Good morning boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Progressive.
This morning I wanted to touch up briefly on what I received as the uniqueness,
how unique each one of us really are in this world.
So even if you take number of points of view of perception and evaluation of how unique we really are,
number one, even we can take the Vedic Astrology perspective, we could take the Psychological perspective,
we could take the Family perspective, the Lineage perspective and your unique soul imprints or samskaras,
we call it in Sanskrit, the soul impressions in the soul, memories that person brings into this lifetime.
From other lifetimes you can take one or more or combination of all of this and still you will be the most unique person in the world
and no one, I mean really no one will be able to understand you fully and that's the beauty part of it
and that's the most loneliness part of it as well.
This is what we struggle with as human beings the most.
Let's take an example, let's take an example of you being born in a family, you are in a family, wherever you are,
you have siblings, let's take the Vedic Astrology perspective first.
Let's say you are born of the same Ascendant as well, so you are born in the same family, you are born in the same Ascendant
but your planetary structure will be different.
So let's say your planetary structure is different and so you are different people even though you might be brothers,
even though you might be of the same gender, same parent, same parents and same upbringing and same lineage and same perspectives,
yet your DNA is different.
Even if you have the same Ascendant, even if you have the same planetary arrangement, even if you are in the same family,
yet you have a different inheritance and DNA level, two siblings don't inherit the same level of DNA.
Let's say you are twins, identical twins, so your identical twins born with a couple of minutes gap between your birth time,
so you will have slightly different Ascendants but pretty much the same degree of planets,
but yet you are born as souls with different Samskaras or what we talk about soul memories,
you have come as different souls, you not necessarily come as one soul, you are in two separate bodies,
even if you are identical twins or conjoined twins even, they will have different personality types, right?
And then you grow up differently because of it.
So the uniqueness, we can go on and on like this, but the uniqueness is what has to be, is one of the most difficult parts to embrace
because it seems like such a lonely trip in the world because you know there is nobody to understand you really,
we look for that understanding but we are looking for understanding of pieces and parts of ourselves by others.
You may call it a spouse, you may call it a parent or a sibling or friends,
any number of friends that we hire in this world on and off to understand pieces and parts and connect with,
you can make all these connections in life and yet they are all fleeting,
they are all people on a long journey from birth to death.
It's not really that you are seeking anybody to understand you, only you know you best because you are only sharing tiny pieces of how you are growing
whenever you are growing, what you think was right and wrong which keeps changing throughout life
and how you make this journey of life through your joys, through your sorrows, through your questioning, through your understanding,
through what you think of each day and feel each day about the world, about the situation around you, about your memories,
all of these things make you an extremely unique individual and the uniqueness is the part that is most difficult for people to embrace.
To think that you are a face in a crowd of 7 billion people on earth or even if you are living in a city of 15 billion for example,
15 million, there is no city of 15 billion fortunately.
So it's embracing the uniqueness which is the most tough part because it feels like you are a very lonely journey
when nobody knows who you really are.
At many times it can feel like this.
Nobody cares about who you are or what kind of things you do or don't do and it may feel like that.
That wound of loneliness is stemming from your own uniqueness.
This is the reason why people refuse to embrace their uniqueness and go around copy pasting all of the other personalities
or what seems like the next bright shiny thing.
Let it be in your work, let it be in your education, let it be in any one of these things.
Let it be even in your hobbies or arts or music or any number of things.
Originality has to come from you to the rest of the world.
You are the light that shines into the rest of the world in your uniqueness.
This light that you carry, this light of uniqueness that you carry has to be studied, has to be understood by you
and only you can evaluate who you are, where you come from and how your life has transpired.
Nobody, not even the best astrologer can tell you what your real nature is, what you bring to the planet.
They can only give you some predictive stuff based on planetary arrangements.
This is the reason why I don't do predictive astrology much or readings much
because it destroys your sense of uniqueness and where you come from and how you can choose to guide your life
or embrace yourself as a unique person.
Uniqueness is one of the most difficult things for a person to handle.
Yes, it's all fine to put a tagline saying you be you or be the most unique person you are.
But where is the uniqueness involved?
Do you know the A, B and C's of this uniqueness about yourself?
Do you know where you really could shine in terms of your talent?
Do you know what you could recalibrate those talents into higher forms of evolution
where you could bring out something unique in this world?
The reason why probably the creator in all his wisdom has made this unique perspective
for every single of the 7 billion of us here right now
could be one of the reasons is that we need all these 7 billion pieces
as part of a large jigsaw puzzle where we are bringing different points of view,
7 billion different points of view into one big jigsaw puzzle.
The whole puzzle is scattered in 7 billion pieces.
So here we are trying to make a sense of our individual life, individual place in the family,
in the culture, in the city, in the town, in the neighborhoods that we live in.
And we are trying to connect the dot in a very, very multidimensional way, very, very expansive way.
