What movies has to do with spirituality? So much…. If that’s the way u look at it.
When a person is in love, for him/ her every song is meant for them. Every story somehow seems to be depicting their own emotions. Every thing seem to remind them of their loved ones. As if they can forget them even for a moment. Something always touches our heart coz that seem to be just the direct connection to what we are living at that present moment.
Some how for this soul called Roohi…. Every thing takes a spiritual turn. And so here this soul is sharing some movies which for her hides a deeper meaning. What that deeper message is.
So let’s talk about movies.. :) :)
THE TRUMAN SHOW….
The movie is framed around the television show "The Truman Show." Its main character, Truman Burbank, has lived his entire life since before birth in front of cameras for the show, though he himself is unaware of this fact. Truman's life is filmed through thousands of hidden cameras, 24 hours a day and broadcast live around the world. As we live our life completely unaware that we are living a drama. 24 hours a day. Every single breath.
The producer who is truman’s father as well captures his reactions and emotions under some circumstances which are controlled or triggered by Chirstof. As we show our reactions and emotions in this drama which is controlled by the negative power Kaal, as this power throws on us trials and tribulations according to our own karmas.
Truman's hometown of Seahaven is a complete set built under a giant dome and populated by the show's actors and crew, allowing Christof to control every aspect of Truman's life, even the weather. As our MASTERS tells us how we live in this world which is merely the copy of true worlds above, pind, and, brahamand. And each one of us is actor or crew member who will act out our own part and will leave this show one day. As Kaal takes back his clothes , our bodies, one day.
To prevent Truman from discovering his false reality, Christof has invented means of dissuading his sense of exploration, including "killing" his father in a storm while on a fishing trip to instill in him a fear of the water, and making many news reports and 'adverts' about the dangers of travelling, and featuring television shows about how good it is to stay at home. As our own created dreams, desires, hopes and fears which makes us go on and on in this life , which we live according to our own senses and mind.
However, despite Christof's control, Truman has managed to behave in unexpected manners, in particular falling in love with an extra, Sylvia, instead of Meryl, the actress intended to be his wife.
Despite every precaution taken by the creator of this show, Truman starts wondering about certain incidences which seem not normal to him. After his marriage breaks apart Truman starts thinking about leaving this town. But he is unable to arrange to leave the town as some thing or another keeps cropping up. He is blocked by the inability to arrange for flights, bus breakdowns, sudden masses of traffic, and an apparent nuclear meltdown. Some how as MASTER shakes us out of our stupor and tells us the realities of our lives we try to leave this world and try to reach back home. But senses prevents us by creating blocks for us. We can do this tomorrow when my kid grows up, or when I retire , or when I have had full enjoyment of this live and when I yearn no more for these needs. I can leave tomorrow. There is still more time left…yet time keeps running by. Leaving us with nothing.
Eventually he overcomes his fear of water and manages to escape. Christof orders every actor and crew member to search the town, breaking the town's daylight cycle to help in the search. They find that Truman has managed to overcome his fear of the water and has been sailing away from the town in a small boat named Santa Maria. After restoring the broadcast, Christof orders the show's crew to create a large storm to try to capsize the boat. However, Truman's determination eventually leads Christof to terminate the storm. As Truman recovers, the boat reaches the edge of the dome, its bow piercing through the dome's painted sky. An awe-struck Truman then discovers a flight of stairs nearby, leading to a door marked "exit".
As he contemplates leaving his world, Christof speaks directly to Truman via a powerful sound system, trying to persuade him to stay and arguing that there is no more truth in the real world than there is in his own, artificial world. Truman, after a moment's thought, delivers his catchphrase, "In case I don't see you ... good afternoon, good evening, and good night," bows to his audience, and steps through the door and into the real world.
Somehow one day with the help and grace of our MASTER, we overcome our senses. We manage to start our journey of leaving this show preparing for exit. As HE shows us the door to exit this prison of continuous drama. And as we manage to find enough courage to reach that door, the tenth door, and manage to knock it and enter it as we exit this dream world full of controlled drama and pain.
