Spirituality

My hats off to the writer of this song, I am sure we all get some songs stuck in our mind sometime they just keep repeating. You just can’t shake them off and I just remember only  the verse of the song, so don’t know the author. I am quoting as it is in the Punjabi language and I would write as author unknown. I would quote in the original words and then try to translate it in English. Hope the author  can get satisfaction about his work, that someone is talking about him/her. “Quote”

Panwain khey thay Anmole panwain kodian ch tole,

Nanon hunjoo bun waggay tarri ishk kahani

jay toun samjain taan moti jay na samjain taan pani.

According to my understanding which may be different than the author, the translation would be “You can say its priceless, or you can compare it with the dirt cheap, Story of your love flows out of the eyes like tears. If you understand it, its a Pearl, if you don’t its  just water. “End quote” I believe we all are the cells of the body of God worth five bucks each one person at a time. Physical expression of God is the man kind and the God is our  spiritual expression. That means God lives through us. My way of proving this is that, if the man kind disappears no one can be there to understand God let alone believe in God.

My logical reality says if you ask an Alzheimer patient about the God, you may not get anywhere fast because the installed knowledge is wiped-out by the disease but the way I see it in this situation, God is there in the people whom are taking care of the patients. God is our understanding which is usually installed into us as we grow up, thus this knowledge is highly tainted and influenced by the politics of the sense of belonging.

When you are born into humanity as a human being you are, by nature a human being first. You start to get the labels of whatever you belong to, is secondary. For instance a boy or a girl or something in between, black, white, brown, yellow, or red or mix of some or all,  a Muslim, Christian, Pakistani, Canadian,  any other nationality a community or even a member of a sports team but first of all, A HUMAN BEING.

Let’s start from the beginning, a baby is born in a Muslim house hold but adopted by the Christian family, or a black baby is raised by a white family what is that kid’s identity? Would we change the status of being a human being, I don’t think so. But when it comes to the sense of belonging it is not an easy question.

When one loves the child, the whole community should respect it because in advanced or educated human societies the love should overpower our differences.

The reality is, even now a days still there is prejudice because of the powerful politics of sense of belonging. The truth is that if you are born as a human being you are a human being regardless of your color, gender, nation or religion.

All the knowledge about the differences are installed by the sense of belonging after you are born. An other example, if you are asked to make a fist, you would have no problem unless you are a victim of a Stroke, Alzheimer  or any disorder which robs you of your mantel capabilities but still leaves you as a living human being. No one should and can tell you, just because you are sick you are not a human being anymore. Anyway you can make a fist with no problem but that is a learnt action. You had a heck of time learning walking or speaking as you grew up but after practice everything becomes a second nature. My point is, that you have learnt all the skills, behaviors and belief systems from your belonging groups. With practice they have become a second nature to you, but they have the potential to make you something you are not.

A baby is like a brand new computer, the data is added after the birth, but baby comes with all systems running before learning the installed knowledge.   What makes the whole package with the potential? What makes an individual to pick and choose, mix and match the information and respond to the actions of the others?

Ever wonder beyond your installed knowledge, ever wonder looking through your eyes in the mirror who are you looking at? Are you just the computer with the data or you look at the person who lives in your body, who has a name and actually runs the computer.

Did you ever cross the lines to say hello to that person and I mean really, or you are stuck into the data and can’t look beyond. If you feel stuck you have taken the color of your belonging group and you need to acquire your own color which you were born with.

Well you are the one who runs the computer, the brain with everything in it, the body and the whole shebang. You are the one who is beyond the data who calls the shots and is a CEO.

You are the one who is connected to the real source spiritually and physically, but the data turns you into vulnerable, impressionable and insecure entity so you can be controlled.

If you feel that your wings have been clipped and you can’t fly solo, start to communicate with your inner bravest cat.

Do you want to be a CEO who is a human being first?  Then reach out to the one who lives inside of you, not the one who is created by your sense of belonging.

