FAITH IS BASED ON DEEP TRUST­­

FAITH IS BASED ON DEEP TRUST­­

If we ignore the Soul, we will never be able to impress ourselves

My Dad often sends me these personal messages and words of advice. This is an insightful reminder I received from Him earlier today. I thought that a lot of people I meet and some of my young and close friends in particular might benefit from such sage, noble and humbling advice. 

           ' If we ignore the Soul, focus only on materialistic goals and build our lives on the foundation of this “transactional faith”, we will never be able to impress ourselves or the world for long. We can never ever enjoy permanent peace, happiness or contentment. God is impressed with us only when we live with a constant awareness of the true purpose of our lives. There is an enlightening story that illustrates this.  Once, a billionaire who had spent most of his life accomplishing worldly goals, died and his soul stood before God, God looked at him and asked, “My dear child, you have been away for many years.  How have you spent your life? What have you done to impress Me?  The billionaire proudly said, “God, I impressed thousands of people and became very famous.” God asked, “Where is your fame now?” The rich man replied,”Sorry God, I lived it and left it behind.” God asked, “What happened to your property and wealth?”.  The billionaire said, “Now that you ask me, I could n’t bring them either.  My once handsome body is also burnt to ashes.” God smiled and said, “The only thing that you can bring back here is the love engraved on your Soul. I sent you to Earth with a huge treasury of love. What did you do to bring out this love? How many tears did you wipe and how many hearts did you heal? How many people did you share your wealth with? The billionaire sadly said, “I was so busy with my own work that I had very little time for anything else.  Now I have nothing to offer you.”

    If we spend all our time in fulfilling our own personal needs and ambitions, we forget the very purpose of life.  Our Soul remains like a blank CD with no impressions on it.  What is impressed on the Soul is what we express outside.  The deeper the impression, the more Divine is the expression.  As we meditate every day, we create an impression  of Selfless Love on our Soul and waves of joy and contentment flow from us to envelop us as well as the world.  A sense of faith and belief based on a deep trust in our Self is ignited in us.  Then we will never waste time trying to impress anybody.  We will simply shower them with Unconditional Love and the way we look at life will change drastically.

  

The source of Love is an endless fountain waiting to be discovered and resurrected deep within our Souls and we can only begin to help others realize a lot of  the happiness, bliss and joy that springs from this Loving Spirit if we start and devotedly stay grounded to the Truth that is within.  '

 

Love & Regards.

 

 

P.S ~ I Can Never Thank & Love My Dad Enough ! I am barely beginning to look like I have a fraction of His Courage, Kindness, Generosity, Morals, Tolerance, Wisdom, Bravery, Faith, Discipline, Patience, Intuition and Tireless Strength. Taking on the semblance of Your Strong Impressions, Your Character and Guidance has been both my necessity and good fortune in this day, place and age.....I am still exploring and engaging my talents and blessings but I have had to learn and accept that Truth and Purpose, Kindness, Love, and Wisdom they all well and truly surpass anything and everything else that this World and Life has to offer.

WORDS CAN'T TELL ABOUT SOME PEOPLE. I CAN'T HELP BUT CELEBRATE FATHER'S DAY SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR ;)

 

Love & Regards,
Jai Krishna Ponnappan :)

The Promise of A Triumphant Spring…..

The Promise of A Triumphant Spring…..


In order to respond, one should become like a mirror. A mirror just reflects; it is never touched or tainted by the images 

Every Spring bursts forth 
with delightful songs of renewal, 

Armed With Love and Life 
for the passions of its Beloved, 

May She come with the song of our glory,

To Wax that expansive Green Heart’s bright Horizon 

And Our One and only Omniscient Forest’s joy,

For Trees on the mountains 
though blasted and cold,

And the rocks in the desert 
send out whispers untold….. 

A cry this Mother hears.. 

Her spirit so free and ever caring, 

Attentive and aroused 
by strong passions and desirous longings,

She stumbles upon this call,

Seeking in her many yearnings.. 

