Become aware of yourself [IB4]

Fable of the three flowers
Once upon a time there were three flowers, born on the same sunny day and in the same luxuriant meadow, similar because of the same species, but dissimilar in that each component of a species is, in sé itself, a species in itself, differentiated not only by formal elements but also and, above all, by the different way of being.

These three flowers belonged to a species which, for biological reasons, closed the corolla at sunset to reopen it as soon as the sun illuminated the air.
In their world, as flowers, all three creatures had their own thoughts.

As their first twilight approached - so that the closing reaction of the corolla would have to be enacted - the first flower so he went thinking as, reluctantly, he folded the petals into a tight bud: “How beautiful the sun was, how hot it was, how much energy and how much pleasure its light and its warmth gave me.
Ah, what a longing I already feel for him! How I wish the hours just passed would last forever, so that I would never have to suffer, not even for the briefest moment, this privation! " 

Thus he began to feel sorry for himself and to immerse yourself more and more in memory of the hours passed so much that, when the sun rose again in the sky, the rays that he so regretted - even if hot as always - failed to penetrate the barrier of his commiseration and finally the first flower, not being able to take full advantage of the solar energy, little by little reclined on the stem and withered.

Meanwhile the second flower, as soon as he realized that the diurnal star was falling on the horizon, he said to himself: «I knew it could not last long, it would have been too good! Here, I see the others who already close the petals, resigned to the night.
But how can they be so stupid? If the night is there, it must also be lived with your head held high; why give up to a part of tomorrow?

We must live for tomorrow, not in function of the past, e io I will do this: I will remain open all night so that I will not lose even a ray of sunshine in the morning as I will not have to waste time opening the petals, but I will already be stretched out to assimilate all the sweetness that the sun, no doubt, bestows right on from its first moment. " 

And so he did. But the night he had, in view of the tomorrow which had moved his actions, was made of darkness, humidity and drops of dew which, finding him completely open, soaked him so much that the morning sun could not prevent him from quickly rotted.

Il third flower he observed with a moment of regret the fall of day, and then he reasoned thus: «It certainly was a wonderful day and, even more, certainly the night will have its wonders within itself. Yet why think with regret and torment about what has been? In my "now of the dayI was happy, I was a flower that let itself be enveloped by the embrace of the sun, but in my "being of now" I am a flower that closes its petals to the shadows of the night.

Certainly there is a reason for all this, even if I cannot understand it; I am aware of what I am, moment by moment, and of what my nature is. So why not be what now - in this moment which is my present now, but which has been my future and has already become my past - I must be? " 

Thus reasoning he quietly closed his corolla and slept until the first rays of the sun gave him the signal that the "new presentHe was beginning.
He received no punishment for his thinking nor did he draw any particular reward from what he had reasoned.
He simply lived his life as flower of the day as flower of the day.

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The discussion between the participants, here omitted.

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Meeting with the Guides

You have been good, as usual: you have tried to dissect it, to analyze it, however, compared to the other times, I had the impression (but it is only my impression, I may be wrong, of course) that you found yourself a little 'in trouble, as if there was something that escaped you true

Were you able to identify what was missing? Everything you said was right, it certainly gave the idea of ​​what Ananda's intentions might have been in bringing you this story, however it seemed that, underneath, there were other purposes, other aims, other things that, perhaps, there the friend who had told the tale meant. Do you have any ideas about it?

D - No!
D - Also because when we believe we have analyzed fairy tales from every aspect you always manage to point out things that we had not considered.

Meanwhile, in my opinion, it could be analyzed from another point of view.
You have analyzed it, for example, by saying that the first flower lived mainly in the past, the second flower was projected towards the future while the third flower lived the "carpe diem" of distant memory, lived in the "here and now" ...

Well, it could also be analyzed from another point of view, namely "becoming aware of oneself, of one's role», Of course not of the role that is imposed on you by society, but of the individual role, the inner role that each of you, as you all think you know, has on the stage of life, as the Guides say.
This could have been a perspective that is different from the other, do you think?

