Returning home!
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Namaste! I want to let my blog readers know about my new website-swaroopa.net. Very simple id, not the complicated blog id address. Now to the post.
Last week we discussed how our Kethu embraces the lessons and knowledge our ancestors, spiritual guides and the other worldly Masters are always ready to bestow upon us. But many times as a Soul we ourselves have no idea that we have such blessings ready to be endowed upon us. This our own unique wisdom is represented by Kethu. But Kethu has no head. We ourselves don't know, we have this wisdom. Tragic, isn't it??
Rational beings: As a human race, we have embraced our rationality very much for the last fifty to seventy decades. Nowadays it is every thing about logic and fact. Yes, logic is important, very much. We need to have logic to function in everyday life. We need to know that if we keep our hands on a hot stove, it is going to burn. If we get into an airplane or bus we need to know where we are going. Otherwise, we get stuck at the airport or bus-stand.
Same way when a disease strikes, we have to take precautions. As of now the world is under the threat of the disease Covid-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019). We cannot be complacent and think nothing would happen. But we have to be logical, thinking, yes, we can get exposed to the disease and should be prepared well. We should be ready to be quarantined in case such a thing happens. It is senseless as well to go deliberately and get exposed to the virus. The motto should be, prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
But it also doesn't make sense to be fearful of the disease. As of now the whole world has come under the fear of the Coronavirus. But when fear comes what happens? Though we may think of it as not much effective, there are deep ramifications to fear. Fear is an emotion that leads to stress. When stress appears in our system the hormones called cortisol starts to get activated. These are stress hormones. They are produced by the adrenal glands sitting above the kidney. They help in the 'fight or flight' response.
The correct amount of stress hormones at the correct time helps us to act- to run away from danger or fight the danger. But if the stress hormones are constantly in the body, they keep on activating the receptors that constantly produce the hormone by a feedback loop. This causes stress to the body. When the body is stressed out, many proteins don't function well. Now, what happens?
Remember our body always fights the infections as bacteria and virus that come into our body. To fight these diseases our immune system should be working at the top state. Immune system is made up of immune proteins. A protein works very well inside the body in a homeostatic condition. Homeostasis is the condition were the inner environment of the body is very balanced and all the different elements are maintained at the optimum, physiological functional level. A good homeostasis is needed for the proteins to function very well.
What happens now? The fear of the disease overtakes us. Stress hormones start to course through our bodies. We are stressed. In actuality, it is the hormones acting on our body. The homeostatic environment is toppled. The immune proteins function less. What we feared happens. We are sick suddenly. So, by being fearful actually, we are inviting the disease to come and stay with us. But even with all this sickness news swirling around if we are calm and relaxed, we would get a mild cold or flu, we struggle through it a bit, our immune proteins function greatly, and we are back to our normal Self within a few days.
Fear: So, as rational beings, what should we do? We should be courageous. We should not be swept away by our fear. It has even been studied that proteins unravel and lose their structure under stress and fearful conditions. There is even a scientific term for it- unfolded protein response. For a protein to function well, once it is formed, it has to be folded properly into it's three-dimensional structure. But when the environment where the protein being formed does not have homeostatic balance, the protein can get unfolded or misfolded. Both reduces the functionality of the protein.
As previously mentioned, by being fearful and stressed we ourselves are decreasing our own immunity. Covid-19 is a virus which can bring severe respiratory infection if we are not careful. But that also means to be prepared, not bogged down by the disease and become paralyzed by the fear. News, internet and social media should not further deteriorate the current mental climate of the people. As humans, we have overcome famines, world wars, communicable diseases and more. This also we will overcome.
Now, a bit on fear. Why do we humans fear? Does the Universe really has fear? Of course, there is light energy and dark energy. Very much. But fear? This is what I understand nowadays. There is no fear in this Universe. There is only light or Divine energy. Even the humans, we are composed of the same light energy. The fear in truth is in our minds. The fear in this Universe is only in our minds- the human or animal minds.
This fear happens because we forget who we are. We ourselves are the Divine or part of the Divine. It is when we forget this deep truth we are overtaken by the fear. Now, here is the disadvantage of being very rational. When we become too rational and scientific, we just tap into our logical mind. But the deep connection to the Divine is through the emotional mind or the heart behind it. Because we kept aside our emotional mind, suddenly we feel, we are alone in this Universe, with no one to help us. We are very alone. Fear overtakes us.
So, in reality, there is no fear. Only the absence of light or knowledge. But once we get into this mode of fear, the hamster wheel has been activated. We keep on ruminating about the awful circumstance that can come and how we would have no help at all and more. This brings in other fears and fright. But when we first itself connect with our Divine within, we realize we are very much the fabric of the Universal intelligence, We are that- Brahman.
