26.03.2005 (Pune)

Channelling Through Ellaeenah:

Jade Fire:

Pain
Attain silence, more and more, now. Be wherever you need to be. You do not need to be quiet to attain silence. You do not need to run away from life. You need to run away from what you believe. You need to run away from all that pain that is so comfortable that you do not wish to let it go. Yes, pain can be very comforting. If you are used to constantly wrapping yourself in a thick, coarse blanket, which has stayed around your shoulders for years and years and years, when you remove it you will feel bare, you will feel cold. The feeling will certainly be very uncomfortable and you will take up that coarse blanket and wrap it around yourself again and say, “Ah! That feels much better” even if the coarseness makes your skin red and sore, even if the thick blanket makes you sweat and perspire, even if the weight of the blanket is so much that you are bent double; it still feels good.

You need to have strength to remove that blanket. Do you know, my beautiful ones, strength is not required to carry burdens. That is done by mere conditioning. Strength is required to drop the burdens. Strength is required to walk light, to carry no weights about your shoulders, to expose yourself to the heat and the cold, knowing that neither has power to harm you because every moment you are shouting within, “I AM”. And if your pain is constantly with you and not letting you go, it means only one thing, my beautiful child (Rachel) that you do not wish your pain to go. Your coarse, rough blanket is what you want around your shoulders. You do not want to drop it. You may say you do. You may look at another whose blanket is neither as coarse nor as heavy as your own and you may intellectually wish, “I wish I had her soft, silken light wrap around my shoulders” but the moment you are given it, you will put it aside saying, “this is too smooth; it slides off my shoulders. It is not as heavy; I don’t even feel its weight. I am not comfortable. Take it back; give me my old coarse blanket again” Remember this; if pain persists in your life, it is because you do not wish to let your blanket go.

You have a wonderful little comic strip, don’t you? Of the child who clutches on to his little comforter and he never lets it go; wherever he walks, he walks with his little blanket trailing behind him. Sometimes he trips and falls over his own little blanket but never does he let it go. He trips, he stands, and he walks again, holding on to his blanket that is so comforting. Are you all the little cartoons of your universe? You have a very unique television channel name. You call it ‘Cartoon Network’. How telling a name! How revealing of your world! CARTOON NETWORK. You ‘network’ with each other; interact at the ‘cartoon’ level, each one holding their little blankets, getting very upset if someone else stamps on your blanket. And beware if anyone should take it away from you! (Laughter)  Sometimes, have fun looking at the names you give various things. You will find in them such a wealth of knowledge about yourself. Names don’t just ‘pop up’.

Have a look at your cartoons; this time, do not watch it from the perspective of a child. Watch it and understand the conditioning these cartoons give you, as growing adults. Cartoons are created by conditioned adults who then pass on their conditioning, through official exciting means of ‘cartoons’ to children. When Tom and Jerry chase each other, are you not inviting your child to believe that the world must exist in this manner? Your cheese must not be touched by another. Tom and Jerry must constantly hurt one another in order to survive. They must try to best each other at wits; only then is survival possible. Watch your cartoons. Understand your world in a light vein. The cartoons mirror your world.

So, my child (Rachel), the choice is yours. He can help (pointing to one), she can help (pointing to another) but only to the extent of rubbing your blanket and saying, “My beautiful friend, you do not see how sore your skin has become. Come, give me your blanket”. They can only ask; they can never snatch your blanket from you, just as no one can snatch any of your blankets from any of you.

 And it is sad when we see with burdened, heavy shoulders, carrying blanket upon blanket, upon blanket, around you, falsely thinking, “They comfort me. They give me warmth.” You have become used to this sore skin, to the bleeding wounds. You don’t know how to stand straight anymore because you’re used to walking bent.

When the blanket is removed, you feel, for the first time, vulnerable. It is for this vulnerability that you need strength, because your conditioning tells you, vulnerability is being weak. No. To be vulnerable is to be a Master; to open yourself up and to say, “What is a cross? A cross cannot kill me. What are the nails that go into my palms, my wrists, my ankles? Only blood oozes from my wounds, not my Life Force. Come! Put me up on this cross. I am willing to die if in my death you find your Will to Live. I am willing to mirror who you are not, if in my mirror you see how beautiful you are. Come! Make me as bloody as you wish, as ugly a picture. Lash me. Whip me. I still shout, I AM”. That is vulnerability. And for that, you require strength.

Can you drop the blanket from around your shoulders?  A hard wooden cross seems light in comparison to the weight you have carried throughout your life. Go home today, take 2 twigs, make it into a cross. Take the blankets from around you and let them fall. Embrace that twig. Open your arms wide and say, “Crucify me. I am the resurrection. I am life. I AM”.

Be Light, my beautiful ones, be Light.