SPIRITUAL LIFE FOR ALL ( Page 2 ) |
| The third dimension is the realization that every other
human being, irrespective of his/her race, caste, religion, social
status, linguistic or geographic differences or age, that each and
every one of them is a being of spirit, a child of God and thus your
brother or sister. It naturally follows that you love them all –
young or old, ugly or beautiful, near or far – as each one of
them is the child of your father and king and thus deserving rightly
your love and respect. If you hate even the least one of them Our
Father may not like it. |
| At this stage some of you would be thinking: “So,
this is the catch! I knew one is bound to be there”. But let
me assure you this is no catch at all. At the start it may sound a
bit unpractical to love everyone. Of course you cannot like many people
nor like what they say or do. But that does not have to strop you
from loving them, praying for them and wishing them well. This gives
you peace. Once you hate or envy someone you lose peace and happiness.
You are making hell. When you live in ever- present universal love
you are making heaven on earth, because you experience peace, joy
and happiness. That is bliss – heaven. |
| One thing interesting about love is that the more you
give of it the richer you become in it. Once you start dispensing
off this commodity – love- unselfishly, without any strings
attached, you will be surprised at the manifold returns you get from
it. I am pretty sure there is some internal mechanism inside every
human being that willy-nilly identifies selfless love and differentiates
it from the selfish pretences of insincere love. Once you start giving
liberally of the selfless, sincere love you will be smothered with
love from all corners and your life will be one full of peace and
happiness. This is the type of spiritual life I am talking of, a life
of universal, selfless love. This is the result of the three dimensions
of our spiritual awareness. |
| This awareness in the spiritual identity of God, oneself
and everyone else should be strengthened and supplemented by three
dimensions of faith, or I would rather say, trust. The upward dimension
of trust in God, the inward dimension of trust in oneself and the
outward dimension of trust in others will make our heaven on earth
even more realistic and more blissful. Often the absence of trust
in others is the root cause of most of our anxieties and fear and
this is what prevents us from being the recipients of the abundant
love from others. Once we trust and love them they will do the same
to you to a higher degree. |
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