EYE ON SPIRITUALITY: EASTER/PASSOVER MESSAGE

Easter Sunday rejoices in permitting the Christ power inside to be enlivened and to flame-up in our soul.  Passover is late this 12 months beginning April Monday, April twenty second.  In previous years with Passover seders, I  was reminded of the symbolism of freedom from slavery and the rebirth and renewal that occurred with the fleeing from Egypt by means of God’s grace and a reminder of our private journey from the bondage of ignorance into the liberty of shifting towards the liberation of the soul and Divine revelation.

 Religious ponderings :

1) We’re right here to take pleasure in and never work ourselves into our grave. The financial system and the fabric realm of cravings push us to surrender valuable relationship time with family and friends. Older people who find themselves on the point of cross typically are requested what they remorse and it was that they labored an excessive amount of and didn’t spend sufficient time with their household.

2) We’re right here to not repeat the identical errors of the previous.  I’m typically reminded of my favourite film, Floor Hog Day with Invoice Murray.  Are we going to endlessly make the identical errors and get up in the identical dangerous dream that we’re caught in or are we going to make new decisions and wake-up reborn, with a brand new lifetime of pleasure and enthusiasm?  If we’ve got dangerous relationship karma, are we going to just accept duty for what we do fallacious and do it higher this time?

3) We now have to be acutely aware and never make the identical errors which imply selecting kindness and compassion over blaming and fault-finding and complaining.  If you’re not prepared to repair it and do one thing about it, you haven’t proper to endlessly complain about it.

4) We now have to see the delicate video games our ego that Mars performs of desirous to be proper in any respect prices or evaluating ourselves with others in an effort to make ourselves higher or one-upping one other in conversations.

5) We now have to train moral judgment. In an age of Rahu the place dishonest and corruption and swindling are the norm, we’ve got to attempt to do the fitting factor even when it’s not straightforward. I miss these tales on the information the place folks discover misplaced cash and discover a approach to observe it again to the proprietor and provides it again.

6)  We now have to search out Jupiter and defeat Rahu and never settle for corruption in authorities because the norm.  We now have to return to educating ethical values at house and within the classroom and never let our youngsters get corrupted by violence and celebration of evil that has develop into the norm on tv. Time to show off your tv, let your child play solely playground video games with different children, hold them away from violent video video games, cell telephones, and return to old style values.

7)  We have to return to easy, taking good care of folks, sharing, and never spend our time hiding in our addictions, numbing out to violent tv, and discover time to make a distinction in different’s life.

8) We’re right here to apply kindness and compassion.  I’m reminded of a beautiful story from Elizabeth Kubler-Ross who interview somebody who skilled dying after which got here again and was revived on the working desk.  She remembers having her entire life flashed and reviewed earlier than her as she ascended however she was solely proven the instances when she practiced unconditional love and kindness.  She remembered serving to a woman in a wheelchair at an in a single day camp and maintaining her firm when everybody went off on a tenting journey and her sacrifice and love was an excellent reminder.

All of those require making main modifications, selecting new patterns, and creating new pathways in our life. It may be finished nevertheless it takes a acutely aware effort and an lively selection. We now have to be alert and awake to do it.

We’re right here on this planet, to provide and to like and to share, and to assist others. We’re not right here within the Age of Rahu to build up as many new devices as we are able to, waste or life numbing our to our emotional ache and harming anybody or something or spending our time denouncing others or demonizing others who don’t share our viewpoint.

Slightly yoga, meditation, acutely aware consciousness, and conscious motion and might make a distinction.  Discover time to vary your life together with your religious practices.

Easter is approaching.  Time for rebirth, renewal, and doing issues otherwise. You may make a distinction in your life and in others.  Time to like!

Pleased Holidays Everybody.  Take pleasure in and full your rebirth right now with an act of kindness.

Will finish with this glorious quote from Yogananda concerning the Beginning of Christ at Christmas however Easter additionally reminds of rebirth:

Paramahansa Yogananda:

” Day by day, each hour, each golden second, Christ has been knocking… Now, on this august sacred daybreak, Christ is particularly coming in reply to your interior name, to awaken his Christ Consciousness Omnipresence inside you.

This Christ of All over the place is sleeping within the breast of Eternity; He likes to take new beginning at any time, anyplace, particularly within the heat of your true affection. Although the Infinite Christ is current in each speck of house because the splendor of ever new knowledge and inventive expression, you’ll be able to by no means see Him until He chooses to be seen within the cradle of your unceasing devotion. The comfy crib of your coronary heart has for a really very long time been small, holding self-love alone; now you need to make it monumental, in order that social, nationwide, worldwide, and Cosmic Christ-love could also be born there and develop into One Love.

The Infinite Christ is all over the place; worship His nativity in Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Moslem, Jewish, and different true spiritual temples. Each expression of Reality flows from the All-pervading Christ notion, so be taught to worship that sacred Common Intelligence in each pure faith, perception, and educating. For the reason that Cosmic Christ dreamed into existence the divine being that’s man, you need to have fun the beginning of Christ in your newly woke up equal love for each nationality and race.”

From “A Cradle for the Christ of All over the place” in The Second Coming of Christ

(Particular due to Juliana Swanson for reminding me of this glorious quote)