Now, from this strong space, we can take care of ourselves and be prepared. Our inner homeostatic environment would be optimum with all our immune system well functional. A negative or positive mindset can affect us innately and lead us through paths that are not great for us. Fear is the first culprit that creates this negativity.
Lost sheep: In Bible, Luke 15:3-7, it is said, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!' Who is the lost sheep, Jesus is referring to? The humans who have lost the deep connection with our own higher Self, inner Divine are the lost sheep. We are lost within our own life. We have lost the deep connection with our space in our life.
The shepherd is our higher Self. We are the sheep, each one of us. Our shepherd is searching far and wide for us. We are lost in our own life to the modern society, social media, internet, fake news, and now to it add Covid-19 and a pandemic of huge proportions. This mindset of total rationality is taking us, each one of us, away from our shepherd, the higher Self who can show us our way and path. We, being very rational, keep our emotive and the deep sense of spirituality away from our own life.
We, the sheep are going over the hills, valleys, crevices and depths of our own life. Lost! In our own life- bogged by negativity, terrified by wild animals (fear and other vices) and lost within the huge landscape of our own life that we perceive through our own mind. Anything and everything we perceive is through the filter we wear on our own mind.
Why should we become the lost sheep, when the shepherd is very much within us. Why should we search for guidance, leader or advice, when the voice that can give unending advice is always sitting within us? Why should we search for a cup of water, when the whole ocean of water to quench our thirst is within us? Should we go and search for bread crumbs when the whole oasis of date trees and fresh water is there for us? Isn't it time for us to find that shepherd within ourselves?
Time to return home: Isn't our metaphorical home calling us back? Why is humanity as a whole lost in their own life of wilderness. When we have very deep connection with the Universe and made up of the fabric of the Universe itself, why are we walking around like fearful sheep? The rational mind is the way we get back to our core. We can ask the help of our own rational mind to help us find our emotive mind.
Now, having both sides of our mind, we can stand powerfully in our own truth of the inner spirituality. When we are deeply plugged into our own inner spirit, we understand that life experiences and chaos shows up now and then. Such life experiences are the way life is. We have no choice what circumstance would appear in our life. But we have the choice of how to respond when circumstances appear. We can either ignore it or respond to it very properly and logically.
Many times it is the fear and negative thinking of the humanity at a mass scale that is inviting such worldwide problems. Humanity as a whole has become extremely rational and has left our own spirituality behind. We have become the lost sheep. We have no idea where we are going and what we are doing. So, this leads to humanity itself being lost in our own space. This confusion is getting exacerbated with constant drum of news, social media, internet and world-wide interactions.
We have many times discussed the power of the energy of the human subconscious psyche. The group minds of seven billion humans is a massive ball of energy. If that energy has negative conceptual thinking, we are dealing with negativity in a huge scale. The result of that type of negative thinking. It was just a matter of time before something of such proportion showed up.
How to turn this around? First we have to respond with deep preparedness and have true leadership. As of now a huge disaster is in our hands. True and efficient leadership. Nothing trumps that. This pandemic has to be brought under control. Once we are able to do that and come out of this terrible episode, then humanity as a whole should start to think positively. Otherwise it would be only matter of time the next disaster shows up. The energy of the human psyche is huge and enormous. Let us not think small of it.
This incident shows, it is very much time, that instead of just being intellectual and rational, we also need to embrace the shepherd within each of us, the higherSelf that can lead us very well. We would then never be the lost sheep in our own life. We would grow deep roots within our own life and we would expand into every corner of our own life using our logical as well as emotive mind. This would deeply ground us within our own heart, never to be lost again. We would return home to our very core- the metaphorical home. We are home again!
I wish you a good and safe weekend and I'll see you next Friday! 😉
Next week: The great void!
Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons and Pixabay
Namaste! I want to let my blog readers know about my new website-swaroopa.net. Very simple id, not the complicated blog id address. Now to the post.
Last week we discussed how our Kethu embraces the lessons and knowledge our ancestors, spiritual guides and the other worldly Masters are always ready to bestow upon us. But many times as a Soul we ourselves have no idea that we have such blessings ready to be endowed upon us. This our own unique wisdom is represented by Kethu. But Kethu has no head. We ourselves don't know, we have this wisdom. Tragic, isn't it??
Rational beings: As a human race, we have embraced our rationality very much for the last fifty to seventy decades. Nowadays it is every thing about logic and fact. Yes, logic is important, very much. We need to have logic to function in everyday life. We need to know that if we keep our hands on a hot stove, it is going to burn. If we get into an airplane or bus we need to know where we are going. Otherwise, we get stuck at the airport or bus-stand.
