“You are the messenger of enlightenment”, the Master wrote on my proffered book on the 16th of December, 2007. What a profound message! The full import of it is yet to sink in!!
How did I ever reach this exalted status? I, an ordinary human being of some forty odd years, who has lived life with all human frailties and failings! What did I do to deserve this honor? These questions would have plagued me if someone had pre-warned me about those words. But on that beautiful December afternoon of Hyderabad, the words rang as true in my heart as though they were a foregone conclusion. By then they had become my TRUTH.
Synchronicity is a beautiful celestial phenomenon, and it was such a synchronicity that led me to the doors of Life Research Academy at Hyderabad, all the way from my abode amidst the Himalayan splendor of Shimla. I didn’t know what to expect. I was responding to an inner call, and looking forward to the journey into the unknown. Dr Newton was just a name to me. Of course I had seen his picture on LRA website, but that was that.
I was the first one to reach the venue for the Basic Workshop, and to pass time started browsing through the first edition of ‘Life Times’. The testimonies and stories given there made me excitedly look forward to my own ‘as yet unrevealed’ experiences. Soon other participants poured in and the events took over. Dr Newton came across as a person one could trust, his wife Dr Lakshmi seemed like a perfect match to him.
Two days of Basic Workshop flew by. I did have some experiences but nothing dramatic. I was ‘so-oh’ looking forward to the Therapist’s Program to get to the bottom of my dramas. Well, let me tell you that I was drawn to this entire program basically on my quest for personal spiritual growth. I did not have any issues to resolve as such. But as you know, one always wants to unearth some great stories from the past to be able to justify the whole exercise.
We, ‘Future Therapists’ were an enthusiastic bunch and bonded like a family. Dr. Newton inaugurated the workshop with a deliberate hug to each one of us, which sort of set the mood for the next six days. I have not hugged people so spontaneously in my entire life as I did in those six days. In fact each one of us was forever hugging someone or the other. Age and gender were no barriers.
From day one, people started having exotic experiences. Unbelievable, yet so real! I did not experience any past life on that day, but well it was just the beginning. Day two dawned, this time I reached LBL (life between lives) stage and saw an ‘all knowing’ eye. This eye was peaceful, benevolent, and seemed to be every where. If I tried to enter the eye it would disappear, only to reappear a moment later. I felt calm in its presence. By the end of the third day, people had visited many, many lifetimes and drawn parallels with their current lives. I, on the other hand, had to be content with my ‘eye’. I was beginning to have doubts now. I requested Sridevi to let Dr. Newton or Dr. Lakshmi regress me. But no such luck for me. The only progress that I had made was that I felt one with the Earth, I felt its movements (I was moving with it), both on its axis, and around the Sun. I also received messages like, ‘Where do you want to go? There is nowhere to go to. This is all that there is.’ But all this did not satisfy me. I was restless.
On day four, we were to explore our ‘cellular memories’ and draw a picture. My picture had beautiful pink, golden, and violet colors; my (by now famous) eye, and these words (which had flashed in my mind), ‘Trust you are safe. Trust you are free. Trust you are God.’ During my regression, I was honored by Dr. Newton’s physical presence. He was guiding my therapist. I, on my part stubbornly refused to move beyond my ‘eye’ and my ‘oneness’ with Planet Earth. After the session, I thought in desperation, “People are having such great experiences while I am with my eye.” The moment this thought flashed in my mind it was followed by another one “The EYE is a metaphor for the ‘I AM’ presence.” I was stunned. It was like a revelation. From that moment on, my inner state was altered. When the time came for me to share my experience, my tears just wouldn’t stop. How could I be so blind? I was having the most incredible experience of my lifetime but I did not have the eyes to see it. I was receiving the most profound messages but I did not have the ears to hear them. I had a major TRUST issue.
Day five was finally my day. Dr. Newton had chosen Susheel for the ‘Re-birthing’ exercise. He had some incredible experiences and during the sharing of those experiences read out a prayer that he had written to Dr. Newton the night before. It had something to do with trust, and surrender. Suddenly something came over me; I walked up to Dr. Newton and said, “I have read that when a student is ready the Master appears. I guess I am ready now.” Saying this I bent down and touched his feet. For a fleeting moment even the Master was taken aback. I do not know if my spontaneous surrender made him choose me as the next subject, or I was already on his radar, but I was the next one on the centre-stage, and that was my hour of glory.
