HNY...

       BIG plans for the evening !!! :-) Getting ready for a grand finale to 2010 in our own special way....

       Ordering the chips, chocolates and some ice-cream.

       'Modern Family' is ready to play with some pauses in between while my son and I take turns to heat/serve the food (perhaps order Thai or pasta) or make the coffee...

       Happy New Year 2011 - may all your loved ones be by your side and in your hearts always.

       May we all rejoice in the little things in life and know that that is what makes life BIG!!!  :-)

       See you on the other side of midnight !!! ;-)

       Love and Light,
       Purvi...yes, I am complete now and I will complete it now.

       (C) 2010 Latika Tripathi  (from tomorrow it's (C) 2011 ....)

It's Christmas EVE - ryday!!!

               The countdown has begun!!! IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE  and the contest that we had announced on the Book Coaching page (link below) has 3 souls who have contributed their thoughts and feelings on ‘What Christmas means to me’ –  those entries are part of my blog today. The link below to invite more to join our club: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_139232096131530
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               Number 3
               Christmassy Memories by Luvena Rangel:

               My earliest Christmas memories go back to my childhood in Kuwait. Wrapped up in our coats and mufflers, gloved hands tucked into our pockets the entire family all huddled together and keeping warm during the midnight mass – usually late to get seats inside,  everyone would be gathered outside in the church compound listening to the sermon off the crackling speakers. The end of the service, would be the start of wishing and kissing each other in an effort to rub our frosty noses towards some warmth!

               Reach home to enter a dimly lit hall all decked up with a glowing, sparkling and cozily decorated family Christmas tree and the rush to find our names on the piles of presents under it! Early Christmas morning was a welcome treat to mama’s home-cooked feast – the table used to be laden with sweets, treats and a scrumptious lunch.
 
               And yet Christmas was not yet done!

               For with all this giving and receiving and merry-making was the mark of the end of yet another year – a year full of ups and downs, good times and bad – a mark that we have hope for a New Year and a new dawn...

               Number 2
               At Other’s Expense by Mira Pawar:
       
               Christmas means a lot to me! I was born on the 24th of December and I am glad to celebrate it amongst the festivities of the season, I have a greater time than most people have on their birthdays. I have an advantage to decide whether I want to celebrate my birthday or let someone else do it. If I am feeling rich and have money to spare, I splurge and turn my birthday into a big event. But if I am broke and have no money, I tell my friends and acquaintances that I have to go to the midnight mass with a member of the family or friend. I don’t have to rack my brain very hard to find an excuse to skip celebrating when it is not feasible.

               Having said that, there is no way my birthday is ignored. Close family/friends celebrate my birthday on the 25th along with Christmas lunch or dinner. The Christmas cake has to simply look a little different, my name added to it and I get my gifts as well. All at someone else’s cost! Unfortunately, this has happened only a few times in my life. Nevertheless, it was worth the change.

               Number 1
               Christ Consciousness by Latika Tripathi:

               It's Christmas soon and more than any other festival or religious event, like a Hindu wife fasting for her husband,  Diwali, Dusshera or Eid - UNLIKE any other day of the year - this day has always meant to me the day of giving.

               Even when I was very young and not so spiritually aware, I believed in this ONE day like no other.

               For God gave us his Son. And for 33 years that Son gave us everything he could, including his life. There was no other in my mind like Him. Jesus.

               I am not a practicing Christian but came close to that when I faced as a teenager my mom converting to Christianity because she found no comfort in her own faith.

               She backed out at that time because my dad threatened to divorce her if she did so. I guess she did it for the sake of her 2 daughter’s marriage. Hahaha...both the daughters continue to be single and more into Christ Consciousness than anything else.

               I cry in gratitude as I soak in the hymns. More than anything else AMAZING GRACE makes the tears flow along the cheeks, the throat till it reaches the heart. ________________________________________
               Everyone is a winner when we share love unconditionally…Merry Christmas to one and all… :-)

               P.S. Happy Birthday to someone who today is no longer in my life and Creator tells me he is fine and guided by his angels, and just as he was my child in another life...WE will always be HIS children, as much as Jesus. That is how unconditional HE is and we all are capable of being unconditional too if we only touch and acknowledge our true identity.

               If we can live with unconditional love all the time, it will be Christmas EVEryday!!! And the Spirit will move freely again.

