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Hi to all, I had written an article on Delusion and had followed it up with another on ' Further on Delusion. Would love to share it with you and would love feedback. R.Venkatesh DELUSION
One decides to do a thing and is immediately reminded of a hundred other things that apparently become Top Priority; but are, in reality, only meant for confusing one’s original purpose.
One should only laugh at this play of delusion.
Oh, wonderful Maya!
She works in multifarious ways and directions at every level of consciousness, weaving her webs of distraction and enchantment.
She will use any and many stratagems to overcome and weaken a mind full of purpose.
She is wily.
She will back away from conscious alertness.
She will attack the weary, the unwary and the weak.
She will ride rampant when the eyelids open at dawn.
She is NOT the mind; but she works through it.
She is the heavenly distractor in our journey to Go(o)dness.
She is the tester of mettle, of fortitude, of strength, of will, of purpose, of determination.
And when one overcomes Her even a tiny bit, one gets a vision of what lies beyond. It turns out to be a mirror- a mirror that reflects a different you, a Higher You.
Maya, in the end, shows you as YOU.
FURTHER ON DELUSION
One is constantly bombarded with messages from the mind: from one’s birth right up to one’s death. How does one sift through and ascertain the nature of these messages.
Do they mean anything at all? Do they portend good? Or bad? Are they reminders of things and events yet to happen? Or events passed? Do they indicate the Right Path? Or otherwise? Do they indicate any path at all? Are they from My God? Do I have to consider them? How does one judge the jumble, given the melee in the mind?
Sometimes these mind- messages shock us; sometimes they frighten; sometimes they are humorous; sometimes exhilarating and sometimes depressing and sad. Can we extract meaning from these messages and apply them to our lives. If so, how? How does one choose one thought over another? For, consider them, we must. We cannot escape them, because once experienced, whether in the dream or wakeful state, whether positive or negative, they get embedded in our memory and affect our psyche accordingly as per our outlook on life.
What does one do? Let us consider certain thoughts.
One thing is clear- Any thought that seeks to confound, distract, confuse; any thought that casts doubt of any sort in our mind; any thought that seeks to demean our self-image, that seeks to lower our self- esteem, that causes feelings of irremediable guilt, any thought that is rooted in Fear is a Negative influence and wayward. If we but acknowledge even a little bit of these thoughts, they will overcome our consciousness only to breed and fester in our minds. And work havoc with our self- Image.
Such messages will tend to make us feel smaller in our own eyes; they create self- doubt about our own worth; they affect our self- belief, lower our self- esteem; they rob us of confidence- of confidence to face the world and ourselves; they cast doubt on our God, on his everlasting love for us.
So, what is to be done?
First look to your heart and the feelings these thoughts create. If these feelings are NOT uplifting, not ennobling, then the thoughts have to be discarded totally. We must overcome them for they will revisit us uncalled for and when we least expect it. Therein lies our choice of response. Our response to such stimuli is what will decide our attitude.
We overcome these negative stimuli by feeding ourselves positive thoughts and imagery, which will create positive energy around us. We acknowledge with conviction our self- worth; we acknowledge with certainty that we are ‘complete’ with love and happiness; we acknowledge with assurance that our God is always with us and is ever- loving. We acknowledge with belief that anything less is not to be heeded; we acknowledge with courage our power to confront these thoughts and overcome them; we acknowledge with love that these are but other pathways to our God and we acknowledge with gratitude His ever- abiding presence.
And we look the other way- towards the Light.
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