What is unique about love?
Love gives and is never worried about being paid back. So if you love a person and expects him/her to love you back, then you are not loving that person. But isn't that silly? Too naive a policy to follow in a world as cunning as the one we live in? It is ofcourse very difficult to love even a single human being other than oneself. In some cases even loving oneself is difficult. What with all the drawbacks and imperfections that one has to live with? We tend to love an image of ourselves which we are not. We believe that to be the perfection we ought to achieve and strive for it all life.
Do any one get there? I am sure I did not get there, and inspite of knowing that I should love myself as I am, I keep tending to look for that perfection. I may love others thinking that such love takes me to that perfect world, where in, my image of perfection is attained. But when I do that, I am well and truly ditching myself and not loving me.
But how can I love myself as I am? I am a human being that is mired in the transactions of this world - which is highly calculative and not even by the minutest bit based out of love. The entire world is proliferated with pyramid structures that are governed by information asymmetries. Creating pyramid structures and information asymmetries is so very natural to human beings that they dont feel they are going away from the Truth - God by doing that. The very natural tendency to adhere to the pyramid structure and create information asymmetries belies the sinful nature of our existence.
Every child is born as a child of God. But we educate them to become sons of Devil. We know an idle mind is a Devil's workshop..., and no human mind is so perfect that it never remains idle. No success comes from anyone other than God. So whatever that has been achieved has come from God. He pours out his blessings irrespective of whether people are good or bad, because if he were to reserve his blessings for the perfect ones, none in the world would receive them. So let us accept the wretched existence that we are having and stop justifying ourselves for not believing in God's justice - Unconditional Love.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Saturday, December 20, 2008
The Fragrance of Life!
The butterfly is an ugly worm, with a pair of beautiful wings. The wings are God's gift to the worm to survive in the world, but it's so beautiful that it enchants everyone who sees it. They see the butterfly and appreciate its beauty. But it is infact the same ugly worm that people would have hated the most. Did the worm become supernatural when it transcended from being a worm to a butterfly?
No, it did not. But it went into a different level where, while it remained the same ugly worm within, it trusted God to give the gift of wings which helps it survive and enchant others.
When it was a worm eating away the leaves, it was an irritant destroying things in nature, but when it becomes a butterfly, it aids in pollination thereby spreading nature and life. It is a stark contrast, the two roles, yet so poignant and so life-like that its worth marvelling the creation of God.
The beautiful wings grew out of the ugly worm, but it did not hide the ugliness. It is just that wings were big and beautiful that no one really cared about the ugly part.
Does the butterfly ever think about its past and present? May be May not be.., I dont know. But it is so blissful to fly around enjoying every moment, bringing happiness to others without worrying about the past or future.
No, it did not. But it went into a different level where, while it remained the same ugly worm within, it trusted God to give the gift of wings which helps it survive and enchant others.
When it was a worm eating away the leaves, it was an irritant destroying things in nature, but when it becomes a butterfly, it aids in pollination thereby spreading nature and life. It is a stark contrast, the two roles, yet so poignant and so life-like that its worth marvelling the creation of God.
The beautiful wings grew out of the ugly worm, but it did not hide the ugliness. It is just that wings were big and beautiful that no one really cared about the ugly part.
Does the butterfly ever think about its past and present? May be May not be.., I dont know. But it is so blissful to fly around enjoying every moment, bringing happiness to others without worrying about the past or future.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Jesus Is Love
Been a long time since I posted a blog. Maybe it was the long wait till you break out of the last bits of the pupa, before the butterfly emerges out. It was a long struggle to find out whether a God existed in the first place and secondly, who was it, if one existed. It was an intellectual exercise which landed me in the middle of nowhere and an intense experience which led me to discover Jesus or rather Jesus revealed himself to me. So what can I tell - Jesus Is Love. Period!
It is as succinct and simple as that. Why did I have to do all this soul-searching to arrive at such a simple solution? Did I waste all my time and effort all these years?
Yes and No.
Yes because the answer is as simple and was one among the consideration sets that I started out with.
No, because I had many more answers each of which looked equally appealing at that point in time. In the earlier blog, "The Five Precious Crystals-----cont....d", I had stated that I found out that last remaining crystal. But I never explained what it was, because it was too complicated for me to understand, leave alone explain. I was trying to comprehend with all my abilities, but Jesus was yet to reveal it to me. And this is how everything in life is. When Jesus reveals it to you its so simple, but otherwise its a puzzle without an answer.
It is as succinct and simple as that. Why did I have to do all this soul-searching to arrive at such a simple solution? Did I waste all my time and effort all these years?
Yes and No.
Yes because the answer is as simple and was one among the consideration sets that I started out with.
No, because I had many more answers each of which looked equally appealing at that point in time. In the earlier blog, "The Five Precious Crystals-----cont....d", I had stated that I found out that last remaining crystal. But I never explained what it was, because it was too complicated for me to understand, leave alone explain. I was trying to comprehend with all my abilities, but Jesus was yet to reveal it to me. And this is how everything in life is. When Jesus reveals it to you its so simple, but otherwise its a puzzle without an answer.
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