Clare Rosenfield
How can we make a change in our life?
- we see the connection between ourselves and the universe: what we receive and what we give.
- we put an end to hating and blaming. We accept responsibility for our own actions.
- we realize that there is no sin. We accept our own actions without clinging to guilt. We erase them with laser-like awareness in order to live in the present as a living present.
We take our life into our own hands and experience its infinitely creative possibilities.
The first step then is to see how the universe works in the harmony of cause and effect. It works precisely. There are no mistakes. Like the sun whose rise and fall is exact, like the ocean ever in ebb and flow, like the season's movement, the universe is accurate. What appears to us as accidental has some cause behind it. It is not a creation of a whim or a fancy. It is a law. It has its law. We grow what we sow. We get what we give. It echoes what we speak.
What we have to understand is that for countless lifetimes this living sentient self-energy went on evolving, taking on and letting off different kinds of matter, as a process of life, without awareness. Then there came a time when it started taking on matter of awareness. At that time we started deciding our form, our intelligence, our condition, our every characteristic.
The procedure is this: in a state of repulsion or attraction, we send out vibrations which are either negative or positive, and we are reborn in such a way as to experience those same vibrations we sent out previously. We receive from the universe on the level of our awareness or consciousness. If we have sent out negative-violent vibrations in thought, speech, or action to someone else, we will experience that pain which we have caused. If we have sent out positive vibrations, we receive them back in kind like an echo.
The vibration echo comes back and draws to us particles of matter, which create a structure or shell-like form around the soul. These particles we call karmas.
The vibrations we sent may be from lifetimes ago, from years ago, or from yesterday, but having sent them, they have started working on us. Because of those vibration echoes, there are karmic ties or relationships.
But there is no past, which determines our future. In the living present lies our challenge, our work, and our hope for spiritual growth. There are ties, which are already formed with our own past vibrations; these we can work with - fulfilling them, undoing them, bringing them to completion.
In what way is the present living? How is it that we can say that everything is possible in the present? Because karmas built by living life have the capacity to be evaporated or transmuted by living vibrations. You can use positive living vibrations to extinguish the smoldering embers of old negative ones. You can upgrade your present life by erasing your past with responsible, kind vibrations.
This we experience in our meditation. It is not an intellectual experience. When you go to that which you cannot explain, it is the point at which philosophy begins.
Vibrations must be experienced, not explained. For example, as soon as a mother conceives, she starts feeling love. Parents are ready to part with their fortune for a newborn stranger. Seeing someone, you are ready to die for that person. Meeting someone in an airport, you become in a matter of minutes closer to that friend than you are even to members of your family.
Why? What is that which brings together and what is that which separates? It is vibrations. The heart knows. "The heart has reasons which reason cannot define," Pascal said. Human beings are not logs floating in a river meeting and parting. Because of the limitations of the mind, we may not see the connection. And yet there is something, which joins, which brings sweetness or bitterness to relationships.
When your heart is longing for something, it chooses; it vibrates in response. Becoming aware of your heart's desire you acknowledge your dream. You discover your mission. So, listen to your heart. Listening to your inner voice, you grow.
In India there was a family whose son married a girl he met while studying in America. When he brought her back to India, his family started judging from looks, height, outer appearance. And they criticized him saying: "What have you selected? What kind of girl is this?"
The son only answered: "To see her you must have my eyes. Without my eyes you cannot see her." The old parents did not understand. Once they met me and asked: "What does he mean - we have to have his eyes? Is there something wrong with our eyes? Don't we have the same eyes?"
It is a question of connection, of vibration. Something joins together. As long as that heart connection is there, people grow. They tolerate each other's shortcomings. They come together in a positive karmic relationship - not to bind and possess, but to free, fulfil, and uplift. In this way, karmas are seen as a process and a path to growth. Taking the hand of a friend, a partner, a teacher, a child, each other, we grow.
