BECOMING RECEPTIVE TO THE GRACE

 

Through our body and mind, we take food and information in. All this which we take in will need to be moved out later or sooner. The body has its own mechanism which it uses for throwing out all the food which we take in. If this mechanism fails then the body becomes ill which may lead to its destruction which we know as death.

Similarly, the information which we take in through mind too will have to move out. The information which we take in leaves its residue behind and gets stored within in the form of memory. In the yogic parlance, the residue of this information or memory is known as ‘karma’. This residue or ‘karma’ is what we know as destiny. Nature too wants us to be free of this ‘karmic’ information so that we can get back to our natural state. That’s why this body or physical form. Nature gives this body or physical form so that we can work out the ‘karma’. However, the irony is that the mechanism which nature gives us for reversing the ‘karma’ becomes the reason for new bondage. This happens because we get identified with and attached to this body or the physical form which becomes another reason for gathering new bondage or creating more destiny. Instead of realizing that this body is just a tool which has been made available to us by the nature for working out our ‘karma’, we get attached to this form and all that we do in life is for the preservation of the body and not for reversal of destiny. This attachment in turn gathers more destiny. More destiny means many more births or physical forms will be needed to work this out. This is how the never-ending cycle of life and death continues unless one becomes aware of his real nature.      

For realizing the Self it is a must that all that you have inside must be pushed out or thrown out because for the Self to the surface you first need to become completely empty within – empty of all the accretion or memory which have gathered over the lifetimes.  Only then the divine can descend on you which we know as Self-realization. Meditation is a process to throw out all that we take in or being empty of all accretion (karma). When you sit alone with your eyes closed for a while, which is just ‘being’, the information or karma within starts surfacing up. Else you will never become aware of what you have gathered within because during the waking hours you get distracted by so many things. Meditation means to become aware of what you have stored within and then allowing this to flow out by distancing yourself from this accretion. Becoming just aware creates this distance. This process of being empty of accretion is what we know as being receptive or being eligible to receive that dimension which we know as divine. Only when you become receptive i.e. empty within, you become available to the Grace or Grace can descend on you.