Journey to Enlightenment Part 02

Author(s): Chitrabhanu, Nirmala Hanke
Publisher: Create Space

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Celebrate Your Day
Spring 2007
Given at the Lighthouse Center 13 August 2006
It makes me happy to see that you are all happy people here who do not have clouds of sin and guilt. Free from all guilt. Consciousness is clean. I want to share that with you how to start the day. When I wake up, before I put my feet on the ground, I address myself. It is a day of celebration, because I am alive, alive to experience the intimacy with the Divine which is in me. People do not have even a glimpse that they are holding in their being Divinity. We first must recognize that Divinity is within each of us; it is not in the sky, not in the heaven. Beware of those whose Divinity is in the heaven. Dr. George Bernard Shaw was a fine writer, and was given the Nobel Prize. He said to beware of those whose God is in the heaven, because they can do whatever they want on the earth, and then go to church and say they were guided by God. Like Truman did with Hiroshima, like all the war mongers. They fight for their religion, or they fight and use their religion to justify the fighting. Mankind is confused. So much guilt and unhappiness is inside and is projected outside. Freud and Jung saw this. Suppressed violence takes form outside, in the world.
I congratulate you that you realize why you are here on the earth. And you celebrate your birth. Every day is your birthday. We don't know how long we will live. Sleep is a small form of death. Sleep takes you from one day to the next. Each morning is our birthday. Celebrate each day. Because we don't know tomorrow where we we'll be—all kinds of calamity may occur. Tomorrow is not in our hand, but today is.
You made a choice to come here. When you awaken your individuation, which is slumbering, you can make your day as you plan to do it. Sensuality is fine, but don't lose your day in sensuality. After ten years, you don't feel the same, after twenty years, you don't remember it. Sensuality is temporary, it is like a bubble. Spirituality is not a bubble. Whatever comes, you are not afraid. So even when you leave this body, you are not afraid. If you take a picture each day of your life, you will see the changes from baby to wrinkles. Death is what you have lost along the way. Inherent in Nature we will lose this body also.
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