GOD IN EVERYDAY LIFE

The last week saw me watching alot of films at the Mumbai film festival.

I have also joined a western musical appreciation course, which is every tuesday for 9 weeks..

So I have been steeped in culture the last week...

Watching these movies has been a real eye opener for me...

One got a peek into the different cultures of the world, beautiful panoromic landscapes, and interesting stories..

The music appeciation course started with pictures of churches through the years, and the music assosiated with those time period..

The music filled ones soul..

All these experiences made me realize that we can experience the presence of God in our everyday life...

HOW?

These movies and music were truely inspirational..

Where does inspiration come from..

It comes from that deep presence in us, which we can access when we are at peace.. for then we touch the God within, who then guides us in our work..



For the music , when you closed your eyes..and flowed with it..was pure Bliss.

It was a communication of souls...

When one saw the beautiful landscapes in the movies..one was left with a sense of awe at the beautiful world that God has created..



What do most of us do..

We live our life in our small cocoon..

Just do the same things over and over again..

The same routine... not physical , but mental..

We ars so lost in our mental picture of ourselves..

Of our roles as a parent/child/spouse/employer/employee/victim/ etc..



Its time to get out of this box...

There is so much beauty in this world to be enjoyed, one has only to remove their blinkers of perception...

Feel Gods presence by seeing it in the work of those who have experinced him, and expressed it through their work..

Become more sensitive to life..expand your mind..go beyond the daily nitty gritties and the teribble news you read in the papers..

There is beauty to in everyday life..in front of you. easily accesible...all you need to do is change your focus...

The Cell Phone Connection...

Yesterday I went for a lecture by Swami Brahmanandji of the Chinmaya Mission .
His words were so powerful and simply put.
To get "Shanti", peace of mid, he said to go beyond the mind,
To go beyond the mind, one could do pranayams, or chant , or do japa, or pooja..
Basically anything that helps quieten your mind, and each individual has their own way in which they are comfortable, to reach that quietitude in them selves.
When the mind is thus quiet, you go beyond it, and feel the bliss within you,
This state of bliss is your inherent nature.

We look for it in the outside world, hoping to achieve it from objects, relationships, etc, while all the time it is within us.
We only have to quitien our mind....
The mind, is ever turbulent,
It is its inherent nature , just as waves are the inherent nature of the ocean.
Hard to calm, but it is possible, as explained earlier..

So quieten the mind, go beyond the mind, and experience the bliss..

This bliss is God..

So I asked him about the power of prayers, like ,when one does long distance healing.
How does it work?
(People who have recived long distance healing , swear by its efficacy.)
For isnt the God in each one of us healing the person from within,
So how do long distance prayers heal/help.?

He smiled and said, its like your mobile phone, you have to call the person at the other end to connect to them...
So your prayers awaken the God in the other person..
I got my answer...

Which lead me to think,
When we can connect on the physical level by a phone, then why not use the power of prayer, which is within us, and in our control, and connect with our near and loved ones and send out peace and love..

What if we sent love to people we dont like, have issues with, and thus awaken the God, and therefore the Good ,in them...
Sounds so idealistic and difficult...

But if everybody did that, can you imagine the whole environment /world abuzz with love!!

Isnt this, truly needed in todays troubled world..?