Thursday, May 24, 2018

Article posted in Kalaage: Rapture that words lead to!


Dear All, and all interested, I am sharing the article that I posted in Kalaage, followed by a brief author bio. The web link of the article: https://www.kalaage.net/work/rapture-that-words-lead-to 



Rapture that words lead to!

The aura exuded by words—their hidden potential revealed and realized, the treasure without measure exposed—leads to a rapture that rupture forever the false notion that words are limited in reach and richness. It captures the imagination with their truth, and keeps unveiling incessantly the “invisible” in the words. The rapture, permanent once led to, keeps invoking tribute to words—that too worded by words, expressed in and through words. After all, all processes, in and of life, are cyclic, as life, in its entirety, is a cyclic process—a cycle, eternally recycled!

Thus, the process continues…and yet another word opens itself up, magnanimously, revealing its grandeur…leading to “sight,” and thus to cite, as led I am to the insight which are hence incited!

Two words, adjacent to one another in a blog, posted a couple of years ago, come together and open up a word! “Specific and “action,” appearing in a sentence as “specific action,” present the word, “specification,” specification opening up as: Specific action.

It is a “vision,” a flash of insight sighted, a flash of inspiration joining the two words, specific and action, to open up the word specification as the two joined words: specific and action! So is invoked this specific action: This presentation, a tribute to words, in and through words!

Definitely, a specification ensures a specific action, when the specifications for the action are received and followed well.

Words continue to inspire the awe and thaw the rigid notion, melting forever the illusory belief that limited in richness and reach they are. They are rich beyond measure, and their reach is beyond measure as well! But, their richness and reach, to us and for us, depends solely on how we receive them, how we get to “see” them—as thus only we conceive and receive them.

How, otherwise, two words come together to form and open up another word? They come together, and then move apart, showing how grandeur is ever a part of them, their truth transcending the apparent contrasts of “coming together” and “moving apart by opening up”! Words are rich without any specification! Thus, specification no more means what it meant to me, it means much more, the more endless! The more is entered the chest of treasures that words are and have, the more it opens up its chest, revealing more and more, with the intrinsic Word that it would ever have much more to offer, as what it is, is a dimensionless chest of treasure…ever open, yet, visible only when the invisible is spotted in the apparent, seen only when we are receptive to the scene it nurtures! Thus, led I am to see these words, differently—seeing their grand union—after two years of the scripting of the piece that holds these words, though, they have been ever unified, specification intrinsically enfolding specific action.

Every word holds an opening, beholding which, led we are to endless rapture!


Brief bio
I am a writer—an author and a freelance editor. Her first book—Why Happens, What Happens… It is Chemistry, in Life’s Laboratory!—was published in August 2017.

Recently, an article, “Dictation by Suggestion, Request, Persuasion,” has been published (April 2018 issue) in the peer-reviewed journal, The Criterion: An International Journal in English, in the category “Language & Linguistics,” and a poem, “Awakening…reckoning, beckoning!” too has been published in the same issue of the journal. The web links for the article and poem are http://www.the-criterion.com/V9/n2/LL01.pdf and http://www.the-criterion.com/V9/n2/Sushmita.pdf respectively.

My writings are shared and musings aired, humbly, on http://fruitsofintrospection.blogspot.in/ and https://sphilosopher.wordpress.com/ along with other public domains. Grateful I am to the e-magazines Spiritual Lounge and Imantra, UGC-approved journal, Muse India, and peer-reviewed journal, The Criterion: An International Journal in English, for publishing the articles and poem.






Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Freedom from expectation is freedom from fear ~ A tribute to Rabindranath Tagore

Little did I know that I would be getting to know, in the way I have been led to know the known again: The moments of “zero expectation” are the moments that bless us with the fulfillments in ways unimagined, and even bless us with the fulfillment of desires that we are even unaware of having and harboring.

Yes, so it has happened again, with and as the Grace of God!

“What? And “How?” might be the two very natural questions, evoked by these declarations and affirmations! I shan’t keep anyone waiting! Actually, what happened is, I got led to the following words (presented in italics for discernment and for clarity)…the first sentence of the first paragraph, the realization (anew) and insight, being the precursor of the entire reception, expression and presentation, leading to this piece of sharing, the tribute unfurling on its own thus…

“When we expect not anything from anyone, we release all from our expectations, and primarily and actually we release ourselves from all demands and expectations. For this to happen though, blessing with the permanent state and level of Bliss-consciousness, the unwavering trust in the Divine, and hence in Self—accepting Self completely, Loving Self wholly—has to be in place. This in place, nothing is deemed out of place, relaxes as one then in the Infinite Sea of Isness, basking in the Ocean of Oneness with the Divine, Love and Light Eternal, asking not, anymore, anything, from anyone—not even from Self. Then, and always subsequently, ‘The mind is without fear.’ Then, Rabindranath Tagore’s prayer, for ‘Where the mind is without fear,’ meets with the yearned for answer: ‘Amen!’

Yes, Amen!”

Having received this, as the words flowed, and once they had thus flowed, I realized that I have been led to a tribute to the seer, philosopher, God-realized being…Rabindranath Tagore…on his birth anniversary—and unasked! And having realized, that so it has flowed, flowed, the following words, as reinforcements, affirmation and further acknowledgment…

“When we expect not, desires are realized—and in ways unprecedented and unimagined. So is the call too, to free ourselves from history, free from precedence (yes, genetic too), as expectation is limited by and to history, precedence, limited perspective-bred thought and belief.”

And subsequent to these words, forms the title of this tribute, as the realization makes itself known: Freedom from expectation is freedom from fear, and when the mind is free from expectation, mind is free from fear.

Truth calls out to all: Be not a prisoner of history and precedence. Be free from expectation. Freedom from expectation is freedom from doubt, and hence, is freedom from fear. Trust in Truth, sets free from expectation. Truth is free. Truth is Infinite. Let go, and let It glow, flow and guide!

Eternal Word of Truth is: “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32, http://biblehub.com/john/8-32.htm)

Indeed! And so have flowed these words, when little did I know that I would be led to and blessed with them…little did I know that this tribute would form and flow, for this immortal essence in form, Truth-realized, Rabindranath Tagore! And as it has flowed and formed, on his “birth anniversary,” so has been affirmed, yet again: Timing is ever perfect, as Divine Order forms and guides life eternally, the Divine being Love Unconditional, Light Eternal!

Sushmita,
9 May 2018