EYE ON SPIRITUALITY: EASTER/PASSOVER MESSAGE
Easter Sunday rejoices in permitting the Christ power inside to be enlivened and to flame-up in our soul. In previous years with Passover seders, I was reminded of the symbolism of freedom from slavery and the rebirth and renewal that happened with the fleeing from Egypt by God’s grace and a reminder of our private journey from the bondage of ignorance into the liberty of shifting towards the liberation of the soul and Divine revelation.
Non secular ponderings from weekend reflections:
1) We’re right here to take pleasure in and never work ourselves into our grave. The financial system and the fabric realm of cravings push us to surrender valuable relationship time with family and friends. Older people who find themselves on the point of move typically are requested what they remorse and it was that they labored an excessive amount of and didn’t spend sufficient time with their household.
2) We’re right here to not repeat the identical errors of the previous. I’m typically reminded of my favourite film, Groundhog Day with Invoice Murray. Are we going to endlessly make the identical errors and get up in the identical unhealthy dream that we’re caught in or are we going to make new decisions and wake-up reborn, with a brand new lifetime of pleasure and enthusiasm? If now we have unhealthy relationship karma, are we going to just accept accountability for what we do unsuitable and do it higher this time?
3) We’ve got to be aware and never make the identical errors which imply selecting kindness and compassion over blaming and fault-finding and complaining. In case you are not keen to repair it and do one thing about it, you haven’t proper to endlessly complain about it.
4) We’ve got to train moral judgment. In an age of Rahu the place dishonest and corruption and swindling are the norm, now we have to try to do the precise factor even when it’s not simple. I miss these tales on the information the place individuals discover misplaced cash and discover a solution to monitor it again to the proprietor and provides it again.
5) We’ve got to seek out Jupiter and defeat Rahu and never settle for corruption in authorities because the norm. We’ve got to return to instructing ethical values at dwelling and within the classroom and never let our youngsters get corrupted by violence and celebration of evil that has change into the norm on tv. Time to show off your tv, let your child play solely playground video games with different youngsters, hold them away from violent video video games, cell telephones, and return to old school values.
6) We have to return to easy, caring for individuals, sharing, and never spend our time hiding in our addictions, numbing out to violent tv, and discover time to make a distinction in different’s life. Take some flowers to a stranger in an outdated individuals’s dwelling repeatedly and go to them and know they’re beloved and never forgotten.
7) We’re right here to observe kindness and compassion. I’m reminded of an exquisite story from Elizabeth Kubler-Ross who interview somebody who skilled dying after which got here again and was revived on the working desk. She remembers having her complete life flashed and reviewed earlier than her as she ascended however she was solely proven the instances when she practiced unconditional love and kindness. She remembered serving to a woman in a wheelchair at an in a single day camp and retaining her firm when everybody went off on a tenting journey and her sacrifice and love was a very good reminder.
All of those require making main modifications, selecting new patterns, and creating new pathways in our life. It may be completed nevertheless it takes a aware effort and an energetic selection. We’ve got to be alert and awake to do it.
We’re right here on this planet, to offer and to like and to share, and to assist others. We aren’t right here within the Age of Rahu to build up as many new devices as we are able to, waste or life numbing our to our emotional ache and harming anybody or something or spending our time denouncing others or demonizing others who don’t share our viewpoint.
Somewhat yoga, meditation, aware consciousness, and conscious motion and might make a distinction. Discover time to alter your life together with your religious practices.
Easter is finishing. Time for rebirth, renewal, and doing issues in a different way. You may make a distinction in your life and in others. Time to like!
Comfortable Holidays Everybody. Take pleasure in and full your rebirth in the present day with an act of kindness.
Will finish with this excellent quote from Yogananda concerning the Start of Christ at Christmas however Easter additionally reminds of rebirth:
Paramahansa Yogananda:
” Daily, each hour, each golden second, Christ has been knocking… Now, on this august sacred daybreak, Christ is particularly coming in reply to your internal name, to awaken his Christ Consciousness Omnipresence inside you.
This Christ of In all places is sleeping within the breast of Eternity; He likes to take new beginning at any time, wherever, particularly within the heat of your true affection. Although the Infinite Christ is current in each speck of area because the splendor of ever new knowledge and inventive expression, you possibly can by no means see Him except He chooses to be seen within the cradle of your unceasing devotion. The comfy crib of your coronary heart has for a really very long time been small, holding self-love alone; now you will need to make it huge, in order that social, nationwide, worldwide, and Cosmic Christ-love could also be born there and change into One Love.
The Infinite Christ is in every single place; worship His nativity in Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Moslem, Jewish, and different true non secular temples. Each expression of Reality flows from the All-pervading Christ notion, so be taught 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, it is best to have fun the beginning of Christ in your newly woke up equal love for each nationality and race.”
From “A Cradle for the Christ of In all places” in The Second Coming of Christ
(Particular because of Juliana Swanson for reminding me of this excellent quote)