19.11.2014

Jagannath Temple, Puri, Odisha, India
Send Peace
The call of time is to send thoughts of peace
and power to the world. Your thoughts travel,
moving at a great speed and with considerable
impact. Let the thought of peace sit in your
mind, knowing that the vibes from your thoughts
can radiate out and touch any person, any place.
Definitions Of Success
Given below are 'some' definitions of
success:
* Feeling yourself to be full of inner
contentment and happiness, with an optimistic
mental state, without fear, happy and in a good
mood. Being fine, in balance and at peace with
oneself.
* Finding meaning in what you do.
* Discovering what will bring you closer to your
dream.
* Success is about more than just possessing; it
is facing all situations, even the negative
ones, transforming them into the positive and
feeling yourself realized, personally and
emotionally.
* Having courage to take forward what you want,
in spite of what you find against it.
* Achieving in each moment the desired
objectives at all levels of the inner being.
Fulfilling set objectives and adopting a
positive attitude.
* Being able to be beyond noise i.e. experience
silence wherever and whenever you wish to -
silence being the key to all spiritual
treasures.
* Remaining humble in the wake of all
achievements and glory that may come your way.
* Not being afraid of failure.
* Satisfaction at work.
* In harmony with one's inner conscience (while
performing all actions).
Tomorrow we shall discuss some factors that
bring us closer to success.
Soul Sustenance
The Hurting
Of The Ego
(Cont.)
Continuing from yesterday’s message, we commonly
use the terms - * my ego got hurt or * I think
your ego got hurt. You 'hurt my ego' is
nothing but 'you hurt or harmed the image that I
carry of myself (as discussed yesterday) with me
each second everyday.' Because I carry it with
me all the time, I have become attached to it.
e.g. If, on a particular day, you reach home
late from office and your wife, who is angry
with you, accuses of not being a family man and
one who doesn't give enough time to her and the
children. Your reasons for reaching home late
may be genuine or not, your wife may be right or
wrong on that particular day. In either case,
you carry an image of yourself, all the time, as
being a very loving, caring father and husband,
who has been responsible for the all-round
growth and development of the family in all
respects since the family was created. Your
wife's words basically pinch that invisible
image, as a result of which you feel insulted
and hurt and you react angrily, not necessarily
in front of your wife, but it could be in front
of someone else or even just internally. This
phenomenon happens many times, in various
different situations with different people
throughout the day and every day.
The image that we all carry of our selves is
made of various traits or characteristics,
obviously the characteristics of each one's
self-created image are different. These
characteristics of the image may or may not
actually exist inside the real self, but
whenever someone challenges any of those
characteristics or tries to suggest to us that
one of those characteristics is not ours or does
not exist inside us, we react.
Message for the day
To forgive is to give correction.
Projection: When
there is forgiveness, the harm of the mistake is
forgotten. The mistake itself is remembered only
to the extent that the correction is to be
given. So there are no negative feelings
expressed even while giving correction. And the
words that are used are few but prove to be very
effective.
Solution: When
I learn the art of forgiving I am able to be
free from the burden of negative and waste
thinking. So there is never any difficulty in
giving correction when necessary. The mind is
free from the attitudes of the past and it
creates harmony in relationships even if the
opinions or personalities don't match.
Being Peaceful
Whenever we become peace
less, we generally tend to blame others for it.
We think it is the other person or the situation
that has made us lose our cool. So although we
don't like to be in this state of mind, we don't
make real honest effort to change it. And most
of the time we don't even know how to do it, as
we are not even aware of where the real problem
lies. We then make those around us more peace
less instead of giving them peace, which they
actually require. We need to first know the
cause of the peace less situation. For this we
need to check ourselves with honesty. We need to
understand clearly that there is some conflict
within ourselves that is creating this
situation. Then even if someone tries to create
confusion, we will be able to remain calm and
peaceful. Since we are in our calm state of
mind, we will be able to give an experience of
peace to others too.