You are a Sacred Spark of the One Supreme Whole

Rukmini Walker

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[perfectpullquote align="full" cite="" link="" color="" class="" size=""] "Comparison is the thief of joy."  Theodore Roosevelt [/perfectpullquote]

Most of us spend at least some of our waking energy comparing ourselves to others: our work output, our capabilities of various sorts, our intelligence, our beauty, our education, our agility in yoga, our financial stability, even our detachment from all of these things. Sometimes after comparing ourselves to another we feel appreciation for them, but at other times we feel jealousy.

When we can pause and appreciate someone’s good qualities we become enriched by them. When enviousness or jealousy rears their ugly faces, a door can open to the dark side, leading, perhaps, we know not where.

 I love this quote from Mother Teresa, who worked so selflessly, along with her sisters, for so many years caring for the needs of the poor in the mean streets of Kolkata. She said:

[perfectpullquote align="full" cite="" link="" color="" class="" size=""] “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean.

But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

~Mother Teresa~ [/perfectpullquote]

In other words, we are tiny as innumerable, infinitesimal jiva souls: we are insignificant. But yet, as a sacred spark of the Supreme Whole we can tell ourselves: “I am sacred, I am worthy, and my contribution, however small, is seen, is recognized, and is accepted by the One Supreme Whole, Sri Krishna.” He is the One who sits in our hearts, the One who sees all things, and hears every word that’s spoken, even in a whisper.

Each one of us possesses an original constellation of qualities—each of us unique like a snowflake. How can one be compared to another?!?

Each offering I make—each offering you make—is unprecedented in its uniqueness. No other person can, or will do it (whatever that may be), exactly the same way you or I will do it. And that’s our beauty, given to us by Krishna, that’s the beauty given to us to offer back to Lord Krishna.

And when each of us from each of our unique perspectives can appreciate that beauty, then we all become enriched.