31.12.2014

Heart Song
Everyone has a song in their heart. Everyone has
a reason for being here and a season for making
their highest, greatest most auspicious
contribution.
No one knows what that is or when that is for
anyone else. Only our own heart knows what and
when it is for us.
Your heart wants to sing. Don’t die with your
music still within you.
Coloured glasses
Sometimes we are caught up with negative
feelings like jealousy or
hatred towards another person. These feelings
naturally create
misunderstanding and conflict. Even if the other
person has a good
feeling while doing something, a negative
intention is attributed and
this naturally changes one’s own behaviour or
response making it
negative too. Instead of being caught up with
negative feelings, we
need to wear the glasses of seeing specialties.
Like the one who wears
coloured glasses sees everything to be of that
particular colour, we
too will then see only the specialties in
others. This will help us to
free our mind of negativity and we will start
behaving positively with
others too.
Simplifying The Union With The Spiritual Parent
The easiest definition of the word yoga is
union. When you unite with someone or
something, you keep thinking about that someone
or something and keep visualizing the same. It
is as if you experience a union with the object
or the person in your mind. In this way, there
is a subtle (non-physical) communication with
them which, when you meet, will turn into a form
of words (physical communication).
We communicate with others mostly through
physical means, but we cannot do the same with
our spiritual Father and Mother - God, as He
does not take a physical form. Our communication
or union has to be subtle (non-physical),
through the vibrations that we radiate as souls
or life energies. There is deeply rooted belief
in many - a belief that goes back to many
centuries, that this union takes many births of
effort to become a master at, but that's not
true, it just takes a little practice and
patience. The reason why it may seem
difficult, at first, is that our mind tends to
be filled with thoughts, feelings and images
related to other people, friends, family members
with whom we have interacted or will be
interacting, our workplace, the past, the
future, unnecessary anxieties and many more
issues. We need to learn to drop these
thought conversations with others and creation
of subtle images of other people and situations
so that we can redirect our mind and vibrations
to the Supreme. This also means learning how to
make our mind and intellect quiet enough, and as
a result, receptive enough, to receive, listen and feel His
vibrations and His thoughts, and to experience
His subtle presence. Ultimately it is an
exchange of the energy of pure love between the
soul and its Parent.
Soul Sustenance
The Search for Success through Desire
Fulfillment
The false intention and assumption behind greed,
in the form of a thought and feeling, is 'the
more I have, the more I am'. It is a
combination of trying to add to the value of the
self through material possessions, position,
role, talent or achievements and then becoming
attached to these as a form of identity, finally
leading to personal collapse. To try to add to
the sense of self in this way has the effect of
diverting oneself from the real self, which is
why, in many cases, a person who has everything
material is left with the feeling of being
empty, disorientated and even fearful.
We cannot accumulate, or rely on the
external, to create a sense of personal value.
People often try to fill the void of personal
inadequacy or emptiness through greed, but this
method goes against natural, universal laws. All
that I am, all that I can be, all that will make
me truly happy must begin from inside the self.
We have to start from the inside out, not the
other way round, otherwise we create desires
that have no end, like the ten-headed Ravana -
every time Ram cut off one of his heads,
another grew in its place. Ravanadid not
die until Ram aimed for his heart.
Desires are created from wanting one thing or
another, believing that we will find achievement
when those desires are fulfilled. This pattern
of behavior keeps deceiving us and the proof of
this is seen in the state of discontentment and
emptiness a lot of people find themselves in
today.
Message for the day
The one who serves others is the richest.
Expression:
To be in a position to serve
others means to be aware of the resources and
treasures within. When all the powers that are
within are used for the benefit of the self and
others they tend to multiply and increase. So
the one who continues to serve others continues
to become richer.
Experience:
When I serve, not only do I become richer with
what I use, but for having served unselfishly I
also become richer with the blessings and good
wishes that emerge from the hearts of others. I
am able to experience the real richness and
beauty of life as there is a lot of love,
happiness and joy in my life.