D - Tell us a little bit why it is different ...

Acceptance of one's role, that is, the fact that each individual has a very specific task.

Q - But hadn't we considered this aspect in the discussion?

Acceptance of one's role no.
It is a well-defined task accept your own reality, becoming aware of oneself as a role… as an actor, let's say, in the comedy of life.
And, therefore, the behavior of that flower brooding on the past could only be a side aspect.

Q - By role do you mean implementing the talent received?

I mean "be what you areWhen, of course, one manages to discover what one is.
Let's say that the behavior of the first and second flower could also not be wrong, in the sense that they felt they were different from the third flower, but, perhaps, it was the way of putting into action their being different that was wrong and therefore has led to that sort of "punishment" that led them in this case to self-destruction.
This could be a prospect that I thought was worth exploring further.

Q - Everyone has their own task, but if they don't do it well, must they do it again?

But ... it depends, you know ... (and here we always return to the same discourse) it depends on how it does it. Not in the sense of whether he does it well or badly, because one could do it badly but he does it badly because he "feels" to behave like this and, therefore, all this is not condemnable! If, on the other hand, one does it badly, in bad faith, then the situation is different and this seems quite logical to me.
I repeat that the roles I am talking about are not the roles that society imposes on you, this must be specified: not the boy and the girl with all the distinctions that lie in between ...

D - So we have paid more attention to the limits… on becoming aware of one's limits instead of becoming aware of one's role.

Become aware of your own being, not of your limits.
In becoming aware of one's own being, the fact of becoming aware of one's limits is intrinsic, this is only a consequence.

Q - Could you give us an example of your role?
D - It is quite difficult to understand what one's role is!
Q - Your role not with respect to society, but to ourselves?

You are an individual and you are responsible for your behavior because you are responsible to your brothers and, therefore, everything you do you must do for the good of all the people who are around, next to you and who live with you.

This is your role: you are not here only for yourself, because you are an aspect of the Absolute, of God, you are only a facet and, therefore, understanding and accepting this means arriving at a way of being and behaving completely different from what they are common fees.
In the first place there is the overcoming of selfishness, to arrive, then, at true and proper altruism, dispassionate.

How silent I feel you ...

D - We are meditating
D - It is difficult to reconcile the two.

It is also difficult because you have many superstructures, you have many conditionings… these are all things that you have to learn "to throw away" to be "new every day" as the Guides say.
Then, the story could also be seen from another point of view.

D - Which one?

As for the last flower, for example, have you thought about what he might think the next day?

D - That the miracle had been renewed, the joy of living….

The day after the flower wakes up, thanks to the rays of the sun it lives another wonderful day, another morning.
During that morning, while he is there, beautifully open, a bee arrives and titillates his pistils and this is a new experience that he had not experienced the day before; then - let's say - in the early afternoon he begins to cloud over and in the late afternoon he begins to rain; so he will have other different stimuli.

Did he always think the same way in your opinion or not?
Did he simply go on living his life as a flower or question the conclusions he had reached the day before?

D - He would have accepted the experiences
D - This flower was known, it seemed very safe to me.

But on the basis of different stimuli, what could he have done in your opinion?

D - He said «I live, here and now, and therefore will face every experience"...

Well done, I have to congratulate you!

D - I hadn't thought about the role, but it is very useful to be attentive to all the facets, you have to… go on.

Yes, sure, if all is One and one is All this is only one aspect of the All, isn't it? Everyone has a very specific task, and not only living beings in the sense of men, but all of creation, therefore animals, vegetables and minerals.

D - So by finding both the bee and the rain beneficial, his has expanded in this way feel no… did it have an advancement?