Take some responsibilities and start questioning the politics of the sense of belonging before taking part into the senseless killing of other human beings on the name of God or your belonging nation. It is like killing God one cell at a time, body still lives but with a lot of pain and suffering, I would call it, God has an autoimmune disorder and only human beings can fix it . You may question we can’t harm God but I can say to you, understand the difference between the Pearl and the water and look at God as a pearl not as just the water.

You will be rewarded from within. Take the responsibility to be a CEO then you will be able to see the harms we are causing to God.

Imagine if the whole humanity works together with the five bucks each would we have starvation, homelessness and poverty or bankruptcy at the national level like we do now. If we work together God would be able to take care of the sufferings of his body.

Our evolution is God’s evolution and we are all taking part in it because God is not some outside entity. That entity lives through the humanity. Every single cell is important and spouse to work for the body, but the politics of our sense of belonging inhibits that.

Our politics divides us to the point that we are working towards the day of destruction predicted in the holy books, yet we all individually have a say in our lives.

As a CEO we should be able to evolve to cross the lines of our religions and nationalities. We can create the peace to keep evolving to reach our potential what God had meant for the humanity. Why God who is blamed for not protecting or saving the people regardless of the prayers and sacrifice?

My understanding says God has done the Godly work by blessing the man with the free will and providing the oxygen to keep going. Now its up to us, how we reach our potential.

Can we keep going to become Godly humanity who can save lives from the storms, tsunamis and quakes and help the suffering part of the humanity, or destroy ourselves as predicted in the holy books.

My understanding of the God’s pain is that the individual who is entrapped in the politics of the sense of belonging can’t even spread his/her wings beyond the politics because of personal insecurities so the problem is in the individual not in the group. If we look at ourselves as an individual and remove our insecurities by believing in the connection to the real source, we can  cross the lines of sense of belonging to a group to belong to the humanity as a whole.

Right now we are Muslims, Christians, Jewish, Pakistani, Canadian, American, black, white, homosexual, male, female first then we are human beings. My grand desire is to reverse it, I want to see the desire in people to reverse this political trend. Only if we all can understand.

God is a Pearl if you can understand, other wise its just a water regardless of our prayers, fasting, sacrifice or going to mosques or churches.

An individual can benefit spiritually in his/her life by having a belief system of belonging directly to God. Potentially you can accumulate harms by living in a pond with the boundaries of religions and nationalism, just look around, our past and present is riddled with the wars.

Its worth repeating, if you belong to a gang, community, nation or a religion first, it is like living in a pond with the boundaries. You have to follow the rules and you would not be able to express your thoughts, regardless of the ability you brought along before the installation of your nationalism, religion or racial identity.

The ability to function independently is not installed. It is your nature and you can find it by joining the spiritual world of God which is like the space, internet or  humanity. Vast, without the boundaries, fearful to the non believers but completely secure for the believers.

You can cross the lines of death without the fear, live life without the fear and solve your physical, emotional and spiritual problems. You may live happier by removing fear related stress and related problems.

Picture yourself standing on your one foot in front and one in the back, front one is in the future and the back one is in the past. Literally and figuratively you are pissing on the present not only as an individual in living life, but in general if you live your life for the after life and piss on this one by killing and getting killed because of the past. Think again how much pain you are causing to God and yourself. It is all about the understanding God the way a CEO understands God beyond the boundaries of the politics of the sense of belonging.  

I am going to start this blog with a story I read when I was very young.  I don’t know the author, but I acknowledge this unknown author, because I still remember it.

There once was a very popular healer. When his fame reached to the king, king decided to have himself checked for his health problems. So king was told  by the healer that he had a king’s disease and it would cost him a million coins to be cured. King thought for a while and said I will get back to you. King though I am a king and can afford the million coins but I would like to know what happens when some one could not afford. So the king disguised and sat in line for hours until he got his turn. The diagnoses was the same but the healer suggested him to bring me these ingredient and I will make you the medicine which will take three months to be ready. He told him where to go which included different places even on the top of the mountain to collect some herbs and a copper coin. After three months king got his medicine for free and was healed. After that needless to say the healer was a royal healer.