To reply to the gentle Voices of Hibernia,

This My Dear Friend, is thus the Tale of True Triumph and Harmony,

An old lore armed with potent Nectar,

The Bliss of True Love 
born in the deepest of Flowers

A Miracle that makes the Oceans roll 

and the Mountains rise from the bottom less depths…..

A Cycle that Dispels our deepest desolations 

With its Endless and Ineffable Truth. 

A Truth that stills Hearts that are the Bravest 

And bless All among the best of  Nations,

Shall Glory and life abound 
In this the Song of songs.

For it keeps a record of those, the True at Heart,

It keeps its  Vows Strong, Nurtured and Nourished

Entwine in the resonance of this joyful song

Relish in the many Melodies of this Spirit’s Freedom, 

A pause can’t keep Her from Breathing

No stones in Her path can keep her from Singing

For She is led by the Reverberations, 

A Kind Look,

and the Divinity that reaches down and touches her Heart.....

I Wish You All

Blessings of Awakening, Renewal and Love

Heartfelt Regards,

Jai Krishna Ponnappan :)

Respect is What We Owe and Love, What We Give

When Erin First Rose

God made a wonderful mother,A mother who never grows old;He made her smile of the sunshine,And He moulded her heart of pure gold;In her eyes He placed bright shining stars,In her cheeks the fair roses you see;God made a wonderful mother,And He gave that dear mother to me.

When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood,

God bless'd the green island, He saw it was good.

The Emerald of Europe, it sparkled, it shone,

In the ring of this world the most precious stone!

In her sun, in her soil, in her station, thrice blest,

With back turn'd to Britain, her face to the West,

Erin stands proudly insular, on her steep shore,

And strikes her high harp to the ocean's deep roar.

But when its soft tones seem to mourn and to weep,

The dark chain of silence is cast o'er the deep;

At the thought of the past, tears gush from her eyes,

And the pulse of the heart makes her white bosom rise.

"O, sons of green Erin! lament o'er the time

When religion was--war, and our country--a crime;

When man, in God's image, inverted his plan,

And moulded their God in the image of man.

"When the int'rest of state wrought the general woe;

The stranger--a friend, and the native--a foe;

While the mother rejoic'd o'er her children distress'd,

And clasp'd the invader more close to her breast.

"When with pale for the body, and pale for the soul,

Church and state join'd in compact to conquer the whole;

And while Shannon ran red with Milesian blood,

Ey'd each other askance, and pronounc'd it was good!

"By the groans that ascend from your forefathers' grave,

For their country thus left to the brute and the slave,

Drive the Demon of Bigotry home to his den,

And where Britain made brutes, now let Erin make men!

"Let my sons, like the leaves of their shamrock, unite,

A partition of sects from one footstalk of right;

Give each his full share of this earth, and yon sky,

Nor fatten the slave, where the serpent would die!

"Alas, for poor Erin! that some still are seen,

Who would dye the grass red, in their hatred to green!

Yet, oh! when you're up, and they down, let them live,

Then, yield them that mercy which they did not give.

"Arm of Erin! prove strong, but be gentle as brave,

And, uplifted to strike, still be ready to save;

Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to defile

The cause, or the men, of the Emerald Isle.

"The cause it is good, and the men they are true;

And the green shall outlive both the orange and blue;

And the daughters of Erin in her triumph shall share,

With their full-swelling chest, and their fair-flowing hair.

"Their bosoms heave high for the worthy and brave,

But no coward shall rest on that soft swelling wave;

Men of Erin! awake, and make haste to be blest!

Rise, arch of the ocean! rise, queen of the West!

Cliu - The Conception of Honor

"Am fear a thug buaidh air fhein, thug e buaidh air namhaid."
~ He who conquers the self, conquers a foe and makes a friend.