This complete movie tells us all about the lives we live. For every one of us walking on this spiritual path knows as the MASTER tells us that we are living a drama already written. And we are merely actors who will act out our part and step out when the act is over. The carefully controlled atmosphere of our life created by the creator and controlled by the power who is always bent on keeping us chained here in our lives, making us live it again and again. And so many of us through out our lives are unable to judge that it’s a dream , a drama that we are living. And there is a true world somewhere which is full of love , which is our true home.
Most wonderful is the last scene of this movie as Truman shows determination to overcome not only his fear of water but a nasty storm as well. Not giving up. As we shudn’t. Once we know the reality of our lives. And once we know that we can leave this world , that there really exist a door which can take us out of this wheel of transmigrations. Only thing required now is this determination to leave it. And find that door which our MASTER tells us , is within us. The determination Truman shows when he finds out that even the sea he was sailing in was fabricated, staged. As he feels the moment’s despair. Will he be able to leave this world. But then he starts looking for a door. All it requires for us to have that much determination to reach and search that door. Which will lead us out. All it needs for us to keep looking for that door. And once we find it…. As Truman opens it and muster up his courage to step thru it…his creators voice urging him to come back and he gathers up and giving his parting shot steps out…and so as we find that door we just do that….we step out…. In the arms of our MASTER… we exit….
But how can this happen till we don’t feel that this drama is fabricated. That we are merely actors playing our part. And even if life is beautiful, there is something missin. Some thing is not rite. And we don’t belong here. How can this happen till we don’t take the decision to leave it all and finds our true home. And how can this happen till we don’t find enuf courage to find that door which can lead us out?
Coz MASTER keeps telling us. And while we are there with HIM we can feel the unreality of our existence. But as soon as we are in our own fabricated lives, we forget that we intended to leave this all. We forget to keep looking for that door. In that required 2 and half hour of time. Which we need to keep aside to search and reach for that exit door.
What we need is the real restlessness of Truman, from his controlled existence, the real skeptism for this drama called life, and his real determination to overcome our own fears and real determination to leave it all. All we really need is to be like Truman.
HAPPY FINDING AND EXITING THAT DOOR TO ALL…
PEACE AND BLISS TO ALL…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o5APFI6kH0
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
LET IT GO.......
LET IT GO-----
There is this famous story , which goes something like this.
Once a man carrying heavy load on his head was seeking a lift to reach some where. But no one was ready to stop his or her car. Coz everyone was busy trying to reach some where. After a while some one stopped his car and generously gave this seeker lift. The seeker sat down inside but kept his load on his head. The driver asked the seeker to keep his load down under the seat. But the seeker denied putting the load off. Saying- u r so generous sir as to give me this lift. I won’t bother u more by asking u to give lift to my load as well. I’ll carry my own burden. The man smiled unable to convince the seeker to give up his burden coz for the man this load was nothing.
This is the way most of us lead our lives. Every single soul on this earth is carrying her share of burden of karmas. Of impressions on her mind of numerous lives. Sometimes this load becomes soooo heavy that we are unable to carry it all by ourselves. Yet carry it we must. No one else can do this for us. But once in a while we are fortunate enough to catch the loving and kind generosity of a perfect MASTER. A driver who can take us to our destination, us seekers. Once in a while, once in a lifetime, once in this very life…. HE gives us lift in HIS vehicle and ask us to put our burdens down. And we in our stupidity keep denying. Coz we are so groomed in sooo many lives that we are unable to believe that we can be free of our burdens, that we need not carry it any more. Since HE and HIS vehicle is strong enuf to hold us and our burdens. That finally we can put down and just LET GO….. :)
Although this is the most wonderful thing of this path. But we are unable to comprehend. We keep on reading wonderful quotes throughout our lives. And we somewhere deep within our heart feel a yearning to hold on to these words. To teach our selves to live by them. Yet with our busy life and our tendency to keep holding on to our burdens we are unable to do so. One such quote goes like this…
if u love some one let go … if it is meant for u it will return back to u. if it doesn’t it was never meant for u. and another… let go of ur anger… and another … if u hold on tooo tight on love it will become possessiveness . so just let go…
Now is our chance to learn to live by these words. Coz though we may never realise but letting go is very hard when we don’t have some thing concrete to hang on to… :)
After all none of us can hang in air without support. And our mind really does need this energy to survive in this world. After all it’s only purpose is to function in this world..