               Merry Christmas,
               Latika.

               *Note to readers: This is the writer's personal thoughts and she has lots of such thoughts so please enjoy the sentiment for what it is...nothing religious and certainly not preaching, sharing and caring has been my theme and contiues to be....pretty unconditionally now...I love you all...

Dreams Therapy

               I had a client that came to me recently because she used to have recurrent dreams of drowning in her childhood which had returned with a vengeance a few months ago.

               She had always had a huge fear of water and could not stand in the Sea even if the water was barely ankle deep. In the tub she never took a soak as she imagined herself being pulled into the Sea through the drain. She said, ‘I know it sounds crazy, but that is what I automatically think’.

               She had started exhibiting this fear more and more after her honeymoon about six months ago.

               Her husband who loves the water had suggested the Maldives, even though it was very well known that she had had this fear since childhood. Nobody made much of it now as nothing had happened to alert them recently. Not a dream in the longest time, so everyone assumed including herself that she had overcome it.

               During the day they spent time on the beach and while she stayed away from the water for the first two days quite happy to just sit by far away from the waterline, on the third day her husband managed to persuade her to hold his hand and just walk along the shore. What could possibly happen he said. She reluctantly agreed.

               Very fearfully she allowed herself to reach the shore and walk the first few steps into the water and feel the sand shift below her toes. They hung around for about two minutes just standing still, she said. Suddenly the husband pulled out his hand from hers and walked back to the shore without turning around, even though she kept calling out to him to hold her hand and walk her safely back.

               For a moment her fear of drowning returned full blast and just froze her to the shifting sands and just then a huge wave came up from behind and engulfed her totally. She was sucked under the giant wave and taken back into the Sea. She was hysterical, drowning and angry and her husband a good swimmer pulled her out. They returned from the honeymoon practically in silence and she has been quite repulsed by him ever since.

               He apologized later, but something inside her was very unhappy and refused to forgive him for that mean act.

               Six months later she was sitting in front of me. She had these dreams almost daily now and wanted to understand why she had such a deep fear of water when no incident had ever happened to make her feel afraid of water until this Maldives incident. Now she was wondering if she would ever get over it that horrific moment in Maldives. She also wanted to know how she had attracted such a person in her life who could just leave her in the Sea and walk out so casually despite knowing that she was terrified of exactly such a thing.

               We spoke about the process of Dreams Therapy and I explained to her that dreams are usually the way in which the sub-conscious mind sends us messages. ‘What message is my mind sending me?’ she asked. ‘There’s only one way to find out’, I said as I prepared her for hypnosis.

               Twenty minutes later she was in deep trance. I asked her, ‘Where are you?’

               ‘I am in the Ocean’, she said in a far-away voice.

               'Who are you?’ I carried on. The usual answer is ‘man’, ‘woman’ and the description follows. What I got was - ‘I am a boat!’ she laughed out in pure joy in her hypnotized state.

               I am used to hearing all kinds of things by now right from ‘Dinosaur’ to ‘Boar’ to ‘Horse’ and many other creatures, besides of course human beings of various description including the ‘first cave man’. When I had countered this woman who had said this with a - ‘Cave man, which year is this?’ The client had said – ‘No, I am the first cave man’, as if that was an honour of some kind to be that and I had instantly known that she would have to be addressed as the ‘first cave man’ for the rest of the session. Perhaps it was an honour to be that; I am not in a position to comment when my clients start talking – this is when they know better and boy are they certain of what exactly they see.

               Being a Boat or any inanimate object was a first for me. I laughed with her. I can see Angels now when I am in a session or when I meditate and I saw then that they clapped at our pure joy. This therapist was as much overjoyed as the client I can tell you that.

               We continued happily.

               What are you doing? - Floating along.  It’s a warm sunny day.

               How are you feeling? - Relaxed. I love the water flowing around me. It’s cooling. Birds are sitting on me. Oh, I know what they are saying.

               Who is in the boat? - A man, a fisherman.

               Look closely at him and tell me if you can recognize him? - Oh, he’s my husband!

               What happens next? - He’s tired. He falls asleep. (after a short pause and in a sense of urgency and pain). Oh, I am hurt, I am drowning. I hit myself against the rocks. The fisherman is drowning too. He’s swimming to the shore but cannot reach there. He dies. He did not even try to save me. I am so afraid of water. It’s so dark in here. It’s choking me.

