Ellaeenah

Jade Fire

Today let us talk on the Importance of Tradition, but first….why must we talk of this?

In a world of technology, and fast moving science, when modernism has become a god to be worshipped, there are several who feel that all traditions must be broken, and today we are here to tell you that traditions must be kept, upheld. For every tradition that you break, you must create your own. We do not ask you to, necessarily, follow the traditions of another, but you must have traditions to follow, even if they are traditions that you create.

So what kind of traditions would you create? What about a very common tradition, a Sunday family meal. That is a tradition. And come what may, do not break that tradition; work around it.
We hear you; (smiles) we know you have to come here on a Sunday. Then, what about a Sunday family meal at night?

You have to work at your traditions; you have to work hard to uphold them. WHY?

Because your ROOTS are in your tradition.

Modernism may be a god, for some, but often it is an unknown god, for who knows what tomorrow holds. But all that you have experienced in your yesterdays are held with you forever. If you can hold within you periods of conflict, and loneliness and pain, why can you not hold within you, moments of simple joy, periods of growth, when you can look back and draw strength from? And this is the gift that every parent leaves to every child. It is far more important than the legacy of acres of land and millions of rupees.

When your child has roots in family traditions, the child knows family, and the first seeds of Union of Humanity lie there… in FAMILY. Your child will never be united with another, if your child does not know family. But, if you have given the gift of ‘family’ to your child, then through life, ‘family’ merely expands, and then union with humanity is not a goal that you have to strive for…. its only one large family. So you must have your traditions, for traditions bring families together. As you grow, and your children leave to live separate lives, when do you all come together? On days of tradition… be it a Christmas, a New Year, a Ganesh, an Id, a Diwali…. children, parents, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, all come together as a family, and when traditions shows its face, family squabbles, for a brief period, hide away.

Yes it is essential to be modern, to live in the NOW, and yet every moment of the NOW carries with it the essence of the past. When you reject the past, you reject the essence of the NOW. There is no present without a past. So what do you try to really leave behind?

Why, in your world do several, several people feel a sense of shame, when they conduct a ritual which has its roots in tradition? Hear carefully when people speak of those; they will either deride it, or apologize for it. When you have to apologize for your past, you can have no worthwhile present to even contemplate the future with. There must be pride and joy in the past. Do we ask you to become ritualistic? NO, accept only those rituals which bring you joy and fulfillment. Make up your own rituals; modify the old ones so that they can live with your present god of Modernism. But do not deride, scorn, and make excuses for them. Why do you need a justification to uphold tradition?

If the tradition of channeling had not been upheld, in spite, of witch hunting, your present would have faced a sorry vacuum. Your Sunday meetings have become your traditions. Have they not? That is why you miss them when there are no meetings, because the soul thrives on the energy of tradition. And just as the human family has created traditions of religions for itself, each, EACH family must create for itself, its traditions, so that years later, when your child looks back, and you are not present, the memory of the family tradition will make you ‘alive’ again, and the child’s heart will beat with joy.

Each child must have something to look back upon, and these traditions a child carries forward. You may have a Sunday family meal as a tradition. Will the child necessarily, all his life, follow a Sunday family meal? Not at all….but it is not the act of the Sunday family meal which is the tradition; it is the coming together in a spirit of laughter and fun that your child will carry together, and the legacy that you have left for him, he will leave to others.

Parents today have learnt to give gifts, generously, so that they do not feel ashamed about giving no ‘time’, about giving no ‘tradition’, about giving no ‘roots’… and it is appropriate, the reaction of the children to these gifts. No gift is now respected; it is taken for granted, it is demanded, and it is abused.

What the child needs is far more tangible than a gift. The child needs the Spirit of Family. Look around at your world today. How can you hope for human union, when families all around you are breaking up? What union, then, can the human family ever hope to have?

It is so simple for you to conceptualize a world, where all live as one. But if we were to ask you, to ensure that the Spirit of Family lives from moment to moment within you, it would be very difficult. The abstract today has become easier, than the reality.

There is only one way for union of all humanity to take place, and that is through the Family. You, as a generation, will not see the Human Union, but if you have inculcated family in your children, they will be the fortunate heralds of Human Union.

