To All My Mothers

Death comes to all.  It leaves a vacuum that is difficult to fill.  As a witness to someone dying, the experience can be whatever one makes of it.  After a while everything is back to normal and Life goes on.  It is when life goes back to normal, that everything actually begins to appear different ... the absence of that person is felt in the smallest ways and in the tiniest details.  No matter who that person is, no matter what the relationship, no matter how the person treated you, if you have been in that person's life closely especially in the dying years, you still feel the pain deep in your soul.  If the relationship never healed, the one left behind is left wondering what to do next in this painful absence.  

In truth, there is nothing one can do.  The only thing that is possible is to live through those feelings and take it deep into your core, open yourself completely and totally to The Divine.  Surrender.  Fall on your knees. Raise your hands in gratitude because all that is going to happen after that is going to be SPECTACULAR!!. New lessons will emerge.  Synchronicities, Healing, Awareness and Freedom will rise up  like a rainbow. You have to wait with open arms and an open heart.  Create new intentions.  Recreate your life. Become conscious about your life like never before.  Choose Life in every possible way in all your interactions. Choose The Divine because that is exactly what you will need especially, and the most, at the time of your own death.  Every death portends change. Death is always a good omen.  It precedes Resurrection. 

Suffering is a choice.  Choose Freedom.  

Suffering is a gift.  Choose Acceptance.  

Suffering is healing. Choose Life.  

At all times choose Life.  Life fosters.  

Life makes Death a Renewal and a Resurrection if you have made Spirit choices.  And no matter what happens, no matter what dis-ease or illness befalls you, you will feel and experience your Higher Self  in its grandest version.  It will be standing TALL and EXPANSIVE embracing YOU.  Every Soul has that massive and expansive ring of love circling it, but only the one that has been God conscious will actually feel Its Love, Light and Enfoldment. And Death will become Amrita, Nectar. Transition will be Homecoming. 

Many years ago when I started reading The Bhagavad Gita, I remember how fascinated I was by the sheer beauty of the words in this incredible Book.  It was a time when I was trying to find my Soul and my Self. Every word IS Bliss. The fact that I am still a Spiritual Enthusiast and a Wannabe Mystic twenty years later is because The Bhagavad Gita assures us that NOTHING THAT WE LEARN SPIRITUALLY IN THIS LIFE WILL EVER BE WASTED.  Spiritual learning continues eternally in a seamless way.  That was the best thing ever for me spiritually.  Its the only reason that I have not given up my path to my inner Self.  It continues blissfully, no matter what.

In his amazing book "The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You", Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda says beautifully:

"In titling this work The Second Coming of Christ, I am not referring to a literal return of Jesus to earth. He cane two thousand years ago and, after imparting a universal path to God's kingdom, was crucified and resurrected; His appearance to the masses is now not necessary for the fulfillment of His teachings.  What is necessary is for the cosmic wisdom and divine perception of Jesus to speak again through each one's own experience and understanding, of the Infinite Christ Consciousness that was incarnate in Jesus. That will be His true Second Coming." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

And that is what one's Life true calling is: Awakening to the Christ Consciousness within one's self and embodying The Christ Consciousness - not a tall order, if we DECIDE we want this to be the only Truth in our lives.  Atleast, that is what it has become for me now - my Soul is deeply longing for its perfect unfoldment.

Tibetan Buddhism refers to all Souls as Mothers.  In "Training the Mind", the seventh verse summarizes the true Buddhist practice in the following words:

In brief, may I offer benefit and joy

To all my mothers, both directly and indirectly,

May I quietly take upon myself

All hurts and pains of my mothers.

The meaning of these lines can be read in full here: http://www.dalailama.com/teachings/training-the-mind/verse-7

I dedicate this blog to my Mother, Edna, who passed on from this incarnation to her new assignment in Spirit on 7th November 2014. Her life has tremendous meaning for me and has served the purpose for which her soul incarnated as my mother.  May she be at peace always.

I also dedicate this writing to all my Mothers (every person - both male and female -  who has crossed my Life path ever since I was born into this world) because every single one of YOU, no matter who you are, and how you have impacted my life, YOU have been instrumental in kindling my Inner Flame. May each of YOU be happy and at ease.

AUM

Namaste!