THOUGHTS TO REFLECT ON (POST SHIVA MEDIATION)

THOUGHTS TO REFLECT ON (POST SHIVA MEDIATION)

The Form and Formless aspect of God

I once asked God to appear in front of me, to which he obliged, and I could not grasp what I saw and fell into a state of shock, moments later, I apologized and asked that he appear again.

It was a dream so real, I learned my lesson.

We have all been asking God to appear in front of us to strengthen our faith, when all along, he has been appearing to us in forms more subtle and all encompassing.

For those who have read the Bhagavad Gita, there was a good portion discussing how Lord Krishna was able to better present himself as God to Arjuna, and when Arjuna asked Lord Krishna to present his true form, he could not absorb what he saw, and closed his eyes, and bowed down.

If God in his higher than human form, glowing in his majestic grace, were to appear in front of us, we would be in a state of shock and disbelief, but imagine seeing God beyond the human form, and in his infinite vastness, it would be something one cannot absorb.

But God, being infinite, appears in so many aspects that we take for granted. God appears in numbers, in dreams, in people, in events, and manifests himself throughout our deepest reflection.

God in his infinite grace is ever present, in everyone, in everything, everywhere. He presented his form through concept that everyone can grasp and learn from. He presents himself through sudden inspiration and words. He presents himself as a miracle by showing the most exciting or even the most subtle of all coincidences.

God is the creator and creation, and is evident in a myriad of forms. We receive God in blessings, which is abundant, and in blessings disguised as curses. He represents himself in any gender and form, for God is the entire creation.

There would be days where God presents himself as a stranger who mysteriously appears and resolves your problem.

He appears in a myriad of events, sequenced to change our lives, and he appears through us in becoming his channel of making other people's lives better.

We can be his channel, once we become better aware of his presence in everything that is, everything that was, and everything that will be.

We just have to tune our minds to receive, to remove the veil and be open. Doubt and questions are good, for it raises us to strengthen our need to validate God, and now we give more importance to seek God and better understand our purpose.

This purpose and knowledge is given according to our level of understanding, and challenges become further deep.

We thus strive, and reflect, as we reflect, we understand, and as we understand, we then see that it is through his will that we resonate God's blessing, and not of our own choice to do so.

In humbling ourselves, we become more open to absorbing the infinite, and in doing so, appreciating the cosmic symphony that is God.

The Hidden Blessings in Disaster

As we begin to appreciate God and his mysteries, we learn to understand that there is purpose that is logical, and yet positive, in disasters. This is done through detachment as well.

When a man has fallen, it is our duty to help him back on his feet and further pursue his path.

If God were to appear to you and tell you that for you to attain salvation, please go to an island and wait by a hut near a volcano. Would you? We have all thrived to reach salvation, and many have put so much dedication on attaining salvation that it should be common sense for one to obey God's orders, even if death seems imminent based on the given order.

And this opportunity is given to those who are due to go back. The karmic load removed is so big that many unite back in salvation.

Many more have a large load of their negative Karma eliminated, giving them a better fresh start in God realization in their next birth.

This is a bitter pill that one is occasionally offered. This is a pill one would have sought given their spiritual level and capacity.

And yet, for the rest of us, we are given the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of men who have built the city. We learn and are reminded of our mortality and vulnerability. And we better understand what we have taken for granted in what we do. Disasters bring out the heroes to be of service to humanity. Disasters bring out the good in us. Cities are rebuilt, humans evolve, and we better understand the lessons behind these disasters.

And disasters constantly occur, giving their constant reminder, and bringing people back to the right path. Destruction has its own purpose and is seen as something positive by one who better understand its deeper purpose. We all are constantly given opportunities to be of service, we have to just start making our own initiative, however small, in helping other lives.

YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE

Deep in contemplation, proof was needed to discuss on how can we say, in another aspect, that you are the universe.

You might have heard of the phrase a million times (or perhaps lesser than 22,348) and feel that it only makes sense if you are hallucinating. But let us take this in a logical point of view that also involves Astronomy and Physics.

Let us take a short run through mentally on how we understand the universe.

The universe begins with a big bang, where the collision caused the universe to expand with infinite number (based on what is known) of stars, meteors, planets, and a myriad of cosmic wonder that are often seen through large telescopes in observatories. All that exist came from this expansion.

Through the expansion came a myriad of vibrations, which then creates what is known as the string theory, which then collectively grew on their own. They are also known as energy, and from strings of vibrations they become sub atomic particles, then atoms, and then elements. Groups of elements become cells, and grow accordingly. They all group together to form the stars and planets we see, they are everywhere.

When the recipe is right and perfect, with the core math put in place it all runs auto pilot, we find that this collective group becomes a living planet filled with organisms that evolve.

One of the organisms found a way to communicate beyond the need for survival, and found the necessity to document history accordingly. Through thoughts, research and meditation was done. It is when the eureka moment arrives, and all evolution happens.

But the core of it all, is that we all contain the same elements as what is found out there, billions of lightyears away from ours. We have the same elements, the same particles. The outer vibration we all possess may be unique, giving us what is our current individuality, but our underlying vibration, the cosmic and unifying vibration that exists throughout us, in each and every part of us, all the way to the symphony of the entire universe is, OM.

In this realization we take heed on focusing our thoughts to the universe, and understand that we all have a connection within ourselves and beyond ourselves. We resonate and we absorb, this is how we connect, through sharing and uniting. One channels inwards through self realization to be able to broadcast oneself.

But we are already broadcasting ourselves, the impression we make to others is how we present our inner self. But through better awareness, we can be the source of positive vibrations.

And for those who do realize that yes, energy is never created, nor can it ever be destroyed, which is the same thing for our soul, this is our core and unique vibration, that makes us who we are, our thumbprint that we carry along in infinity, yet this thumbprint also carries OM, and merges with OM.

And we can broadcast by being the positive change, we broadcast by positive thoughts, by positive mantra, by being better examples.

For however minute we are in the universe, we can cause a major ripple of change in the constant dynamic shift of the universe.