Losing the power of
Love and Tolerance, in the name of purity and lust for most elevated status…..during
our spiritual journey:
When a person gets newly introduced to a belief system, it
gives new energy and enthusiasm to follow or practice them, and the new
environment, new ideas sometimes create problem in our daily life and sometimes
at the end, it ruins own life and others as well. We see all of a sudden, under
the divine guidance and divine support which make us ignore the feelings and
emotions of all others who have been our life support till date. The new
enthusiasm makes us feel so light and happy, but we ignore to realize that the
lightness and happiness I experience now is available to me even without any
special effort from my end. We don’t realize that it has come natural and easy
without any change in behavior from my side and others as well.
But as the journey continues, we listen to some additional
ideas that lightness, happiness and enthusiasm depends upon some external
factors but not internal although we understand that no external factors or
actions that existed before had stopped me from experiencing the same
lightness, happiness and enthusiasm. The qualities that we experience represent
the state of mind of present awareness that exist now. It is not connected with
any of our past experience that happened yesterday or five minutes before,
either good or bad.
Then as the journey continues, we were told about the future
status and attainments, and its connection with the current performance of
actions. Actions that give peace, love, happiness, power, purity and wisdom
attain us better status and the actions of lust, anger, greed, attachment and
ego degrade our future status. But many don’t realize that worries, sadness,
irritation that create in us and others also degrade our status because they
arise from the same lust, anger, greed, attachment and ego. The only difference
is the former arises due to body consciousness and the latter due to status
consciousness. We don’t realize that peace, love, happiness, powers
(tolerance), purity (mind that is free from worry, sadness and irritation) and
wisdom are to be experienced in our own self and others at all the time, to
have transformation.
As the journey continues, we hear repeatedly about, lust is
the greatest enemy but we fail to realize that lust can be for status,
achievement, praise from the people whom we identify as those who follow the
same ideals. We focus on the physical aspects and try to overcome physically,
although we hear many a time that purity has to be followed in thoughts, words
and actions. We also don’t realize that our family members, husband, wife are
our beloved ones who are not aware of what is happening within our heads. We
don’t realize that others cannot read our thoughts which we program ourselves
from the daily interactions. Because of the dominant lust for status, we try to
sacrifice the lust for physical relations creating havoc in the family
increasing the anger, greed, attachment and ego in self and others forsaking
the love, the only power which can overcome all kinds of lust.
We fail to realize and use the power of love, tolerance in
our life overcome by the selfish (ego) lust, greed, attachment for future
status creating anger, worries, sadness, irritation etc in self and in others.
We fail to use the power of tolerance to give time for the family members,
husband, wife to come in terms with our new programs of our mind. We fail to show love with tolerance for
others, by externally sacrificing our new ideals, for FEW MONTHS or ONE YEAR.
We feel, rather than giving importance to thoughts and words, it is more
important to focus on external actions. We don’t realize that if we can take
care of our thoughts and words, we can overcome the spiritual effect of actions
being a detached observer of all that is happening either to me or others. We
don’t realize that lust for food, lust for action, lust for sweet, all types of
lust leads to disease and we practice a balance in our action, in taking food ,
in taking sweet, being a detached observer not over indulging and many a times
we put an end to the lust for non-veg (food) gradually by using the power of
tolerance and power of love (for self). And we forget or don’t apply, what we
use at all the time, the power of tolerance and power of love, in keeping our
family, husband and wife together by sacrificing our new ideals for few months or for a year or more.
Have we forgotten that many a times we as well as others were ready to sacrifice even life for the sake of love...?
Have we forgotten that many a times we as well as others were ready to sacrifice even life for the sake of love...?
The above realization never happens in a day or two but it is
a realization of so many years of listening to wisdom. And this cannot be
expected to dawn on every person who is introduced new to some ideas or ideals.
Hence it is advisable that the leader or In-Charge of any institution or place
where they introduce new ideas on new practices of transforming nature and
character especially that focuses on purity in thoughts, words and actions,
should properly guide the new-comer and those who are married. So that it never
affects their family life as well as those who belong to them.
It’s true that no one to be blamed for the past but the
future can be taken care of.
