You are aware of the pain, the discomfort.

You are aware of the pain, the discomfort.  You are aware of the fear and the turmoil within your body.  You are aware of the feelings of uncertainty, mistrust.  You are aware of your anger; perhaps you are aware of the game.  

But there is something else happening, something you know consciously nothing about.  You are beginning the journey back to heaven.  This is the push; this is one of the greatest opportunities you will ever know: being a part of the freedom of a fragile race.  Within that is your own freedom, your great and good works.  This change is not easy and this change is not quick, but it is thorough.  It is as deep as change gets and it is happening to you.  

You would not understand it if I explained it to you, but your time being human is coming to an end.  Some call it ascension, some call it nirvana, some call it death.  It is not the death of the physical, it is a death of the old way.  You are rising into a place of consciousness that your race has never seen before.  You are the forebears, you are the bringers of truth.  All things in your lower life are screaming because they are like weeds being torn from a garden.  Their time is short and they know it.  And as more of the game is revealed to each of you, the clearer more pristine your garden becomes.  

Humanity is not the epitome of life—quite the contrary—it is a form of life.  This form of life has somehow taken over and beguiled the truth of us all.  We rose beyond it.  You are rising beyond the illusion.  In many ways this is one of the darker times of your world—conversely, this is the grandest opportunity you’ve ever known.  

It is not that we, your elder brothers and sisters, have not suffered what you suffer;  we have.  We are not devoid of compassion or kindness—quite the contrary.  But we also know and realize that subservience to the small mind and frail body is surrender, and such a power so great surrendering to such a great lie is a travesty.  All trappings on this world have been created by the mind of humanity so that you sleepwalk through your opportunity.  You are waking up.  You are extricating yourselves from the game of life as the masses know it.  Again we say, it is worth every ache and pain and sorrow and hurt, every moment of despondency, to go where you are going. 

Babaji

A very long time ago, like so many, I mistook life as a chore rather than an opportunity

A very long time ago, like so many, I mistook life as a chore rather than an opportunity.  It took Shams to change my perception of this great gift.

In such a place as Earth, that is the status quo, it is the pain and toil and suffering, the unhappiness and the broken dreams upon which most focus, blame and complain.  This begets a life onto itself; as you know, the law of manifestation follows thought.

As you come upon the light of a new day, the opportunity for a new life, the joy of accomplishment, as you come upon all of these and more, why must you dredge and dig up the past?  Why must you judge your vibrant present moment by what has died and by the lessons you learned or did not?

The old way, the way of fear, pain and suffering can lie at rest if you so choose.  Just let it happen.  Let yourselves glide into the love that awaits you in many manners, shapes and forms.  This is not difficult to do.  Let yourselves have. 

Rumi