The Law of Divine Unity

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The Law of Divine Unity:

The whole universe is permeated with divine presence. Therefore one should deal with every object in it as if one is dealing with oneself or with God. God is omnipresent and omniscient. Everything in this universe is thus very sacred and very divine. Because it is filled with the presence of God, every thing here deserves respect and consideration. He, who is aware of this truth, treats every object in the universe with unconditional respect, love and consideration.

He treats everything and everyone here the way he treats himself or the way he expects others to treat him.

He treats everyone and every thing as if it is a part of him or an aspect of God. He knows that if he does not do so, somewhere he may have to pay for the consequences of his ignorance and selfishness. He realizes that if he treats the world around him wrongly, the world would become inhospitable for him, that if he indulges in the destruction of nature around him than surely nature would slowly make life difficult for him too. He lives with the awareness that if he treats people with goodness in his heart, he begets their goodness, but if he frowns at them, they too would. All religions preach this law. Those who seek harmony and peace in life understand this principle very well and treat every thing in the world with due respect and a sense of sacredness. This law demands that you have to treat every one as how you want to be treated by others. It enjoins that you develop the vision of oneness of the universe and deal with it accordingly.

Those who observe this law are forever connected to the presence of Divine with in themselves and with in others. They are connected to the flow of universal love that stems from the Oneness of the universe. Those who are self-centred and ignore this law may achieve temporary gains at the cost of others, but they remain mostly unhappy, disturbed and unloved. This law can be followed sincerely only when a person comes out of the little cocoon he builds around himself, without excluding others from the gains he makes and without exploiting others for the gains he wants to make. When we fill our hearts, with expectations and unlimited desires for our own comforts and happiness, there would but be little scope to express the natural flow of divine love through us. The love that we block in our hearts also blocks the love that is due from others.

When love for others and consideration for others desert a person, he has but loneliness only as his companion, that breeds in him the darkness of insecurity and unlimited anxiety towards his own future. But when he emerges out of his little world and tries to embrace the world with open arms and clean minds, he grows in the light of that awareness and learn see the world as an aspect of God.

He lives with the assured feeling that when the need arises, the world would open its arms and embrace him too.

 

 

The Law of Inherent Balance:

 

There is an inherent balance in all created things. If you want peace and happiness all around you and within you, you have to respect this law and keep this balance in your life as well as your environment. Everything in this world is balanced. For every force here there is an opposite and balancing force. Pairs of opposites hold the world. You destroy one and you will destroy the other soon.

According to this law, happiness and peace are possible only when you do not disturb the harmony and the order that exists in yourself and in the whole creation around you.

Whether it is in spiritualism or materialism, in your personal life or professional life, the middle path is always the best path. It is something else if you want to renounce the world and choose to lead the extreme ascetic life to extinguish all pairs of opposites and achieve stability of mind and union with God. But if you want to remain ordinary and lead a normal human life, it is better to stick to the middle path for there in lays your safety and stability. Whether it is your thoughts or your actions, your relationship with yourself or with others, what brings you ultimate peace and happiness is this balanced approach.

It is a well-known fact that biologically human beings cannot tolerate extreme physical conditions. We tolerate neither extreme pleasures nor extreme pains. We cannot strain the mind or the body beyond a certain degree.

Extreme rest or exertion is both harmful to our wellbeing. One cannot live for long if one chooses to indulge oneself beyond tolerable limits. Life on earth is conditioned on this principle. Our bodies and minds have evolved on the principle of balance and moderation. Whoever we are and whatever may be our achievements, we cannot withstand extreme situations in life. We should therefore understand this truth and maintain harmony and balance in our lives and activities by remaining within our limits and safeguarding the order and balance that exists both within and without.

 

The Law of Individual Reality :

 

You are the creator of your life and your reality. Your thoughts become your actions and your actions create the circumstances in your life. You are responsible for everything that happens to you in your life.

This is the simple law of as you sow so you reap.

It can also be called the law of motion and emotion.

Every thought that we send out into the universe comes back to us with accumulated energy of its own kind.

When negative thoughts go out of our minds, they will come back to us with redoubled negative energy and give us lot of pain and unhappiness. Positive thoughts on the other hand bring in positive energy and energize us, establishing in the process peace and harmony in our consciousness.

Our actions too yield the same results. Our positive actions bring in positive rewards and our negative actions bring negative rewards. The energy that we unleash, either in the form of a thought or action always comes back to us with increased force. Thus through our actions and thoughts we are constantly creating our own realities.

