The Fire of Divine Love - Daily Divine Dialogue 6-25-19

I invoke all that is Holy together, to be drawn to my mind. I ask all that is Holy to Guide my mind and give messages to all that may benefit.

Amen.

You yourself are Holy, and remembering what that truly means, through your practice, is what is important.

You and all that is 'around' you is Holy indeed. offer peace to everyone all the time. This offering is unlike all the world's activities, yet it is the one that secures happiness to outlaw "hell" within all minds.

Everyone's mind is Holy, yet a reflection of Holiness must be shown into the strange world that humans find themselves in.

That is why I have said that you are the Light of the world.

When building a bonfire, or any contained fire, it is vital, not only that a flame is lit, but also that this flame is shielded from the wind and that the flame is given to the pile of wood, that this pile is also stacked correctly, with the wood pieces dry and ready to be set aflame, and that this pile is also shielded from rain and wind alike.

Once the fire has been properly started, it is quite hardy, and not nearly as likely to get extinguished.

Yet, at the start, both the initial starting flame and the flame that is being started are both very fragile and easily put out by some wind.

Likewise, yes, you are the Light, and everyone is also capable of being the Light, yet the flame must be kindled, and this happens only by total awareness and intention. It does not happen by accident or happenstance.

Getting a pile of wood to set aflame requires intention, effort, and know-how, and the right materials.

Your flame is lit, yet it needs to burn brighter and stronger until you become like the sun.

Even those on Earth who wish to be in the dark cannot avoid the sunlight forever.

Yes, you do not resist the Light and you are kindling your fire, your flame, yet this flame must become a towering inferno, capable of setting ablaze everything that crosses its path.

Do not bother about starting fires. Your flame is lit. Now, you must increase your flame, your Light.

Of course, this Light is already Infinite, thus the process is not about you creating anything. It is about forgiving everything. All of your unforgiving thoughts, or all thoughts not of the Light must be retranslated by The Light within you.

Wood fed to flames increases the flames' intensity, thus, you must feed all the wood, all of your thinking into the flames. These flames are all consuming, yet without giving your thinking to My Light, you will not increase your flame, your light. For you will believe that darkness is light, and remain unhelpful to me, and you will be what you are not.

Incorrect thinking is the wood that needs burnt. Without offering this incorrect thinking, you will not shine.

Yes, you must be intentional about it. All of your mental activity must be offered to Me continuously, throughout each and every day.

This will increase the flames.

Yet, when you become reluctant and resistantto placing the wood in the fire, the fire goes down. Perhaps it is not fully getting extinguished. Yet, one cannot say that a man barely able to stand is an Olympic athlete.

Thus, a candle is not the sun, although it can set the world aflame.

Yes, your flame is lit, yet you are yet unaware of the Sonship.

Allow the light of the Sonship to increase your light as you offer all of your thinking to It.

Atonement is only possible as you accept it for yourself.

I am with you.

Yet, if you don't look at me, talk to me, or let me talk through you, what's the point?

Hold my hand and let me speak through you. Let the dry wood (incorrect thinking) be burnt and let you become the light you were meant to be.

Amen.

Daily Divine Download - 6-23-19

 "How can I come to really FEEL God's Presence?"

Dear God, thank you for all your blessings each and every moment of each and every day. Let me remember you as a Living Presence. The Creator did not create and then leave the building. He created all and is not away, apart, and distant or disappeared.

You are here, together, always, and I am here with You, a part of You, and will extend with your Energy and Being. You are not away or gone - You are with me, right here, right now.

Why do I not feel Your Presence?

It is only due to your strong belief in separate identities, confusion of body and mind, that you have not realized your True Power. The sense of separation has induced you into forgetting your true nature, and this has made you experience limitation and weakness, death and illness, as though they actually existed. It does seem totally real, and thus, I'm not going to minimize your belief in this separation, because that would minimize my appreciation for the true Power of your Mind. The separation is not real. However this fact is not the solution at your level of confusion. The fact of Unity is the reason that there is no problem, however while you believe there is a problem, this Fact may be helpful, but is not directly helpful to make you to realize It now.

The situation you seem to find yourself in does appear completely real to the extent that it blots out Eternity, Heaven, and even Me, God. Although it is impossible for that to actually be the case, it does appear to be that way, and it would be unhelpful for me not to recognize how strong this belief is for you and all who "think" this way. It would be more helpful for Me to give you solutions that will help you realize the truth, than to just state "the Truth" as a fact that you cannot reach as of yet.

If somebody is driving the wrong way, it is more helpful to help them turn around, then to tell them about their future destination. Once they're going the right direction, the right destination is easily achieved with the correct guidance.