But we have our MASTER, to hang on to, to hold on to, our very own driver who HIMSELF is telling us to let go…to keep aside our burden, assuring us in every way to trust HIM atleast once. That if we just let go HE won’t let us fall down or fall apart. HE will give us cake as well as candy…. Parmarth as well as swarth. What more do we want???? But we habitual of carrying our own burdens since millions of life times, are unable to let go… we keep clinging to our every large as well as very minor burdens. Are we so unsure of HIS ability to carry everything for us???? If so how can we be really sure that HE can take us back home? If we can’t trust HIM to carry our burdens for us? Despite HIS always saying to trust HIM once???? How naïve and untrusting we are?
Let us just start letting go. Let us just start living all those wonderful words that crossed our path thru out our lives. Giving us a pause and a moment of reflection and a yearning to live them… LET GO….
And what better place to learn about this letting go …. Then our intimate conversation with our GOD???
As we sit down and close our eyes and stare in darkness we can’t think about HIM. We are so unable to do so. Instead what do we think about??? We are trying to see or plan our future. Despite many of us are fully aware that nothing is in our hand. Or we are thinking about our past. Past regrets, past relations, past hurts, past unhappiness, past frustrations, past sadness, and sooo very seldom past happy moments. Unable to tell our mind that that’s what it is--- past… even as we think or say a single word that moment is already past.. we feel same anger, frustrations, sadness, pain or lil bit happiness all over again. First we are living a life which is already past, coz it already happened when it was being written. We are merely acting out already written part. Then we persist on living that life over and over again. Or we are pursuing imaginary conversations, or worries or dreams. That’s what they are imaginery… coz most of them, or every one of them will never happen. We even argue and vent out our frustrations in that darkness. We do every thing instead of thinking about HIM and HIS love. We are so self obsessed with our all those burdens.
So next time when we sit down. We do that very thing that once MASTER said…. When u are going for fox hunting go prepared for lion hunting. Next time as our mind picks up one of his own burden… we gently pull it back and tell it…LET GO…. We do it again and again and again… till it’s convinced that it can let go this anger this pain this frustrations, this plannings this worrings…. And as it picks up another burden to examine or recreate …we again tell it… LET GO…
Most of us have gone thru some major pain or let down very hard in life. This experience can become such insistent visitor in darkness. We are sooo much forced to relive it again. For some disciples who are fortunate enuf to live with a TEACHER, whose teacher is physically present , they get help from their teacher. While many of us… whose physical teacher is far from our reach flounders sooooo that any letting go becomes hard. Some times many of us give up our spiritual practice. Coz we are unable to face that insistent visitor again and again. And HE oh HE seem soo far and out of reach.
Here we are wrong. Here we are unable to trust HIM. When HE says HE is nearer to us then our own breath. Just closing our eyes away. Agreed that we don’t have access to HIS radiant form yet and HE even if answers our questions we are unable to hear HIM. And who can say when we will be able to have that access? Who knows if we will have that before we take our last breath. A very grim picture. And so many of us give up….
