BELIEVE

What is life? Life is what we believe it to be. The possibilities are unlimited and the universal offerings are highly generous. 

Boundaries of our being are carved out of what we believe. Hence it is vital to believe in the grandeur of goodness, victory of virtues and compassionate cosmos for self & others.

At times we doubt our belief as a lie. If you see closely the world belief / believe itself has a word lie in it. And this article is about discovering the truth behind this lie.

Let us first decode the word LIFE

L stands for looking, listening & linking.

I stands for ideation, interpretation & insight.

F stands for focus, faith & fulfillment.

E stands for expression, experiences & enlightenment.

Life becomes a lie when we do not stand for our focus, faith and fulfillment. Interestingly a lie can transform into life if we sow faith in it. The process of sowing faith starts with focus. Every dream, every wish, every vision is capable of giving fulfillment to us provided we focus on it with faith. 

A defocused life doomed with doubts is a lie in the name of life. Even before we start believing in any thing we need to focus first.

Our journey of LIFE started with looking, listening and linking. The linkages generate new ideas, interpretation and insights in us. This is when we need to focus. The matter of focus can be anything. What matters more is the intensity of focus that starts revealing the abundant potential of the matter focused upon. 

Once this abundance is felt, faith sprouts. The faith however powerful requires to be nurtured. And you see we already have what it takes to nurture the faith (what we looked at/listen to/linked with/ our ideas, interpretation and insights). 

It is the fructification of faith that is called fulfillment-The life giving experience of life. Once fulfilled, we express the experience effortlessly, effectively, in every aspect of life in highly enlightening manner. This is where the journey of life finds its complete meaning.

Coming back to how, what we believe in, contributes to our life, let us study a real life example of a bumblebee .Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know it rather it believes it can, and it does fly. It flies, where? It is still a mystery as to how bumblebee comes to know the exact direction where it can find the nectar. Unlike honeybees it does not have many other honeybees to guide him. Even energy /calories burned per flight are much too high to afford unsuccessful flights. Yet somehow every bumblebee finds its flower and nectar to nourish him, more often than not. This happens again and again because the bumblebee believes in its own instinct to locate the nectar.  

Even after reaching the flower, it is not easy to extract nectar out of it especially for bumblebee considering it size and shape. Even the flower doesn’t know how it can offer the nectar to the bee. The bumblebee focuses on the flower from every direction. It finds its way naturally and gracefully. The process continues till it gets fulfilled. This is how what we believe in can guide us in every step of our life towards fulfillment. Whether it is scientists,inventors,teachers,mothers,patients,students,strangers, wonders of life reveals its truth to those who believe in. Our faith in our believe takes us through.

At the first glance it seems that the spelling of word “believe” could have been different. It could have been

be + live = belive

indicating that ; we better be and live what we belive.

It could have also been

be + leave = beleave

indicating that ; before we leave, let us be what we beleave. Yet the correct spelling is

be + lie + ve

Indicating be + lie + ve = believe

indicating that; even it may seem like a lie to the world, if it is going to take us to ve ( ve with V for Victory ), let us be that. The only gap between lie and life is of “F” for focus, faith and fulfillment.

And our belief has the power to fill this gap and give new meaning to life making it more wonderful.

So dear friends, let us believe in all the goodness of life and mankind and make it come to life. The universe is like genie saying to all of us “Your wish is my command” hence let us wish wisely.

Believing in your divinity.

Shilpa Savant

BE ALIVE!

Be Alive!

Its time before the dawn when the darkness has completed its objectives to give us the time to introspect, learn and develop insight. This is the time when we are only with ourselves without a ray of light, without any burden of expectations and without any string attached, just being.

This is the time to discover our inner core and resolve to live our purpose. The purpose may be as humble as being a good person or may be as huge as changing the world for better. It doesn’t matter.

What matters is our complete commitment to put our best foot forward and take charge of the journey called life. Yes, I know I am not saying anything new yet it needs to be showered like morning dew. As long as we live, for each and every moment of it, let us be alive, fully here and now. We are alive, we are committed, yet we will be at our best when we are fully there.

What are the signs of being fully alive or completely committed?

The first sign is complete openness to learn, understand and appreciate.
The second sign is humbleness, sensitivity, forgiveness and humanity.
The third and final sign is unconditional respect, unwavering faith and endless optimism to life at large.

I know it’s not so easy especially when you are still facing the darkest hour of your life. Yet that is when it is most worthwhile to begin. One of the first baby steps one can take is to empower oneself with information. Churning of the information produces knowledge, food for intelligence. Simultaneously we need to nourish the heart with forgiveness and compassion for self and others. The well nourished heart should be encouraged to transform the intelligence into wisdom for humanity.

Who will do this? Our soul, our spirit. Not only our survival instinct but more so our revival instinct. This is just the beginning, inner preparedness to be alive. The proof of the pudding is in eating .The evidence of wisdom is in action with total awareness and untiring persistence.

One of the key reasons why being alive is not so easy-is other’s unpreparedness to accept and appreciate the immense potential of inner core. It’s precious to have people and relationships around us that let us be, offers faith to bloom further and gives us space to evolve & expand. Realistically it’s not only precious, but also rare. It would be wise to be prepared for resistance to change from our surroundings as we start revealing the core nature of our self .One cannot blame them for lack of understanding as they are yet to understand themselves. The only hope for them to understand others lies in enabling them to being alive to their own inner core.

The fact remains that in life every soul is moving towards its next level of evolution. Most of the time the movement of soul evolution is upwards (from good to better or from better to best) yet it need not be always so. Being alive comes naturally when the goal and movement is upward the challenge lies in what we do to life falling downwards. Disappointment, self pity, frustration, anger, rage, revenge, guilt, depression, addictions, alienation, suicidal tendencies are examples of downward movement which every one of us have experience in life in sometime or other.

While falling down being alive means flapping your wings with all your might and not giving up. And just like the first flight of the baby bird, most of the times, the life turns around. While someone else is falling downwards, being alive means expressing unconditional respect, unwavering faith and endless optimism in the ability of the falling soul to turn around.

Being alive culminates into living the purpose of life inside out i.e. serving the stake holders and the community at large to the best of your abilities. Life commands that we be alive to our responsibilities, privileges and possibilities without any excuse. Effective implemented ideas, optimum utilization of potential and enthusiastic execution with endurance are deserved by everyone alive. In other words the minimum thing that we can do during our lifetime is to be alive.

Life is above all situations and relationships. Our first commitment is to our life. To give justice to our existence. The soul is infinite but incarnation i.e. this life is finite with expiry date unknown to us. Hence to every moment of it starting right now let us be alive.

Honored to be alive with you.

Shilpa Savant