This is a problem you have recognized that needs answers, on your level. Of course, I must, and AM addressing this issue, because I want you to be happy because you are part of me. Would you feel comfortable walking past a wounded brother, moaning in agony, when you know very well how to tend to his wounds and get him some help?

Yet, this wounded brother must accept your help and allow the remedy. If this wounded brother allows you to help him, he has trusted you, and thus, put himself in your caring hands.

Therefore, to heal the separation, you must recognize that you see not, you hear not, and therefore, you know not.

You think you see.
You think you hear.
Thus, you think you know.

How can I help you when you think you already know?

You must be willing to know that you know not, and simultaneously TRUST that I know, and that everything you think you think must be given to Me for evaluation.

I will Guide you and purify your thinking but you will only hear if you listen and you will listen only if you stop looking and hearing with your senses as though they have something to tell you that I know not.

Can you know water by studying the plumbing through which it flows?

Can you understand electricity by looking at a light switch?

Can you understand content by analyzing form?

Can you look within while you search outside?

Can you observe your mind while you are entranced by the innumerable objects in perception?

You neither need search within or search without…

Simply give me your thoughts, appeal to me, and I will take you from there.

You need not close your eyes and inhibit your senses from seeing, hearing, feeling, touching, tasting, and smelling. No, that is not necessary.

Each sensation, when felt, is processed by mind, and all processing is governed by the thought impressions made by this interaction. These thought impressions, in turn, interact with each other to make further "thought", which makes up all your "thinking".

Give all of this "thinking" to me, with patience and gentle knowing that I will translate them back to you with My Intelligence, which is Supreme and Transcendent, Omnipotent, and Omnipresent.

There's nothing to fear. Simply do this, and your True Self will be clear!

Amen.

Daily Divine Download 6-22-19 The Road of Trust

6-22-19

The Road of Trust


Dear Father, Hallowed be Thy Name, let me accept Your Kingdom, and remember it is within. Let me remember that a kingdom is governed by order and Your Laws are the instrument of Your Order. Your Will is my will and this will is the Will of All for All. Amen.


Father, following Your Will is the way that Heaven and Earth shall become One - they will not continue to exist as separate states. Heaven is not elsewhere, we usually are 'elsewhere', which is to say, we've forgotten our Home, which is the Kingdom, which is Within.


How do we turn Within, Oh Father?


Trust me. Trust all that is. Trust even that which seems not to be me, for all is within Me.


Let trust be your Guide who opens the door to Faith and Knowledge and wisdom.


When you trust not, you are deceived, and the result is blindness. Yet, trust and willingness opens the blinds, lets Love shine and lets Reality be what it is, and you will have no regrets as you see the world with new eyes. The people you meet will have fresh eyes too, for trust is my invitation to enter. Love waits upon welcome. Where there is welcome, isn't there implicit trust?


Yes, trust is the door you must use, the path you must tread, the very fabric of the Real World, Heaven’s stead.


Today, practice trust in all that you do.  Trust in all around you, don’t just trust in yourself. For all that is “around” you is in Me and is You as well.  So, limiting trust to only “you” distorts trust itself.


To trust all IS to trust the Real You for You are All and All is You. 


As you learn and practice and practice and learn, you will simultaneously teach and blossom and grow with all those around you and even those you don’t know!


Trust in your brothers and sisters all day.  If you fail temporarily, remember again.  Trust and trust again - to trust is to help bring in Light.  Trust brings in Light, no darkness can prevail!


So, despite all appearances of unloving thoughts and ‘other’ people, trust dispels all’s illusions.  Trust is precious, yet do not hide it, it is always yours.  Use your trust.  Practice and grow it.  I created All by It - It is fundamental.


Let you begin your journey on the Road of Trust today, and never leave this road.


The Destination to be reached is Truth itself, and you and trust be merged and you become Your Self!


Amen.

Daily Divine Download 6-21-19

6/21/19

Dear God,

I ask you today, I invoke you today directly, let us be friends, for although your Glory and Omnipotence and Grandeur are beyond my current intellect, I still request your message. Your reflection will retain a hint of your magnitude, though not more - for your Brightness would overpower anything I know now, yet I'm asking you anyway.

The truth is Light and Light is truth, and it is Your Light I seek for this morning, knowing that this Light is for all, as any Light is capable of removing any darkness. No darkness can hide from Light. There is no special darkness that evades Light.

You have spoken truth. Now listen to Me. You and I are One, but for now, we share an identity. When you limit yourself with your concepts of limitation you do not lose me, yet you lose yourself, albeit temporarily.

While you limit yourself, you must choose Me, who is Unlimited and Supreme Intelligence. Without intentionally choosing Me, however, I must wait.

We are never apart, yet while you think without Me, you do not think at all, although you very much think that you do. You merely flail about blindly, thinking that you are moving in an orderly fashion.

