Ancestral Birth Rebirth and Karma

 

• Vrinda Puja
  

  As you were an Ancestor before you were born, one day you shall return to being an Ancestor, until you attain Nirvana, Moksha, Kaivalya, Enlightenment, or Liberation from the bondage of births and deaths. Yogic verse
  
  
  My Beloved Bhagavan Light Divine said that the dislikes that we harbor for one person will karmically link us to her/him from birth to birth until the issue is resolved through love. He goes on to say that the struggles in families are precisely the interplay and challenges among its members to resolve this past karmic debts.
  
  The concept in this illustration has been elaborated into fantastic stories and history, in the Yogic Indian scriptures, but there is so much more that we can reflect upon... we seldom realize that we are in the middle of its drama. We are also the "ancestors" reborn to resolve the unfinished "past" ... until we connect in fullness of Compassion and Love in the living Present. Blessings to all!

  
  

  
  
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  Vrinda Puja
  

  Love does not mean taking abuse. As we consider the stotra "Mind is the cause of bondage and release," in Patanjali Yoga Sutras, we also begin to understand how we are responsible for the emotions and experiences that we allow to seep in from our environment. When these are harmful for our sense of wellbeing and gradual spiritual progress, we need to separate ourselves, protect our body, mind and spirit from the harmful nuclear vibrations and negative spiritual charges that others, no matter if blood related, direct at us.
  
  In my experience, and the compassionate suggestions of enlightened teachers, we may also be caringly in relationship with ourselves, like a mother cares for a child, a friend cares for a friend, a child cares for a parent and a lover cares for the beloved. Spirituality does not mean abusing ourselves for the sake of resolving the problem of the ego. A confusion on abnegation of ego, which is very prominent in Christian traditions, gives the false impression of an imperative to self-chastisement, sacrifice and enduring abuse (the slap on the cheek problem). But sacrifice without understanding is shallow, abnegation without dignity is subservience, and enduring abuse without being able to convert the abuse of others into an experience which transforms the oppressor and the oppressed is futile.
  
  Then how does a person know the difference? The daily practices or rituals, meditations and spiritual interactions lead the practitioner to advance on the path to a progressive spiritual awakening, a deeper understanding of when are these qualities beneficial or when can what we consider a "virtue" be detrimental to our spiritual progress in an oppressive way. Because abusing the God and Goddess given psycho-physical personality, which is the vehicle to attaining the experience of uninterrupted Union with God/Goddess can lead us further away from the intended goal.
  
  Standpoint theory:
  I speak from the experience of being raised and educated Catholic for the first 15 years, and passing through a series of spiritual awakenings before and after that age. An intensive spiritual search in my twenties, led me to define myself as panentheist. I understood that the Sermon on the Mount was not at the core of the Roman Catholic Church, this lead to a strained to an impossible connection with the formative religion after Vatican II. Later in life, I aligned my Christian spirituality with Liberation Theology. By this time, I had full embraced Yoga-Vedanta, in a monastic community of a particular
  beauty and life transforming power.

  
  

  Maven Huggins
  

  so fascinating that you post this here. today. and I read it now. after having a blow out with my aunt in whose house I live. I have to tell you offering to help you has sparked a lot in my soul. The main of which is to find the way to leave here. I am enmeshed, ensconced and surrounded, by people whom I am alien to and them to me. I am .
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  I dont even have words or energy to fill in all that I am to tell you but. I am...
  
  i am in a country who does not value a person like me and I suffer and am persecuted for it within and without.
  
  But what has happened in these nine years (on May 16, 2012_) is a clarity of who i am and my purpose and road and journey so where before there was regret and tears now there is some kind of soul jubilation and pride, and force and power of the experiences. where i am to be bowed and broken i am triumphant and propelling further.
  
  this helps/.
  I never thought of my aunt and i as in an ancestor karmic dance. I did think it of her unbelievable ignorance that is this society and culture and me being born (different) and born in my circumstance and living away has made an already alien more so

  
  

  
  
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  Maven Huggins what made you post this? Here and now?
  

  
  
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  Vrinda Puja
  

  I don´t know. I only know that I understand very closely how you fee and what you are going through. One time I wanted to leave, was enmeshed, ensconced and surrounded by people who despised the true me in the name or "normal" love. And it was a cage and a trap. There would have been no way our for me under the circumstances... Someone very special, to whom I am forever indebted helped me. And I pray God/Goddess may guide this communication to help you find a way out of that temporary stage.
  
  All is temporary. What we like, what we don´t like. When the situation is pleasant, time flies and we hardly notice when the time runs out and what we love most is taken away by drastic life changes, illness or other creative ways of nature teaching us that everything ends. I can only share with you what I was taught, what informs me. It offers no easy way out, but it offers ways to transcend our self-imposed conditioning.
  
  I prayed that just as She helped me when I needed, I could help someone, especially a woman, mother, sister in a similar situation so familiar to me.
  
  The pain that is so unbearable now, will break the walls around our heart for a borderless heart, capable of relating to All. The rivers of tears prepare you, me and the compassionate ones who suffer unfair seclusion in a mysterious way to deepen the riverbed and make this tributary river even mightier. So mighty and strong in Spirit that when the fiercest storms and tests come, and just as Jesus was tested, who are we not to be tested, but if we connect with those who suffer even more than us, we will deepen the river of our mind-emotions to such extent that when the mightiest storm comes, our waters and our tears will not overflow. Only when we are connected with the Greatest pain of all, and the Greatest Joy simultaneously.
  
  But this blissful state, this spiritual achievement is reached by a process. The process is rigorous like mountain climbing, but made easier when we focus on the beauty of the goal, Union with God; what can be more inspiring than that? And still we doubt it every day.
  
  This in itself is a kind of meditation (it has a Sanskrit name, but I will not burden you with too much complexity now. Your mind is brilliant, there are stories that inspire us to understand how is it that we allow our minds to be our worst enemy and how is it that we protect our own mind, a powerful gift of God, to be our best Friend.
  
  I would like to share with you more devotional meditations. But a little at a time is best. Reflect on the above, trust the Presence of God is in your very breath. You may also do a breathing meditation, breathing in your dearest image of God, Jesus, Mother Mary, or symbol of Spirit, and breathing out sorrow, misunderstanding, impotence, uncertainty. A very significant spiritual breakthrough is close, when things feel this bad in our lives and we must cling to Spirit within. Invoke Faith.
  
  I will leave you for some time, my dear, to allow you the sacred time and space to reflect and bring healing to your self to Self.
  
  Self here means a Jesus identity, cosmic consciousness... that which lets one see clearly where we do not belong, and allows for the steps to follow to emerge from within yourself. Trust this Power from within, I know that you do. You are my spiritual sister. God/Goddess knows why. Remember, there is so much work to be done! Blessed Be! with Bows, Health, Divine Light and Love..

  
  

  
  
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  Maven Huggins we are writing a book.
  and someone else who knows a bit about my struggle here asked me if I could write what i share here on fb in a book. the book is being compiled. Has been for a long time.
  
  Thanks
  
   Maven Huggins there is a lot here to digest.
  and i think in time i need to return to it to digest it
  and further, while reading, I sensed perhaps that is your purpose in my life, to bring me deeper union and perspective, spiritually

Vrinda Puja You have also appeared like an angel in my life, all that the Teacher deposited in my heart... grows like a dammed river, cannot flow without sharing it. You are the dam breaker, my dear sister. Be Blessed!

Vrinda Puja If Goddess and God permit, the Stories of the Enlightened Queens will liberate the pain in the heart of many women and children and angels our communities and in our hearts. Giving me a humble and beloved purpose...