Greetings to all.
I am Dr Harnita Chowdhary from Pune, India. By profession I am an economist, professor and corporate trainer, but increasingly a seeker and spiritual counsellor by choice.
Like I said earlier on this platform, for a lot of us the coronavirus has become synonymous with lockdown.
Physical lockdown, alright, but can it not become a once in a lifetime opportunity to open up to endless possibilities and potential, deep inside us?
If we think about it, the most important message that Lord Jesus Christ, in his resurrection, has left behind for mankind is that – ‘the spirit is what is paramount.’
In the unprecedented crisis that we are facing now, there could not be a more appropriate message!
Somewhere in the endless rat race that mankind had been caught in, we simply forgot or chose to overlook this vital necessity!
We were, and are continuously reminded to take care of our bodies and also our minds, but what about our spirit which actually runs the show? Do we do something to nourish it?
This period of the lockdown would surely have given you the answer…
If you have taken definite and regular steps to nourish your spirit – your innermost sanctum, and connected it to the cosmos, you shall be getting your flow of endless energy and wisdom and would not be going under.
In fact, you would have the capacity to reach out and help others.
However, if you are intermittently feeling fearful and low, you need to increase your connect and make it strong and regular.
But, if you are totally overpowered by all the negative inputs and are feeling helpless and hopeless, please, at the earliest, seek a strong spiritual practice, philosophy or tool, and start to nourish your much neglected spirit.
Mankind is blessed to have cradles of civilizations, like our great country India, where centuries of search, study and research have in fact yielded the best of practices.
Once you understand that you are an invincible microcosm of the huge macrocosm called the Universe, you will realise that everything, including the present situation, happens for a reason.
The causes created sometime in the past are bound to give effects at just the right point.
If we can introspect, we can take the lessons positively at all levels – be it at our own individual level, at the family level, community level, organization level, at the level of the nation or at the most macro level of the globe and mankind!
Thus, we will not fear but will feel empowered to make the hope-filled changes right inside us and become masters of our own happiness even in these most trying of times!
So, lets each of us take advantage of this once in a lifetime opportunity that we have per force got and make a start to live up to the eternal message – ‘Nourish your spirit!’
Thank you!