I was a puppet in the Master’s hand, following his every instruction, breathing fast in a continuum, and reaching the heights of my experience. I cried like I have never cried before, with my whole being. I laughed like I have never laughed before, with my whole being. I experienced the dazzle of a thousand suns, I moved with Mother Earth, and I reached the Source. The message was loud and clear, “I AM all THAT IS.” The love that I felt deep within me for my fellow beings was over-whelming, but the LOVE and Respect that I felt for my Master, my Spiritual Mother was beyond compare. I fell on his feet and sobbed the tears of love and joy. It felt as though the floodgates of love had opened inside me. When the Master proclaimed that it was the ‘flowering of a soul’, for the first time I BELIEVED.
Almost three months have elapsed since that day. Now the true meaning of the word enlightenment has dawned on me. “Enlightenment is the direct result of freedom from the illusion of a separate self.” I do not need to be in a trance now to feel the oneness with Mother Earth and all life forms on it. It is my SOUL TRUTH now. I live it in each moment. So far that has been my Dharma. My endeavor now is to fill myself with so much LOVE that it overflows effortlessly towards everyone. I KNOW now that I am on the right path, and am being guided to take the right step at the right time. Life has always been a song and a dance for me, today I wish to invite every passer by to sing and dance along with me.
My Master and his beautiful love-filled team are my STARS. They say that the stars are the most trustworthy navigators; with my ‘stars’ firmly in their place, I can cruise through this journey of my present life incarnation with great confidence and élan. My gratefulness pours forth along with my unconditional love. I bow in reverence, and in LOVE.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
My Motivation
Sometimes when I try to explain my dream to my family and friends, I get blank stares. My enthusiasm does not find an eager audience. Most of the times, I try and avoid this situation by just keeping quiet about my dreams, but there are times when I can’t contain my excitement. I do understand that everyone operates from their belief system, just as I do. But how come the belief systems are different in the very same family in which we grew up? What exactly determines our belief systems? Is it the cumulative experience and influence of one lifetime or infinite life times?
Since I am a Past Life Regression Therapist, I know that our past lives affect our present belief systems, but for most people this fact is difficult to digest. Most of us believe that our beliefs come from our childhood conditioning. If we were told as children that telepathy does not exist, we will grow up believing it to be our truth. However, it is only a belief and not a fact. Most of what we believe is not based on facts in any case.
Now suppose that as a grown up you come across someone who can demonstrate to you that telepathy does exist. What will you do now? Will you accept this new truth? Generally even when a fact is offered with proof, a skeptic mind would try and block it. They try and skip to another reality zone, just to avoid changing their beliefs. It is a sort of automatic defense mechanism of the ego. Sometimes, when you are trying your best to explain something new to someone, they get a glazed look in their eyes. Their attention drifts off. They stop paying attention to you. This is their mind’s way of blocking out information that does not tally with its belief system. Only an open mind can absorb new information and evaluate it on its own terms.
So, now I have decided to share my dreams only with those people who believe in me. I am not here to change anyone’s belief systems, I am here to have faith in my belief system and evaluate it from time to time. I am here to discard beliefs that do not work for me any more and form experiential beliefs that always work. I do not believe that successful people are just lucky. I know that one becomes successful by believing in one’s dreams.
My motivation comes from setting BIG goals. I stay motivated by writing my goal in great detail, letting go of it in care of the Universe, and taking small inspired actions from time to time. Invariably I am led to the right people, right opportunities and right know-how to achieve my goals. After one goal is achieved, I set another BIG goal. I stay motivated by my complete faith in the Universe. My motivation also comes from imagining a bigger, brighter, and more colourful life than I currently lead. I put my emotions into this picture. Eventually I am led to take successful action. This action is always inspired, and I do it to the best of my ability.
