๐ด Rejecting and Accepting - 1 ๐ด
✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya
๐ . Prasad Bharadwaj
๐ป Breaking through Walls ๐ป
Each one of us is inseparably connected with the universal consciousness. Through self-created illusions, however, we build separating walls. We have separated ourselves by our own definitions and demarcations.
We circumscribe ourselves from other people in order to protect ourselves and be different from them. The barriers become particularly solid when we feel superior to others by way of power, money or intellect.
Thus we erect more and more walls, conditioning ourselves and cutting us off from the stream of life, and we suffer from feelings of suffocation. The walls arise out of ignorance, and it is virtually impossible to penetrate them.
They also form a kind of protection, like the shell offers protection to the chick until it has grown enough and doesn’t need it any longer. Our walls have to be broken by ourselves, it cannot be done by anyone else.
Through our understanding we might have a longing for unity and synthesis, but when we try to express unity in our life, we realize clear blockages in ourselves:
We prefer cooperating with people whom we like and who have similar views like we have. With others whose viewpoints we don’t share we have problems. We quickly assume that they are not so well-disposed towards us and might work against us.
We develop an image of them nourished by fears, and from this conflicts develop. Krishna says: “Don’t judge the person by deciding he is bad. There are no bad persons, there are only persons with a bad behaviour.”
The other is just a human like we are. We therefore should accept him and see how we get along with his nature. This wisdom arises in us, when we see the brother in the other and don’t reject him.
The more we include other opinions into our view the more we move towards the vision of unity. When the mental barriers fall, our soul gets the feeling of expanse and fresh air.
๐ป ๐ป ๐ป ๐ป ๐ป
Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Sarasvathi. The Word / notes from seminars.
๐น ๐น ๐น ๐น ๐น
No comments:
Post a Comment