ENLIGHTENMENT ‘HAPPENS’!‘IMPOSSIBLE CONCEPTS’ ARE NOT REALLY SO!
If you're looking for the path, you're on it! When I began my so-called spiritual journey, enlightenment was far from my mind! What I was looking for was a better life and at the most some abstract notion called peace of mind. And oh yes, most certainly a quick fix method to jump start me out of my problems! But enlightenment? That sounds an impossible concept and one usually leaves it for another life time …or for those we perceive as holier than thou! And yet if we could only become aware, that it is our preconceived notions of the term that comes in the way, perhaps more of us might make it our reality. Enlightenment is not something for the sages, it is not an impossible dream and it does not imply a distancing of self from all that we have held dear. Life, even our very contemporary life and enlightenment are not mutually exclusive states. And this to me is true spirituality- something that includes and not excludes my day-to- day life! Something that blends with, and indeed optimizes my humanity and its purposes and desires, rather than opposing, suffocating and suppressing them! Thereby deeply fulfilled do we extend the same to ‘others’ around us and extend from self to selves to the Godself within! Indeed one soon realizes that impossible (sounding) concepts are not really so! Unconditional love, non-judgment, forgiveness, oneness and the like might appear idealistic, impractical, impracticable indeed when read off the pages of a book, but once you are on the journey they become unexpectedly user friendly! Ask me! I used to think unconditional love was only a sop for those who had no ‘real’ personal lives of their own! And being the much touted ‘witness’ seemed to me a concept Shiva created so that no one could copy him! And yet, a few years into this wondrous path, all these qualities ‘happen’ more and more naturally. One discovers that it was largely our misconceptions, rising from a half –baked understandings of these concepts, that made them loom so large and forbidding; and the rest of the gap is easily bridged by a growing awareness that literally changes the way we think and feel. For through it all we are moving towards what en ‘light’enment is best known for! The startling eureka’s of inner illumination! In more modern and scientific terms enlightenment is a re-mapping of our neural pathways, a literal expansion of our minds and thus our consciousness! With literally new brainwaves, our perceptions begin to change, reflecting in enhanced ways of being almost automatically! And suddenly, enlightenment is an escalating lightening of the heart, reverberating through our personal lives, environment and world. Individual journeys almost involuntarily become of spiritual service towards humanity for you are 24/ 7 transmitter of this new consciousness wherever you maybe placed in life, through whatever tasks your day –to- day life may comprise of!
And the best part! Enlightenment happens in individual ways, tailor made to you! Enlightenment does not mean becoming some impossible ideal, the Gods and Masters we revere and resonate to, for we each individuated to be what only we could be for the whole….towards enlightening the whole in unique ways! We do not lose our identity but indeed expand and revel it in ways perhaps we were not even aware of! And life becomes an Arabian night’s journey with always more to discover and enjoy! For the journey within is truly that: infinite scope for inner expansion, reflecting in external areas of life panning out more and more to our individual ideas of what they can best be! And then …there is more...! Yes there always is! And enlightenment has happened somewhere along the way! The sacred permeates your day-to day life in minute ways - awake, asleep, playing, at rest or working. It is not one magical moment as we sometimes think it to be…but a series of…and it’s conscious realization permeates us in a manner quite like the beautiful music that has been playing all along in our neighbors house…but we only become consciously aware of it at some seemingly sudden ‘point’! Divyaa Kummar
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