But the solution can be so simple…. Just LET GO… :)
We let go our conversations with HIM. We don’t let go our thoughts. Why?? Coz our trust and faith is very little. And HE even understands that. HE in HIS loving kindness even says that till we go within we can’t develop unshakable faith. So what do we do? We pack that insistent visitor, make a bundle, take it inside HIS vehicle and without HIS needing to ask us we keep it down under HIS seat. :) and we LET GO….it’s now HIS to carry and do as HE sees fit. It’s no longer our burden. And next time our mind wants to replay that insistent visitor…we tell it that we don’t have access to that particular part since our MASTER carries that particular load and is busy dispensing it as HE sees fit… so we ask our mind to let go…. :)
And here lies our childlike trust in the ability of our FATHER… since if daddy is driving us home nothing can go wrong…. Somewhere there is this wonderful quote…
blessed are those with childlike heart coz they will be fortunate enuf to enter the gates of heaven. To enter heaven we need to become small child like pure again. :)
And if daddy is holding our pains and our burdens..do we ever need to worry?? Or think about them again????
And as we keep letting go of our future , of our past there only remains one moment—present. Slowly and surely as we let go every moment that is already over and let go moments that are yet to come we reach where HE always wants us to reach… we reach in this very moment. The present moment. Where we are the only one writer… and we write our love story with HIM in this very present moment. As soon as mind reaches this present moment… we experience HIS love for us.
So just LET GO….
Happy LETTING GO TO ALL
Peace and bliss to all. :)
There is this famous story , which goes something like this.
Once a man carrying heavy load on his head was seeking a lift to reach some where. But no one was ready to stop his or her car. Coz everyone was busy trying to reach some where. After a while some one stopped his car and generously gave this seeker lift. The seeker sat down inside but kept his load on his head. The driver asked the seeker to keep his load down under the seat. But the seeker denied putting the load off. Saying- u r so generous sir as to give me this lift. I won’t bother u more by asking u to give lift to my load as well. I’ll carry my own burden. The man smiled unable to convince the seeker to give up his burden coz for the man this load was nothing.
This is the way most of us lead our lives. Every single soul on this earth is carrying her share of burden of karmas. Of impressions on her mind of numerous lives. Sometimes this load becomes soooo heavy that we are unable to carry it all by ourselves. Yet carry it we must. No one else can do this for us. But once in a while we are fortunate enough to catch the loving and kind generosity of a perfect MASTER. A driver who can take us to our destination, us seekers. Once in a while, once in a lifetime, once in this very life…. HE gives us lift in HIS vehicle and ask us to put our burdens down. And we in our stupidity keep denying. Coz we are so groomed in sooo many lives that we are unable to believe that we can be free of our burdens, that we need not carry it any more. Since HE and HIS vehicle is strong enuf to hold us and our burdens. That finally we can put down and just LET GO….. :)
Although this is the most wonderful thing of this path. But we are unable to comprehend. We keep on reading wonderful quotes throughout our lives. And we somewhere deep within our heart feel a yearning to hold on to these words. To teach our selves to live by them. Yet with our busy life and our tendency to keep holding on to our burdens we are unable to do so. One such quote goes like this…
if u love some one let go … if it is meant for u it will return back to u. if it doesn’t it was never meant for u. and another… let go of ur anger… and another … if u hold on tooo tight on love it will become possessiveness . so just let go…
Now is our chance to learn to live by these words. Coz though we may never realise but letting go is very hard when we don’t have some thing concrete to hang on to… :)
After all none of us can hang in air without support. And our mind really does need this energy to survive in this world. After all it’s only purpose is to function in this world..
But we have our MASTER, to hang on to, to hold on to, our very own driver who HIMSELF is telling us to let go…to keep aside our burden, assuring us in every way to trust HIM atleast once. That if we just let go HE won’t let us fall down or fall apart. HE will give us cake as well as candy…. Parmarth as well as swarth. What more do we want???? But we habitual of carrying our own burdens since millions of life times, are unable to let go… we keep clinging to our every large as well as very minor burdens. Are we so unsure of HIS ability to carry everything for us???? If so how can we be really sure that HE can take us back home? If we can’t trust HIM to carry our burdens for us? Despite HIS always saying to trust HIM once???? How naïve and untrusting we are?
