September 2015
By Nirbha Ghurye
Birthdays are not just exciting celebrations of our birth, they are also the time when our potential for spiritual growth is most acute, says Nirbha Ghurye
Everyone knows that birthdays are special. After all, it is the day we were created. The one day that is exclusively ours. Excitement builds up weeks before the event. Mysterious parcels are whisked out of sight at our appearance. Plans for the celebration get firmed up. Shopping for new clothes is an allowed indulgence. And when the actual day dawns, lunches, dinners, parties, presents, hugs, and wishes pour down upon us. Of course, Facebook has added a whole new dimension to this exercise by flooding us with so many wishes and messages that it is entirely possible to be deluded into imagining that the whole world has been waiting breathlessly for this day to dawn!
Generally speaking, therefore, birthdays leave us feeling happy, fulfilled, and just that little bit special.
What, however, if that is not all to birthdays? What if there is a whole higher aspect to the day that we are not privy to? What if birthdays are also our portal to higher consciousness?
On January 6th, five days before her birthday, facilitator Anuradha Ramesh had an explosive experience of the Christ consciousness that forever changed her life and transitioned her into a life of healing (read more about it in Heartspeak, Pg 16). What is more, she points out that some sources attribute the birthday of Christ to January 6, instead of December 25.
Swati Chandra Prakash, a UK-based Wiccan, reveals that her recent birthday in June brought her to a stage where she could be energised with little or no food. “My family has been panicking like crazy wondering if I would starve them, but thankfully my cooking skills and inclination have not dipped,” she smiles.
Perhaps Paulami Mukherjee’s case illustrates the uncanny equation between birthdays and destiny the best, Until she was eight or nine, her birthdays were always preceded by or even highlighted by illness. After that, came a phase of divine access. “I would smell angelic scents, talk to God for hours, and whatever I wished for came true. During this phase I no longer fell ill.”
As she grew older, however, her communion with God grew fainter as she immersed herself in the business of life. It was once again around her birthdays in 2010 and 2012, that she was given the impetus to move on the spiritual path. “In 2010 just before my birth month some very close people tried to harm me through the usage of energies in a negative way, which actually impelled me to move into healing.”
But the most dramatic evidence was in 2012.
She concludes, “I now know that the birth month/day is the time where not only your body gains another year, but you too have the space to grow and develop.”
The Mother of Aurobindo Ashram endorses Paulomi’s conclusion emphatically: “{The birthday} is one of those days in the year when the Supreme descends into us, or when we are face to face with the Eternal …and if we remain a little conscious, we can feel His Presence within us. If we make a little effort on this day, we accomplish the work of many lives as in a lightning flash. That is why I give so much importance to the birthday – because what one gains in one day is truly incomparable.”
Ranjini Bannerjee, a Kolkata-based Akashic Records reader and writer, gives an astrological interpretation of the day, “The placement of the Sun in your birth chart reflects that area of your life where you made a karmic/spiritual promise to shine the brightest and fulfill your maximum potential. Each year on your birthday the Sun returns to the same position where it was in the sky at the time of your birth. So annual charts made on your birthday are the Solar Return charts.”
She adds, “If you pay close attention, you will notice that some patterns show up with clockwork precision around your birthday, highlighting certain areas/aspects of your life which are the domain of the house in which the Sun is placed in your birth chart. The area of the Sun house may also be one of the most demanding areas of your life, since you made a karmic promise to shine your light brightest in this aspect and birthdays bring up all the patterns that are either assisting or blocking you from achieving your potential as per your Sun house.”
Ellaeenah, an energy intuit, spiritual healer and counsellor, adds, “The circle of each lifetime gets completed every 365 days where the energy of a person’s world closes his cycle. Hence each birthday provides us a novel opportunity to review our life in the form of these simple yet profound questions such as , ‘Who am I ?’, ‘How have I grown over the past year?’,
‘What am I grateful for on this earth?.’ It’s only when we thoroughly introspect our past year that we are able to treat each birthday as a rebirth and embark on a new cycle.”
Pregnant as it is with spiritual possibilities, it makes sense to plan one’s intentions for the year ahead, a month before your birthday, says Kaiser Irani, secretary to the late renowned sage, Vimala Thakar.
She explains that when we truly believe in something and have imagined ourselves living it, we have involved our higher self. Having involved our higher self means the event has actually occurred in the inter dimensional realm, hence has to materialise in the physical plane. Nothing can prevent it from emanating in the future provided there is no vestige of self-doubt.
Osho eloquently said, “One birth has been given to you by your parents, The other birth is waiting. It has to be given to you by yourself.”
And your birthday is here to be the midwife to your second birth.
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