A QUESTION AND ANSWER TO SHARE

A QUESTION AND ANSWER TO SHARE:

A sweet friend asked me a question today: Why are some people poor and some people rich?

We are the creators of our reality, absolutely, all of it, 100% of the time. 

Let me tell you about being poor or rich, when someone is poor, all their belief system tells them that they are not worthy and this is how they will live, unless someone wakes them up from their belief system and tell them that they are worthy and can choose to live a wonderful life. If they choose to wake up, they will change their life, they will create it accordingly.

A rich man is rich because he believes that he will always be rich, his thoughts are all about making money. But this does not say that he is living his life in richness. His mind may be on money, he can create a lot of money for himself, but he may not be healthy, he may have lousy relationships, he may have no joy, ...so he is actually living a poor life.

Abundance has nothing to do with wealth or money. Abundance includes good health, good relationship, laughter, joy, wonderment, and every aspect of well being. Every thing in this Planet has been created for you, every person, every situation, every place is there for you to know yourself. There is never any possibility of failure. You can be as creative, good, talented, adventurous as you like and give your energy fully and completely every moment, and come into the realization that what you have is enough and more than enough.

So a person is truly rich if they can choose to live in gratitude and choose to be happy and choose to experience life fully in the moment, whatever the conditions around them may be.

This is living every moment consciously in awareness doing and enjoying whatever you want to do fully and completely, and most importantly being kind and loving towards yourself. Kind and loving means never encouraging unkind thoughts about yourself or others in your mind, choosing to gift yourself with happy thoughts of health, beauty, well being, gratitude, and joy. Then you are the richest person in the Planet you are living in abundance!
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar

THOUGHTS ON ENLIGHTENMENT

THOUGHTS ON ENLIGHTENMENT

We are pure souls, we are born into this Planet with all the perfect tools we need to expand our consciousness and live as the pure light that we are. When we enter the Planet in a human body we are immediately bombarded by the mind with thoughts, emotions, and sentiments.  We are fascinated with the body and the mind, and we begin a grand love affair with the body and mind, we perceive ourselves as the body and the mind.  We take pride in all that we have achieved through the body and the mind, and we attach ourselves to all these achievements, our possessions, our work, our education, our knowledge, our physical appearance, our abilities, our relationships, our family history, race, religion, culture, nation and the list goes on and on. If we stop to think about it deeply we realize that all these attachments created by the body and the mind are just a surface garment that we put on to live and communicate on this Planet.

The true being, resides in the heart as the watcher, as the one that makes the body and mind come alive, the one that is a silent witness of all things, the one who resides in the inner sacred space of the heart and sees all things and knows all things, this being is never born and this being can never die.   This being is the cosmic traveler whose journey is beyond time and space.  In order to experience this physical Planet this Grand Being of pure love and light, has allowed a tiny part of itself to descend into a physical body and mind, to watch, observe, gather knowledge of the physical experience, expand and grow and to move on.  This being is full of wisdom, power and greater understanding of all things visible and invisible.

This experience as a human being is just a moment in Cosmic time,.... just a moment!  And it will be wonderful and wise if one chooses to spend this moment in conscious connection with the Divine Presence of the inner being.

Enlightenment is making conscious connection with this inner being and living as compassion,.. as pure love. This compassion and love is neither emotional nor is it focused towards any one person or one thing, it is beyond relationships and is no longer addressed to anyone or anything in particular.  It is an overflowing wellspring that flows in all directions and encompasses the whole Universe. It is in perfect tune with existence itself. When one seeks to live in oneness with the inner being one need not strive to be loving or kind or understanding, for all these virtues are the truth of who we really are.  The physical and mental garment of achievements are just that, they are just garments worn for convenience of the physical experience, but to perceive ourselves as these garments and attach to them creates enormous discord in every aspect of life. It is like seeing the world through cloudy, broken glasses.

Attachment to the achievements of the body and mind and perceiving oneself as the body and mind is a dream.  Enlightenment is the potential within every person to wake up from this dream. We have been given the potential to wake up at any moment.   All methods of meditation, prayer, affirmations, yoga, visualizations etc. are tools that can create a situation that shakes us up and we wake up from this dream.

Enlightenment is not a goal that can be reached, it is a moment to moment process of greater understanding and conscious awareness of living in union with the Sacred Presence of the Inner Being. Enlightenment is a path that only you can create for yourself through your awareness. Meditations, prayers, and other spiritual practices are only pointers, but you are the traveler, there are no ready made paths. You have to travel alone following the light of your inner being.  And this journey is sometimes painful for it involves peeling away of all attachments created through the body and mind, to reveal the inner pure being that is the grander YOU.  Peeling away attachments does not mean separation or cutting off, it truly means experiencing a grander oneness with every person and every thing making the living experience more beautiful and joyous.

