Power to Be

I am fascinated by the amount of positive energy that flows in the world around me, and it takes some effort for me to realise that the source of such energy is the same : the universe that pours out this unending stream of life-energy into the heart of human beings. The English poet Gerarld Manly Hopkins seems to have wondered looking at the creation around him with such excitment that lyrics flowed from his heart: The world is charged with the grandeur of God, and I may take liberty to re-paraphrase this line as : the universe is charged with the grandeur of positive energy. Note that special adjective I use before energy, positive; because we in this world are flooded with different sorts of energy, and only about one third of the energy could be called positive, and the rest, all negative, destructive.

Sometimes I am not merely fascinated, but obsessed with the concept of this positive energy that is present all around us... it is like air, the crisscrossing of invisible electronic waves, the radio waves, and the satellite television channels will talk in terms of the "spectrum", which refers to the space for them to be present in the cyber world and project their waves... The world is full of the energy, and each one of us contribute towards this energy, either positively or negatively; but one thing we cannot refuse to : stand away from affecting the energy spectrum. If we are not affecting the energy spectrum of the universe positively, we are affecting it negatively. Each one of us affects the universe in one way or another.

But how can I affect the universe when I have very little or no contact with it at all? We are part of the vast universe, and we all of us have our own little roles to play in the pageant of the universe... comical or tragical. We are called in often to swim in the ever-flowing stream of the energy in the world, and as I affect the stream, I am also affected by it. The effect is felt on both the ends. But today I would like to turn my attention not so much to myself, one of the origins of the energy, but to the universe. Each one of us contribute to the energy level of the world, but we do not honestly know in what way I affect the universe, positively or negatively. But it is not all too difficult to make out how I affect the energy spectrum of the universe.

We all of us attract from the universe the very same thing that we have contributed to the world around me; while the universe sucks out of me the kind of energy that I am full of, similarly it fills me with the same kind of energy that I fill her, at times even from the sources other than my own. Doesn't it sound quite strange? In other words I attract to myself all that I require to be myself. It is the universe that makes me what I truly am. The greatest and most difficult task for me in the world is to BE. To be faithful to what I am called to BE in the universe. When I am all too bored with life, then I take recourse to activities that put me in perpetual noise, unwanted, undesirable elements of irritation and distraction. The greatest challenge for me today is to BE.

When I try to be faithful to my true inner self, I attract such positive energy from the universe that I will have all the power and energy to burn the whole world to ashes; I will have the energy to feel all the people of the universe; I will have all the waters to quench the thirst of the entire humanity. Today I pause for a while in the midst of my busy schedule and ask myself, do I recognise the positive energy that is flowing in and through me? I close my eyes for two minutes or three and allow myself to be; to run with the current, allowing myself to be touched, shaped by the powerful current. Let me put aside all the distractions which will keep the thin voice of the energy spectrum silent, and surrender myself to the powerful energy quotient, which is the life-giving force for the universe. Because every person who IS, is the one who can redeem the world through his/her grit. There is no greater achievement in life than being myself.