February 1, 2020

8 AM

Since yesterday, my energy level is low. So today I have decided to rest. The fatigue is over-powering. The rest of the family is going to work.

Why am I feeling so sad and down beat? Without any apparent reason, I find myself contemplating finding a huge rock and curling up under it and hiding there from the rest of the world! At first the absurd idea amuses me. But then I sit up and ask myself – Who is it that wants to curl up under a rock and why? Through some unspoken power, the observance mode in me is switched on.

And I voice my intention of the day to The Universe – I will allow The Higher Power to work as He pleases through me today. I have no agenda of my own, no schedule to follow and no appointments to keep today. I will simply follow my inner impulses – whatever they may be.

6.30 PM

What an incredible day this has been!

Never in my life have I felt so strongly, such ebb and flow of energy!

The first half of the day saw me wanting to clean my house – that cupboard & this drawer, that corner & this shelf. And I did all that. Finally, after scrubbing clean, the kitchen floor, I decided, it was time to sit and meditate for a while.

Now, I have always – always, lighted one candle and meditated in front of it. But today, I arranged the altar and lighted 5 candles! In different colours! I wanted to burn sandalwood oil too. As I struggled with the small oil-bottle, for the droplets to fall on the water in the burner, I remembered a medicine dropper that I used to have. The dropper would make the task super easy. So the next 10 minutes saw me rummaging through all my bedroom and bathroom drawers for it. All in vain! Somehow I managed to put a few droplets of the oil into the burner.

The Zen music, there after, guided me into efforts of inner stillness.

I don’t know how long I sat in meditation, but I do remember having this strong urge to get up and paint.

Paint?!

I haven’t painted in years now! At one time, I was an avid acrylic painter. That was before I actively joined our family business.

The urge to hold the paint brush and behold the play of colours on a blank canvas was astonishingly intense.

I opened all the boxes and bags in which all my paint supplies had been carefully and lovingly packed away long ago, by me. From the attic, I brought down a large blank canvas which I had covered in newspaper and kept away, God knows how many years ago.

And I proceeded to paint a landscape. Effortlessly.

It was as if there never had been any break. Ever.

After about an hour or so, I felt the requirement for a particular type of paint brush. Unable to find it in the boxes I had unpacked, I went into the study to look for it there. As I opened an old tin box in a cupboard – lo and behold! – there sat in it, the medicine dropper I had been searching for frantically, earlier. Along with the paint brush that I had come looking for!

What games The Divine plays :))

Today, I have allowed and consciously willed for The Divine to do His bidding with the day that He had given to me – instead of imposing my own wishes and agendas. And how He has kindly and lovingly, dusted away ever so smoothly in an  instant,  my inner blockage that had troubled me for years. How my soul yearned to restart painting; only to stop myself with the excuse of office and work! Is this what is called Surrenderance?

And what a revelation it’s been!

Sometimes The Divine wants to clean the dirt, sometimes He wants to sit and savour the stillness, sometimes He wants to play with colour and sometimes He wants the words to flow on paper. Sometimes The Higher Power is really simple and some times He loves to be lavish and grand. He acts old and mature at times and also high-spirited and jolly like a child.

But one thing is for sure – The Divine is pure and guileless.

It is good, once in a while, to just be in observance; watch the thoughts come and go and do The Divine’s bidding.

And have an occasional laugh when you realise how He wants you to have your ears to the ground; for as you are dancing to His tune, He has the divine tendency to change the track abruptly. He loves the next tune to be merrier than before.

And He loves to surprise you 🙂

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GANESHA IS CONSCIOUSNESS

(Guided Flow)

I am Ganesha. I am your Consciousness. I am the actions that you do consciously, knowingly. I am the child, the off-spring of The Divine Father and The Divine Mother – your Unconscious and the Subconscious. On a higher level, I am the Universal Consciousness – the inter-connectedness of the universe. Since I am in one and all – the plants, the animals and the humans – I connect you all to one another. I am The Divine Connection. I am the Universal Conscious Feeling. Just like my Divine Parents – I am all pervading. I am Ganesha. I am your conscious Guide. I am The Force, The Power in you that lets you know – that lets you be aware of the universe; of what is happening all around you, in you and outside you.

Ganesha is The Consciousness in you

How can you know me?

By consciously being aware of yourself. The more conscious you are, the more in tune with me you are. When you are about to do something and are aware of the consequences – you are witnessing me. Since I am your Guide ( whether you let me be or not , I AM THAT) I make you aware of the result, in your consciousness. Some stop themselves (when the action is negative) and some still go ahead. But my constant presence is always there.

Without The Divine Unconscious & The Subconscious, I can not exist. I am The Third of The Divine Trinity.

Because of me, Ganesha – The Universal Consciousness, actions of a person in this corner of the world affect the persons in the other, faraway corner of the world. The power to stop yourself or to go ahead, is unique to humans. That is the Divine Choice residing in you – The Power of Viveka – to be able to sift and sort in your mind and then make a choice.

I am The Voice of Wisdom in you – your Divine Guide. I am the Power of Clarity because having sifted and sorted, what remains, what comes out is – Light out of darkness. I am the Harbinger of light in your life.

I am the Courage in you – The Power that sees you through difficult times and brings out the victorious in you.

I am The Conscious Joy that you feel. The joy that you feel on accomplishing your goals – That is Ganesha. The joy that you feel when you help someone – That is Ganesha. The joy that you feel when you know in your heart that you have done the right thing – That is Ganesha.

Just be in observance of your life – and you can witness my glory.

I am Ganesha – your Friend.

Author’s note:

Watch a two-year old child closely. What an immersive life he/she lives! Every minute is lived with utter surety – enjoyed or not enjoyed. Mother is close by? Happy and secure! Mother is not seen around? Cry yourself hoarse with full abandon till she runs back and picks you up! How sure the child is of what he wants at that age! How closely life is felt! Watch closely how he licks every drop out of the ice-cream cone. Enjoyment to the fullest!

Once out of infancy and childhood, we, humans live a majority of our lives mechanically and unthinkingly. Life is a precious gift from The Divine to us. We need to honour this gift by being aware and conscious of it.

There is so much peace in shutting out the outside noise from time to time and tuning in to our own divinity – The Ganesha in us.

There is joy in savouring every minute of our ‘livingness’.

Our ‘Ganesha-ness’ is our power of being in observance.

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