Our Inner world
Last week we spoke about the importance
of breaking through our self imposed limitations, of our mental map.
Today we explore ways of breaking out of
these limitations. We will at times refer to some of the religious teachings.
For those who have an understanding or open mind on the subject, the comments
expressed are easy to follow, but for others the subject presented may illicit
questions and challenges. Perhaps this provides an opportunity for us to
observe our mental fixedness or flexibility.
Much of what handicaps us in life is
based on fear. We are reluctant to attempt something new because we fear that
we may fail. Fear paralyzes. It is fear that creates rigidity and holds one
back from expressing creatively. This is why for many people following familiar
activities and habits is a preference to stepping outside one’s comfort zone.
‘There is no fear in love, but perfect
love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has
not been perfected in love’.
1 John 4:18
It may sound simplistic, but the
solution to break out of fixed pattern thinking and behaviour is one of
adventure and love, of self expression which is natural to us, as it is part of
our intrinsic nature.
From a religious and spiritual
perspective the universe as it is perceived buy us, is an outflow of
consciousness and love from the source, which we call God. This outflow creates
forms and life, and when it has fulfilled its purpose; it is redeemed again, or
drawn back into its original state.
Everything including human beings
emanates from the source and is eventually draw back into it. That which is of
nature returns to nature and that which is of spirit returns to spirit.
Science views the creative process
differently: A Belgian priest named Georges Lemaître first suggested the big
bang theory in the 1920s when he theorized that the universe began from a
single primordial atom (we know now that there are smaller particles than
atoms, even smaller than Quarks). The idea subsequently received major boosts
by Edwin Hubble's observations showing that galaxies are speeding away from us
in all directions.
But the big bang theory leaves several
major questions unanswered. One is the original cause of the big bang itself.
Several answers have been proposed by scientists to address this fundamental
question, but none has been proven and even testing them has proven to be a
formidable challenge.
The scientific view points to a
recognition that our sense perceptions, even in conjunction with the most
sensitive instruments cannot grasp the concept of an original cause. And why is
this so, it is because consciousness and love cannot be measured, they can only
be experienced.
Upon some reflection everyone will know
that love is real. We all crave it and experience it in its various forms
whether on a physically, mentally or spiritually level. If we conjoin our
creative process with surrendered love to its source, we elevate our thoughts
(which are none other than subtle vibrations) and activities to the highest
sphere in creation, which represents pure love and in this process perfects the
love in our own being.
Another way of expressing this is:
“God is love, and he who abides in love
abides in God, and God abides in him”
(1 John 4:16)
Jesus taught that we should love or care
for one another and that we must love God with all our strength, with all our
heart, with all our soul, and with our entire mind.
(Matthew 22:37)
What does this mean, it implies, that
all ones thoughts and activities should be performed as an act of love and
given as an offering to God. This is the true worship of which Jesus spoke; it
is elevating all one’s efforts to the highest level possible. It is the way to
perfection.
Be perfect therefore, as your heavenly
Father is perfect.
Matthew
5:48
The consciousness that Jesus taught is
universal. It is for everyone. Christians may claim Jesus for themselves, but
this claim in itself breaks the law of universality.
We really need to study and internalize
the teachings of the masters without referring to labels, as labels lead to
limitations. Jesus taught and lived and was one with universal Christ
consciousness, or the intelligence in the universe. He also practiced the law
of correspondence which states: ‘as above, so below’. But his main purpose was
to direct us to God realization, to oneness with God
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who
believes in (the consciousness which is in) me, the works that I do, he will do
also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father (the
source).
John 14:12
We need to embrace these teachings
without bias in order to expand from ego consciousness to universal or Christ
consciousness. It is a consciousness of oneness, it is moving from duality to
non duality, from darkness into the light, from fear to the source of love.
When we understand love as it was meant to be understood, we become love, we
have reached the end of sorrow.
Neither shall they say, Lo here!
or, lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Luke
17:21
The whole cosmos and its processes are
within us. All we need to do is, to become awake to it.