"It is the cultivation of this art that unfetters the body, strengthens it and makes it upright; it is it that gives a becoming deportment and an easy carriage, activity and agility, grace and dignity;- it is it that opportunely awes petulance, softens and polishes savageness and rudeness, and animates a proper confidence; it is it which in teaching us to conquer ourselves, that we may be able to conquer others, imprints respect, and gives true valour, good nature and politeness; in fine, which makes a man fit for society:"

LOVE YOUR TRUE SELF

" To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. "

Love is Unconditional. Love Flows, it Flies Free and High

                       A very Happy Valentines day to you all. This is a comment in response to a very interesting and enlightening post by our friend and admired author Dennis Lewis on facebook,

"Self-knowledge and self-transformation begin the very moment we see our inattentiveness and carelessness toward ourselves and what we are doing. If we can remain open to its significance without excusing or defending ourselves, it is this experience of impartial seeing that helps awaken us and bring us into a more honest relationship with ourselves and others" ~ Dennis Lewis

 My response, 

                        A lot of the time awareness, attentiveness, care, concentration and the knowledge, transformation, awakening and the self realization that comes with it is purely determined by the intensity, drive, faith, courage, Love and the determination of the intelligence behind it all. I think there is a strong tendency for many eager people these days to pursue such things by the means of the mind, the senses and to some extent the heart alone but it would really help if people could go beyond these sensual things and mundane experiences and enter into the realms of Spirituality and come to know that they will always have a Soul and a Spirit and its powerful intelligence that pervades the rest of their being. Its ever evolving eternal existence will always remain awake in them.. although they might be unaware, asleep or half awake to the reality of the True Self that defines them, their identity and everything else they have always been, are and continue to be. People often seem to be asleep, blind, half awake or kind of dead. That's why they say when a wise man talks to some one he listens to their words but is ever attentive to the Soul that speaks from the heart and shines through the very depths of another's eyes. The goal through life should always be, to awaken to these things, then stay meditated, rooted and poised, aware and alive in them and strengthen the quality and the intensity of such things as drive(of the Human Will), Faith, Courage, Love and the Determination of the intelligence of the Soul and its Spirit. The imperishable is what you always are that is your true essence, it longs to grow and get better through the beautiful and colorful experiences of Life. And yes, nothing, no creature, no place, no object and no one in this world is void of a Soul, a Spirit and these beautiful energies that we're all so easily inclined to be blind to. It takes a little effort and a little help to sow the seeds of intelligence and awaken all Souls; it's only a question of time, the moment when everything falls into its rightful place. Thank you Dennis, for some really beautiful, helpful, encouraging and eye opening posts."

Wishing you All Love, Light and the very best of blessings this day.

Remember you are LOVE, your Life is but an expression of its WILL.

Best Regards,
~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan

Love Dreamt of You,  

So Let this Dream Fly Free & High.

Happy Thanksgiving :)

If you ever feel as if any part or anything in your life isn't quiet "enough", try practicing an attitude of thankfulness and you will soon begin to realize how good you have it after all. Gratitude is never so important as during those times when everything appears to be lost. Life gets so much better and easier when you adopt a gratitude attitude. Being thankful is what you need to be when you travel on that long but hopeful road to your destiny. Wishing you all a very Happy Thanksgiving ~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan

"As we pause to thank Him for the blessings of the past year,
we must not forget to thank Him for the lessons we have learned through our difficult times.
We are not to be thankful for just the pleasant, easy things, but ALL things."
~Millie Stamm

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes,
of which all men have some." 
~Charles Dickens

 

“Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.”
~G. B. Stern

"We are so taken up with the affairs of the present that we don't have time to give thanks for blessings of the past."
~John A. Broadus


"We tend to take all the gifts and pleasures and happiness and the joy without saying much to God. We take our health and strength, our food and clothing and our loved ones, all for granted; but the moment anything goes wrong we start grumbling and complaining and we say 'Why should God do this to me, why should this happen to me?'
How slow we are to thank and swift to grumble."
~Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us,
and not to tell Him what we have done for Him."
~George R. Hendrick

"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues."
~Cicero

"Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies."
~Charles E. Jefferson

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
~William Arthur Ward

"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks."
~Ambrose of Milan


"Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives
is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God.
Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin."
~Jerry Bridges, Respectable Sins

"O Lord, who lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness."
~Shakespeare

"He who remembers the benefits of his parents is too much occupied with his recollections to remember their faults."
~Béranger