               She started to gasp and I calmed her and made her complete the session with a forgiveness with the fisherman, now her husband and implanted the suggestion that she need not have fear of drowning anymore as that was an accident, and finally brought her out with some more routine stuff characteristic of such a session.

               No sooner was she out of her hypnotic state than she started talking non-stop about how she had never imagined that she could ever have been an inanimate object!  And then on her own she said well after all I was made of wood and how silly of me to have not realized earlier, wood comes from trees and trees have life. But I thought they died after they were cut off.

               Apparently not, I said.

               I guess she is fine as she hasn’t called ever since – and this is typical of a session gone well. They just send you more clients.

               I am looking at my fears closely now for they surely have to story to tell. Like the boat that died of drowning and subsequently developed a fear of drowning could I also perhaps have been an inanimate object?

               This made me think.

               Being an inanimate object = being of service. Isn’t that what all inanimate objects do selflessly?

               Methinks I might have been a tray and carrying on in the same theme – ‘I am always at your service’. 

               Fearlessly yours, 

               Latika. 

               (C) 2010 Latika Tripathi

Who Are We?

               As it is a human being writing this piece and a human being reading it too, it would be appropriate to explain that this human is but a mere instrument for the Soul to achieve an objective that it had set in place before it came to be born as a baby on Earth. 

               ‘We are Spiritual Beings having a Human experience’, is the first thing I was taught by Dr. Newton Kondaveti when I set forth to experience and learn more about me around two years ago. Me, who I thought was Purvi or Latika was not the real me I discovered. I have been here before in many avatars, some roles were played to perfection and some got messed up because I was caught up in the human trap. 

               The way it works and how it is commonly explained is that the Soul existed in a place of perfect beauty, harmony and love a long time ago when seen from Earth. At that time it was one with God. There was no separation. Then came a time that the Soul wondered what it would be to experience something beyond all harmony, all love, all peace, all joy and only unconditional love – as that it all it had ever known. 

               The intent was set to go forth and experience and discover if there could be anything more worthwhile than these things. And so all Souls departed from the perfect place to come to a place like Earth (there are other places too, here we are speaking about Humans and Earth) in a human body to experience things beyond love. 

               All Souls had a partner – commonly called as the TWIN SOUL. Like two peas in a pod. The Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine aspect of the Soul.

·        The Soul is also called as the Monad in its full and complete form.

·        Approximately1,000 Monads/ Souls form an Entity.

·        Seven Entities form a Cadre.

·        Twelve Cadres form an Energy Ring.

·        Everyone except the Twin Soul is referred to as Soul Mate in the Energy Ring. There are many many Energy Rings in the Soul world. 

     (The 1,000 or so Monads/ Souls in one Entity all have a number or a sound to be identified by, let’s say for convenience it is from 1 to 1,000. And for convenience let’s say the Entities are numbered alphabetically A, B, C, D, E, F and G).

               All the number 1’s from the seven Entities get together to be called a SOUL FAMILY. So all the number “1” Souls from Entity A, B, C, D, E, F, G will comprise one Soul Family. 

               Each Entity has a different Theme/ lesson to learn. Each member of the Soul Family is rich in some aspect that the other Soul Family member is not. All seven put together add a variation to the Soul Family and also give it a feeling of completeness as different experiences when they are on Earth are collected by them when they return adding to the Super Consciousness. This is also called the UNIVERSAL INTELLIGENCE, and this is also why the experience of each and every soul is so important for the Universal Intelligence or super Consciousness. Nothing is ever useless or a waste in the Soul experience. 

                 Seven Soul Families are put together to form a SOUL GROUP. So Soul FAMILY 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 will be a Soul Group for convenience sake. In a Soul Group some souls operate from the same Theme – if they happen to be from the same Entity and this will happen and some are different if they are from another Entity and this happens too. Differences and commonality is just SO, in the Soul world. On Earth they become reasons to create divide. 

                 The Twin Soul is part of another Entity always. This is also how the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine get the maximum lessons learnt through different experiences. This is also why the challenges are huge for them to come together while on Earth even though the love that they feel for one another is the mostest of what they can ever feel, and closest to what they feel for the Creator or what existed before the Souls sought adventure via a Human body (we are only talking about that now, as that is where my awareness has reached at this point in this human body). 

