Book Title: Journey to Enlightenment Part 01
Author(s): Chitrabhanu, Chetana Catherine Florida, Nirmala Hanke, Raksha Penni Helsene
Publisher: Create Space
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was worn out. In Udaipur I talked to her and said, “If your heart is a little bit weak so you gradually take some herb and meditate”. And it worked, but there comes a time, time has its own time and neither you nor anybody can do anything when that time comes.
She decided to take the operation on her heart and when she asked the doctor, somebody told me, would this pin prick cause pain, she was not ready to take the pain of the needle. The doctor told her she would not notice it, she would be asleep. In reality she would go on; there was a contentment and peace. Consciously she did not know, but sub-consciously she knew that it is time to fly in peace. No torture, no pain, not taking all kinds of injections continuously. Sometimes the life becomes so miserable, one lives long but the life is not worth living. She lived a full life and departed with that peace that I will be all right...and she is all right.
And really what we have to see, is that when you see the invisible, then you can accomplish the impossible. In life, anybody who wants to accomplish the impossible has to see the invisible. So when you see the body she has taken the juice out of it and she is soaring on the light. As you have an orange you squeeze and drink the juice and the rest of it you give to the earth. The peels and everything you don't eat, you just drink the juice and the peels go in the compost. In the same way we have the same thing today. We have not come to mourn, we have come to take some message to our heart because we all are travelers. We all are pilgrims. Nobody is permanent here. After 100 years nobody will be here. We all will be somewhere else. So we are all moving, but our stay on the earth should be such that we don't hurt anybody. Take everybody's blessings. She had collected blessings and all of you when you were speaking, your feelings were coming out because she shared her blessing and you want to bless her, so it is mutual...From you I take, to you I give. We are all sharing
So life should be sharing and the great poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a poem, which I have loved since my childhood. It is called Psalm of Life. He writes, “Tell me not in mournful numbers life is but an empty dream; for the soul is dead that slumbers and things are not what they seem.” The things, which we see, are not there. "Life is real and life is earnest, and the grave is not its goal. Dust thou are and dust returneth was not spoken of the soul." It is about the body, about this matter, about the four elements which compose this body: earth, water, fire and air. These elements merge into the earth but dust thou art, dust returneth was not spoken of the soul. The goal is Divine, the goal is God, and the goal is feeling the presence of God within each part of you.
So today we are here to see a soul who has soared on the wings of light and love, leaving the body; and so all us for a moment be composed and feel love and make some commitment in the memory of Chetana. That my life now I will live a life of love. I will help not to hurt, I will give...not grab and if we make some other commitments, we will be able to give up our addiction which is making us slaves.
On the Wings of Light and Love - 139