Certainly, it will have made a qualitative leap. Let's say they are more experiences that give a broader view of Reality. If the first day he had been stimulated only by the sun's rays and their heat, the second day he had received more stimuli which, while living with the same tranquility, will certainly help him to broaden his vision of Reality and, therefore, consequently. , the feeling. And it is likely that after the kind of experiences that flower has become, what do I know… just silly… more mystical.

Q - I was thinking that if a vacationer had passed by and had picked the flower, the latter would have accepted his destiny with humility, would he have accepted the role of giving joy at the cost of his life?

Of course, he would have been happy to be an instrument of pleasure for another creature.

D - Also be aware ...

And yes, becoming aware of oneself is then, after all, being aware, there is not much difference. Here you say "be aware" but of what?

D - Of one's role.

Of one's own reality, of one's insertion into Reality.

D - But a Reality that is made up of many moments, that has no time and is constantly changing ... the sense of this physical reality escapes me: how do you become aware of something that ultimately has no time, does not have an unfolding real. If you tell me that the next day I am a completely different flower… how can I find a bond of the various days with respect to each other if every day we die and are reborn as if it were a completely different being?

Dying to oneself (and being born new every day which, then, are almost the same thing) simply means knowing how to throw away constituted truths.
What is part of feeling, however, (apart from the fact that you just couldn't even throw it away) remains, it is an indelible sign, it is something that is part of you, of your way of being, and nobody, not even yourself, will be able to erase it, as it is a very different thing.

When the Guides say "you are born new every day" they mean to throw away all the superstructures, the conditionings, everything that can condition you in observing reality and that, therefore, somehow prevents you from increasing your feeling, your consciousness.

The fact that, then, the Reality is in a continuous change, is an illusion, because the Reality is immobile according to the Guides: the movement, the change are only a projection of the change that takes place internally, as everything is static, everything is there, still, written in the Eternal Present. It is your inner state that makes you perceive the external movement, because it is you who move within yourself ... and all the others too, not just you ... 

D - Yes, I think I understand.
Q - Going back to the task, do you also understand your limits though?

Of course, in fact, as I said before, becoming aware of one's role, of one's task, understanding as an intrinsic reality the fact of becoming aware of one's limits and abilities, but also the limits that will gradually decrease while the capabilities will naturally increase, thanks to this. to the bee that titillates the pistils and so on ...

Q - It is difficult for me to understand the concept of Eternal Present, since I am used to the scanning of time. For example: what is the time difference between the dimension in which you live and ours?

I can simply tell you this: every plane of existence has its own time, has its own way of flowing through time; therefore, just to give an example, I could say that one hour of your time could correspond to three years of the astral plane.
This is to give you a measure, because in reality this is not the case at all, but it can give you an idea of ​​the relativity of time.

When it is said that in the Eternal Present (which is beyond the Akasic plane) there is no time, everything is immobile, it means that your now there is simply a frame placed there, and it is only the observer who sees. the passage of time passing from one frame to another.

D - Sorry, I wanted to ask you this: since everything has already been written, it has already been predetermined ...

Don't ask me why!

D - No, if a person had to die and then was saved, in reality he didn't have to die, he just had to have that experience, because if it has already been written, if, as the Guides said, our life ends neither a day before, neither a day later, nor a moment before, nor a moment after what was written so no one was saved.

Yes, that's it, you only die in the exact moment that has been predetermined. Let's say that said, of course, the miracles of medicine, in a sense, do not exist at all!

D - It is said: now there is dialysis and those people there live a little longer, but it is not that they live a little longer, it has been determined that they must live that kind of life like that.

Yes, it is true, but this must not lead to static. We must be very careful: knowing these truths can lead to the error of saying "then I sit there, I stand there watching the grass grow" but no, if the doctors had not been ... "deluded" - deluded in the sense that the Guides intend, of course - to perform miracles, medicine would not have achieved the results it did and, probably, those lives would have been written with fewer frames.