When your thoughts and actions are not fully harmonized, while you think about things other than what you are actually doing at the present moment, you think not. You are not fully present.

I can only be present to you when you are present to me and you can only be present to me when you are fully present to yourself in the present moment.

Harmonizing your mind with your actions is the way to still your mind. Actions must not be forsaken in your world, because it is the nature of my Prakriti, so you must act. You literally have no other choice until you become adept in harmonizing your mind with action. Then My Action becomes your action.

Yes, ask for my Guidance, align your mind with mine and your actions will be harmonized with Mind.

That is all.

Amen.

Daily Divine Download 6-19-19

6-19-19

Oh Holy One, allow your rays of light dispel all darkness, let your words awaken me from delusion and illusion of death and allow Light to pour in and illuminate my mind forever and for all time!

Amen!

There are no steps to take, to take more steps, to get you somewhere other than My Reality. My Reality is You and realization must dawn upon your mind. Nothing you think, say, or do, can alter Who or What you are.

[What must I do, what instruction can You give, in order for me to realize My Self?]

Trust. Be silent.
Trust. Be silent.
Allow an opening in your mind
Total trust, stillness, silence = Guidance

That is all.
Amen.

Daily Divine Download 6/18/19

6-18-19

Oh Holy One! let me get out of the way. Let me be quiet. I lay down all defenses and simply trust. I have been afraid too long and it has made me tired, yet this tiredness is only another defense, another misperception that allows me to believe that I am but a body, that can wither and die and be tired and distressed.

So, I drop this defense as well, and ask you to give me truth, which is my inheritance. I am deserving to receive what is mine, yet if I do not ask for it, I have concealed it, valued what is valueless, and have not raised the truth to the ascendancy it requires for me to hear it. I may be here, but I will not hear, if I ask not for what is mine. Yet, because it is mine, truly, I can and will hear, here and now, if I choose to listen!

So I ask with certainty that you will guide my mind as to the words that shall be written upon these pages. I give over to you, O Holy Father, along with your Holy Son, Christ and the Company of Heaven, All That is aligned with the truth and its ways, please receive this request.

...and know that it is done…

Answers have been given, answers have been received. Yet have they been experienced? Have they been recognized?

Yes, answers are given and will continue to be given, whether or not you ask, you can and do hear me all the time. My Voice speaks to you all through the day...and night…

What is it you want to know?

[Joy, love, peace, Bliss, togetherness, boundless energy, friendship…]

Be as one. Be defenseless today. Commit to this one idea today: Your intention must have the strength of willingness of a thousand men. Yes! Aligned with Mine, your Power is mighty, yet first you must will with certainty.

Will today to do as I say. Which is to say, be quiet and pray. By pray, I mean be still, and be certain I will deliver my promises without compromises.

Be still and quiet and defenseless and be sure I will Answer.

Learn to recognize my content.

For the form of the Answer that I deliver will be based on your available receptivity to the thought I deliver.

Whether through audible voice or imagery or feeling or other people or beings, I'm literally anything and everything. There is nothing that exists that does not exist in me. I am Intelligence and Power and I am connected to everything.

Yet, I am also in Your Mind, so don't bother looking outward for me, just sit quietly with certainty and I will deliver.

Remember I am with you. These are no idle words. Concentrate on them literally. Do not compound this message with more words. Underline the important instructions. Embed them in your mind. Your strength is your mental power and grasp. Hold me with all your might.

I will and am delivering!

Amen!

Let us follow the path of honesty and devotion. This path will lead us to Shri Hari. Let us shun everything that is condemned and do everything that is commendable with the full devotion of mind. Shloka 2

This shloka, or verse, is taken from Manache Shloka or 'verses of the mind' by Samarth Ramdas Swami from the 1600s

I have become very impressed by the work of this Swami.  After having written a few words myself, trying to describe and expound upon the meaning of many different kinds of verses, I am continuously flabbergasted by the sheer power of expression of certain Swamis, or people.  Jesus is also one such fellow.  Simply a force to follow.

The power of their verses makes me want to express in such a way, and it makes me realize the depths of introspection and depths of study that these men have achieved.  It is no small feat to do what they have done.

Being able to write such things is one thing.  Being able to even follow them is another.  It is certainly important to be able to comprehend the works of such masters.  Just following without understanding can lead to many problems.  Ideally, we should focus on understanding these shlokas.  We should work on internalizing them.

Once this is done, half the work is done.  Submitting ourselves to the understanding is the first step, and sometimes also the last step.   There is all this talk of sadhana or practicing spirituality.  Practicing these verses is nothing but submitting our mind to their truths again and again until they become our truths.

