Adversity and Purpose of Life

Diana: Master, there was a question last time which you said there was not enough time. If there is time, would you please answer? There are many new people here who always want to know through their trials and tribulations why are human beings born on Earth? What is the purpose of this life? Could you please speak on this?

What is the purpose of the troubles in this life is what they want to know. They enjoy the life, dear one; they just do not want the troubles. Life! We first have to start by correcting your view of life. You call yourself mortal and in that you restrict the expansion of your spirit. You are no mortal but immortal. You transform from one form of energy into another constantly. And you may be surprised to learn that it is not essential that you come back in every transformation as human. You may decide to be what you call alien. And when you are in that embodiment, you never experience death. What you experience is a voluntary decision made to separate the spark from the non-spark and to move on. Because you know you are not mortal. When you talk of yourself as mortal you generally say ”mere mortal” further restricting the expansion of your spirit and then this term ”mere mortal” becomes an excuse for no effort made at erasing negativity. I am, you say, a mere mortal. I am powerless. I can do nothing. If that is your belief then you will be powerless and you will be merely a mortal. Life goes beyond a body. Life goes beyond one incarnation. The separation of your spark from the Divine spark created life. And life will never come to an end but it will merge into a nothingness of everything. That is life. And now when we answer your question why this life, we must look at life in all it’s expanse because my beloved ones, what you are experiencing now is only a moment in this vast magnitude that you call life.

When one looks at life in its vastness then one has to ask not why have I been born but why did I separate? In that separation there is life. So why did I separate? When knowledge remains merely knowledge without the wonderful vastness and diversity of experience it cannot be enjoyed to the full. It can be enjoyed only when it transforms into wisdom and wisdom comes only through experience. Would you enjoy a wonderful meal by reading about it in a recipe book? So you take it out of the recipe book and you experience the joy of creation and enjoying the result of that creation which is yours. But, what if in the process of this cooking it burns? You can find no sweetness. It seems dull and bland or it seems just too bitter. In that there is a joy which if only you could see a new world open up before you. In that burning you would learn how important it is that you be attentive every moment. In that bitterness you would learn how wonderful sweetness can be. In that dull bland unsweetened food you would learn how important it is that you add sweetness and flavour yourself. And that is life. And that is why you separate so that when wisdom is complete, when all the knowledge that the universe has to offer has been experienced, the satisfied spark merges back with the Divine Light and adds strength and power of its experience to the Divine Light so that the next spark that separates from the Divine Light has a strength and power greater than your own but which you through your experiencing enabled this spark to have. Just as vast as life is, so vast is the purpose of life. But we want to only look at this embodiment, this moment, ”now” as you call it. So let us look at that.

Why did you take this embodiment? Why did you choose to undergo so much pain and strife? Why did you choose to experience lack of love? Why did you choose to experience the pain of constant rejection? It seems unfair and unjust and the mind rebels and the physical screams out with resistance “Why me”? And we have to smile and say we do not know the answer, because we did not choose it for you. You chose it and you chose it and you chose it (pointing to the sitters). Why did you choose such strife, such obstacles that at times seemed insurmountable? Because you desired to experience the vital lesson of growth. You desired to experience that it is in hardship that my lessons are found. You desired to experience a growth through lack of love. To experience that love can only be within and can never be searched outside. The love that you have not given yourself over so many lifetimes must be given to yourself so that the external will then manifest what is internal. Why did you choose pain of rejection because through this pain there is growth in the acceptance that the only true rejection is one of self. Who can reject you when you are a spark of the Divine? Who can not love you when you are a spark of the Divine? Who can force you to fall and flounder when you are a spark of the Divine? Who can take away what is dearest to you when what is dearest to you is the spark of the Divine. Every moment of hardship, every moment of pain has been your teacher. You will have to admit that every moment of pain, that every problem that you have faced, that every hurdle that you have overcome has left behind its own essence of growth and learning. And yet you resist. Why troubles? Why did you not choose an easy comfortable life of love and peace and joy? You came from pure love, you came from pure peace, you came from pure joy and you separated so that through a process of not pure love, not pure joy, not pure peace you would be able to experience the growth lessons that you needed.

