For Whomsoever The Bell Tolls

 “Is it not because one forgets one’s truth, the light of consciousness, that one gets caught in the net of  Maya, from which one does not know how to escape? The power of Maya is that it causes the jiva to do over and over again that which it already has done.” Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi.

It is said that those who do not learn from history are doomed  to repeat it.

On your TV screen, missiles fly and buildings fall, war is smoke and fire, suffering and death.

It’s happening somewhere far away, it’s not really affecting you.

You read about unjust imprisonment, torture and rape and genocide…death again in a hundred different ways.

It’s happening to someone else, someone far away, nothing like that is happening to you.

Human greed multiplies like cancer, icebergs melt and forests burn, 200 living species disappear every day:

Your daily life seems mostly normal, it seems a long way from affecting you.

Until, one day, Armageddon explodes, the earth, air and water are poisoned, all the sparrows are gone;

Finally, you are forced to wake up and see-

Everyone is a part of you, everything touches you.

The whole universe is your own body: 

for whomsoever the bell tolls, it tolls for thee!

Despite all our vaunted scientific advances, our powerful technology, our superior intelligence, the same story happens over and over again.

Can human nature ever change? What is to be done?

The only magic wand is the evolution of human consciousness.

This evolution begins with you.

If you would save yourself, save your race and save this planet, do not waste another day in unconscious living.

Wake up! Break out of the matrix!

Discover your true nature and rest in that pure awareness: this is the best thing you can do.

All else will follow naturally, in just the right way, at just the right time.

“Everything is connected to everything else.
Everything must go somewhere.
Nature knows best. 
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Barry Commoner, the Four Laws of Ecology.

The Power Within

 “Heart, the Source, is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. Heart, the supreme space, is never a  form, It is the light of truth.The death of the mind drowned in the ocean of Self-consciousness is the eternal silence. The real ‘I’ is the supreme Heart-space which is the great ocean of bliss.” Sri Ramana Maharishi, Guru Vachaka Kovai

It seems to get harder and harder to feel hopeful about the future.

Disease, climate change, disasters, war …..where will it all end?

In a world going mad with uncertainty and fear, what anchor can give you strength?

Is there, somewhere, a haven of peace and joy where  you can take refuge? 

Take heart! be of good cheer : succour is close at hand.

In the center of your chest, a mysterious power blooms like a lotus flower.

It is the greatest gift you have ever received, your birthright as a human being, your very self.

It is the seat of awareness at the very core of your being, a divine fire, a perennial spring of existence-consciousness-bliss.

It is the source of infinite strength and hope and courage, a reservoir of blissful peace.

It is the fount of miracles, the giver of all blessings.

It is where you arise from and subside into, your origin and your place of rest.

Every night, in deep, dreamless sleep, your soul recharges its batteries here.

Learn how to locate it, how to connect to it consciously at all times.

Stillness and silence are the gateways to its miraculous grace.

The sages have called it the Self, the Tao, the Center, the Atman, the Heart, the Source.

They have marvelled at its power and beauty, at its infinite mystery and indescribable bliss.

It is smaller than the smallest, yet greater than the greatest, effortlessly containing and sustaining all the universes.

This wondrous divine perfection is your very being, your own true nature.

Some may call it God or Brahman.

Only know it in yourself and you will see it everywhere.

“Ah! how desirous I was to see the divine Beloved! It is not the fault of the Beloved that you do not see;He is right before you! It is the fault of you who recognize Him not. Everything, whatever you see, is nothing else but the Presence of God!” Hazrat Inayat Khan.