Same way when a disease strikes, we have to take precautions. As of now the world is under the threat of the disease Covid-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019). We cannot be complacent and think nothing would happen. But we have to be logical, thinking, yes, we can get exposed to the disease and should be prepared well. We should be ready to be quarantined in case such a thing happens. It is senseless as well to go deliberately and get exposed to the virus. The motto should be, prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
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| The way intellect has taken over the modern human society! Image credits - Robert Seymour / Public domain |
But it also doesn't make sense to be fearful of the disease. As of now the whole world has come under the fear of the Coronavirus. But when fear comes what happens? Though we may think of it as not much effective, there are deep ramifications to fear. Fear is an emotion that leads to stress. When stress appears in our system the hormones called cortisol starts to get activated. These are stress hormones. They are produced by the adrenal glands sitting above the kidney. They help in the 'fight or flight' response.
The correct amount of stress hormones at the correct time helps us to act- to run away from danger or fight the danger. But if the stress hormones are constantly in the body, they keep on activating the receptors that constantly produce the hormone by a feedback loop. This causes stress to the body. When the body is stressed out, many proteins don't function well. Now, what happens?
Remember our body always fights the infections as bacteria and virus that come into our body. To fight these diseases our immune system should be working at the top state. Immune system is made up of immune proteins. A protein works very well inside the body in a homeostatic condition. Homeostasis is the condition were the inner environment of the body is very balanced and all the different elements are maintained at the optimum, physiological functional level. A good homeostasis is needed for the proteins to function very well.
What happens now? The fear of the disease overtakes us. Stress hormones start to course through our bodies. We are stressed. In actuality, it is the hormones acting on our body. The homeostatic environment is toppled. The immune proteins function less. What we feared happens. We are sick suddenly. So, by being fearful actually, we are inviting the disease to come and stay with us. But even with all this sickness news swirling around if we are calm and relaxed, we would get a mild cold or flu, we struggle through it a bit, our immune proteins function greatly, and we are back to our normal Self within a few days.
Fear: So, as rational beings, what should we do? We should be courageous. We should not be swept away by our fear. It has even been studied that proteins unravel and lose their structure under stress and fearful conditions. There is even a scientific term for it- unfolded protein response. For a protein to function well, once it is formed, it has to be folded properly into it's three-dimensional structure. But when the environment where the protein being formed does not have homeostatic balance, the protein can get unfolded or misfolded. Both reduces the functionality of the protein.
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| Fear can be decimated by truth and inner trust! Fear is the absence of light! Image credits - Pixabay.com |
As previously mentioned, by being fearful and stressed we ourselves are decreasing our own immunity. Covid-19 is a virus which can bring severe respiratory infection if we are not careful. But that also means to be prepared, not bogged down by the disease and become paralyzed by the fear. News, internet and social media should not further deteriorate the current mental climate of the people. As humans, we have overcome famines, world wars, communicable diseases and more. This also we will overcome.
Now, a bit on fear. Why do we humans fear? Does the Universe really has fear? Of course, there is light energy and dark energy. Very much. But fear? This is what I understand nowadays. There is no fear in this Universe. There is only light or Divine energy. Even the humans, we are composed of the same light energy. The fear in truth is in our minds. The fear in this Universe is only in our minds- the human or animal minds.
This fear happens because we forget who we are. We ourselves are the Divine or part of the Divine. It is when we forget this deep truth we are overtaken by the fear. Now, here is the disadvantage of being very rational. When we become too rational and scientific, we just tap into our logical mind. But the deep connection to the Divine is through the emotional mind or the heart behind it. Because we kept aside our emotional mind, suddenly we feel, we are alone in this Universe, with no one to help us. We are very alone. Fear overtakes us.
So, in reality, there is no fear. Only the absence of light or knowledge. But once we get into this mode of fear, the hamster wheel has been activated. We keep on ruminating about the awful circumstance that can come and how we would have no help at all and more. This brings in other fears and fright. But when we first itself connect with our Divine within, we realize we are very much the fabric of the Universal intelligence, We are that- Brahman.
Now, from this strong space, we can take care of ourselves and be prepared. Our inner homeostatic environment would be optimum with all our immune system well functional. A negative or positive mindset can affect us innately and lead us through paths that are not great for us. Fear is the first culprit that creates this negativity.
Lost sheep: In Bible, Luke 15:3-7, it is said, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!' Who is the lost sheep, Jesus is referring to? The humans who have lost the deep connection with our own higher Self, inner Divine are the lost sheep. We are lost within our own life. We have lost the deep connection with our space in our life.
