Journey to Enlightenment Part 01

Author(s): Chitrabhanu, Chetana Catherine Florida, Nirmala Hanke, Raksha Penni Helsene
Publisher: Create Space

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October 2000: The Seasons of Life
Many Blessings of Health, Prosperity and Bliss to all of you.
One of the reasons I feel very fortunate to be living in Michigan is I get to experience the four seasons from year to year. Each season has its own beauty for us to experience. When I was younger (before meditation), I didn't take the time to see the Divine expressed in each season. After some years of meditating, I began to see each day of each season as a special gift from the Universe. With it being fall now, I find myself going for drives down streets and country roads just to be closer to the shimmering beauty of the leaves on the trees or as they fall gracefully down.
Each season is a preparation for the next one to come, while at the same time being fully present in the now of fall or summer, winter or spring. I also see life being divided into "seasons of time." We all experience spring, new life, when we are born. Then from the seeds planted in this lifetime or another we grow to fullness in our summer of desires and passions. Out of our fullness we harvest, in the fall, all that we have grown and matured and accomplished in our lives. In the winter of our lives we come to a time of letting go and preparing for transition. For just as surely as spring follows winter we also continue to come back to life again and again, until we reach enlightenment and liberation. I have seen winter as a time of going within, a time of retreat and transition, a time to prepare for the new life of spring.
The beauty of human communication is how we can express the same truths we know in many different ways. Scientists say that matter cannot be created or destroyed, but it can and does go through changes, transformations. I believe that we as healthy human beings keep changing and growing and going on to higher states of awareness and perfection. We are not destroyed in the process - only changed.
I am writing this in memory of all those souls who are now in the winter of their lives and are waiting for spring to begin again. I was inspired to write this for Christy Yenkel and her family and friends, and for all who have experienced a transition of someone they loved.
Until spring comes again.....
Namaste,
Chetana
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