THE TRUTH ABOUT GIVING AND RECEIVING
True generosity is not only in giving but also in receiving. Our love and graciousness in receive gifts form others is a wonderful way of bringing the giver a powerful soul satisfaction. If there were no one to receive what you give, how will you know what generosity is?
I am reminded of the experience of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the internationally famous psychiatrist, author and researcher of near death experiences. She had shared this experience with Dr.Brian Weiss, who mentions it in his book "Messages from the Masters." Dr. Kubler-Ross's mother was a beautiful, caring person who never accepted anything for herself but would give everything to others. The last four years of her life she suffered a stroke that left her paralyzed, but her mind was intact and alert. She had to rely on others for most of her basic needs. She died after four years without regaining her physical functioning.
Dr. Kubler-Ross was very much angry with God that her beautiful, strong, proud, and extremely self-reliant mother should go through this condition. Despite her anger she began to meditate and in her meditation she asked why her mother had to go through the paralysis. The message came to her as a strong inner voice. The message said that "the paralysis was a gift to her mother, a gift of grace. Love must be balanced. If nobody were there to receive love, who could get the experience of giving? The voice also said that her mother learned this truth in those four years instead of coming back for one or several lifetimes severely retarded or physically impaired where she would have to accept the love of others. Since she learned this she can now move on."
Life is an opportunity to learn to practice love, giving, forgiving, receiving, understanding, and achieving oneness with each other and with the Divine. It is all about learning, there is no punishment here. Everyone of us are in a spiritual journey of achieving this oneness. Our soul guides us and chooses particular challenges in our life for us to accelerate our spiritual growth. Hence, this life time is an opportunity for us to learn through the joys and pain of relationships and interactions with each other.
Let us choose to be generous in giving and in receiving gifts, in receiving compliments from our friends and loved ones. Let us go beyond the action of giving and receiving and understand that we are One in Spirit and that what we do for others we do for ourselves.
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
True generosity is not only in giving but also in receiving. Our love and graciousness in receive gifts form others is a wonderful way of bringing the giver a powerful soul satisfaction. If there were no one to receive what you give, how will you know what generosity is?
I am reminded of the experience of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the internationally famous psychiatrist, author and researcher of near death experiences. She had shared this experience with Dr.Brian Weiss, who mentions it in his book "Messages from the Masters." Dr. Kubler-Ross's mother was a beautiful, caring person who never accepted anything for herself but would give everything to others. The last four years of her life she suffered a stroke that left her paralyzed, but her mind was intact and alert. She had to rely on others for most of her basic needs. She died after four years without regaining her physical functioning.
Dr. Kubler-Ross was very much angry with God that her beautiful, strong, proud, and extremely self-reliant mother should go through this condition. Despite her anger she began to meditate and in her meditation she asked why her mother had to go through the paralysis. The message came to her as a strong inner voice. The message said that "the paralysis was a gift to her mother, a gift of grace. Love must be balanced. If nobody were there to receive love, who could get the experience of giving? The voice also said that her mother learned this truth in those four years instead of coming back for one or several lifetimes severely retarded or physically impaired where she would have to accept the love of others. Since she learned this she can now move on."
Life is an opportunity to learn to practice love, giving, forgiving, receiving, understanding, and achieving oneness with each other and with the Divine. It is all about learning, there is no punishment here. Everyone of us are in a spiritual journey of achieving this oneness. Our soul guides us and chooses particular challenges in our life for us to accelerate our spiritual growth. Hence, this life time is an opportunity for us to learn through the joys and pain of relationships and interactions with each other.
Let us choose to be generous in giving and in receiving gifts, in receiving compliments from our friends and loved ones. Let us go beyond the action of giving and receiving and understand that we are One in Spirit and that what we do for others we do for ourselves.
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
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