16.09.2014

Happiness in the Heart
To have questions in your heart means to be distressed
and to cause distress for others. Therefore, be one who
has happiness in the heart, not questions in the heart.
Have Faith
Whenever one experiences deception in relationships,
there is disappointment and one tends to get
disheartened. At such times feelings are destroyed and
one tends to reject people and move away from them -
mostly physically and always in the mind. When dealing
with others if exchanges with them are based on
falsehood - on what is not connected with the innate
truth, then there is difficulty in being a giver. When I
have faith in myself I learn to love myself. This love
gets me in touch with my innate qualities. Thus my
thoughts and feelings are pure. Then I have powerful
good wishes for others and these good feelings reach
them.
Natural Qualities and Acquired Qualities
When we look at ourselves from outside we can only see
the surface of what we have become. We can't see or
perhaps cannot even imagine the inner core (center),
which, like in the example of the coconut, is the only
part that really can nourish us and give us energy. The
shell (in the case of the coconut) serves as a
protection but we certainly can't eat it.
In our case, the core (center) consists of natural or
inner qualities such as peace, love, power, truth,
happiness and so on. The shell is the ego which consists
of features or personality characteristics we have
acquired through the journey of our lives such as
experiences, abilities, memories, learning, habits and
beliefs - in short, all that we are referring to when we
say: 'I am so-and-so, from such-and-such family or
organization or city'.
While we are limited to these acquired characteristics,
our true qualities remain inaccessible. Through deep
reflection and meditation we can break the shell and
activate our inner qualities from which our values or
principles are born.
Soul Sustenance
Role Induced Stress
A very common form of stress which has raised its head
in recent years is stress induced due to one’s role.
There was once a famous movie actor, well known as one
of the best of all time and he was obviously very much
aware of the same. One day as he was shooting for his
new film; his director, a very prominent figure in the
film-making arena, mentioned to him that there was a
general perception spreading in the film industry as
well as in the film going audiences that the actor was
getting older with time and his performance was dropping
and he needed to spruce up his performances if he had to
compete with the younger actors. As soon as he heard
this, he started taking his acting role and everything
related to it over seriously and lost his happiness
completely because he had been used to listening only to
praises regarding his performances and reputation all
his life. He also forgot all that the world had given
him all his life, all the love, respect and adulation
and became angry, bitter and resentful towards everyone
he met, believing that they no longer held those
feelings for him as much as before. Also a general sense
of fear and nervousness started developed inside him
regarding his next performance.
One piece of information had changed him altogether.
What had gripped him – Role Induced Stress. His
emotion of stress was made of three sub emotions -
sorrow, anger and fear (or worry). What was the cause –
he over identified with his role. He 'believed' he was
an extremely famous hero actor. But was hero actor what
he was? It's what he did. But he learned to believe it
is what he is. Even we need to remind ourself that we
get to play various roles on the world stage of action
and that if we over-identify with any of the roles,
which a lot of us do, then just like the actor, our
creativity, spontaneity and lightness is reduced and we
start to take things far too seriously, more than
necessary, and as a result get stressed.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Message for the day
To be a self-sovereign is to be in control
Projection:
The one who is a self-sovereign never finds difficulty
in being in control. He doesn't have to go out of
control and then bring himself back in control. The
moment the order is given to the self, every thought,
word and action is immediately in order.
Solution:
To be a self-sovereign means to be aware of my own
specialities and work with them. When I am a
self-sovereign I experience myself to be free. This is
because nothing binds me but I am able to win over my
weaknesses too. Thus I find myself to be in total
happiness in all situations.