Whatever we give comes back to us. We should therefore be very careful about our thoughts and actions as they have a lasting influence on the pattern of our lives.

People blame others for what happens to them. Little do they know that if any one is to be blamed it is the person himself who made it happen to himself! Wisdom is when something happens to you, instead of looking around for excuses and placing the blame on others, look into yourself and ask yourself why you made it happen? Why you invited those conditions and circumstances into your life?

Perhaps it was because you wanted to learn something out of that experience. Perhaps you wanted to strengthen some aspect of your personality or resolve some long troubling relationship. When you start accepting responsibility for the events of your life, you begin to learn more about yourself, your inner thoughts, your fears and aspirations. Out of this awareness you also start expanding your consciousness, become aware of your thought processes, and through this awareness you finally learn to change the conditions of your life.

 

 

The Fifth Law: The Law of Harmony

 

Truth is Harmony; Truth is 'Rta', order.

The ancient believed in 'rta' (pronounced ritha) meaning the universal order or harmony. 'Rta' is an ancient word to which we can trace at least few important words that are known to us today. One is the Sanskrit world 'ritu', which means season. The others are the Latin word 'rhythmus', the French word 'rhythme', the Greek word 'rhuthmos' and the English word 'rhythm', all meaning, beat, pulse, metre, pattern, order, flowing, and harmony. Let us understand why the concept of harmony and rhythm was considered so important by our ancient generations and why they elevated it to the level of highest divinity. They did so because they considered Truth, harmony and order to be the Ultimate Reality lying beyond all realities, the hidden secret behind all manifest creation, or the Absolute Truth above all relative truths.

 

What is truth?

Truth does not necessarily mean only verbal truths.

Truth is the fundamental reality where there are no conflicts and confusion, no divisions and separation, but only unity and harmony. Truth is where there is movement without obstruction and where there is order without confusion. Where there is conflict, separation and feeling of alienation, there is no truth. Where there is division and alignment of divisions into opposing parts there is no truth. There is no truth in ones life and ones being unless there is total harmony in ones whole being, which include ones activities, thoughts and environment. Truth resolves all conflicts, divisions and differences and establishes permanent peace, order and harmony in ones life.

There is conflict when you consider the world outside is different and separate from you. There is conflict when you consider others are different and separate from you.

There is conflict when you consider that some one is good, or some one is bad; that some thing is this or some thing is that. There is conflict as long as you pass petty judgements about yourself or about the world around you.

Unless you learn to resolve these differences, by expanding your consciousness, and learn to appreciate them in their own light, you cannot have real harmony and peace in your life. The ordinary mind cannot understand this truth because it is still steeped in ignorance. But at the highest level of consciousness, all conflicts and confusion resolve themselves into one beautiful, harmonious whole. You may call it divine. You may call it God, This or That. The fact is, it is one, it is whole, it is harmony and order, without any divisions and without any conflicts.

At that level even in the seemingly chaotic conditions of life one can perceive harmony and certain order. That which we understand as good or that we understand as bad, become but the facets of the same Truth. He who realizes this fundamental reality of our existence no more suffers from inner confusion and conflicts. He suffers no more from the relative conflicts of his life or relationships. He stops judging things from the limited values of his mind and consciousness. He learns to forgive people. He learns to tolerate opposition. He learns to accept the conditions of his life without complaint. He accepts people and their weaknesses without reservations. For him there is nothing higher or lower, nothing sacred or evil. Nothing motivates him to take sides or judge the diversity of creation. He lives in harmony with himself and with others, with the world within himself and with the world external to him. He suffers not from fear or insecurity, or from worries and anxieties about himself or his life. This is the truth.

If you want to live in peace, stop categorizing and grouping things and people, and it includes you also. Stop judging things from the relative state of your mind, against the partial truths you know and believe in. Understand that harmony comes when you live in peace with the world around you, and when you accept it whole heatedly and unconditionally without measuring it against your limited knowledge. It happens when you become an embodiment of 'Rta', the rhythm of life and creation, in which the ancients believed so much.

 

 

The Law regarding Belief, Reason and Emotion:

 

You must learn to use appropriately the three forces of your personality namely emotion, reason and faith, to achieve peace and harmony in your life and move closer to God. Emotion, reason and belief are equally important in human life. They serve different purposes. But they are complimentary, which means that you need them all equally to conduct yourself in this world. Be it your ordinary life or spiritual, without the one the other two do not take you far. These three help us to conduct ourselves in this world, but in their own different ways. It is difficult to say which is more useful than the other two. He who has mastery over these three forces, is a master of himself and is qualified to reach God than any one else.

