Sunday, November 21, 2010

“BEING” as Secret to Happy/Contented Life

“He Restores My Soul, for His Namesake”
– Psalm 23: 2

I’m but a breath of God! What’s in me is not a Built in identity called “ME”, but a mere air blown out from the Sprit of God. If I’m but an Immortal spiritual air caught up in a mortal body and a mere passenger who’s boarded this flight called life, where then did I pick up this baggage called Desire of Self? How could I afford to carry packets of Ego, Prejudice, Judgements, Un- forgiveness, hate and Need for Security...

Need for Security in itself contains an Ocean of Human Aspirations. “Studying” to secure a safe career, “Working” to secure a luxurious Living, “Lusting for power” to secure a strong Self-Identity, “Loving” to secure that unconscious need for companionship, “Marrying” to secure loneliness of old age ( through support stems of family)....Series of “ing, ing and ing” to secure an fantasy need and never BE Secure....

Civilizations and Culture has quite successfully enriched the thought of “man as a Social Animal” in exchange to the truth “Man is Man – a Living being created to live and die, just like any other animal”. Focussed to fully maximize the magical potential of Sixth Sense, the socially conditioned Man has lost sight to wholly experience and fully appreciate the power of other five basics senses inherent to all created beings. The Sole purpose of Man’s life whirls around LIFE – with every moment of it being experienced!!! But, how often do we fail to “just live” and be on a roller coaster life of “Wanting to live”? In Parallel, How often we fail to “Be Happy” in the process of “Wanting to BE Happy”. How many times have we drove past that same road, not recognizing those sea of underprivileged who can be helped much within our capacity? How many times have we limited our eyes to view just that flat screen notepad or TV Monitor and not feast our eyes in the world of beauty created for us – Mankind to enjoy? How many times do we live with our family under the same roof and yet not sincerely listen or wholly acknowledge their presence? How many times do you fail to just BE YOURSELF by not listening to the mind’s constant Voice Chatters (more specific -judgemental noises)??

Yesterday was no different from today and tomorrow will neither be, unless the perception of reality is changed from the imaginary social morals absorbed within that rusted brain. Life is right in your hands; waiting for you to make that choice....No one else can make that Choice for you! You have to! There’s a whole universe and Heavens waiting for you to “BE”. Just “BE”

Exercise:
“Human Being and not Human doing” they say. Here is the Slice of Being. Listen to your mind now! Take a deep introspection!!! Is it a Voice that’s chirping endlessly or you being consciously aware of what you’re Reading?
Result 1 - If hear that Voice, judgemental or evaluative in its tone, you’re probably someone who has failed in life miserably....either your loved ones do not love you, or you have all the money in the world and yet not a ounce of Contentment around, or you have no money at all and the debts are taking a toll over mind, health and family....-99.99% of humans will falls within this Circle *I was no different!
Result 2 – if you were able to distinguish the difference between that Voice and your quite calm self hiding beneath, this should feel exhilarating! All along we try to mask that smile or fake that talk, trying to be the action of the Minds Voice. Mind doesn’t talk. Mind Thinks! If you have, even for a second identified the calm, quiet self within you, this is Being!

Pearls of Wisdom:
1. Man through his own efforts can never “BE”. Jesus Christ the living bread is the only source of Life. No man can receive Eternal Life but through Him. Science and Technology of 21st century has rejected Ancient Words/Days/Theology and has brought world to the place where it is – War, hate, Poverty, depression, Homicide and Suicide. “State of Being” can reverse all this Worlds Disaster and this state should be directly received from the Source of Creation.

Promising triumphant Present/Future:
“State of Being” creates an opportunity for mind to experience the world around it. It’s not Stagnant Nothingness around you but a wholesome Awareness that creates ripples of success in every aspect of life. Need for love is substituted to being loved, need for companionship substituted by partnering in love lifetime fully committed, need for money/power substituted to Zeal for making a positive impact in every seen oppurtunity/occasion, Need for security substituted by conscious assuring life. Success through Being and Contentment are two sides of the same coin of Being.

Final Notes:

Life is but a pattern of your Thoughts Churned into Actions!! Change your perspective of Thoughts. If something has not or isn’t working, it will not work in the Future either....It is right in your hands to go to the Source of all Beings to get yourself liberated from past baggage, lost identity, failed life and be quenched with living waters of Life.
"He who has ears, Let him Hear"

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Sunday School - Letz make it Exciting!!!

Sunday school trip on November 6th 2010 was a good one. The trip witnessed a variety of kids - Fair, Dark, Dusky, Short, tall, fat, average, puny...all shapes and sizes. Never to be beguiled by their cuteness and charm, for in them were colossal avatars of Tarzans, Janes and Montanas – Wild, Naughty , all starving
with an unquenched thirst to get drunk with the wine of fun n Mischief.....Gospel Songs are styled with actions and recited along to match the melody of the tune. Biblical Verses are loaded up into the short term memory bytes to seize the prized sticker and Chocolates. Stories received by these corporals quickly vanish to invisible for their minds are busy sautéing imaginations of next Prank in action. Games and Fun Activities are the only items of interest, for these to some extent, meet the compliance standards of Fun Quotient. Overall, to them Old biblical Stories and Songs is just another “Boring, Old” lecture - Thanks to the Morden day Entertainment options and Gaming Technologies!!!

Children when tweaked to a value system or belief, tend to hold on to that until adulthood or old age – Good or Bad. Say to a Child “you are useless” and you’ll see him/her going through a pattern of repeated failures throughout life...Such is the Importance of every word spoken to a Child. They don’t easily heed, but when they do, they receive it with all their soul and for a lifetime. Sunday school plays an integral role in shaping the minds of these kids, future citizens for Heavenly Kingdom. Primary/Secondary Education can equip a Child’s intelligence, but Sunday Schools should realize that it’s under its sole responsibility to COACH the Child on Spiritualism and Emotional well-being. (Notice I use the word Coach and nor Teach - Intentionally)
We are living in Changing Times and the truth is that neo- generation Kids have grown immensely contemporary both on intellect and entertainment. Sure like the show, there lies this doubt ahead of us, are we Smarter than a Fifth Grader? If not, will the same Conventional Methodology of Sunday school teaching suffice? Story telling in a Pseudo voice of kid or that action song with an Orbit smile or the word to word conventional lines of Jesus Christ is no longer going to appeal these little Intellects. Sunday School Content Delivery models that worked in early 19th or 20th Century, is definitely not going to amuse these neo-minds, sharpened by the technology. There needs to be a change in the pattern of Delivery Gospel to these little Minds. Gospel Puzzles, Brain Teasers or visual aids is just not enough; we need much more than that...

The Class sessions may include Technology as a part of its Scripture Curriculum. Customized “Sing Along” Software that can cheer up Kid’s Gospel Singing Sessions, a Biblical Gaming Product that can collectively let kids adventure through biblical times or Computer Based Tests built of easy, medium and hard levels, Role based play by Sunday school kids, Gospel case studies or Biblical project works....For now this is an idea! But maybe someday somewhere this dream for a dynamic Sunday school session, becomes true!!