Distance plays no part in it, so do not make excuses that “we are all living so far apart”. For when did ‘family’ ever measure its worth by distance? You consider, several of you, this (pointing to the group) to be your ‘family’. And yet you do not live together, but you are bonded by one tradition… the coming together of a Sunday ‘Family’ Channeling. Contemplate on this. The parents and grandparents in this room CONTEMPLATE…..What legacy do you wish to leave behind?

You may live but a few years more, and you may leave behind you, a large and significantly rich estate, but we assure you, that if you have not left behind family and tradition for your child, after the first thrill of the estate, the child will forget that it ever came from you. Do not spend so much time in accumulating money and wealth and possessions. EVALUATE…….How much time do you give to creating money? And how much time that you give to creating family? That equation will point out to you the sorry state of your modern world.

Yes, being modern is important, so that there is a future, certainly. But who or what will direct that future?........THE SOUL…….the soul lives in the present, but focuses on the future, and if the present that the soul is living in, is a strong firm foundation of family and tradition, the future must be a glorious one. But if the soul lives in the blind chase of modernism, if the soul worships only the golden sparkle of coins, then the future must be a lonely, isolated unfulfilled period.

Ask of yourself, where does my soul live in the present? Your future is only your present enhanced. For there is no other future, there is no other future that you can not know. It is not unknown, it is known. It is known to you in the here and the now, because the soul lives in the present and focuses upon the future, and it is from this present that the soul draws forth the Strength, the Energy, the Intent, the Purpose, the Function , the Focus for the future.

So what is this Present? And what is this present of your child? For you can create your tomorrow only through your child. There is no other way to create ‘tomorrow’. Tomorrow’s can be created by you, through the children of the present, and their souls reside in the same present as your soul. When a child decides upon a mother, it looks at the soul ‘present’ of the mother, and then decides, is this the ‘present’ I wish to adopt when I take birth...

It is easy to be lost in this blind chase of appearing to be modern. What a false, superficial arrogance that is. What do you mean by being ‘modern’ thinking? What does it mean? Why in your modern world, there are a lot, a significant number, that think, that wealth is God. Are you that ‘modern’ thinking? In your modern world, there are a lot, a significant number, that believe, (now let us open a can of worms…. smiles), that believe in free uninhibited, unconditional, no- strings-attached sex. Are you that ‘modern’ thinking? So, which ‘modern’ thought are you so arrogant about? And how superficial an arrogance, when ‘modern thought’ itself is so fickle.

For she holds different thoughts of money compared to he, and he does not believe in her views of sex, and she is completely different in her attitudes of elders as compared to he. So you have four ‘modern’ thinking individuals, thinking completely diverse thoughts. So what ‘modern’ thought are you ascribing to? Instead of that superficial arrogance, let there be full pride in the fact…..I ascribe to a thought that was created by my past, modified, and evolved by my present, in order that my future may be strong.

May all joyous traditions be for you always, without excuses, without apology, without derision, without scorn.

Be joyous to wear that traditional dress. Sometimes the modern clothes can be kept away in the cupboard, for when traditional clothes touch your physical energy, the strength and wholeness of that past comes with those clothes.

See for yourselves, when you wear what young girls love to wear… the attire of a male. What do you enhance? Your male energy!! And no, beautiful one, its not a matter of laughter, for not one of you has ever questioned….why fashions change? …..A change in fashion is the best way to be aware of the change in the energies of society…..and women today are more comfortable in the attire of men...because now Feminine Energy is taking over the role long held by Male Energy.

And yet, in this take-over, there is corruption, for can you not take over a man’s world, in woman’s attire, keeping for yourself all that is beautiful, all that is distinct and different, about FEMALE…..What an empty takeover when the monarch who is taking over, wants to be exactly like the monarch he is deposing.

Fashions change because energy structures change, and when for a brief moment, you bring, from that glorious past, a gentle sari, just meters of cloth wrapped around, the Grace and Beauty of the past that evolved that fashion is once again yours. Your demeanor changes, the way you speak changes, the way you walk changes. A woman would never be able to give a manly stride, wearing a sari.

Sometimes play with the traditions. Traditional clothes, traditional food, traditional music, traditional forms of entertainment. Traditions, let them live within you. You will not be living in the past. You will be living in a stronger present.

All Our Blessings