We say that there is a certain bond, if we want, also because everything is evolution and, therefore, it is clear that even the sciences, as empirical as medicine, have their evolution. On the other hand, I do not know if you have heard the latest events of women who have abundantly passed the fertile age and who are artificially inseminated ... this is a new perspective of reality that will bring, as consequences, not indifferent problems and new ways of experience, and for the mother and for the child.

Q - When there is an apparent death in which so many people are able to see, to open a glimmer on the afterlife, are they true or not?

Yes, some cases yes.

D - When they tell us that they have been attracted to the other side, that they have seen a great light and long-dead loved ones around them, and they remember everything perfectly ...

Yes, yes, in some cases they are genuine episodes; in others there may be some construction and false memories because you know that the human mind is very complex.

Q - My husband was sick with typhus when he was nine years old; then there were no medicines that could cure him and he remembers having a similar experience if he remembers it well!

Certainly in the case of our friend who is not present tonight, the thing was real and perhaps this experience was, for the rest of his life, of great help and great comfort; let's say that he has polished certain aspects of what would have been a character of him and made him the pleasant person he is currently ...

D - Returning to "everything had been foretold", is it possible that something has been moved or changed in this area? For example, a sterile mother who, out of the blue, is "miraculous" and has a baby, how can this be explained?

Here we enter a really difficult field, because we have to talk about variants ...
So: I said earlier that in the Eternal Present there are all the frames of the existence of individuals, of all of them. But it is not a single frame, it is not like a film reel: there are, for every existence, the possibilities of variation according to the choices (inner choices, of course), that the individual makes.

Now, in case you said about the sterile mother crying for years and years because she can't have a baby, clearly that's a karmic situation; therefore, there are various possibilities regarding her existence: either she understands karma, then she dissolves this karma, and she is offered the possibility of having the child (and this is a variant), or she does not understand karma, does not dissolves and will not have the child (and this is the other variant).

In addition to this, then, there are other possibilities, other differences according to the very inner choices that are made but, I repeat, this is a very, very complicated field.
In any case, to simplify things, let's say that everything is written in the Eternal Present, even the variants, all the variants.

D - In a nutshell, are we the directors?

More than you the director is your feeling, your conscience. So, at this point, if you really want to take it out on someone, when you review your life, you will only have to take it out on yourself for your bad choices, because there will have been no one who has led you to make one choice rather than another. .

Q - What to answer, then, to a woman who is desperate because she cannot have a child and knows nothing of these teachings? You can't talk to her about karma! I have a friend in this situation and I also try to talk to her about karma but (making a play on words) karma does not calm her!

And I believe it! Here, someone said today that being aware of these things can help, but it is true only up to a certain point, because these things that we have been telling you for fifteen years (and others before us have told) are , really, just a mental support for you, because if what we come to tell you you do not hear, it is not part of your inner being, faced with a dramatic situation you will suffer as much as a person who knows absolutely nothing about these things; and in situations where you, as a mental support, say: "But the Guides have explained that there is karma and so on" you give yourself an excuse at the level of the mind, but if you don't feel it internally, believe me, you will suffer too. , like the many people who are unaware of all this.

So it may be that people who are not aware of these things already have such a feeling that, in the face of suffering, they suffer less than, perhaps, you would suffer. Gnose

Be aware of the task,
of the role that everyday life leads you to fulfill ...
But what is this task? 
What can this role be 
that each of you must carry, 
as well as each of us,
to see his fellow man as a part of himself?

The task is to dry the tear
as soon as it emerges from the friend's eyelash;
is to reach out for help
even before this is required;
is to smile with those who are happy
and to induce a smile who is not happy;
is to support 
the brother who is about to fall;
is not to condemn the brother
which has now fallen;
is to not judge 
if the other who stands in front he doesn't think like you 
and it's completely different from you.

In short, it is that, sisters, 
that's what, brothers, 
to demonstrate even in the smallest gesture 
that everything is only Love. Viola

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