Being Love

A Variation of Song of the Soul by Shankaracharya
from another point on the Ball of Perspective called RYD

Love is neither ego nor reason, Love is neither mind nor thought.
Love cannot be heard nor cast into words, nor by smell nor sight ever caught.

In light and wind, Love is not found, nor yet in earth and sky.
Consciousness and joy incarnate, Bliss of the Blissful is Love.

Love has no name, Love has no life, Love breathes no vital air.
No elements have moulded Love, no bodily sheath is Love’s lair.

Love has no speech, no hands and feet, nor means of evolution.
Consciousness and Joy is Love, and Bliss in dissolution.

Love casts aside hatred and passion, Love has conquered delusion and greed.
No touch of pride caresses Love, so envy never did breed.

Beyond all faiths, past reach of wealth, past freedom, past desire.
Consciousness and joy is Love, and Bliss is Love’s attire.

Virtue and vice, or pleasure and pain are not Love’s heritage,
nor sacred texts, nor offerings, nor prayer, nor pilgrimage.

Love is neither food, nor eating, nor yet the eater is Love.
Consciousness and joy incarnate, Bliss of the Blissful is Love.

Love has no misgiving of death, no chasms of race divides Love,
No parent ever called Love child, no bond of birth ever tied Love.

Love is neither disciple nor master, Love has no kin, no friend. ­
Consciousness and joy is Love, and merging in Bliss is Love’s end.

Neither knowable, knowledge, nor knower is Love, formless is Love’s form,
​Love dwells within the senses but they are not Love’s home.

Ever serenely balanced, Love is neither free nor bound.
Consciousness and joy is Love, and Bliss is where Love is found.

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Hat-tip: Anju, Thank you for sharing Song of the Soul 💜

The above variation is an expression of Gear 5 Consciousness where the Whole Soul is - I am Infinite Love. I am Infinite Joy. I am Infinite Equanimity. I am Infinite Loving Kindness. I am Infinite Abundance. 

RYD Distinctions are distinct points on the Ball of Perspective offered for inquiry, investigation, experimentation, exploration, reflection, integration and contribution for greater impact to support you to joyously lead yourself and your businesses from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; experiencing beauty, balance and harmony within and all around; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way.

The intention of an RYD Distinction is not to give you solutions for your questions or to give you advise but to offer you a Hypothesis for your inquiry, investigation, experimentation, exploration and reflection to support you to get in touch with your Inner Wisdom, discover your Truth and take action from there.

Only your Truth will give you access to your Power to Create™ to generate Reality in alignment with your intentions and dreams.

Truth needs to be discovered. Other people's Truth, even God's Truth, does not serve us on our Good to Great journey. 

It's our own Hero's journey from Good to Great through inquiry, investigation, experimentation, exploration, reflection, integration and action for greater impact that leads us forward.

Reading a book, even a Sacred Text, is like reading a menu card in a restaurant. We are reading someone else's experience and someone's else' Truth. This is good because it helps in Intellectual Understanding of what the Truth could be like. We can be sure of what the Truth is, only if we experience it ourselves. Reading the Menu Card is not experience as yet.

We came to this restaurant because other people said the food in this restaurant is good. We believed and came to the restaurant, which is good because at least we are now in the restaurant to explore what the Truth is.

Seeing the enjoyment on the faces of other people as they are eating food in the restaurant is a validation of our Intellectual Understanding that food in this restaurant is good and yet, this is not experiential understanding. 

Only Direct Experience serves to progress us on our inner Good to Great journey (Leadership Depth).

The food is served to us on the table, and we use our hands to bring the food to our mouth, we chew and taste the food. This is Direct Experience. This is Experiential Understanding. Now we can say through our Direct Experience what our Truth is - Food is good or Food is not good or Food is good but not to our liking. We can now live our Truth, make choices on how to live based on our Truth, our Direct Experience of what the Reality is for us.

Imagine coming to the restaurant every day to eat food just because our parents and grandparents came here everyday and enjoyed the food. Let's enjoy the food at this restaurant because we enjoy it after having tasted the food. 

For us to realize our highest potential, realize our impossible unimaginable crazy-big dreams and have it all requires us to break free from beliefs that we have inherited and unconsciously adopted from the multiple communities that we belong to. Let's consciously investigate each belief and choose those beliefs and create new beliefs that support us on our Good to Great journey to lead ourselves and our businesses from good to great, realize our dreams and have it all with ease and grace; experiencing beauty, balance and harmony within and all around; while having lot's of fun and adventure along the way. 

Use the learnings from others as a foundation for your own journey of growth. Newton said - I saw further than anyone before me because I stood on the shoulders of giants (scientists before him).

Let's stand on the shoulders of giants and learn from masters around the world, irrespective of their gender, race, religion, language, country. Everything from everywhere is our shared heritage as human beings. 

Here are few RYD Distinctions for you to inquire into, investigate and explore for you to find your Truth, your point of your view on the Ball of Perspective around Reality that serves you to access your Power to Create™ to generate Reality in alignment with your Intentions and Dreams:

1. Spirituality: Spirituality is the real fruit of Religion, which is the Universal Truth across all religions. Whatever divides people on the name of religion - rituals, mythology, theology - are peels of religion designed to support people on their journey to become Spiritual.

Unfortunately, people get distracted by the peels and forget the real essence of what religion is about.

