The Word - The Voice!
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Hope all of you are having a good weekend. Even that has become a luxury in the last one and a half years in many households. How things are changing by the minute or by the hour? Last week, we saw conflict and fights between Israel and Palestine (No, this is not a political blog. Never!) Late last week it saw the emergence of Black Fungus infections in India and a deep fear has spread to people. This week it is an associated investigation of the US and other Western countries about the Wuhan laboratory in China.
So, even though I am repeating the same question again and again like a broken record, hope all of you are keeping well, hale and healthy with vaccines, social distancing, wearing masks and washing your hands frequently. Because every measure that is given as guidance helps to keep us safe and alive. Sometimes the things that happen in the globe and in our own lives bring no answers.
Everyone can go behind the question of why? But that doesn't bring any respite from the situations or circumstances many times we have to go through. Life sometimes never brings answers. Just questions and tough circumstances remain. The only thing we can do in such circumstances is to prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
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| The inner void of the mind Image credits - Pixabay.com |
The Void: Last week, we discussed how the inner mind has to be as efficient and productive as the stable of winning race horses. The race horses are the thoughts, that are of high value, caliber and nature. Race horses cannot be weak, sick and diseased. Like those ideas or thoughts that have the purpose of becoming intentions and goals cannot be like a weak and tepid tea. As the jingle says in the Indian advertisements, the tea or the ideas should be kadak- strong and refreshing. Any way who wants a lukewarm tea.
Same way ideas have to be genuine, strong and with an inner grit that can stand strong day in and day out, when the whole world shouts at the entrepreneur or idea person- "Your idea is not going to work, you are building castles in the air, you are purely dreaming, you are crazy, you are irrational, you have no idea what you are saying, just listen to yourself, how can anyone accept what you are saying"? Have I heard it? Yes, more than enough in the last four years, especially as I also answer on Quora. People have tried to put me down, devalue or troll me. It just brings a smile to my face, as the other side of my equation is not another human, but someone who runs the Universe itself. (😉)
So, the point is, yes, the inner mind can be like an efficient stable of race horses. But the racer also should be smart and wise enough to protect their thoughts, ideas and concepts. Not everyone in this world is kind, loving and compassionate. We have discussed many times; every Soul is love incarnate. But with every human is it the Soul through the heart coming out or the mind? Soul and heart are kind and compassionate. But this same world has seen Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Osama Bin Laden. Did their heart and compassion come through their life?
Most probably not. Because the agenda of every Soul in this Universe is Universal love. Such a person operating from the Soul or heart cannot align with one side and fight with the other. That kind of fighting, devaluing, trolling comes from the evil or lower agenda of a selfish mind. Hitler was the leader of the whole of Germany. But he decided to be leader just for the German Germany and found fault with it having a Jewish touch as well.
A true leader doesn't bring up one side, while putting down the other side. Let us open our eyes and look at many world leaders. Can we see this perspective playing out again and again? One side, the side of the leader is always brought up while the other side is brought down? But doesn't this world belong to every single Soul who inhabits this planet? Did the displaced, alienated or sidelined people come from another planet? So why are we behaving as if they are?
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| The trust on one's own heart and intuition, the realm of the Universe Image credits - Pixabay.com |
Back to the stable. So, it is not enough to maintain race quality horses or ideas. But we should also be strong and gritty enough to protect the ideas. This is where the path of a spiritual seeker or adept becomes tough. The Universe or our other side of the equation brings test after test. How strong is our will power? If someone comes against us and challenge us, would we disappear like a melting wax or stand, defend our ideas/ concepts like a roaring lion? Would we think our ideas are not worth pursuing anymore? The minute someone stands against us, would we drop all our aspirations and hide within our home, never to show our face again to the outside world?
Inner trust: When I started writing for Quora, there were many times when I wanted to just quit everything and hide underneath my bed or home in embarrassment, as I used to be a very quiet and keeping to myself person; due to the fear of backlash, I even kept my spiritual side hidden and under cover. That I, was attempting to write a blog and trying to answer Quora was actually terrifying and nerve wracking to me.Because I had started writing the blog and started pursuing my spirituality with a lot of inner doubts. I had never discussed my thoughts and ideas with anyone. I had even hidden this part of my mind from everyone, even my own parents. My parents always knew I was interested in stories and Hindu mythology. But they also didn't have a clue of the extent of interest I had. So, this was a very new area of operation for me.
But suddenly people- family and friends who used to know us, find that we are a very different person now, and are not ready to accept this version 2.0. So, the first test is how much do we trust ourselves and our own intuition. Yes, this is a tough test, because until now, we always used to listen to our own mind, the outer voices or the outer leaders. Suddenly the rod of leadership has changed hands and gone to an inner faculty. So, people who don't understand this change would come and try to keep us where we used to be.
This is another much tougher test. Sometimes this may be with family, sometimes with friends and sometimes with both. Because they have become comfortable with our previous version and this newer version, which is nothing they knew before brings a different flavor and essence to their life. They are going to argue, resist, devalue or debate, as that can make them uncomfortable. Being pushed out of their comfort zone or status quo. Now, we the being is in a fix. Should we go back to the previous version or be courageous enough to embrace this newer version?