Many believe that you have come into this life to erase karma and that is a falsehood. Karma is only a small part of the purpose of this incarnation. Karma is only a cause and effect of the experiences that you have had in the past. Karma is not the sword that hangs over your heads. You have made it into that sword and karma will exist till as long as your lessons that you desire to learn have not been completed. And yet you pay so much attention to karma. Karma can be overcome by only one simple acknowledgement. Adversity is thy teacher. Welcome adversity into your life. Welcome it. Do not shun a dear friend. Do not resist the beautiful gift of love that is being offered to you. The soul welcomes adversity. These questions you have to answer. If you are merely the physical body, you will crumble and you will fall and you will break because the physical has no power in itself to withstand any energy, positive or negative. The physical has no power. The mind has the power of mental conditioning of past lifetimes and the conditioning that you have faced in this one and that makes the mind an extremely important tool in your hand to use. But if you turn that tool towards yourself it will cause your undoing. The mind conditions you to believe that adversity cannot be faced. The mind conditions you to believe in this illusion of happiness. Why search for an illusion of happiness? There is no happiness. Remember, dear ones, when you pray for happiness you must accept its dual nature and therefore, you must accept unhappiness. Instead strive for joy. Joy is one. There is no duality. It is just joy. Pray not for a temporary moment of happiness because for every moment of happiness you have to accept, you have to accept, unhappiness. And yet your mental conditioning is to pray for the illusion of transient happiness. You wish to be happy you say. And you ask us and you ask the universe for help. And, dear ones, we make you happy because that is what you desired, but we cannot, cannot give you happiness without it coming hand in hand with unhappiness. Ask the universe rather for joy and it has no duality. But in order to recognize joy the mental conditioning has to be erased.

 Joy comes in shapes and sizes that sometimes seem monstrous, fearful, daunting. Is it joyous to lose a child? You say no and we say yes. Is it joyous never to receive love? You say no and we say yes. Is it joyous to lose all your material possessions? You say no and we say yes. Is it joyous to suffer from physical pain and disease which never seems to end? You say no and we say yes. In the loss of that child there is joy in the knowing that for a short while the child chose you to help it learn its lessons. There is joy in knowing that the child’s soul has ascended into its own spiritual home where there is no pain no rejection. There is joy in knowing that the physical of my child is gone and yet my child is here and will always be. There is joy in never being loved. There is joy in the love being snatched at every given opportunity, there is joy in rejection and there is joy in abandonment. It is through this abandonment, it is through this never receiving love that you turn inwards and find that deep within you is a well of love that can never run dry. There is a joy in losing everything you possess because in that loss you have found everything within. You have found your soul and you have lost your wealth and there is joy in this loss because there is joy in this finding. And that is life. And that is the purpose.

