and brighter I felt.
Clearly, my wardrobe needs to be redone now!
kritalks 
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