When I heard that it takes five hundred thousands dollars a year for the new drug to keep one individual alive this story came to mind. Since I write about the spirituality, I am going to say that I am an idealist and to me it is a shame for the humanity that we are creating a situation that one has to die if he/she can’t afford the cure. It makes me wish that we have those kind of kings running our governments so the equality is imperative.

Logically we are able to see and create the scenarios in our heads so we all are insecure to different degrees.

A billionaire died few years back in Toronto, he left 18.9  billion dollars behind. Why I am mentioning it, because I saw one of his friend was on TV saying  that he lived in an old house and was very exited when he bought a freezer full of hot dogs on sale.

A man can only consume so much in his life time. If you really and I mean really learn to live a temporary life, your attitude would be different. In mortality it is not what you save or own, it is what you consume during your life time counts. Somehow we think our time would come but not for a long time, so we live to save not to consume. That is the reason most of the people’s money is in the banks. I can safely say that there is more money in the banks than in the circulation because people all over the world always thinking and feeling about the saving regardless of the need. Why I say feeling because insecurity falls into the feelings.  If we all have the urges to save because of the unknown, we all contribute to create poverty, hunger, famine and extreme gap of wealth.

Everyone has been taught by their parents, culture or nation to save, save and save. A mortal life is lived but in deprivation by choice. The business of spirituality does not mix very well with insecurities. If everyone saves not because of the needs but out of the fears of unknown insecurities, eventually the whole humanity would have a problem. Sure it is important have some extra money to leave behind before you die.  After balancing the books when you fold, still you have to be useful to the humanity not a burden.

Hare we have people in the grave yards with the tomb stone saying died in 1800. That means human is the only  creature on the face of the earth who owns a piece of land long after he/she had died, yet we have homelessness all over the world. If the loved ones would give some money to the poor on the name of the loved one, instead of going to the grave spend money for the flowers, that dead loved one would be still useful to the humanity.

It is not only the duty of the individual to be spiritual, collectively we should be spiritual as well.   As I have written before, a society which can take care of its sick, is spiritually healthy. If people die of the avoidable sickness, hunger or poverty  that society is spiritually bankrupt regardless of being a political power house. Politics and business is not the only thing a society should run on, compassion, conscience, ethics and love should not only be related to the individual alone.

Unfortunately our religious people are against the universal health care and equal human rights how and why is that possible? where is the spirituality? political arm of the religion is that strong that people would take their human jewellery off for their belonging groups. Compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice and love are the fundamentals of all spiritual systems and they have been taught to us by our  religions, but look at the religions where do they stand. Can anyone find these jewels in the history of the religions, we have been killing each other on the name of God for a very long time and it is not for God it is all about the politics of the sense of belonging. If a religion can’t teach spirituality it has no business to be in God’s world. Equal human rights and universal health care is spiritual essence of the humanity. If you stand against these things you need some spirituality in your religions.

Every society regardless or religion or governing system, preaches to save or face the stress of being left alone. Politicians say they would protect and secure the individual but as they come to power there is no promise, so the insecurity is continuous and actually  created by our education system.

Spirituality teaches that, the security is in believing and contributing to the humanity. Your fiver is a great asset, because it is given to you by the God. It is not only good for you but it is good for the humanity as well. If you believe as you are told or taught, that you are a worthless sinner, your belief is going to be the dead dog of your insecurities. You would try to secure yourself by the materiel things yet you can’t really deal with the deeply ingrained insecurities, they will show up in your everyday life. Look at your behaviors if you don’t believe anything is done for you from  the God and your life is all a failure, just look at the abilities you hold inside they are all there because of the fiver and the oxygen you have been blessed with. Being happy or unhappy is strongly related with the comparison. If you want to compare, always compare with both sides  to be fare. With the people whom are better than you for the inspiration and the people whom are worse off than you for the appreciation. ( Read the  river of time and ladder of horizon).