Finding Inner Strength
There are many people who tell me that the job they are doing is not the thing for them and they are just doing it for money to survive. But in that surviving, they are getting killed energetically. Life becomes a drag.
Should they give up their jobs?
But they somehow go on and are unable to give up because of security, inner inertia, and fear.
Let me make it clear to you: If you want to bring about changes in your life, you cannot start by changing your circumstances, because it's YOU who is the problem - your mind, the way it thinks and deals with life.
The other important thing to understand is that nothing which is happening to you is accidental.
No situation, no relation, no job is ever going to be perfect, where you enter your ideal world, where you can be the way you are. These situations that your being has chosen to learn from in this life are your karmic consequences.
You can avoid them through entertainment and other distractions of a glorious future but they will be there to haunt you and will have impact on your life as long as you live.
Karma is an unfinished circle of actions which haunt you to be completed. KARMA IS CREATED BY NOT FULLY LIVING AN EXPERIENCE - WHICH MEANS LIVING THE HAPPINESS OF A DESIRE BUT AVOIDING ITS SUFFERING.
The solution is to live that suffering consciously and creatively without complaining. Then, that karmic spell breaks and your life energy momentum can enter the next phase.
If you avoid your present challenges, you will enter into a loop where most of the humanity is living, which repeats life after life. The KEY POINT of bringing radical change is facing and looking at your suffering, which is your mind's resistance to your life situation.
It means you dissolve your resistance and really look at your situation as it is.
THIS IS THE ALCHEMY OF TRANSFORMING YOUR ENERGY.
Nobody has an ideal situation. There are always obstacles and problems, but the point of creativity in life is to not stop because of your problems, but move and invest energy in your best aspect in spite of them. If there were no challenges and friction in your life, it will become dull, without any fire.
Life is perfect in each moment, but your ideas don't always agree with it. This is the trap in which most people live. A life of enlightenment is one where you see and flow with the perfection of each moment.
All the geniuses and great artists came up with their best creations in times of turmoil and challenges- physically, mentally or socially.
WE are not here to create ideal circumstances for our life and then live.
THIS ATTITUDE PUTS YOU ON PAUSE MODE FOR FUTURE PLAY. BUT THE FIRE OF LIFE ONLY BURNS IN THE NOW.
We are here to live and keep our fire on. That fire makes you see the perfection in your suffering as well.
Don't call your problems suffering, call them challenges instead. Then your approach towards them is like welcoming adventure, as each challenge reveals in you a potential you are not aware of.
By the law of universe, you will always will be dealing with OPPOSITES- WHICH YOU CALL PROBLEMS.
Maturity and elevation of soul is when you do not see the contradictions as problems, but as complimentary energies of day and night, which create energy and power in you to rest and act.
Life is not trying to harm you. It’s your resistance to the environment that harms and blocks you.
You inherit darkness and light as your tools of energy to create balance, not to end that contradiction.
There is no light and joy in light if you do not suffer or experience darkness.
If you take out the darkness, there is no light.
The Upanishads in Bharat define life as a movement between opposites.
You cancel the opposites, life is no more.
Living in real harmony with life is not all happiness and peace, but accepting and cooperating with this law of energy of opposing forces.
The balance of these two dualities gives birth to bliss, wisdom, and creativity.
This is True devotion to life, which means you joyfully accept and harmonise darkness and light and create power of action.
Understand this with an example of a bow, which has a tension between its two ends that creates the power to shoot arrows of action. If the string is too tight because of your resistance and stress, it will break. If the tension on the thread is too loose because of your stagnation and avoidance, then the bow is useless and cannot shoot the arrow.
In short, whole of humanity is basically going through suffering of two types: either you’re too tight, where your system breaks down or too loose, such that your system is dull and weak to deal with issues of life.
So what can one do with one's life when situations are not ideal?
1. Stop judging your challenges as problems. They are energy sources. You are supposed to find ways and invent ideas to move forward in your life. That is what creativity and evolution is about.
Don't look for way out. Instead, find a way to dive deep into your challenges to understand yourself in the context of your issue - why and how.
No problem is absolute. There is always a solution, but for that you have to look at and experience your situation with awareness, care, and non-resistance.
Life is not a ready-made dish, you have to cook it. You can only cook when you know what the fire within you is, what the situation of the pot is, what the ingredients of your talent and potential are, and what vegetables you’re working with, the people around you..
2. The other thing is the balance which you can create, which will become or can become a source of wisdom, joy, and courage to break free from the destructive environment.
No matter how bad your circumstances are, never give up on your life, which means the best way you can deal with challenges is by watering the joy and creative aspect of your life. This means taking out one or two hours every day where you can be at ease with yourself, and let life be creative and do something which inspires your child- like painting, dancing, music, or anything in which you are not functioning out of efficiency to make money but out of appreciation for life and its energy in you.
This is the greatest compliment and worship of Shakti. This creates an intimate connection with life and life starts to guide you. Because you have passed your examination, that is, you have accepted the great mother energy in all her forms, negative and positive.
THE ESSENCE OF DEVOTION IS THAT YOU TELL LIFE, “FOR ME, TO PLAY IN YOUR KINGDOM OF ENERGY IS THE PRIORITY AND HONOUR; NOT CHOOSING AND JUDGING WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN IN MY LIFE, BUT BEING WITH AND WELCOMING WHAT IS HAPPENING AND CREATING JOY IN SPITE OF THE CHALLENGES.“
Such actions, in spite of your suffering, will create a new trust, energy, and confidence in yourself.
This will also build power in you to break free from your toxic environment, not out of fear but out of joy and respect for your energy.
When you take risks for the sake of life, not for the sake of your security and fear, life honours you and guides you. But the condition is that you have to first show life that you value it with all its colours, not just security.
This will make you like Shakti, the great mother. To her, all circumstances are your energy and children, and you care and evolve with them equally.
You do not prefer one thing over another because life is the gift and the best preference; the rest are just cookies on the side, some bitter, some sweet.
3. The most important point which can break the destructive patterns of the mind is to DOUBT SUFFERING.
Don't keep validating your suffering and giving your power to it, making it stronger. Instead, validate joy as a part of suffering.
When there is day, remember the night. When there is night, remember the day. This will create balance in your mind.
WHEN THIS BALANCE HAPPENS INSIDE YOUR MIND, YOUR ENERGY GETS INTEGRATED. THEN YOUR KUNDALINI WAKES UP BECAUSE YOUR ENERGY IS NOT GETTING DEPLETED IN FIGHTING THE NEGATIVE AND TRYING TO BRING IN AND KEEP THE POSITIVE.
YOU BECOME THE ENERGY - NEITHER NEGATIVE NOR POSITIVE. BUT IT CAN BECOME BOTH, WHICH MEANS YOU ARE BOTH AND SOMETHING MORE.
THAT IS YOUR TRUE NATURE - NOT HAPPINESS OR SUFFERING, BUT BLISS. ENERGY WITH NO FORM PREFERENCE IS BLISS, FLOW, CREATIVITY, AND DESTRUCTION.
THE ETERNAL PLAY OF BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS.
THIS ENERGY INTEGRATION IS THE KEY TO ALL SPIRITUALITY, HEALING, CREATIVITY, AND PROSPERITY AS A HUMAN.
REMEMBER, IT'S ALL A PLAY. NOTHING, NO FORM IS PERMANENT, BUT SHAKTI, LIFE, AWARENESS ARE ETERNAL.
AUM DURGADEVYAE NAMAHA.
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