I write my New Life Story and run it through my mind many times a day. Each run builds up the momentum, and I feel excited about taking actions to reach my goals. I know people who live the life that I live and I also know people whose lives are full of boredom and mediocrity. I feel grateful to the Universe because my eyes and mind are open. I have discovered my potential. I have chosen my life of purpose and passion. I feel ecstatic. Life is beautiful.
Since I am a Past Life Regression Therapist, I know that our past lives affect our present belief systems, but for most people this fact is difficult to digest. Most of us believe that our beliefs come from our childhood conditioning. If we were told as children that telepathy does not exist, we will grow up believing it to be our truth. However, it is only a belief and not a fact. Most of what we believe is not based on facts in any case.
Now suppose that as a grown up you come across someone who can demonstrate to you that telepathy does exist. What will you do now? Will you accept this new truth? Generally even when a fact is offered with proof, a skeptic mind would try and block it. They try and skip to another reality zone, just to avoid changing their beliefs. It is a sort of automatic defense mechanism of the ego. Sometimes, when you are trying your best to explain something new to someone, they get a glazed look in their eyes. Their attention drifts off. They stop paying attention to you. This is their mind’s way of blocking out information that does not tally with its belief system. Only an open mind can absorb new information and evaluate it on its own terms.
So, now I have decided to share my dreams only with those people who believe in me. I am not here to change anyone’s belief systems, I am here to have faith in my belief system and evaluate it from time to time. I am here to discard beliefs that do not work for me any more and form experiential beliefs that always work. I do not believe that successful people are just lucky. I know that one becomes successful by believing in one’s dreams.
My motivation comes from setting BIG goals. I stay motivated by writing my goal in great detail, letting go of it in care of the Universe, and taking small inspired actions from time to time. Invariably I am led to the right people, right opportunities and right know-how to achieve my goals. After one goal is achieved, I set another BIG goal. I stay motivated by my complete faith in the Universe. My motivation also comes from imagining a bigger, brighter, and more colourful life than I currently lead. I put my emotions into this picture. Eventually I am led to take successful action. This action is always inspired, and I do it to the best of my ability.
I write my New Life Story and run it through my mind many times a day. Each run builds up the momentum, and I feel excited about taking actions to reach my goals. I know people who live the life that I live and I also know people whose lives are full of boredom and mediocrity. I feel grateful to the Universe because my eyes and mind are open. I have discovered my potential. I have chosen my life of purpose and passion. I feel ecstatic. Life is beautiful.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
We need Traction to move forward in life
Shimla has seen some good snow fall this month. As a result the road surfaces have been covered with frozen snow. You can walk on the fresh snow, but trying to wade your way through frozen snow is another story. You’ve got to be real careful lest you land on your bottom! People walk gingerly, taking small but sure steps. However, it requires some practice and courage to walk on snow-laden slopes.
While the pedestrians have a tough time negotiating the walk, the motorists have it worse. Driving a ‘two-wheel drive’ vehicle after a snow-storm poses a huge challenge to all. The car starts going uphill, and then just stops. The wheels keep spinning. The engine keeps cranking. Poor car (and poor driver!) tries as hard as it possibly can, but it doesn’t move forward. Snow flies around and that is that. (You can’t imagine the driver’s plight unless you have been in a similar situation yourself.)
Why doesn’t the car move despite its best efforts and all the driver’s skills put together? What stalls its progress? Well, the wheels need some surface traction to move forward. It is this traction that keeps the moving wheels magnetized to the surface and vice versa. Without traction, you just cannot move how much ever you might try. Have you ever wondered what keeps us human beings stuck in our un-fulfilled lives? Why don’t we move forward? What stops us in our tracks?
The fact remains that just like the stuck car, most of us need some traction as well, to move forward in our lives. We keep struggling at one place, working hard and trying our best. But we don’t seem to be moving up. The driver of the car at least knows why he is stuck; we don’t even know it.
Sometimes this cycle of trying and not getting anywhere can go on for years, a lifetime perhaps. We get gray doing just that. People call it ‘bad’ luck but there is no such thing as bad luck or good luck. We just get used to living like this, in a rut. Yes, we do need some traction in our lives, if we want to move out of this rut. You must be wondering what this traction is, and how you can get it in your life.
