7-2-2009

Channeling by Ellaeenah (Love, Rest, Wealth, Anxiety)

Greetings of Jade Fire!

And welcome to the first of such meetings. (The second Circle of the Jade Fire Family began with this meeting) We are indeed joyous for you are a new family, growing with us, and just as our earlier family has spread so wide, we hope that you will spread just as wide and even wider…. and of course, these are only words for we are all already part of one family.

Before we start, we ask you to take not more than 5 seconds to shut your eyes and allow just one word to pop up; just one word. Alright! Let us discus each word and you will see how your words will complete this meeting. So why don’t we start with you (a sitter).

Love

And we are not surprised (Smiles). How many of you thought of this word? (Many raise their hands to indicate their answer) It is a word that human beings think of first, but act upon last. As your human race evolves, it must become a force that must surge into every interaction first. But here we must explain this word clearly. For e.g., you, dear son, how would you resolve your problems, your conflicts with love? It would be useless and foolish on our part, to ask you to embrace those who attack you, who threaten your very foundation of safety, who wish to pull asunder the network and framework of home and family, as you know it. And yet, the only force that will help our son to resolve this conflict is love.

So we must understand this force. We do not ask our son to physically embrace those in question. In fact, we might go so far to say: we do not even ask our son to speak to them gently, for in this particular trial that he faces daily, only strength and power and his ability to withstand the blows, and to sometimes answer those blows with his own might, will work.

So then what is love? We ask him, when he strikes each blow, to understand that the other is God. Even as he gets entangled in the conflict, even as the legal battle rages on in the human courts, our son must remember that there is a court beyond the human court, and that is a divine court of justice, which is present in his heart, in his beingness and only he presides over that court. So with every action, he must first question the appropriateness of the action, not in the human court, but in the divine court in which he, himself, as his God Self, presides.

Yes, love is a force that sometimes asks you to strike a blow. Love does not mean to submit to another’s misuse or abuse of power. It does not demand that you surrender your Godhood while another entraps you in power play. Love does not demand that you become meek and timid. Love demands that you do all that you need to do in order to experience yourself as your God self. So even as you fight the legal battles, you, son, must, even in those moments, experience yourself as your God Self, and in that full experience will come the force of Love. For if you experience yourself as God Self, you will not utter a word, you will not react in a manner that will deliberately cause harm, but you will not become submissive to power abuse either.

Love is not a gentle feeling. Love is the mightiest force that you can experience, and it sometimes needs you to overcome your own antipathy towards conflict and to, in fact, enter the fray, like a warrior who is ready to strike, so that the divine court over which he presides can remain untainted and pure. And yet, even as you enter the fray, never to judge the other as enemy; never to label the other as evil; but in fact, to understand that the other plays this role so that you are able to move into your God Self, in full clarity of the vision, of the purpose for which the conflict ensues.

You can stand before one who threatens to oppress you, you may fight against one who threatens to oppress you, but you must do this as the God that you are. The fight of God is fair and just for all concerned, for the fight of God does not distinguish between ‘me’ and ‘he’.

So you take all action that you need to, you speak all that you need to, you act in a manner that you need to, but you preside over the court that is your divine court, over which you preside as your God Self. So you might see him talking forcefully and loudly, you might see him taking an assertive, maybe even an argumentative stance, but if the words and the actions appear from the God Self, they will not cause harm or hurt to the other. And what is even more joyous: they will not allow you to get entrapped in the hurt the other wishes to cause to you, because you will be free of judgment, and this freedom will give you vision to see that the other can cause you no harm at all. And from that space of utter divine certainty, you do all that is needed for you to resolve.

So love is not an abstract force that we speak of; it is the most practical method of resolution and the only one that has permanent results.

Now let us move on to another word.

Rest

Rest! There is such a ‘need’ in that word: just to allow the surrender to be. Rest! To a heart that is torn in battle, rest seems the most divine gift, like water to a thirsty traveler in a desert. Rest! And each heart and each soul and each mind demands some rest, from time-to-time.