 "We never approach God without cause for gratitude.
Thankfulness, a duty and delight greatly prominent in the Bible, is the declarative mood of gratitude - a bright fire in the world's frigid zone,  the memory and homage of the heart,
a master force in soul-building, the greatest tonic faith has. Be ye thankful."
~Robert G. Lee

"I hate ingratitude more in man than lying, vainness, drunkenness or any taint of vice,
whose strong corruption inhibits our frail blood."
~Shakespeare

"Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil of which thanks naturally grow.
A proud man is seldom a grateful man,
for he never thinks he gets much as he deserves."
~Henry Ward Beecher



"That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works."
~Psalm 26:7

"Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.
Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road."
~John Henry Jowett

"To hear someone say 'Happy Turkey Day' makes me sad because they have nothing to be thankful for
and no one to whom to be thankful."
~Robert Flatt

"Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed
or those we enjoy now."
~A. W. Tozer

"We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction."  
~Harry A. Ironside

"The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts.
No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving."
~H. U. Westermayer

"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give,
and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich."
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled."
~Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor
and praise for His goodness."
~Robert Casper Lintner

"Our rural ancestors, with little blest, patient of labor when the end was rest, indulged the day that housed their annual grain, with feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain." 
~Alexander Pope

"Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!"
~Henry Ward Beecher

“A thanksgiving-day hath a double precedency of a fast-day.
On a fast-day we eye God’s anger; on a thanksgiving-day we look to God’s favor.
In the former we specially mind our corruptions; in the latter, God’s compassions;
therefore a fast-day calls for sorrow, a thanksgiving-day for joy.
But the Lord’s day is the highest thanksgiving day.”
~George Swinnock

 "The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing
and thanksgiving all day long."
~Warren Wiersbe

"No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope or fear;
But, grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here."
~John Greenleaf Whittier 

P.S ~ I wish you, your family and friends a very very Happy Thanksgiving 

Love & Regards,

Jai Krishna Ponnappan 

The Unity of Love: We Stand as One, When We Stand in Love

“Be ever faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself, and thus make the self in all of us indispensable” ~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan

Everything you want is out there waiting for you. Everything you want also wants you. But only the deepest of passions can know the glory of Love.

Torn by dust and darkness

I see this Light

Between blades of hate

And the lures of lust

I felt its strength

Raise a storm within my Heart

Between blades of hate and endless storms

I began to Live

When I found this Love

Our differences can never define us

They make us whole

They bless us with this Unity

When we stand as one

They bless us with this Unity

When we stand in Love

Entwined together in a moment

A rising Spirit towers through and above

Entwined by a breath of Love

Our Souls cry out in Joy

A strange Truth Speaks

To weary and worn but familiar Souls

Passing seamless and endless

Shattering through the veil that covers our Hearts

We feel its message

Light the lamp of Love

In Love the worst of misfortunes

Is worth the sweetest of treasures

To Love this way is to Live in Eternal Bliss

In Love the worst of pains

Is worth the blessings of birth…..a life renewed…..a Soul reborn

We become this treasure….. When we become this Love

 Wishing Heartfelt Love & Blessings to You All
~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan :)

In Search of Home

‘Home Is Where The Heart Is’:

Trust your heart ..... Follow your heart. 
It will never fail to show you the way. 

Finding Home

There is always a beautiful and untold story hiding behind each and every face I see. Learn to see through their eyes and you will find that Love is the beauty growing inside their Souls.
~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan

P.S~ Words can never compare to the wonderful stories you'll find in their eyes, if only you would look with your heart.

Love, Peace & Best Wishes to You All :)

The Underlying Spirituality of Chaos & Instability

In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison.  I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a "child of darkness" who is equal and complementary to the more obvious "child of light."  ~Laurens van der Post

                This a comment in response to an interesting, eye opening and insightful post by my friend Cary Buchanan

‘I read an article on AOL business today about businessmen consulting psychics for the edge in business. Financial mogul J.P. Morgan, known for his ruthless manipulation of the markets, did not operate alone. In fact he would not make a single move on the stock market without listening to the advice of his psychic consultant, Evangeline Adams.’ He proudly proclaimed: "Millionaires don't use astrology, billionaires do."

