FINDING THE SOURCE OF LIFE, LIGHT, LOVE
Because every human being on earth is at a critical junction - with a limited amount of time present in one’s body to understand one’s highest good, one’s truest self, and one’s future direction - all while under assault from seemingly random complications and distractions.
Whether one is rich or poor, famous or obscure, young or old, inclusively we face three-fold sources of stress regularly - stemming from one’s own body and mind, from the bodies and minds of others, and from misery offered by nature (heat, cold, rain, wind, earthquake, flood, fire etc.).
One may say these three-fold miseries are just part of life, so one should just get used it and deal… True enough, but is there possibly a better way to experience one’s time on earth and beyond? Could there be a source of satisfaction, knowledge and love experienced beyond one’s present or past states of existence?
Finding the Source of lasting love and happiness can be done. It has been done by serious aspirants over the ages, and the door today is still wide open - even more so than in previous ages, due to more accessible knowledge and universal divine mercy.
Rather than feeling victimized, we can own the part we play in our present condition by seeking to find not only the source of our present discomfort, but the source of ultimate comfort - by knowing one's true identity and purpose in relationship to personal Source of all energy and consciousness. What is one's true identity and purpose? To exchange love with the Source of Love, God.
Just as the sun radiates both heat and light, sacred texts describe Source/God as a fountainhead of all material and spiritual energy, which is by connected consciousness, manifesting both forms of spirit (subtle energy) and matter (gross energy - earth, water, fire, air, ether). If one chooses to personally cultivate a conscious re-connection to God through a practice of loving service, a reciprocal loving relationship is gradually revealed within and without - one begins to experience one's spiritual birthright as a loving spark of eternal spirit, intimately connected to Source.
"...Now I know the secret
There is nothing that I lack
If I give my love to you
You'll surely give it back"
The perfection of "I" or real ego, comes automatically when one is able to surrender to the reality that "I am spirit; I am a loving servant of the Supreme", giving up all other misconceptions of self. One simultaneously begins experiencing the protection, fearlessness and deep love offered by the Supreme Lord from within one's heart, upon such surrender.
For those seeking spiritual re-connection, spiritual growth produces a spiritual body of experience - revealed in stages.
For those of us seeking the material expression of delusional separated ego, continued experience of temporary bodies and relationships are offered by the material energy - as arranged by Source. The choice is always ours.
A golden Avatar known as Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486-1534 A.D. particularly liked the two Kirtan mantras in the videos below - Hari Haraye and Hare Krishna. He chanted them with large crowds who were blessed with the direct experience of re-connection to God, by chanting and dancing in ecstatic love.
Not narrowly an Indian practice, ecstatic kirtan, or singing of the holy names of God is a world-wide phenomenon practiced daily by those seeking a personal loving relationship with the Source of love.
It is said that the first step in spiritual realization is to hear sacred sounds which open the heart, and then to respond from the heart. Sacred sound is so powerful, just by listening without even understanding the language, an subtle change of heart and mind can be internally experienced.