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