It was the usual intensely hot summer day in Dallas. My kids, 4-year-old and 5-year-old, were happily playing in the fenced backyard. Sometimes they’d play with water too and get all soaked. They had a habit of running in out of the house for something or the other.
Our house, as all homes here, has central Air Conditioning. When we turn it on, we have to shut all the doors and windows so the place can cool down. But when they play in the heat in the backyard, get drenched in water, and run back and forth into the house, the indoor temperature is too extreme for them. They get goosebumps and shiver. So, sometimes I’d turn the Air Conditioner off and leave the patio door open for them so they’d not feel the extreme temperature variation. It would be a bit uncomfortably hot for me inside the house – about 90 degrees F., but I didn’t want them to catch a cold. So that day, too, I had the Patio door open, and it was super-hot in the house.
I was going about my daily chores. In the back of my mind, I had been pondering over a concept for a while-Abundance. I questioned what the Masters meant when they talked about the idea of abundance. Spirit is limitless; therefore, it is abundant, I thought. But as physical bodies, where is the abundance?
There seem to be limited resources to go around, but even these resources also came from somewhere. There are all the news and propaganda about resources that are running out. There seems to be a constant sense of ‘Lack.’ Is this feeling of lack that makes people fearful, or is it the inherent fear that gives a sense of lack? So much fighting and suffering at all levels comes out of this sense of lack. Where is this actual abundance or having the feeling of being abundant instead of a feeling of scarcity?
Perhaps it’s a simple concept for many people to grasp, but it was eluding me. It is my nature that when I become curious about some concept, I become obsessed with knowing its answer. The question plays in the back of my mind, even if I’m not consciously aware of it. I ponder about it when I can, and I try to dissect it with my mind. But I also wait patiently, knowing that answer will come when it’s the right time or when I am entirely ready to receive it.
I know the Divine messages are everywhere if you are open to them. They come from things around you, activities around you, from some words you suddenly read somewhere or from some phrase someone might say and in so many other different ways.
What is Knowing?
Knowing is the impact of ‘getting’ the message in a way where you can say the proverbial light goes off in your head, that ‘ah ha’ moment, the ‘Yesss, Yesss, I get it’ moment, the ‘Oh God, why didn’t I see this before?!’ moment. I’ve said it a lot of times, “OMG! I heard these words so many times before, but now I KNOW what they mean’. That knowledge comes from deep within as if you become ONE with the answer; you feel it in every fiber of your being.
Knowing is not an intellectual, somewhere up in the brain understanding. You feel waves of sudden clarity. You feel like that’s the first time you understand the answer, even though you might have heard similar words hundreds of times before. That knowledge becomes part of who you are. The interesting fact is that your mind often may not figure out that knowledge, but your being understands it. You may not be able to explain it from your conscious mind, but there is a deep satisfaction, ease, peace, and joy of having clarity.
Once you ‘know’ this knowledge, you no longer have to remember it intellectually. It becomes part of your identity. Like you identify with your name. You don’t have to ‘think’ about what your name is.
The Fight
When kids were playing in the backyard, I was in the kitchen. I still had the Abundance concept rattling away in the back of my mind.
Suddenly my daughter ran into the kitchen from the backyard, grabbed a stainless steel glass, and filled it up with some ice cubes. The refrigerator I have makes ice, stores it, and dispenses it with a push of a button. If you take out some ice, it automatically generates more.
She went and sat on the floor of the family room and start eating the ice cubes. Eating ice cubes is something my kids didn’t do. They weren’t fond of eating ice cubes as I have seen other kids do.
I was curious about her new interest. I came into the family room too and sat on the couch watching her. I love watching children’s activities anyways. They are so full of vibrant life, innocence, and spontaneity.
After a couple of minutes, my son joined us in the room. He was also curious about what her sister was eating. He sat in front of her and asked her for some ice too. She gave him a cube. They ate. Then he wanted another one. She refused to give him one. Then a fight started.
Both were snatching at the glass. “Give it to me,” “No, this is mine.” It’s hard to believe, but these kids rarely ever fought with each other. They played very well together. At the most, they’d complain to me about something annoying the other was doing but not this kind of argument or a fight.
I was astonished because:
- the kids never fought like this before.
- That they were fighting over a little thing like ice cubes of all the things to fight over.
- That they even wanted to eat ice cubes, to begin with.
- That they weren’t noticing that the ice in the metal glass melting into the water quickly in their fight and hot temperature.
I finally spoke and said, “Omg, why are you fighting, that too, over ice? Look, all the ice is melting already. If you share, you will at least get to eat some ice else. It will all melt anyway. Then none of you will have any. And anyway, there is sooooooo much more ice in the fridge. Whoever wants it, get it. It’s not like we are going to run out of it. You know the ice maker will keep making more ice as you keep taking it. Ok, I’ll get some more ice for you. Stop fighting and eat the ice you do have.”
I jumped up and went to the kitchen. I grabbed another glass. I went to the fridge to dispense the ice, thinking about what I had just told the kids. And then I froze. The answer I had been searching for was right there.
The Flashes of Insight
As long as the fridge is plugged into the electric source icemaker will keep on making ice. The more we take, the more it’ll produce automatically. As long as we are plugged into the Source, The Supreme Power, Our Creator, we will constantly supply needed resources. We don’t have to have the resources before us or in our hands, but we know we can get them whenever required. We’ll see that it is always available for the taking. When you have this intuitive knowing, you are also open to sharing what you have. There isn’t a feeling of lack, an urge to fight or compete. And that is a feeling of abundance.
Abundance is in having the resource and the knowledge that it’s available as and when needed. It’s in the asking and receiving as long as we allow ourselves to receive it, as long as we are not blocking it consciously or unconsciously.
The insight also came that sometimes when our icemaker is unplugged from the electric source, we can get the help of ice from someone whose icemaker is plugged in. That’s how Reiki and all energy healing modalities work. When we feel depleted, we can get the help of someone who’s plugged in.
Also, that is how our Guru, a true enlightened Master, helps us. He’s so plugged into the Source that Source and He have merged except for the body form. When we plug into the guidance of the Guru through his teachings and surrender ourselves, he gives us abundance in his form and formlessness. Guru is an eternal inexhaustible supply of electricity for our ice maker.
All these lightning flashes of insights must have completely frozen me for about a couple of minutes. I was utterly oblivious to the world. When I came to it, I quickly got some ice and went to the family room, still in a daze.
The kids had already left their glass of ice, which was now all melted, on the floor and were happily playing out in the backyard.
I sank into the couch, still shaken up with the quantum download of answers. I was filled with gratitude.
They never did fight like they were fighting then; they never were interested in eating ice. What caused the kids to run in for a few minutes and put up that whole show? Divine Messengers- they are plugged into the Source
Happy enlightening insights to all,
Ritu
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