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By Gita Saraydarian

A friend recently asked me what is my wisdom on life and love. Well, I thought, how could I answer such a complex question? It is huge. Then, I pondered on it. Yes, of course I can answer this question. After all, I have developed some insights about life as I have lived and loved and struggled to find truth. However, my insights are governed by my focus.

In the greater life, I am a speck of dust moving according to my focus of consciousness. Wherever is my focus, that is the part of life that I experience and narrate. I am not 100% focused on any one level at any particular time, but on multiple levels simultaneously and in various degrees. My wisdom on love and life is limited and defined by what parts of me are experiencing and to what degree each part dominates the experience and the narrative.

I am a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual being. If my life focus is on the physical body, then my “wisdom” of life will be primarily physical, even though the other bodies are also involved in anything that I do. Similarly, if my daily focus is emotional in nature, then my emotions will rule my life and my wisdom will be primarily emotional in nature. Whichever part of my life dominates, that is how I would see the world; that is the source and definition of my wisdom. Being spiritual does not guarantee that I always make the right decisions and choices. Rather, the wisdom I garner depends on what is the most dominating factor, or body, in my life, or what holds the most power in my life.

Discovering the truth for myself — truth of facts, feelings, and memories of life are important to me. I ask myself: What is real? We can find the real from our own perspective. And, if people address themselves to each other in truth, then the truth is discovered in more layers. Truth is complex and multi-layered. Truth becomes richer and more layered when people interact with openness and honesty and speak from their personal wisdom. Truth is not static, but ever growing and expanding. If I am seeing truth only from my physical senses and experiences, then that is what I know is true. If I am able to expand into the emotional levels, and then mental levels, the truth is deeper and more layered. If I am able to penetrate into my mind and consciousness at even higher levels, then there are more layers of truth to be discovered and thereby, more layers of wisdom to be experienced. And, when I can truly listen to you with as many parts of me that I can muster, then new layers will be added to my wisdom on love and life.

Wisdom then is to be able to say truthfully that you understand a part of life, its cause and its effect; you have experienced it clearly and learned from it, and the experience changed something in you. Knowing something is not wisdom. Wisdom is not knowledge; it is experience of a reality that is embossed in you. Wisdom is love and knowledge through experience.

Love is an energy that keeps us alive and connected. If there is no love, there is alienation, separation, depression, and end of life. Love makes energy circulate if it is real and truthful and slowly integrates more levels of the person beyond the physical. If it is selfish and clinging love, it stops the movement and the growth; it makes us stagnate. The more layers we add to love, the more nourishing and connecting it is. Love can connect us to others and to the whole of life depending on our approach: what part of us is approaching? Or, rather, how many parts of us are approaching and how integrated are the parts that approach? And, is the integration deep and multi-leveled, continuously growing and expanding, or simply material based or self-centered? The wisdom of love is that it does give strength and joy and depth of character and meaning to our life when we fully understand that we cannot feel other than love.

Love includes our physical, emotional, and mental and also our spiritual self. To feel love is to have a better sense of self worth. To feel a deep love toward others, I need to love myself and appreciate who I am. Without love and actively loving ourselves we really cannot love humanity nor can we see any potential for healing or betterment of life. Our perspective on what life and love means are firmly rooted in our capacity to love, our capacity to be loved, and our capacity to express love truthfully on whatever level of complexity that we are able.

Love is a rose, or thorns, or both — the heavenly fragrance. True love means to forgive and to heal. Forgiveness means you relegate the pain of the thorns as a redemptive experience, means you entangle yourself with the fragrance and not the thorns. The thorns of love often make you appreciate the power of love and the reality of love and, even more importantly, give us the inner strength to serve and give and see life as a system of possibilities.

It is liberating to love without expectation. It is liberating to say you love no matter what the other does or does not do. It is liberating to see love in the rose and the thorns alike.

There is no separation between love and life. Wisdom is to know the unity of life.

My wisdom to what is life and love is applicable just for now. As I experience more facets of life, the roses and the thorns alike, then surely my wisdom about love and life will also deepen and grow in complexity. The answer is a moving and growing and organic expression, all depending on when you ask the question and when I take a snapshot of my life, and how deeply I understand the picture that I just took!

Thanks for asking.

Gita

- Gita Saraydarian is the Founder and President of TSG Foundation, an organization dedicated to the Ageless Wisdom Teachings. See the complete list of past blogs and other writings.
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By Gita Saraydarian

“Let harmlessness . . . be the keynote of your life.” (A Treatise on White Magic, p. 103)

What a concept to be harmless in this day and age! With the increasingly toxic rhetoric and behavior all around us, the idea of being harmless seems quaint and irrelevant. But, harmlessness is a fundamental principle that compels us to consider our life in the context of the greater life. In practicing harmlessness, we search for the root causes of karmic liabilities. Harmlessness conditions our inner and outer life and matures us. How much inner growth we show when we are able to listen to each other, to disagree with each other and still be harmless; have a difference of view, believe in a different way to live our life, and even have a different interpretation of God and still be able to have love, respect, and share time with each other? Can we walk with each other’s God or even gods?