               When they first came to Earth the buffet was huge: too huge to experience in one human lifetime. There was lust, anger, greed, hate, sadness, loneliness, fear, depression, regrets, rejections, resentments, guilt, vengeance and the all absorbing ego to be experienced. After all, that is what the Soul had desired to experience and that the whole purpose for the Soul to take the human body. Shakespeare was so correct when he said – All the world’s a stage… 

               The story/ play had barely started for the Soul to experience these things beyond what it already knew – love: when the in-experienced Soul realized that it had created its first Karma. This was discovered by the Soul after the death of the human body as it had agreed to let go of all its SUPER-INTELLIGENCE at the time of taking up a human body, so as to play the game or the role or the part with complete honesty and having no remembrance that this was only a play. 

                Too late now the Soul realized that it would have to go back to Earth to settle the Karma it had unknowingly created and the only way it could be settled would be with love – unconditional love. Talk about returning to the basics! From Love to Love…

               Getting out was not an option now as it had been pre-agreed to come back only after all experiences were done and the realization happened while in the HUMAN BODY that love is all there is. A loving pact has more weight than any legal contract on paper can ever have. The stage was set for the Soul to return to Earth, for only the Soul knows how much it longs to be back with the Creator and an average human who is still operating from amnesia cannot recall this, and feels sad to have wasted yet another good role when it returns. 

               The Soul also rightfully wanted to undo the harm it had unknowingly created when it had been on Earth and return the same negativity to itself to better understand how it may have felt when it hurt another human in one such play. The original play had been written with ONLY unconditional love as that is all that the Soul knows. When it is present as a Human it forgets those qualities and begins the human game again. And again. And again.

              When people say there are no past lives, I say yes, these are only plays. And some of them are re-plays of the same old thing – same theme, same characters only dressed differently, speaking differently and looking different…For the Soul it is all the same. The Soul is the all powerful, all knowing part of the human. Without the Soul the human body is dead. 

               The human feels IT is the most powerful part of the whole thing and then in that moment of ego it commits more Karma that needs to be settled in another time. And another play has to be acted out. 

               I want to say here that it has taken me so many lifetimes to remember WHO I AM while being in the human body. I want to let us all realize this powerful truth for ourselves. 

              There is one more truth that I have just about discovered and that is that the time is NOW for us to realize our inner power, our purpose of this life at least; even if you may not believe in other plays, so that some part of the HIGHER PUPROSE would be cleared. 

               Can you see the Light? Open the eyes, the mind’s eye to the oneness in all of us. We are one. It is true and the thing that ties us is Love. Unconditional Love. 

               Believe it, for now is all you have to choose to act it out differently. Empower your human body and feel the majesty of the Soul. It is a humbling experience for the human to encounter the divinity within. 

               Reach out, by going within. 

               I am  reaching out too and will help you to go within, if you choose join me for a meditation on my birthday, 21^st December 2010, at 6 pm for an hour or so at THE SHELTER, Dubai. Write to greenheartfoundation@gmail.com for directions. 

               Let this be my return gift to you! Who knows I may have taken your peace of mind in another play, allow me to settle the pain that has been there for so long and give you unconditional love as I know it - now is all I have. 

              To answer the title question: Who Are We? - Soul is who we are.

              Are we as humans big enough to accept this - that is the next question. 

              Latika. 


              P.S. I have been guided by Erik (via Jason) of http://www.channelingerik.com/ that there are planes within planes and it all depends on the Soul to be able to perceive it. What I understand from this is that the deeper and wider and higher we are able to project the more there is. What we can see depends on how much we are ready to see. I believe that is what it is. To really know and confrm this one may have to be on the other side, and there they have no laptops nor blogs there to educate ourselves or others or understand this, because there everything JUST IS. Everyone just knows things from wherever they may be in their journey. The need for such questions is overcome. They know who we are! ;-) because they already are...

             
               © 2010 Latika Tripathi.

             

                 

Eureka Moment !!!

                It happened when I was in the shower. While I was totally chilling under a warm shower the words started to be written across space under my closed eyes, till I could read them clearly. ‘Why the Phoenix Rose…’ – it was happening again I knew instantly. This time however it was a Eureka Moment, since I was in the same state as Newton had been when he ran out.