The human world is naturally, by your choice, a world of conflict, and battle ensues at all levels, whether it be physical or emotional or mental; whether it be external or internal and often, the internal battle is far more exhausting than the external. In fact, the external battle reflects the internal battle. And who do you battle against? You battle against who you are, to be who you are not, in order to fulfill the burden of expectations that you carry upon your gentle shoulders. And that is why that deep need to rest.

But why must you carry this weight of another’s expectations? That is important to question. Why do you carry these burdens? There are so many reasons. We will touch upon a few of them. You may carry this burden because you don’t know who you really are, and so what another expects you to be is who you try to become. And very often, another’s expectations of you are so removed from the reality of your Godhood, that try as hard as you might to fill that space, you are unable to meet the expectations, and then you struggle, exhausted, to be who you are not.

So you must know who you are. You must know what your strengths are, what your limitations are, and not be ashamed of those. Even when the external world seems to throw them at you, like barbs and taunts, wear your limitations, like a proud cloak. For this cloak enhances the clothes of strength that you also wear. Meet each barb that comes your way with a knowingness of a strength that you have.

Another reason why you carry this burden of expectation is due to a completely erroneous belief that if you are quiet, acquiescent, you will create no conflict and therefore, the world around you will be a happy place. But that does not happen, for each time you suppress the truth that urges to be voiced, you create greater conflict within you, which must be externalized. Each time you force yourself and compel yourself to give up and sacrifice your truth, for you erroneously believe that in this manner you will lessen conflict, you create a greater battle, raging within you. And then when this inner volcano erupts, it shatters the mythical external calm in a manner that is far more violent than it would have been had you voiced your disagreement at the first instance.

It is time to re-value these burdens; to look at them carefully, and to see which of these expectations are so far removed from who you are, that they have now become yokes to bend you over, to make you old and fatigued. These burdens drain from you, your life force, as you spend your life living according to the terms and conditions of others. You spend your life being what others wish you to be, and not being what others do not wish you to be, and you end up empty of your own God expression.

It would be a good exercise for you all to return home and ask yourself: if I were to die tonight, how much of me would be left unfulfilled? How much of me would lie sacrificed? What do I have as memories? That is very important to ask: what do you have as memories? What you have as memories will be an eye opener for you, and will show you how little time you have given yourself, how little importance you have given your own needs, your dreams, your visions, your goals. What are they? Do you even remember what they were?

How can you not want rest when you are so heavily burdened?

And what was your word?

Wealth

Wealth: a wonderful word with a wealth of meaning. Of course, the most obvious would be as money and prosperity. But that is only the reflection. What you have to see is not the reflection but the truth which creates the reflection. And sometimes, when this reflection is very hazy, when it is not as bright and large as you would wish it to be, it is because this reflection is dimmed by the human conditioning of shame which accompanies wealth.

Over time, over eons, the human race has associated wealth with greed, when wealth has no connection to greed. It is lack that has connection to greed; not wealth, not abundance, not prosperity. Wealth is a reflection of your knowingness that this world is yours to command. We repeat: wealth is a reflection of your knowingness that this world is yours to command, and that its resources are infinite and are yours to be used by rightful divine claim. There is nothing in this world that does not belong to you over which you have no right. So why have you not claimed it all? Because you have not believed that it is yours! And your lack of belief dims the reflection; makes it small.

When one pursues money or power or status in greed, one can only pursue it in lack. For why should you grab something that already belongs to you? When you have, in your home, a large magnificent painting, will you grab it and sit the whole day, hugging it tightly to your chest? Or do you just hang it up to beautify your home, sometimes even forgetting that it is there, and walking out of your home, leaving your door open with a million dollar painting, hanging in your home, quite comfortably? Because you know it is yours! But a small pot of gold placed in the center of this room, would make you grab it. ‘Let me see how many of these gold coins I can keep.’ Because you believe that that pot of gold is not yours, and so you wish to take as much of what is not yours, and then make it yours and hide it away.

What is not yours by Divine Right, will not come to you, and if it comes to you, it will not stay with you. What is yours by Divine Right will never leave you, and if it should leave you, momentarily, it will always return to you. And you have to make no effort to get it, and no effort to keep it, for it is yours by Divine Right. What you have to make an effort for, is not yours by Divine Right. What is yours comes flowing in abundance, if you believe it is yours.

