Struggling Against the Struggle

In some circles of new age thinking it is being suggested sometimes that life is not meant to be a struggle. It's meant to be joyous and abundant in all areas at all times. The implication here is that struggle is not joyous for us, or a part of our abundance of the love that we possess inwardly to bring outwardly of ourselves from living our lives.

Struggle to me allows this process of bringing the inner out to our outer life, and so even the inner then has experiences of itself in real life. Experience matched with our own truth in this way is the only way for us to build for ourselves our wisdom pool of understanding and applied knowledge.

The adherents of the above philosophy tell us that when we experience something that we struggle with ( notice my use of the word "with" here, and not the word "against" ), it is really only God or the Universe telling us that we are not thinking or living our lives properly. We only have to right our wrong thoughts, they tell us to feel joyous again, and so to remove our struggling.

This seems fair enough I guess, but is it the full story?

What purpose does struggle play in our lives? Are we meant to struggle or not?

Even nature certainly seems to struggle against itself at times.

Love itself absorbs all struggles within its entirety.

Within love however, struggle persists so that love can have a chance to separate itself into differing facets or aspects of itself. Love does this to enable itself to know itself. Struggle causes splits to occur in which love can re-enter and then heal. This healing process of love is a learning process, and love learns from its own struggles to allow itself another chance to love again, and now with a greater understanding.

Am I in control of my own struggle simply because I am responsible for all and everything that ever happens in my life?

If this is indeed truth it means that I have always brought my struggles about in some way myself for myself.

Love is responsible for all things ultimately because love is God.

You are responsible for the love living within yourself and how you act with or against it in your life. When you act with love, life is not so much then a struggle anymore, but more an opening towards a joyous and full life of flowing with love and not so much sitting down with the struggles of life. It's all a matter of attitude and perception.

Some people enjoy the struggle of mountain climbing and taking the next step upwards towards themselves. Others are more content to see struggle as a millstone around their neck rather than as a stepping stone leading them up that very same mountain.

"Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!"

Quoted from Swami Sivananda, an Indian Spiritual Master, (1887 to 1963)

Does struggle really give life its only meaning then in this way?

Life finds its meaning within love by struggling its way to an understanding of the truths hidden within love. Love hides its truths because they are all contained and "lost" or hidden within its infinite scope. They are hidden within infinity, and can only be seen from the finite aspects of infinity.

God lives from total love and all truths just accompany him in all that he does. God defines truth by being God, and yet even God wanted to see these truths in action, and so he created souls to achieve this purpose.

When love is individualised from God creating souls, love then starts looking deeply within itself to find these hidden or lost truths and to try to understand why it is that it seems to be separated from love and from God. When soul obtains an understanding and awareness of all of love's truths, it is reconnected to God fully once more again, and is then one with God again, and is enlightened or God realised now.

Soul still functions as itself within God, but it serves God fully now from the particular aspect of love or the purpose of itself that it was created for. Every part of God has such a distinctively individualised purpose to enable it to serve love, God and all other souls from the love within itself.

This is not a struggle of hardship for that soul anymore, but it is always only ever now a gift of service of its love back to the one love that is God.

Most of us have an ongoing internal struggle going on within us between our mind and our heart. This struggle is ongoing and our heart is the positive aspect of our love here. When you are too much only living in your mind and allowing your mind to look at your heart as only an object for yourself to love, and not as an object to love from, you will always struggle with this concept of allowing your heart to fully love independently of your mind.

Your mind always wants control over your heart, and the wanting of control always makes for struggles. Love can never be controlled in this way. Love to be fully love must always be totally free to follow only itself and no other, including not even following your own mind, or being controlled by it.

Struggle purifies in a way that cleanses negativity from parts of yourself that are becoming unbalanced and holding onto negativity. The mind represents the negative part of you that is doubting your heart. The heart is the positive aspect of you that struggles against the mind's negativity. Duality struggles within itself to rebalance itself back into the one love without realising that the one is already and always balanced in both aspects of duality.

The one love is only ever separated out like this to allow the rubbing together of different aspects of itself to allow itself to love with an experience that can only arise from a deeper understanding of itself. This deeper understanding is only ever obtained from recombining its parts to bring a greater loving about that what it was possible for love to achieve before from it only resting on its own surface of infinite love.

Previously love was only just skimming its own surface of its immense ocean of love. Life from being immersed fully within this ocean allows love to now know itself at last to its real depths. Creation of soul allows love to struggle within itself to find meaning within itself. God finds himself within us. We need to struggle within ourselves as we begin to understand ourselves, God and his purpose for himself and for us.

Creation and life allows love to dive deep within itself in this way, and life only struggles with this when it thinks that it cannot breath while being fully immersed within love. Love will eventually teach you through experiences of itself like this to understand itself better and for you to be more comfortable as you love too from all of yourself more fully and completely now as well.

It another way it is also a truth that we can't ever struggle against the perfection of oneness. All struggle therefore must really be only ever against our own self imposed, self created restrictions and limitations, and from us not seeing or not wanting to see the fuller picture exactly as it really is.

In a way then the paradox of struggle is that we need not ever struggle, but to just be the part of the struggle or the oneness that we are. Struggle is just our label then in this view, because nothing else is happening except for the oneness being itself.

Struggle on the one hand awakens you to seeing that something is causing you to struggle, but on the other hand you can get attached to the struggling. Walking a thin line between struggling and flowing is the perfection of love being itself in you. Just be and stop forcing love to be in you. Stop struggling against life and love and flow with love while at the same time not actually ever flowing, but being.

Nothing ever flows, as all is just forever just forever as it just is.

All we are doing is expanding our perception of all to be able to see all from all parts of our self. Like God we are everywhere, and there is nowhere where we are not.

All is us and we are all. Oneness would have it no other way. When we are completely immersed within oneness all struggle ceases even as we become ourselves within the oneness. The infinite live in the oneness as much as the oneness embraces the infinite from within itself.

We can often feel fatigue in ourselves from our struggling.

An interesting question to ask here at the end of my article is, does God ever suffer from fatigue himself?

My answer is that God does indeed feel fatigue, and that he also struggles in a way when his grant of freedom to himself, or to us, the created parts of himself, struggle against him. God's fatigue is not so much fatigue of course, as much as it is only God trying to find new ways to love that which refuses to be loved.

God will never give up this struggle, until we all fully accept his love.