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Heavenletter #5335 What Might Have Been, July 3, 2015

God said:
My children, your heart aches. You yearn for the past, yet right now is beautiful, isn’t it? You have greater awareness, isn’t this beautiful? And your life, all in all, is pretty good, isn’t it? Yet you yearn for love. It is love you yearn for. What is your yearning to be young again but a yearning for the past and for another go at it when you now know better than you knew then?
Youth has nothing to do with you. Youth is like a motor. In youth, you were a newer motor. You are your same self unaffected. New, old, in between, you are irrevocably you, and you are etched in My heart. You are more than etched. You are embedded in My heart. What more can you yearn for? Nevertheless, you yearn to go back and write a different script. You yearn for what might have been.
You can’t have everything in life all at one moment in space and time. You can’t possess everything in life all at once. You can have it all, yet you can’t possess everything. You can’t be younger and wiser at the same time. You can’t be tall and short. You can be and have much, yet not all in the same fragment of life. You can only live as you live right now.
In your mind you would like to be surrounded by all your past loved ones, yet on Earth you wouldn’t know how to deal with all the past now. What would you do at a big party with a hundred or two-hundred people you would like to make amends with? You would be overwhelmed.
You long for the people in your past. What you really long for is another chance. You crave another version of your life where you walked with confidence and honored others and yourself more. You like to think that you would rush into the arms of those you loved, yet not in this body you presently carry around, you can’t now. You admit you were a callow youth then. Of course, you would do differently now. You would do better now.
You would like a second chance. You would like to do it over. You would like a dress rehearsal for life. You would like to play your part ravishingly. You would like to say words you never said and, perhaps, only thought of long afterwards. How you would also take words spoken back then if only you knew how.
You would love to be faultless given a second time around and not see the flaws in others either.
Consider, what if you were just right in the time past and not full of regrets now? You can’t do it over. For life, there is no rehearsal. It is all ad lib. Parts of your life that you regret, it wouldn’t work to try to relive them now. You couldn’t relive and keep your attention on a past script anyway. You would have to be in the new present regardless.
What you can do now is to welcome what comes to you at this moment. If you would give yourself a new lease on life, that would be happiness. What you can do is start right over now with everyone you meet. Old life cannot be renewed, yet you can be renewed. You can renew yourself. You can meet everyone you meet now with the Love in your heart that you desire to give to those in the past. Love now.
You know I’m going to tell you that the past doesn’t exist at this moment and that it never did. Memories exist, yet where do they exist? In your mind. What are memories but thoughts? You had thoughts once upon a time, and you have different thoughts now. Based on your thoughts, you have feelings.
Say goodbye to all the loved ones and to all the almost loved ones and to those you vied with, many of whom who were also your loved ones. Make one big apology if you must and bid your hovering memories adieu. Release those you hold onto. Release yourself. Release time and space, beloveds. Release.

Friends:

The Purpose of Purification is Release:

Buddha explained that it is for the sake of Nibbāna that one trains the mind:
Morality is for the sake of self-control, self-control is for the sake of no regrets;
Absence of regrets is for the sake of joy, joy is for the for the sake of bliss;
Bliss is for the sake of tranquillity, tranquillity is for the sake of happiness;
Happiness is for the sake of absorption into one-pointed concentration;
Concentration is for the sake of knowledge and vision of how reality comes to be;
Knowledge and vision of how reality comes into being is for the sake of disgust;
Disgust is for the sake of disillusion, dry disillusion is for the sake of relinquishment;
Mental relinquishment; is for the sake of knowledge and vision of awakening release;
Knowledge and vision of release is for the sake of Nibbāna without any clinging left!
For this purpose is this speech, for this purpose is this noble advice!
For this purpose should one pay attention to this chain of causes!
That is: For the purpose of release of mind through non-clinging...

They’re Back. And a Message from Bill Kelly.
From the Desk of George Barnard — June 22, 2015.

When I first met up with Midwayer Chief Bzutu, I thought him to be a Spirit Guardian — a rather demanding one with special orders to get me involved in all kinds of healing methods. When I learned from him that the name of their number and the number of their name was 1,111, I asked questions including many awkward ones.

Why, as he stated, did they “push” George Orwell to use 1984 as a title for his book? To remind the “Powers that Be” that they would always include the 873 — their deeply loved family — in all their efforts. Had he, Chief Bzutu, always been principled in his dealings with others? It took a moment for him to consider the question. His answer came quite quickly considering the bluntness of the inquiry. For ages there had been no law, no rules and no one to teach them. Rather, for ages they had been taught all manner of conflicting views.

I concluded they all cared for the missing members of their family and I noisily petitioned for the 1,111 to be granted the return or release of their siblings so all 1,984 Midwayers would be together again. It was obvious and clear that if there was no law at one stage, there had to be a law right now and those branded rebels might be no more than uneducated misfits. ABC-22 agreed and henceforth almost each day I appealed to Michael for the 873 to be returned to us.