By awakening ourselves we awaken others just by our very presence, and the Planet responds with new life to the compassion that flows from our heart.  We are the Bodhisattva, and the vow of the Bodhisattva goes like this " I seek my own enlightenment for the sake of all beings."
Let us choose to wake up to the truth of who we really are!
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
© 2013 P. Rajkumar
    

GRATITUDE HAPPENS

GRATITUDE HAPPENS

True Gratitude cannot be toward anything as gratitude happens for the All. When we live from the place of immense trust and surrender, every single aspect of life becomes sacred, the breath becomes holy, the body becomes holy, the ground we walk on becomes holy, every created being becomes holy, and every encounter with life becomes a sacred encounter.

 Nature and all of creation have been created to serve us, the Creator is serving us in the most wonderful ways, and do we stop to appreciate the Creator? If only we took the time to truly stay and watch and listen, we would be continuously appreciating and thanking the Creator for all of the kind service given to us. I have noticed that appreciation and gratitude are the greatest portals that take us closer to the heart of the Creator.  

At one time during my meditative state I asked the Creator,  
 “How may I serve you more,” and I was stunned and shocked to receive this answer loud and clear:
 “Please allow me to serve you.”  

My heart wept with the understanding of this powerful message. I understood that I had been keeping a distance from the Creator thinking that I was born to serve the Creator and that I was not worthy to come closer to the Creator. After I received the message, I understood that the Creator was waiting to serve me, to please me with all of the most beautiful things around me in my life, and to keep me in love, joy, and excitement. And here I was, more worried about my service to the Divine by diligently praying and meditating, taking life so seriously, and forgetting to laugh or to be in joy. I realized that the greatest gift I can give the Creator is my joy.  The Creator has gifted us this body, mind, the entire planet, and all the beautiful creations on it for us to enjoy and appreciate.

The best gift we can give to the Creator is not any physical thing; it is our Joy.  

As human parents, when we see our children living happy lives, it gives us extreme satisfaction; it is the same with the Creator.
 When we live in gratitude, we see life as endless Joy, and joy is the greatest gift we can give to the Creator.
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar   

THERE IS NOTHING TO FEAR EXCEPT FEAR ITSELF

THERE IS NOTHING TO FEAR EXCEPT FEAR ITSELF
I remember one of my teachers explaining fear to me when I was very young. He told me that once two men from his village were travelling through a deep forest to reach another village.  This forest was feared by people because it had a lot of poisonous snakes.  So these two men were travelling by day time and were planning to reach the other village before night fall.  It so happened that a storm brewed up and it became dark very soon.  Suddenly one of the men cried aloud that a snake has bitten him, he started foaming in the mouth and fell down in agony.  The other man lighted his lantern and tried to see what had happened to his friend.
And to his dismay his friend lost consciousness and died.
With the light of his lantern the man saw that it was not a snake that had bitten his friend.  Mangoes are abundant in India in the summer, and people eat the mangoes and throw away the seed, the seeds get dried up in the sun and the hard seed coat splits open on one side like a mouth.  The man who died had stepped over one of these mouth opened seeds and it had clung to his heel, he thought that a poisonous snake had bitten him and in heightened emotion of fear he gave this message to the cells of his body.  The cells accepted his thought as the truth and they created foaming in the mouth just like it happens in a snake bite and created death of the body.
Fear is the only thing to be feared in life!
The cells of our body are overhearing our thoughts every moment and acting in accordance with it.  Are we aware of the thoughts we are feeding the cells every moment?  Are we creating death through our thoughts before we have lived?
Our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs create our reality absolutely.
We have the power to create beauty and joy in our life by choosing empowering and resourceful thoughts.
As pure souls our decision to come into these physical bodies is our grandest choice,  we signed up for the great things we were going to create in this life time.  Every moment of life is meant to be lived fully, in awareness, gratitude, and understanding. When life is lived fully in the present moment, it becomes richer, eternal, and blissful. Through this choice of living life fully we realize the ultimate value of life.
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
© 2013 P. Rajkumar

A QUESTION AND ANSWER:

A sweet friend asked me this question, and I see that many parents are seeking the same for their children, so I am sharing this with you my dear friends:

Question: How to encourage your child to connect to source energy? Because I really want my children to evolve spiritually and know the reality of God within.

Answer:Keep telling your children that they are Grand Spirits who live in these physical bodies as their home. And tell them that their spirit emanates from the Creator, tell them that they are older than knowledge, and that every thing they need is inside them. So if they are to be who they are, they need to connect with the Source of who they are.

