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Yes it is the end of the world — as we knew it pre COVID – 19
A BRAVE NEW WORLD IS RISING:
A world that is filled with love and joy.
A world that is filled with compassion and kindness and understanding.
A world filled with faith, hope and courage.
A Brave New World. A world without boundaries. A world held together and ruled with LOVE 💕
Come and join me…
All pictures on my iPhone in the past week, Pune, India
Black lives matter. And so do brown and yellow and yes, even white.
Every life matters – Of every cast, colour, culture and creed.
Muslim lives matter, Christian lives matter, and yes, even Hindu lives matter.
Lives of the poor matter as much as those of the rich.
Life of every animal, bird and insect matters.
EVERY LIFE MATTERS
But sadly there is discrimination all over the world and it has always been there. Only degree varies. And unfortunately we always find justification for our misdeeds.
The root cause of all this is: that have lost contact with our our own selves. We have lost sight of the inherent beauty of our souls. We have lost sight of our true nature. Going to the church, temple, synagogue or mosque every week is not the answer.
There is only one way out if we want to address this malady, and that is:
By raising our consciousness! To know that we are all ONE. Same consciousness connects us all and running through and sustaining us all.
We forget that when we hurt another, we are essentially hurting ourselves; for there is no separation!
We are all ONE CONSCIOUSNESS and we can raise it:
By becoming kinder,
By becoming more compassionate,
BY BECOMING LOVE
Today would have been our 45th wedding anniversary.
One year back I wrote a post on this day: Time Heals nothing ( Do read it to know a little more about my beautiful and talented wife). On one hand it looks like it was just yesterday and on the other it looks ages ago! So much has happened …
I have been wondering how would she have reacted to Corona. She was very creative and filled with love. She was very pragmatic too. With God’s grace our son has got the best of both of us – so one can say he is doing what she would have 😊💕 It is such a blessing to have loving children around and three generations to be living together 🙏 Am so thankful to Gautam and Rashmi for what all they have done in the past 2-3 months.
Oh yes there is No Social distancing between Anita and me. There is no separation. We are as close today or rather closer than we ever were. The physical is such a tiny part of the Whole, of Universal Consciousness — LOVE. She lives in my heart – and not only mine; she lives in all the hearts she touched 💖💖
She is very much around me and in me 😊 Let me share a story:
We have converted our old apartment in Pune, India into a meditation center for Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (SRF) My eldest sister visited us two years back and said that the center was done very beautifully; and if Anita was around everyone would have thought it was her work 😊 Anita was very artistic and had good aesthetic sense. I think she must have worked through me or guided me from whatever dimension she is in now to get it done 😂
I am sure she is happy and spreading her love and joy even now, as she did when she was on our plane.
There is no Separation, no Isolation, no Desolation — when we have LOVE in our Hearts 💕 💖
A Hindu by birth
But today if
My religion be asked,
I would say it is compassion
It is being kind
And being humane!
And if I be asked
Do you believe in God?
Of yes,
With all my mind,
With all my being,
With all my heart!
My God is Love
There is nothing but Love
And Love is all that we need to have!
So let us be Kind
Let us be Compassionate and
Let us be Humane!
Let us Pray and
Let us Serve
And make a conscious choice today;
To shift our thoughts
from Fear to Faith,
from Corona to Compassion
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PS: We distributed basic grocery to more than 500 migrant workers families in Pune, India
Chapter XVI of Holy Geeta, describes 26 Qualities of the Soul. And the very first is:
Fearlessness: The foundation of spiritual life: having faith in God’s protection, justice, wisdom, mercy, love and omnipresence.
Bible – Job 3:25 – For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me (English Standard Version)
Some days back I had come across a beautiful story about Lord Krishna (when he was young lad and his elder brother Balram)
The story goes like this: Krishna and Balram were walking through the forests to reach somewhere, when the night fell. The silver moon filtered through the leaves and the wind blew with all its might. They decided it was best to rest till the crack of the dawn. While one would sleep, the other would watch over for wild beasts; and they would take turns. Balram insisted that Krishna rest and he would play guard. Balram was smiling to himself as he watched krishna sleep when he suddenly heard a sound!
Startled, he looked around and saw a demon about his height watching him with hungry eyes. Balram was scared and with a quiver in his voice, he asked,
“Who are you ?”
The demon laughed and said,
“I am the size of your Fear!”
As he was saying this, he started growing bigger. Indeed, Balram was petrified. The more afraid he was, the more the demon kept growing. The more the demon grew, the more panicked Balram became. The demon was now towering – almost three times Balram’s size and he couldn’t take it anymore. Screaming, “Krishna!” he fainted.
Krishna woke up and saw Balram next to him. Assuming he was asleep, and it was now his time to watch out, Krishna reached out for his flute and was about to start playing it, when he saw the demon. The demon watched him with hungry eyes. Krishna watched him without much interest. Unable to take such apathy, the demon said,
“Don’t you know who I am?”
