We Are Forever

Life is Forever

Life is eternal. Do we know this? Everything around us in changing, changing--always changing. The "always" is the key that gives us the insight that ever changing and eternal is the nature of life.

Our bodies and lives are always changing, but deep within is a part that is the same and doesn't change. Looking inward, we can see our eternal nature.

Thank you Maharishi.

In the words of Tagore from Gitanjali:

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. 

This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life. 

This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable. 

Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. 

Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.

Patience

Tagore asks the Lord to let him hear his voice. When he can't hear him, he tells the Lord that it is okay. he will just wait in His Silence until the time is right for him to hear Him. He knows it is worth waiting for because when he hears him, His voice will reverberate from all parts of him and encompass everything in the universe.

Gitanjali:

If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it.

I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil and its head bent low with patience.

The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish,

and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky.

Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds' nests,

and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves.

Who Are We?

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;

We are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat:
our victory and defeat is from thee, O thou whose qualities are comely!

Who are we, O Thou soul of our souls,
that we should remain in being beside thee?

We and our existences are really non-existence;
thou art the absolute Being which manifests the perishable.

We all are lions, but lions on a banner:
because of the wind they are rushing onward from moment to moment.

Their onward rush is visible, and the wind is unseen:
may that which is unseen not fail from us!

Our wind whereby we are moved and our being are of thy gift;
our whole existence is from thy bringing into being.

Masnavi Book I, 599-607

Jalal al-Din who is also known as Rumi, was born on 30 September 1207 in greater Balkh which overlaps present day Afghanistan and Tajikistan. He died on 17 December 1273 in Konya in present day Turkey. He was laid to rest beside his father and over his remains a splendid shrine was erected.

Rumi was a philosopher and mystic of Islam, but not a Muslim of the orthodox type. His doctrine advocates unlimited tolerance, positive reasoning, goodness, charity and awareness through love. To him and to his disciples all religions are more or less truth. Looking with the same eye on Muslim, Jew and Christian alike, his peaceful and tolerant teaching has appealed to men of all sects and creeds.

Who Am I?

Great question, what is the answer? Am I my body? My thoughts? My work? Looking deepest within, we find a part of us that never changes. It is eternal Being. Am I Being?

Maharishi:

The life of man has three parts: the outer, the inner, and the transcendental. The outer aspect of life is the body; the inner is the subjective aspect of the personality which is concerned with the process of experience and action; and the transcendental aspect is Being.

We are all this: body, mind and Being together as one. What could be more glorious!

Being Is the Living Presence of God

Ever wonder what is going on if life? What is this existence I find myself in?

To understand life, one must know its source. All the difference parts of life are contained in its source, just as all of the tree is contained in its seed.

How can we know life if our attention is only on its surface values? We can't, we only know the surface values. Are we missing something? You bet. We are missing the best part.

Maharishi says in the Science of Being, "Being is that which is the basis of life, gives it meaning, and makes it fruitful. Being is the living presence of God, the reality of life. It is eternal truth. It is the absolute in eternal freedom."

TM is the tool to experience Being. Use it twice a day and in knowing the seed you will know the whole tree!!

Being Is Life

Be aware of Being. Life has great depth and glory, but most people are living on the surface unconnected to the deeper, most meaningful and blissful basis, Being.

"Being is Life. To be is to live, to exist. Being or existence finds expression in the different aspects of living: thinking, speaking, doing, experiencing, feeling. All aspects of life have their basis in Being."

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi from the Science of Being and Art of Living

"Transcendental Meditation takes the mind from it's surface thinking level to it's deepest most blissful level, Being. TM enables one to be aware of Being. Practice TM twice a day!"

Indifference to Negativity

The best way to deal with negativity is indifference. We don't engage in negativity to right it or correct it.

This question came up when I was interacting with someone who was not positive.

I started out in life sweet and a bit delicate and would avoid conflict. Then I became stronger and was able to make my point amid negativity. Normally this doesn't feel the best. I may feel empowered, but there is a bitterness to it. Remembering what Maharishi says has helped me a lot.

Maharishi points out that we don't engage in negativity. We put our attention on the positive, because what we put our attention on grows in life. So rather than righting someone who is negative or timidly avoiding the situation, indifference is the key.

Montessori teachers know this principle very well and use it successfully in the classroom.

Practice this!