This is an excerpt from a similar post,

‘…….In this challenging economy, when U.S. unemployment is far too high and our national and personal bank balances are much too low, one profession that continues to thrive -- and perhaps even benefit from all the uncertainty -- is psychics. According to Penelope, a "hands on healer and psychic medium" who charges $125 for an hour session, she has seen an increase in male customers amid these hard times.

 "I do think that [men] are more open now because I feel that they don't know where to go to get direction at this point," she says. "You're not going to your mortgage broker or your banker or your investment person for guidance because nobody really knows what's going to happen, everything's unstable. So they're looking for outside things, to have an edge, to understand the market conditions. There's all different variables for them."……..’

As read on, http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/09/21/psychics-prosper-as-economic-fears-attract-new-clients/

The Power of Love is All Pervading, Its Intelligence is Omnipotent

People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.  ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

                                   As with all things of Power and Privilege, Dear Cary, an individual or group of people can either use such gifts and resources or abuse it left, right and center. There are good people and there are bad. In the game of Good vs. Bad, Light vs. Darkness, Hate vs Love, Greed vs. Humanity.....sadly it's not too hard to tell who is dominating the scene with all the prevailing and rampant oppression, manipulation, exploitation, intimidation, discrimination, war, violence and suppression. Unlike the conflict some may have been observant enough to study in America’s recent history this struggle has always been played out in older and more established cultures ranging from everyday life to politics, scandals, warfare, propaganda, trade and commerce. In other words this is not out of the ordinary; it has always been commonplace to those who are familiar with its pros and cons. My greetings and well wishes to those psychics, healers and astrologers who divine to do the right thing for the right reasons without defiling the sanctity and purity of their sacred traditions, gifts, faculties, ESP's, blessings  and customs. As for the rest who have chosen to become an abusive burden to their fellow being and serve the people who perpetuate their greedy, selfish and sadistic agendas through them, time and nature and all the very things that have brought such small but significant blessings and gifts to these men and women will themselves eventually correct and right the wrongs perpetrated by the likes of these that have gone too far astray. It is not too hard for the Truth in Love to turn the world in which these men live with all their advantages, ego and edge upside down overnight. They must learn to accept the greater advantages of humility, Love and everything else that comes with being grounded and selfless. All this wealth, knowledge combined with greed and an insatiable and irrational lust and thirst for power has only fed and fueled their arrogance as opposed to cultivating attitudes and habits of charity, collective thinking, social responsibility, morality and welfare. I wish a day will come when they too will have the chance to heal and redeem their Souls and the much neglected humanity that lay dormant in them. Masked and overpowered by the degenerate, vile and pretentious facades and hypocrisies they put on and exercise, such people must eventually find the road to reconciliation and peace, not just with the world in which they coexist but more importantly with themselves.

             
                   We live in volatile times that will only exceedingly increase in its intensity until change can set straight and purge the Souls of men enslaved and usurped by greed, selfishness, hate, violence and immorality. Only change can return the rightful place of Truth, Love, Light & Liberty in the hearts and minds of men. Thank you for the interesting and factual post, Cary. Regardless of how wealthy a man may fool himself to think he is there is nothing noble, noteworthy, admirable, memorable or respectable about men who neglect the world in which they live and confine themselves to the senseless overindulgence of securing and progressing their own affairs, propagandas and agendas. Like AOL's biased article posted on their newly acquired platform (The Huffington Post) aiming for Google. It is understandable and acceptable that they all have their own reasons to launch well timed, market and propaganda campaigns against those whom they compete with. Rather than being inspired by their rival's success it is amazing how quick they are to act contrary to what is in the best interest of all men. 

To Illuminate Is to Uncover The Simple Truth, To Enlighten is To Awaken, Sense, Live and Behold its Glow

Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space.  It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe.  It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.  ~Michael Strassfeld

                      Although the average Joe or Jane maybe entirely naive of the Spiritual and worldly environment in which they live they must learn to loose their fears and they must learn to trust and learn to have faith, all in the hope that the Truth will triumph when the time is right and the time is ripe.

