[QUOTE=Janet Carpenter;15744]Dear Jess:
I walk beside you on your chosen path, on which the main focus of sadhana is surrendering to one’s higher power.
When you ask if this is relevant for others, it reminds me of the story about the person who has decided that gravity is not relevant.
This person sets about to fling himself off of the roof of a house, to soar above the earth.
Just because this person does not accept the relevance of gravity does not stop the gravity from operating on him !
Our purpose on this planet is to explore our divinity, our bliss, the amazing variety, expression of life and sacred energy on this planet.
We can only experience this by surrendering at a real, not superficial level. We can only successfully surrender if we do it wholeheartedly. Anything less and we might as well not bother !
This makes life sweet, because we get to surrender with love and wholehearted generosity, as a general way of life.
If my life is any example, this surrendering makes dramatic changes in external and internal living. I personally have experienced overwhelming changes, which have supported my sincere intention to clear my ego attachments to prepare the way for more one-ness with my higher self.
It is as though I have “morphed” multiple times to new and richer levels of awareness, compassion and capacity to love.
Whatever I have lost in my ego-identity has been more than replaced by depth and richness of experience. But there has been loss. I have not often borne my losses willingly. Often, I have initially resented and feared the forces that have brought about the changes in my life. Only later, with meditation, contemplation and more complete acceptance of the changes, has the value come into clear focus.
This path requires a kind of sublime humility; we cannot tell from the outside who is on it, or where others are in their journey. Everyone is potentially a master teacher; everything is potentially a master teacher.
While respecting and adhering to the rules of organized society, some of the attitudes, regulations and requirements need to be followed with a “tongue in cheek” approach. This does not imply a need for disrespect; just the opposite. As one grows in spiritual depth, one’s need for external guides to provide social order, decorum and appropriateness, decreases.
Like the parent who provides limitations to the toddler who cannot judge when oncoming traffic or hot stove elements are dangerous, our society provides legal, social, moral and intellectual standards for people to follow, for their own good and for the good of society.
Surrendering to our higher self over time offers more broad, deep and profound reasons to improve thoughts, behavior and attitude.
All people who sincerely practice this discipline of surrender to higher self benefit from this elevated consciousness and the joy that it offers to life.
Of course, it is important for others to practice it !
However, we must all practice it in our own way, in our own time, on our own terms, if we are going to practice it at all.
Sometimes we must limit what we share with others to responding to direct questions, and not elaborating too much.
Hopefully, I have not elaborated too much !
Joy to you on your journey.[/QUOTE]
The beauty of this post is you have explained God but yet you have not used the word God even once. Some people call it higher power, some people call it God & some people call it our higher self.
