Loving and Honoring Who We Really Are

“Go along with the current.

 Don’t try to swim against the flow of the river.  

All that is happening is what a higher power has already enjoined.  Human efforts to change it or alter it to one’s advantage amounts to going against His order.  Acceptance of it is a natural movement and rejection of it, wholly unnatural.  

Surrender is nothing but total acceptance of it.  Then it becomes the burden of the higher power and no more yours!

  

Everything is perfectly all right as it is.  Realize it.  

Go along with its natural completion.”  

- Ramana Maharshi

While here in the Yucatan, I took morning beach walks with someone I met while here.  Our walks together brought about a new found friendship.  That particular day, as she was getting ready to go back to the U.S. for a family reunion, there were some sensitive things coming up that she and her family had with her younger brother.  In being with her, she openly acknowledged what she was presently experiencing about the situation.  She was relieved to hear there is no need to try to fix the situation or fix him, but just let it all be there as it is.  

She relaxed in an acceptance of the situation, and we moved on to the next step ... recognizing the awareness prior to the situation.  Then, I asked her:  “From this perspective, does it feel like a clear, space of Love in you and around the situation?”  She acknowledged how opening to this clear and natural space of Love felt so natural for her and that it had released the concern for her brother.  From this place, I asked her, to "see your brother in your mind's eye and embrace him with this radiant Love that you are."  She said she was going to continue to hold him in this space of Love as she visits with her family this week ... continuing to see and honor him for who he really is, as this Love, no matter what the appearances. 

Ramana Maharshi shared, in the quote above …

“Surrender is nothing but total acceptance of it.  Then it becomes the burden of the higher power and no more yours!  Everything is perfectly all right as it is.  Realize it.  Go along with its natural completion.”

It was such a relief for her.  There was no effort to feel this Love … it was so real for her.  It felt natural and what is true.  Now, she knows how to really be with her brother, by seeing him for who he truly is and honoring this as true with whatever comes up to the contrary.

This brought up a story about Ramana Maharshi to share with her. When people would come to be with him in the Old Hall, no matter what their concerns were they would feel relieved and find a natural peace.  And, most of the time it was even while he remained in complete silence.  He never put himself above anyone but respected the truth of who they really are no matter what the appearances.

    

I found myself completing our sharing by telling her about the early days with my teacher.  He honored the truth of who I really am for me, long before I could see and experience it fully for myself.  It only takes one person in our lives with this kind of Love for us to realize the truth for ourselves.  So, by seeing our loved ones for who and what they really are, who knows what miracles can begin to happen.  What a gift.  I am so grateful for my teacher for loving me that much.  I can only return this gift by  living this truth myself.

Loving and appreciating us all, just being as we ARE,

Elizabeth