P.S ~ Everything happens for a reason, nothing is without a cause. As an after thought, keeping in mind some of my friends who may be reading this.....I know that this may not be so, but if that thought or feeling has ever crossed your mind and you feel like you are a Spiritual being living in a Spiritual world, and you are well and truly convinced that there are men out there who live and act in ways that make your circumstances, future and stay here unpleasant, miserable and difficult then please trust in the inevitable and inescapable dawn that awaits to shine its Light upon them.  

Brightest Blessings and Love To You All

~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan

CHILDREN OF THE WORLD: WE ARE LOVE

When opposite poles become one and the circle is made complete. Only then can the Truth revolve around a united and centered Human family. The reality we co-create is within us and the unity we have with all Life. The Peace that all men hope and long for requires everyone to be in the circle, for we are all worthy of Love, wholeness and inclusion ~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan

                         This speech is perhaps among the best that I have ever read. It is definitely worth a read because the speech is just as relevant today as it was 71 years ago. Regardless of your political inclinations, ideologies, priorities and religious views, I'd highly recommend you watch this video. I am sure that over the years the speech has had a truly profound impact on all of its audiences. I hope that it will have the same effect on you as well.

                         It’s old and many of you will have seen it in various forms over the years, this version may be the best of them all. The speech itself is from a comedy directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released in October 1940, Chaplin plays two characters who look strikingly similar- a Jewish barber and a dictator who looks like Adolf Hitler. Near the end of the film, after a series of bizarre incidents, the dictator gets replaced by his look-alike, the barber, and is taken to the capital where he is asked to give a speech.

The full transcript of the speech can be found below the video.

I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an Emperor – that’s not my business – I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that.
We all want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful.

But we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men’s souls – has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say “Do not despair”.

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish…

Soldiers – don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you – who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.

Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate – only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers – don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty.

In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written ” the kingdom of God is within man ” – not one man, nor a group of men – but in all men – in you, the people.

You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let’s use that power – let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfill their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.

Soldiers – in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

~ Charlie Chaplin

WHEN SEXISM BLINDS SCIENCE: THE FORGOTTEN WARRIORESS

Inside every relationship, human, spiritual, worldly or otherwise, it is important to first understand who’s coming into the relationship, it is not just you but the woman inside whose womb you and the rest of your fathers were fashioned and created. You understand yourself better when you know that her qualities, her face, her Spirit, her endless inner beauty and her Soul will always shine through you.
~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan
Dedicated in Loving Memory & Honor of Aryama

WHEN SEXISM BLINDS SCIENCE:


This is a comment in response to an interesting article I read today,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2039636/Mother-tongue-Its-likely-come-father--alongside-sword.html

                 I know it's tough, even though it’s 2011 and much of what is considered as Western ideologies, rationale, philosophies, sciences, culture and outlook are more or less still clearly and firmly based and modeled around a not so ancient Greco-Roman & Anglican past. It is still very evident how hard it can be to try to uncover the Truth, concepts and facts when we are so fixated with only relating with the accepted norms of our way of thinking, world view and outlook, and nothing beyond it or outside it.

The only reason why some men avoid connecting the dots is because of constricting habits and preferences that defy and deny.

              Unfortunately like so many others before, this article/theory including the genetic studies that support it seems to have deliberately or unknowingly brushed aside well established scientific and anthropological truths about the legacy and dominance of matriarchal and matrilineal martial tribes, customs and traditions, not to mention the prevalent genetics that cuts right across the length, breadth and history of Europe, Eurasia, Central Asia and India. Being sexist is like being stuck in the dark ages or being in denial of who we are, our own past and genetic history..... Downgrading the central role that woman have played in our genetic, sociological and evolutionary history is merely a sad reflection of the existing condescending attitudes and shameful sexual disparities that plague the world in which we live.....I really want to keep myself from wondering what strange delusions can make an educated man think that an Agro-pastoral warrior such as a Celt or Viking would be less trusting, faithful and loyal to his Mother, wife and Sisters whom he regards as 'Goddesses', defenders and caretakers of his progeny, land and wealth . 

