Saturday, March 31, 2012

EARNING MORE...


Earning more...

To spend more…and to become spent forces…is this success? And if it is success then why money alone cannot…nor can academic excellence…nor intelligence and intellect enable one to access The Success…of satisfaction and contentment within? As we earn do we learn too the workings of life?

Nothing is wrong with money as nothing is wrong with anything life provides. It is how we use it…how we perceive it…that makes its impact—soothing or peeving. In this frenzy for material …and outward…and worldly… success people are not only separated from self, but reluctant to find their selves. ‘Money’ not only would appease but allow the presence of peace in life, even in ‘its’ presence, when ‘it’ flows from full awareness of the spiritual being one is.

Well we could call it the bane of progress, which has been based only on the intellect, and what 'material' that intellect can produce. It is the matter that has become important...making life driven by the material. No wonder the growth is found where it is...yet it fails to satisfy at the deepest level. Success comes at the cost of peace...and the money earned to spend more, fails to stop people from becoming spent forces, in the bigger context of life...and all because we have separated education from true education...which would truly make all aware of their own truth...and they would think their thoughts...and not of others. They would be leading their lives...and not someone else's. They would be following their true calling.

Yet I am confident that we shall be up again...with the guide being our inner selves...with spirituality honored and embraced...instead of being removed from the title of a lecture, lest it puts off youngsters. More and more youngsters are responding to the call from within...this has been my experience with my interactions...in person and through my writings.  Lets us not forget that the next generation, even scientifically are a more evolved generation…and thus evolution of the soul would ensure their responding to the clarion call from within…more than ever now.

None can ignore the call of one's truth for long...soul finds it way out by drawing all within...

Spirituality is our essence and by embracing it we are just acknowledging our truth…and in simple terms when we recognize, acknowledge, accept, and be, Who We Are, we are being the spirits that we are…

When the material growth is an outpouring of the preceding and collateral spiritual growth, the earning and more earning of money is a natural in flow…and not a result of craving for ‘more and more’. The money earned thus, allows us to spend more…not only for self but for all…yet doesn’t allow us to become spent forces…as then we actually live our life…not spend it…

Sushmita Mukherjee,
March 31, 2012


PS: This article has been inspired by Andrew Cohen’s Blog (posted on March 30, 2012 “Are You Thinking Your Own Thoughts?” on Speaking Tree 

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Great Attitude


Meaning is what we give...to anything and everything...as well as to nothing. Meaning is the label that we give and label our own level of consciousness and perception, if not in entirety, at least contextually.

That is why Gratitude is a great attitude to have…

One who feels gratitude for all that life is, experiences gratitude for experiencing gratitude too. As gratitude is an attribute, is an attitude that enables one to honor and acknowledge the infinite graces that life offers and proffers. Without this acknowledgement and gratitude the graces lie unrecognized, unutilized…unattended to…and disgraced thus…

Gratitude is a gift in itself…without which gifts cease to be...at least for us...

Sushmita Mukherjee,
March 27, 2012

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Realizations

Realizations are not consolation prizes...they are the guiding light, showing us the way...as we move towards what we call future, through the continuum of space and time. Furthermore the need to remember the realizations is not less a realization, because otherwise those realizations become a transient visitor of our being...while it should have permanence in the being.  And the realizations can gain permanence in the being, only when the being is being the realization.

Sushmita Mukherjee,
March 17, 2012