Hari Jiwan Singh shares a monthly story about his personal experiences with the Siri Singh Sahib Ji.
What does this title, "Chief of Protocol," mean? Who am I supposed to be? I wasn’t given a handbook when this title was bestowed upon me. In fact, I’ve gone through many incarnations of this title, Chief of Protocol.
Very often, the least thing you want to do is hear another’s point of view. In reality, it’s the best thing for you. There can be no understanding unless you can stand under your thinking because you’ve heard others and have understand yours to be the best of all, or, and most importantly, you’ve changed your view in pursuit of the best because of another’s view.
I remember a song by Marvin Gaye called, “What’s goin on.” Well, that’s what most people are wondering about everything these days. Everything from nations to individuals, and all corporate stops in between, everything seems topsy-turvy. It is, and there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason for it. Well, there is, please let me explain.
There are ladders and steps, Moguls and Mongols (metaphorically), all sorts of challenges on the path of ascendance. There are also great rewards. One or the other usually stops us, stops us from ascending further. Consciously or unconsciously, we reached our limit. All of us learn to live within these limitations.
I laugh when others judge another’s spirituality. "Oh, he’s not really spiritual. He fakes it." Well, fake it til you make it. "She’s just diluting herself. She’s following her own course." Well, what if her course matches up with Infinity? Nothing’s right or wrong, thinking makes it so.
The secret to spirituality is to not be worthy of God’s blessings, but to be willing to be a blank canvas on which God can paint His masterpiece. This is a wide open secret because the secret is in the experience surrendering your opinions, judgements, ego to God’s paintbrush - period!
I am experiencing so much gratitude for the Miracle of this Path and the Power of Love. For me they are my saving grace. And for me the best part is that this opportunity is open to all! I wanted to share a story that came to me that illustrates this miracle.
There wasn’t much you could do for the flu a century or so ago. One of the few things you could do was to go to your local chemist, drugstore, as they were called back then, and ask for a bottle of Laudanum which was just tinctured opium.
I hear it said everywhere, ‘The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.’ Well, this is right and wrong at the same time. Through one window, science, it’s right; through the window of the arts, it’s wrong. Please, let me explain.
Life is not going to get better, at least not in the foreseeable future. That is, if you don’t have a release valve. Change is difficult enough when we choose it. And when unwanted change is cast upon us, it has the potential of being unbearable. Say hello to the immediate future.
It turns out that the biggest hindrance to advancement on a spiritual path is “I”. Like always, “I” gets in the way. The “I” referred to is the ego, and when it’s used for any purpose other than defense, the I, ego, halts advancement like a car slamming to a stop avoiding an accident. Please, let me explain how this works.
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