16.04.2014

Offer Up
Free yourself from forcing,
expecting or wanting someone to receive what you think
they should take - it could be your idea, opinion, or an
opportunity you think they should accept - you can't
make anyone take anything - your own experience probably
confirms this. Offer humbly. Offer gently. Offer as if
you are a master, and then let go, and retire like a shy
child. When you can dance the dance between being master
and child, you'll be surprised how much more others will
accept what you have to say, and how much more they
appreciate your offerings.
Faith
Your trust in others makes you get
their cooperation. When you have faith in others, they
will have faith in themselves too and this creates
enthusiasm in them. This further serves to increase
self-confidence in the one you are working with. When
you find that someone whom you are working with is not
cooperating with you, make the practice of telling
yourself that you have complete faith in that person.
Slowly you will find that person cooperating with you.
Qualities, Virtues And Powers
Innate or basic characteristics are properties that are
unchangeable. It's impossible to take the heat out of
the sun or sweetness out of sugar. Heat and sweetness
are part of the unchanging make-up of the sun and sugar
respectively; they are the basic properties of each of
them. In the same way, in spite of whatever I have
become as a human individual, my deep basic
characteristics are still the same ones that have always
existed in me. It's my inner core of qualities that in
fact inspires me to seek the ideal in whatever I do. The
impulse to seek and to dream comes from my own store of
innate attributes that is just waiting to be found and
brought into practical activity.
The innate qualities of the soul are those that are the
most basic: Peace, Truth, Happiness, Love, Purity, Power
and Bliss. They are so basic that they themselves are
the foundation of all virtues and powers. They are like
primary colors and virtues and powers are secondary
colors. Just as orange (a secondary color) is made of
red and yellow (both primary colors) and blue is made of
yellow and green, virtues such as patience, tolerance,
courage, generosity etc. and powers, are obtained by
mixing the basic qualities e.g.
Patience - peace, love and, power
Humility - love, peace and truth
Courage - power and truth
The aim of meditation is to emerge and enhance my
qualities so that my behavior becomes full of virtues
and powers.
Soul Sustenance
The Soul Journey
A common question
asked by many is – “Do we go back to the soul world,
the incorporeal world (non-physical world), the home of
all souls, when we die?” When we understand and
experience ourselves as souls, as un-destroyable,
eternal beings, we realize that death is only a physical
phenomenon. At the death of the body, the soul enters
another physical costume and a new chapter in its
journey of life begins. Depending on the soul's karma
performed through the body, its new birth is likely to
be somewhere in the company of those souls with whom it
has been close in previous births. It is quite a paradox
that when a soul leaves a body, the relations which it
has left, mourn over the loss of their loved one, and
the new relations which it gets attached to celebrate
with happiness, over an addition of a new-born entrant
in their family.
The soul only leaves the home (the soul world) once
in a unique, personal journey. This journey of the soul
is not linear i.e. a straight line, with a beginning and
an end. But, on the other hand, it is cyclic i.e. a
circle, with neither a beginning, nor an end – although
both leaving the soul world and going back to the soul
world happen once each in every cycle. This soul
journey can be compared to actors who leave home to go
to the theatre to play their parts. They change costumes
between scenes - they don't return home at the end of
each scene, they return home when the play is finished,
only to return the next day to repeat their part in the
play. Each birth of the soul that it takes can be
compared to a new scene of the play, which consists of
many different scenes.
Message for the day
To have love for
the self means to finish the weaknesses within.
Projection:
When we make a mistake we usually
think about it a lot and continue to feel guilty. The
continued thought about the mistake magnifies it and we
think it is difficult to change or overcome that
weakness.
Solution:
Like a mother who accommodates the mistakes of the child,
yet has the best wishes for the child to be free from
them, we, too, need to deal with ourselves with love in
order to finish the weakness that is working within us.
We need to recognize and work with some specialty that
is
within us, which will help us overcome the weakness.