Freedom from the correction facility

[JUSTIFY]It was time to say good bye to everyone I know. I wish I had more time to spend with each person I know but always things happen quickly in life. Some of you might think I was an extraordinary person while a few others might think that I was just another human being. The time spent already could not be retrieved and my actions had produced results that were good and bad. Irrespective of how everyone felt about me, as a mark of respect, everyone shared sweet words in appreciation of my life. I left to be with my founder.

Finally, the Day of Judgment came and there were several anxious people watching what was going to be the outcome. One person read the good and bad actions of mine. The judge reviewed all of it and finally gave His verdict. I felt it was a very unusual decision. I had to unlearn something I learned in my life and I had to learn something new that would make me a better person. For that I had to stay in a correction facility which in general would be a very small place. My development would be from the seed level to until I become a sapling capable of observing good values through my own experiences.

When the judgment was given, do I have a choice other than taking the punishment and go through it? My resolve not to go through that punishment was always restricted to the time I spent inside the cell and once I was released, I always started doing actions that would be subjected to judgment again. All my belongings were taken away from me and I remained inside the cell for the nine months period. When I was left alone, all I could think of was all my actions that resulted in my imprisonment and what I could have done differently to avoid such punishment. Barely there is space for me to move around inside the cell. It is solitary cell with no one to talk to and sometimes, there used to be more than one person in the cell.

Sometimes, I heard noises outside of my cell and I carefully watched what was going on outside the cell. I was on my own developing myself into a good human being and sometimes, I used to get external help from outside with people planting noble thoughts in my mind. I was served food multiple times as and when the guard protecting me got food. Many times, the judge who decided on my punishment decided to release me earlier even before my development was complete. Unfortunately, in situations like that I was kept in a safe place for further period until my growth was complete.

After the release, I was invariably showered with unconditional love from people around me but I always failed to feel the power of that love. Instead of learning to reciprocate that love to everyone around me, I decided to pursue my own passion, created a bundle of actions whether they are good or bad, did not discriminate the consequences of such actions and forgot the pain and suffering I underwent in the correction facility. I continued this cycle for years and years until I started reading some holy books that gave me idea of how to overcome the ordeal. Now I am seriously thinking to develop myself into a spiritual path and reduce the potential to go through the punishment multiple times.

Note: This is the story of Viswamitra who left his mortal coil number of times and was born again and again going through the pain of staying inside the womb evaluating all the sins he committed in many lives of his. He is now making a concerted effort to overcome this ordeal through introspection, spiritual development, mind and senses control and most importantly trying to know who he really is.
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Dear Periamma,

Thank you for your first response. I will be cheating my friends here in IL, if I say I have conquered my mind and senses and that is why I said I am making an effort to do so. Sometimes, thoughts of this kind overflows like indigestion and I keep bringing it out. When I am overwhelmed with those thoughts, I feel like a baby with a wonderful toy not knowing what to do with it. Knowing them is trivial and learning to practice them to advance in the path of perceiving the truth is hard.

For now, I keep crying listening to the song, "Oru pitchai pathiram endhi vandhen, Aiyane Enn Aiyane". Because that song truly reflects my position.

Viswa

 

Dear Cheeniya Sir,

Like what I said in my earlier response to Periamma, I keep getting those thoughts like indigestion and certainly, I don't understand the full significance of such thoughts. It looks like I have been seeking knowledge for the last few lives among the sins I had been committing. But what makes me feel happier is getting such wonderful responses from you showing me the direction and guiding me in the journey I make. As I mentioned earlier, my Guru once asked, "What do you want?" to one of the devotees and he replied, "I want peace". My guru smiled and said to him, "Remove "I" and "want" and the remaining one is "peace".

I couldn't agree more that reading spiritual scriptures does not make a person knowledgeable unless one puts them into practice and makes a concerted effort to find the essence of the Truth. Dr.Wayne Dyer said, "the energy called super consciousness is everywhere and reminds smaller than the smallest and larger than the largest. All we need to do is to tune our consciousness to the superhighway like tuning the radio to a frequency and we will begin feeling and experiencing the source that we could never comprehend or understand."