Well, traction is something that magnetizes you to your goals, and vice versa. It helps you pull and push perfectly, in unison. When there is traction in your life, achieving your goals becomes the simplest thing on this earth. If there is no traction, try as hard as you may, nothing is going to happen (just like nothing happens to the car). The trick lies in NOT trying hard.
Yes, for eons we have been taught that ‘hard work’ makes us successful. If that be the case, is the person who breaks stones by the roadside successful? He works very hard, even in this freezing cold. What about your domestic help? She works very hard as well. While we can’t handle our own household chores, she works in many homes. Snow is no excuse for her. Some homes (including her own home) do not even have provision for hot water. Don’t you think she works hard enough? What about the construction workers, the laborers? They all work rather hard by any standards, but their lives are like that car stuck in the snow.
So how do we (and they) get this magic wand called ‘traction’ to move on? There is no magic involved here. We derive this all important traction or magnetic force, when we employ a particular ‘thought process’. Once we program ourselves for success, using the software of our thoughts, success can not elude us. The traction comes automatically then, like it comes on a clean road surface. Yes, the snow has to be cleared before we attempt to drive on that road. Similarly our limiting thoughts need to be deleted /cleared before we can re-program our thoughts for success. Then our empowering thoughts will pull us up any hill that we choose to climb!
While the pedestrians have a tough time negotiating the walk, the motorists have it worse. Driving a ‘two-wheel drive’ vehicle after a snow-storm poses a huge challenge to all. The car starts going uphill, and then just stops. The wheels keep spinning. The engine keeps cranking. Poor car (and poor driver!) tries as hard as it possibly can, but it doesn’t move forward. Snow flies around and that is that. (You can’t imagine the driver’s plight unless you have been in a similar situation yourself.)
Why doesn’t the car move despite its best efforts and all the driver’s skills put together? What stalls its progress? Well, the wheels need some surface traction to move forward. It is this traction that keeps the moving wheels magnetized to the surface and vice versa. Without traction, you just cannot move how much ever you might try. Have you ever wondered what keeps us human beings stuck in our un-fulfilled lives? Why don’t we move forward? What stops us in our tracks?
The fact remains that just like the stuck car, most of us need some traction as well, to move forward in our lives. We keep struggling at one place, working hard and trying our best. But we don’t seem to be moving up. The driver of the car at least knows why he is stuck; we don’t even know it.
Sometimes this cycle of trying and not getting anywhere can go on for years, a lifetime perhaps. We get gray doing just that. People call it ‘bad’ luck but there is no such thing as bad luck or good luck. We just get used to living like this, in a rut. Yes, we do need some traction in our lives, if we want to move out of this rut. You must be wondering what this traction is, and how you can get it in your life.
Well, traction is something that magnetizes you to your goals, and vice versa. It helps you pull and push perfectly, in unison. When there is traction in your life, achieving your goals becomes the simplest thing on this earth. If there is no traction, try as hard as you may, nothing is going to happen (just like nothing happens to the car). The trick lies in NOT trying hard.
Yes, for eons we have been taught that ‘hard work’ makes us successful. If that be the case, is the person who breaks stones by the roadside successful? He works very hard, even in this freezing cold. What about your domestic help? She works very hard as well. While we can’t handle our own household chores, she works in many homes. Snow is no excuse for her. Some homes (including her own home) do not even have provision for hot water. Don’t you think she works hard enough? What about the construction workers, the laborers? They all work rather hard by any standards, but their lives are like that car stuck in the snow.
So how do we (and they) get this magic wand called ‘traction’ to move on? There is no magic involved here. We derive this all important traction or magnetic force, when we employ a particular ‘thought process’. Once we program ourselves for success, using the software of our thoughts, success can not elude us. The traction comes automatically then, like it comes on a clean road surface. Yes, the snow has to be cleared before we attempt to drive on that road. Similarly our limiting thoughts need to be deleted /cleared before we can re-program our thoughts for success. Then our empowering thoughts will pull us up any hill that we choose to climb!
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