If we desire to grow in consciousness caring is an essential ingredient to have in our bucket of daily disciplines. To hold a caring attitude we must position our minds to always ask, ‘What can I offer in this situation that will provide grace for the moment?’ To care is to be aware.
Caring is an intention. In caring we include others-their needs, feelings, ideas and motivations. We develop a heightened alertness to those around us and to our environment. To care is to go the extra mile to participate in someone else’s sense of well being.
True care flows from a vital connection to the God of our understanding. Caring about the quality of this connection stands head and shoulders above any other consideration in life. When we do so everything else falls into place.
If we are genuinely connected to the ground of our being, caring for others will result in a natural out-pouring of good will. Connection to the Divine heightens our perceptual acuity alerting us to people and situations that cry out for our attention. Everything flows from divine source.
The opposite of caring is entitlement where we seek to ‘grab’ what we can for ourselves, living with the delusion that consuming will satisfy our hunger for fulfillment. Instead of considering others we consider only self, greedily harvesting what we can from the moment.
If we want to grow in consciousness and evolve spiritually deciding to care is a good place to start.
Caring requires that:
- We care most about our connection to the God of our understanding as true caring has its antecedents in this vital bond.
- We intentionally tune into the needs of our environment and those around us.
- We adopt a mindset of giving and ask ‘What can I offer in this situation?’
- We act in the interests of the wellbeing of another releasing the outcome allowing the wisdom of nature to do its work.
To practise this virtue it is useful to reflect at the end of each day on how we performed. A caring exchange is never a one way transaction and our capacity in this area can always improve. Paradoxically it is in giving for the benefit of others and all of creation that we receive.
But the greatest benefit of caring as Mr. Trivedi so aptly reminds us is in the solidification of our relationship with the abundant Source of all care.
Resting in this cosmic mystery allows us enjoy a deep and abiding peace where all is well.
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