Don't Attach Yourself To A Container!!!

Few months back our Son moved from bottle to Sippy Cup. He had a favourite sippy cup, and he only drank milk from that sippy cup. We tried multiple sippy cups, but he thought only that particular sippy cup had milk, all other cups couldn't.

One day I was trying to explain him that he should not look at the cup, but look at what was inside the cup. Focus on Milk and not the Cup. I tried to explain him in a few different ways, but he wouldn't surrender, wouldn't understand.

When I was trying to explain him, the thought came to my mind that we are also like him. He was not mature enough to understand that the milk could be in any of the sippy cups, and he should not attach himself to the cup but the milk. We are not mature enough to understand that it is Soul that matters and not the physical body. We focus too much on the physical body and think that's what we are. No matter how much we read and how much knowledgable people explain us, it is very hard for us to believe that the body is only a container like the sippy cup for Vaed (my Son), it is not what we are (milk). We will change containers, but still remain the same self (sippy cup will change, but the milk is still milk).

These kind of analogies strike me a lot of times, when I cross road sometimes... I sometimes think that everything in the world is governed by the same law and it is possible to find analogies in everything we do or see. It's just that it is beyond our 5 physical senses to perceive it.

Why Love For Everyone?

I was talking to a collegue over lunch today, and somehow we started talking about parapsychology, and then it moved to life after death, my belief system, etc. During our talks, I was trying to explain him what I believe, and I told him something very interesting which, I think, would be good to capture on a paper...

Every religion teaches us to love, the Holy Books tell us to love everyone equally, never feel hatred towards anyone. They tell us what will happen if we follow this in our life, etc. but none of the books tell us why. Lately I have been reading much about life after death, and read few books that share people's experience with life after death. These books are definitely easier for me to digest, since they talk about experience of people who are alive, who I can really talk to if I wish.

One thing I learnt from these books is that a group of souls come to physical life (body or this world) togather to help each other to learn something, to gain various experiences, to evolve based on new experiences. This group of souls, when between two lives, look at different things they need to work out to evolve out of the human species, and get freed from the cycle of birth-rebirth. They look at the different options available and choose one of the lives to live and experience. They choose different relations they want to experience with each other, and in a way they help each other gain those experiences and evolve. In order to do this, they have to do bad to each other sometimes, since we also need to go through suffering in order to learn.

When we are inside a particular life, it is very hard for us to see the reason behind someone doing something bad to us or something bad happening to us. But if we go a little higher, observe life from outside, we will know that specific thing happened for our own good. We can then appreciate the reason behind what we perceived as BAD. So if you look at it now, the person who really did bad to you in a lifetime was really helping you to evolve and achieve your life goals.

It is completely different perspective and depends on where you look at if from. These things are very hard to explain/understand when we are within a life trying to gain experiences. So, why should you hate a person that does something bad to you within a lifetime? Isn't he really trying to help you and doing good in a larger picture? This is probably the reason all religions tell us to always love everyone and never feel hatred towards anybody!!!

Makes sense to you now? It does to me...