So you have to learn to understand the uniqueness will always be there
simply because you are not sharing yourself completely with anyone.
And they are each one of your even the best, most heart connected relationship with a spouse or a partner that you might have.
Even they are in their own process.
It's like a large river of life and everybody is bobbing up and down this river of life at slightly different places.
And they are all having a different unique experience as received by them from life.
You are having an extremely unique experience considering not all we have spoken of so far,
the lineage, the soul memories, the samskaras, your DNA, your planetary level, your ascendant,
which nakshatra you are part of, what is going on in your life.
This picture is extremely deeply rich and complex for every single individual.
That's the beauty and that on one side, the flip side of it is beautiful.
This also means what else can this mean, this uniqueness.
Understand that this means that nobody can really judge you.
You can throw out all the judgments that everybody has ever given you in life out of the window right now.
None of it means anything because the person who was judging you, let it be a parent, let it be a spouse, friends,
workmates, boss, colleague, any number of people, whoever is being judgmental of you,
who is putting guilt, shame, blame, all these kind of lower energies since childhood and all the wounds that it has created in you
is really meaningless. It was their point of view.
One ascendant, everybody is to be born in a certain ascendant.
One ascendant cannot judge another ascendant simply because that is another point of view.
Everything is just a limited point of view.
It's a point of perception and nothing more.
Please understand this. There is nothing more to it about all your past judgments other than their point of view of who you were.
And at that time, since the time a lot has passed in your life, a lot has passed in their life,
hopefully they have learned something about themselves.
Many people don't. Many people don't bother about things like whatever I'm talking about.
They will never come to a talk like this and try to understand anything.
So it means your uniqueness is so beautiful and so unique that you can never be completely understood by any other person.
Doesn't matter how close they are.
At the same time, it also brings you to a place of a different kind of humility within you,
a different kind of recognition that what best can I then be if all of us are strangers,
total strangers to one another, then what behavior of mine or what standpoint of mine can I embrace that would be compassionate,
that would be kind.
Well, it is kindness itself.
This is why the most ancient masters and the masters who have been through every culture and race on this planet have emphasized be kind to one another,
kindness which we speak of in the collaborative education series also.
Kindness is an embodiment.
It's a way you conduct yourself in the world.
The least you can do and the best you can do for another doesn't matter what they are going through or where they are in their life is be kind to them.
You don't know where they come from.
You don't know who they are.
You don't know everybody when everyone of the seven billion is utterly mysterious to one another at a one on one level.
What can you do?
What can I do?
We can be kind to one another.
We can be receptive of another.
We can just be in a neutrality position rather than a judgmental position.
You and I are in no position to judge anybody who comes across because we don't know what their battles are.
We don't know what ascendents they are.
We don't know anything about them as souls embodied souls in human consciousness.
We are utterly mysterious creatures and in this new energies that's being even more amplified.
People now today in spite of all the fantastic tools of communication and information sharing like we have like all this Facebook, Instagram, YouTube etc.
There are so many platforms where we can share and communicate.
We have video communication channels with one another.
We can talk over continents in a flash of a second.
You might have beautiful communication tools but that doesn't remove the fact that you are still very unique, very different wherever you are.
But using all these tools we can develop a sort of a compassionate kindness which has a signature of neutrality about it.
The neutral place is the best place to come to balance within oneself.
If you are neutral to the person or approach a person like you approach a flower for example which you see growing everyday in your backyard.
But you really do not know what that flower is or what that piece of life is.
Approach it from like a baby like curiosity.
A baby's curiosity has no pieces of words like how I am going on about in this podcast.
It has no words. It has no...it hasn't labeled as the baby has not labeled the flowers as petals, as stamen and stigma and as all of these kinds of things.
It has not labeled anything.
It is just observing life in its most raw form and is enchanted by it.
If you can follow this energy of just being enchanted by the whole process of life then you are in touch with the rawness.
You are in touch with the rawness of life.
Then you can be kind because it is so humbling to see this aspect of life which is such a large part of everything around you.
Immediately everything in front of you.
It doesn't matter what's going on in the world or what's going on in your life or in your body even.
Life is calling you to engage with itself in its enchantment.
You are enchanted with it.
You are struck with wonder about what is all this thing about really? Who am I really?
Just staying in that question and being enchanted by the question and just being kind to everyone around.
This is the energy which I wanted to share with you today because it came in very strongly this morning.
As I was just making my first cup I got to get on to my second cup of coffee now.
I'll leave you with this.
Embrace your uniqueness, be kind to one another and embody that kindness in every step you take just for today.
And know that all judgments which anybody has made ever against you is completely pointless and rubbish.
They don't know anything about you.
It doesn't matter how close you think you are to them or they think they were to you.
It doesn't matter.
It's just different points of view and nothing more.
Be safe and have a good day.