Life's Lessons - Joseph Mattappally
There is a known poem of an unknown author, written on sweet heart. It reads,
“……The friends who come and the hour they
Who out of your house depart,
Will judge it not by the style you show,
But rather by the size of your heart.
For making money is not hard
To live life well is an art:
How people love you, how they regard,
Is all in the size of your heart.”
The unknown poet wants each heart to be as big and wide as possible, so that nothing in this world escapes it. Does a heart expand that much? The poem says that the heart decides what you are and it also decides who you are. The poem means that the heart is something more than an organ responsible for pumping blood throughout the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions. The common Western assumption that human body is just a lump of matter formed of cells or an assembly of parts does not however explain this phenomenon properly.
It is in the East that we find appropriate scientific explanations on the subtlety of matter. We need not be a thorough mystic to understand the influence of subtlety in our daily lives. If somebody asks a group, who Ram is, Ram comes forward with his right palm on chest centre to say, ‘It’s me’. In our excitement to remember something, do we not scratch on our eye brows? None of these things are part of a training …… they happen instinctively. It’s of no use physically investigating on this behavior pattern of living beings. Yoga but knows it. This energy field around any human body is partly visible; we call it aura. According to yogic sciences, chest centre is the individual existence centre too and forehead centre is the triggering point of our inner vision. The science of yoga says that the whole body we experience is only gross form of a subtle energy that has the beginning at an unknown point. This is one reason why we believe that we have connection with the Ultimate Source.
The formation energy of any being is love and heart is the centre of love; it is the centre of one’s’ existence. The reason why we have so much of physical heart problems is that we have serious relationship problems either in giving or receiving love. A blockage in the subtle form around always manifests as a physical problem. If you simultaneously receive and give love without any holding, I assure you absolute health with regard to heart and associated functioning. We need to accept that there is a subtle mould around any gross body. It is this energy form that we precisely call spirit. The more we go into the subtlety of matter the more we find out love in its’ dense states and pure forms.
Poems are no jokes, so are masterpieces of the great. They are spontaneous flow of subtle truths in structured language. Accepting the known and the unknown alike makes right living.
“……The friends who come and the hour they
Who out of your house depart,
Will judge it not by the style you show,
But rather by the size of your heart.
For making money is not hard
To live life well is an art:
How people love you, how they regard,
Is all in the size of your heart.”
The unknown poet wants each heart to be as big and wide as possible, so that nothing in this world escapes it. Does a heart expand that much? The poem says that the heart decides what you are and it also decides who you are. The poem means that the heart is something more than an organ responsible for pumping blood throughout the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions. The common Western assumption that human body is just a lump of matter formed of cells or an assembly of parts does not however explain this phenomenon properly.
It is in the East that we find appropriate scientific explanations on the subtlety of matter. We need not be a thorough mystic to understand the influence of subtlety in our daily lives. If somebody asks a group, who Ram is, Ram comes forward with his right palm on chest centre to say, ‘It’s me’. In our excitement to remember something, do we not scratch on our eye brows? None of these things are part of a training …… they happen instinctively. It’s of no use physically investigating on this behavior pattern of living beings. Yoga but knows it. This energy field around any human body is partly visible; we call it aura. According to yogic sciences, chest centre is the individual existence centre too and forehead centre is the triggering point of our inner vision. The science of yoga says that the whole body we experience is only gross form of a subtle energy that has the beginning at an unknown point. This is one reason why we believe that we have connection with the Ultimate Source.
The formation energy of any being is love and heart is the centre of love; it is the centre of one’s’ existence. The reason why we have so much of physical heart problems is that we have serious relationship problems either in giving or receiving love. A blockage in the subtle form around always manifests as a physical problem. If you simultaneously receive and give love without any holding, I assure you absolute health with regard to heart and associated functioning. We need to accept that there is a subtle mould around any gross body. It is this energy form that we precisely call spirit. The more we go into the subtlety of matter the more we find out love in its’ dense states and pure forms.
Poems are no jokes, so are masterpieces of the great. They are spontaneous flow of subtle truths in structured language. Accepting the known and the unknown alike makes right living.
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