
Vibrations
With your own
vibrations of peace and happiness, give everyone
else the experience of happiness and comfort.
Thinking is
feeling
Whenever things
don't go the way I want them to, I start
thinking negatively and end up feeling low. The
more I think negatively the worse I feel. The
negativity inside me increases and I spread it
around by reacting negatively with other people
which in turn gets me depressed. I need to
constantly remind myself that thinking is
actually feeling. All I need to do is to control
my negative thoughts and deliberately induce
positive houghts. This way I will be able to
control the way I feel about a situation or a
person and keep out of the low phases that I
otherwise go through.
Freeing
Oneself from Hatred
Rage has many
offspring (children), such as hate, anger,
intolerance, insistence, irritation, obsession,
sarcasm (taunt), envy, the abuse of authority,
impatience, the lack of forgiveness. Generally
it explodes when we want to control another or
when our expectations have not been fulfilled.
Hate destroys your concentration and kills the
capacity to act with dignity and excellence. You
hate by justifying yourself in the other. You
had expectations of them and they have let you
down. They have wounded you and broken your
heart. You answer this wound with revenge. You
have to make them pay for it. You think that way
you will do justice. This hate keeps you tied to
the person that you hate. Instead of accepting
them, forgiving them and letting go of them, you
tie yourself to them more, nourishing and
increasing the pain and the conflict.
Can hate be justified? Can it improve things?
Can hate be healthy in any circumstance? Hate
affects your health; it poisons your heart,
kills your inner peace and dries you of love and
happiness; you stay isolated in your aloneness,
filled with that rage.
(To be continued tomorrow ...)
Soul Sustenance
The Power to Face
Situations arise
where it may not be enough to tolerate or
accommodate, but where I need power to face very
unpleasant and perhaps threatening realities.
What we are talking about here, in effect, is
courage. Meditation helps enormously.
First, the practice of the awareness of myself
and others as eternal souls greatly reduces fear
of death, an ever-present reality that we spend
much time, money and mental and emotional energy
trying to avoid. If soul-consciousness is firm
enough, I'll have the absolute conviction that
when someone dies, it's not that they are no
more, just that they have moved further on their
eternal journey. This faith makes it much easier
to face the departure of someone close to me. It
also removes much or all of the fear I might
otherwise suffer about leaving my own body. I'll
still value my life greatly - probably even more
than before, because of having the burden of
fear removed. But I won't let concern for the
body stop me from facing what I must.
Secondly, meditation makes it easier for me to
oppose evil. It does this by allowing me to
differentiate clearly between the actor and the
action. Spirituality helps me understand that
the original qualities of every soul are peace,
love, happiness and so I have no hatred in my
heart for anyone. This helps me become fearless
and stand firm against wrongdoing. With a clean
heart, a clear understanding of good and evil,
and connection with the divine, I am much more
likely to have the faith and courage with which
to stand up for what is right.
Thirdly, if the negative behaviour I am opposing
activates negative tendencies within my own
personality, the fight will soon wear me out and
I'm unlikely to be victorious. Power absorbed
from the Supreme in meditation helps me remain
positive and above negative tendencies and hence
face someone’s negative behavior and emerge
victorious.
Message
for the day
There is
victory for the person who opposes the
weaknesses instead of the person.
Expression:
Instead of trying to win over a person who
displays any negative qualities, one needs to
oppose the negativity itself. The one who knows
the art of doing this will never do anything to
encourage the weakness in the other person but
will provide all help to finish it fully.
Experience:
Since I am able to look at the weakness only and
am trying to finish it, I will be free from
negative feelings of dislike and hatred. There
would be a genuine feeling of love, which in
turn provides the right environment for the
other person's growth.