Yesterday was ThanksGiving Day in America where millions celebrated this festival. In the mood of Thanksgiving and incidentally I am also teaching the topic of “Gratitude” to the eN-Vidyalaya children this month, I would like to share some insights I learned about gratitude.
The first truth is – gratitude is our real nature, but we don’t realize it because currently we are covered by layers of conditioning from society. For example, society taught us that any action needs a reason. Society knows only the language of utility i.e. when there is utility there is action, or else it becomes difficult to justify the action. Driven by results and performance, society immediately instils greed and fear in us if we don’t give the expected results. Society doesn’t know there is a path of gratitude that will give much better results than the paths of fear and greed. The next conditioning is the concept of individuality and freedom. We feel that we have a right to everything that we receive and because of this attitude, we desire and demand. We develop this continuous expectation in us all the time. Through 5 sensory inputs, we continuously expect something to happen in a certain way. These expectations move our energy outward instead of inward towards our self. When we work with expectations all the time, we will carry a subtle violence in our body language.
In another 25 days from now, on 12 Dec 2012, it marks the opening of a shift of consciousness where the entire planet earth is going to experience a significant shift of energy. There is going to be violation of the law of physics because the center of the planet earth is losing its gravitational pull over human beings. As a result, the strength of gravity is reducing on all of us. When this happens, we have lesser thoughts and our body can act with less thinking. This will have a huge effect on human beings.
The psychological shift of less thoughts means we are losing engrams (thought-patterns we carry), this will have a direct benefit to our consciousness. When a huge pattern of thoughts is removed from us, it means that almost many janmas (life cycles) of past karmas are taken away from our system. Our nervous system will have a lighter load, a new wave of peacefulness, bliss and explosion of consciousness can be experienced and some could even levitate!
GOD: Hello. Did you call me? Me: Called you? No… Who is this? GOD: This is God here. I heard your prayers. So I thought I will chat with you. Me: I do pray. Just makes me feel good. I am actually busy now. I am in the midst of something. GOD: What are you busy at? Ants are busy too. Me: Don’t know. But I can’t find free time. Life has become hectic. It’s rush hour all the time. GOD: Sure. Activity gets you busy. But productivity gets you results. Activity consumes time. Productivity frees it. Me: I understand. But I still can’t figure out. By the way, I was not expecting YOU to buzz me on instant messaging chat. GOD: Well, I wanted to resolve your fight for time, by giving you some clarity. In this internet era, I wanted to reach you through the medium you are comfortable with.