EYE ON SPIRITUALITY: EASTER/EASTER MESSAGE
Easter Sunday rejoices because the Christ power inside us is enlivened and ignited in our souls. Passover falls late this yr and begins on Monday April 22. Lately, through the Passover seders, I’ve been reminded of the symbolism of freedom from slavery and the rebirth and renewal that occurred with the flight from Egypt by God’s grace, and a reminder of our private journey from slavery of ignorance to the liberty of motion. in the direction of the liberation of the soul and divine revelation.
Non secular Reflections:
1) We’re right here to get pleasure from ourselves and never work ourselves into our graves. The financial system and the fabric world of needs drive us to surrender valuable relationship time with family and friends. Older individuals getting ready to graduate are sometimes requested what their regrets are working an excessive amount of and never spending sufficient time with their households.
2) We’re right here to not repeat the identical errors of the previous. I am usually reminded of my favourite film, Floor Pig Day with Invoice Murray. Are we going to make the identical errors endlessly and get up in the identical unhealthy dream we’re caught in or are we going to make new selections and get up reborn, with a brand new life filled with pleasure and enthusiasm? If we have now unhealthy relationship karma, are we going to just accept accountability for what we do flawed and do higher this time?
3) We should be conscious and never make the identical errors, selecting kindness and compassion over blaming, fault-finding and complaining. If you’re not prepared to resolve the issue and do one thing about it, you don’t have any proper to complain about it endlessly.
4) We have to see the delicate video games that Mars performs with our ego, the place we wish to be proper in any respect prices or evaluate ourselves to others to raised ourselves or increase one another up in conversations.
5) We should make an moral judgment. In an age of Rahu the place deceit, corruption and scams are the norm, we should try to do what is true even when it isn’t straightforward. I miss these tales on the information the place individuals discover misplaced cash and discover a method to hint it again to the proprietor and return it.
6) We should discover Jupiter and defeat Rahu and never settle for corruption in authorities because the norm. We should return to instructing ethical values at dwelling and within the classroom and never enable our kids to be corrupted by the violence and celebration of evil that has turn out to be the norm on tv. Time to show off your tv, let your baby play playground video games alone with different kids, preserve him away from violent video video games and cell telephones, and return to old style values.
7) We should return to the straightforward, caring for individuals, sharing, and never losing our time hiding in our addictions, numbing ourselves to violent tv, and discovering time to make a distinction within the lives of others.
8) We’re right here to apply kindness and compassion. I am reminded of an exquisite story by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, who interviewed somebody who had a dying expertise after which got here again and was introduced again to life on the working desk. She remembers her complete life flashing earlier than her and reviewing as she ascended, however she was solely proven the moments when she practiced unconditional love and kindness. She remembered serving to a woman in a wheelchair at an in a single day camp and conserving her firm when everybody went tenting, and her sacrifice and love have been a fond reminiscence of that.
All this requires making huge adjustments, selecting new patterns and creating new paths in our lives. It may be carried out, nevertheless it takes aware effort and energetic alternative. We should be alert and awake to do that.
We’re right here on this planet to offer, love and share, and to assist others. We’re not right here within the age of Rahu to gather as many new devices, waste or life that numb us to our emotional ache and hurt somebody or one thing or spend our time denouncing others or demonizing others who don’t share our viewpoint.
A little bit yoga, meditation, aware consciousness and aware motion could make a distinction. Discover time to alter your life along with your religious practices.
Easter is approaching. Time for rebirth, renewal and doing issues otherwise. You may make a distinction in your life and in others. Time to like!
Comfortable holidays everybody. Get pleasure from your rebirth right now and full it with an act of kindness.
Will finish with this lovely quote from Yogananda concerning the delivery of Christ at Christmas, however Easter can also be a reminder of rebirth:
Paramahansa Yogananda:
Every single day, each hour, each golden second, Christ has been knocking… Now, on this holy daybreak of August, Christ comes particularly in response to your interior name to awaken His Omnipresent Christ Consciousness inside you.
This Christ from in all places sleeps within the breast of eternity; He likes to be born once more anytime and wherever, particularly within the heat of your true affection. Though the Infinite Christ is current in each nook of area because the splendor of ever new knowledge and artistic expression, you may by no means see Him except He chooses to be seen within the cradle of your unceasing devotion. The comfy cradle of your coronary heart has been small for a very long time and contained solely self-love; now you will need to make it huge, in order that social, nationwide, worldwide and cosmic Christ Love could also be born there and turn out to be One Love.
The Infinite Christ is in all places; worship His delivery in Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Jewish and different true spiritual temples. Each expression of Fact flows from the All-pervading Christ notion, so study to worship that sacred Common Intelligence in each pure faith, perception and instructing. For the reason that Cosmic Christ dreamed into existence the divine being that’s man, you will need to have a good time the delivery of Christ in your newly woke up equal love for each nationality and each race.”
From ‘A Cradle for the Christ of In every single place’ in The Second Coming of Christ
(Particular due to Juliana Swanson for reminding me of this lovely quote)