The Festival of Wesak is celebrated on the full moon of Taurus (full moon when the sun is in Taurus). At the hour of the full moon, the light volume of the sun is at its optimum and it is this energy of the sun that we seek to amplify and disseminate. As Djwhal Khul said:
The moon itself has no influence on the work; but the fully-lighted orb of the moon indicates a free and unimpeded alignment between our planet and the sun, the solar centre, the energy source for all life on Earth. At such times we can make a definite approach to God, the Creator, the centre of life and intelligence…..
Wesak is January 1st: Beginning of a New Spiritual Year – Time to Renew Yourself
Spiritually speaking, Wesak is January 1st for all those of us who are beginning to awaken to the greater reality of the Divine life. Wesak is the beginning of a new Spiritual year. And to launch this new year, a new impulse is given – followed by the formulation of an evolutionary plan for the Spiritual year ahead, to actualize the impulse.
In other words: Wesak is the perfect time of the year to give our life a new direction, to ponder on our evolutionary goal and decide to live a purposeful life. Wesak is the perfect moment to start over again, to start something new or to renew something already existing. And the reason why it is the perfect time to start over is because the Spiritual leadership guiding humanity gathers to set a new, higher evolutionary goal for the year – and they are forwarding the impulse to advance to humanity. That‘s why at Wesak we have an added stimulus to refresh our aspirations and efforts. At Wesak fresh energies are released to the planet, and these fresh energies inspire a fresh effort in us IF we are open to receiving it.
Christ said, „Be ye renewed by the renewal of your mind.“ We have to constantly renew our mind, renew our emotional nature, renew our body, renew our relationships, renew our service, renew every aspect of our lives. The one thing we cannot do in life is stand still. We have to keep renewing ourselves. The moment we stop renewing ourselves, we start going backwards. We begin to involve instead of evolve. Renewal means evolution.
Let‘s renew our vision and come up with the greatest vision for an enlightened humanity that we can possibly conceive. Let‘s renew our mind and think new thoughts. Let‘s renew our motivation. Let‘s renew our emotional nature and feel the higher vibrations of love and joy and beauty. Let‘s renew our language and raise it to the next level. Let‘s renew our diet and raise the vibration of our physical/etheric vehicle. Let‘s renew our physical life and do new things, take new actions – in service of love and light and wisdom. If we never renew our life and consciousness, we just keep going in circles. If we never renew our life, we involve instead of evolve. Involution is densification. Evolution is spiritualization. We have an evolutionary goal, not an involutionary goal. Our current evolutionary goal is to grow into a Soul-conscious species.
Wesak is the perfect time of the year to say, „Today, I will go and arise to my Father (Monad). Today I will start over and begin a new life. Today I shall be reborn. Beginning today, I will make my evolution and Spiritual progress a priority in my life and transform myself into an enlightened man/woman.“
So, Wesak is the perfect time to renew ourselves on all fronts; to improve ourselves on all levels. When we try to improve ourselves, when we try to do better today than we did yesterday, and to do better tomorrow than we do today, we are slowly but steadily transforming ourselves. Just by setting the goal to improve one aspect of ourselves each day (for the next 365 days), we are slowly but steadily transforming ourselves. Are you ready for the challenge?
Wesak, being the beginning of a new Spiritual year, is the perfect day of the year to renew ourselves and to take our life and consciousness to the next level. At Wesak, the leadership of the planet shares a great divine vision with humanity, and when we deliberately tune in and manage to gain a glimpse of that greater vision, we receive new inspiration, motivation and aspiration which in turn fuels us on to keep striving. And in our striving to actualize the vision we receive, we begin to create plans. A vision is an image of the future that we want to step into. The plan is the steps we decide to take to step into the vision.
So Wesak is the perfect time of the year to make a plan for your Spiritual growth for the next 365 days. How do you want to grow? What do you want to work on during the next year? Pick some themes and get started: i.e., work on your emotional nature, develop your mind, actualize virtues (which are Soul energies), decipher and actualize your inner potential, purify your diet, strengthen your link with your Soul, take your service work to the next level, look at yourself and decipher all your vices and hindrances, illusions, glamour and maya and start sublimating them systematically etc. Start a Spiritual diary and start to work on your unfoldment in a systemic way. If you think about it, we all plan our vacations, but how many of us sit down and plan our evolution and life? Wesak is the perfect moment to sit down, go within, look where we stand, decide where we want to go, determine on a goal and then get ready for some new learning. There is so much to do. Once we begin to grasp the purpose of life and the need of the hour, we can no longer afford to waste our time, our energy, our life. Now is the time to get serious! Are you serious?
