Om Ganesha Namaste my Kailash Shankara, The first thing that you must know is that pain is pain and we are not put on earth to judge another human beings pain. Even though you have been on many rounds with your Ma and seen things that so many have never seen, you must understand that if a person’s heart is broken for a small thing, that small thing may be big in their lives. I have learnt that lesson very early in spiritual life from your Baba. That is the reason that I have the butterfly on my hand, to remember never to step on anyone’s butterfly. The people who come into your office do not know what you have seen or experienced. They only know what makes their heart bleed and expect help from you not judgment. When you start to give unconditional love out freely, then all will bask in that love. When one receives unconditional love they begin to grow and what seems so big to them begins to shrink. It always works. If you are filled with light, that light sheds its glow around all who know you.
When you show the healing power of service to your clients then they too will do service. It is so very simple. Every one wants what every one else has. In this case, if you get great joy, like your Guru gets from serving others, people will see this and do the same in their own way.
I love your questions and love you. Love Ma Jai Kali Ma Ki Jai!
Kailash Shankara wrote:
Namaste Dearest Ma,
Last night I heard you say that emotional problems often come from not knowing how to give love, rather than from the mistaken idea that clients need to be loved. You reminded me of the words of a woman who suffers from a terminal disease and works as a physician with others who are dying. She said this:
Much illness may have its roots in unrecognized spiritual distress - issues of isolation, anger, the feelings people have that they don’t matter or that nobody matters to them. I think that depression is not so much an issue of nobody loving you. Depression is an issue of not being able to find a place to give your love, not being able to love enough.
Rachel Naomi Remen, MD
I know in my heart that you have reminded me of a truth I must learn. Often, after working with you on rounds, I found it impossible to listen to clients talk about their problems which seemed so insignificant when compared to the people I had just left at the County Home. How can I help people see the healing power of service? How could a therapist cut through the Maya people live in that causes so much suffering to the truth that healing comes in knowing “it’s not about me.” Please teach me Ma.
All my love,
Kailash Shankara