Journey to Enlightenment Part 01

SR No.: 006996
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Chitrabhanu, Chetana Catherine Florida, Nirmala Hanke, Raksha Penni Helsene
Publisher: Create Space
Publication Year: 2008
Total Pages: 142
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 4 MB

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September 1996: Making Bliss a Priority
Dear Lighthouse Members and Friends,
Many blessings of love, light, wisdom and healing to all of you - and remember it is good to be alive! It is only though being human that one can become an enlightened being. Sometimes in living life, we get our priorities mixed up. We get confused as to what is really important and what isn't. We hear a great deal from health professionals and selfhelp books about getting your priorities in order - to do this in order to get that. One of the priorities many people have is that they just want to be happy. But often they do nothing about it. Happiness comes to you as you make it a priority in your life, as you choose things to support this desire.
What we all have in common, whether we recognize it or not, like it or not, is a deep need to be perfect. When this is esoterically understood, being perfect means becoming One with the light, the God/Goddess energy, becoming an Enlightened Being. And this is the highest priority a human being can have. One aspect of moving towards perfection, toward Enlightenment, is having a priority beyond being happy, the priority of being Bliss-filled. If one can be happy, one can also at times be unhappy as one goes through life's changes, challenges and lessons. But when one is Bliss-filled, there are no fluctuations - the Blissstate stays stationary in the Divine field of Energy. A being filled with Bliss is being filled with the never-changing field of Diving Energy. The difference between happiness and Bliss is like the difference between a rhinestone and a diamond. A rhinestone doesn't last forever; a diamond does.
Once we make being filled with Bliss a priority, we then find out what we need to do to support and manifest this desire:
1: We need to communicate daily with the Divine Blissful Energy. Communication means to listen in order to learn, and to talk in order to share. In meditation we listen to the highest intelligence that we are. We talk through our prayers, chanting, affirmations. 2: We have reverence for all life everywhere.
3: We work daily on maintaining Ahimsa (being non-violent) in our thoughts, words, actions and reactions.
4: We support our Spiritual choice mentally, emotionally, physically, financially, and voluntarily (with service).
All of the aforementioned create "punya" karma or good karma, which leads one to a Blissfilled life on earth and an Enlightened one in time.
Namaste,
Chetana
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