Being blessed is being in a state of fullness, by sheer Grace. It is a heightened state of feeling when one feels free of all incompleteness, yet having the humble realization that ‘I do not deserve this’. It is also having a sense of gratitude in confessing that ‘I have got more than what I am up to’.
In this very sense, being blessed is an elevation of one’s individuality to the realm of absolute humility. It is precisely in having this basic realization that happiness happens and peace and bliss simply ensue as a trickling dividend.
But is it so easy to attain the state of such blessedness?
The answer can be both, Yes and No. Because, it is founded up on a simple rationalization of thinking which we seldom do.
A Simple Truth about the phenomenon of Man is that Man gets back from the world up to which he is really worthy. However, if he fails in that, it raises enough questions for him to introspect where he really went wrong. The proactive one takes all responsibility himself and introspects. This simple soul-searching reinforces his faith in himself and makes him focus his entire attention on his Action, without premeditating up on the fruits it may conceivably bear. Action is the sole premise where up on stands a genuinely valiant Man!
This is also the basic message that Lord Krishna tried to convey in these words to the perplexed fighter Arjuna on the battlefield of Mahabharat:
“Uddharet atmainatmanam.”
(Liberate yourself, Oh Arjuna!, by youself!)
It is precisely this basic realization that makes one tune with his inner-self to get over from his confusion and effortlessly carry forward the call of his situation. However, there is a lot of subtlety involved in the process of making a value judgment which only can validates one’s action. And when an action is buttressed by adequate value addition, it gives a man sufficient strength to purge him-self from all inhibitions which otherwise begets guilt and makes him feel as falling from grace.
This is the moot point which has to be deeply meditated up on.
If one tries go deep in to analyzing his actions and it’s after effects, he can very well understand how he can establish an equation with himself and the world to and fro, so that it begets optimum good for him and the world as well. For, it is by virtue of our Action only that we become more than what we are and evolve as fully functioning individual entities and social-persons.
But so long as our actions are directed at our narrow personal interest, this simple Truth keeps us eluding from a direct revelation and prevents us from getting truly blessed.
The sooner we rise from our narrow personal cocoons and see ourselves as representatives of Humanity in furthering the will of Divinity through our distinctively ordained vocations; we can understand that we are actually active participants in a much greater project which is larger and taller than our basic selves.
Let us take the analogy of a burning candle, identify ourselves with it and meditate for a while up on it. A candle makes itself shorter and lesser in the process of burning, but in that very process, glows far, far beyond its circumference. It is not for nothing that a candle is given a Divine status in this dictum:
“Deepamjyoti Parambrahmah”
(The flame of a burning candle is the manifestation of the Supreme Lord)
Can’t we make our lives nobler like a burning candle and get blessed from atop by the Supreme Lord?
In that very sense, ‘being blessed’ is very much in our hand, but only if we can transcend our basic egocentricity and elevate our actions from a personal objective to an impersonal goal. He who succeeds in doing so ceases to be a captive ‘Some-One’ and becomes a representative character of Humanity, a glorious ‘No-One’, like the burning candle.
Such a person lives in the realm of sheer Grace and is truly blessed.
With a little flash of deep insight only we can evolve like such a Man.
In fact, Blessing lies in a magic of understanding.
How about exploring this mystery in these words:
Bless Yourself. (Be less Your-self, like the burning candle)
And in that very process…Bless yourself…!!
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