“Remember...Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below
you.”
-Zaid K
Abdelnour
**
I am
laughing, laughing and laughing.... ha, ha.. This quote has made my day. What a
clarity of mind, heart and soul! How can anyone pull you down from above
you? To pull you down one has to be somewhere down there, below you.
Indeed,
labels are no proof of heights. It's about who you are deep inside. And
if I have gone down to pull another down, I can never lift myself up.. I can
however have that illusion.. the illusion of height and power. I may feel that
with a wave of hand and a spoken word I can change destinies; yet what I may
never understand is that I have actually sunk a little without knowing;
I have taken a step towards darkness by using power for selfish ends.
TIME TO CONFESS:
Have you
ever experienced evil in you raising its head feeling threatened by the 'good'
in someone else because the 'good' in the person attracts those whom you
want to get closer to. Have you weaved webs of deceit by the threads
pulled from the darkened black holes of your own inner-self
to pull that 'Good' down. Has such a ‘victory’ ever filled you with
pride. Has it ever happened..? If so them you are suffering from Fear,
Jealous/Envy.
GOOD
NEWS:
If yes, and the fact
that God still continues to send you pure air to breath only means that God is
giving you a chance to clean yourself up... to forgive yourself because it is
possible that in spite of 'light' glowing inside, in some weak moments you
chose 'darkness'.. quite unnecessarily.. You can uplift yourself by
getting rid of that that's pulling you down. Doesn't matter if "that"
resides in you...it's never too late to thank God for the air HE sends us not
only to breath but also to help us clean ourselves up...
AND WHEN I HAD THIS DEEP INSIGHT:
I
remember having got a kind of an enlightenment when I found myself disliking a
very highly talented and meticulous individual, someone who had all the light..
I recall the words as if God was speaking to me.. I can reproduce them clearly
here:
"
No, it is not that you don't admire him or like him.. you do like him.. there
is no reason to dislike because he is not like that.. The truth is that you
want to "hate" him , feel jealous of him because you somehow are not
able to "like" yourself in his presence.. ; think over, Isn't that
the truth.".. And I knew.
I PROPOSE AN EXERCISE HERE which I
successfully did with some fantastic results:
Sit with
your eyes closed for five
minutes and
observe each breath and how the fresh air hits your lungs and focus on
how light, pure, peaceful, joyous & happy you feel from inside.
Focus on the one you feel jealous and slowly let the feeling melt and get
replaced with 'love'.. let the 'dislike' vanish and 'like' walk in. Take
another half a minute of breathing for forgiving yourself. As you breath say to
yourself the first day: "I
forgive myself. Now that I am filled with light, I will move forward joyously
getting rid of feelings of Jealous & envy which has their root in fear. I
would fear no more. God bless me" ( You can choose your own words.)
OUTCOME YOU WILL ACHIEVE:
Everyday
practice of watching this pure air filling you will help you stay clean even in
your actions because cleaner will become your thoughts as they would no more
stem from the darkness you have collected inside you and slowly but surely this
darkness will get eliminated.. and two things will happen..
You will
stop pulling people down only to keep yourself safe from the 'good' in the
other person because you will find the 'good' taking birth inside you.. And you
will not be worried if someone tries to pull you down because then you will
know the truth..You will be able to get rid of all kinds of negativity
particularly fear, jealous and envy.. The three negative emotions which can
destroy the life.
Make A Commitment to TRY THIS:
Do it every
morning or whenever you have those five minutes you can get out of 1440 minutes
available to you in a day.
Know that
Life has just begun..
RS:)
rameshsood@rediffmail.com