Now here is a humorous paradox: most people intellectually convince themselves that they believe that something is theirs, and then go and fight for it. If your belief is complete and full, you will not need to struggle, and you will be joyous to share it, for you know that it is in infinite supply. If you are asked a question of: how wealthy are you? Your answer is: I am as wealthy as I believe I am. How much wealth do you possess? I possess as much wealth as I believe is mine. And if this belief is based in lack, in need, or in greed, what comes to you will not stay.

And then you have other unique quirks of human nature: you judge the way by which wealth comes to you or others as being right or is wrong. Sometimes the universe will open up its heart and give a gift to you and you will look at it and say: ‘But I have not worked for this so I do not deserve it’ or you will react from some conditioned belief system of it being right or wrong, and you will slam the doors to the gift and then you will again ask, “Why does the universe not give me the gift of wealth?”

You judge yourself and others by this yardstick of right and wrong that is so ephemeral. It changes daily, weekly, periodically. And in doing so, you very often turn your face away from gifts that come to you from the universe.

If you wish to enhance your position of wealth, you have to redefine your belief of wealth.

Then there is a 3rd conditioned belief of wealth, that only that which has been worked hard for is honest wealth; as though hard work has some element of sacredness attached to it. But as soon as someone else is wealthy without hard work, you instantly judge it as dishonest. And that which you judge another for will not come to you. Having judged another as dishonest, your wealth will come to you through excruciatingly hard work, because in that you find sacredness and acceptance.

Who has written, in words of gold that wealth has to come with struggle? Who has laid done a divine rule that wealth cannot come to you by believing that it is yours to command. And now you will question and ask, “Jade Fire, if I merely sit here and believe, will wealth come to me?” And our answer is a most unequivocal, “Yes”. But can you REALLY believe this or are you going to try and play little childish mind games? Your situation, then, is akin to the man who enters a lion’s den and says, “I believe he will not attack me” and is eaten the next moment. Because he did not believe that….he only loudly claimed that he did! He was challenging the universe, not realizing that he is the universe and how can you challenge your own belief system?

Redefine your belief and the reflection will clear up. And when that reflection clears up the reflection of money and the reflection of material wealth, you will find that you really don’t care too much for it in any case. It’s there and you enjoy it, but it is not all that significant, for the wealth of your Godhood will then have taken predominance.

And yes, wealth is meant to be enjoyed. Do not feel ashamed of having it. Do not feel compelled to share it for if you feel compelled to share it, you are going against your own inner truth. Share it whenever and with whomever and wherever you wish to share it, without allowing yourself to feel small and mean and greedy because you don’t share it.

And if you should wish to wear your wealth as good clothes and jewels, why not? You don’t need to hide it because you are ashamed of having it. For once again, your shame will ensure that the stream of wealth that constantly comes to you from the Divine Source is dried up, for in your shame you state clearly that this is not what you wish for.

Be proud and joyous of what you have, and do not fear that sharing of wealth will lead to you having less of it. You have, in your world, an economic theory: the only way to generate money in an economy is, ironically, to spend it. But do you know from where this economic theory originates? From a spiritual truth that unless energy is allowed to flow consistently, without interruption, energy will begin to stagnate!

You are living in a very unique world, at present, an unique economic world. You will be tempted to hoard because the economic world around you is collapsing. The more you hoard, the less will the energy of wealth flow freely, and the greater stagnation it will cause, and the greater economic collapse. But each time you spend, you are going to get worried. We do not ask you to be indiscriminate, but we do urge you: do not allow the root of all expenditure to be: ‘will I have less of this?’ Spend judiciously but fearlessly, and that which you have spent, will come back to you, because energy flows in circular lines, always returning to you more abundantly than when it left you.

But, dear ones, not so fast! if after this meeting is over, you go out and make an expenditure of Rs. 25,000 on a pretty bauble, saying, “Jade Fire has asked me to spend”, without the full belief having been assimilated within you, because you belief is still caught in ‘I will not have enough’, that Rs. 25,000 will burn a large hole that will be filled up again with great difficulty.

