Hari
Om
'Freedays' are the 'gather our thoughts' days;
Q&As; a general review of the week so far…
Advaita
advises us we can rise above the ravages of daily living and work through our
existence in a clear and pure manner. All the teachings within it are designed
to help us step out of our own muck and the mire of circumstances around us.
Not to physically extract ourselves, but to withdraw to an 'inner chamber' from
which we can observe, even act externally if required, but remain unburdened
and unsullied by it.
Life
is not cut out like a silhouette; it is not simple black or white, in or out,
them and us. To try and portray it thus is to subscribe fully to delusion and
fall prey to extremes of attitude not conducive to the Life Divine. To live
spiritually is to acknowledge all the happenings of the world, but release them
from becoming a burden within our hearts and minds. Not in the way of absolving
responsibility. Rather, each individual must
take responsibility for their own little fraction of the world. In doing this,
we have an effect on the external to us. Practicing this regularly and well, we
find that the external starts to mellow and seeks to come 'up' to us rather than
us having to 'fall' to the external.
Importantly,
if every individual in the world took this kind of responsibility, how much
lighter the world would be.
Maintaining
the level of Love which sustains us can feel futile at times. Never give up. Never loose sight of the
Universal Truth. We are all One and it is only delusion of plurality which
fools us into thinking of 'we' and 'thee'. When we say 'Hari OM', we are
declaring that the One we call Lord is the One Consciousness present in us all.
When we say 'Namaste', we are saying the spirit present in ourselves is the
same spirit present in the other.
Never
think that your own small contribution to Love in the world goes amiss or is
lost. Be the light which brightens the darkness.
