Overcoming Fear

We can overcome fear by remembering…no one can take away anything from us unless he or she is entitled to. We cannot loose anything unless our entitlement is over.

There are many doors, many entitlements that we may have earned in the past. When one door closes, the next one will open.

So when the time is up give it up with loving kindness and when the new door opens enter it happily and gladly…

We all want to achieve and want to achieve more and sometimes more than what we can handle. However, to achieve our target, most of the times we forget to ask ourselves some basic questions. Is this good – for me and for others? Will this help? Is it good for my body?

We want to stretch 180 degrees – this is practice of greed. We can’t transform or double our chakras overnight…

This doesn’t mean that we stop looking for opportunities. Look for them all the time, but do not go overboard. Be aware of your capacity and practise diligence. See how much you can do and stretch yourself only by 5-6%, so that it does not strain you. One can consume this extra bit easily and once it becomes part of your system and doesn’t burden you anymore, you may further stretch yourself. Slowly your level of moderation will increase and there will be an overall development, which is very important.

Any form of excessiveness is attachment. Moderation is detachment – learn to say NO. You will be pulled and pushed… Your heart will know when it is getting excessive. You must know how much you can take or else it will result in self-injury and injury towards others.

Excessiveness is also dependency. You must stay grounded Help! Help! Help! – help should be to make others independent and liberate others. When you make people dependent on you it is a form of pride…

Practice moderation and non-excessiveness – moderation on all levels – our work (physical level), relationships (emotional level), thoughts (mental level) and spirituality (higher levels).

Every virtue affects all the chakras at mental, emotional and physical level and that is why practice of moderation is very important for an overall development. If you perceive accurately your higher chakra will grow and with correct expression the material chakras (lower chakras) will grow. So it is important to perceive and express correctly to grow wholesomely.

Loving kindness and Non-Injury is the most important virtue. Breaking this virtue will have mental, emotional and physical pain… Mental Injury will affect Higher Chakras; Emotional Injury impacts the Heart and Solar Plexus; and the Physical Injury will affect your Lower Chakras. Always remember, you will make mistakes, and you must give yourself a chance… be generous to yourself.

Think of a virtue for some time, till it becomes part of you. When you serve at your cost you will become bankrupt and will have nothing to give.

“Moderation is one of the Secrets of Prosperity. Do not spend beyond your budget. What you waste will be taken away” – Grand Master Choa Kok Sui on Compassionate Objectivity

Pride has the seed of delusion which means that when a person has pride the person is practicing self-injury, self-lying and stealing, thus breaking all the three virtues. If one looks at a tree there is one trunk but many roots. Every life force, every being, every entity comprises of  yin and  yang and the potential to merge them together. Too much yin results in poverty consciousness, promiscuity and too much yang in severity, excessive detachment, cruelty etc. The balance of yin and yang (the roots) results in stability or “sthirtha”.

In the early stages of practicing virtues a person is sometimes confused because the person is coming from a background of analyzing through senses. Therefore, sometimes a person looks at another person and says the person doesn’t look good (visual sense); or a person listening to someone asks the other to stop because they are not oxford graduated and speak in broken English (sense of hearing); or smells garbage and doesn’t like it (sense of smell); or someone who wears only silk finds khadi too coarse (sense of touch); or eats something and finds it distasteful (sense of taste). All these responses are because the person is governed by the senses turned outward (karam indriyan).

Later, this person begins to turn the senses inwards and says the other person may look good if he wore his hair differently; or the oxford graduate thinks the other person would be worth listening to if the person’s accent was more refined….. So from a strong feeling of pushing away the person has moved to partial acceptance.

Then comes the next stage where the person sees something and looks inwards and doesn’t like it because the person has seen better for e.g. the oxford graduate doesn’t like the streets and traffic in Delhi because it was better in London; or a vegetarian doesn’t like the smell of meat because such a person’s body is too refined for the course smell.

This category of people see something ugly and look inside themselves and see different things at that moment – in some people it generates a feeling of sorrow and hopelessness; in others excitement bordering on joy; in yet others it arouses a deep concern to be an instrument of change…

The people who feel sorrow and hopelessness are those who for many many incarnations have not practiced the third principle of the Supreme Being (creative destruction). They have exhausted the transactions of the two other principles of the Supreme Being (creation and sustenance).  Those who feel excitement bordering on joy are those who conform to the second principle of the Supreme Being (sustenance) and have exhausted the first principle of the Supreme Being but are yet to understand the third principle (creative detachment).  Those in whom it arouses a deep concern to be an instrument of change so that such moments can be altered for better are souls who are practicing all the three principles of the Supreme Being the first being (creation) second (sustenance) and third (creative destruction).