Emotion, reason and faith actually emanate from the body, the mind and the inner spirit, or alternatively, the animal, human and divine components of the human personality. The Great Trinity, namely Lord Siva, Vishnu and Brahma, the divinities that exist at the microcosmic level also, where as the whole human personality can be compared to the Cosmic Man (Purusha) or Supreme Being of the macrocosm. Without these three components, creation and our existence are incomplete. Emotions connect us to the world while reason helps us to solve the problems of our existence. Belief help us to transcend ourselves to reach the world beyond. Emotions bring people together through the power of love or the joy of being together. But do not help us maintain them for long. Reason helps us to understand the world around us intelligently, but does not take us far in building relationships that are based upon unconditional love, especially when the relationship are no more yielding the expected results. Reason cannot also explain properly the mysteries of our existence or the need for us to become spiritual. Its vision and its field of activity are limited to the tangible and to the sensory world. It is where faith comes to our aid. It helps us to reason beyond reasons to pursue the path of spirituality so that we may realize Truth in a different way. It enables us to overcome our selfishness and petty mindedness so that we learn to love others unconditionally and sacrifice our selfish interests for the common welfare of all.

When difficulties surround us and we have exhausted our rationale means to deal with them, or when we are overwhelmed with the negative emotions of fear and hostility, faith provides us with some meaningful clues and the required answers to sustain ourselves. When emotions and reason let us down, faith is the comforting and soothing companion. If you have faith in yourself and in God, you can withstand greater difficulties and maintain your inner balance. Trust is an aspect of faith only. Trust can bring diverse individuals and groups together so that they can work together and live in harmony, though this does not happen all the time, as we do not have enough faith in each other. It is trust, which is responsible for our social, political or economic institutions. But when people lose faith in them, they either use reason to change them or succumb to their emotions to destroy them.

Emotions on their own destabilize our lives. Reason on its own leads us to unlimited ambition and selfishness and in the process endangers the very safety and survival of our existence. Faith on its own binds us to blind superstition and dogmatism. Emotions may cause harm if used inappropriately or not regulated properly. The body can suffer from enormous damage because of negative emotions. But take emotions completely out of our systems and what you find will be automatons, devoid of any love for life or concern for them-selves or others. If you take emotions completely of our consciousness, the institutions of family and society would collapse under the heavy burden of reason and conditional relationships alone. We should therefore know when and where to use these three instruments appropriately for the greater benefit of all. Cultivate the positive emotions of love; compassion, courage and inner joy, discarding wherever possible it’s corresponding negative emotions. Whether it is in your physical life, material life or spiritual life, learn to use three forces of your personality for your peace and inner happiness.

Bring out the best of your emotions in your relationships. Use the best of your reasoning in times of difficulties and when you stand alone in the contemplation of God, let the light of your faith shine through your heart. Be a complete man, with the Trinity firmly balanced in you.

 

 

The Law of Suffering:

 

Suffering comes to us because of our inner imperfections. To the extent we learn from our suffering and learn from it, our suffering is mitigated.

 

Suffering is not a negative but a positive and dynamic force. Its aim is to open our eyes and correct our ways. It comes into our lives, not because we are destined to suffer, but because it has a message to deliver.

When you pursue a wrong path, aim for a wrong goal, make some wrong choices or give expression to some inner imperfection, you suffer and in that suffering lies a warning that you need to change. To the extent you become aware of it and respond positively to it and to the extent you correct yourselves or your actions, your suffering disappear. The hidden purpose of suffering therefore is not to really subject you to physical or mental anguish, but to improve you in some aspect of your life. Those who refuse to listen to its message continue to suffer, perhaps more intensely, till good sense prevails and the required change comes in them. The reason why every one suffers to some degree in the world is because every one is imperfect in some way and is in need of some improvement. It is through suffering that life evolves on earth. So when suffering comes into the life of an individual, he must look into himself deeply and find out the root cause. He must find out what its true message is, what it wants in him to change or improve. Once he identifies the cause, he must take necessary steps to change himself. He should strive sincerely remove the cause. This way suffering becomes not a dark affliction, but a beacon of light guiding us in the right direction towards the future.