Being Spiritual is to be Love. Being Spiritual is to realize our highest potential by making a massive positive impact to the communities that we have a privilege to belong to.

Here's an exploration for your further inquiry - What has Spirituality got to do with Business?

This is a Gear 3 Distinction.

2. Breaking Free: Unconscious Beliefs become our barriers on the way from Good to Great. Look at each Belief with Raw Honesty through inquiry, investigation, experimentation, exploration and reflection to find your Truth, your point of view on the Ball of Perspective around Reality that serves you to access your Power to Create™ to generate Reality in alignment with your Intentions and Dreams.

A Belief is a point of view on the Ball of Perspective.

Consciously choose those beliefs from your existing repertoire and create new beliefs that support you to joyously lead yourself and your businesses from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way.

Here's an exploration for your further inquiry - Breaking Free

This is a Gear 3 Distinction.

3. Taking Responsibility for the World: Taking on more responsibility - beginning with our own life, of people around us, of the communities we belong to, of our country that birthed us, of our planet - doesn’t need more of our time and more hard work, it needs us to grow ourselves to be more Love.

Which fits in beautifully with our own individual journey of evolution and transformation as a human being.

More Love we become, greater a channel of Impact we can be.

This is a Gear 5 Distinction.

4. 80 / 20 Thinker: Distinction of being a 80 / 20 Thinker is available only in Gear 3 because by then, we have learnt to drop limiting beliefs about our own self, about others and about Life itself by starting with seeing the extraordinary in our own self, seeing the extraordinary in others and seeing the extraordinary in Life itself; inspite of all the darkness that may exist alongside in our own self, in others and in Life itself.

By dropping limiting beliefs at all the 3 levels,  we become an Empty Space as our mind becomes an Empty Space for gorgeous, breathtaking Creativity to emerge allowing us to see the 20% inputs that will create 80% outcomes.

5. 1For5: As we become more Love in Gear 4, the Distinction of 1For5 (1 Action fulfilling 5 Intentions) becomes available to us because 1For5 requires willing partnership of people around us which we receive because in Gear 4, people experience themselves as extraordinary in our space. 

6. DLCMi: As we become fully Love in Gear 5, the Distinction of DLCM (Do Less to Create More impact) finally becomes available to us in all its glory because people in our Space begin to see the extraordinary in each other and joyously partner with each other to fulfil on Intentions and Dreams for which we may have been the source, but now have become shared and co-owned because these Intentions and Dreams deeply resonate with people in our Space. 

7. Being a Leader is a Sacred Responsibility
Being a Leader is a sacred responsibility
a. to support people around us to be present to their own greatness and fully live it. Only inside of that, will we get a window to see our own greatness and get an access to fully live it.
b. to support people to lead themselves and their work from good to great, realize their greatest dreams in deepest communion with their highest self and have it all. Only inside of that, do we get the power to lead ourselves and our work from good to great, realize our greatest dreams in deepest communion with our highest self and have it all.
c. to support people by serving them. Only inside of that, will we serve the god in ourselves and be truly fulfilled.

This is a Gear 4 Distinction.

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Here's a Variation of a Prayer by St Francis of Assisi
from another point on the Ball of Perspective called RYD.

The RYD Leadership Oath
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Grace, make me an instrument of thy peace.

Where there is hatred, let me be love.
Where there is injury, let me be forgiveness.
Where there is doubt, let me be childlike trust and faith.

Where there is despair, let me be optimism.
Where there is darkness, let me be light.
​Where there is sadness, let me be joy.

Where there is negativity, let me be soothing joyful positivity.
Where there is chaos, let me be peaceful order.
Where there is confusion, let me be clarity.

Where there is self-doubt and self-criticism, let me be loving kindness and nurturing acceptance for my own self.
Where there is lack of self-belief, let me be unconditional belief and trust in my own undeniable greatness.
Where there is struggle, let me be joyful effortless creation.

Where there is lack, scarcity, yearning; let me be abundance and prosperity.
Where there is lethargy, boredom, inaction; let me be enthusiasm, passion and powerful, effective action.
Where there is mediocrity, let me be excellence and mastery.

Where there is judgement, let me be deep understanding and reverence for all points of view.
Where there is anger and hurt, let me be loving tenderness.
Where there is arrogance, let be me grateful humility.

Where there is treachery and betrayal; let me be childlike trust and faith, integrity, unconditional love and acceptance.
Where there is bitterness and resentment; let me be forgiveness, gratitude and joy.
Where there is indifference, let me be love.

Where there is meaninglessness, let me be joyously inspired Purpose.
Where there is cynicism, resignation and hopelessness, let me be soothing, centering optimism.
Where there is fear, let me be loving embrace of all of my fears and joyous effective action.

Where there is resistance, let me be graceful acceptance and childlike trust and faith to gently flow with the river of Life.
Where there is humiliation and rejection, let me be love and grace.
Where there is irritation and frustration, let me me peace, equanimity, unconditional love and acceptance.

​Where there is sickness and disease, let me be childlike trust and faith, optimism, health, fitness and joyous well-being.

Oh, Divine Grace, grant that I seek to console than to be consoled.
I seek to understand than to be understood.
I seek to love than to be loved.
For, it is in giving that we receive.
It is in forgiving that we are forgiven.
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.

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Let's learn, grow and contribute to joyously lead ourselves and our businesses from good to great, realize our dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way.

Loving you,
j.​