               The title for my second book came to me pretty much like this when I was sitting in a class. I mentioned at the end of that book ‘Don’t Cry When I Die…’ that I am aware that I am channeling now. Messages from God, Angels, Masters, Spirit Guides and Higher Selves. I am open to this already wondrous journey becoming even more wonderful as now it is sprinkled with unconditional love – this was the missing ingredient in my lives so far. It’s magical when it comes into play – unconditional love makes the world just a little bit better. 

               Back in the shower, when the words had become clear enough for me to read them, I asked ‘Is this my next book?’ I am already on my third one called  ‘From Preying to Praying’ and so this was slightly confusing to me. The third book title is a kind courtesy of my first boyfriend the one who was hit by me where no man should ever be and this episode was mentioned in my first book ‘SO BE IT…’

               Everyone knows him as R’joe - a name I call him very fondly since the day I met him. I still love him after 25+ years of knowing him and 22 years of breaking-up. Most people do not understand how it is possible to do that. I never felt the need to explain to anyone and so we just continue to be great friends even though I have been out and about many times with people he did not approve of. After all he is the only relic I have, having known him since I was just about 16 years old.

               So R’joe told me to change the title of my third book ‘From Corporate Talk to Spiritual Walk’ to ‘From Preying to Praying’ and for old times’ sake I did that. Old clothes have a very worn-in appeal to them and I can let him hang quite close to my skin – as a T-Shirt of course!

               The shower continues to pour on me and then came the reply ‘21 Women are writing it and you are publishing it’. Okay so now it’s clear to me. This is my publishing venture. So far I have published two of my books and one book of mom’s poems (she has been writing for 40 years or more) is due this month.

               I never question these messages and as such am a very trusting soul and now I simply DO what is told. This again is a new quality. And I have previously been the deeply investigating types – every word, every action (more mine than others’) was always analyzed thoroughly before it could pass my know-it-all-mind. Not anymore. Let it flow is the new theme. And the showering continued uninterrupted. 

               Later that day I was wondering why these Eureka Moments happen in the shower or on the pot. Have you noticed it? Some research later I figured it is because that is the time we are naturally open to receiving as we are ‘letting go’ of all the dirt and the crap, quite literally. 

               In a sense there is a space created within us to take in more because of the releasing and our sub-conscious mind is keen to feed us with good thoughts and smartly enough has figured out that this is the best time to send the inspired thought, the brilliant idea, the answer that you were looking for, the key to open all vaults and so on and so forth at this time. The only challenge with the sub-conscious mind is that it is so ethereal and fleeting that it is rather difficult to hold onto and these thoughts vanish as soon as they come. 

               Holding on to the thought seems to be a challenge when we receive them in these confined spaces, as the attention at that time is on which shower-gel would I like to lather up this morning? Strawberry or Peach? Or perhaps because OUR FOCUS is on letting go, and the sub-conscious mind is eager to seize the moment and fill us up with good thoughts before we head for the breakfast to fill in more food. For the sub-conscious mind THOUGHTS is FOOD, for the human body FOOD is what smells heavenly and you can taste it and touch it and bite into it and then burp it and the next day can let it go – so that more can come in.

               And the sub-conscious mind knows that if the golden moments are missed then another 24 hours will have to go by before this can be repeated again till one day the human listens to those higher thoughts - what we can say are Eureka Moments. 

               For the sub-conscious mind the lesser thoughts you have the better the connection to the Source, for the human the most important thought is what should I eat next? (This topic itself has enough food for thought, and will be part of another blog soon). 

                So in the battle of the subtle mind and solid food we opt for the food, and there goes the million dollar idea. Farther by another day...

               I am so glad I have started listening to the inner voice and a handy recorder by the shower serves me well as I let go and receive inspired messages at the same time. I can have it all. 

               Any inspired thoughts? If you say yes, I’ll know where you are right now. Chances are I will be right! 

               Playing with the mind (your own not others'), is a beautiful and ceasing to entertain kind of game. Think about it. Funnily enough only when you let go the thinking, which means you are doing things sub-consciously, does the Eureka Moment arrive… 

               Eureka to you!!!

               Inspirationally yours,

               Latika.

               P.S. Do you have a hot spot for inspired thoughts ? 

               (c) 2010 Latika Tripathi.