Harmlessness is a fundamental principle that is based on living a life based on greater values. In the Western Civilization the Ten Commandments have been the guiding principles for the rules of private and public behavior and are referred to as the “first principles” in esoteric writings. (See A Treatise on White Magic, pp. 116-121 for discussion on levels of principles.) These are the “Thou shall not…” set of laws that extract obedience and promise immediate action — instant karma — if they are broken. The legal system operated by God, the religious elders, society, or your parents make sure that you are immediately punished and corrected if you break any of these laws. They are relevant and important as they shape our personality life — especially our material/physical life — and enable us to interact with others in a civil society. Once we learn to behave outwardly with respect to these principles, albeit enforced by forces external to us, then we begin to wrestle with the reasons why we follow these principles in a context greater than fear of punishment. Certainly the prophets of old had a reason besides punishment and control?

As we mind the “Thou shall not’s…” then we are able also to consider “Thou shall do’s….” This process leads us to the second level of principles.

The second set of principles deal with what we do proactively. When we strive to live life according to these principles, we start to develop an inner awareness and no outer force needs to discipline us or prod us into obedience. We simply know how to behave, speak, feel, and think. We do what we do, and we do not do certain things, because we know the inner causes and effects of our actions on emotional, mental, and spiritual levels. Being keenly aware of karma and its causes, we start to move deeper into the sources of our behavior and begin to put into place those causes that will result in conditions that are conducive to our health, joy, success, creativity, and continuous spiritual growth and evolution.

The “second principles” are such things as living in beauty, goodness, righteousness, joy, freedom, striving continuously, serving and sacrificing for others. Struggling with the meaning of these huge ideas, putting them into practice at any level, and facing the seemingly incongruent nature of the inner and outer realities, help us eventually to understand how life moves and evolves. We see how an inner understanding may take a lifetime or hundreds of lifetimes to actualize individually or in society at large. Eventually, a higher consciousness comes into focus wherein the immediate reality is always seen in the context of the larger human potential on its many levels.

As we ponder further on the complexity of these principles and their application at any time in the history of humanity, we develop another side, an even deeper and more reflective side. For example, there is no hard and fast rule to what is beauty, or what is goodness; we have to figure it out and see how it applies and why it applies to our life as well as where and when we see its application. We may notice that they have differed in meaning throughout time and culture. What was considered freedom 100 years ago seems so limiting now. What is beautiful in one culture may be considered ugly or gauche in another. We observe and experience and try to find unifying threads in human expressions. Understanding complexity, being comfortable in subtleties, and trying to find unifying threads in the varieties of life makes us grow and mature.

Harmlessness grows out naturally from the first principles and is an integral part of the second set of principles. When we aspire to live in beauty, goodness, and righteousness, we are also learning to live harmlessly. Consider being emotionally harmless where our feelings and moods do not harm others. What about our mental issues — thoughts, opinions, and decisions? Can we unravel our egos and our vanity? Can we put aside our self-centeredness whenever we engage with others? We need to consider being harmless even in our thoughts and mental responses. Can we be harmless even in the practice of our virtues? Every action, feeling, and thought has a certain current and vibrational quality. Whatever we focus on, we create corresponding chemical changes in our bodies. Our vibrational envelope, the aura around us, is thus affected and is conditioned to attract the same qualities to us from external sources. So, consider what “germs and viruses” we are attracting to us if we maintain the mental and emotional toxicity in our life?

In the process of becoming our True Self, the third requirement is to practice harmlessness in action, feeling, and thought. In doing this every day, checking our life at the end of each day, and noting the harm and the harmless ways in which we behaved for the day, we build a line of conscious awareness that will link us eventually to self control, detachment, and true discernment to what is real, what is truthful, what is eternal, and what is really worthwhile. This is the source of healing, joy, and true spiritual growth in us.

A brief YouTube clip of the third step of finding your True Self is attached below. You may also view the clip by linking directly to the YouTube site:


I wish for you today a most joyful day, full of the wonders of a harmless life.

Gita

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-The Process of becoming your True Self is a 12-part series of lectures delivered monthly in 2009-2010. You may subscribe to the entire set, or individual lectures. Please link here to more information on the audio CD or download versions, or the DVD version.

