Although I expect to soon being back to “normal”, these days when we all commemorated Michael Jackson were very sweet and I consider it also a change in world consciousness that he was remembered with soo much love (instead of other feelings prevailing) by so many individuals.
We all know, Michael Jackson was a human being and had his beautiful and uplifting sides and maybe also some sides that were not yet completely perfect, shadow sides, that most human beings carry in their inside.
Yet, now that he passed on most of us chose to remember the wonderful sides and there was great upliftment and joy and love and a profound positive upwelling of the heart in many across the globe. Deepak talked in his first tribute to Michael of the pure and innocent soul Michael possessed. Michael was a public person and loved being in the public. Some people find this in itself already dubious and a fault in character. I am accepting of it as something that is just natural and on the line of the dharma of some individuals.
Today I saw again the clip with Queen’s beautiful address at Michael’s memorial. She is a powerful woman and by nature radiates much healthy happiness. Hearing her read the very comforting, beautiful, uplifting poem by Maya Angelou “We had him” was really rays of light and beauty. Afterwards I saw and heard again Michael’s brother’s Jermaine tearful performance of “Smile” at the memorial and later saw a You tube video with Michael Jackson presenting Elizabeth Taylor the Jackson Family Honor award in 2006 To see Michael with lots of fans present in the hall and at the same time his sincere love and appreciation of Elizabeth Taylor, his long term friend, the grand old lady of film, who had undergone so much hardship herself with cancer surgeries, heart failure etc and now engaged in public awareness campaigns of HIV /AIDS and raising funds for support services, AIDS prevention, research and education, was very sweet to witness. He wanted to show his love to her and he did! But what was also quite touching was how he interacted with his fans that filled the audience. He interrupted his eulogy of Liz Taylor a few times to answer the many calls from the audience with “I love you too” and “Up there I love you” and “I see you, I love you”.
It reminded me of how being – particularly a music – star really is a deeply spiritual profession (as being a government leader is too by the way). There is a deep yearning of spiritual fulfillment that is expressed by those teen fans and young people (not only those) who adore their star. It was touching to see how Michael answered it with a broad smile on his face by asserting that he loved these fans too. I felt reminded of a woman saint – Ammachi – who travels the globe and has become famous as the hugging saint as she has become famous by hugging thousands and even hundreds of thousands of people in only one continuous session individually one after the other . This way she also responds to the deep spiritual yearning of, as has been mentioned, often tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands of people allowing them to approach her and being hugged by her.
I myself have been blessed to study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whom I consider the greatest spiritual teacher of the century and far beyond. Not every saint is a teacher. He or she is an expression of a highly elevated state of consciousness, a state of purity, but must not necessarily be an exponent of the most systematic path to the realization of this state or the most profound intellectual understanding of the state. Maharishi is unequalled in his profound understanding and ability of making Western modern science and ancient Eastern or Vedic science meet and has been selfless in spreading and propagating this knowledge and at the same time practical procedures of meditation to develop and experience higher states of consciousness. All his teaching has been preserved and is being made available in a systematized form. And everyone who got to know him will attest his great love and compassion for mankind.
Yet, any enlightened and saintly person has his or her own unique role to play in blessing mankind by living his or her particular dharma. The hugging saint has been a source of the demonstration of the all-encompassing, pure, motherly love extending to any human being, in fact any being, and has answered the yearning for spiritual fulfillment in her own empathetic and beautiful way with lots of charity works.
Michael Jackson had been an artist who sincerely wanted to uplift his audience in a profoundly spiritual way and he did so with great songs and e.g. incredible music videos (I saw today also the video on his Earth song, one example of his great endeavor to bring meaning and healing to the world through performances and music). He felt great love in his heart for his fans. I asked myself: Is or can the love for fans be really true love? It’s maybe not always the can, but it can be, I believe, and I do believe that Michael Jackson had this kind of love in him and therefore strived to excel and give his fans the experience of a state of ecstasy, of love, fulfillment and joy – if only for a moment or a few hours.
I truly am grateful for this and I want to state once more how much it has fulfilled my heart.
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