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| The lost sheep parable in Bible! Image credits - Attributed to Jean Baptiste de Champaigne / Public domain |
We, the sheep are going over the hills, valleys, crevices and depths of our own life. Lost! In our own life- bogged by negativity, terrified by wild animals (fear and other vices) and lost within the huge landscape of our own life that we perceive through our own mind. Anything and everything we perceive is through the filter we wear on our own mind.
Why should we become the lost sheep, when the shepherd is very much within us. Why should we search for guidance, leader or advice, when the voice that can give unending advice is always sitting within us? Why should we search for a cup of water, when the whole ocean of water to quench our thirst is within us? Should we go and search for bread crumbs when the whole oasis of date trees and fresh water is there for us? Isn't it time for us to find that shepherd within ourselves?
Time to return home: Isn't our metaphorical home calling us back? Why is humanity as a whole lost in their own life of wilderness. When we have very deep connection with the Universe and made up of the fabric of the Universe itself, why are we walking around like fearful sheep? The rational mind is the way we get back to our core. We can ask the help of our own rational mind to help us find our emotive mind.
Now, having both sides of our mind, we can stand powerfully in our own truth of the inner spirituality. When we are deeply plugged into our own inner spirit, we understand that life experiences and chaos shows up now and then. Such life experiences are the way life is. We have no choice what circumstance would appear in our life. But we have the choice of how to respond when circumstances appear. We can either ignore it or respond to it very properly and logically.
Many times it is the fear and negative thinking of the humanity at a mass scale that is inviting such worldwide problems. Humanity as a whole has become extremely rational and has left our own spirituality behind. We have become the lost sheep. We have no idea where we are going and what we are doing. So, this leads to humanity itself being lost in our own space. This confusion is getting exacerbated with constant drum of news, social media, internet and world-wide interactions.
We have many times discussed the power of the energy of the human subconscious psyche. The group minds of seven billion humans is a massive ball of energy. If that energy has negative conceptual thinking, we are dealing with negativity in a huge scale. The result of that type of negative thinking. It was just a matter of time before something of such proportion showed up.
How to turn this around? First we have to respond with deep preparedness and have true leadership. As of now a huge disaster is in our hands. True and efficient leadership. Nothing trumps that. This pandemic has to be brought under control. Once we are able to do that and come out of this terrible episode, then humanity as a whole should start to think positively. Otherwise it would be only matter of time the next disaster shows up. The energy of the human psyche is huge and enormous. Let us not think small of it.
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| The human being is the sheep! Our higherSelf is the shepherd! Image credits - Stained glass: Alfred Handel, d. 1946[2], photo:Toby Hudson / CC BY-SA |
This incident shows, it is very much time, that instead of just being intellectual and rational, we also need to embrace the shepherd within each of us, the higherSelf that can lead us very well. We would then never be the lost sheep in our own life. We would grow deep roots within our own life and we would expand into every corner of our own life using our logical as well as emotive mind. This would deeply ground us within our own heart, never to be lost again. We would return home to our very core- the metaphorical home. We are home again!
I wish you a good and safe weekend and I'll see you next Friday! 😉
Next week: The great void!
Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons and Pixabay
![Alfred Handel, d. 1946[2], photo:Toby Hudson](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StJohnsAshfield_StainedGlass_GoodShepherd_Portrait.jpg){kind=link}
To my fellow free thinkers,
ReplyDeleteI want to thank you for your invigorating passion to keeping the art of thought alive despite the blatant lack of it in most cultures today. I’m a philosopher, filmmaker, writer, actor, and poet (amongst other things). I’ve published 9 books ranging from philosophy, poetry, academic, and most recently my first fictional narrative which is a horror (though I have written hundreds of fictional screenplays).
With the immense gratitude I have to your entrepreneurial endeavors and creative cultivation I’d like to attach my 2nd book in the genre of Thought that I’ve recently published along with a link to my work. My art is always from the heart and beyond myself.
If further interested in my observations and essays upon human consciousness, creativity and nature, you can also watch some of my films in which I act in, write, self-produce, direct, do the cinematography, sound, editing, and most recently in my 3rd feature even composed the original score. The reason we decide to be philosophers is because we consciously choose to develop ourselves in a society that passively tells us not to – it is the courageous that think and it is the thinkers that evolve society because they’ve first watered themselves and sought after adequate sunlight; they are also patient enough to wait out the storm - wind, lightening, darkness - growth begins when patience unknowingly becomes bravery.
Thank you, for your encouragement and support. It does help me to get a few encouragements and motivation. Lots of people have said my endeavor is just plain useless and it doesn't really help. But I think otherwise. I feel people have lost connection with their own spiritual self. My perspective is, Change should first happen in the mind, with the thoughts. So, my way of sharing my gifts. Thank you. Regards, Swaroopa.
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