Krishna said, nonchalantly, “Looks like you are going to tell me, in any case!” The demon said, “I am the size of your fear!” Krishna laughed. And the demon started to shrink! The more Krishna chuckled to himself, the tinier and tinier the demon became, until it was the size of a miniature doll. Krishna picked him up and put him in the bag to show Balram.
The next morning when Balram woke up, he told Krishna, “Krishna, Krishna, thank God we are safe! You have no clue what happened to me last night while you were sleeping. A humongous demon came and told me he was the size of my fear!”
Krishna with a smile upon his lotus lips, removed the doll from his bag and asked, “Is this the demon?”
Balram was confused and said, “Yes – it looks like him. But he was huge. How did he become so tiny!”
Krishna said, “He looked so huge because he was able to scare you. He was the size of your fear! I couldn’t help but laugh when he tried to scare me, and he kept shrinking. He would have disappeared, but I wanted to show him to you – hence I have kept him!”
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Just the way the room can not be dark and lit at the same time, Faith and Fear cannot co-exist They are the diametrically opposite view of our perceived reality.
The problem with most of us is that we have faith but there are specks of doubt. And our faith is strong when the going is good! It starts to waiver at the first encounter with suffering, at the mere thought of suffering for our near and dear ones!
Considering the current situation, we are facing – What we can do is:
1) Stop reading and seeing round the clock information/news. Every time we read a word it creates a molecular/cellular shift in our body. Audio and Videos create even more havoc. Awareness is a must – and this awareness can be gained from a reliable institute/Website. TV and Newspapers thrive on negativity. They lower our immunity.
2) Strengthen your immune system: With positive thoughts; with a relaxed mind, enough sleep, by being in sunshine, eating healthy food – whether it is fruits and juices, salads, veges, sprouts and nuts – build your immune system. And continue to do so😊
Being with a loving and caring family and friends is the highest immune builder. Great time to get closer to them and to understand them and to help them.
3) Just the right time for your indoor hobbies and passions – Reading, Dancing, Music, Panting, Writing – all are wonderful ways to keep the mind in a state of peace and calm. Above all meditate. It keeps mind still and brings peace.
Introspect. It is a God sent opportunity to Pause and Reflect and to Pray; To make lifestyle changes.
4) Deepen your faith. Take common sense measures but have more faith. Meditation is the best way to deepen our faith.
5) Laugh : Above all don’t take life so seriously. It is just a Reality Show 😇
Laughter is injurious to Disease 😂
Affirm often : I and my family are Happy, Healthy and Whole. Our lives are filled with Love, Joy and Laughter. I wish the same for all.
The whole of our journey of life, my friend is: to move from Fear to Faith. The kind of faith a child has in his parents. When a child is walking, holding a parents hand, he has no care in the world. Whole of the world may be falling apart but the child walks on merrily. That is the kind of faith we need to have in our Heavenly Father and Divine Mother; whatever be your belief.
Fear to Faith Part I (Do read it if not done earlier. I think it will help you)
PS: I haven’t left home for more than a month now and our terrace faces east. I have been able to witness and experience some truly divine skies – mostly mornings but a few evenings too. Stillness speaks 💕
(Pic of YSS Ranchi Ashram (taken on 10th April evening) which was established by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1917 in Ranchi, India)
One good thing with current lockdown situation is that the sky is so clear and beautiful 😊💕
I have been getting up rather early, and a little south of east, I can see Jupiter, Saturn and Mars in a beautiful arch; in and around the constellation of Capricorn. I love the sky and the stars. I am not an astrologer, but I do believe in astrology (did study it for a while in my younger days 😊) Unfortunately my iPhone is not able to capture this divinely beautiful and still dawn.
A few days back a niece of mine from Guatemala (Blanca, this post is for you🤗) asked me, if I know anything about moon and its effect on the current world situation. I started to put my thoughts together for her but then decided to share it with you all😊
MOON does effect our lives TREMENDOUSLY. And so do all the stars and planets and their movement.
High tides and low tides are caused by the moon. The moon’s gravitational pull generates something called the tidal force. The tidal force causes Earth—and its water—to bulge out on the side closest to the moon and the side farthest from the moon. These bulges of water are high tides.
Pic from internet
About 71% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water and 29% of Earth’s surface is land. And our bodies too are predominately water 😇
According to H.H. Mitchell, Journal of Biological Chemistry 158, the brain and heart are composed of 73% water, and the lungs are about 83% water. The skin contains 64% water, muscles and kidneys are 79%, and even the bones are watery: 31%.
And if moon can cause tides in mighty oceans, just imagine what it can and do to our bodies, which are predominantly WATER
I understand that planet Mars would move to Aquarius ♒️ from Capricorn on the 5th of May; and God willing this would bring some relief.
