Song of My Life by Jeannette Caruth. Chapter V. Thoughts inspired by Swami and poem.

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Light and Love

CHAPTER V Glorious Lord Your Call for Joy makes light my days of

earthly exile Detachment loses the color of the often self-imposed

suppression it becomes rather ignited by the Light of Expansion since I

learn to find ever new joy in the bonds that seemingly bind me ... My

shackles become my offerings How empty-handed I would be if I left behind

all attachments and relations Nothing would be left to give You ... How

could I earn Your Gift of Freedom if I was too afraid to create a gift for

You And so I watch ... as I busily weave a garland of collected chains

in happy anticipation of its offering to You And in my joy the shackles

fall before they succeed to bind me and quickly I catch the shower of

loosened flowers and lift them up to Your smiling Face O - how we enjoy

the play of this illusive rain of shimmering shackles and beautiful

bouquets ... "Your understanding gladdens My heart", so my Lord responds

"for nothing will be gained by running in fear Self-centered life is like

tasting only one ingredient of a delicious food Entering spiritual life

does not suggest the giving-up of that specific ingredient Instead ..

one has to bite into the food as a whole in order to get the full taste

So too - life in the world is only a minute part of Life Detesting or even

neglecting it does not make it go away Accepting and embracing it as My

Manifestation makes you ripe for the Whole Fruit I have to offer

Therefore ... by no means do I wish for you to distance yourself from

worldly life Do not forget your life as a mother and wife supports

the Wheel of Creation

and in this holy task you help sustain the necessary stages of Life

from the irreplaceable working man to the noble saint living in solitude

They all depend on the life of the householder Every creature in My

Creation is Sacred Each task at any stage is Divine Delve into the

Purity of My Purpose and soon you will discover the Glory of Existence

You will learn to perceive clearly the assigned roles I have designated

for man and woman I shall tell you about the Woman: ... Glorious is

the status of womanhood for Mother Nature endowed her with selfless

endless compassion She rocks the Cradle of Mankind and her smile

awakens the dormant Flame of Life Soothing is her hand that softens the

awkwardness of uncertain steps Her radiance hides in her ever-present

helpfulness Her strength lies in understanding Her power lies in

patience Her glory in simplicity Her wisdom in acceptance She

provides the needed rest for all actions performed and offers

rejuvenation necessary for all actions to come She is the sustenance of

action Her embrace allows creation to create and in great reverence she

accepts her role and shines like a thousand Suns...! Now let Me tell you

about the Man: ... Man of Creation Flawless is the role designed for you

for power is vested in your duty as man Relentless is your perseverance

Authoritative your logic Compact your concentration and noble your

truthfulness You carry out the workings of creation and in doing so

you offer mankind the open road to God's Temple Your piercing ability for

discrimination lifts her into righteous action Your endurance carries

her over distracting obstacles Your self-reliance invokes the strength

for her to complete her duties You are the provider and fulfiller of

Creation and stand ablaze in My Light...! Without blemish is My

Creation Mankind is My Crestjewel for I endowed her with awareness

Take in these precious treasures in steady measures, My dear, and still

your awareness with My Song You undoubtedly shall find the Splendor of My

Glory."

Continued....

 

Source: Jeannette Caruth. "Song of My Life: A Journey to the Feet of

Sathya Sai Baba." Published by Leela Press, 1996, 118 pages. ISBN: 0962983586.

 

 

Some impromptu thoughts inspired by this poem's chapter V and Swami's Vidya

Vahini.

 

Every chapter of Jeannette's poem creates a lot of thoughts, what I try to

put in order. It is as the proof to own outlook, inner values, behaviour.

(Naturally, everyone has his/her own outlook; mine as one of infinite an

examples). Involuntary I turn my vision to Swami's Teaching and by such

connection with the poem the rules of Atmic reality and my duties will become

more clear.

The root of human life's value begins on acknowledgement Atmic Unity of

Creation.

In this aspect every life is equally precious, only the roles are different.

All humanity is as a giant holographic* structure (fractal)* with endless

vibrations of energy. When there would be in accordance between Earth's human

beings then this 'holographic fractal' created by Absolute (Creator,

Paramatma, God) is clearer and brighter. (Vibrations the consciousness of

humanity with the Divine and towards the Divine have less disturbances). This

is an attempt to explain Atmic Unity on view of human's consciousness by modern

science. Collectiveness in accordance with all spheres of humans' activity is

the keyword for spiritual and sustainable development to the higher level

towards Divine, Atma.

Swami explains the same more simply as modern science.

 

"As the ruler (Raja), so the ruled (Praja)," says the proverb. "As the

teacher, so the pupil" seems to be equally true. Teachers, therefore, have to

be interested in high thinking and a life steeped in renunciation. The person

who is an expert in chemistry or physics may not know as much of biology as an

expert in that science. But there is every need for them all to be friendly and

work as a team. For, whatever the science one specialises in, the science of the

spirit, the science that leads to the ultimate Truth has also to be mastered. At

the Atomic Research Centre, I said that everything has energy latent in it - a

piece of paper has it, a strip of cloth has it. Energy is all and energy is

derived from God. That is the very basis of man.

Usually education is fascinated by subjects and studies that promise to

feed our stomachs and make us materially happy and powerful. But the hard truth

is the Divine beneath all. Man must either know the supreme Truth of the One

Being behind all Becoming or at least know the practical Truth of Love and

Brotherhood. These two points are the limits which education must ever keep in

mind - the starting point and the goal. "(Compilation from: Sathya Sai Baba.

Vidya Vahini. Chapter XIX, p. 69). * Hologram is a dimensional image of an

object received by means of light (acoustic, or other electromagnetic or others)

wave patterns. The plate or film with the recorded wave patterns is called a

hologram. The pattern on the plate is a record of the waves as they are

reflected from the object, recorded with the aid of the reference beam. It is

possible to receive a huge amount of holograms - the reflections from the

object. By Swami humanity is a carrier of divine sparks from the same and one

source - Absolute, God - as fractal structures through holographic expression;

is pictorially said by terms of modern science. See attachment, typical

fractals structure, excerpt from the site

http://www.jaggi.ch/informatics/fractals/gallery_d.html

*Fractal - collection of patterns where at ever smaller scales the self

similar structures are repeated. Structures in nature, as a rule, are too

fractals.

 

Namaste - Reet

 

 

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