- Gita Saraydarian is the Founder and President of TSG Foundation, an organization dedicated to the Ageless Wisdom Teachings. See the complete list of past blogs and other writings on this link.
-Copyright Notice: Gita’s Blog articles are copyrighted by The Creative Trust, 2009.
-The information in this Essay is for spiritual upliftment and does not claim to give medical advice nor psychological advice.

By Gita Saraydarian

Love is wonderful and we all want it and we search for it everywhere. We want love that lasts forever and is perfect and immortal. Nothing wrong with that except for the fact that we look for that kind of love in all the wrong places! In the world of illusion, a world that is always changing, we are looking for permanency and eternity.

We think we know how to find love and we go about it in ways that are familiar to us, or biologically or emotionally make sense to us. We are attracted to a certain look, a certain smell, a certain way of dress and behavior. It is all based on our biological needs as well as on our upbringing, culture, media, and education. We think love is a special person who looks and smells a certain way, does things in a certain way, sends certain gifts or gives us gifts in a certain way. Love is that special music; that special poem, or that special color. When there is recognizable love, we think we know it because it fits our expectations and conditioning.

We are constantly matching the outer signals with our inner expectations and conditioning in order to feel loved, to give love, to accept love, to behave lovingly, or to choose lovingly. If these inner and outer signals do not match up, then there is no love or love shrinks or love is held back or limited, or the vibrant love that we once felt is shriveled up and dies and we start to look again for that special love....

The most precious thing in our life is love, a love that lasts forever, a love that is immortal, fearless, nurturing, perfect in all ways. We want our parents, spouses and children, lovers, and friends to have this love toward us and we toward them. We want to feel this toward ourselves and most often, are not even aware of the fact that we do not consider ourselves lovingly. We can find it only when we understand that it exists in a place that our normal education and culture does not show us. That perfect love we seek is inside each of us, part of the immortal self that is the soul in us.

We have not realized that love energy in its essence is unconditional, immortal, never begins and never ends. We cannot love one day and stop loving the next day. When you decide to love, it cannot be taken away from you regardless of what happens around you. We cannot grasp the true essence of love until we expand our consciousness to be able to grasp a picture of life that is beyond our personality life. Real love is on the level of the Higher Self, the level of the divine essence in us, the True Self in us.

One of my all time favorite travel companion book says it beautifully:

"Oh, there is a Love which fears nothing, which is greater than life and greater than death. I am that Love. There is a Love which knows no limit, which is everywhere, which is in the presence of death, and which is all-tender even in the Terrible. I am that Love. There is a Love which is Unutterably Sweet, which welcomes all pain, which welcomes all fear, which drives away all sadness, which is wheresoever thou dost search for it. I am that Love. Oh, I am the very Essence of that Love. And, O, My own Self, I, that Love, am Thine Own Self, My nature is Love! I am Love Itself! (In the Hours of Meditation by Frank Alexander, p. 29.)"

If you want immortal and unconditional love, you can find it. But, you are not going to find it in the limited parts of life. Yes, it is possible and I have seen it operate. When you decide to love, even in the terrible, no matter what happens, a tremendous healing takes place inside of you. You feel released. You do not have to hurt, nor grieve, nor regret; you can simply decide to love.
Divine love asks of us, and requires it from us, that we give up our attachment to every pain, every memory, every loss, every grief, every sadness and we are open and secure in our hearts to love and to know that we are an inherently lovable person. If we can find that source of love inside of us, we can then find it in people and life conditions around us. It is the greatest human strength and testimony to the resilience of the human heart to be able to find love in the terrible, the fearful, and the painful parts of life and to turn these around to the most nurturing and fruitful energy that heals us and helps us carry out our purpose and direction as human beings.

A brief YouTube clip of the second step of finding your True Self is attached below. You may also view the clip by linking directly to the YouTube site.





If you wish to see or hear the entire lecture, please link here to more information on the audio CD or download versions, or the DVD version.

I wish for you eternal love.
Enjoy!
Gita


- Gita Saraydarian is the Founder and President of TSG Foundation, an organization dedicated to the Ageless Wisdom Teachings. See the complete list of past blogs and other writings on this link.
-Copyright Notice: Gita’s Blog articles are copyrighted by The Creative Trust, 2009.
-The information in this Essay is for spiritual upliftment and does not claim to give medical advice nor psychological advice.

By Gita Saraydarian

(See the YouTube link at the end of this essay)

-Gita Saraydarian is the Founder and President of TSG Foundation, an organization dedicated to the Ageless Wisdom Teachings. See the complete list of past blogs and other writings on this link.
-Copyright Notice: Gita’s Blog articles are copyrighted by The Creative Trust, 2009.
-The information in this Essay is for spiritual upliftment and does not claim to give medical advice nor psychological advice.