Difficult times/ Challenges all over the world had started with Lunar Eclipse on the 10th of January in Capricorn ♑️ and this phase would end on the 4-5th of June : the next Lunar Eclipse in Gemini ♊️
This is not the last of the year though; there is one more lunar eclipse on 29-30th November; Followed by a Total Solar Eclipse on the 14th of December. That I feel should be the end of this current difficult period.
I Pray, and I Hope, and I Believe that : The current virus situation would end on the 23rd of September, when Rahu leaves Mercury.
We shall all breathe a huge sigh of relief and would be grateful that God has heard our prayers. But would that mean the end of our problems?
At times like these our innate soul qualities of goodness and compassion and kindness come out. They always do: in all natural disasters! And now we are all in it together and our interconnectedness is more perceptible at this time.
But when we go back to our earlier normal world: Once again our competitive spirit would take over and our goodness and compassion would get pushed down (not for all and not the same intensity – as all of us are uniquely different!) So those would be, I would say, even tougher times in a very subtle way. And they will last till about end November.
Pic of sunrise on 1st April from our terrace. No filters used.
These were and are: difficult times, astrologically, and not only Corona! For most countries for most people : Financial, Health, Relationships – anything and everything.
Do read my blog post of 15th January : Living in Today’s World beset with Turmoil.
Paramahansa Yogananda, author of The Autobiography of a Yogi, has said that astrology is scientific but not easily understood. And that we have the power, we have the consciousness to transcend and mitigate the effect of the planetary movements.
We do not go through difficulties or good times because we were born at a particular time in a particular place; but we were born in that particular time and place because of our past karma ( had discussed it in a little more detail in my last year’s post : Life is a Cocktail) Whatever is happening in our lives: Good, bad or ugly; is our own creation – individual as well as mass karma, cause and effect.
Paramahansa Yogananda had also said that we are in a period of transition to a higher age; and he foresaw (decades back) that in the course of this transition, we would pass through some challenging times.
But he emphasized that those difficulties can be mitigated, and will ultimately be overcome, by the efforts of all who strive to think of God and to express His goodness in their lives.
Pic I took last year of Mother Center in LA of Self Realisation Fellowship establishes by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1920
God is Love; His plan for creation can be rooted only in love….Every saint who has penetrated to the core of Reality has testified that a divine universal plan exists and that it is beautiful and full of joy.
So let us go forward with courage and cooperate with that divine plan by using constructively the power of our thoughts and the will to help ourselves and others, and to Pray for all, because that is the Highest we can do.
In doing so we will not only hasten our own soul’s evolution but contribute toward the positive change that is gradually taking place all over the world.
God is Love and Love is all there is 💕🙏💕
Meditation/Faith/Pray: Cure for all human suffering – Any day any time.
Fear and Faith can’t co-exist. Let us deepen and strengthen our faith 🙏🙏
Let us be cautiously courageous!
But whatever you do or whatever your beliefs : Don’t take life so seriously! It is just a Reality Show!
Seriously – we know so little 😇 Keep it simple – Just be happy and spread happiness 😊
Statutory Warning: Laughing in Injurious to all Disease 😂 and it is Contagious 😂
Copyright © Ashok Wahi
She was crying
And we heard her not,
She was saying
That she was hurting;
But we were deaf
To her calls!
She was burnt,
And she was beaten,
She was raped
And she was cut;
But we kept
Beating our drums,
And kept dancing
On Her breast;
Without missing a single step,
And a single beat of
Our hearts!
But the Divine Mother,
That she is,
She still kept loving us;
She kept
Shedding tears for us!
And She kept pleading on our behalf:
Forgive them Father,
For they are your children;
However ignorant and lost!
Our Heavenly Father,
Who is both:
Wisdom and Law;
He shed tears for us too;
But how could He violate
His own formed Laws!
He does love us,
But His love for Her,
Is equally vast and deep!
Both have forgiven us
And She has
Begun to Heal!
I can see it in Her eyes,
I can see it in Her smiles,
Hidden in the clouds and the sun beams!
I can smell her
Fragrant breath,
And I can hear
Her sigh of relief;
She just had her rain bath,
And is blissful in her glee!
HOPEFULLY
We have learned
Our lessons;
And shall be more aware,
In the years to come;
Of Her feelings and Her needs!
And these are
Just like ours;
A little more respect,
A little more care;
And much more love;
That is all She needs.
Above Pic from Whatsapp
All above pics from our terrace on my iPhone
Copyright © Ashok Wahi
Am so happy
To see us all
Standing United!
Families and Friends,
Communities and Nations,
Of the World
At large!
Yes, I am happy
At the same time sad;
That we stand
UNITED in FEAR
And shall soon scatter
And depart!
So sad but true
Just wait and watch;
For we have more Fear
And much less
Faith and Love
In our Hearts!
A day will come
Maybe in times
Distant and far;
When we shall
STAND UNITED
But never again
Scatter and Depart !
For then we
Shall be together,
Once again;
Not in Fear but LOVE,
For One and ALL!
COPYRIGHT © Ashokwahi