In order to do this, the first step is to read verses and start to see the light in them.  Once we see the light we can begin following, we can begin practicing.   If we don't even see the light we will be stumbling around in the darkness.  We may be practicing but it will be useless, until we catch hold of the light again.

So, let us look at our verse again:

Let us follow the path of honesty and devotion. This path will lead us to Shri Hari. Let us shun everything that is condemned and do everything that is commendable with the full devotion of mind. Shloka 2

There is so much that can be gained from following this verse alone.  Let us take apart this shloka (verse) and see what we can see line by line.

Let us follow the path of honesty and devotion

The very first line says let us follow the path of honesty and devotion.  Following the path of honesty.... this can be a very difficult path, it almost seems treacherous.  What if I say the wrong thing?  What will happen if I say what's really on my mind?  Many of us have fallen into a pattern of cheating ourselves with small lies.  It is one of the single most detrimental thing we can do to ourselves.  Its not such a problem that we cheat others - it is that we cheat ourselves.  It may be for the sake of convenience, usually most of us do not do it in order to hurt others or mislead others for bad intentions.  It's because of our own lacks.  But it is because of our own lacks that we must work on following this path of honesty.  Following the path of honesty leads to greater challenges every day, but these challenges are well worth it because as we pass these challenges our integrity increases and as our integrity increases there is a certain joy that becomes a part of us, and our possibilities also increase.  I feel as though joy is attracted to us in a better way, perhaps prosperity and others also become attracted to us more. 

There is a second part to this line.  Do not only become honest.  Devotion comes with honesty in this verse.  Why?  Because without devotion, dry honesty might not even be a good thing.  If we simply criticize everything and everybody, it may be honest, but where is the devotion?  It may be honest, but it is harmful and being harmful is not going to get you anywhere.  It is simply going to cause pain to you and others.  Actually, simply criticizing is NOT honest.  It is not honest because there are many positive qualities along with negative qualities.  It has become our quality not to notice the good qualities, that is the truth.  This is why we must add devotion. Devotion is something beautiful.  Only by tasting devotion can one understand its beauty.  You may be devoted to a relative, a spouse, God, a pet, your work, your computer, your coffee, your food... it could be anything, but in this devotion there is a spark of life.  There is something worth living in these moments of devotion.  Let us increase those moments.  We don't have to do anything special.  We must just commit ourselves to following the path of honesty and devotion.  Try to add sincerity to what you do, add a little grace to your work, to your smile, to your step.  Don't worry about being reciprocated.  We always want the other to reciprocate when we are being kind or friendly.  Let us try being friendly without such demands.  If we get the friendliness, fine, if we don't, move on.  Let us remain focused on the honesty and devotion.  This takes us to the next key part of this shloka.

Let us shun everything that is condemned and do everything that is commendable with the full devotion of mind.

When it comes to religion or morality a lot of time is spent in shunning things or denouncing things.  However, Ramdas Swami here does not talk about condemning things.  He is not interested in talking about the bad things, what they are, and why they are bad.  He simply says to shun them.  There is another verse similar to that in the bible which I have written about previously in this blog from Isaiah 7:15 "refuse the evil and choose the good"

I wrote about this very same concept in that verse.  The funny thing is that I did not intentionally put this new verse in today with the idea of linking it with this bible verse.  It just turns out that they say the same thing.  That is, shunning and refusing are not denouncing.  Don't waste your time on the bad stuff.  In Isaiah 7:15 it is said, refuse the evil and choose the good.  In our verse that we are considering today, it says shun everything that is condemned and do everything that is commendable.  By condemned we should know when we are doing things we "shouldn't" be doing.  I will not go into detail.  However, the solution is given.  Do everything which is commendable.  Let us focus on that part.  Do what is commendable.  It is a simple scale.  See what you are doing, see if it is commendable in any way, and then do it.  If what you are doing is not commendable, make sure what you are doing is not condemnable, stay with the path of honesty and devotion, and try to do something commendable.  We have a choice in our actions, why not exert it?

Sometimes we get caught up with the idea of perfection.  I have seen that so much of the time I am not thinking of things to do which are commendable, however, at least I can make sure they are not condemnable (by the way, typing commendable and condemnable is a finger twister - I highly suggest trying it to increase your typing fluidity).  If we are not doing anything commendable, maybe it's time we try.  One block that gets in the way is the desire to be commended, praised.  If we don't get the praise or the commendation, we don't feel like doing things.  Let that not get in your way.  Just keep doing.  That is the key.  Why should your good action be compromised by others' opinions?

The last part of this verse is to do with full devotion of mind.  Remember to use your full mind for what you are doing.   When you do something with full devotion, your mind, instead of being an obstacle, becomes a like a beautiful instrument, giving you peace and joy and intelligence.  The mind can be bothersome, or it can be wholesome.  It's your choice.

Try following this shloka - see what develops!