Message for Monday 13 March 2017

Monday 13 March 2017

}Escape or Shared Reality{

Moon in Libra  

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week continues  ** |

until ending at 9:56p PT | 12:56a(Tu) ET | 4:56a(Tu) UT   ***

[Times given now are in Daylight Savings Time except for Universal Time, now four instead of five hours later than EDT.]

There are a lot of good indications. There are good people. They want to do what is right. They are reformers not by haranguing people but by being examples; they are philanthropists in the true not the show-off sense. Then they also gather together some goodness of life to share among intimates.

Have you not been considering complex or labyrinthine ideas or methods? There is nothing wrong with that in essence. The world does seem a labyrinth. Yet there is also a need to focus on the "island of living" which is yours, your home or bailiwick, and keep it cultivated pleasingly. This saves you from embarrassment and you will feel better when you conquer the laziness of sloppy housekeeping or office-keeping.

Strong sympathies make one impressionable, almost mediumistic. Then one may feel like flying off somewhere to escape the intensity of human thoughts and feelings swirling around one. Then there is a desire for escape into ease, perhaps to relax scantily clothed while dreaming of sensual pleasures. 

Getting back to a childlike friendliness is good, sharing what one has with all creatures and human beings, hopeful that the seasons of the year are bringing us better weather and happier possibilities. One's family or extended family is enough for one's care; by serving it one serves the world.

{Monday}   {Escape or Shared Reality}

Cosmic Piper

From Sri Aurobindo:

186. The contributions of evil to the good of the world & the harm sometimes done by the virtuous are distressing to the soul enamoured of good. Nevertheless be not distressed nor confounded, but study rather & calmly understand God's ways with humanity.

187. In God's providence there is no evil, but only good or its preparation.

--Thoughts and Aphorisms