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Mataji’ s Spiritual Reflections

Pick up the Phone

We have a lifeline, a direct link with the Divine.  It is easier than picking up the phone and talking to a friend.  This is good too, but not as good.

 

Talk to the Divine before you sleep, at daybreak or whenever there is a need.  All you have to do is stop, sit, and take a few deep breaths.  This might be easier in the comfort of your own home, in the garden or on a mountaintop, but it is worth knowing that it can be done at anytime and anywhere.

 

We all have a need from time to time to reach out and say ‘dear Mother Divine’, or ‘dear Father Divine’, or ‘dear Divine One’; whatever is your preferred form of address and inclination.

 

This call is not a prayer, or a plea for anything in particular but rather a time for talking to your closest friend and counsellor.

 

Remember, the Divine is ready and waiting for our call, at all times!

Love

Dear Divine one thank you for giving me people to love,

 

I very readily accept the resultant heartache and

 

longing that your gift contains.

We are Divine

When we can see beyond our everyday consciousness, our ‘little selves’ and the play of the senses, there is a great expanse of wonderment.  It takes us beyond the world, the stars and into infinity.  It’s as if we are a small dot in the firmament, like a cell in the body of the Divine, part of Divine consciousness.  

 

The essence of what we are is Divine, what a wonderful thought, yet at the same time awe-inspiring, what a state to live up to!  If we let ourselves down either in thought, speech or action, if we hurt another in any way then we let the Divine down, we hurt the creator!  We hurt ourselves.   

 

If the essence of what we are is Divine then the essence of all that is, everyone else is Divine also.  So we have a big challenge to watch carefully all we do.  We walk the razors edge carefully until it is our nature to be at one with God’s creation.

A Prayer.

Dear Divine One, Gods & Goddesses, Angels and Arch Angels, let the love you so kindly fill me in abundance with be shared with my family and friends, my greater family and particularly with all those who suffer be it of mind or body.  

 

Thank you for your presence in my life. Let my life continue to be one of thanks, thanks for the many opportunities you have brought my way to learn and to grow.

 

The road is rough at times but you have held my hand and I know always will, leading me through life’s many difficulties.

 

Thank you for you’re many blessings.

 

Humbly yours………………..

Peace

It is not easy for embodied people to face death or even life with all it’s hidden  complexities.

 

Blessed are those born into a family of love, blessed are those who have courage and can face the struggle and fear because of this.

 

Blessed are those who are able to pass from this life in peace.

Life

THE DIVINE is present within -

the temple I call my body,

the air I breathe,

the space in which I move,

the light with which I see,

in the sounds which I hear,

the faces I meet,

the Guru I adore and the deity I bow down to,

the soil on which I walk.

 

I live in the ever-present Divine; I live because of the Divine.

Awareness

Past experiences colour our view of the world and other people.  Our past experiences and especially our reactions to them have made us what we are, or what we think we are, most of the time.  

 

Of course you and I know that we are pure Spirit, but this lower self who we live with is in the habit of making judgements based on these past experiences, which have created tendencies (samskaras), which have been accumulated over many lives.  

 

Knowing this, for we will all hopefully come to this conclusion sooner or later, we can watch carefully how we react, for the old reactions easily cause us pain be it physical or mental as well as distance us from those we love and respect.

 

This watching, you could say detaching from the situation, gives us time to evaluate and react in a way that is helpful to everyone.  It is necessary for us to develop and lengthen those times of watching, for it is in those times, when the higher Self the Spirit can influence all we do and say and become.  

 

We become more and more influenced by our Spiritual nature so that what we consider to be our self, our lower self, is relieved of all its selfish tendencies, its burden, its conditioning, its ability to only see things in relation to ‘I’, ‘me’ and ‘mine’.  We begin to see the foibles of the mind; we need to be in control of the mind, which is fed by the senses, rather than the mind and the senses being in control of us.

 

When our Spiritual essence is directing our lives we can see the greater picture.  We can see that in hurting others not only do we hurt ourselves but we show lack of respect for the great Divine, the great Divine being the essence of all that is.

Respect

Some people live their lives in a natural way, respecting one another, sharing their knowledge freely, and caring for one another in every possible way.

 

Some have to learn how to do this; it is not natural to them to give, to serve, to lend a helping hand, to treat everyone as if they were special.

 

Is this because of the example given by parents or a tendency we were born with?

 

Is it possible to share your love and concerns with a greater family without any thought or form of selfishness? To be free of the demands of selfishness is to be free indeed.

 

The winter sun bright and clear,

blesses with a radiance of

love and hope.