The only way this economic collapse of the world can be stopped is when people spend without the belief that it is all going to come to an end. It will be stopped when people stop saving for a rainy day, for when you save for a rainy day, you believe that a rainy day will come to you as a certainty. So are we asking you not to save? We are neither asking you not to save nor are we asking you to save; we are only asking you to redefine your belief system. If your belief system is full and wholesome, and out of that wholesome system you wish to save, not for a rainy day, but for an expansion, for a betterment, for a greater joy, then go ahead and save.

We will take one more word.

Anxiety!

Anxiety comes from not knowing what will happen: ‘Will I be happy?’ ‘Will my children be looked after?’ ‘Will my health be alright?’ ‘Will my parents be fine?’ ‘Will my job be secure?’ Not knowing! But it is not the not knowing of your job or your children or your parents. Those are again reflections of a deeper ‘not knowing’. And that deeper not knowing, little one, is not knowing I am God. For even as the world collapses all around, the Unified Energy which you have called God, is not in the least anxious; not anxious about losing home and children and job.

The ironies of your world can be summed up in a term that you call ‘sleeping pills’. Sleep is a state free of anxiety; a state of complete and utter rest. But when this state, which is the most natural state for the human body, is fraught with not knowing what the morrow will bring, the body has to be filled with more chemical acidic intakes to sleep, and that drug-induced sleep is filled with even greater anxiety.

The next time you get anxious, ask yourself, “Am I not God enough to set right all the things in my life? Am I not powerful enough to combat strife?” Anxiety is the result of feeling overpowered, threatened. It is the result of believing that the world, at large, is bigger than you. It comes from an incomplete belief of who you are. What you need to ask yourself is, “How do I complete this belief in myself so that I am certain that the problems that come to me are smaller than I am?”

And then there is another part to anxiety: the great need that some people have of making everyone else’s problems their own. As though you do not have enough in your basket of problems, you will ensure that your basket is constantly overflowing by begging others to give you more and more of their problems. Before you get anxious about something, at least ask yourself, “Is this really my problem?” And you will most likely say, “Yes” for if it is a problem concerning your spouse, concerning your children, your siblings, your friends, your parents, you will say, “Yes, it is my problem” and we will say, “No. It is theirs.”

You have to stand tall and strong, as a support system, while they combat their problems. But if you steal their problems and make them your own, the role that you have to play as a support system will have failed. For your children may have their problems, but you, as their mother, have to stand by and give them your emotional and mental support as they combat their problems, in the manner they know best. And then, little one, if they should make decisions, which result in acrimony or unpleasantness or unhappiness for them, do not come in their way of growth and learning. For if you walk for them, how will they ever walk on their own?

If all of you had held your little one’s hands constantly, in fear that they would fall and hurt their tender knees, your children would never have learnt to walk. And this you must do even now, when they are adults, for they are learning and growing. Do not hinder and hamper the growth of another by making their problems your own. Many, many times, when you think it is your problem, it is not. You are only involved in it as an emotional, mental and physical support structure. How will you be supportive if there is anxiety draining your God power?

Anxiety is based on fear; the fear generated by constantly anticipating the unpleasant, the worst. If there are two options in a situation, the pleasant and the unpleasant, instantly your mind will tell you: the unpleasant option will come true. Why do you not believe that what is the most joyous and the most expansive, for you and all, will BE? For just as you are a soul, so are your friends and your parents and your children and your partners, and their souls are urging them onto their soul-directed paths, just as your souls are, and what you call problems are only trials of strength for the soul, like a wrestler or a weight-lifter, who keeps adding on more and more weights to that bar, challenging his own inner strength to lift that bar, and not totter under its weight, knowing that that gold medal will be his; that victory will be his. If that weight lifter believed that he would fall under that weight, do you think he would be able to lift 10 times his own weight? How could he stand there, tall and powerful, with that weight in his hand? Because he believes he can lift the weight. He is not anxious about the tottering.

Little one, your soul does exactly that: it keeps adding more and more weight, knowing that you are already the victor. You hinder your soul’s victory by falling into anxiety, and believing that you will not be able to lift.

Each morning, when you awaken, each morning, tell yourself firmly, “Just for today, I am the soul’s victory.” No tomorrow, no next week, no next month; just for today I am the soul’s victory. And in that day, victory is yours.

Our greetings, beloveds! Be light!