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| Courage to stand on one's truth and convictions Image credits - Pixabay.com |
Courage: Here, the true reality is, the arguments and debates are actually our own shadow side that stays as subconscious essences of the ancestors/ family within us. Due to that, the different newer vibrations are attracting people who are staying in that older ancestral subconscious energy. Remember the phrase I always write, "Our inner reality reflects outside". So, now a newer version, vibration and reality is trying to take root within us and our life.
During this transition from version one to two, the people who are attracted to do debates or tussles with us, even their energy starts to change, if the first person is courageous enough to stand and defend their newer state of existence. Here, is where the courage and the boldness of the person needs to come through their power of the will. Because the fight is extremely difficult. The person above fighting their own older inner subconscious energy, is even fighting the outer manifestations of the same older energy as family and friends. Sometimes it leads to bitter word fights.In my own life, in the last three years, very bitter word fights have erupted with many of my friend's groups. Sometimes it was so bitter, we just had to just agree to disagree. But here, if the person aligns and says okay to the friends, everything slides back into the status quo of the previous norm that existed till now. We as a person, being shown a new concept and thought of life has to realize, the subconscious wiring within our own DNA has existed as patterns and behaviors for generations and even may be centuries.
These patterns are not going to give up their place without a fight. Our mind has existed within this pattern for a major portion of our life. Suddenly we are bringing our will power against these patterns. Let me, switch a bit to Vedic astrology. Here there are many planets involved. The heart or Soul to which we are aligning is the Sun (Surya), the mind that we are working on the Moon (Chandra), the will power we are using is Mars (Kuja), the subconscious patterns and behaviors- Kethu, and the newer version or set of concepts/ principles- Rahu.
Only yesterday (5/26/2021), we had the eclipse of the full Moon where Moon was with Kethu in Sagittarius and Sun was with Rahu in Gemini. Even though I am writing this today, the energy is going to be there for another 3-4 weeks. Whoever feels they have to let go off some old and not so good behaviors, if they try in the next month, they may have an easier time to let it go as Rahu, the purpose of the individual is aligned to closely with their own truth, Sun. Only the person has to deeply utilize and involve their own will power -Kuja.
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| It takes courage to try something new Image credits - Pixabay.com |
Many times, the planet Kuja gets a bad reputation as an angry, fighter and arrogant male planet. Yes, when the intentions and agenda are low. But when the intentions and thoughts take a higher ideal or value system, the Mars- Kuja changes to embrace a deeper and greater quality called will power, leadership, excellence and a bold attitude that is very generous to help others. A true leader who is not afraid to stand his/her ground for their truth and fight for what they believe as correct according to their convictions.
Our voice: This brings us to the topic of our current post, our own voice. The realm of the third sacred energy center- throat chakra- Visuddha. The name Visuddha in Sanskrit is Vi- extreme, Suddha- pure. Visuddha- Extremely pure, honest and authentic speech. The Visuddha becomes active and starts to make reality in our life, only when our speech is honest, genuine and pure.
This center won't open and be fully active if we gossip, troll, devalue and do angry/ arrogant speeches. No, it won't. Because using our own speech we are trying to bring ourselves up and our position high by putting/ devaluing another down. How can our aspirations and passions blossom, if we are putting another Soul down, who is very much part of the same Universal intelligence? It won't happen.
That is why any group that tries to bring themselves up by bringing another group or people down never bloom to the full extent. Because they are operating against the foremost principle of the Universe- everything is "Shivohum, Aham Shiva" - I am Shiva, the Universal force. But humans who don't get this keep on trolling, devaluing and gossiping. Now, another hint- in the Samudra Mathana (churning of the milky ocean), Shiva takes up the Halahala poison and keeps it in his neck. The poison of the thought, word or idea, he does not take inside- lest it makes him sick, he also doesn't spit it outside, lest the outer physical reality gets toxic. He keeps it in his throat- and his neck becomes blue in color giving him the name- Neelakanta.
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| Churning of the milk ocean - Samudra mathana Image credits - Ms Sarah Welch, via Wikimedia Commons |
So, here Shiva is giving the guidance, anything toxic or venomous as words, keep it in your neck itself. But the genuine and honest talk, the words that are Visuddha - extremely pure, say it, because as a Soul, we have a right to speak our mind, will and wish and stand by our deepest inner truth. Otherwise, why even in the world everyone should be given vocal chords, a Visuddha chakra, a voice and the deeper thoughts, mind, intellect and intelligence to go with it? All these are not needed. Correct??
So, don't curtail one's own genuine, honest and pure speech- the Visuddhi and don't try to ever make another Soul voiceless as well. Because a person who allows another to speak and share their thoughts, mind, ideas and aspirations also get a deep friend to go along- The Universal intelligence itself- Brahman! Some call it Allah, God, Yehweh, Ahura Mazda or one that cannot be spoken about! I bow in front of that unspeakable essence! Namaste!🙏