Connecting to SELF in the Garden

Majority of us are using the Parks for walking, jogging, doing yoga, breathing exercises and even clapping loudly.  This keeps our physical body active and healthy.  What about our inside - our mind?  Is keeping body fit the only way to get rid of stress of daily chores and mental clutter?

Connecting to nature is one of the excellent ways to connect to our own self.  This is a real stress buster.  In morning our mind is less distracted and open to fill itself up with right input for facing the rest of the day through meditation.  To meditate is 'to think' - and think positively. 

If you do not have patience to sit and meditate, then walk and meditate.  Each thought, draws out a picture of the same in our mind's eye.   Nature gazing is one of the easiest methods of thinking positive.  You look at the visual first and think later.  Be silent and observe the surroundings.  Notice the changes in flora and fauna in the garden since your last visit.  Take note of these changes and understand how nature works quietly and perfectly.  With change in season, there are new blooms.  Count the variety of flowers and their their colors all around.  Look above at the expanse of sky.  It is infinite and so is our mind. The sky changes it colors and tones with the rising and setting of the sun.  Feel the change in temperature.  Notice how it is affecting different parts of the garden.  Sights of various birds and their chirping makes heart so cheerful. 

Same meditation can be done while sitting by feeling the presence of vibrant, alive and kicking Nature all around.  We too are part of this ever changing Nature.  Feel the Oneness between You & the Nature.  WE all have the same life force energy that keeps us alive, grow and ultimately wither away. This meditation directly  works on maintaining a good inner health.      

The fruit of all our actions are bestowed upon us at the 'right time' by the Nature.  If we are in tune with the Nature, we tend to reduce the affect of our negative karma because we are away from our fears and inner negativity. In the garden, we are positive and by admiring & connecting with nature, we are attracting positivity and goodness in our lives.  We are Spiritual Beings having Human experience.  When we spend time in nature and tune into it, we connect with our own Spirit/SELF through it.  We realise our own goodness, value and worth in the Park.  WE expand our Mind - from ME to WE.  Thus, park can not only be used to keep our body fit but also to keep our spirit fit - maintain a perfect balance between our inner & outer world.

 

Vandana Ritik

Noida

Why do we have EVIL in the world

The EVIL believes that the image in the mirror is his true self where as it is just an impression of his body, an illusion.  He is not what his eyes SEE and what his mind BELIEVES.

Broadly speaking, in nature, all manifested things have two sides - everything exists in pair of opposites.  This is called the Principle of Polarity*.  It is one of the seven Hermetic Principles.  There is One Truth and it has two ends i.e, two extremes.  Actually both are same but on different degrees.  For example 'cold' and 'hot' are both temperatures but their degrees are different.

In actual there is no such thing as EVIL.  In nature only truth exists.  Truth means 'being'.  anything in its actual form is truth.  Anything different from actual is untruth.  God is said to be the ultimate Truth and anything that we 'percieve' as separate or different from God is untruth.  All matter around us is made up of energy, we know as 'consciousness'.  It exists in varying degrees, the denser is the hardest one.

There are no absolutes at all.  If there is 'this' then there is 'that'.  If there is 'Light' then there is 'darkness'.   When we try to understand it deeply there is no such thing as darkness.   'Darkness' actually means 'absence of light'.  For example, when moon comes between earth and sun we experience night even though sun is always shining bright in the sky.  Any 'obstruction' coming in the path of light reflects darkness on the opposite side of that obstruction.  We have 'day' followed by 'night'. 

Due to the factor called 'time' everything manifest in this world is undergoing change all the time.  If there is construction, then there is wear & tear and  after sometime there is destruction due to time factor.  In fact, 'change' is the only thing on earth that is constant. 

Look at our own self.  How we changed from 'baby to adult' and are still changing.  Who is that 'I' within us that never changes.  That is our SOURCE.  That is God.  That is the Divine Life Force Energy that permeates this whole universe.  Many amongst us are 'aware' of something in us that makes us feel alive.  That is also called our consciousness.  When we are 'aware' of this 'presence' within us, we are said to be connected to our source within.  This is called the state of soul/ spirit consciousness.  We understand that we are not separate from our Creator.  Pots may look different but they are made up of the same clay.  When we are connected to our inner self, we tend to make less mistakes and act rationally.  During acts of meditation, we try to connect to ourselves, feel that Oneness with the Creator, our Source.

Evil are those who are totally disconnected from their divinity within.  Their ego called as body consciousness blinds their intellect and mind.  They think they are separate from the others and vice versa.  Thus they tend to move towards irrational and wrong actions.  When we put many blankets over a source of light, say a bulb, it becomes pitch dark and risky.  Now if we were to compare that bulb to our own inner divinity.  The good people are those who are connected to their inherent divinity...goodness.  The higher the connectedness, the higher the vibrations of goodness.  The opposite side is disconnectedness, lower vibration and badness.

When we constrict our mind and think only about our own self --my family, my job, my country etc, we are limiting ourselves.  For an evil person, there is nothing beyond themselves. We need to expand our mind.  The same mind can expand and using its power of imagination and can imagine the infinity of the sky and depth of the ocean.  Obviously such a thinker is bigger than the sky or ocean.  Container is always 'bigger' than the amount of water it can hold. 

Raising our vibration by lifting our heart, mind and passion higher than our sense of limitation will change our viewpoint.  When we view our life from a horizontal viewpoint it is far more limiting than if we looked at that same life from a vertical viewpoint. Imagine looking at the road standing under a tree or from the tree top. From ground level/ lower level, we see one thing at a time whereas from higher level we can even see and understand the sequence of events.  Connecting to our SELF takes us to lofty heights and makes our thinking crystal clear.  It makes us better human beings.  Light of 'knowledge'(I am Soul) removes the darkness of 'ignorance'(I am body) from our hearts and washes away the wickedness within.  Question is 'Do we want to do the necessary work'?

 * The Principle of Polarity states Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.”

Vandana Ritik Mulchandani

Noida