14.12.2014

Strengthen Your Willpower
Willpower is what keeps you on track. Willpower
is what stops you from giving in to temptations.
So, strengthen your willpower, not by removing
the temptations but by facing them and choosing
not to give in! The next time you find yourself
lacking in willpower, refocus on your aim and
why you want to achieve it. Remind yourself: I
am in control of my choices. I am in charge of
my behaviour. I am the master of my life.
The Art Of Tolerance (cont.)
In the Ramayana, Mahavir Hanuman has been
portrayed as carrying a great mountain in his
hand as if it were a ball. It does not matter if
the problem, obstacle or storm seems like a
great mountain: one need to turn something that
appears as big as a mountain into a small toy,
and overcome it as if it were a game. Making
something big very light makes you also feel
light. Don't turn a small stone into a mountain;
turn the mountain into a ball. To take the
expansion to its essence is tolerance. Expanding
obstacles and problems in your mind or speaking
of them to others means to create mountains.
Don't go into expansion: put a full stop and
turn over the page of life and that way you will
advance. A tolerant person is always capable
of taking expansion, problems and obstacles to
their essence with knowledge, meditation and
silence. When you choose the longest road,
doing so consumes more and ends up by exhausting
your time and energy. Expansion is the longest
road and the essence is to take a shortcut. Both
work in order to get to the other side, but
those who take a shortcut are able to save their
time and energy, they do not get discouraged.
They constantly enjoy themselves and overcome
everything with a smile. That is being tolerant.
When you have developed the power of tolerance,
you do things with pleasure. We are not
referring to the physical pleasures but rather
to living a life with pleasure in your heart,
and that way you will be able to transform any
situation or task from confusion into pleasure.
(To be continued tomorrow ...)
Soul Sustenance
Uprooting the Emotion of Worry from the
Consciousness (Part 2)
In yesterday’s message, we had explained how
worry is the wrong use of the imaginative
capacity of the mind and intellect. On the other
hand, imagining possible positive outcomes or
results will have a double effect of not only
keeping the negative outcomes away from us (even
if there is a possibility of them occurring),
but will also attract the positive results
towards us. But to ensure that both these
processes happen, it’s important not to attach
possible negative results to the same, even to
the minutest extent, otherwise the probability
of positive futures becoming a reality reduces.
Worrying is another word for this attachment
process. Worry is a type of mental habit, which
arises from the belief that it’s good to worry.
This belief gets acquired during our childhood.
And then it keeps getting strengthened from our
life experiences. We start from this belief.
That attracts negative circumstances; as a
result the belief gets strengthened further,
because you think that with life full of so many
negative circumstances, it’s important to think
of negative outcomes beforehand. You don’t
realize that these negative situations occurred
in the first place largely due to this belief.
When we are faced with a negative situation,
again we worry because we hold that belief.
Again it’s the same result. In this way, we are
caught in a vicious cycle. How do we come out of
this cycle? By changing this belief to – ‘it’s
not good to worry’. Once we do that, there is no
guarantee that negative situations will
completely stop arising in our life, because we
have performed negative actions in the past
(either in this birth or past births), which
need to be settled in our present, but the
extent of negative situations will be minimized.
And even if they do come, they will bid goodbye
sooner, if we have a worry-free consciousness.
Message for the day
Cleanliness means no waste within.
Expression:
To be totally clean means there is not a trace
of negativity or waste within. Even in the most
complicated situations there is clarity within.
The mind is clear and clean so there is clarity
in words and actions also. Every decision is
taken with a clear mind and so whatever is done
is naturally accurate.
Experience:
When there is cleanliness in the heart, I am
able to win the love of those around me and also
of God. I find that I become a mirror for the
others and they are able to see their own
perfection through me. I also find that I am
able to save a lot of time as I am able to see
things for what they are and because there is
clarity in my thoughts.
Inner Positivity
There is usually attention on the self not to
perform any negative acts. There is also
considerable attention not to speak any words
that are harmful or negative. But very rarely is
there that attention on the thoughts. Because of
this a lot of negative thoughts tend to remain
in the intellect causing trouble for me. I need
to understand the fact that my thoughts form the
basis for my words and actions. The more I pay
attention to make my thoughts positive, the more
it will have a positive impact on my words and
actions too. Constant awareness of a positive
thought enables me to maintain my own inner
positivity.