Journey to Enlightenment Part 02

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

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So the first thing I do in the morning is to celebrate my day, celebrate being alive, feeling alive. I can see, I can hear, I can speak, I can move. Bless all your gifts. Helen Keller at least could touch and smell. When she touched Nehru, who was the President of India, she said, “I feel you, I see you." He asked, “How do you see me?" To see we don't need only eyes, we also see with feeling. In touch you have the inner eye. We are in such a hurry; we don't know what we are eating, what we are seeing. There was a man in a Mercedes with an apple in one hand and a phone in the other, because he didn't have time to eat. People may be rich, but they have no time to see what they are doing to their body. Instead of competing with them, have mercy on them. We feel poor in comparison. But as a spiritual person you are rich. You are the richest person because you know who you are.
Each day go slow. Each moment is moving towards the finishing touch. Accumulation of all the moments in your life takes you to the finishing touch, the final moment. Our sum total of how we will be is in the sum total of all our moments. Inside, what we are thinking is in our neurons. Clever people think no one sees the bad things. Mahavir says, “You are watching, how can you say no one is watching? How can you eliminate yourself watching you?” Even when you are doing something hurriedly or sneakily, you are looking to see that nobody sees. That in you is watching you. That is why a realized person knows he cannot cheat. The imprint on your consciousness will remain with you. You do not need to confess and ask forgiveness, it is not in the priest's hand. The things you have acquired and accumulated remain here, on the earth. But the imprint of what you do is in your neurons. A real spiritual person is genuine with him or herself. A religious person says, “God will forgive me;" that is his business. A spiritual person says, "No", because the spiritual person is feeling intimacy with the Divine within. The spiritual person is not afraid of society, people's opinions, praise or put downs.
When you celebrate your day, you are not afraid of anything. Gandhi was told of the danger in the Muslim community, but he was not afraid. He said, “I will go there, I will die for my cause, remembering the name of Divine Ram." The body is not permanent, it's a beautiful house. Take care of it, but do not punish it with wrong food, smoking, drinking. This heart is so kind to us, working, pumping every minute. We hurt our heart, our limbs, our eyes. Helen Keller would give thanks to her smell; she could smell the aura of each person. She thanked her touch. Are we giving thanks? We don't have time to give thanks for what we have. Have appreciation for what you have, an attitude of gratitude. Start each day with an attitude of gratitude. You will feel good, and everyone around you will feel good.
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