Merging with Siva Lesson 67

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Thursday

 

Lesson 67

 

Understanding Other People

 

Love is the source of understanding. You know intellectually that within

you resides the potential, expressed or not, for all human emotion,

thought and action. Yet, you no doubt meet or observe people occasionally

whose life and actions are repellent or unacceptable to you. The absence

of love has created a vacuum of understanding. For the meditating person,

there should not be a single human being whose actions, habits, opinions

or conduct lies beyond your ability to love and understand.

 

 

 

Try this. This week look at everyone you meet, and feel, from your

finger tips right down to your toes, love welling up from your deepest

resources and radiating out to them through every cell of your body

and especially through your face. Say to yourself, "I like you"--and

really feel it. There are many thousands of things that most people do

not understand from their confused states of mind, and they therefore

act in unseemly ways, due to the ignorance of past karma. Should their

ignorance confuse you? Should it cloud your own understanding? Certainly

not! We do not love the flower and hate the muddy roots from which it

grew, and we cannot hate the instinctive roots of mankind.

 

 

 

With understanding, a great thing happens--your life becomes even,

balanced and sublime. The ups and downs within yourself level out,

and you find yourself the same in every circumstance, find yourself

big enough to overcome and small enough to understand. Then you can

really begin to do something. When emotional ups and downs are allowed,

what happens? Your poor nerve system is terribly strained in a constant

state of frenzy and uncertainty. All of your energies are then devoted to

coping with yourself, and not much is reserved to accomplish creative,

productive projects. As your life evens out by using the great power of

understanding, the emotional self of you heals and grows strong. Your

nervous system, believe it or not, grows, and it grows strong if you

feed it correctly by handling your mind. Understanding is the best food

for the emotional body.

 

 

 

You must have a basis for understanding your fellow human, and a very

good basis is: "I perceive him with my two physical eyes. He appears

to be forty years old, but I intuit him to be emotionally a little

younger and mentally about sixty--a learned person. I know he is a

being of pure awareness going through the experiences he needs to

evolve further. Therefore, I shall understand him in this light and

make allowances accordingly." This is not something to think about and

appreciate philosophically. It must become as much a part of you as

your hands and feet. It's an easy process if we apply it and a difficult

process if we ignore its practice.

 

 

 

Understanding, loving and making allowances--these are the strengths of

the soul awakened through sdhana, once the emotional ups and downs and

the barriers of the instinctive influences of fear, jealousy, anger,

deceit and disappointment are conquered. If you are creative, you will

begin to truly create. If you are a mystic, you will have deeper and ever

more fulfilling insights in your daily meditations. All of the mysteries

of life will unfold before your inner vision once the instinctive mind

is mastered in your life.

 

Sadgurunath Maharaj Ki Jay

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