Every day is a sunny day

I have heard it many times. I had always known it. However realization of a truth is what is important. Its just like "taste". "Sweet" - the word will not ring bells, unless one has tasted what sweet is. Truth looses significance if it is not realized. I am lucky to have realized a profound truth. I was flying from Los Angeles to Hong Kong at an altitude of 39000 ft. When the sun rose on the horizon, I spontaneously exclaimed, "Wow! what a bright sunny day". The moment I said this, I realized a profund truth.

• Every day is a bright sunny day. We just need to rise above the clouds of distress and illusions and delusions.
  I continued to bask in the glory of this realization when I was given the opportunity to realize another one. The face of the Earth was covered with clouds - everywhere. It required one to rise above them to see the brightness and glory of the rising sun.
  When we were making a landing, I noticed that there were multiple layers of these clouds. Though rising above even one layer ensures "almost" always "more" brightness, we need to cut across all the many levels of delusions to enjoy the radiance of the ever-present Sun.
• The sun of joy and happiness shines at all times. It is always there. But at times we are unable to see it because of the delusions that cloud our vision. At these times we should keep the faith and elevate our level of consciousness to levels where these clouds of delusion don't marr our vision. We should look forward to such times with the motivation that they are opportunities for us to grow above the clouds of delusion and to finally enter into the ever-joyous blissful state of self-realization.

Time is Unreal

We should always remember that

• Time is a contrivance designed by man to help him in his activities
• The true power of man is not limited by this contrivance
• Man has infinite power. We just need to realize it
• For realizing this infinite source of power within oneself, one needs to first free oneself of the slavery to all contrivances
• The very fact that "Truth is Independent of Time", proves that time is but a delusion - a concept to which all of us have subscribed. We DESERVE, we NEED and we HAVE TO rise above this delusion
• All pain in this world has its roots in this delusion of time. Consider any pain - death, anger... all is caused because we don't realize that the truth will always remain. That what existed before will continue to exist in its true essense.
• It is the worldy delusion of physical presence and attachment/ love for the illusory physical form that causes pain.

Androgenous Gods

A one time meditation doesn't make one a Buddha. One doesn't continue to be in a state of bliss and joy when the "realization" dawns for the first time. The first realization is an awakening. But it requires will-power and determination and a motivation to keep awake in that blissful state.
One needs to remind oneself of the realization and consciously work towards not letting the delusions conquer the mind again.

One has to make a conscious effort to achieve this goal, to maintain this awakening. One has to be a spectator of ones thoughts. One doesn't need to criticize these thoughts - just observe them. Its not easy, but it can be done. It has been done. Everyone has done it at times. One needs to do its consciously.

We have to realize that we have infinite bliss and power within us. We just need to unearth it and we should also realize that such conscious effort of insistent reminders of each one of us being Gods helps us unearth the ever-present Godliness in us.

Another aspect of realizing the eternal truth is that one is neither a man, nor a woman. The fact is that one is not a body at all. We HAVE to realize this. We NEED to be conscious of this. This according to me is one of the preliminary steps to removing attachment to the body and possibly removing some of our ego. We have to rise above, "This is not the way men do it","This is not the way women behave" and the sort of thinking.

We have been conditioned by our society to believe in huge differences between each other, while there are none in absolute terms and minimal in physical terms.

Loving and caring are attributes of the soul. Strength and persistence are integral to the soul. So all these traits are there within us. We need to realize this and become aware of ALL these attributes in us, irrespective of what is branded as manly or womanly.

We have to be with the truth and we have to be conscious of the truth that we are.
Once we stop differentiating between "man" and "woman", we will start being "just" and "fair".