In October I stayed for almost a week at the home of Bill and Virginia Kelly of Pocatello, Idaho. They were most wonderful hosts. We also had much to “shop talk” about since Bill was a psychologist attached to two schools or colleges. Also, at some 4,500 feet above sea level I experienced the unique silence of an early snowfall.

Something else had happened a few days earlier: As Bill left one school to keep an appointment at another, he found his car locked. Whatever he tried, the electronic lock would not open to let him go on with his task. Manually putting the key into the lock and turning it was to no avail either. Finally Bill relaxed and asked who was keeping his car locked. It was Chief Bzutu telling him that all 873 Secondary Midwayers had now joined the 1,111 and the 1,984 family was whole again.

That same evening we spoke with our celestial Teachers and the Chief came through rather quickly. To the best of my recall he said something like this: “Earlier I spoke with Isaac (Bill Kelly) and whilst he somewhat doubted it was me, I will share with all what I told him. Beelzebub will be given a new name because his name instils fear into many people who are not looking forward to the rebel Midwayers returning to the planet” — or words to that effect.

Ever since the return of these so-named rebels, those of loyal standing have closely monitored their work to ensure they don’t accidently return to their earlier mischief making.

Friend of mine and many others, Bill Kelly died suddenly on September 13 of 2003. I’m writing this because he reminded me last week that too many people believe that some Midwayers are still “up to no good.” Not so. They’ve all been rehabilitated and they’re back.

And it’s just a small thought from George Barnard.

Edited by Linda Abell.

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Sivananda Daily Reading

4 July
Posted: 02 Jul 2015 10:00 PM PDT
On Vritti
The mind-stuff is chitta. It is a mental substance. Vritti or thought wave is a modification of the mind stuff. It is a process. Just as waves and bubbles arise from the surface of the ocean, so also these vrittis arise on the surface of the mind ocean. Just as the sun's rays emanate from the sun, so also these mental rays (modifications of the vritti), emanate from the mind sun. Just as the sun merges itself into the horizon at sunset, by collecting all its rays, so also you have to merge in the sun of suns, absolute consciousness, eternal peace, by collecting all the dissipated mental rays and dissolving the mind itself.
The function of the vritti in the mind is to cause the removal of the cause of ignorance covering objects. Gross ignorance is enveloping all objects. When it is removed, then perception of objects becomes possible.
Through its own effort the mind assumes the shape of any object, and concentrates upon itself. When the mind thinks of Brahman, the sole ultimate thought of Brahman is formed. Be vigilant. Watch the mind and its activities. The object does not bind you - it is the vritti, the identification with the vritti, that causes attachment and bondage.
If you become one with the mind, body and vrittis you get various sorts of miseries and sufferings. The whole universe is created by the vrittis alone. If these mental thought waves subside you can attain the absolute state of highest peace and bliss. Just as soap cleanses the physical body, even so japa (repetition) of any mantra, dhyana (meditation) and kirtan (chanting), together with the practice of yama and niyama (discipline), cleanse the mind of all impurities. Just as you nourish the physical body with food, even so you will have to give food for the mind and spiritual food for the soul.
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Only when the modifications cease do you enter the silence. Realise this. Close the eyes, draw in the senses, still the mind, silence the thoughts, sharpen the intellect, purify the chitta, meditate on Om and chant it with feeling. Enter the silence. Silence is Atman, the centre - it is in the heart cave. When the mind runs from one object to another, the state in the interval, wherein you become mindless, is Brahman.

Are You Really Free?

As we come upon our Independence Day, it brings up our relationship to freedom. Am I really free? Are you?

What is true freedom? Religious and political freedom? Financial freedom? Freedom to be, do and have what you want?

Freedom to think as you'd like? How much freedom do you have around your thinking? Are you really thinking your thoughts? Or, are you thinking the thoughts of your culture, society, ancestry, or past? Are you free to think and express the thoughts of your own? Are you free to choose healthy and positive thoughts? Or, do you succumb to the thoughts within your subconscious out of the past? Are you free to think new thoughts or are you trapped within the old and outmoded ones?

This is a great time to reflect on the freedoms you have. Are you exercising your freedom? Are you experiencing them? Do you feel really free?

I invite you to read the following message from God on freedom dictated and shared previously in light of this holiday.

May you be free this Independence Day! I am personally looking forward to some fun with friends this weekend. Enjoy your weekend and your celebrations.

Blessings,

Joy

Message from God for Independence Day

You have freedom and independence. Are you exercising them? Are you truly free? Are you living by what this country was founded upon? I think not.

You are not free. Not really. You are free at essence. I have given you freedom. But, you are entrapped by ideals long past that no longer serve you.

Live the freedom you were meant to experience in this country. Really be free. Stop succumbing to the powers that be who rule you with an iron fist trying to control you.
Who are you? You are all my children; my creation. I did not create one person to rule another.

For the entire message from God, see the full article here.

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