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IMPRESSIONS OF LOVE AND JOY IN By Roza Riaikkenen Published in Australian Theosophical Society Newsletter N63 September 1997 Though
we usually think of Love and Joy in the same breath, my meditation and
experiences in Love
is directed outwardly. By acting with Love, you share your heart love energy
with other people, animals, plants and objects, or you can send your Love
vibration to the Divine world. Unconditional
Love and Forgiveness help to balance Karma, to create order, and to spiritually
improve in many ways. Joy, on the other hand, is essentially an inner state. A
person can be really happy only if he or she is joyful within themselves. Real
happiness arises from inner spiritual realization of peacefulness and purpose
which radiates joyfully outwards in everything we do. Love
and Joy are constantly interacting. Man gives Love and produces Joy, he sends
an impulse of Joy to the Divine worlds and receives in answer a spiritual flow
of Divine love, which purifies his spiritual body and replenishes his etheric
energies. Some
nations, such as The
necessity to love one’s children, Motherland, and national ideas arises in such
conditions. People sense the common energy body of their family life,
collective, nation and country and this sensation increases in condition of
common trials. The
harsh collective karma is being worn down through such expressions of Love.
Such communities in the world today exist with little opportunity for the
ordinary man to experience Joy and choice. The power lust of community leaders
tends to produce a type of mental poison, weakening the community and its every
member. How do sensitive and spiritually oriented people who are more and more
in evidence in such places exist? Often
they cannot speak with others concerning their ideas and spiritual yearnings.
Mostly, they must retreat into the sacred depths of their own meditations
seeking inspiration and answers from the Soul Wisdom within. They search for
beauty and Love close to home in family and in the small and seemingly ordinary
things of life. The
few artistically gifted amongst them play their Love into artistic works in
pictures, writings and thoughts which become messengers of beauty to radiate
fine, magnificent Love vibrations to all those who encounter such works down
through the ages. Anyone
who has seen the great art works at the Hermitage museum in At
the other extreme, people living in countries like The
comparative freedom and tolerance of Australian society allow individuals to
live their lives independently and to produce Joy even without much Love. The
constant search for “Fun” indicates this quality. The behavior culture in such
type of community requires respecting everyone’s will and individuality.
According to the concept of freedom, nobody has a right to deprive another
person of his or her Joy. In
such a society as we have here, young people are growing up freely and
independent minded. They don’t carry many limitations inside, they don’t feel
fear as they might in other countries, they are aware the world belongs to
them. In
these conditions sometimes people don’t feel the need for giving Love – they
have other sources of Joy. Then the euphoria of Joy leads to other extremes –
individualism, which brings karma accumulation from the luck of Love. Under
such conditions we see the well known signals of trouble in society such as
strange maladies, divorces, disagreements and bad relations between parents and
their kids. No
matter in what conditions we find ourselves we can work for a balance between
Love and Joy. They are two sides of the process of spiritual evolution and
together speed human development. Every person striving to live an enlightened
life can try and recognize whether he has a lack of Love or Joy in his
universe. He can harmonize his life, working to replenish what he and his world
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