Eyes to Spirituality: The Message of Easter/Passover
Easter Sunday is pleased to allow Christ’s energy to rise and be ignited in our souls. Using the Passover Sedar for the past few years, I have reminisced the symbolism of freedom from slavery and the symbolism of rebirth and renewal that occurred in fleeing from Egypt through the grace of God.
Psychological reflection from weekend reflection:
1) We are here to keep ourselves from working in our graves. The material realm of economy and craving pushes us to give up time in valuable relationships with friends and family. Elderly people preparing to pass were often asked what they regret, which was that they were working so much that they didn’t spend enough time with their families.
2) We try not to repeat the same mistakes from the past here. I often remember my favorite movies, Groundhog Day With Bill Murray. Do we make the same mistakes endlessly and wake up in the same bad dreams that we are stuck in, or will we create new choices and awakening to create a new life of joy and enthusiasm? If we have bad relationship karma, are we going to accept responsibility for what we are doing wrong and make it better this time?
3) We must be conscious and make the same mistakes. This means choosing kindness and compassion over reproach, fault discovery and grumbling. If you’re not going to fix it and do anything about it, then you’re not the right thing to complain endlessly about it.
4) Ethical judgment must be made. In the age of Lahu, where fraud, corruption and fraud are the norm, we must strive to do the right thing, even if it’s not easy. I miss those stories of news where people find lost money and find ways to track it down and return it to their owners.
5) We need to find Jupiter, beat Raf, and not accept government corruption as the norm. We should go back to teaching moral values at home and in the classroom, and not corrupt our children by the celebration of violence and evil that has become the norm on television. Time to turn off the TV, play only playground games with other kids, keep your kids away from violent video games, mobile phones, and get back to old fashioned values.
6) We need to find time to care for and share simple people, spend time hiding in addiction, paralyze violent television and make changes in other lives. Photograph flowers regularly on strangers in the elderly house and visit them to know that they are loved and not forgotten.
7) We are here to practice kindness and compassion. I recall the wonderful story of Elizabeth Kubler Ross, who interviewed someone who had almost died and then returned to the operating table. She remembers flashing and reviewing her life before her as she rose, but she was only shown when she practiced unconditional love and kindness. She helped the girl in a wheelchair at the camp overnight, maintaining her company when everyone went on camping trips, and her sacrifice and love were good reminders.
All of these require major changes, selecting new patterns, creating new paths in our lives. It can be done, but requires conscious effort and positive choices. We must be vigilant and wake up to do that.
We are on this planet. We are not accumulating as many new gadgets as possible in the Lahu era. It numbs waste and life with emotional pain, hurts someone or something, blames others, demonizes others who don’t share our perspective.
A bit of yoga, meditation, conscious awareness, and mindful behavior can make a difference. Find time to change your life with your spiritual practice.
Easter is complete. Time to play, update, and do things differently. You can make a difference in your life and in others. Time to love!
Happy holidays, everyone. Enjoy and complete today’s rebirth with an act of kindness.
Ends with this wonderful quote from Yogananda about the birth of Christ at Christmas, but Easter reminds us of rebirth:
Paramahansa Yogananda:
Every day, every hour, every golden seconds, Christ is knocking… Now, at this sacred dawn in August, Christ is answering your inner calling and awakening within you the omnipresent nature of Christ’s consciousness.
Everywhere this Christ is asleep in the eternal breast. He loves to give birth anytime, anywhere, especially in the warmth of your true love. Christ infinite exists in every speck of space as the magnificence of new wisdom and creative expression, but you will not see him unless he chooses to be seen in your cradle of constant devotion. The cozy crib in your heart is small for a very long time and has nothing but self-love. Now you have to make it huge. In this way, social, international, international and cosmic love must be born there and become one love.
Christ infinite is everywhere. Worship His Nativity in Hindu, Buddhism, Christians, Muslims, Jews and other true religious temples. All expressions of truth flow from Christ’s perception that spreads throughout everything, so learn to worship the sacred universal intelligence in all pure religions, beliefs, and teachings. As Christ in the universe dreamed of the existence of God, a human, you should celebrate the birth of Christ in your newly awakened and equal love for all nationalities and races. ”
From the “cradle for Christ everywhere” in the Second Coming of Christ
(Thanks to Juliana Swanson for reminding me of this wonderful quote.)
Source: ASTRO BLOG Archives – Applied Vedic Astrology – www.appliedvedicastrology.com