Let us just start letting go. Let us just start living all those wonderful words that crossed our path thru out our lives. Giving us a pause and a moment of reflection and a yearning to live them… LET GO….
And what better place to learn about this letting go …. Then our intimate conversation with our GOD???
As we sit down and close our eyes and stare in darkness we can’t think about HIM. We are so unable to do so. Instead what do we think about??? We are trying to see or plan our future. Despite many of us are fully aware that nothing is in our hand. Or we are thinking about our past. Past regrets, past relations, past hurts, past unhappiness, past frustrations, past sadness, and sooo very seldom past happy moments. Unable to tell our mind that that’s what it is--- past… even as we think or say a single word that moment is already past.. we feel same anger, frustrations, sadness, pain or lil bit happiness all over again. First we are living a life which is already past, coz it already happened when it was being written. We are merely acting out already written part. Then we persist on living that life over and over again. Or we are pursuing imaginary conversations, or worries or dreams. That’s what they are imaginery… coz most of them, or every one of them will never happen. We even argue and vent out our frustrations in that darkness. We do every thing instead of thinking about HIM and HIS love. We are so self obsessed with our all those burdens.
So next time when we sit down. We do that very thing that once MASTER said…. When u are going for fox hunting go prepared for lion hunting. Next time as our mind picks up one of his own burden… we gently pull it back and tell it…LET GO…. We do it again and again and again… till it’s convinced that it can let go this anger this pain this frustrations, this plannings this worrings…. And as it picks up another burden to examine or recreate …we again tell it… LET GO…
Most of us have gone thru some major pain or let down very hard in life. This experience can become such insistent visitor in darkness. We are sooo much forced to relive it again. For some disciples who are fortunate enuf to live with a TEACHER, whose teacher is physically present , they get help from their teacher. While many of us… whose physical teacher is far from our reach flounders sooooo that any letting go becomes hard. Some times many of us give up our spiritual practice. Coz we are unable to face that insistent visitor again and again. And HE oh HE seem soo far and out of reach.
Here we are wrong. Here we are unable to trust HIM. When HE says HE is nearer to us then our own breath. Just closing our eyes away. Agreed that we don’t have access to HIS radiant form yet and HE even if answers our questions we are unable to hear HIM. And who can say when we will be able to have that access? Who knows if we will have that before we take our last breath. A very grim picture. And so many of us give up….
But the solution can be so simple…. Just LET GO… :)
We let go our conversations with HIM. We don’t let go our thoughts. Why?? Coz our trust and faith is very little. And HE even understands that. HE in HIS loving kindness even says that till we go within we can’t develop unshakable faith. So what do we do? We pack that insistent visitor, make a bundle, take it inside HIS vehicle and without HIS needing to ask us we keep it down under HIS seat. :) and we LET GO….it’s now HIS to carry and do as HE sees fit. It’s no longer our burden. And next time our mind wants to replay that insistent visitor…we tell it that we don’t have access to that particular part since our MASTER carries that particular load and is busy dispensing it as HE sees fit… so we ask our mind to let go…. :)
And here lies our childlike trust in the ability of our FATHER… since if daddy is driving us home nothing can go wrong…. Somewhere there is this wonderful quote…
blessed are those with childlike heart coz they will be fortunate enuf to enter the gates of heaven. To enter heaven we need to become small child like pure again. :)
And if daddy is holding our pains and our burdens..do we ever need to worry?? Or think about them again????
And as we keep letting go of our future , of our past there only remains one moment—present. Slowly and surely as we let go every moment that is already over and let go moments that are yet to come we reach where HE always wants us to reach… we reach in this very moment. The present moment. Where we are the only one writer… and we write our love story with HIM in this very present moment. As soon as mind reaches this present moment… we experience HIS love for us.
So just LET GO….
Happy LETTING GO TO ALL
Peace and bliss to all. :)
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