Just like a play, ask your children to sit still for some 5 to 10 minutes everyday and dream about happy things, the more they dream and visualize the more they get connected to Source Energy and come to know the Creator within.
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar

A REMINDER FOR TODAY

Take time to sit in silence with yourself everyday. 
Travel through your imagination and dream happy dreams for yourself. Keep your dreams alive by affirming that you are worthy to live a wonderful life. 
When doubt or fear arises, take slow deep breaths, and in your minds eye see yourself breathing in the love and light of God which is around and within you.
Be still and know that you are so greatly loved and cherished by God. 
Keep your intention very clear, neither money nor borders can limit you from getting what you want. 
You are the miracle maker of your life, manifest your dreams! 
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar

THE CHALLENGE OF HUMAN DRAMAS FOR THE EVOLVING NEW HUMANITY

THE CHALLENGE OF HUMAN DRAMAS FOR THE EVOLVING NEW HUMANITY

We are so fascinated by dramas, we love the theater, the TV serials and all kinds of stage performances.  It is important to notice our fascination with the roles of victims, villains and heroes in these dramas. Unconsciously we identify with these roles and continue to play them in our every day lives.  We create these identities based on mind stories of good and bad. The more unaware we are the more we are trapped in the roles of victim, villain and hero.

The society, the family, and the religion assign these roles for us to play through many many belief systems of fear.  We desperately want to fit into these roles to please and to prove. This traps us indefinitely in the struggles of life that bring pain and bondage. These roles are played within our every relationships whether it be the spouse, parent, children, friends, relatives, strangers, or co-workers.

Shifting into the awareness of this game we find ourselves playing this game by exaggerating, making bigger and giving names through mind stories. Without blame, guilt or lies there would be no roles to play, instead there would only be healthy responsible relationships based on honest communications. The moment we bring conscious awareness into the role playing, there is a shift in consciousness. Awareness is the key.  Transformation begins with awareness.

Belief systems and lying to own self keeps one stuck in these roles. These roles always bring pain, powerlessness, and irresponsibility, they can never make one to stand in truth and freedom.

The moment we choose to play any one of these roles, we will end up playing all the three roles.Victim consciousness is based on the belief that every one in the world is 'out there to get me'.  It is a constant looking out for what is wrong with the world.  There is always a pity party going on that brings mind stories of “ poor me”, “you are bad”, "bad things happen to me."  If you perceive yourself as someone’s rescuer you find yourself as someone’s victim, while at the same time that person will perceive you as the persecutor. We continue to attach to these roles emotionally and judge everything around us.

  The basic and most important truth is that we create our reality, absolutely, there is nothing called a coincidence or an accident. At some level we create it all. We have to remember that this Universe is our mirror, this mirror truly reflects everything we send out. Therefore when we hold on to the idea that we are victims, the Universe thinks that we want to experience being a victim, and so it will bring to us more of what we hold in our consciousness till we wake up and take responsibility for what we are choosing to experience.

The ego loves role play, and if we are asleep we feel stuck in the dramas of the ego. As long as we continue to wage war between opponents, between two sides, or between good and bad we will continue to play these dramas of victim, villains, and heroes.   No matter which part we play in the struggle, we are actually perpetuating the struggle by keeping ourselves stuck in this duality game  As long as we think that we have to eradicate evil, we get trapped  in this mindless game of being victim, villain, or hero.It takes discernment to refuse to play these roles, and discernment comes from living from the heart, connecting to the 'kingdom within'. Any belief comes from the fear in the ego, freedom involves eradication of beliefs.

 There is no God ‘out there’ to serve, the Creator dwells in all beings, in all things seen and unseen.   The true Creator can be found within, thus every master who came to the Planet spoke about connecting to the “Kingdom within”.  Aligning to the kingdom within, reveals the Creator that is in all life.  This understanding will help one to go beyond this game of duality. This understanding will help to let go the desire for justice, revenge, or making up for the wrongs by committing more wrongs. Understanding the Creator within will lead to unconditional love, trust, and surrender which is the grandest devotion to the Divine.

 Instead of fighting, resisting, or feeling victimized when we choose to surrender and trust unconditionally, we go beyond the duality game and life opens innumerable opportunities for us.  By our choice we also inspire others to realize that there is more to life than involving in the duality struggle.

The challenge in this new paradigm is to refuse to play these roles and trust life to open up new and beautiful opportunities. Being in integrity with oneself is the key to get out of this role play and evolve ourselves into a new paradigm of love and truth.  Accepting, approving, and loving the self is the golden key that leads to freedom.

We are the bringers of the New Paradigm, we are the new evolving humanity. The new paradigm has no beliefs only love and truth.

Let us choose to create this new paradigm of love and truth.

Blessings!

Premlatha Rajkumar



© 2013 Premlatha Rajkumar