There are always some things from our past that haunt us. The past constitutes not just the previous years of your current life but also what you carry forward from previous lives. It is far easier to deal with the past of the previous lives since the stories are unknown. Negative acts of previous births bother us with tendencies and diseases – some of these are labeled as hereditary, some are those that just pop up at a certain time of your life. We take the help of our knowledge and wisdom of life taught by experience to overcome negative tendencies. We visit a doctor to cure diseases and try to achieve health and wholesomeness. Negative acts from the current birth bother us with guilt which makes it all the more harder to deal with. Guilt is built through ideas of social conditioning and our own innate sense of shame. Bottling such guilt can result in a physical/emotional imbalance resulting in some form of physical or mental disease. Negative acts are acts that either harm yourself or those that are involved in it. While it is not smart to repeat such acts, there exists a great opportunity in coming to a turning point in your life where you step into the awareness and decide not to commit negative acts any more. This signals a shift in the focus of your attention from unconsciousness to consciousness, enabling you to see your past in a different light. You realize that your negative acts were your experiments with untruth. The same way that untruth is ephemeral, so are the effects of experiments with untruth. Through seeing and accepting the consequences of such actions as undesirable, you have put an end to your experiments with untruth. You have completed your experiment and learnt the lesson. You have decided to live in the pleasant light of truth. The entire universe in fact exists so that you can learn your lessons. Once you realize and assimilate this truth, every person who had in that past suffered due to your negative act, is liberated from any pain that you may have caused. When you decide to stay in your new awareness and not repeat the same mistakes, all those who took part in your experiments with untruth will be rewarded by the Presence for a job well done. For there is none else but you. And this whole drama of the universe is so that you may know who you are. And with every act of life that brings you this awareness, a different set of actors and circumstances take part. Until you are done, the act will go on and on and on. Therefore forgive yourself, learn your lesson and welcome yourself to a friendly and loving present. Radiate this forgiveness and love and transform your consciousness. Move from the useful past to the loving present. Congratulate yourself - you have successfully completed your experiments with untruth!
………Vidya Shankar Hoskere June 2010 |