Why is it essential to learn through adversity, we can hear your questions. Why can we not learn the same lessons through an easier teacher, a less severe one? You chose to come to this planet. You chose this planet knowing full well that this planet has chosen this path of evolution. Do other worlds follow the same path? No. They have chosen other paths and yet you are here. Because your spirit has accepted that progress is made faster with a stern teacher. The lenient one may allow you to become indisciplined, may allow you to go astray. And what you desired was discipline and so you chose this planet which uses adversity as its teacher. You chose this planet. You did not go anywhere else. And do not erroneously think that this was because there was nowhere else to go. Your Earth is not this universe. The universe gave you what you asked for. And now you question “why”. The universe will always give you what you ask for. It is an important rule that you must all understand because in this rule there is a truth so deep that it will explain to you your very existence. The universe will always give you what you ask for. The universe will always give you what you invite. Now we ask you to undertake a difficult and yet an extremely essential exercise of soul searching. If you are beset by problems ask not the universe why but ask of yourself “Why am I inviting them? In what way have I asked for them? Because you have. Not consciously. Not even as a higher soul decision. You have invited very often the problems that come to you through your very emanation. What you emanate will attract towards it what you are getting. Are you facing a business problem where all money seems to be leaving you? Now ask yourself what you are emanating. Why is the universe giving you lack? Because what you are emanating is lack. You are not emanating abundance because your mental conditioning is such that it tells you that abundance only lies in material possessions and that is a falsehood. The manifestation of material possessions is only a small fruit of the abundance energy that you emanate. You emanate lack because when your first rupee was lost you experienced a lack so profound that it surrounded your being and then drew towards it from the universe the energy of lack. How could you then get out of this spiral of loss upon loss upon loss?  And how will you now emanate the energy of abundance? By shattering the mental conditioning which tells you that material possession is abundance. Abundance of love, abundance of joy, abundance of peace, abundance of laughter through the face of all adversity will invite the energy of abundance. And this small fruit of material possession that you will receive will then seem insignificant even when it is present because you are abundant with the gifts that this universe has to offer. Have you lost a dear one? Do you constantly keep losing those whom you love? Do they walk out of your life? What is the energy that you are emanating? You’re emitting the energy of rejection. How? By rejecting your inner spark. By looking outwards constantly for the affirmation of love, you reject the inner spark and this rejection draws towards it rejection which then manifests in the physical external world outside. And so adversity teaches you by example, by reflection. Do you choose all the problems that beset you? Do you choose them all? No, you do not. You choose only a very few and those few that you choose come into your life at the pre-determined points. And this is the beginning of your cycle. When you face this problem that you have chosen and you face it not with joy you emit negative energy of different kinds. That energy now invites from the universe the same kind of energy and your one problem that you chose multiplies into several and several and several. And you did not as a higher soul choose all of them. You only chose the one. Your energy emanations did all the rest. And now it seems as though this cycle is spinning so fast and there is no way out of it. The web is closing in upon you and stifling the very essence of who you are. And was this a higher soul decision? No it was not. The web is of your making. It has your energy. And only you can free yourself from that web, only you. And for that you need neither nor body but soul and spirit. The mind conditions you into believing in your weakness. The soul demands that you see your strength. And yet most take the crutch of mind. How can you get out of this web? The adversity that comes to you with your invitation must now not be resisted. It must be accepted with full joy, knowing full well that all loss is external. Become soul and adversity cannot come close to soul. Adversity can approach the powerless body. Adversity can trick the conditioned mind. Adversity must surrender before the soul. It has no power. If your life is beset with problems, with grief, it is because your soul has not been allowed to show its full strength. You have used useless tools. You have used your body and you have used your mind and they are useless tools in the face of adversity because adversity can overpower them in one lunge. But have you chosen to come to this Earth that has chosen this path of evolution without any defense? Of course you have not. Your defense is your soul. Your strength is your soul, your power is your soul, your might is your soul. When the soul shows its strength, its might, its power then even the adversity that comes to you is a higher soul decision must  bow it’s head and withdraw. That is the power of the soul. So your answers lie not with us but within you. In your joylessness lie your answers. In your search for happiness lie your answers. In your lack of self-love lie your answers. In your not opening up the soul’s strength lie all your answers. Your problems are not outside of you. They cling to you. They cling to you. Your energy is a magnet that makes all these problems. Iron-hearted problems cling to you. Are there any easy solutions that we can give you? None.  Do not try to solve the problem. The problems are merely a reflection. The mirror must not be blamed for the ugly reflection. The only solution to all adversity, to all strife, to all fear, to all discord lies in breaking the condition of the mind. The mind and the body, we repeat, cannot find solutions to your problems. The soul need not find solutions because the soul faces no problems. How can the mind be re-conditioned? Make that your purpose. Make that your goal. You ask for soul mission. Here we give you one of magnitude. ..To re-condition your mind, to shatter the old conditioning and this time to condition it in the way you desire it as spirit. And this process cannot be done once a day, once a week. It must be done every breathing moment. A deliberate conscious shattering of the old. Too difficult you say. And we agree. It is too difficult for the physical and the mental. For the soul it is the only way to be.