Blessings for the Whole Cosmos

Do you sometimes feel that in the face of the immensity of problems the world is beset with, there is only very little that you as an individual can do to help solve them? Do you sometimes feel that no matter what little acts of kindness you might do at your personal level, it doesn’t make a great difference to the challenges that exist at the macro level? Do you sometimes wish you could do more to change the world but feel that given your present situation, you just aren’t able to do very much? Do you sometimes wish your life were more fruitful in terms of practical engagement to make the world a better place?  

The fact of the matter is that as individuals, there is only so much we can do in terms of deeds geared to positively transforming the world as it presently is. None of us is tasked with the responsibility of completely overhauling the world, and the best we can do is to try to do the most we can with the limited abilities and resources we have been given. This means that our scope of action in terms of ‘good deeds’ will necessarily be circumscribed and will be generally confined to the particular context in which each of us is located at a given point in time. After all, we can’t be everywhere on Earth at the same time and doing there all the good that is humanly possible.

Be that as it may, there is one way we can transcend the boundaries of space and do good at the global level, and even at the level of the cosmos as a whole. This is by sending out blessings or thoughts of loving-kindness to whomever or whatever we wish to, irrespective of geographical location. We can send blessings to sentient beings (humans as well as all others) and even things no matter where in the world they might be. We can send blessings to particular places, even at the other side of the globe from where we presently are. We can send blessings on fraught situations in any part of Earth. And, going beyond our planet, we can send blessings to beings, places, things and situations anywhere else in the vast, and possibly infinite, universe! One can even send blessings for the whole cosmos and all that it contains. And the good news is that we don’t need to go anywhere from where we presently are to do so, as this little ditty tells us:

          Sitting in the comfort of your bedroom chair

          You can send blessings to all beings everywhere!

There is nothing very technical about this sending out of blessings. An easy way to do it is to visualize in one’s mind the being, object, place, situation or phenomenon that one wants to send blessings to and request God to bless them.  This method is so simple that just about anyone can do it.

Sending blessings in this manner across the world (and even beyond) can thus be one way in which we can do good at the global (and even cosmic) level. A blessing is a form of thought; a thought is a form of energy; energy is a form of power; and every form of power has its own form of impact, and so, the blessings one sends out quite possibly impact for the good, in some way or the other, the object to which they are sent, even if it is located at the far end of the universe. But even if this is not really so and if sending out good thoughts doesn’t transform the object(s) to which they are sent even in the least, it certainly does have a beneficial impact on at least one little component of the universe—we, ourselves—becoming for us a means for our own inner transformation.