Sometimes, I feel using my mind to understand the power of Almighty or the Universal Absolute is like using a scale to measure the mount Everest. How can an invention understand the inventor? How can a man who was created by the Lord understand the Creator?

The One who is responsible for coordinating, molecules, city of cells, blood vessels, arteries, muscles, nerves, heart, intestine, lungs, lever, kidney, excreting organs, brain and all other party parts to function flawlessly for many years without any maintenance shut down, making them work together with each focusing on its own job instead of finding faults with other parts, and when one of the parts is malfunctioning, make the others try and help to make gain its original state, etc., is teaching us a lesson how to work together seamlessly with outside world. It is up to us to watch, experience and follow such profound lessons. It is our Words, Actions, Thoughts, Character & Heart (Compassion) together forms the word "WATCH".

My Guru said, "You are not the body, the mind, the intellect or the diminutive ego. You are the infinite Universal Absolute. You have to establish yourself firmly, unshakably, in this awareness; that is your destiny, your duty to yourself."

"Your reality is the Atma, which is a wave in the sea called Paramatma. The sole object of human existence is to visualize that reality and the relationship between the wave and the sea. All other activities are trivial; you share them with birds and beasts. But, this is the unique privilege of man. He has clambered through all the steps in the ladder of evolution in order to inherit this high destiny. If all the years between birth and death are frittered away in seeking food and shelter, comfort and pleasure as animals do, man is condemning himself to a further life-sentence".

How beautifully he quotes coming back again and again as "Life-sentence".

Lastly, I want to finish this long response with my favorite bhajan I sing and contemplate very often:

"I am God, I am God, I am no different from God,
I am the Infinite Supreme, the One Reality
I am Satchithanandha Swaroopa
I am Om Tat Sat Om
I am Love. I am Truth. I am Peace eternally.
I am ever pure Delight. I am always full and free.
Fear or grief can never touch me.
I Am Om Tat Sat Om".

Viswa

 

Dear AC,

I don't mind 1,000 births as long as it is to, spend the time in praise of the Lord, understand that pleasure and pain come one after another, eliminate desires and attachments and to walk the path of truth, righteousness, love, peace and non-violence. If the time in this world is going to spend wisely, I have no issues with imprisonment. Janthunam Narajanma Dhurlabam meaning "It is very difficult to get the life of human". We struggled so hard to get to this level. I can't speak for others but I am not sure I am using it wisely.

Regarding, Cheeniya Sir, I could not agree more what you said about him. He is my manaseega Guru in IL. He is like mount Everest as far as his knowledge is concerned. I am like St.Thomas Mount in Parangimalai. But the beauty is, he encourages St.Thomas Mount to keep its head up by his lavish words.

Viswa

 

Dear Syamala,

Thank you for your wonderful response. Frankly, after reading some of your responses in the past, I have come to a firm conclusion that you are spiritually very advanced in your thinking. One need not be aware of many mythological stories but still very strong in their power of thinking about the right living and you are a perfect example of that.

I always carry an impression that we are responsible for our birth. Every time, when we get an opportunity to live our life, we should make best use of it. My Guru said, "man is born in this world to learn how never to be born again". We need to clearly understand our objective and construct a virtuous life. We have to dive deep inside to invoke our consciousness and its inherent qualities and let them dominate the vagaries of the senses and mind. Every such learning is considered invaluable assets that we could carry forward for many lives. We put ourselves into life sentence by our actions. We don't have to stay inside the womb of the mother worrying about the mistakes we committed in the past and sufferings we are going to undergo because of that. Instead, we can stay inside the womb of a mother, feeling good about our past actions and a holy time that we are going to spend in a new life, if we plan our life properly. Over a period of time, we could even avoid birth and become immortal.

You have asked the right questions and your line of thinking is flawless. My Guru taught me that it is questioning that leads us to enlightenment.

Viswa