If we classify the above, the first category of people would be possessive, the second destructive and the third liberating. In the third category the person has turned the senses inwards (gyan indriyan).

People change only when touched in simple ways. People tend to go away from their higher soul if touched in complicated ways. If we understand the world only from our senses we move away from the soul. It is when we detach ourselves from our senses and see the same object that we understand the homeward path.

Along the path the change is not noticed. As a person walks further down the path the person begins to remember ‘its’ path (the soul’s path) and the changes. At this point in time the person says ‘ I will stick to and follow the path as this path led me out of pain, darkness, worry and the lack of faith…this path led me to hope, peace and stability’.

At every point in time the person runs the risk of which path it (the soul) chooses. The truth is dynamic not static.

Some become evolved yogis and then stagnate at that stage of evolution but are still very happy as empowerment is great. Some others achieve oneness with the higher soul (become soul-realized).

Ultimately, each person has to walk towards its (the soul’s) final destination and become one with the divine spark (God-realized). The number of incarnations we take to achieve this depends on how each soul chooses to ‘walk the path’…

Each person has physical parents but before they have physical parents they had spiritual parents. The life of spiritual parents is longer than that of physical parents. Spiritual parents can be understood through scanning or higher clairvoyance and in the process of self-realization, soul-realization or god-realization through the inner world ( i.e.  through the senses turned inwards).

This is however not the way we understand society or friends or very closely related people. We tend to understand them through the senses turned outwards.  As long as we learn through the senses turned outwards we are sowing seeds (karma).

It is only when we begin to learn the same thing inwardly that we begin to harvest the fruits more quickly and ’sow’ less seeds. The outer sensual attachment leads to confusion. The inner attachment leads to clarity and non-confusion. The soul slowly moves to a point when it surrenders the outer sensual attachment and turns inwards.

As the soul continues to look inwards eventually it will reach a point where it dwells and sacrifices even this inner attachment in order to move to higher realms and become ‘One with God and One with All’.

There are three principles of Supreme Being : tamasic, satvic and rajasik. The disciple who was originally tamasic, satvic or rajasik will manifest in ways as below.

A person who is tamasic is one who ‘does not do service’ (inertia) and has large lower chakras and is not spiritually developed.

A person who is satvic ‘meditates a lot’, has large upper chakras and is highly spiritually developed (subtle and rhythmic) but is likely to meditate in the Himalayas and not have strong material pursuits.

A rajasic is one who ‘wants to make a difference to the world’ (will to do good) has equal chakras, practices the virtues yet is materially grounded…such a person would for e.g.,  build hospitals and teach pranic healing.  This is a person who has balanced the three qualities of the divine i.e. Vishnu. Bramha and Shiva.

Those who are tamasic will fall, those who are satvic will stagnate and those who are rajasic will evolve and reach the final destination (i.e. the Creator). This is the process of evolution.

Shared by Neelu Sethi, Hong Kong

We are all unique souls and each one of us have our own path, what is of utmost importance is to always be happy and not be hard on oneself.

If we feel the current life we are leading does not make us happy, we have the option of changing it and sowing the seeds for the life we want. Mistakes we make are part of the journey and we should not hate ourselves nor others, as each day is a journey that teaches us lessons from that we keep improving ourselves, our lives, be happy. By being happy we embrace and emit positive energy.

Shared by Neelu Sethi, Hong Kong

We humans tend to categorize people into either good or bad and have been so accustomed to thinking this way and judging people’s action. After your sharing, I am starting to view it in a very different way, remembering that we’re all souls and there is no bad soul, just that souls tend to fit into one of the three categories, i.e. i) young – the ones who tend to hurt others, ii) immature – the ones who tend to help others but hurt themselves, and iii) mature souls, helping others and looking after themselves.

It could take thousands of reincarnations for souls to evolve, hence we should have patience, respect and listen to people, some who need help we should help when we can and for those who can help us we should listen to them and help ourselves evolve.