Self-healing of old wounds with Love.
You have to suffer a lot in your life to become wise. Sadly, it cannot be achieved completely without suffering. You have to be able to separate yourself, and this is a process so painful, even terrifying, that those who have gone through it can only smile inwardly and remain silent. You have to conquer your subconscious. You are shackled by the chains of karmas in your subconscious mind. You must transform all of them into True Love. It means to free yourself and your fellow beings from the attachment of these evil karmas that bind you with maya, worldly illusion. And that is really quite distressing and hurtful. So go to the solitude of a mountain cliff and think about why you cannot or must not be alone, be yourself. There will be many who will stand in your way on your path to God and True Love – your closest friends and enemies. You will have many opponents. They will stand against you, but even they will eventually fall under your immeasurable courage and strength to be yourself, in your holy desire for Liberation. But in the meantime, with their well-meaning words and advice, they are sinking their claws deep into your sensitive heart and causing you countless inner wounds. Such is the higher path of the hermit. We heal ourselves in solitude with Love. We cannot change anyone permanently, so we must at least change ourselves. Therefore, withdraw into seclusion and heal from the wounds of duality. Surely the angels, the devas, the hidden Master within, will come to you in your solitude and explain to you the true cause of your predicament. And you will begin to smile, for everything is essentially humorous from a higher state of consciousness, a kind of panopticon of Love. Hence, forgive, and forgive and forgive, and look no more to people for company, comfort, or “good advice”. You have to figure everything out for yourself in the seclusion of the hermitage. Do not come out of it prematurely under the hint of first Love. “They” would not understand you anyway – that is for certain. It is enough for us to have that inner fire of Love in our hearts. We do not need to show or prove our Love to anyone. “They” want you bent and controlled – like sheep before slaughter. There are many coercive means of doing this, such as attachment to wife, mother, children, home, politics, religion, etc. All this you must be able to renounce both internally and physically on the path of the hermitage in order to regain your primordial Freedom. Such is the way of yoga, jnana yoga. Heal yourselves, then, with a higher type of Love and follow God. You need not become a monk or a hermit, but it would really be the best thing. Otherwise you are still in bondage and you are not free spiritually. Outwardly, you are all very free, because you have never looked within and therefore know nothing of the inner chains that bind you to future suffering, illusion, falsehood and darkness. Everyone is a slave here, I cannot see anyone truly Liberated; even the parish priest in the church is a slave, for example, to a religious tradition that has never been verified by anyone, to dogmatism, to the narrowness of one’s own beliefs, such as the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, to papal infallibility, to holy wars, to the burning of “heretics” and people of other faith, to the glorification of one’s own self-saving Church and religion. But this is definitely not how Jesus wanted it! Fanatics. You have strayed from the Path of Jesus’ Merciful Love!
“To become a swami is to dedicate one’s life to a spiritual quest. To seek the origin of the universe, to seek the one Reality, to return to the spiritual home from whence we came. We belong to eternity and our stay in this world is only temporary. Swami dedicates his life to the journey within, where the Divine Self, omniscient and omnipresent, is hidden. Swami ceases to be attached to the family, to the material house, to property, to worldly abodes, for his abode is the universe.”
Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda
Lila Amrit
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