The point is you, as a conscious being.

We just want to be ourselves, but don't always know who we actually are; or what we are meant to do - aside from paying the bills and existing day to day.

Every action serves a purpose, and service of some type, is part of every action.

When a person uses anything in one's sphere of influence to serve and enhance love, respect and compassion, a useful purpose is served, knowingly or unknowingly.

Love matters, and being an active agent of love is actually the soul's constitutional function. Consciousness, as a symptom of the spirit/soul achieves it purpose and it's heights, in loving service.

How one self-identifies, seeds one’s values and sense of purpose. One may see oneself as a purposeful cog in a great reality, or one may, in egotistical delusion, envision oneself as the center of the universe. Real ego or identity flourishes when loving service to the greater good or Source, is mindfully engaged in.

Truth be told, according to ancient revealed wisdom, one's spirit or conscious life force is actually created by divine love, for divine love.

Divorced from this conclusion, megalomania has many thick and thin layers of ego-tripping along with it's polar opposite - thinking of oneself as totally useless, worthless, or simply not enough.

Thinking of oneself as useless/worthless fuels a sense of self-loathing - thinking which extends to one’s external world, projecting a determination that nothing actually has any value - that nothing has a point, or serves a worthwhile purpose.

Rage over failure to control one's world sometimes leads to depression which can fan such flames of delusional thinking. Oversized ego may conclude everything and everyone else only exist to serve one's self-centered schemes - which is clearly unbalanced, but not uncommon.

Alternatively, seeing oneself as a spark of Divine energy, in service to the Divine, brings not only a vision of a higher reality, but an experience of divine joy.

We need not be uninformed or shy in recognizing our divine birthright. It begins a uniquely sweet surrender into gradually succumbing to the all-attractive Source of divine love and beauty. It involves a courageous and heartfelt choice to express one's desire to re-unite with the Source/Creator of all love, truth and beauty.

By taking such a bold move with even a shred of faith, the Divine responds in a personal and unique way.

Once experiencing a glimpse of divine love and grace from within, the desire grows for another audience with the Lord who dwells within and without - both personally as the Supreme Lord who hears and sees us, and who manifests His all-pervasive energetic presence throughout the universe.

One should not be swindled into a negative self-conception, neither by temporary external circumstances or by ignorant accusers - ourselves included. Each person has a special talent which is energetically constitutional, but perhaps unrealized, just due to a lack of information it truly exists.

“Who do you think you are!? - can actually be a valuable point of reflection and liberation, rather than a belittling accusation. We are of Spirit for Spirit, with a mission to experience and expand love.

Somehow we tend to project our identity into the material elements and temporal circumstances that cloak the eternally conscious self, until the blinders are removed by transcendent knowledge.

Self-identification and self-reflection are greatly enhanced when one realizes that each person, as a point of consciousness, is connected to a greater reality or consciousness - which is not limited to one’s body, social body, or cultural conditioning.

Bhagavd-gita (the Song of God)  Ch 15 "Yoga of the Supreme Person" verse 7:

"The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind.'

Sacred texts assert that the real self is a conscious spark of spirit, presently covered by mental conceptions - linking it to matter in the form of the physical body and subtle mind. Such coverings are only temporary, and ultimately do not define one, any more than a car defines its driver.

What matters is the real self, which is spontaneously joyous, complete in knowledge, and has a loving relationship with everything “outside” itself - once liberated from the prison of misconceptions.

Fashioned in the image of the Creator, underneath all material costumes each person has a transcendental body formed of eternity, complete knowledge, and unending bliss - which is the real fabric of eternity and spiritual body needed to spontaneously dance with one's divine Source.

The point, and what really matters, is realizing one’s true identity and nature as a fragmental portion of eternal truth and beauty - meant to purposefully exist for engaging in eternal loving energy-exchanges with the Source of all love and beauty.

God as Source, although sometimes misrepresented, is inconceivably as distant as the stars, yet simultaneously is as close and present as one's heartbeat. Seek and ye shall find, as the old saying goes. Everything has a use and it all matters, when seen as connected to Source energy and love.

After trying on so many temporary shells or conceptions the self, with actual knowledge of one's spiritual self as connected to God, one can relax into being a player in the cosmic orchestra spreading love - by seeing the Divine in all things and acting accordingly.

Perhaps it's time to give thanks, utilize the ticket of sincerity, and jump back on the Soul Train; being grateful that we can be our real and eternal selves again - now and always.

                  "Thank You" (Falettinme be Mice Elf Agin) - (for letting me be myself again)
                                                          by Sly and The Family Stone

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Why This, Why Now?

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?

                                                             "Rain" by Kid Cudi

Finding the Source goes beyond religious rhetoric and scientific speculation, neither of which speak with a single voice. Yet religion/spirituality and science reflect certain measures of truth which can contribute to one’s well-being, when understood in broader terms of consciousness and energy.

Saints and mystics have employed a subtle science, wherein spiritual, non-material energy descends from the Source of all energy. This nourishes a subjective evolution of one’s consciousness toward an increasingly transcendent life - enabling one to experience life at every present moment with both knowledge and transcendent happiness. It is a state of mind and spirit where sources of stressful energy may register, but not distract or impact one with a dysfunctional result. A state of consciousness where one not only handles the negative, but is enriched by a growing sense of truth and beauty energetically radiating from within, and also seen shining from within everyone and everything else. This revealed from within one's heart as a type of conscious vision, by the loving Source of all such energy.

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.

                                                   "Let it Rain" - Eric Clapton

"...Now I know the secret
There is nothing that I lack
If I give my love to you
You'll surely give it back"

Each conscious spark has the free will and choice to express love as connected through spirit, or through a separated (material body) expression. Material expression takes the form of a physical body, doggedly thought of as the self (I am male American etc) - from which all other separate illusory conceptions spring, starting with "I" (my body) and "mine" (my body's gender, partner, family, community, town, country)".

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.

Perfection of any religious process is to know and love God in a natural spontaneous way - when fundamental understanding evolves into a love-ruled heart, flowing in the loving current of Source.

About 500 years ago in West Bengal India a divine manifestation of Source appeared to promote a most direct and sublime method of prayer to reconnect to God in this age; by chanting God's holy names - either quietly to oneself (Japa Meditation) or congregational singing (Kirtan), and dancing.

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.

                                                               Baltic Festival

                                                       Radhadesh, France

                                                                  New York

                                                                    Lithuania