            Perhaps unlike me, some of their genetic cousins and their ancestors, they seem to have adopted a very different treatment and attitude towards women in general including their Mothers, Sisters, Partners and daughters. Indeed this is nothing short of a very disturbing trend that seems deplorable, artificial and unnatural to me. Sexism, gender disparity and an exploitative, unhealthy, unnatural and dehumanizing attitude towards women is by far one of the leading factors and root causes for many of our socio-economic woes, issues and societal imbalances.

          I Hope this will change someday soon....I trust that Nature has a very strange, mysterious and special way of fixing and correcting all her problems and the forces and ideas that cause them to perpetuate.

P.S ~ I wish to dedicate this message to her.....

In honor of her, 

THE FORGOTTEN MOTHER, 

THE FORGOTTEN SISTER, 

THE FORGOTTEN WIFE

THE FORGOTTEN DAUGHTER AND........

~ THE FORGOTTEN WARRIOR. 

             To Aryama or the mother, progenitor and matriarch of all branches and sub branches of ethnic, native and nomadic Aryans and her story as described in many ancient Hindu and Indoeuropean scriptures and folk lore predating written history. 

             Whether you are a woman or a man, please do not let obvious scientific contradictions, iconoclasm, false supremacists, ignorance, gender disparity, narrow mindedness  or obsessive and curtailing fixations damage your respect for women and the world cultures that were spawned, nurtured, preserved and strengthened by HER.

~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan

Love is an Eternal River

This is a response to an interesting question I came across today, 

Does love like sadness have a beginning, like the edge of time, no end?

~ Posted by my friend Catherine Nathalie Delaloye.

Thank You for this question dear friend, there is nothing more refreshing and inspiring to the mind, heart and Soul like Love.

                 Love is eternal, an endless river that flows beyond time. Love both feeds and transcends all.... thoughts, ideas, creation, time, distance, karma, distractions, pleasures, faces and places. It is like the rain that showers all souls from the heavens above, some are nourished by it yet others will eventually do so in time. Everything else all virtues, beings and worlds are strung upon it, like beads that hang from a necklace. 

                Sadness isn't the absence of Love it is a deep and innate sense of awareness that cuts through the illusion which keeps us blind to Love. Sadness is a deeper emotion, like guilt or remorse, it is like a deep yearning from within; it is something that has its purpose and place in time. Like all other imaginable things of meaning, virtue and value, Love is something more glorious, lustrous and valuable than all the treasures in all of existence. We are all capable of both giving and receiving, this all sustaining Spiritual currency. You can Love the Earth, Love all life, all of humanity, trees, animals, creatures both big and small, books, thoughts, ideas and inanimate things that no one cares about. Love is blind to the illusions and imagined differences that separate and divide us. The Spirit of Love illuminates like a lamp that brings to light all knowledge, it showers itself upon all its children equally. We would do well to walk in Love's footsteps, along this path by celebrating the equanimity that is germane to all Love. The most difficult and most beautiful instance of Love is to give that warmth in your heart to the very things that repulse you. Again, I call it unconditional equanimity, kindness, affection and Love. It is said 'Love your enemies...' . Do it every single day you live and I guarantee you that from their Souls to yours it will always flow back to you as a blessing that was willed and decreed from above.

              On a personal note I’ve come to realize the greatness of Love. I’ve come to understand the importance of Loving unconditionally. There is no greater religion, rule or Truth than the endless debt to Love one another as we Love ourselves. We are not alone here, all life, the open skies, the stars above and the Earth in all her glory are here with us, in this moment to share with us, Love us and strengthen us as we discover and heal are deepest bond with the source, that wonderful heart, an eternal fountain from where all Love flows endlessly and unconditionally.

                     I’d like to thank Catherine for her profound and wonderful question. Love is endless. It was always there. The illusions that blind us have a beginning and most certainly will be faced with an end, but Love will carry on. Every Soul in every heart, beats in its own sweet rhythm, asking to find and be guided back to its home in Love. Love is the answer to Love, everything else is brought to life and existence by the knowledge and the power that is Love.

May you all be blessed with the unparalleled Abundance that is Love.

Best Wishes & Regards,

Jai Krishna Ponnappan :)